Don't (Blame) Love
SESION 2 PART 24
"What's? You want to abort as my successor?" Andreas' eyes widened in disbelief at his own hearing.
"I'm sorry Al, Cake." The young man bowed guiltily.
"The army wants to be in a full-year training camp, and test you with things for four years in Japan to make you my worthy successor. But you came back soft because of a woman. Who's that woman?" asked Andreas growled.
Al just kept quiet and did not answer. All this time he kept a secret about the woman he loved aside from Vico. Even so he set the distance so as not to be seen close by anyone so as not to cause problems to his friends.
"Java!" simultaneously with that word Andreas slapped hard on Al's cheek.
And again, Al just kept quiet without a fight. He simply wiped the blood coming out from the tip of his lips with his right thumb. Then bow again.
"Grandfather, there's no point in you always watching me. He never met me" replied Al venturing out.
"What's your max, Al?" Andreas Furious.
"Al knew all this time Grandpa was watching me either here or in Japan."
"Sister, when are you coming home?"
The two men turned to the door of the reading room. Quen looks like he just got home from college.
The girl swallows at her brother, while the grandfather leaves them there.
"What's the matter, brother?" quen Panil asked to look at Al's bruised cheeks and began to swell.
"Ouch! Don't touch it" said Al grimacing with pain.
"Come to the room, I'll compress with ice water."
Quickly Quen rushed into the kitchen picking up a basin filled with water and ice cubes.
Inside his room, he took Al to sit on the bed and compressed his brother's cheeks very carefully.
"When did he arrive? Didn't I promise to take you to the airport yesterday?"
"And you go to college" replied Al looking for reproach.
"But, if you say it early I can set my schedule. And you definitely won't be hit by Andreas' grandfather" said Quen sadly.
"Here you go, little slap cut. It won't put my life at risk." Al laughed at his sister's expression.
"Try to open your mouth wide, there was blood on the tip of Big Brother's lips. But his lips didn't break. You must be hurt!" Quen ruled.
"That's it, it's okay, Quen."
Al turned his face away from his sister because he could not bear to see his sister worrying about him.
It's nothing compared to the training camp I went through five years ago. A full year I trained hard, punches, kicks and lashes often become daily food, Quen. Al in the heart.
"Well, if you don't want to, now go back to your room, and take a shower" Quen said. Then get back up and return the basin to the kitchen.
With Quen's gloomy face to the kitchen, there was only Lyli. The girl also seemed to be wondering what made Lord Andreas so angry with Al. Wanting to ask Quen did not dare.
The girl had assumed that this was personal and did not want outsiders to know including Lyli. Because when angry, Andreas uses Japanese.
"Where are you going, brother?" quen asked to open the conversation.
"There was in his room, Non. She said the lady's not feeling well anymore."
"I'll go there first." Quen walked towards Clara's room.
Arriving at the door the girl hesitantly opened it. Then, he slowly knocked on the door.
Upon hearing the answer from within, Quen opened and went inside.
It turns out that Clara is not alone, there Vivian is also mengenagankan him who is alone crying.
"Mama why?" quen asked as soon as he was near Clara.
"It's okay, honey. Did you just come home?"
"Mama why are you crying? My brother is home."
"Yes, my mom already knows. About thirty minutes of practice he just arrived."
"What pain mama? Dad, yeah?" goda Quen was trying to melt the atmosphere.
"Bas with you," said Clara, laughing, wiping her tears.
"Where is your brother now, Quen?" ask Vivian.
"There's in the room, maybe it's a bath, Grandma" Quen said, then sat down next to Clara.
"Quen, accompany your mama first, huh? Grandma's gonna help you get ready for dinner first." Vivian rushed to leave Clara's room.
After making sure Vivian was not around, Quen ventured to ask Clara prihal Andreas' grandfather who was angry with Al even dared to hit him.
"Mama sure sick? It wasn't that afternoon when Quen left for college was fine, was it?" ask Quen fishing.
