HATE Before LOVE
The First Meeting Place.

Ardan still could not believe looking at and rereading the contents of the wedding invitation he had just received from someone he had been very trusting, that person stood misbehaviorally in front of Ardan, who was standing in front of him, because Ardan did not comment, he only repeatedly saw the person and then read the contents of the invitation again, then saw the person again.

Yeah, who else if not Teddy. Humans are most irritate smile and irrit expression.

"Gee..." That one word finally came out of Ardan's lips. "You really surprised me." Reciprocity.

"I'm sorry, sir, if it makes you surprised." said Teddy who is really my age, but not with Yura.

"How can you melt the heart of the jolly girl with your own nature...what yes, minimalism?" Ardan raised one eye eyebrow.

"Maybe Mr. Ardan can ask Yura directly" Teddy replied hesitantly. Because honestly, he still did not believe that Yura would accept it.

"Ah, so you don't know either?" Ardan nodded his head. "I think I know what made Yura accept you. You have a sincere and honest heart."

Teddy smiled clumsyly, not knowing how to respond to his boss' praise.

"But I'm glad you finally found your soulmate. And I, as I said, am calm Yura is with you. I'm sure you can protect and protect her."

"Thank you, sir." replied Teddy.

"Just, I'm still surprised, I think maybe another year or two, but next week? Have you done anything or what?"

Suddenly the door of Ardan's room opened without being knocked first, Gavin sneaked casually carrying with him the same invitation that Ardan was holding.

"Teddy! My Bro!" Gavin spread his arms, without excuse he immediately hugged Teddy and patted the man on the back. "Congrats Man! Crazy one! Very cool! Secretly washed!" Gavin laughing.

"Don't laugh at you!" Cut Ardan. "When did you catch up? It's been too long LDR-an, aren't you afraid of being stabbed?"

"If you're a mate, being stabbed will come back again" replied Gavin casually.

Ardan clucking.

"But today's star is, Teddy, you know! Teddy! Not at all expecting, the coldest person, lacking in expression, never laughing ended up marrying Yura! Very expressive cute girl. Wonderful is this universe."

"Thank you, sir." Teddy.

"Then what about all the preparations, Ted? Is everything all right?" ask Ardan.

"Everything has been taken care of by the Yura family, sir." replied Teddy.

"Well, if you need anything, just say it. Okay?"

"Good, sir."

"Geez, were you this much as me when I was with Yura?" ask Gavin.

"I'm just being myself, sir" replied Teddy.

"Hey, whatever Teddy's like, the important thing is that they love and accept each other." Ardan.

"Ah, yes, right too!"

"All right, let's just go home today." Ardan looked at his watch. "Wedding don't get too tired, you have to rest a lot before your big day."

"That's it." Gavin.

"Good, Sir. I'll get the car ready."

"No need to drive me, this one week you won't have to take me and pick me up. Take your time to rest."

"But sir I don't"

"I don't like to be disputed, you know that." Sharp Ardan.

"Good Sir."

"Well, you can go home now, I'll be home too, I've missed my wife so much."

"Then me?" ask Gavin.

"You can continue your LDR until you get old."

***

Elif frowned as he exited the building with Mona and immediately saw a luxurious black sedan being there to the attention of the people. It was like knowing the car.

"Like Ardan's car, don't you think?" mona said.

"Yes yeah?"

"Maybe Ardan's brother came to pick you up."

"No way, at this hour he's still in the office, and Ardan knows I've been driven by his driver."

Yes, since becoming Mrs Demir, Elif no longer takes public transportation. The sultan's wife was bought a luxury car and a private driver whose data has been investigated in detail and also martial arts, because in addition to being a driver, also as a bodyguard.

But suddenly someone from the car came out. A very handsome and dashing man who instantly made the women dumbfounded.

"Ardan?" Elif Mumbles.

"That's right." Tymphal Mona's.

"Hi, honey" Ardan said to Elif, not to Mona.

Seeing the handsome man approaching Elif, calling him dear and so close to kissing the cheek of Elif, all the stunned women were disappointed, and finally chose to leave.

"Cock just the two? Tumben no Yura?"

"Yura is on the edge again, sister, you must not leave the house" replied Mona.

"So you guys know Yura and Teddy are getting married next week?" Ardan raised his eyebrows.

"Know dong!" Elif and Mona together.

"Well, why didn't you tell me, baby?" ask Ardan to Elif. "You know, when Teddy told me, my heart was almost gone."

"Yura asked me, she said Teddy wanted to surprise her boss."

After a short conversation, Mona said goodbye, as did Elif and Ardan. They left the campus.

"Kok tumben nyetir himself? Usually the same Teddy." asked Elif on the way.

"I told him to go home, the groom-to-be also has a lot of rest" replied Ardan with a smile.

"Lho, where are we going?" elif asked, realizing that the road they were taking was not the way to the apartment.

