EMBRACE YOU: Presence & Poison
Episode 37's

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“I don't want to demand anything from you. Any man would want to see his girl always happy. In this world, maybe you are only one person but for someone maybe you are his world.” I turned to her, looking at her serious face driving from the side.

His words did sound sweet and dreadful, but looking at his expression now- “I seriously say it.”

“I can feel it.” I smiled happily, still watching his face.

“Wood?”

“Hmm.”

“Should turn left.”

I laughed satisfied to see Bayu being misbehaved. Quickly this man sought a turn. Ever since I noticed her face, she seemed to snatch for a moment and did not dare to return my gaze.

“Stop looking at me like that. You're making me nervous. Look, I'm going in the wrong direction like this.” He was nagging but I

still laughing satisfied.

Bayu used to drive me home so he should have memorized the way to mother's house. “Wood?”

“What? This is right ‘kan way? I remember!”

I who still could not stop laughing finally could only pinch his arm in anxiety. His behavior reminds me of my old lady.

“Aww.. Why in pinch??”

“You're funny.”

“I'm not a funny clown.”

“Ihh clown hgga funny, the funny is you who are nervous again until the wrong direction.”

“ke my group also because of you.” Now Bayu was willing to look back at me when his car stopped because of the red light.

I pulled his hand, then grabbed it. The big Bayu hand returned my grasp and now it was his warm hand playing my finger.

“I was curious, then what makes you now accept me again? I mean if you think like that when you leave me, you should have completely forgotten me.”

I lowered my head, watching how Bayu grasped my hand. “When you appeared before me again, I realized that I had not forgotten you in the least. That I realize I still love you. I still want to see you. Unconsciously all this time I missed you so much. Maybe if you hadn't refused to break up with me then, I wouldn't have looked for you. Seeing you still breathing in the same world as me, I am already grateful and happy enough for you.”

“You don't want to chase after me?”

I fell silent, thinking of finding the right word to express. “Not that I didn't do anything, I thought you could get another girl better than me. You know I don't want to until I burden you with my problems, whatever your choice I'll be happy. It sounds cliche indeed, but I realized that love is like a miracle. I'm so grateful that you didn't give up on me. At that time I had trouble loving myself. Self-love mission is like a lifetime mission, I am still learning and continue to learn until now.”

Bayu rubbed the side of my head, he looked at me seriously and was silent as if thinking of something. Then he asked. “Are you going to give up on me if I encourage you to go away?”

“You won't push me away. There might just be a misunderstanding. Sometimes relationships are like that, right? We are not the same in 1 color, we are also different in word writing, but beautiful always has meaning because different does not have to hurt.”

Bayu's serious face changed with his wide smile. Then he stepped on his accelerator again as the traffic light turned green.

“Then why did you come back to me? I'm sure there must be a lot of beautiful girls who want to be your girlfriend.” Now I'm

ask him back. For a moment Bayu glanced at me and looked back to the front before answering.

“I can't forget you. I've tried but still, this heart beats faster just when

thinking of you.”

I couldn't help but smile happily. But I still continue to ask.”Aren't you mad at me? Disappointed?”

“At first I was very disappointed. I was thinking maybe you decided on me because we rarely met or you had other men. But after thinking about it, I've known you for a long time. We were friends when we were kids, then we met again when we were teenagers and we separated when we were both adults. At least I know you and what I think is unfounded, I mean you can't possibly like other men when you have a handsome, smart and cool guy like me. Yes ‘kan?”

I laughed at the joke at the end of his sentence. The nature of Bayu back appears. “Thank you, I know this joke of yours to keep me from being too guilty of you. But I still have to apologize. I'm sorry yes. Back then my mind was only one, I wanted to be alone, I didn't want to be someone else's burden.”

Bayu's hand free from the steering wheel lifted, rubbed my head and answered. “I know. I'm proud of you because you didn't run away for the negative. The result is now my girl continues post-graduate and has a good job at a young age.”

“Don't praise me too much. You too, I didn't expect you to be captain. Really great.” I gave him a round of applause.

“You just found out?”

“Yes. Yesterday when we were at the mall. I just found out.”

My memory went back to spinning then. When I could barely keep my consciousness from the poison injection Rey gave me in the hospital. “Surgery? What should I suspect?”

Bayu looked pouted. “You know, the hospital at that time was very excited because I brought two big-bodied men to escort me. I also almost made a fuss when the old nurse once brought you a blood transfusion.”

“Really? That big?”

“Not only that, I also shouted like a madman when your condition did not improve. I asked for some

police car and army car to escort us to doctor Stefan.”

My reflex hit this guy a few times. “You know, that's a huge exaggeration! Police car? Added army cars too? You must make the riders out there uncomfortable.”

Bayu laughed satisfied with my actions. I know my punch wasn't so hard. “Then from that, don't worry me.”

“Isshh.. You abused your office!”

“That's one of the advantages. Hehhehe.”

“While I am well—“

“What's okay? You're bleeding! Besides, that bastard Rey targeted you because of me too.”

“I still don't understand your relationship with Rey. Is it that complicated until he wants to avenge her?”

“Quite complicated. You don't have to think about it. Just think of me.”

I laughed as I rewarded his painful little pinched arm.

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I turned around, once again looking at Bayu who was leaning on his car door while nodding at me. I asked the man to park his car ten meters further from the front of my mother's house and wait there.

My feeling is that mom will scold me for anything I don't know what I'm doing and right now

at least I'm not ready for Bayu to hear it. I want to slowly share it with him.

The afternoon sun seemed to shine brightly, it was a pity that the weather was sunny like this but my feeling of facing mother was already

cloudy cloudy.

As I was standing at the door of the house, I immediately knocked on it and glanced at a black car parked in front of the door.

Not waiting for long, the door immediately opened from the inside with a bit of roughness. I was shocked to find my mother standing in front of me with her eyes glaring and angry expression.

“Bu-”

Mom's hand pulled me hard to get in and dragged me to the living room. Then he threw out his hand and almost made me fall. Being treated like this alone makes my heart ache.

Am I not worthy of respect? Is there something wrong with me?

“Quickly apologize to her!”

I realized a woman was sitting quietly on the sofa in front of me. This woman I know, she came to my office at the time.

“She's Alexander's daughter. Jane Alexander.”

I want to be angry now. This woman is really two-faced! At that time he wanted me to call my mother and ask her not to go near his father. But now look, she arrogantly looks at me even she came to the house to meet mom.

“What? What's up?”

Jane stood up and walked up to me. “I just told your mom something. You have stolen my fiancee.”

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