"The plague came suddenly, Quen." Clara turned her eyes away from her daughter's existing talent such as fortune teller, she said.
"lik! Mama must be crying for Al's sister, right?" ask Quen full of probes.
"Hey, little girl. Mama's really happy your sister's back, when did you like her when she left,?"
"Because brother Al came home with problems until grandfather was angry, mama there is no power to defend so it can only cry, right?" ask Quen to Clara.
"Here you go, don't interfere with Quen" said Clara.
"Yes, but since he's my only brother, I have to help take care of him, I'm going to sleep with him tonight in anticipation of Grandpa entering the room and continuing his anger," quen said with a laugh and went out of his mother's room.
While at the dinner table, Andreas still looks angry at Al, even though he has tried to cover it, still Quen caught the gelagat is not right.
"Al, are you serious about Lyli?" andreas asked fishing, just as Lyli pulled up a chair and sat down for dinner.
"Of course, Grandpa doesn't have to worry, I won't play women."
"When are you going to propose to her?"
"Quickly, wait for papa to come back from Jogja, how, Ma?"
"Good idea, I'll call your dad later and tell him this, you're Lyli, tell your parents, okay?" clara said with a smile.
Quen did not speak, he was more busy watching over his grandfather, after all, the girl did not accept his brother being treated like that.
"All right, I'm done, you guys just keep eating dinner" Andrean said and left the dinner table.
"Sister, drink this, so that the wound in your mouth does not become a serious canker." Quen offered three kaplers of the drug kepa Al.
"What is this, Quen?" al asked while observing the three pieces of medicine wrapped in plastic-coated aluminum in his hand.
"It's pain relievers, antibiotics and vitamin C. Just drink don't be afraid, I got the prescription from the doctor who also teaches my class." Quen smiled reassuringly to his sister.
"Ok, thank you" replied Al.
While Lyli was only silently watching the two brothers who seemed to be fond of each other, as long as Andreas was angry no one dared to run over him, let alone him. But, with confidence Quen went into the reading room to get Andreas out, and now, he's using his skills as a medical student to pay attention to Al.
The perfect sister sister, Lyli murmured inwardly.
She stood in a white baby dol suit with a long-sleeved pink rabit motif and let her long hair loose.
"You haven't slept, Quen?" ask Al.
"I'll sleep here." The girl closed the door without locking it she walked up to Al and lay down next to him.
"Is your room in trouble, Quen?"
"No! Absolutely not! Let me sleep here with my sister tonight," she said, and Al's waistcoat closed her eyes.
"Based on this girl, doesn't she think I'm a normal guy?" al-say in the Heart.
He noticed Quen's arms curled strongly over his pert and fell asleep with cheeks clinging to his bag's arms.
"Sweet as you are, Quen. I know what your purpose is to sleep here. Thank you my dear sister!" Al stroked his forehead and gave a kiss of hangan there and both closed their eyes.
A few minutes later it turned out to be true, with the sound of the door to Al's room opened slowly. Al keeps pretending to sleep when he finds out who's coming, turns out to be true Andreas. Denhan looks disappointed when he comes back out of the room when he finds out Quen is sleeping with Al.
In the morning Al woke up Quen was not in place, whether since when his sister moved he did not realize. Al felt the greeting of sleeping too soundly. Maybe the effect of taking the drug that your sister gave you at the dinner table yesterday.
Al stood in the bathroom to take a shower and then went down, there was only Lyli, his mother and grandparents. Where is Quen? Even though his room was empty.
Al just kept quiet, sitting next to Andreas without asking about his sister.
"Ra, I'm going out first, I have something to do at home. Later in the afternoon Andrean and Vano come home, right?"
"He said yes, Brother. They'll be back in the afternoon" Vivian replied.
"Ok alright. Kakake left first" Andreas said, patting Al on the shoulder before leaving.
Al sat down and began to get nervous. But I don't think it needs to be detained anymore. Andreas is really gone.
"Ma, where's Quen going?"
