GWB21E

66. Chapter 21.Kerria out of control

Beruche dialed the police number with a shrugged heart. However, when they answered and she wanted to contact the agent she knew, the person in charge of answering her call told her that he was not present at that moment. Bertie explained her distressing situation but his interlocutor responded almost with a mixed tone of condescension and unconcern, which nothing could be done until at least twenty-four hours had elapsed. Adding that surely the girl would come back much sooner. Thanking him for his words, although really thinking that they did not serve her much, she hung up, returning to the tense wait.

-Dammit! I do not know what to do ... What happened to her? ...- She was really anguished, walking from one side of the room to the other.-

Beruche did not want to think about anything bad, but she could not help it. Her daughter was an ordinary girl, without any power, at least she never gave evidence of having anyone. What if some degenerate had? ... She shook her head as if trying to expel that terrible idea outside. Then she looked at the phone ... She desperately needed someone to talk to. Let off steam, a friend or sister to assure her that everything would be fine. But she did not want to scare anyone else. So she stifled a sob and held back tears. She wanted to think that Kerria would return soon or that she would be brought home ...

-You have to find her Roy, use your powers if you need to! - She told herself, cursing now that she did not remind that to her husband.-

Meanwhile, the father and brother of the disappeared girl had left home hastily, driving at great speed but without exceeding limits. That was not the best moment of being arrested or fined. Roy at the wheel let himself be guided by his son, who knew by name the main places where young people used to go to have fun. They toured the nightlife areas of the city. They stopped in a very stylish club, where Leval knew that many of the high school girls came. Although most of them clandestinely cause they were minors. The two set out to enter, however, the doorman, a sordid guy dressed in a leather jacket and worn jeans, intercepted them, blocking their way.

- You have to have an invitation.- He said something abruptly while chewing gum. -

- Please sir, let us go. - Leval asked politely. - Maybe my sister is inside.

Father and son thought that maybe things were going to get difficult, because the attire of that individual did not give them too many reasons to think about a civilized talk. Although, to their surprise, he looked at them alternately and responded in better ways. Even in a strangely kind way.

- Listen, I just do my job. I cannot let anyone who is not authorized enter and if you do not have an invitation you cannot go through.

- Is this enough to pay the entrance? - Roy intervened giving a few dollars to the guy who grabbed them without hesitation. -

The doorman gave a quick look at the amount and even seemed impressed despite the apparent indifference of his features. Keeping the money, as if that were the most normal thing, he told them with greater cordiality.

- Yes, that will suffice, enter and I hope you find what you are looking for.

And he allowed to enter by opening the door. Leval and Roy were introduced without transition in the middle of a pandemonium of music and charged disco environment. Between the deafening noise of the decibels and the daze of the psychedelic lights they began to search. This was a hard test for the senses and it could easily be understood that anyone would lose the perspective of reality if stayed there for a long time. The same father of the young  girl could not even concentrate on feeling her energy. In fact, he had thought about it before, but his daughter did not issue a quantity important enough to attract attention. Knowing that he had to discard that way of locating her. Luckily, Leval saw dancing a boy whom he knew by sight in the institute. He was in his sister´s class. So he told it to his father and Roy, opening his way with slowness but tenacity, managed to get to his side and approached him .

- Hey boy. - He call him.-

He used a very loud tone of voice to try to make himself heard in the middle of that acoustic gibberish. At first the boy, imbued with the music, did not pay attention to him. He had to insist by honking his hands.

- Can you hear me?...

-What´s up man? - He shouted this also among the noise to realize that they were going to him. - Who are you, mate?

- My name is Roy Malden, I'm looking for Kerria Malden. - He introduced himself, although the background noise drowned out many of his words, in spite of that he asked immediately. - Tell me. You go to her class, do not you?

