Lost Daughter

News Reporter

"Mrs. Cortel, may I ask what's the name of your missing child?" The reporter asked the not-so-old woman.

"She's Ciara Cortel. Please, baby. If you can see this, and you're hearing this. Wherever you are, please come back to us. Come back to mommy, baby. Please. It's me... your mom. Come back now, please? I need you."

'How many years has her child been missing?"

"Her child must have been very lucky when she got found."

"That's true! Based on what I heard, she was one of the richest people in Japan."

"Currently, can you show us a picture of your child, in case you have any news on its current appearance?" The reporter asked again and the woman immediately nodded.

"Here's the latest picture of her, this was given by someone from the Philippines and for now she's 18. Please, if someone knows where she is, please report immediately."

"She's beautiful just like her!"

"Yes! They're exactly the same if you keep them together."

"If anyone sees her, I will give a reward worth 100,000. Just please, take her to me. Bring her back to me." The crying woman pleads.

"Hey! That was big, 100,000?!"

"I'll probably look for that person!"

The plane was landing so the others were ready to get out, while Ciara's group was still sound asleep in their respective seats. The plane landed in a few minutes.

Ciara's pov

"Hmm, ouch!"

*yawn*

"Where are we— shit! Shit! Hey, wake up! The plane has landed!" I heard Jennifer's hysterical scream, causing my soul to wake, but my eyes remained closed.

"Argh, what's with you?!" I heard Altair complain.

I'm still sleepy. Let's still sleep~

"WHAT'S WITH YOU GUYS?! WE'RE ALREADY HERE! OH, GOD! HEY ARA! TYLER! WAKE UP! WE'LL GONNA LEAVE YOU HERE IF YOU DIDN'T GIVE UP! GOSH, THESE PEOPLE!" Jennifer shouted, causing me to get annoyed as I averted my face from hers. It's so annoying to hear her voice, can't she see that we're still sleeping?

"Hey, Tyler. Get up," I heard Raiza's gentle voice.

"Ciara, Ciara! We're here," Raiza said, as I hummed.

"Hmm, I'll follow—"

"Follow?!"

"Argh!" I complained while shaking my head. Tf, why did she hit me?! I'm even sleepy, can't they understand it?!

"Get your ass up, Ara!" I frowned as I opened my eyes and stretched a little because my whole body suddenly got numb.

"Hey, you! Aren't you gonna wake up there?!"

*Poink

I laughed when Jennifer also hit Tyler when he still didn't really wake up, but oh God! He still hasn't really woken up, gosh!

"Tyler, wake up!!" Jennifer shouted.

"Excuse me hehe." I excused myself and approached Tyler, even though I was still drowsy, I stretched my arm first, and stepped back away a little, panning to wrestle him.

"YAAAAHH!!"

"Hi, guys. I'm awake. Good morning." I suddenly stepped my foot back again and didn't continue the run that I would do to him when he woke up.

"That's enough, come on, we need to go off now," Raiza said, with Altair and they were off.

"Hurry up there!" Jennifer shouted and went out.

Her uncontrollable noise, gosh. Embarrassing!

"Hey, I'm hungry. Can we eat first?" I suggest.

"Me, too." Altair agrees as we all both went off the plane.

"Me too." Raiza.

"I'm hungry too," Tyler.

A few minutes later...

"Hurry up! Gosh, now I know the feeling of those main leads on the train to busan!" Jennifer yelled as we ran down the road.

We're running together because something unexpected happened. Suddenly people were chasing us earlier when we were waiting for our order!

Flashback

"I'll get this," Raiza points to a soup.

"Hand me the water, it's very thirsty," Tyler said.

"Hey man, look at the girl beside us. She looks like the missing person, isn't she?"

"Omyghad sis, look! The woman in white, over the other table, isn't she the one missing? She's also a Filipino."

"She is! Shall we get closer to them?"

We heard whispers around us, and we noticed all of them because somehow, almost all of them were looking in our direction.

"What's their problem?" Altair asked.

"Because they saw someone who looked like an actor." Tyler's bragging.

"You mean a tourist?" Jen corrected.

"Excuse me," I turned to the woman standing now in front of me

"What's your name?"

"We're sorry, but no one's allowed to talk to her," Raiza stops the girl.

"I just want to know, she looks like the missing person."

"Missing person?" I asked in astonishment.

Do I look lost?

"You look like the missing daughter of a rich businessman. There is a reward of 100k for whoever finds her." A woman said that I think was Filipino too.

I immediately looked away and faced Raiza who also seemed to be stuck in her seat and didn't seem to know what to do.

Uh-oh, trouble.

"Guys. I will count 1 to 3, we will run, okay?" Raiza simply took her stuff as we did the same.

"1," bit my lower lip, shit.

"2"

"THAT'S HER, STOP HER!" Someone shouted, causing us all to move quickly.

—

"Shit!" Tyler exclaimed as he continued running.

"What is that, Ciara! God, can you just cover your face?!" Tyler shouted as we ran.

*PLAK!*

We stopped running when Tyron stumbled on the ground.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

"KARMA! HAHAHAHAHAHA!" Jennifer yelled at him. He stood up sullen and shook himself.

"There she is!!" We heard shouts not far from where we were. We all looked at each other as our eyes widened.

"Run!!" Tyler yelled and that's exactly what we did.

Ahk! This is hell!

"Seriously! Are they really going to chase a person for just 100k ?!" Altair.