"She's gone. she said there's an eight-hour lecture but, there's still other necessities at her friend's house."
Al nodded in understanding.
"Clara, you'll see a doctor later, will you accompany? Departing out of breakfast, all shopping for home needs seems to have begun a lot of runs out."
"Yes, Ma. I'll take a shower, okay?"
"Al, you have breakfast, we're done. Grandma get ready first."
Al bowed while propping up his forehead with both hands. How could he wake up at seven in the morning?
"Baby, Al. Miss Quen made you a sum-sum porridge. Will Ansa try it?" ask Lyli.
"Yes, get me a bowl."
Still in the same position Al rejuvenated his own hair.
His mind was completely confused. An equally difficult choice for him to realize the expectations of Clara and Andreas.
"Please, Mas Al." Lyli thrust two small bowls over a tray of thick brown sugar sauce and one rather large bowl of sum-sum porridge.
Al smiled at the work of his sister, he understood best what he wanted. Last night with sleep hugged him tightly because in order to protect him from his grandfather. Because, with whom else if not with him. With Vivian and Lyli is impossible, right? Especially with Clara.
Al returned to his room he still did not know what he was going to do.
Suddenly he remembered about Reza. He wants to go coffee in Caffenya.
Downstairs Al saw Lyli mopping the floor, but, the man chose to quietly ignore and left.
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After Quen's class did not go home, he gathered with his group of friends to do assignments in one of the campus yard areas. The four of them sat in a circle on the grass that was yellowed by the long drought.
Nearly an hour later, their work was completed. It just so happened that he was a group with Gea anyway.
"Quen, are you going straight home?"
Quen turned his head towards the familiar-sounding voice in his ears.
"It seems so, sir," captivated Quen with a friendly smile.
He was always friendly to anyone, not least with this lecturer, Aditya. But, who would have thought he would instead interpret another smile and Quen's friendliness towards him.
"Come, I'll take you!"
"What's not a hassle, sir? I can take Gea with me" Quen said unwell.
"It's okay" Aditya said, sounding authoritarian.
Quen was without feeling awkward to obey the will of his lecturer. Today was not her class. And he taught in another class.
As usual in Quen's car silence never starts the conversation just yet. But, ten minutes past both of them just silenced so as to make the madus blaster take the initiative to start the topic.
"What class did you teach?"
"Are you in a hurry to get home, Quen?"
Both asked in unison. And laugh together.
"You first!" Together again.
"Alright, you go first, sir."
"Ok then" said Aditya. "Are you in a hurry to get home?" Aditya's eyes stared at Quen.
"No, Sir. Why?"
"Two kilos a meter before going to the mansion to the alley to my son's place, are you willing to come see him with me, Quen?"
Quen silently thought. Is it possible that she maxed out is a five-year-old toddler posing with her on that IG?
"I don't mind, sir. But, do you think I even disturb your me time with family?"
"No. He was with both of my parents." Lirih Aditya focused on the wheel.
"Where is your wife going?" With a reflex Quen asked without thinking about it more first. "sorry," he said they were not good to see Aditya pensive.
"It's okay, it's not your fault. You ask then I will answer." Aditya took a deep breath.
"Two months ago precisely Me and his mother Axel officially divorced, for almost two years I begged to stay for the sake of the child he remained adamant to leave."
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"Nov, think of our son, Axel. He just needs our affection all this time, I beg you not to part, huh?" The man crouched to hug his wife's legs without thinking about his pride as a man, special doctor and also lecturer at a renowned faculty in Jakarta.
"I can't, Mom. We got married in an accident, right? You keep wanting that boy to live rigidly married to me, it's time we had to split up. I was depressed living with you all this time, Mas." irritated Novita while crying.
"Nov, think about it one more time, if you want to go, but, one day if you want to come back, I'm ready to take you at any time."
The woman paused for a moment looking back haughtily leaving while dragging her suitcase.
"Mama!" Shouted the three-year-old boy crying trying to chase after the woman called mama.