- I do not know, dude, who do you say she is? - He inquired again the boy who did not pay too much attention- …

- Kerria Malden-  Roy repeated patiently. -

- Yes, her name sounds to me. Maybe she goes to my class. She is no bad, she is beautiful, you know? -

The boy laughed and he did not stop moving loudly to the rhythm of a repetitive and  histrionic music (if it could be called that way to that noise that would unsettle anyone reasonably normal)

- I just want to know if she's in this place. - The worried father declared with that high-sounding tone, but essential to be understood. -

- I'm not very sure. - The boy answered reluctantly. -

- Have you seen her around here? - Roy asked, beginning to lose his patience. -

- No, I have not seen her, - the boy mumbled, eager to continue dancing. -

-Are you sure? - Leval insisted, adding to the conversation. -

- Hey, move on from me! I want to dance, I've told you no. Maybe she's out there giving herself the batch or drinking something. - The interpellant repeated that he did not seem too convinced.-

- Hey, we're telling you seriously, - Leval screamed, losing his composure. -

- Calm down, son, -  Roy intervened,  adding a feigned reassuring gesture - you should not ask like that.

- Sorry dad, is that I'm nervous. That is all. - He apologized immediately to the indifference of that silly dancer. -

- No, is not that. - He corrected his father.- You will see how it has to be done.

 And to the surprise of his son and the other boy, Roy grabbed that guy by the lapels dragging him off the dance floor. Once outside he leaned him against one of the walls that was less busy raising him almost a foot of the ground and snapped.

- Listen to me, baby, you're already fed me up! You know where my daughter is and you're going to tell me. I do not give a damn if you're here, even though you are so young to be, but I'm sure your parents will not share my careless. So as you do not tell me something that interests me, I'll make sure they know it and then you'll have a very bad time. Have I spoken clearly?

That boy seemed to return to reality when they took him out of the center of that vortex of light and sound and heard the threats of that man who, on to top of that, was Kerria's father. Now he was scared, especially to see that he seemed very angry.

- Ok mister, do not be like that. - The dumb boy stammered that seemed to remember by magic. - Kerria, right? ...

- Yes - Roy repeated with curtness. - Speak, is she here?

- She was yes. I saw her an hour or an hour and a half ago. - The boy admitted, adding with greater accuracy. - But she left long ago.

- Where? - Asked his inquisitor shaking him as if he was a puppet. -

- I do not know for sure. - The boy could mutter. - His interrogator held it up to his face and made a menacing gesture. - I swear! - the aggrieved boy hastened to add. - The most likely is that she went to a roadside bar called the truck driver ... - He kept a few moments of silence searching his mind but he did not seem to find what he wanted and added with impetuosity, knowing that his interlocutor was not going to have much patience. - I do not remember the full name. But it starts with something from trucks or truck drivers. Although she can also be in another nightclub in the Punk area, on Twenty Street. Near here. They are the most lively places. That's all I know, I think she was with her friend Debbie.

Roy calmed down with that data, that was something to start investigating. So he released that boy who ran away. Then taking a deep breath, he indicated to his son.

- Leval, you go to that punk bar, it's closer to here. I'll take care of the road. - But first I'll call your mother to tell her that we have not found Kerria yet.

- Very well, dad. - The boy who nodded, heading to that place. -

Leval knew what bar this other boy was referring to and he did not like it at all. Although it would be better not to say anything to his father about the fame of that place. Roy, meanwhile, called his wife who was very uneasy.

-Did you find her? - She wanted to know with growing concern.-

-No, not yet. - Her husband said, adding. - We're going to look at a couple of places where we've been told she could be.

-Please Roy, find our daughter and bring her to safety.- She begged him.-

-Do not worry. Of course I will bring her back and she will be fine. - Her interlocutor assured her, realizing the anguish that was affecting his wife. So he added with a more comforting tone. - Trust me cubito. I had to deal with much more difficult things, you know.