"To where we first met." replied Ardan.

"When I hit your car?"

Ardan simply shook his shoulders and smiled mysteriously.

"But this is not the way either." Elif.

"Here you go to sleep, when I get up."

A few minutes later Ardan's car entered the area of a reservoir, Elif is still asleep, now Elif so easily sleepy when the car if Ardan is driving. Ardan looked at Elif who was still sound, he stroked his wife's hair that always smelled soothing and then kissed her forehead to make Elif finally wake up.

"Eh, is it here?" Elif narrowed her eyes. He looked around, at first confused but the next second he realized where he was.

"W-this reservoir..." Mumbled.

Ardan took a paper bag from the back seat and took Elif out of the car.

Elif remembered clearly where he was. The reservoir that once gave her the worst memories of her entire life. Reservoirs that make it have a fear of containers or ponds or anything that holds water with an invisible base. Including ocean. Although Elif could swim, but a bitter memory that made him afraid.

"Cand..." Elif pulled Ardan's arm as her husband opened the door for her. "What are we here for? He said he'd go where we first met?"

"Can we go for a walk for a while? I'll tell you why we're here."

"But I..."

"Don't be afraid anymore, there's me."

"Where do you know I'm scared?"

Ardan smiled. "Let's go for a walk."

Elif finally complied and got out of the car. He rubbed Ardan's arm and held it very firmly. Ardan was well aware of Elif's fear, which is why Ardan took him to the place, to change the bad memories of the past with new memories that might be able to slightly alleviate Elif's fear.

"Why are you so scared?" asked Ardan pretending not to know. "What ever happened?"

"I once drowned in this reservoir." replied Elif. "My brother got stuck in this reservoir. And since then I've always been afraid of water that's basically invisible."

"How did you drown?"

"At that time Adit was very small, he was running around the wall, he slipped and I saved him. But her favorite slippers were left behind, so I looked for those slippers and..."

"All right, don't keep going. Sorry to make you sad by telling me."

"It's okay, I'm relieved, I can tell you."

"If I may know, how did you get out of there?"

"Mother said someone suddenly came in, got into the reservoir and saved me. Mom said the guy did CPR right away until I finally regained consciousness."

"Have you met that guy?"

Elif shaking. "I wish I could meet him and thank him for saving my life."

They stopped right where Ardan saved Elif a few years ago. Ardan grabbed Elif's shoulders, making them now stand facing each other.

"You can say it now to that person" Ardan said as he embroidered a smile.

"What do you mean?" Elif frowned. "You know that guy?"

"More than just knowing." replied Ardan.

He took out a box from the paper bag that he had previously held. Which Elif thought was just a snack.

"Open up."

"What's this?" Elif accepted it still did not understand.

Elif opened the box, his eyes instantly widened, shocked. A small sandal, featuring Batman that is no longer intact, is worn out. "Ar-Ardan..this is Adit's sandal..."

"The Adit slippers you took in the reservoir with your life, but after that you just left them there." Ardan pointed to the place where Ardan found the slippers lying just like that many years ago.

"At that time, I was sitting across there, saturated with all the rules of the house. Then I saw a girl chasing a little boy running around the fence. My feelings are already bad, and it's true that you guys arrived at a place not as crowded as now, then the little boy splashed. I saw the girl jump in and help the little boy without wasting any time screaming for help."

"I had run from where I was sitting, running I saw the girl back in the water, but she did not go out until many people came to calm the little boy. I knew what was going on, so I went straight into the water, looking for the girl. It's hard because of the water. But I finally found it. Her feet got stuck on the plastic trash somehow, and by then the girl was already motionless."

"My heart was beating in fear if I was late to save her, when I gave her an artificial breath, I was really scared. But the girl was so strong, she opened her eyes, and the first thing she did was apologize to the crying little boy for just finding his sandal."

Elif had already shed tears hearing Ardan's story.

"If you think when I accidentally bumped into you was the first time we met, you're wrong, it's the third time we've met."

"To three?" Elif interrupted her crying.

Ardan nodded as he wiped the tears on his wife's cheek. "We met but didn't see each other, when at a red light, I opened the window and I clearly smelled the scent of your hair, the scent of which there was no rival, the scent that made me fall in love even before I knew who the owner of this scent was."

"Ardan..."

"Shhhh...." Ardan embraced Elif, taking him to sit on a wooden bench. "The universe has been arranging our meetings since long ago in this place."

"And you've been protecting me for a long time, looking after me, even fearing my loss before we knew each other."

Ardan kissed the old Elif's forehead. "Therefore I want you to remember this place as our first meeting place full of struggles that ended beautifully. No more fear, no more bad memories, just memories of how the universe took me and you met in unusual ways."

Elif nodded again. Tears still faithfully wet Elif's eyes and face. Not tears of sadness, but tears of happiness.

"Thank you, my savior. I love you." said Elif.

"Bende art seviyorum."

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