Forced to Marry an Old Man
TMPT - 25

Today, Lana is free.

He was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief because not only was Dewi not at home, Raul was also busy at his campus. Earlier this morning, the young man even whined to say that he did not want to be far from Lana.

Of course, Lana was grateful to be away from him.

After completing the cleaning job that was entirely assigned to Lana despite the other servants, Lana was able to sit down to eat ice cream on the terrace.

He sat down and thought of Luna. Lana had hoped to have a cell phone in order to contact her aunt, at least hearing Luna's voice. What she did and what she did was fine, Lana wanted to know.

"Also about cosplay." Lana pouted piercing her ice cream with a spoon. "Raul from yesterday was not satisfied. He wants me to do something but won't tell him how."

Imagining her makes Lana emotional. Suddenly the image of the animal in the ice cream bowl looks like Raul until Lana hits him. At least he wants to repay her in delusion.

"Nice smile, not less smile! What do you want, anyway?! Just nyusahin!"

Just wait for him. One day Lana will kick her shins and curse him as much as Lana wants.

But later.

"Excuse me!" someone shouted, making Lana shocked.

The event of persecuting Raul in delusion was forced to end because Lana hastily moved on. The security guard was having lunch in the back so there was indeed no odang in the front post.

As Lana approaches, she is shocked to learn that she is Yuda.

"Hi." Yuda smiled. "Lo I'm calling you not looking. Wagging what?"

Is that a natural question to ask when you come to see me? Okay, no. What did Lana mean, why did she come here?

"Aren't you going to college?" ask Lana back. "Raul is gone from morning."

"Gue know," he replied casually. "This is me from college. Come by here to see you."

"Eh?"

"No pa-pa?" Yuda looked at him from behind the iron fence. "Gue apologized about that time. Not to interfere, but I think you're afraid of Raul. I don't want to be a hero, but if anyone needs help, you want a guy, you want a girl, do I help you, right?"

"You," Lana smiled sincerely, "very good."

Really, he's very nice. From the beginning, she was kind and warm to Lana when they were strangers. Lana thinks all of Raul's friends are evil but the truth is, this guy is different.

"I'm not pa-pa." Lana then spoke full of confidence because she did not want this good person to be in trouble. "I'm scared but not pa-pa. You don't fight with Raul. He helped me too."

"Raul?" Yuda tilted his face. "Raul's good?"

The tone of the question as if the sentence was unfamiliar clearly made Lana confused. He tilted his face, watching Judah until he forgot that the fence had not been opened for him.

But Yuda also seemed to not care. He said, "Raul is not a good man."

"But you are Raul's friend." If Raul's bad, why would he want to be friends?

"There are no good people in town, Lana. Or less. There's less." Judah held the iron fence, watching Lana carefully. "Gue was with Raul it wasn't because he was nice. But yes, because my friends are the same as him. If you say he's not my friend, it's like he's real. We just hang out together a lot but it's a different principle."

Lana frowned not understanding. For Lana to be friends means that you like each other and are comfortable. But not for Judah and Raul?

"Lana." Yuda muttered softly. "I honestly don't think you're a stupid girl who doesn't help."

Lana jerks.

"Eatya me, who does not like the same, which is often said to be a hero, want to nolongin lo. Even if I'm not a real hero."

Lana clenched her hand silently as Judah said the next thing.

"Raul just likes toys."

Lana obviously knows.

"That means there's a time limit for Raul playing with people he calls toys. The toys according to him have been damaged, already can not be made, the toys will be discarded."

Lana knows that too.

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