So they said goodbye and after trying to reassure his wife, Roy went to that place with the car. Bertie, in spite of that encouragement, hung up with patent anguish. That went from bad to worse. Her daughter could be anywhere or anything could have happened to her. Soon the phone rang again. She picked up hope. Maybe it was her husband who had found Kerria, or it could be that the police had located her. However, she heard Ami's familiar voice.

-Hello Bertie. How are you? - She greeted her jovially.-

But the doctor was surprised when only stung sobs came from the other side of the line. Immediately she wanted to know with concern.

-Is something wrong?

-It's my daughter.- She could explain her interlocutor.- She has disappeared and we do not know where she is!

So she broadly told her friend what had happened. Ami listened with regret but managed to compose a more animated tone and reply.

- Surely it will be a matter of age. You'll see how she will return home ... Of course woman ... I understand you're worried. But trust Kerria. She is a good girl. You're welcome Bertie ... call me when everything is solved. Goodbye…

When she hung up, Ami sighed in distress. The truth is that, a few days ago, Usagi visited each and every one of them. Now that they lived as normal people it seemed that the days of battles to save the Earth and Humanity had been left behind. But there was another very important task that had to be done to safeguard the future. And the group of their friends and their children  would have a great importance on it. However, they should overcome some tough tests first. At least that was anticipated by the formerly known as Sailor Moon. And one who was going to start going through that situation was precisely her goddaughter. Although the worst of all is that, this time, she and the other old warriors should stay on the sidelines completely. That would be a situation that should be solved by the respective families ...

-God, help my friends, please! - Mizuno could muster uneasily.- And protect my goddaughter ...

Hours ago, the aforementioned had left the dinner with her brother and Amethyst and had actually gone to that disco, where her father and brother were looking for her in the first place. She stayed there with Deborah Hunter, a dark haired and attractive girl, with blue eyes endowed with a strange fascination. Both were from the same course, having met that year. Both had get on well from the beginning, as Deborah had an attitude of nonconformity similar to that Kerria herself experienced. In addition, she was the only person who could help her to navigate through the confusion of feelings and sensations she had. The only one in which she was to be able to trust openly to confess her authentic tribulations. They became good friends, and from that they became intimate. Anyway, that girl was not seen in high school circles, and Kerria could not frequent her company over there. They used to be almost always out of class hours, or even skipping some of these, and escaping to some places of environment in which Debbie introduced her. This was one of many and both were dancing for a while eluding all the  prowlers that approached them. In the end, a little fed up with that bustle and looking for more tranquility, they decided to leave. The boy Roy had questioned saw them dance and as he was one of the few who did not mind dealing with Deborah. Then they engaged in a light and insubstantial conversation, but enough for both girls to tell him they could go to one of those places. So they did, took a bus and traveled the distance to their destination, got out and walked the last few meters to the door of the nightclub as Debbie commented.

- It's a hassle that nightclubs are for adults and a lot of old men come.

-Good! – Kerria laughed hinting at that with a mixed attitude of disdain and rejoicing - I had to scare at least three and all of my father's age at least. - Then she touched her forehead with her hand. - Now that I remember, it's too late, I have to go home or my parents will kill me!

- Come on, Ker. - Debbie whispered in a sweet voice. - We can still have a lot of fun you and me, we go in here. There is a good atmosphere for us and we can find someone who can help us.

The girl hesitated, at that time her parents might already be very worried, but she really wanted to be with Debbie. An internal struggle was fought in her. Once you kill the cow, if she arrived a little later at home. What importance would it have already? So she would invent some excuse to justify herself. Having decided that, she finally agreed to her friend's pleas.

- Well, all right, I'll see what happens to me later. And how can I come out with that.

-Come on! - Her interlocutor invited her with a smile. After taking her by the hand and dragging her inside.- We will have a great time.

They got into the roaring hodgepodge without any problems. It was normal for guards to allow two attractive girls to pass without even wanting to know their age or any questions. That had happened about two hours before her father and her brother found out. Roy immediately went to the roadside bar, after using a combination of threats and money he came to the conclusion that his daughter was not there. He wished Leval had had more luck. And indeed, he was more fortunate than his father. He arrived at the Punk bar, named Afrodiasic and was about to enter when he was intercepted by three strangely dressed guys with even stranger gestures.

