Not a single tear fell from Miyu's eye. She's cried so many times from the letter that she could control her streams.
Miyu got the letter just after her mother died. Her mother's guardian, in the shape of a small chickadee, arrived at her room where she was crying miserably on her bed with the letter in it's small, sharp beak.
When she got the letter, she cried even harder. She vowed on her heart to not break these promises.
Sadly, she broke one.
She got involved with a royal.
*****
Kasumi woke up next to her sister. They decided to wait till morning to talk to their father about their mother's absence. They were too scared to encounter their father's wrath in the middle of the night more then in the morning, and they could lie that they discovered the fact of their missing mother when they went to check up on her in the morning. That way Kasumi and Hanae won't get in trouble for chasing after her.
Even though they care for their mother, it's a dog eats dog world.
They would not sacrifice themselves for others, not matter how much they love them. Kasumi and Hanae are that selfish.
Kasumi nudged Hanae, who groaned from her touch.
Hanae opened her eyes and asked, "It's morning already?"
Kasumi sighed, "yup, so get ready. It's time to meet our father's wrath."
They got up from the bed and brushed their hair, bathed, and dressed up. They still have school, but they were able to wake up early enough that they'll have at least three hours of free time before school begins.
They arrived at their father's study, already knowing that he's in there working at early hours. Hanae fidgeted as Kasumi knocked on her father's study's door.
"Come in!"
Kasumi entered, Hanae right behind her.
Their father was already surrounded with pounds of papers. His desk was filled to the brim with pages upon pages of documents. Their father had small glasses on and had a paper in his hand. He was looking intently on it, seeming like that the paper was his whole world.
After a moment of awkward silence, their father said, "What is it?"
Kasumi gulped visibly and put on a depressed look, "Father, unfortunately, it seems that..."
She didn't have any words for what she was saying, irritating her father.
"Well, spit it out!"
Kasumi trembled and cried, "Mother is missing!"
Her father stood up from his desk, "What?"
Kasumi pointed out the door, "You must see for yourself! Send the dogs! Mother is not there, or anywhere. I can't find her!"
Kasumi began to cry as Hanae patted her back, on the brink of tears.
Her father stood up and stormed out of the room, "Where could have your mother have gone?"
Kasumi and Hanae followed their father as they headed towards their mother's luxurious room. They began to cry like babies, pleading their father to find their mother. Their cries began to annoy their father, making him want to get this over with so that they would shut up.
Their father opened the door, and they expected him to storm straight out to get the dogs, but instead their father looked them straight in the eye, "Do you think I enjoy your joking?"
Kasumi raised an eyebrow as Hanae bit her teeth.
"What do you mean? Joking? Mother's disappearance isn't a laughing matter!"
Their father was fuming by the end of her sentence. And in all of his anger and annoyance, he raised his hand to shut the squeaky mouth in front of him.
When he laid his hand on Kasumi, she was shocked. He never slapped her! NEVER!
She coughed and held her face with her hand. Hanae saw the blooming handprint on her sister's cheek and screamed, "Why father? Why?"
Her father screamed, "Your joke has gone for far too long! Your mother is right on her bed, sleeping like a baby!"
Hanae looked around her father's shoulder as she comforted her sister. She gasped as she saw her perfectly fine mother laying down on the clean sheets.
"How?"
Kasumi was flabbergasted and Hanae was stone cold. Not a single movement came from the sisters, but the father decided to push them out of the way. They slammed into the wall then to the floor, their bodies just a pile of limbs.
"Move over, don't stand in the way of others! What have I taught you that you would be this way?"
After their father left, the sisters remained on the floor. The tears dried up on Kasumi's cheek and Hanae became so still that her arms and legs began to cramp. They finally moved when they heard a groan come from their mother.
Kasumi got up first, "Mother? Are you alright?"
Kokoro lifted her head and groaned even louder. She looked at her daughters and sighed with relief, happy that they didn't get harmed by the masked maniac from last night.
Kokoro smiled, "My daughters, you are alright! Oh, how I was worried!"
Hanae and Kasumi felt guilty when their mother said that. Their mother was so worried about their safety while they decided to not save her from the torture that was inflicted upon her.
Kasumi raised an eyebrow, acting oblivious, "Why were you worried, mother?"
Kokoro sighed and tried to get up, but fell back down. This fall made her back hurt even worse than before, so she decided to stop trying to get away from her bed.
"Well, last night I was taken away. A masked man took me into the middle of the forest... a-and..."
Kokoro started to break down. Large streams of tears glided down her face, onto her clothes, hair, and bedsheets.
"W-well... He tortured me... He drowned me with his water... t-then... he burned me! Oh... how painful it was..."
Kokoro cried and cried, but her daughters were left confused. If she was burned and drowned, why did she look so healthy?
Hanae questioned this first, "Mother... are you lying?"
This stopped Kokoro's bawling, "L-lying? Why would I lie about something so serious like this?"
Hanae cleared her throat and said, "Well... you look perfectly fine... No bruises, burns... nothing!"
Kokoro raised and eyebrow as her eyes grew wide with shock, "Nothing!"
She took her arms from underneath the blanket. No marks! She glanced at the mirror next to her bed. No burns! No slashes! No scars!
Kokoro began to cough on air for not breathing due to shock.
Kasumi rushed to her side in urgency, "Mother! Are you okay? Are you hurt anywhere?"
Kokoro pushed her daughter away, "Leave me be! I'm fine!"
Kokoro then said, "But why?"
Hanae held back her sister and asked, "Mother... are you sure that you're fine? You don't seem... right in the head."
Kasumi agreed with her, "Yes, it seems that way. Maybe you had a bad dream, and thought that it was so real that it actually happened."
Kokoro glared at her daughters, "Are you calling your mother a liar? I am telling the truth!"
In anger, Kokoro got off the bad, no matter how painful it was, and smashed the vase on her bedside table against the wall.
The vase shattered, and glass, water, and flowers were scattered around the room. Kasumi and Hanae cried out from the sharp sound, but Kokoro didn't even flinch. She didn't even flinch when the shards of glass pierced her skin, making tiny red streaks come down her face and arms.
With her eyes colored red, Kokoro continued to wreck the room in anger. Her worried daughters began to scream at the maids that their mother has gone crazy and someone needs to stop her.
The maids became frazzled and screamed along with them, until the screams reached the manor's owner, also known as Lord Kenta.
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