As much as possible, Bella makes Alice believe her words, that Clara's ghost doesn't exist.
And what happened today is just a coincidence.
"Alice, you must believe what I say. If you are always carried away by imagination, then you will go crazy, Alice!" Bella insisted.
Alice fell silent for a moment, and she began to digest her sister's words.
Maybe Bella was right if she had to think logically.
She had been going back and forth to a psychiatrist all this time, and she didn't want to end up in a Mental Hospital.
"Alice, don't be afraid. I and my two kids will always be there for you. So will Felix. We always support you!" Bella said reassuring her sister.
Alice nodded her head.
Until nightfall, Bella did not leave Alice, she accompanied her sister to sleep. Meanwhile, Daniel sleeps with Diana.
***
It was a really quiet night.
It was snowing so hard, the weather was so cold.
Alice glanced at Bella, and the woman was fast asleep.
Alice looked not good. Bella's presence was not able to make her feel calm and can fall asleep.
Before long she heard something fall. It came from inside the bathroom.
"What is going on over there?" Alice looked curious, but she didn't dare to look at it.
Alice grabbed the thick blanket, then she covered her whole body.
She was really scared, and the voice she had heard earlier appeared again.
"Bella! What's that sound?!" cried Alice. But there was no response from Bella.
Then the sound grew louder, like someone banging things blindly. This made Alice even more frightened. But also curious.
"Maybe it's not a ghost, and maybe it's a thief's voice?" murmured Alice. At last, Alice dared to take a look.
Then she got up from the bed. She grabbed a baseball bat.
Alice was about to use the wand as her weapon.
With calculated steps, Alice began to approach. She turned the doorknob slowly, with her eyes closed.
Celek...
The door opened, and Alice opened her eyes too, her hands getting ready to swing a baseball bat.
But it turned out that there was no one in the bathroom. And the state of the bathroom also looks neat, nothing has changed in the room.
Alice turned around and was about to go to bed again.
But just walking a few steps, someone called out to her.
"Aunt Alice, where are you going?"
Alice looked back for a moment.
"Diana!" said Alice while looking at the girl, but it turned out that the one behind her was not Diana, but Clara.
Alice's eyes bulged sharply in shock.
'It was Diana's voice, not Clara's!' Alice thought. Without thinking, Alice immediately swung her wand at Clara.
Buak!
Immediately the girl fell. Alice was satisfied, but when she looked closely at the girl's body ... it was not Clara, but Diana who was already lying with blood on her head.
"Diana?!" cried Alice loudly. Then she tried to wake her nephew. And from behind appeared Clara who was looking at her.
"Aunt Alice, help my mother, Aunt," Clara said.
Alice looked up with a thunderous roar.
"Clara!" she said, pointing at Clara.
"Why do you always bother me?!" snapped Alice.
"I won't stop bothering Aunt, if Aunt Alice, will help my mother!" said Clara.
"Go!" cried Alice. Then someone from behind tapped her on the shoulder.
"Alice," said Sea with a pale and pitiful face.
Alice really couldn't take it anymore, she screamed as loud as she could.
"BELLA! FELIX! HELP ME!" cried Alice.
Then as a reflex, Alice opened her eyes.
Bella was already standing in front of her.
Alice had no idea that all of this was just a dream. It was clear what she had seen earlier seemed real, not like she was dreaming.
And the feeling… she was also still awake, but she realized her true state when she opened her eyes.
"Alice, you had another bad dream, huh?" she asked.
"Bella! Diana! Where's Diana?!" said Alice frantically.
Bella sighed in exasperation, she didn't know what to do, to make her sister calm down, and get out of the nightmare.
"Alice, how many times have I told you? Don't get too carried away with your dreams—"
"I have to see how Diana is right now!" said Alice cutting Bella's word off, and she got out of bed. Alice walked towards Diana's room.
Celek!
Alice opened the door and saw Diana and Daniel who were still fast asleep.
Diana was fine, not like she had seen in the dream.
Alice breathed a sigh of relief. Then she closed the door again.
