POV Sarah.

Maybe for you I'm just a kid who doesn't know anything, yes, I'm just a kid, I'm not even seven years old. But why do you guys create so many disasters for me?

from the start I was fed up with all your attitudes, why don't you just leave me at the airport or leave me in an orphanage, maybe it will be better for me than being here and listening to your bullshit.

"What are you doing Michelle? Why are hands shaking? What exactly happened?"

The rich woman with a high bun in her hair was surprised to see my mother's pale face. She had just joined since the mother disappeared. She left me to the rich woman who likes to do weird things. I called her that because she asked me to be her daughter's friend when she was bored.

She always boasted of her daughter who was the top of the class, but her daughter was like an idiot, never spoke and no one wanted to be friends with a strange girl who ate paper sheets, she was very proud of her strange daughter and her daughter's aloof hobby.

let's forget for a moment about her strange daughter, I again focus on the pale face of my mother, she looks nervous, scared, and shaking.

-- she must have made a big mistake, she's never been so scared and nervous… like this, that mistake isn't new to her but if she gets that triggered, I think she made something really bad.

"Madam, madam must help me. Madam must help me." her eyes are teary, when I squint and see her tears, you know how I feel?

I want to laugh, geez, it feels like my stomach is tickling, she's so attractive, her pale and scared face, that's very attractive to me, even though she's my mother and having a hard time but it looks funny to my eyes.

the rich woman tried to calm her down, she called the waiter and asked for a drink, she asked my mother to calm down while patting my mother's shoulder.

---they're not sisters, I heard this rich woman is dad's friend, but why when these two women are in the same frame, they look like sisterhood, too fit to be criminal partners.

I focused on enjoying the food served on the table but my ears could hear everything.

"Madam, I have made a grave mistake, you must help me." Michele hissed in a choked voice.

---wow, I wonder what she has done.

"Calm down first Michelle, let's go to the office, we'll talk over there." The rich woman led my mother by the shoulders, they walked away from my table, into another room.

Too bad, I couldn't hear the full story from Michele's mouth even though I was very curious.

not long after, they were talking too fast so my food wasn't finished yet but Michelle and the rich woman were out of the room, they both rushed off and forgot about me

"Waiter! You take this child to the room to rest!" said the rich woman pointing to my face.

The maid nodded her head obediently then looked at me, she gave a small smile. "You finish your food Then come with me okay."

I did not answer the waiter's words, the look in my eyes seemed to follow the back of the rich woman and mother, where are they going, why didn't you take me?

even though I was very curious about what was going on here, on a beautiful and warm island, on a beach with white sand, in a clear sky, and made me comfortable.

I looked at the ocean from the cafe's veranda, so beautiful!

Then I remembered my dad's date in the past. I hope to meet her once again. But where can I meet her, is she at the cafe where she works? I have to leave this cafe and go to another cafe, it will be nice if we can eat and feed each other, it will be nice if she holds my hand tightly, her palm was very warm and made me comfortable.

I unconsciously smiled, hugging my palms. I've never liked anyone other than a boy at my school, I've never missed anyone other than Andrew and my dad.

I never liked being close and hanging out with strangers, but to me, she was… a different woman.

when dad said that they had a special relationship made me disappointed, but after I got to know her and met her, I felt happy, I want dad to be happy too!

This island was supposed to be beautiful, still beautiful, and always beautiful.

****

Michele was sitting in the passenger seat, while Mrs. Mei was driving the car-- she rarely drives her car but it's different for now, the current situation is desperate, she was forced to be the driver today.

"Where did you keep her?" Asked Mei.

Michele was still shaking, she was biting her fingernails.

"Calm yourself, take a deep breath, you don't have to worry and look fear like that, what makes you so cowardly today." Mei hissed annoyed.

"How can, I, not be afraid madam, I will deal with the law. I'm going to jail for attempted as a murderer on a pregnant woman." She said in a trembling voice, tears welling up in her eyes.

"Calm yourself. What have you just said, no one can touch you? Not even a legal entity! Don't you know, you're with me right now, don't worry, if you're nervous like that, it's disturbing my driving concentration." Mrs. Mei hissed.

Michele tried to follow Mrs. Mei's words, she was afraid of upsetting Mrs. Mei.

"Now take an inhale slowly and then exhale, do it over and over again so you are going calmer, we won't get out of the car if you can't make a calm face. You will be suspected by people around you."

"Okay, madam." Michele took a deep breath then cut off. She tried a few times and started to feel a little better than before.

"How about now?" Mrs. Mei asked, she turned the steering wheel through the bend. "Are there slums and disgusting areas on this island?" She frowned when she saw the road they were walking on looked dirty and disorganized.

"This area is close to the fishing village, so it looks dirty and smells." Michele was able to speak normally now, and she was trying to control her facial expressions.

"This area looks terrible, I will not live here, not even the flies want to land here." Michele could only silently listen to Mrs. Mei's words, this was a paradise for flies.

After going a long way, the two of them got out of the car and headed to a row house, an area that was not an only slum but also crowded.

Michele and Mei tried to smile at the people who were looking at them with astonished eyes.

Their clothes were distinctly different, their body language was not the same, they seemed to be from different planets.

"Where's the house?" Mei asked.

"In the narrow alley, madam." Michele showed me a path with pooled sewers on the left and right, with heavy legs Mrs. Mei forced through this road, holding nausea in her chest.

It turned out that this was not the first visit for Michele, someone recognized her, the person greeted her in a friendly voice.

"Madam, weren't you the one who visited her this morning?" He asked.

Michele tried to straighten her back then smiled stiffly, she nodded her head hesitantly, her eyes staring at Mrs. Mei's face with clear anxiety.

"Oh, you recognize her?" Mrs. Mei asked this poor man-- that's what Mrs. Mei called the appearance of the man who greeted Michele.

She can put on a friendly smile but inside her heart was full of harsh curses.

"Yeah, I saw her visiting Selena in the morning, are you Selena's sister?" asked this middle-aged man curiously.

"Ah, I'm not--" Michele's words were cut off by Mei quickly.

"Of course ma'am, we and Selena are partners, our relationship is quite good, she visited Selena first then taught me and invited me to visit Selena's little house." Mrs. Mei said with a cynical smile.

"Ah thank God, you both look classy and educated, unlike Selena's sister who claims to be rich but acted very arrogant and bold. Her brother is like a blood-sucking vampire."

"Oh yeah, you seem to know Selena's family very well."

"Ah no! I know her stepbrother because I own a spice shop, and his uncle supplies pepper stock at my shop." The man said, pointing to a small, crowded, and smoky shop not far from where they were talking. "You can stop by to eat at my shop." He offered.

"Hahaha..." Mrs. Mei laughed. "You are very kind, I also have a small shop, may I have the contact of the pepper businessman's, her stepbrother?" Mrs. Mei said she took out the latest cellphone which was priced at tens of millions of dollars.

Gulped!

Selena's neighbor gulped when he saw the diamond-encrusted phone in Mei's hand.

-- ah it must be just a fake Swarovski, he thought.