"Probably! If they were me too. I'll do that too!" Jennifer shouted.

"Let's turn!" Raiza shouted.

As she said, we turned around to the other alley. I turned around to see if anyone was chasing us, but...

"Ah!" I groaned when I suddenly fell as I tripped over my own feet, causing those who were in my queue to stumble over me.

"Ouch!"

"Fuck!"

"Aww!"

"What the heck!

It hurts! I feel like my back is broken as they all fell on me. I close my eyes in pain when they're still on top of me.

"Oh, no! Help them!" I heard someone say,

"Sorry, kids." She apologizes even if she's not at fault, while the cops who were with the woman help us stand up.

"It seems that you're all new here, are you a tourist or something? I'm sorry for the curiosity. But, why are you running?" She asked but no one answered nor noticed him because we were busy aching our bodies.

"It hurts! Who the fuck just got tripped off and you really have to involve everyone?!" I heard Jennifer scold. While I was bent over and holding one hand behind my back, the other was on my head. It was as if three fat people had run into me.

"My ass hurts!" Tyler complained and couldn't walk properly.

"I'm sorry, someone-oh! Someone is chasing us—" My forehead furrowed when Raiza did not continue what she was going to say.

"What's wrong-.." Even Altair I heard stopped speaking.

"Oh em ji?!" I heard Jennifer say.

"Woah!" Also, Tyler reacted.

What the fuck is happening with them?! I can't see what's going on because I'm still bending over! My back hurts so much and I can't lift it right away!

"Wait, you're familiar to me. If I'm not mistaken, you're the girl who gave the picture of my lost daughter, right? And you are Ms. Raiza?" The woman asked who seemed to be talking to Raiza now.

W-wait! Given a picture? Lost daughter?

D-don't tell me...

"I-isn't she..." I heard Tyler say.

Even though my body was in so much pain and I couldn't lift, I still tried, so I could see who they were talking to.

"AH !!! FUCK MY BACK !!" I shouted which caught their attention.

"Omayghad! Ija, does your body hurt?" The woman asked. Isn't it obvious? I can't even move here!

"M-my back, I can't lift it!" I answered while holding it, complaining about the pain. I can't really move... It hurts a lot. I'm going to sue them for doing this to me!

"O-okay? I'm going to help you up, Just shout 'aw' if it's hurt, alright?" She said, the reason for my face to frown, even if it's weird, I just nodded.

Even though nothing has happened yet, my face looks like I ate something I don't want to.

"I'll start in one, two, three *crack*

"AH!!!" I shouted, I think, my body was only stretching 1/4 but it was already very painful, and there were tears in the corner of my eye because the pain was too much.

I closed my eyes, shit.

"I'll help you!" Said Raiza.

"Okay, Ciara! Take a deep breath," Raiza said.

I took a deep breath as Raiza said and touched my back again which was about to go back to normal, but the pain was not over! I can not take it anymore! Can I just be taken to the hospital?

"Okay, game, ah.. we're going to lift it," Raiza said to the woman who looked at the statue now.

"W-what did you just say?"

"What's her name?" The woman asked, looking confused. I looked at Raiza who cast a spell first.

"S-shoes, Ciara. Ciara Hilvano, M-Mrs. Cortel," Raiza replied, causing my forehead to frown.

Mrs. Cortel?

"S-she's."

"Yes, she's your daughter, Mrs. Cortel." They all looked at Altair when he said this.

What!?

"D-daughter? You're Ciara? My long-lost daughter? H-how come? Can you prove it to me?" She asked. I felt like they were all staring at me.

What?! How awkward I look here, stop staring at me!

"See it for yourself, Mrs. Cortel," Raiza said, I saw the woman's footstep even closer to me.

"C-can you look at me?" She commands me, so even though it was so hard, I still tried to look at her, who was obviously so surprised that you thought she saw a ghost when I finally lifted my head.

"Ciara? O-omg... Ciara!" She shouted and didn't hesitate to pull me into a hug, which surprised me.

"Ah!" I moaned as my body completely straightened up.

"Oh, I'm sorry..." she cried apologetically and held my face gently.

"It's you," I didn't know what to do, but I was stunned when I finally saw its face.

It's true... she's really my mother.

I can see myself in her and I feel my heart close to her.

"M-mommy?" I can't believe what I am seeing right now.

"Oh, God. Ciara..." She said happily, even though she was crying, she immediately engulfed me with a tight embrace and so did I.

I looked at the flashing cameras. There are still many people watching us who were getting blocked by the cops.

I felt tears dripping down my cheeks.

"Mom," I called again. I heard her son grow louder when I called her that. She touched my face, her face was wet with tears, but she chose to wipe my tears.

"You're really my child. You look like me when I was still young," she said and smiled, then wiped away my tears.

"I really miss you a lot, baby," she said and hugged me again.

"After so many years of finding you. I already found you, you're nowhere standing in front of me." Can't believe she says that.

I can not talk. Instead, my tears just kept flowing.

"So, Mrs. Cortel." We looked at Tyler.

"Now that you've seen her," he raised his two eyebrows and then smiled as if he had succeeded.

What now?

"And we're the ones you saw with her, then..."

"WE WILL GET THE REWARD OF 100,000! YES! OOOH! YEAH! YOOHOO!! 100,000 FOR ME! YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! WOOH !!" He shouted so cheerfully as he jumped in joy.

Wth?! Seriously, Tyler Jeon?!