"A painting is alive to the person's eye, but behind it, there is a story that no one knows." __________________________________________ "Hon, I need to see my son." This is what Arche heard when he and Kyle came to Catherine's room. "M-mommy," Catherine immediately looked at her son, and Arche caught a glimpse of Nurse Freya and Doctor Kian. "S-son, Kyle" Kyle immediately ran to his mother and hugged her tightly as if when he let go of his mother's hug it would disappear. "Mom, sorry, sorry," he repeated while crying. "Shhh... You don't apologize to me, son. I should be the one to apologize to you and your dad. I didn't say to you that I have a disease." Arche glanced at the three of them and saw Catherine hugging her son and husband tightly like she didn't want to let go of her husband in her son. Arche quietly left Catherine's room and he realized to himself that he needed to talk to his mother. "Arche!" He looked at where that voice came from, and here he saw Kian running towards him. "Why?" "Don't let Haru go home, later. We have an important place to go with Nikki, Samantha, Anthony, Nicole, and Jasper." He nodded here and didn't ask where they were going later. Arche arrived in the garden and sat down next to Haru and he observed the few patients in the garden. "Where's your family?" Haru suddenly asked Arche. Arche leaned his head on the bench and answered the question. "My father is always busy with his work in the company. My mom..." He stopped talking for a moment because he didn't know what to say here about his mother. "My mom left us when I was 17." He bowed his head and continued to speak. "She went with another man and now they have a child of their own and her family is happy. While my dad and I miss her." He glanced at Haru, and there he saw its eyes staring at him. He couldn't understand if Haru felt sadness for what he said because he didn't see anything in her eyes. "You? Where is your family?" Haru suddenly averted her gaze from Arche and looked up at the sky and pointed at it. "My mom is there." She smiled while speaking, and she looked at Arche for a moment. "Nicole's mom took care of me since I was a child. I don't know who my family is. Nicole told me I couldn't remember my family. They adopted me, took care of me, and loved me. But there seems to be something missing in myself." Arche looked at her closely and realized that he was going through something worse than he was. "I'm happy somehow because there are two mothers who took care of me. They loved me so much, even though I was not their own daughter." Arche pulled it closer to him and leaned Haru head on his shoulder. "I'm sure you'll remember those happy memories of your real family that you have." Haru shook her head. "No, because I'm the one who chooses. I don't want to remember them anymore." He didn't know why she chose to not want to remember her real family anymore, but he kept quiet and he didn't ask her. They were in that position when Nicole, Samantha, Jasper, Anthony, Nikki, and Jayson suddenly arrived in front of them. "Oww! There are love birds here." Jasper laughed. Haru was about to leave, leaning her head on Arche's shoulder, but Arche stopped her. "What's up?" "Doc Kian is calling us. We're leaving now with him. He did not said where to go." Nikki said, and then she left. Arche helped Haru to stand up and they followed Nikki. Three hours passed when they were standing in front of a building that Arche knew very well who owned it. He was about to turn around but before he went outside, Kian immediately grabbed his arm. "Your father needs to talk to us about hospice," Kian said. "I'm going back to the hospice, Kian. I don't want to see my dad." "No, Arche You will go inside and face your father." He looked at who spoke and he saw Haru, while the other companions were surprised by what they heard. Arche did nothing. He went inside while Jasper and Kian were by his side, and the others followed them. "Doc, just follow me." Arche's father's secretary said so they followed her, but Jasper stopped because of two paintings displayed in the hallway near Arche's father's office. "The portrait was seemed so real and lively." As Jasper said here, "Yes! You're right." Everyone agreed with amazement in their eyes. "They look happy when you look at this painting," Nikki said "That's why Mr. Harrison put it here because it grabs the attention of everyone who passes by his office. Mr. Harrison said that it came from the garbage and was just handed to him by a little boy." The secretary said and she continued walking to the office of Mr. Harrison. Kian and all of them followed her again, except Haru. Haru stared at the painting for a long time and had many questions about it, but she couldn't get an answer, so she immediately ran to Mr. Harrison's office. When she opened the door, Mr. Harrison stopped speaking and almost everyone inside stared at her. She didn’t care about them as long as she needed an answer to her questions as to why. "Haru," Arche called out to Haru, but she didn't pay attention to him. She just walked closer to where Arche's father was. "Lady, why?" Arche's father asked "T-the painting outside your office w-why is it here?" "Ah, is that because the young boy gave it to me." "Give it back to me! It's not for you, it's for the little boy and his mother!" Haru didn't know why she was so angry now. "Haru!" Nicole shouted at her and they all stood up. "T-that painting..." She couldn't continue what she wanted to say. She knelt in front of Arche's father and she cried. "That painting in outside. That painting behind it has a story. Not everything you see is correct. I made that painting, I painted it!" She told them almost everyone was silent and no noise could be heard because everyone was surprised at what she said. "B-but a kid handed it to me." "The child who gave to you the painting is he's that child in the portrait. The one you see in a painting is a happy boy laughing, and a pregnant woman with a sweet smile is his mother. I made this for them. The truth behind the painting I made was that his father was scolding him and beating him while his pregnant mother was hurting by his father. I gave it to the mother and to the young boy, but his father threw it away." Haru said while she bowed her head. She felt that Arche's father she stood up. "You know, that kid said me to find you and return the portrait to you." "I didn't expect that I could find it here. I looked at that painting everywhere but I didn't find it. Also, I haven't seen the kid and his mother since the painting was thrown in the trash. I went back to where I first saw them because I wanted to help them to get away from their father." Haru tearfully said. "I'll help you to find them and I'll return the painting to you." Haru shook her head and wiped the tears on her face. "No, that painting is better here. I'm sorry for the inconvenience." She said and quietly left the office. Nicole followed her and left the others inside. They sat in the lobby of this building. "Haru, what are you doing?! It's embarrassing what you did before." "When I saw that painting, I had no idea what was going to happen around me. I'm sorry Nicole." Nicole just took a deep breath and hugged Haru tightly, and they decided to wait for their colleagues in the lobby.
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