Chapter 6 Denying

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Charlie and Nadine walked into the kitchen, they wanted to make breakfast. "Char? Please get the groceries from the refrigerator. On the top shelf, I've separated them," said Nadine before walking towards the pantry table.

"Okay." Charlie walked towards the refrigerator, his eyes widen after reading the piece of paper taped to the refrigerator door. The last belief is gone.

Sir, sorry we are presumptuous for not telling you.

But we still have work elsewhere. So after we finished our work at 8 pm we decided to leave immediately.

Enjoy your holiday.

----Mr. Moon---

The butler

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Charlie crumpled the paper and threw it in the trash. 'What the hell!' No wonder since dinner he had not seen a single servant in this Villa. But Charlie still tried to deny what happened last night. 'Relax Charlie calm down, everything is fine.' He then took the food ingredients that Nadine was referring to.

"Nadine sister~~ I'll help you." Cheline ran to Nadine after putting on the apron. Reza and Fathia also did the same.

"Bro, we need to talk."

Charlie understood Marchel's point. He nodded and led his brothers into the living room.

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@Living room

"Bro? What do you think happened last night? Honestly, it's a bit worrying. Is it possible that in this villa there is a han-"

"It's just a maid," Charlie cut in quickly.

"Oppa! This villa doesn't have an attic!" Michelle still insists.

Charlie ruffled his hair roughly. "I know! Maybe they're tidying things up on the roof! There's no need to talk about this anymore okay."

"Then where are the maids? I want to ask directly! Poor Rene so sleep deprived because of them." Marchel left to look for them but his steps were stopped because of Charlie's words.

"They've already left. It was early in the morning. I met the head waiter earlier to get a drink. He left his apologies for making a lot of noise last night–" Charlie paused a bit.

"-they're rushing for time while they're tidying up the things on the roof. They're moving all that stuff thinking maybe we'll use the roof-

-Is that clear? So don't think about anything weird anymore. Are we here for a vacation? For fun," continued Charlie.

"Aahh I see. It's a relief! I'm hungry!!" Rico ran back to the kitchen. Followed by Marchel and Michelle.

Before entering the kitchen, Marchel glanced at Charlie for a while. Marchel knew Charlie was lying, his Bro really couldn't lie. Charlie always looked at them whenever he spoke.

But earlier, Charlie avoided eye contact with them. After all, if the waiters did clean the rooftoof, the sound wouldn't be that loud. Moreover, most of the maids were women.

Last night's noise sounded even more like people fighting and slamming things on the floor. But Yeosang understood why Charlie did that, he definitely didn't want them all to be scared.

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Charlie sat on the sofa while rubbing his face roughly. "Sorry." Charlie really felt guilty for lying to his younger siblings. Really, Charlie didn't mean that. In fact, he was afraid too. But he didn't want his younger siblings to experience the same fear.

He was still thinking positively when he saw the silhouette of a person walking past his bedroom window, maybe it was just a passing maid , he thought. But when reading a message from Cheline that alludes to the attic. He just realized something, that their room was on the second floor and did not have a balcony.

Charlie slowly turned his head to look back at the window. And there he saw the silhouette of a man standing behind his window, he could not see his face. But Charlie was sure that the silhouette was grinning at him.

But Charlie dismissed all these thoughts, even though he was sure that no human could grow that high. But he kept trying to reassure himself that all was well.

And still believe that the noise was made by the maids here. Until his opinion was completely broken by a brief note from the butler.

'If they've been gone since 8pm? Then what makes that sound? And the faceless maid I saw, was that not a hallucination either?'

#FLASHBACK

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*about 10 minutes after they arrived at the villa*

"Okay, then in 5 minutes we will meet in the living room. Thank you, Mr. Moon."

Charlie walked back to his room after asking chief Moon to be their tour guide around the villa.

At first Charlie wanted to ask for Rico, but Nadine said just the butler. If Rico later they will be misled, you know what Rico's nosy is, so Charlie just obeys.

Luckily, he met Moon's head in the corridor not far from the living room. If not, he can get lost later because he doesn't know the ins and outs of this villa.

Charlie was amazed to see the decoration of the villa corridor, he subconsciously walked backwards while still observing some of the accessories taped to the corridor wall.

Charlie didn't even notice that behind him was a maid who was cleaning some of the figures pasted on the wall.

BRRAAAKKK

"Oh my gosh!" Charlie immediately turned around. He saw the maidservant he accidentally bumped into fell face down on the floor. "Sorry I did not mean it."

Charlie squatted down, he held the hand and shoulder of the waiter. To help her up, the maid's hair that used to cover her face was exposed. "Are you all right s-" Charlie's eyes widen.

On reflex, Charlie immediately backed away until he hit the wall and fell to the ground. He froze, the maid had no face.

The maid's flat face turned to Charlie for a moment, then lowered her head and her hands brushed her hair to cover her face again.

Charlie immediately got up and ran fast to his room.

BRRAAKKK

Charlie closed the door to his room hard, his heart beating very fast, sweat dripping down his forehead. 'W-what's that?'

Charlie gasped in surprise when someone grabbed his shoulder. "Oh wow?"

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#FLASHBACK OFF

Charlie ruffled his hair in frustration. 'It seems that something is wrong with this Villa. What should I do? Ahh damn why is it like this?!'

Charlie's thoughts were interrupted when Nadine called him for breakfast.

Charlie walked over to the others. He shook his head vigorously, he didn't want to think too much about it. Because as he said, if THEY ARE HERE TO HOLIDAY AND HAVE FUN.

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"Guys, how about after this we go around the Villa again?" Reza suggested in between chews.

"Hihe hahus huh"

"Rico.. first swallow the food!"

Rico just smirked at Cheline, he spoke again after swallowing the food in his mouth, "That's a great idea. After all, the Villa has also been completely overhauled. Luckily the top floor hasn't changed much."

"It means?" Michelle confused

"The last time I was here. The theme of the villa is modern, it's really modern. But now there are a lot of antiques! Especially in the corridor, I'm curious to see! And there are parts of the villa that we haven't explored btw," explained Rico passionately .

"Isn't that all right?" Nadine corrected Rico's words.

"When we toured with Mr. Moon at that time, didn't we just arrive at the room to wash clothes? There was still more there," Rico replied before shoving food back into his mouth.

"Ahh Rene remember! At that time the headmaster also said right, if we could have a look at the room if we wanted, only at that time Rene fell asleep hehehhe so the tour was stopped"

"Oh that's right." Nadine remembers now. "Well then hurry up and finish your breakfast"

"Ay ay!"