Both of them walked through the alley back home. Ravi and Arisa didn't say anything. But his stare held a lot of meaning. Mainly, He's staring at Arisa's bag. Soon, the two will reach the intersection of the roads. As they arrived, both stopped walking. The right crossbar-board said St. Maria Hospital, while the left said Asoka Street. Arisa and Ravi stood there in a couple of seconds. And then, Ravi broke the cold silence with his words.

  "I... wants to visit mom in the hospital. Do you want to come with me?" Said Ravi with a doubtful tone. As if he said something that Arisa will hate hearing.

  'As he said, our mother has blood cancer. It has been one year since her hospitalization. Because the spinal surgery didn't work last year, She has a total paralyze now. It seems dead of our father still burden her until now.' Arisa said in her mind.

  'How many days, how many weeks, and months it is since I didn't visit her? Even I pay a visit to her now. I don't think she will be happier than Ravi's visit.'

  'And I'm sure of it. mom doesn't want to see me after what I have done...'

  Arisa started to step her feet on the left road. That's a clear rejection of his brother's question.

  "You know, The Doctor said mom only has three months left..."

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  What Ravi said made Arisa freeze on the ground. Then complete silence struck her mouth.

  "Since dad has died, you always be like this... You didn't want to visit mom. Never once open up your heart to us." Ravi started to talk.

  "You always restrain what you'd feel from us with the fake smile you've shown me earlier."

  "Do you hate mom? No, you didn't hate her."

  "You hated me!"

  Ravi raised his tone. Deep in negative emotions. But he tried to stay calm. He doesn't want the conversation to become toxic. He restrained how he feels now with a hard grip of the right fist. And he continued.

  "You... You didn't want to see mom. Because of my existence!"

  Arisa listened to his brother's quivering voice but do not say anything back yet. She readied to be smitten by her brother's emotions.

  "It's okay. It's doesn't matter that you hated me. But please, do not hate our mother." Ravi said with a pledge tone.

  "Mom loves you pretty much. She always asked me when you're going to see her. She wanted to see you at her last moment. You, me, and her as family."

  "So, let's go visit her. Before it's too late." Ravi extended his arm to Arisa that still not turning back at him. But only silence come to him.

  And at last, a couple of words come out from his tight-mouthed sister, a soft quivering tone.

  "I... used to hate you. But I never hated mother, not even once." Her body trembles a little.

  "I know... I already knew if I don't visit our mother now. I will regret it all my life. But I.. I..."

  "I don't have the right to do so... I don't deserve her love."

  The tears start falling from her cheek as she speaks in a trembling voice. The brother who listed her sister carefully couldn't bring himself to understand what Arisa was saying. But He replies doubtlessly.

  "You deserve it! She is your mother!! What ridiculous thing you said-"

  Before Ravi completed his sentence, Arisa reached the highest of her tone. Her tear splash out of her eyes in every direction as she yelled.

  "Real son like you couldn't understand a Fake like me!"

  As soon as she roared to the sky, she ran away from her brother, leaving Ravi in a speechless state. She ran while her tears run dry from her eyes.