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Ch 6: My selfish mom and her children part 2

The music changes into something soft. It's a lovely view of a dining table... a restaurant? Or maybe a diner? With dim lights here and there. A wavy-haired boy walks around the table, serving the foods and drinks. He's probably the server. The camera moves slowly to the back side of the diner, zooming at a golden-haired boy sitting side by side with a ghost lady with stupidly long black hair.

Jin: Hey, I want to ask this but feel free to not answer it if it doesn't make you comfortable. Okay?

Olivier: What?

Jin (with his blushing face): I would like two oriental names for our children.

The characters around them who previously were busy tending their own business, now show an exclamation mark on top of their heads.

Jin: I'm sorry. I bet that's shocking for you.

Olivier (maybe she's laughing, the portrait shows that she smiles so widely): Ahahaha, no, not really. We will talk about this eventually and I don't mind the oriental names you want.

Jin: Really? (now the boy also shows a smiling face)

Olivier: Yes, totally! Do you have some names in mind?

The golden-haired boy character shakes his head.

Jin: I'm not that good at making names. Can you please help me?

Olivier: Sure! They would be mini-yous right? I can't wait to meet them!

Jin (shows a sighing face): They may be problems, you know.

Olivier: Come on! They won't be problems because we love them so much.

Jin: ...

That same boy covers his face. So awkward and annoying, I guess.

Olivier: Let's see... well... what do you think about Hiro and Rei?

Jin: Oh, they're great! What do you think about those names?

Olivier: I want our child to prosper so it's Hiro... and Rei means nothing so even if he starts at nothingness, he still has our support and love.

Jin (the stupid shy face changes to a big smile): I love the names!

Olivier: Okay then, it's decided!

The ghost girl appears eating a lot while the boy's sitting on her side, no words but it seems like there's something on his mind.

Olivier: Whadaaap, Jambon? (The portrait shows that she's a messy eater)

Jin: You don't have an oriental name... So, I wonder if you want to name our children something non-oriental?

The ghost girl wipes her mouth.

Olivier: Then, they will match Hiro and Rei's names! How about Bonanza and Zero?

My heart aches on reading this girl's chat box. Rei? Zero? Hiro and Bonanza? Everything she utters in the chat box is connected to the case now.

Jin (He laughs now): Hey! How can you manage to bring great names so suddenly? I love them already!

Olivier: Good foods and my brain is working at its highest capacity!

The couple laugh... and I can't hide my smile too.

Olivier: So, we will have four children?

Jin: I'm thinking of five. Is it okay with you?

Olivier: Of course!

Jin: .................................

The golden boy covers his face again and the other diner customers show exclamation marks again on the top of their heads... then the marks show a shy emoji.




"WHAT THE HELL WITH YOU, DAD??"

"Whattt??!!" my dad laughs. "I don't do any hell!"

"THIS JIN IS YOU, RIGHT?? AND OLIVIER IS MOM, RIGHT??"

"Yes and yes. Who do you think your dad and mom's names are?"

"This freaking shit dad..." I whisper in desperation.

"What?" my dad looks very dumb right now.

"WHY YOU GOT MOM'S CHARACTER TO BE LIKE THIS GHOST-TYPE??!! REDRAW HER AGAIN!!"

"You say ghost-type as if mom's something pokemon..." Rei pauses the video. "Not like you know pokemon, though."

"I'm not the one who designed the characters, okay?" this dumb dad raises his hands up. "I was in charge of doing the schedule and work ethic to assure that everything went along just fine."

"Oh, like the project supervisor?" Rei asks. "That's so you, Dad."

"I'm not good with stories or designing and creative things but I still wanted to contribute," my dad smiles as he explains.

"YOU ASK FOR FIVE CHILDREN TO MOM??!!" I shout in his ears

"I did..." he smiles proudly. "I was so happy. Actually, I was so prepared to be rejected but it was even surprising to hear that she accepted my request..."

"... Now I think about it, I should've asked for more children. 8... or 10? Oh, make it 11 so we can make a football team."

"WHAT ARE YOU? A FROG??"

My annoying dad laughs at my shouting. I only can do deep-sigh. This freaking dad is so unbelievably stupidly unbelievable. I don't believe anything I saw on the video but it seems so true because my dad accepts the whole game video.

Long story short, after we finished our dinner, Rei told us that since my parents and their friends' lives were captured in a game form, so there must be someone at CowTube who uploaded the hidden story. In fact, there are only one or two videos about Olivier and Jin's best ending story since it seems befriending Olivier in the game is a pain in the ass and Jin in the game rarely appears in the village. So, we accessed that short video, and the rest is history.

