Mute Girl The Series : Rose Thorns

"I agree to meet you because I want you to help her. Hannah is a very naive and innocent girl. She's pampered since she's the only princess in the family. She started her career as a model and she loves that job so much. She wishes that she could continue to soar in this career until she's retired but then something happened. She was forced to be an actress and ended up as one of our artists in Superstar. Many of the artists envy her for getting the most resources in our agency and they started to spread around nasty rumours about her just to taint her image. Hoping that by doing this, our CEO will stop supporting her and no longer favour her. But all these didn't affect Hannah at all. She's innocent from all these rumours until one day, she got involved in something dirty and now she has lost her way back to being that innocent girl again. Oh God, she's just 19 years old!"

"What exactly she got herself into?" Casey had some ideas in her mind as she made guesses based on what Elaine had told her so far but as an emphatic a.d.u.l.t, she wished that those didn't happen to Hannah at this early. Even a.d.u.l.ts who once a victim of these had hard time to recover from it.

"You'll find out soon. We almost reach the place. Look! There!" Elaine pointed her finger towards an old building in the middle of the forest. It was a huge mansion with some parts looked broken and not under proper maintenance however looking at the surrounding area, the long grass had been cleared out and the area seemed to be in a neat condition except for the missing structures. It appeared that someone was occupying the mansion but then didn't do any renovation to replace the broken walls.

"Whose house is that?"

"Come, follow me." Elaine continued walking towards one of the entrance doors and pushed it open easily since it wasn't locked. Casey just followed behind and to her surprise, the interior design inside the mansion was so elegantly decorated, unlike the outer walls. The chandelier lights shone brightly and the furniture was arranged perfectly fit the decorations. There were no clouds of dust flying around. Casey was starstruck as if she was in a royal castle.

"Hannah is usually very bright and cheerful person though people badmouth about her behind her back and she knows about it. She accepts everything they said and never retaliates."

Elaine spoke again but this time there was a trace of sadness in her voice.

"But she will turn into someone else every time she finishes her last scene and returns back to normal when she comes back from the short vacation. At first, I thought that probably she feels so tired because of the long and packed schedule but seeing this pattern many times, I know something is wrong."

"What had happened actually?" Out of curiosity, Casey probed Elaine to spill the tea.

"The first time I sense the change in her behaviour was last summer. She became moody and easily lost her temper. Then, she started to cry while begging me. She asked my help to bring her to overseas. I didn't really understand what was going on at that time and just persuaded her to have a rest at home but she was still crying. At some point, her cries stopped and she just walked out of the car just like that. The next time I saw her was after the vacation. She became her old self back. So, I didn't suspect anything. Probably at that time, she had personal problems." Elaine paused for a while before continued her story.

"Why didn't you call the police?"

"Hannah made me promise to not call the police. If this matter gets out, her family will hate and abandon her. She feels guilty that all this while she's being loved by her family but then she brings disgrace to the family."

Listening to all these, Casey was speechless. This matter was indeed heavy and dangerous.

"It seems that those people had gone back. Hannah may be still in this house. Let's go look for her." said Elaine while walking towards the grand spiral staircase and began climbing it one by one. It connected to a long hallway and at the end of it, there was a door nicely decorated.

KCAK! A loud sound coming from that room. Casey and Elaine looked at each other in shock. They both looked blank, not knowing what to do. Before Casey could compose herself not to be panic in this situation, Elaine suddenly dashed towards the door with Casey trying to catch up.