"I don't know what you're thinking, but I don't think you need to overthink Diana. She's fine!" Bella insisted.
Alice ignored Bella's words, then she went to the bathroom. She wanted to confirm the state of the bathroom.
And how surprised Alice was when she saw a baseball bat lying in that place.
"That wand?" Alice pointed at the baseball bat.
"What's with that thing?" Bella asked.
"Who put it there? Who?!" Alice asked.
Bella sighed as she chuckled.
"Alice, it was you who put the wand! Did you forget?" she asked.
Then Alice fell silent, she recalled the incident before she fell asleep.
She put the stick in front of the bathroom because a mouse had entered the bathroom before.
Alice was about to hit that animal but to no avail. Then she put the stick there.
Alice shook her head for a moment as she rubbed her face.
"Is it true that I'm crazy?" said Alice with a frustrated face.
"Alice, now you have to be smart in controlling your thoughts. Otherwise, you will go crazy!" said Bella. Then she took Alice's hand, and Bella led her to the room.
"Let's take your sedative, and lie back down!" Bella ordered.
Reluctantly Alice obeyed her brother's orders.
She just wanted to get better. And don't want to go crazy, as Bella said.
'Remember Alice, whatever happens, it's just a hallucination! Just a dream! You have to be able to tell the difference!' said Alice silently.
After that Alice closed her eyes.
Alice managed to sleep soundly.
She didn't even wake up during the day. Bella deliberately didn't wake her sister. Because she felt sorry for Alice.
During this time ... the woman had not rested, due to the nightmares that always came to her.
Bella was concerned about this.
But she also didn't know what to do, to make Alice happy again like before.
To be continued
Bella didn't know how to make Alice happy again. Then came the idea to contact Felix.
All this time, Felix was the only person Alice trusted besides herself.
***
"Hello, Felix! Can you come over here?" Bella asked over the phone.
[Yeah, I happen to want to go there too!] Felix answered.
"Good! Come quickly, Felix!" said Bella.
[Okay!]
The phone call has ended.
Then Diana came to her.
"Mommy, I want to be honest," Diana said, holding her mother's hand.
"Honest? Don't you always tell the truth to Mommy?" Bella asked, frowning.
"Yes, Mom. And this time I lied. I'm sorry, Mom," said Diana, lowering her head.
"Sorry for what, Honey?" she asked.
Then the little girl raised her head again.
"Mom, last night I quietly left the house," said Diana.
"Out of the house?" Bella frowned in confusion.
As she recalled ... last night Diana fell fast asleep with Daniel.
Bella also repeatedly visited Diana in her room. Even though she went back to sleeping in the same room with Alice again.
"Mom, my friend asked me out last night. She said there were a lot of fireflies outside. She wanted me to play with her. I quietly left the room, after I was satisfied playing with her I went in again." Diana said in detail.
Bella really couldn't understand why her daughter could talk like this.
Bella slowly touched her daughter's face.
"Honey, you had a dream last night, didn't you?" Bella asked in a low voice.
Diana shook her head innocently.
"No. I wasn't dreaming," she answered
"Mom, since last night I feel not good for you. Because I didn't ask permission first. Are you mad at me?" Diana asked.
Bella did not understand the daughter's words. She doesn't know why Diana has been acting so weird lately. Not like usual.
"Diana, what are you talking about, Honey?"
"Mom, my friend said she wants to live here," Diana said.
"Which friend of yours? You've only been at home since yesterday, how did you meet your friend? What else made her talk about wanting to live here? said Bella who was still with a surprised expression.
"Mom, Clara came straight here, so we don't need a phone!" answered Diana.
The answer made Bella completely shocked.
'Clara again?' Bella thought, 'oh my God! What happened? Is it me crazy, or what?' Bella's mind was confused.
"Diana, you're dreaming, Honey. And I hope you don't tell Aunt Alice, okay!" Bella said.
"Why is that, Mom?" The girl looked confused.
And from the opposite corner appeared Alice who came out of the room.
Her face was still tousled with her hair tousled.