- Hi handsome. What does a child so cute around here? Are you looking for fun? – He was asked by one with a red crest decorating his head. -

- Please, let me in, I'm looking for a person. - Leval asked politely as was his custom. -

- This is not a place for you, nice boy.- Another one laughed, he was shaved and with his tongue full of piercings.- You're too handsome to spoil your little face in there, ha, ha.

- Look, I'm looking for my sister, maybe you have seen her, she is this tall.- He placed one of his hands with his palm down in an area at the same level as his chin and added. - She was with another girl, I just want to find her and leave. -

- Then She has come with her own plan, little boy. She'll be having a great time, honey, and I do not think she really wants you to come looking for her. - Another smiled with blue-stained teeth. - Leave her alone and have fun with us!

- Surely you have what you need.- The crested one added, looking at his crotch shamelessly and reaching out to touch it, Leval stepped back to the moment. -

-I'm not that kind of guy! - He snapped angrily asking them already with little patience. - Are you going to get away or will I have to enter in any other away?

- Well, here, all of us who come here are, honey. -The guy of the crest laughed, sentencing now more sharply. - If you do not have an invitation or desire to have fun, you will not be able to enter.

- When I can check if my sister is here I will leave right away from this dive and I advise you not to get in my way. - An already irritated Leval warned them, tensing his muscles and his face -.

- How tough you are! - the one of the earrings smiled in an evil way while looking towards the door and shouted.- Hey Dex, here is a guy who is not kind at all with me and the girls.

-The girls? - The astonished boy said to himself, seeing that these guys had even beard. -

Then a huge muscular guy in a tight, half-torn shirt and a big wooden stick approached. He might weigh a hundred and twenty kilos and measure almost two meters. He was bald and with an unpleasant face, his nose broken by innumerable fights and he lacked at least several teeth. Although he smiled with a sadistic rictus, showing that collection of holes in his mouth and declared, apparently in a condescending tone.

-What's up? Are you trying to make problems?

- No, I just want to look to see if my sister is in there, if not. I do  leave right away.- Leval responded by giving a little in anger at the thought that this other guy seemed more willing to attend to reasons. -

- But here you come to have fun, friend. Not to spoil anyone's party. - Opposed that bully with studied calm. -

- This one does not want to enjoy and has threatened us - the one of the teeth smiled, hugging that man who shook him with one of his arms by the waist. -

- Have you being rude with my girlfriend? - Dex asked with a crazy look that scared. –

- I have not gotten involved with anyone. - Leval answered, surprised and without stopping insisting - I just want to find my sister and get out.

- Do not be shy, if you're looking forward to it. - The guy of the piercings whispered touching his ass. -

Leval shoved him away from him . Then that strong guy answered by hitting him  with a punch that took him by surprise, knocking him to the ground and making him bleed from a lip. The chorus of guys laughed. Out of surprise and confusion, the boy went into fury, he was angry like never before in his life. He did not know but his blood warrior space boiled. Unable to contain himself, he rose up like a bolt of lightning and hit the doorman with a fist that sent him several meters away, destroying a wooden wall and knocking him unconscious. The others looked at him terrified, they could not believe that  was happening.

-Any more does want the same treatment? - The young man shouted out of himself. -

- No, no, - those guys muttered  going away from him. -

- Do not get angry, it was just a joke.- The one of the piercings that now trembled with fear, being able to almost babble. – Go in man and look at what you want.

The boy did not bother to answer, he was so furious that he shoved aside everyone who crossed in front of him, based on threats and beatings he came to a room where three guys were watching.

- Do not follow, mate! - One of the guys there brandishing an iron bar, snapped. - Or your head is going to hurt.

