A Sugar Baby
Fathers
Daniel arrived at the place he was referring to, but there was no one there but one.
"Ellio?"
Daniel is shocked to see Ellio. And so too with his best friend. But Ellio chose silence, the look on his face looks so heavy.
"Ellio, why are you here. Where's Lea?"
Daniel began to ask questions, Ellio looked deeply into the eyes of his best friend.
"What's wrong?" daniel began to worry.
"And."
Ellio sighed.
"Where's Lea?" Daniel's voice was heard rising.
"Richard." replied Ellio with a blank look.
"Richard?" Daniel did not understand.
"Richard brought Lea?" ask her again.
"Richard Leah's father."
Lightning seemed to strike, Daniel really jerked and was shocked to hear all that.
"Wait, you mean.?"
"Richard Leah's father."
Daniel froze in place, the world spinning rapidly in the man's mind. The air he was breathing was suddenly thinning, still in silence he rubbed his head with both hands.
It was like a blow so heavy to him. Long enough he and Ellio were in silence, until then Daniel took a long breath and said.
"Everything will be fine."
"No." Ellio interrupted Daniel, looking at his best friend.
"Why?"
"Richard was angry when he found out his son was allowed to marry at such a young age."
"Why?" Daniel's voice began to tremble.
"Richard knows Leah's husband, me."
"Lo was already ugly in Richard's eyes. All because Clarissa sent a broadcast message containing a photo of you two being the same she was in bed. I think in the office you are also scattered."
Daniel flinched, he remembered exactly the incident. He was close to Clarissa. He tried to forget Grace by making love to Clarissa, but it didn't work. Daniel still remembers Grace, and apologizes to Clarissa.
Clarissa hugged Daniel and said it was okay if Daniel couldn't do it at the time. Then the two hugged each other on the bed and chatted. When the atmosphere had melted, Clarissa took a cell phone and took photos of them both.
"Gue didn't admit to all that."
Daniel said and explained in detail to Ellio.
"Gue got it, I believe in you. But now Richard is being overrun by ego and prejudice against lo. She was shocked to find out she had a child, and was even more devastated when she found out her son was Leah. Richard's as fucked up as you are now."
"Gue got to see Richard."
Daniel took a step.
"And."
"Daaan."
Even Ellio's screams couldn't stop him.
***
Flashbacks
Richard met Ferry, they were happy with each other to meet their best friend. The conversation begins with exchanging news, until later.
"Lo inget I've invited to my friend's party, when we were in college."
"I remember, why?" ask Richard.
"The same girl you're a malem, did you sleep with her?"
Richard was silent, he did not expect if the secret he had been silent for so long was questioned by his friend.
"Why?" ask Richard again.
Ferry sighed and smoked the cigarette tucked in both of his fingers.
"The woman is pregnant with your child."
Richard's world seemed to collapse, his fear for years turned out to be true.
"Where do you know?" asked later, Richard's breathing began to feel heavy.
"Gue met my friend, and he said that he also accidentally met the girl who was the same night you. That girl said she had a kid with you."
Bak was hit by a hard object, Richard felt his head hurt so much. That night when it was raining heavily, Ellio found Richard standing somewhere. Silence did not budge, while his entire body was wet with rainwater. Ellio hurriedly got out of the car and approached his best friend.
"Lo why?" ask Ellio.
Richard looked at Ellio with a look of sadness, before long he hugged Ellio with a trembling body.
"Gue has a child, Ellio." Richard confused Ellio.
"For 17 almost 18 years I've always been haunted by the thought of the boy and it turned out to be true. I have a daughter who I don't even remember her name."
Ellio let go of his embrace and looked at Richard, the rain slowly subsiding but they were now drenched.
"Lo get in your car, I follow you from behind. We'll tell you at home." said Ellio.
The two of them finally returned to Richard's residence. After cleaning themselves and changing clothes, the two then sat at the dining table facing each other. Long enough Richard was silent, until finally he dared to tell it all to Ellio.
"Why don't you ever tell me the same thing, same Daniel?"
Ellio looked at Richard, while Richard threw his gaze into a corner.
"Because I thought I was just scared. That's why the child's shadow is often present in my dreams. Because at the time I did it to him, me and him were also under the influence of alcohol. I don't know if he's in fertile years or not. So I think it's impossible."
Ellio sighed.
"Have you met him and the kid?" ask her later. Richard shook his head.
"Plan in the near future, you want to meet me."
Ellio nodded, they were then stuck in silence. Until this morning suddenly Richard called and invited himself to meet the boy.
Richard said that if the woman comes along, they should talk about it seriously. Ellio followed the wishes of his best friend, he also knew this was sudden for Richard. He was nervous, maybe scared, and so on.
On the way, they try to look good. Although not denied if the actual atmosphere is very stressful. Meeting a child we never knew existed.
When he arrived, Richard and Ellio stepped up. Entering a place that was promised as a place to meet. Richard stepped in with Ellio, but then when the two sides met. They were stunned mutely, with trembling bodies that could barely even move.
"Lea?"
"Om Richard, um Ellio?"
They did not want to believe it, but there was Ferry and also his friends. Lea and Richard's mother still remembered the woman's face, though she forgot her name.
"You know each other?" ferry asked as he looked at Richard, then alternately looked at Lea.
"Om Ferry, don't tell me he's." Lea's breath began to hunt, and so did Richard.
Lea's tears slowly trickled down, while Richard dissolved into an emotional state. He remembered, if he had ever harassed Lea with a joke. At the time of the selection of sugar babies at the SB Agency about a year ago. At that time he and Ellio commented on Lea's body parts, and were heard by Daniel.
It is like being slapped by karma. The young woman, was nothing but her own flesh and blood.