EMBRACE YOU: Presence & Poison
Episode 312's

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“Lucy, did we buy a pack fish?” My steps came to a halt when Lucy and I, carrying grocery bags, began to enter the door of the apartment building, which seemed to be more crowded this afternoon.

“Fish sir? Didn't the seller say the fish ran out?”

“Ahhh yes! Geez, how come I'm so forgetful.” I shook my head, smiling shyly at this woman beside me.

“That's because the mind of the mistress in the same meet sir Bayu.”

“This you!” I nudged his shoulder with my shoulder, “so like godain.”

“Mistress, it's been a month and a half we are here, in this city, and Lucy see, the mistress every day is very happy. Not only did I think so, Dika also felt the same way. Even Mr. Evano, mother Kirana, grandfather Alvaro, grandfather Jeremy and grandmother Nella, those who visited here a week ago also said the same thing.”

We're already in front of the elevator, waiting for this door to open, “really? Looks clear?” Lucy nodded in response to my question.

“You're right, we've been here six weeks. Not felt, time passes very short.” I've been pondering for a month and a half in this town.

Lucy's right, I feel happy here. Hugely.

Although I just stay at home, but drive or wait for Bayu to come home, it becomes one of the habits that I like. Our moments together felt natural, as if the man had indeed been a part of my life for a long time.

Then when the holidays, Bayu always take me for a walk in this city, introduce me to tourist attractions, or sometimes he invites me to meet with his friends.

Once, Bayu asked me to accompany him to a meeting of important people in the police. He said Mr. Salaman invited me as a special guest. They are holding a small party because the case of a bus collision and a pickup car is completed. No victim and suspect were immediately arrested. The man I suspected was indeed a drug dealer, while the driver who was driving a pickup car, he deliberately hit the bus to catch the man.

At first I didn't want to come if the reason for my presence was like that, but since Bayu said they came only as representatives of Jeremy's family, I ended up coming along. After all, Rasha's grandfather and father had quite a name in this city, they had run errands for a long time until the police were familiar.

Then the visit of two families, one week ago, was actually to persuade me. They want to see my life here, if I'm uncomfortable, they'll drag me home. Besides, I was really happy that they were visiting, it felt real as a family that even I had forgotten about the news about my mother and Daniel.

Suddenly a distinctive ting sound foreshadowed the elevator doors opening, disperse my daydreams.

Before Lucy and I could make a move, our eyes were fixed on seeing a woman looking down on the elevator. It was not because he was looking down that we were silent, but his face, a lot of bruises and one of his eyes was a bit swollen.

“Mother Nadya?” Call me make sure.

The woman looked up and looked at me in shock. He hurriedly stepped past us without answering.

“I—it was wound at ‘kan?” I looked at Lucy, making sure.

“Nadya's mother, the wife of the Baron family, who was the cause of the leaky gas incident ‘kan?” Lucy asked me.

“Yes. Therehewas. But I haven't seen him in a month, many say that Mr. Baron and his wife are in discussions with both families for a settlement, but instead his face is getting more bruises.” I frowned at the thought of being in her position, we're fellow women, but the treatment she got was different.

“All women in the world have the right to be treated well.” Mumbles.

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“How to start all this?”

“Who wants to go first? Uh wait a minute! Isn't this one opened first?”

Plaques

“Do not sneak! Oh my God, Bayu!! The time you forgot? This one can be opened if you get the chance, you think this red-red for what?”

“So shake the chest first? So, who wants to go first?”

“Come suit! Stone scissor paper.”

Half an hour ago, after our snake ladder game was over, I advised him to play monopoly.

On Sunday, we decided not to go anywhere and just all day at home. As a result, because there was nothing to do, we ended up playing children's games like this.

“Eh you remember no, when I was a kid, I played to your cousin's house, Desi, at first I did not know that my friend was a cousin with you. That morning, I just took a shower and the hair was still wet, and we both decided to play cards, uh you know you suddenly came.” Bayu who was about to move his statue, stopped in midair, heard my story.

“Oh yes? I don't remember which one—why?”

“You with the rest want to join playing cards. That day I remember once, I was so nervous.”

“Why?”

“Did you forget? Because that day we met after the day before we fought and broke up. If you think about it now, at that time we were too small to understand dating, yes ‘kan? But, you wrote me a letter, said you liked me. I replied to a letter from you with the help of my cousin.”

“Oh!!” Bayu looked at me cheerfully, a sign he already remembered, “I remember the letter. The reply you gave me used to be two circles for head drawing, stick to each other, a line of tongs for his hands, like a picture of a stickman kissing that is.”

“It was in the picture by my cousin's sister.” I was a little embarrassed to remember those memories.

“Totally? Not you the picture?”

“Yeah! I dare to draw like that. In fact, the reply of the letter was mostly I follow from the words of cousin sister—oh! I got a general fund!”

“So, the reply letter wasn't really from your answer?” Bayu stopped his focus on the monopoly placed between us.

“Not—I mean, that's really my answer, but the language used belongs to cousin sister.” My answer.

Bayu looked at me suspiciously, “why do you have to involve your older cousin for our business?”

“Because we were both little boys! I get money from every player for his birthday!!”

Suddenly Bayu was not interested at all in our monopoly game, he was still looking at me with narrowed eyes, “little boy huh? So that's some kind of monkey love?”

“Of course love monkey! We are still little kids.”

“But back then I didn't feel my love for you was monkey love.”

As my eyes focussed on him, as my hands placed cards and banknotes on the table, I replied, “I know you want to argue something with me, but I don't want us to argue, okay?”

“Why?”

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