-Oh really? - Leval retorted tearing the bar from his hand and folding it without thinking and without any apparent effort to threaten with sarcasm. Do you want me to make a tie for you?

- You're a tough guy, huh? - Spit another pointed at him with a long sharp knife, which moved with skill. – This you will not double. - He assured with a clear confidence in himself. -

- I do not need it. - Leval stated that, without giving time to his opponent, he kicked the armed arm making him release the weapon, then grabbed the other and projected that man with, causing him to fall on some tables of the premises that were destroyed by the impact. Then he added with ironic satisfaction.- Have you seen it? Well, one scum less and counting...

So with another kick he got rid of what was left and destroyed what looked like a solid door with a punch. After that moment of adrenaline rise, even Leval himself didn´t understand how he had done it. That was bricks and hardwood. And even with all his training in martial arts he should have broken his hand. But he had acted without thinking, guided by something that came from within. However, immediately stopped thinking about it to see the sorry show that was hiding behind those walls.

-But what's going on here? What is this? - He said really stunned by what he observed.-

There were many boys and girls who were addicted to drugs and sexual practices. Most of them ran out when they heard the noise, thinking it was a police raid. Leval ignored them since he had heard the sound of familiar laughter. He walked towards that and discovered half-naked a girl from high school who he known by sight, next to her and with her pants down, a guy with a mustache who was smoking a joint them and sitting on a sofa was Kerria laughing. She seemed stunned by the dense atmosphere of unbreathable smoke that was concentrated there. The boy, scared to see her in that state, tried to reach her, but the guy grabbed him by the hands.

- Eh boy, calm, that I´ll go first. She has not done the job she promised me yet. Look what beautiful mouth she has. – Then he pointed to Kerria who seemed to be absorbed in the contemplation of the opposite wall. - This chick must do a great blow, what a lips she has!

The other girl stood up next to her and Kerria gave her  attention to her with a half-smile. Both kissed long in the mouth at the fright of his brother, who could not believe what he was seeing.

- That  is really hot, huh? – The other  guy laughed trying to get off the slip and proposing to the astonished boy .- Take off the pants that these whores will do to us both. The brunette for you. The other one is mine. LOL!

Without a word Leval grabbed that guy from the neck and lifted him almost half a meter on the ground, embedding him against the wall. Despite being stuck and stunning by maybe some drugs, that individual understood that he had spoken more than he should and tried to apologize.

- Is she your girlfriend, man? I'm so sorry, she is all for you, okay? I deal with the other. Do you want to joint? Come on man, a cigarette, you'll see how you will have a good time, I invite.

-You disgust me! - Leval spit out of his temper. - Get out of my sight, you pig! - He howled throwing to guy against the other end of the room and leaving him unconscious.

Then he pushed the other girl away from his sister like a wink and lifted Kerria up in his arms. She babbled apparently without knowing him.

- Hahaha! Hey boy, get in line and wait for your turn. I do not like this but a deal is a deal. -Then  she hugged him trying to kiss him. Because of the smell of her breath she seemed drunk, which was also evident when she affirmed with an ironic tone. - But how strong you are! Do you know you're very handsome? Hahaha.

-Shut up, Kerria, - Leval asked, turning his face visibly angry to add something more measured. - I'm going to take you home.

That girl could not be his sister. Not of course the one he had known forever. What the hell could have happened to her to behave like that? Leval was really scared. He thought he knew her since they were both children and now he realized that it was not like that at all. That girl seemed a stranger. Then she did seem to recognize him, for a moment she opened her mouth surprised and stabbed two dilated pupils in him, so she could protest.

-Oh, it had to be you! – She exclaimed visibly disappointed. Adding with a pitiful moan. - Leave me alone and go with Amethyst, sure the poor woman is dead of desire! Why do not you go to teach her your Eiffel Tower? Ha, ha, ha! ... -she laughed completely drunk.-

Leval did not respond, but he shook his head in disgust and carried her over his shoulder, going out with her despite her sister's complaints, shouts and kicks. No one of those who remained in that joint dared to cross his path after witnessing his previous exhibition. When he was finally out of that dive he breathed a sigh of relief. Then he telephoned his mother ...

