EMBRACE YOU: Presence & Poison
Episode 277's

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“Icha! It turns out you're here!” Nella's grandmother's voice distracts me from the phone screen, I look up to find that grandma and grandpa are already at the table, along with a couple who are the same age as both.

A moment ago I completely forgot that coming to this party was actually invited by my grandparents.

“Nek.” My broom.

“This you, we are looking for.” Grandma immediately sat in my front seat.

I immediately stood up, about to allow grandfather to sit down, but grandfather turned to face the couple.

“This is the child I told you about earlier.” Said grandpa.

“Oh, yes yes. Very good, good boy. You're Evano's daughter?” The old woman beside grandfather walked over to me, probing my face.

“Presenting my grandson, I'm sorry.” he said again.

“Goodies?” I frowned confused.

“I heard, my grandson chased you stubbornly until you slapped him and sprained your wrist—“

“Ahh yes! I remember now.” Of course I remember the incident, the man who insulted Bayu, meaning the two people in front of me were people from the same neighborhood as the Danendra family.

“Robert.”

“Yes, that's it!” Said this old woman nodding but her gaze was heartbreaking, “forgive her yes nak.”

“It's okay grandma, I've almost forgotten about it.”

“But I haven't forgotten it.” Bayu's voice through the airpods in my right ear is heard, meaning the man has returned to the front of his laptop.

I smiled a little when I heard this man was back, but maybe this woman in front of me thought I was smiling at him, she grabbed my hand and patted him, “good boy, thank goodness you've forgotten him.”

“You sure you've forgotten that incident?” Bayu tried to tease me, he knew I could not answer directly.

“The boy came with us, earlier he wanted to go around looking for his acquaintances. Let grandfather tell him to apologize.”

“No need cake.” I said quick but Grandpa Robert waved at me and shook his head.

“Just he has to apologize directly.” Said the old man.

My reflexes glanced at Grandma Nella, she was watching me and suddenly grandma stood up saying, “ really is not necessary. My grandson has forgiven Robert. Better we enjoy our little reunion this.”

I quietly sighed softly, for some reason I glanced at grandma earlier, perhaps in the depths of my heart, I already know that grandma is a person of understanding also seems our way of mind is the same without having to be said directly.

“Come sit down!” Take Alvaro's grandfather to his two friends, they were hesitant at first, still intending to call Robert, but I immediately stood up and helped shift the chair for them to sit, because there were only four seats, and there were only four, finally I decided to offer to take the food they wanted, while Bayu, he no longer spoke when I did not invite him to talk, only vaguely heard the sound of a laptop keyboard.

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“...more delicious, because they use hereditary recipes.”

“Then I should try it.”

“Take Alisya, the owner will give you discounts and extras because he is already a regular customer.”

“But by the way about Alisya, I remember she once told me something about a secret file that was on your laptop.”

“Confidential file? What file?”

Right now, I'm on the toilet, in front of the sink to wash my hands, can freely talk to Bayu on our video link, even though we're not talking in front of the phone screen, but I who was still in the middle of the party while Bayu whose eyes were focused on her laptop screen, did not mind this.

“I haven't seen what file, but Alisya said, password for that file—“

BRAAAKK

I jumped up, shocked to hear a sound from outside the toilet.

“What's up?” Bayu's tone of voice sounded curious and worried.

“I don't know, his voice is from outside the toilet. Here there is no one—“

BRUUKKK

“It's like the sound of people falling.”

Slowly, I stepped closer to the toilet door, looking through the doorway, young men and women were facing each other near the toilet door for men, which was located across from the toilet door for women.

But what makes my forehead more furrowed is that the woman is already cornered on the wall, she looks down and looks scared, while the man, she looks angry at the woman while occasionally glancing back, she looks down and looks scared, it was as if he was making sure no one caught him.

“Is this some kind of lover's quarrel?” Whisper, talk to Bayu through airpods.

“How dare you threaten me, huh!” The man further cornered the woman before him to the wall.

“Should I give you a chance—“

Bukkk!

I glared in disbelief at the man pressing on the woman's stomach with the knee of her left leg.

Bukk!

He pressed down and hit the woman with his feet, while the woman before him was already limp and slumped to the floor.

“Conscious! I—ini criminal offense!” Although the woman's answer was stammered, but from her voice, she was as strong as she could endure the pain and mustered her courage to face the man.

“Give yourself p—to the police so you b—can ask for leniency!”

“Ha ha ha.” He laughed sarcastically at the woman speaking, his hands raised to press her neck and said “you always talk about punishment, but you are mine. My boyfriend!”

I suddenly goosebumps seeing violent scenes of dating relationships like this. What am I supposed to do?

“Tenace. I sent a message to Dika and Lucy to get them to come to your place. They wait in the car ‘kan?”

“Y—ya. Earlier they did report waiting in the parking lot, in the car.” My answer is to breathe a sigh of relief because Bayu is still connected to me.

“Do not act impulsively, wait for Dika and Lucy to come.” Bayu commemorates seriously from the airpods in the ears

my right.

Hearing the change in tone of voice, I remembered that my phone was near the sink, I turned around and grabbed the object, pointed the phone screen at me so that I could look at Bayu directly from our video call connection.

As before, Bayu is still sitting in front of his laptop screen, but this time his full attention is focused on his phone.

“You all right?”

“You peeking?” I asked back, without waiting for an answer, I went back to the toilet entrance, peered out the door slit, changed the camera settings to the rear camera, pointed it at the couple.

Apparently, the man was throwing his girlfriend against the wall until the loud bukk sound and the restrained groan of the woman sounded sad. Judging from the actions of that man, I guess that woman must have fought back earlier.

“I can't just let it go. This is already too much! The woman is already in pain.” My whisper to Bayu.

“Try the man's zoom. Looks like familiar.” I frowned at Bayu's reply, but I finally obeyed him.

“You know him?”

“I'm not sure, but it looks like she looks like—Ceasar? Could it be Ceasar?”

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