Michelia disappeared 2

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Skylar flinched outside when he heard another door open.

Skylar moved confused, he did not imagine this would happen, what if it was his mother who would catch Skylar who had broken into his bedroom door.

What should he do after this? Skylar as if done in place. He stiffened even more and his eyes widened as the door swung open.

"Skylars?" The voice caught him.

Skylar quickly hid the book inside his shirt, he froze at that moment when Skylar found Renjana's figure was standing in the doorway with anger that his mother could not hide. Renjana darted in front of Skylar with sparkling eyes.

Skylar kept his cool and kept his expression as neutral as possible and threw away his feelings of guilt. His mother wouldn't have thought that Skylar had found the dark stuff out of the cupboard. Which Renjana had hidden from her for years.

"What are you doing in Mom's room?" Renjana asked almost half growling, her face hardened and Renjana darted in front of Skylar, she glanced slightly at the wide-open cupboard beside Skylar standing.

"I'm looking for a family card," he said and grimaced when he heard an excuse that crossed his mind. "I've been looking for it everywhere ma'am, but can't find it."

Neil pretended not to notice that Renjana seemed to be sighing silently. He thought Renjana believed his little lie until his mother's face started to loosen up.

"Mother, don't keep it here," he said walking to close the closet door which was very obvious that Renjana was looking at the big mirror there.

"Mom, aren't you going away for a few days?" Skylar asked looking at the closed cupboard out of the corner of her eye, her mind still fixed on her worry about Michelia missing.

"Something was left behind, so Mother came home for a while to get it. Where were you from yesterday?"

Skylar was worried when they were out of the room and her mother locked her back with the empty cupboard. What about Skylar who wants to follow Michelia there too?

"I slept at a friend's place," Skylar replied at once not wanting her mother to be disappointed.

"So, your father is now a friend?" asked Renjana with her arms crossed in front of her chest. His mother knew.

However, Skylar wonders if Renjana and Raihan met back then?

"Mom, brother is still missing. I can't just sit still," Skylar defended herself.

Renjana chuckled, and said, "Let the police look for him, why are you bothering to not go to school, Skylar?"

Skylar couldn't believe what a mother said to her missing child. Not even a cop would be able to find Neil. He was sure the way that led him was through the old cupboard.

"How can I focus, Mom? Don't you understand at all?" Skylar subconsciously raised his voice, it made him regret it.

"Is this what your father taught you after you left? Mother told me not to see him!"

Skylar didn't say anything, his hands clenched in anger. He respects Renjana as his mother

"A man is kept by his promise. You can't keep your promise at all, I'm very disappointed."

"Mother, can't you see how things are now? Neil is part of my life, missing for the past few days, your flesh and blood. How can you not care at all?"

Renjana didn't say anything, she just stood firm without wavering. Skylar just exhaled and smiled faintly with pain gripping his chest.

"... at that time mother said jokingly if I have children later. My mother will give me a name, Neil. Isn't that ridiculous? If I had a child with that name, I would hate it."

Skylar remembers the snippet of Mirror And Blood, and he can't help but believe that his mother must have something to do with it.

With his eyes leveled, he walked briskly past Renjana. Picking up her bag on the sofa, she left the house leaving her mother alone. Skylar just hoped Renjana would at least think about it.

***

When Skylar's motorbike slowed down on the side of the road, he quickly reached for his cell phone that was in his pocket.

His hands unhesitatingly began to make two calls to Michelia. Skylar waited anxiously behind the call which never received a reply. Looking back and forth wildly, Skylar kept hoping that nothing bad had happened to him there or Skylar would regret it for the rest of his life. Like his remorse for Neil.

"Skylars?"

He was about to scream with joy when Michelia answered his call. "Are you all right? Where are you?"

Skylar held her tongue to keep from throwing a barrage of questions at Michelia. The reason this all happened was that he gave Michelia to be the first to try it.

"I can't believe our cell phones can connect to these different dimensions," he said as if nothing had happened to him a few minutes ago. Then he started to say seriously from the other end. "Skylar? The first thing I should look for is Neil or at least Faiz," he explained on the other end.

"For now think about you. Are you okay? Where?" Skylar asked.

"I'm fine. You know where I appeared after I touched the glass?"

Skylar shook his head in response and remembered that Michelia couldn't see him. "I do not know."

"In my own house, in my room. I don't know why this happened I should have come in the closet too."

Skylar nodded. "When Neil arrived in that dimension, he was instead on the roof of the school and ready to jump down."

"Skylar wait! I saw something."

Skylar thumped suddenly feeling a bad feeling that came when Michelia made him uncomfortable. His mouth was twitching waiting for what was happening there with anxious hope it wasn't anything big.

"Skylar, I know why when I look in the mirror I can't find my reflection there."

Skylar's jaw dropped as he heard Michelia's next words with a sour tone. "Because I who was here died."

"Die?" Panic ran through Skylar's mind. "How could that be?"

"He's human too," said Michelia quietly on the other end. Skylar admired the serenity that existed within Michelia. "I saw a lot of condolence cards on my bed. Also a photo of a face like me here. I didn't think we were so similar."

"But what if the people who were there found out that you were gone while you just appeared there yourself?"

Michelia then said very quietly and sounded bitter. "That's what I thought earlier."

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