-Mom?- He asked with a calmer tone. -

-Yes, Leval, have you found her? - She could ask with that great dose of anguish she endured.-

-Don't worry, She is okay, She's with me. But she was tired and fell asleep. I'm going to take her to the apartment so she can rest a little and then go home.

-And your father? - Bertie wanted to know that she could breathe more relieved.-

-I do not know where he is. But I think he will return home soon, Mom.- The boy said, adding.- Kerria and I will take a little longer, but she is fine.- He repeated trying to settle that with a promising.- When we get home you we will have more detail.

-That right, honey, I trust you. Take care of your sister, please. - His mother asked him.

Beruche hung up feeling like a bundle after unburdening the tension she had endured. A few minutes later she kept her word and called Ami, telling her that Leval had found the girl and that everything seemed fine. Her friend replied in a cheerful tone that she had already told her. After saying goodbye the troubled mother wanted to lie down a bit to rest, but despite the news of her son she was unable to fall asleep. She just wanted to see the rest of her family reappear. But Kerria had not exactly fallen asleep because of fatigue. She had fainted, perhaps affected by everything that she had been taken. Her brother immediately took her pulse with visible concern. After  while he calmed down when he saw that it was staying regular. The girl was only asleep. Fortunately, the boy had a course in first aid and, as he informed his mother, also the key to his parents' apartment in the city. He had been quick to say that since Kerria had drunk something and he did not want their parents to see her in that condition. His mother, despite the restlessness, had sighed with relief when Leval assured her that the girl was fine. Although Bertie was still eager to see her daughter, the boy dissuaded her, at least for the moment, saying that it would be better not to wake her up. At least he could gain time. He disliked having to lie but believed that there was no other option to protect Kerria. Indeed, he took advantage of taking his sister to the apartment that their parents had in the city to try to help her. He took her to the bed and tried to call her by her name and wake her up, but she did not answer. The boy became uneasy. He held her by the hands but she was cold. After removing her shoes he noticed that the girl's feet were also frozen. That was not a good sign. He carefully tucked her in after removing her dress and leaving only her underwear. In that instant she woke up muttering in a cloud of confusion.

- Even if you're my brother do not take advantage of it - she laughed, admonishing him in a faded tone as she tried to get up. - What do you think, I know how you look at me? I know I'm so pretty, but of course, I forgot that you do not pay too much attention to that.

-Now it is OK! Come on, let's go! - Leval ordered her abruptly, those last stupidities of his sister had made him jeopardize the precarious patience that he had left and therefore he added indignant and at the same time visibly restless. - If mom and dad  could see you in this condition they would kill you. How could you do this?

The girl stumbled to her feet, wandering around the room. She went to the bathroom and could say between laughs, ignoring that question completely.

- Come on, big brother. Let's drink!

- Can you tell me what the hell is happening to you? - He was outraged now.-

- I don't understand ... I do not understand myself.- The young woman replied with a certain disdain, adding it seemed that even funny. - Ha !,  you have even taken my clothes off. Come on, take yours and let's make a water war!

-Don´t you feel ashamed? - He could reply with manifest indignation to sentence. - You are going to wake up right now!

            And without waiting for an answer, the angry boy opened the cock of the bathtub. Holding Kerria, who tried at first to resist without achieving it, he put her sister's head under water. She struggled to get out and he did not let her until she almost ran out of air. The girl coughed and gasped, struggling to breathe until she felt like vomiting. Leval picked her up and put her on the toilet until she let it go, then dried her with a large towel that wrapped around her. A good while passed until she was detoxified. The boy gave her a couple of glasses of water to hydrate. She drank them in several sips, when she finally could speak she said to her brother, already in a more conscious and subdued tone, fruit of weakness.

