After dinner,Ryu sequestered himself into the study to complete reading the reports that he had been recieving.Neil who had just finished his food, volunteered for kitchen cleaning duty since Alicia was the one who had cooked.If it was upto Neil,he would have just rolled himself onto the living room couch and slouched there but his brother had warned him to make himself "useful" if he wanted to escape being punished for sedating him.But how did Ryu know that he had been sedated?That Yang must have snitched on him.Neil cursed him as he dried the dishes.Yang who was innocently sitting in the hotel missing his wife,felt an itch on his neck and somehow knew that Neil must be cursing him! Neil felt that it was totally unfair for him to be on the kitchen duty.After all he was the guest in the house!To cheer himself,he thought of the peach pie he had seen sitting in the refrigerator.Yummy!!!He just had to b.u.t.ter up Alicia and gain at least a good portion of that before it was gobbled up by Ru and Al!Motivated by the thought of a yummy pie,Neil cleaned the kitchen at the fastest pace and planned to find Alicia,who had gone missing since dinner.
As soon as the dinner was over,Alicia went to prepare for the new mission she had undertaken.Mission:Hubby!She had seen her hubby scurrying to the study as fast as he could.But he needed to sleep soon.And she needed to prepare!Since Neil had taken over the kitchen cleaning duty,Alicia ran to the bedroom and prepared a bath for herself.Tonight was crucial to the success of the mission.Ryu was not expecting her advances until now so he was confused for the time being!But soon he would erect and fortify his walls if she did not attack.She could not give him that chance.If he succeeded indoing that then the fight was going to be even more difficult.
She laid a careful plan with Ru and then prepared the trap for her hubby..While having a bath,Alicia imagined the expression on Ryu"s face when he realized he fell into a trap and laughed.But soon that laughter turned morose.She had studied the reports that Neil had forwarded to her.She had researched each and every medicine that Ryu had been prescribed.Though every research showed a positive influence of more than ninety percent cases,she felt uneasy.Her stomach churned at the thought of losing Ryu.The past month had been like a nightmare where the only ray of hope was Ru.She had clung to the promise Ryu had made to her and consoled herself time and again that he would be back.But she did not know if she would be able to survive his indifference or his going away again.Shaking herself out of her morose thoughts,Alicia came out of the bath.Wrapping a bath towel around herself she went towards the wardrobe to get herself a pair of Ryu"s t s.h.i.+rts.This last month,she had only worn her hubby"s t s.h.i.+rts.Sleeping in his clothes and on his pillow,she had felt closer to him.For the sake of her husbands modesty,she also donned a pair of long shorts with her favorite peppa pig character.
Once back in the room,Alicia sat on a rocking chair near the window and settled to browse the internet for news on her favorite band-the one and only BTS.It was a good thing that they had gone on a long vacation just now when her hubby was back!Otherwise she would not have known how to pa.s.s her time!But now that her hubby was back she was going to devise new ways to torture..uhh please him and get him to remember her!Just as she was browsing her phone,Ryu entered the bedroom.Since his memory loss,this was his first time in the house so he had been dragged here by his son.Ru had come to the study to check on his father and ensure that he would be getting a good bedtime story...His complaint was simple"Mother only knew girly stories and he was already bored with them!"So Ru had dragged his father and pushed him into this room so that Ryu would freshen up and come soon.He had been instructed to be ready for bed when Ru came back after eating his dessert and brus.h.i.+ng his teeth.
Looking curiously around the room,Ryu realized that this room belonged to him and his wife.Since Alicia was curled up in the chair and had her back to the door he was unaware that she was in the room.Slowly,he walked up to the wall of pictures that the woman had created.As he neared,his memory flashed to a similar scene and he had a feeling of Deja vu...He had seen a similar wall sometime in the past.In the middle of the wall was a large framed picture of Ryu and Alicia in the traditional wedding garb.Ryu was looking down at her with a faint smile on his face and Alicia was looking up at him as if the sun rose and set on him.Surrounding these pictures were many pictures of them with their family.The wall looked like a reflection of a person"s memories...He tried to recapture the memory that had just flashed in his head but it was already gone...But he remembered the feelings that he had felt then.And he could feel the same sweetness in his heart again.His heart refused to forget what his mind refused to remember.