"Mom, Clara is nice. She came here because she was on business. Why did you forbid me? You didn't even allow me to say her name in front of Aunt Alice, why?" Diana protested.
Alice heard the debate, and she immediately approached the two.
"What is it?" Alice asked.
"Ah... it's nothing!" Bella said with a relaxed smile as if nothing had happened.
"Aunt Alice, Mommy forbid me to mention my friend's name!" said Diana with pouting lips.
"What's the matter with your friend's name?" Alice asked Diana.
"I don't know... Mom said Aunt didn't like it when I said Cla's name—" Bella immediately covered her daughter's mouth with her palm.
But it was futile because Alice already knew what Diana meant.
"Are her name 'Clara?'" Alice asked.
Bella slowly gave in, and she opened the princess's mouth.
"Alice, it's just a coincidence. And Diana does have a friend named 'Clara' and that's not the name of the little girl you're referring to. Their names are just the same." Bella said reassuring Alice.
"Okay, I understand Bella. You're scolding Diana just for my sake. And trust me I'm fine. I'll try to ignore everything about my dreams and hallucinations. Including events that are just coincidences, and which I suddenly got involved in. -link with my mind." Alice concluded.
Bella smiled at that. But in her heart not calm.
Alice tried to convince herself, that what she was feeling, and what she was witnessing was just a hallucination.
But Bella was even more doubtful. She started to be in a dilemma.
She couldn't tell the difference between reality, or just coincidence.
What Diana said sounded real.
Diana always said what she saw. The girl never once lied.
Since yesterday the girl had always said the same name. Even had time to paint his face.
"Bella, are you okay?" Alice asked interrupting her thoughts.
"Ahh! That's fine!" Bella replied slightly flinched.
"Well, I'm going to take a shower first," said Alice.
"Yes, please! Felix is coming soon!" said Bella.
"Felix? How did you know he was coming?" Alice asked.
"Of course, I know. I told him to!" replied Bella.
"What!?"
"Yeah! I thought you needed entertainment! So I asked Felix to take you for a walk!" replied Bella.
Alice sighed for a moment, chuckling in surprise. It was obvious that Bella was very worried about her condition, to the point that she had to contact Felix to take her for a walk.
"Come on! I'm going to the bathroom!" said Alice.
Bella nodded her head.
"Okay!" Bella answered.
*****
Moments later, someone knocked on the door.
And it turned out that Carlos, Alice, who opened it with an enthusiastic face, turned into a dispirited one.
"What are you doing here?" snorted Alice.
"Of course, I wanted to see you, Alice," Carlos replied with a smile. "Eh, by the way, you look really pretty today," said Carlos.
Alice snorted in annoyance at that. Instead of feeling happy about the compliment, it made Alice feel sick.
"Carlos, today I have an appointment with Felix, so you should just go home!" snorted Alice.
"Ah... him again!" Carlos looked disappointed and annoyed.
"What's so good about that guy? What's he got?" quipped Carlos.
"Alice. Think about your future! Find a man who is at least a lot better than me. He's just a Cafe Service, right? Then how does he make you happy? Can he afford to buy you expensive things?"
Carlos shook his head in surprise. His face seemed to rail against Alice's choice.
"Alice, I'm so much better than that guy. And I can buy you a house and a car and a lot of fancy stuff!" Carlos said. "Let's think carefully about choosing your life partner!" Carlos insisted.
Alice deliberately gave Carlos time, to revile Felix at will. Until Carlos was satisfied, then it was her turn to turn her back on her ex-husband.
"Listen, Carlos! Felix may not be a rich man, but he has a sincere heart! Unlike you, who is a Masher and likes to cheat!" Alice insisted.
Carlos narrowed his eyes, hearing Alice's words. Then the woman continued her sentence.
"Felix is just a Cafe Serviceman, and so am I, right? Isn't that much more compatible? Waiter and Waiter! We're on the same level, so we can understand each other!" Alice smiled faintly at Carlos, "And one more thing, I don't need luxury either! I just need simplicity but mutual understanding!"
To be continued.
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