- Leval, I'd appreciate it if you got involved in your own affairs. I am old enough to know what I am doing.

-Oh really? - He answered furiously, still holding her in his face. - Stuck in that den among drug addicts, harlots and vicious. Is that what you call knowing what you're doing?

-Leave me alone! - Kerria yelled at him, even with the voice taken by the drunkenness to reproach him with deep discomfort. - You lecture me like dad, you're just like him, his spoiled child. The great Leval Malden! - She added forcing her voice to sound more serious simulating bombast - you're a perfect boy scout in everything. Do not you? And what am I? The black sheep of the wonderful family! Nothing that I do is well enough, I always have to follow the path of my big brother. Child, do as Leval does, daughter, you should do like your brother! - She falsely imitated the voice of her mother and spat sentenced with frustration. - You already have me fed up with your good examples! You know? We cannot all be like you. I do not even know what I am ... – She added now with tints of bitterness.-

- You're drunk and you do not know what you're saying. - His interlocutor responded patiently and also surprised by those words. He could never have thought that his sister felt something like that. Moreover, he was sure that everything was the effect of her condition, so he said in a conciliatory and smooth way. - Now we will go home, you will explain everything to mom and dad, we will see what excuses we can invent this time. Luckily you have rid yourself of the worst.

Kerria seemed to let her guard down and looked at him bewildered, as if she had a glimpse of lucidity, she tried to get up but staggered. Leval had to hold her before she hit the floor.

- Everything is spinning around me - her sister whispered now with a tone of fear and anguish in her staccato babbling. - Forgive me, I did not mean it, I love you very much. You are all I have! - She broke down crying holding her temples and moaning. - My head hurts a lot.- She added collapsing exhausted on the sofa. Her legs were asleep and her arms were unable to move. -

- It's ok, calm down Ky. You must rest, I will take care of everything. - He calmed her as best he could by laying her down and wrapping her in a blanket -

His sister fell asleep right away. Leval sighed, picked her up, and hailing a cab he took her home. When he arrived he hold her and went up to her room, his father had not returned yet and his scared mother went with him.

- Daughter, can you hear me? – She asked Kerria in anguish, but she was deeply asleep. -

- Leave her mom - Leval asked her, trying to calm his mother´s spirits. - Tomorrow she will wake up, surely her head will hurt, but she will be fine.

-What happened, son? You told me little when you arrived ... - Beruche asked, about to cry. -

- Calm down mom, please, now I´ll tell you. - He answered her.-

Calmly the boy told his mother to move away while leaving his sister in bed. The concerned Bertie was busy tucking her, posing a hand on the girl's forehead.

-Look, we started looking for her in a nightclub ... - The boy sighed trying to start his story.- Then dad and I ...

However, he did not have time to continue as they heard a knock on the door and they went down. Roy had returned and when he learned that Kerria was at home his worry and fear gave way to the long-contained anger. He immediately interrogated his son and Beruche joined him. To the insistent questions from his parents, as he could tell them what happened. Of course omitting all the scabrous details of the story that reduced to a simple drunkenness. Even softening the facts, his father was in rage. Leval had never seen him so angry, so much so that with a punch he broke a mahogany table in half.

-For God sake, calm down! - Bertie asked him looking at him very scared. -

            And she had reasons to be afraid. Her husband reminded her of the one in the fight against Valnak or the one who reacted so violently to her future son. It had been a long time since she had seen him in that way again.

- She's going to find out who I am! - Roy howled with his eyes turned on. - This time she has gone too far. She has completely crossed the line and deserves a good lesson! Right now I'll take her out of bed even if  I have to drag her out. I'll take the drunkenness off her by slapping her face!

And he was already beginning to climb the stairs with determination, ready to fulfill his threats, when his wife followed him and grabbing his arm.

-Please, I beg you. Wait until tomorrow, darling. - Beruche interjected, trying to calm him down. - Now she's asleep." What she need is to rest, you only would make things worse. Tomorrow we will talk to her both. And we will do it with serenity.

