Chapter 14 Vague Confession

"You must have the wrong house." I tell the inspector.

"No. All my inquiries match your answers. I'm at the right place."

"Then the complaint must be fake. No one is abused here."

He looks at me. "Is it though?"

Mom comes rushing to the man and grabs his arms.

"Mom! What are you-?!" I pull her from behind but she's using all her strength to struggle.

"Pieces! Pieces! Here! There! Pieces!" She says.

"What?" The man looks confused.

I pull mom and gently whisper into her ears. "Its alright. You don't have to be anxious."

She struggles to remove my arm around her waist. "Ungh! Ugh! Ahhhh!" She starts to scream.

The police, Xeno, covers his ears, trying to prevent her shriek ringing his eardrums. "What is wrong with her?!"

"Ahhhh! Ahrmmmm!" I cover her screaming mouth.

"Mom! Mom! Listen to me! Everything is okay! Its all okay! He's not here to take you away!"

She tries to bite my hand over my bandage. After a while she calms down.

"There." I remove my hand and she sits.

"Is she okay?" He asks.

I sigh and close the door with her inside.

"Can you please leave?" I look down. "As the child I'm telling you I'm not abused. My teacher must've sent you, yes? At this rate she's only harassing us."

"I'm sure she meant well." Xeno sighs. "Was your mother always like this?"

"Are you serious? Is someone born like this?"

"I mean there are autistics and all."

"My mother isn't autistic."

"Woah. Aren't you edgy?" Mr Xeno pulls out a paper from his pocket. "Do you know this man?"

Surprise stricken, I reply after a long while. "Mr Arran?"

"So you do know him?"

"Yes."

He puts the paper back in his pocket and puts a cigarette in between his lips. While searching for a lighter he says. "I've asked your landlord before I came here. He said Mr Arran rented this house. Is he inside?"

He lights the cigarette.

"No. He doesn't live with us."

"How do you know him?" He blows out on my face.

"Mom used to know him. We all decided to move here together. But then he said he doesn't want to come and live with us."

"Hmmmmmmm." He blows out again on my face. I cough a lot.

"Can you please put that away?"

"What happened that he suddenly doesn't want to live with you and your mom anymore?" He puts it away.

"I don't know what happened between them. But since then my mom has been acting like this. I couldn't get an answer from her."

"Why don't you admit her into a hospital?"

I glare at him. "Mom is the safest beside me. Who knows what the doctors will do to her if I admitted her into a hospital."

"What will they do? Of course, treat her."

"No! I can handle her better than the doctors. I promise she'll come back to normal in a few days without going to hospital."

"Yeah sure." Mr Xeno gently waves his hand and turns around. "I'll go back for now. We'll meet again later."

"Alright. Please tell my school that I'm not being abused."

He doesn't say anything and leaves.

Its almost midnight. I should sleep.

I take my cellphone and fiddle on it to put on an alarm.

This should do.

I put it ahead of my pillow and fall asleep.

[At midnight, Rosalyn searches on his mattress. She senses the phone and grasps it. She unlocks the phone and gets into the call logs. She calls the first number she sees.

Waiting for a few moments, the other side picks up her phone.

"Hello?" It's Eclise.

She starts to weep.

"Hello. Sain? What's wrong? Are you crying? Hello?"

"Eeeh!"

"Huh?"

"Arms! Legs! Head! Pieces!"

"What? What arms?"

"I did!"

"What?!"]

I snatch the phone from her hand. "Hello. Is this Eclise?"

"Sain? What happened? Was that your mother?"

"Please don't mind her. It must've been a mistake. You can go back to sleep."

"Yeah. Okay."

I cut the call.