Aster Veren
Episode 243

- Esther

"Hehe's sorry, I put the headphones into silent mode." I feel bad for the red man in front of me right now.

Then I saw that he had let out a deep sigh before joining Hans and Mila, filling the empty seat beside me and sitting there on foot.

"Would I get you an ice cream?" I asked to feel bad for Carel for enjoying my ice cream alone.

"No, I'll see you eat enough." His reply looked at me with his annoying mischievous gaze.

"Don't look!" I cried while poking my lips in annoyance before returning to enjoy my ice cream. Whereas Carel just laughed at me with his little voice, he thought I couldn't hear his laughter?

But I don't really care about it because my ice cream is more important now, don't let the ice cream melt because I've been quieting it for too long and fighting with Carel.

"Are you right, Carel? Why do you know I'm here?" I continued when I remembered the strange coincidence seen before me.

"I asked the old man, and he said you went out with Hans and Mila." He answered while leaning his body on the back of the chair he was sitting on.

"really? Though I didn't tell my dad I was going to the shopping mall. I just said I wanted to go for a walk with Hans and Mila."I squinted my eyes feeling suspicious of Carel.

It felt strange and too coincidental if we met accidentally in this place. Wouldn't it make more sense that from the beginning I—Carel was stalking me?

"I know what you're thinking right now. But it's not like you thought Aster. So stop looking at me like that." It doesn't make me feel calm at all.

"Really?" I asked more and more to squint my eyes.

"really. Sit down and finish your ice cream! You don't want your ice cream to melt?"

I saw my ice cream cup slightly watering on the outside, then I quickly pulled the chair behind me and sat back on it after finding a comfortable place.

I didn't see Hans and Mila anywhere. Did they secretly move places when they saw me having a little fight with Carel? My mind turned to several places to confirm the whereabouts of Hans and Mila. But I could not find them anywhere, but I was pretty sure that a few minutes ago they were still sitting in their place and watching me without saying much.

"Where did they go without telling me first?" I continued muttering before devouring all the ice cream in my glass.

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"So why did you go with them? Wouldn't I be able to drive you if you wanted to go to this place?" Carel asked who was already walking beside me, going down the escalator together.

"You don't have a job, do you?" My grunts felt sorry for him for no reason. Or maybe it's because he can roam freely without thinking about anything, even though Carel has graduated faster than the academy, he said, but he did not continue his education to a higher level or else he could help his father's work right?

"Then what did you buy?" Carel asked glanced at the small bag in my hand as we got off the escalator and walked towards the exit.

"I went to buy perfume for you. Try to smell the scent ...," I continued, taking out the perfume bottle in the bag and unscrewing the lid before giving the bottle to Carel's hand.

Then I saw Carel begin to smell the perfume on the bottle he was holding by slightly spraying the perfume on his wrist.

"This?" His murmur immediately glanced at me making our gaze meet face-to-face.

"Hows it? The smell is good, right? I often smell that scent on your body. So I'm looking for the perfume you used to wear in this place, it's quite difficult to find the perfume you wear. But thank goodness I can find it." Obviously I feel proud of my struggle that is not in vain, although not how much.

"... Do you smell my body?" Her question made me misunderstand what she was saying, especially when I saw the red hue on her face.

"Whatchu mean? I told you the scent of perfume on your body isn't the scent of your body." Kilahku tried to endure my own embarrassment.

"Ah—ya I mean, sorry .. but I did not expect that you will recognize the fragrance of the perfume I used so far. Especially to find this perfume and buy it for me ...," Then in a voice that slightly shook with nervousness?

"Because the smell is delicious and different from the scent of perfume that I usually smell from the bodies of fathers and uncles. The fragrance of the perfume that Carel uses feels more fragrant and palatable. Anyway I like him a lot. So subconsciously I kept remembering it." Obviously, I'm trying to recall the first time I smelled the perfume that Carel used.

But no matter how hard I remember, I can't remember. Surely Carel as a child had not used perfume.

What did you enter the academy for? Or when I get back from Singapore? I really don't remember.

"Aah~ you really managed to make me misbehave Aster." Carel said after sighing surprised me. I saw that she had already lowered her head covering her face with one of her hands as the other hand held onto the perfume bottle and watched it closely.

"I didn't expect the perfume I bought from could make you like the smell. In the future I will never change perfume again. So I'll use the perfume you bought well, thanks Aster." He continued in a low voice that touched me, especially when he saw his red bead that looked at me warmly, followed by his wide smile that looked happy?

"Se— fun if you like it. In the future I will also give you many gifts. So wait and wait for my next gift." I warned him firmly.

I don't know, I just wanted to show him that I can make him happy in my own way. So Carel could also feel what I felt when I received a surprise from her.

"I'll wait." He said with a big smile, "so who do you want to go home with now? Hans and if or with me? I've come to see you, so definitely come home with me?" It made me smile at him when I remembered his behavior today.

She could have thought I was going home with her when I didn't ask her to come out with me and come looking for me in the shopping mall. What if I went somewhere else because I didn't find what I was looking for? Is he going to look for me everywhere?

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