"So... where are Hiro and Bonanza, Dad?" Rei asks.

My dad gains his sense back from the overwhelming laughter.

"Oh, that's right. Zero, where's the diary? Can you bring it back to us so we can read it together?"

I and Rei look at each other, then I run to my room. I open my secret stash somewhere in my wardrobe and bring it back to my dad. We look at it anxiously while our dad's opening the diary lock.

"Can you please promise me to not do anything?" my dad warns us again.

"Dad, I don't think I can make the promise," I state the truth while looking at him with my side eyes. "I'm your and mom's child so I have the right to know."

"Me too, Dad... I'm sorry..." Rei apologizes with bowing so deeply. "I do want to know, but I can't really understand what the impact later on. Please let me and Zero see the diary."

My dad sighs and scratches his not-itchy hair in desperation.

"Your mom's going to be mad at me if I do this..."

My and Rei's faces turn sad.

"... but let's get yelled together!" my dad smiles again.

Our faces now turn bright.

The lock is now unlocked. I let Rei open the diary because I know he will treat books better than me. I follow his read on his shoulder.

The first page shows my mom's sign, the date she received the diary, and a saying 'For giving diaries to us and being born to this world, thank you so much, Reanne.'

"Is this a gift from Mrs. Pummel??" I ask in the middle of reading.

"It is," my dad nods.

We continue reading. As we read a page per page, I notice that Rei flips a lot of pages and I can't seem to catch on reading the pages.

"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU, REI??" I'm yelling confusedly. "I HAVEN'T READ THE FIRST PAGE AND THE PAGE AFTER AND THE PAGE AFTER!"

"I scan-read those pages..." Rei says embarrassedly. "It's nothing... just... mom's uhm..."

"MOM WHAT??"

"Well..." Rei blinks his eyes, in the hope that I get the code. "Mom's happy life with dad and... the... sex..."

"WHO PUT SEX STORIES IN A DIARY??!!" I yell again.

My dad laughs even harder.

"It's a personal diary, so we can put anything to the diary..." Rei explains, with his soft voice. "Well... I skip the thing you don't need to read, okay? I'll try to put us into the main topic."

"Okay..." I match Rei's soft voice.

Rei still flips here and there... until we reach the middle of the diary. The page gives a bad vibe. Unlike the previous pages, Mom tends to write everything colorfully with drawings. But this page only has one black ink on it, with no drawings. Too bleak and we feel anxious only by opening the page.

The title of the page is 'I'm sorry'.



"I'm sorry for being weak...

I'm sorry for being unable to gain the peace from my desperate past...

I've tried everything that I could to remain healthy... but... indeed certain events will trigger my bad memories...

I'm sorry for looking forward for yourself while having this weak body...

I'm sorry that you come from a weak mother's womb...

Hiro, I'm sorry that I can't bring you to this world..."



Rei shakes his voice and hands, and he's tearing up. He covers his mouth with the other hand while taking more time and courage to flip more pages.

"Dad... is Hiro..." Rei whispers.

"Yes..." my dad responds weakly.

The pages after don't seem to be cheerful either. We can feel her sadness for days, and months... until there's one page with the same title.



"I'm sorry for being weak...

I'm sorry, Bonanza..."



And one whole page only shows my mom's apology by repeating 'I'm sorry'. Rei closes the diary as if he has found the one he's been looking for, not interested in reading the next pages. For me, I'm satisfied enough to know the truth behind Hiro and Bonanza's names. I can't cry, but I feel that my stomach and heart are aching from the apology my mom made.

"What's happened to our brothers, Dad?" Rei asks limply.

"We lost your brothers because of your mom's miscarriage..." my dad answers. "Your mom wasn't in her best condition for Hiro's pregnancy and she suffered real stress during Bonanza's pregnancy..."

Rei always tells me that he feels like he's three persons into one and that's why he's so talented. But he never knows the truth about his and my 'supposedly' older brothers. Now, he finds his not-so-easy answer, Rei tries to relax on the couch while replaying the hidden story of Olivier and Jin.

"Well... since you guys know about this now, I will still lock your mom's diary but I'll let you possess the key," my dad unchains his necklace and gives all of us one key each. "Like I said before, let's get yelled together."

I hold the key so tight, the same as Rei does. One question still in my mind about my brothers: why my mom doesn't have the urge to tell us about them? Are we unworthy? Or is it just my selfish mom who wants to have everything kept inside?

I keep on wondering, while Rei's eyes widen in shock upon watching the same hidden story video.



My selfish mom, why you don't tell me?

Your fourth child,

Keiji Zero Burningshield.

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