Aster Veren
Episode 137's

- Ansel

"May your son be suspended when the first day's exam begins." I can't imagine what kind of trouble he's been in until the principal imposes a suspension on him.

I saw Victor was just silently driving his car as I watched him from the reflection of the inner rearview mirror. Right now I am sitting in the back seat.

I took a deep breath as I remembered my schedule today, we should have gone to see Ian to discuss our work. But in the middle of the trip Justin contacted him, inevitably we turned around and canceled our meeting with Ian.

"Well, no big deal. I can see my daughter." I muttered while watching the scenery outside the car. Remembering all our moments together.

Arriving at the academy, Victor immediately parked his car in the parking lot. "You can wait for me in master's car, it won't be long." His words amused me when I heard him talk to me about that.

"No, I'm going out." Reject me right out of the car followed by Victor.

"But–"

"I'm going to go see my daughter, you just finish your business." Obviously I'll go to the girls' dormitory soon. But my steps came to a halt when I saw Aster on the academy grounds along with Kalea and Nadin.

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- Kalea

"Gee!" Papa's voice made me turn towards his arrival, "what happened?" The next one looks worried.

"That's actually–" I stopped when I saw the figure of the father walking towards the papa along with the surprised expression of the papa when I saw Aster's face.

"Can! I thought this was gonna happen." Nadin looked worried.

"You're Carel ..," continued Teo muttering confused me. I see he's already sweating cold.

Why her?

"Aster, your face?" Ask papa along with the father who has stood firm between us.

"It's okay uncle, it's–" Aster replied cut off as his father's hand grabbed his face with his predatory gaze. I haven't seen her for a long time, I used to see her a lot when I was arguing with my grandmother and mother.

"Who did it?" His question sounded heavy and cold, his voice was very piercing.

"Pa–papa this ...," muttered Aster slightly trembling.

"I asked once again Aster, who did this to you?" Pressing father made Aster speechless when he saw the anger on his father's face.

"Calm down Ansel, you're freaking your daughter out." Papa's words did not relieve father's emotions in the slightest.

"Hah~ Lea has given him a lesson. Don't worry, Nadin helped Lea too. That's why I'm suspended for three days." Obviously after a long sigh, I could not bear to see Aster scared of his own father.

"So ... papa was called to school because–"

"Yes. Lea slapped the kid back." I answered my question lazily.

"Which son dares touch my daughter?" Dad's growls slightly eased his emotions.

"... I don't know which family they come from, which I know are Lusy's friends. The grandson of the owner of this academy." Obviously Nadin made the emotions of the father re-peaked.

"They? So isn't the one who's done this to my daughter?" Ask dad turned to Aster, asking for an answer from him. But he quickly hid behind my back.

"Yes, the other one grabbed Aster's hair very strongly." Nadin answered looking heated up father.

"What are you doing? Aren't you worried that there'll be a family war if I find out about Aster's condition? Why are you warming up now?" Whisper me while elbowing his hand.

"Let's just be honest, this is very interesting. I want to see if they can still touch Aster if Uncle Ansel has already acted? And again Uncle Ansel looks really cool now." Obviously he whispered with his sparkling eyes, as opposed to a few minutes ago.

"... I have the tape, uncle want to see?" Sean asked who had been watching our conversation.

I saw that dad had turned to Sean, then immediately grabbed the boy's headphone when the headphone was thrust on him.

"Essip them!" Father growled at the sight of the recording on Sean's headphone before rushing off to the principal's room.

"Ansel! Tu–wait!" Shouted papa immediately following dad.

"He–heandphoneku ...," Sean muttered as he watched the father take away his headphone.

"Calm down, it looks like Mr. Ansel borrowed it as evidence. When it's done, he'll give it back to you." Teo spoke up.

Feel that! I hope you don't return your hephone. My mind stared in annoyance at Sean, while the boy continued to notice the departure of the father.

"Anu, Lea? Is everything gonna be okay?" Aster asked in a worried look, making me reflexively grab the top of his head and stroke it gently.

"Yes, leave it to me." I answered before I showed my best smile.

"You mean us, right?" Nadin's grunt made me chuckle, not since when he became like this to Aster. I guess I'm the only one who cares about it.

"Yes, on us!" I cried before my words.

"Let's go!" Nadin continued to take me away with a red hue on his face. He was ashamed of what he said himself.

"Aster we go first." I said before leaving Aster in his place. It seemed like he was at a loss for what to react to when he saw Nadin showing care for him.

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- Esther

"You okay?" Teo's question distracted me when Nadin and Kalea disappeared into my sight.

"Yes .. This is the first time I've seen such an angry father. Very scary ...," I obviously shuddered in horror as I recalled my father's angry expression.

Waitaminute! My mind is trying to recall how many times my father showed such anger. My memory is a bit fuzzy, but I remember my father was angry for me for something too. What yes?

Uh! When Uncle Tesar slapped me. That day for the first time I saw Dad's angry expression. But ... It doesn't feel as scary as it was. Did I remember wrong? My follow-up is still in my heart.

"Looks like Mr Ansel loves you so much huh?" Sean told me to turn to him, I saw he had shown a warm smile.

"of course! There are parents who do not love their children, right?" Dengus Teo with his flat expression.

"Hhe–hehe ...," I laughed as I looked at Teo's expression before yesterday's memory came back into my head.

I really never expected that Nadin and Kalea would be angry for me when I saw me being slapped by her friend Lusy. I didn't even expect someone would help me in a situation like yesterday.

Not resigned, just .. I don't want to make a fuss. But, in the end, yesterday was even noisier than I thought.

"I shouldn't have served them yesterday." My mutter recalled a small part of my conversation with Lusy and his two friends.

"If yesterday I could have stopped you, maybe it wouldn't have been this big, huh?" Sean made me look at him. It seemed like he was also regretting his slow actions.

Then that look of guilt really looks funny. Just this time I saw him show such an expression, usually Sean always put on a teak expression that makes everyone reluctant to approach him.

"Well, there's Nadin and Lea?" My God made her a little bit more.

"Lea got back at the boy and slapped him in the face mercilessly." Continue Teo while nodding his head.

"They don't even care if the problem gets bigger, but Aster is trying hard to stop them so that the problem does not grow. But they instead ignored him until called to the teacher's room and suspended." Teo said as he folded his hands over his chest.

Aye! Because of helping me, they had to be suspended ...,

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