- Okay, I'll wait until tomorrow. - Roy agreed with a visible effort to control himself, snorted and taking a slow breath, trying to think clearly. He saw his wife was right. Although he did not stop asserting. - But this will not stay like this. If you saw the kind of slums that she and her friends are in. I even saw some of her classmates there. They are minors, Bertie! What the hell is going on? I am going to her institute and I will find out who is behind all these activities. I intend to remove Heaven and Earth to find out who is taking them there and I will have them thrown out and locked up!

Leval was about to say something but his irritated father almost glared at him.

- And you knew that she went to such dens and it did not occur to you to say anything to us?

- No, I just knew that some guys and girls in class were passing by, at least that was rumored. But I never thought that she ... - Leval defended himself. -

- You let her go alone without even asking where the hell she was going. You're supposed to be his big brother. Dammit! - His father was visibly furious. -

- I could not imagine that she would go to that place ... She told me that she had an appointment with a friend and that she would soon return home. - The boy tried to justify himself. -

- Go to sleep, we'll talk about that tomorrow. - His father abruptly interrupted him without wanting to hear anything else. -

- But, dad ... - The boy tried to answer, although his father silenced him sharply. -

- I said to bed, now! - Howled Roy almost sparking. -

Leval, who had never seen such a look of anger in his father's eyes, obeyed without daring to speak up again. He gave his mother a good night kiss on the forehead and went into his room. Bertie was crying and when the boy disappeared down the stairs she addressed her husband with a trembling tone.

- Please Roy, I'm very afraid of what you can do, the time to solve everything with anger and violence ended. They are not demons! Nor are they monsters from outer space! They are our children, for God's sake! - She sobbed inconsolably and that softened her husband. –

He took a deep breath again, the anger was also now accompanied by regret and he tried to calm himself by tenderly hugging Beruche to say with a rather hurting tinge.

-How could she do this to us? She's our daughter, but what the hell have we done wrong with her? We educated her in the best schools, we gave her everything. And Leval? I thought him more responsible, knowing that she could go to those places. Why had he not told us before? Why did he not ask her?

- They're still kids, I'm begging you, do not hurt them, Roy. In moments like this you do not know how to control yourself.- Bertie asked him anguished trying to look him in the eyes as she hugged him. -

-How can you think such a thing? - he asked, visibly affected by the reproach. - They are my children, I would never hurt them. – Then he granted as an apology. – I am sorry. I admit that I have lost control, maybe I have been so hard with Leval. Please Bertie, do not cry anymore. - He asked his distressed and inconsolable woman, wiping her tears with a finger. Then he added more calmly but with a firm voice. - But we have to do something with Kerria, this time she has gone too far. Or we will stop this behavior of hers at once and for all or later it will be too late.

- In that you  are absolutely right .- She granted him but nevertheless, she added with something more recovered calm .- I only ask you to do it in my way.

-Don't worry little cube. - He agreed conciliatory, to ask, as he wrapped his arms around her shoulders affectionately .- Go on, let's go to sleep, I promise that tomorrow we will treat this matter with her as you want and I will know how to control myself.

Beruche nodded more calmly and accompanied Roy to the bedroom. They even spent a long time of more serene thoughts, chatting about the way they were going to deal with that situation with their daughter, before they both managed to sleep. Kerria, meanwhile, was sleeping exhausted. As far as Leval concerned he was unable to fall asleep thinking about what could happen the next day. He was not afraid for him, he knew that, despite his anger, his father would calm down and not hold him responsible, now he only feared for his sister. He kept remembering those scenes. Who was that strange girl he had picked up from that sordid and terrible place? How could the Kerria that he knew  since forever have changed that way? Of everything that had happened that was what scared him the most. So he wish things would end there and his sister would have learned the lesson. Anyway, he was sure that the next day was going to be very hard for everyone.

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