I Love You My Step Mother
When Love Can Find Its Side

Alfira POV

This Sunday I decided to go shopping at the market, because the vegetable and meat supplies were already running out in the refrigerator. Usually this is the work of Bi Narsih, but his health condition has not improved. So I had to shop by myself. Mas Reza could not accompany me because he was busy taking care of business.

"ag .... " Someone patted me on the shoulder, I spontaneously turned my head back and turned my back.

My eyes opened wide after realizing who this person before me was. "A-arman?" Why would I meet him?

The man I hate in this world! "Why are you here?" many surprised.

Without answering any questions he pulled my wrist. "I'm afraid!"

"What the heck are you, play pull!" I groaned annoyed with his treatment that was as good as playing with people's hands. I tried to let go of his hand, but it was hard. The power is very strong.

I was dragged along and the jerk kept walking by tightly gripping my wrist. Then Arman took me to a rather quiet place from the bustle of the market.

"Kid your hands off! I don't like you holding on!" I tried to rebel.

He breathed a rough breath. The clutches of his hands even tighter as if reluctant to let go of me.

"Say you're married."

"Yes, what does it have to do with you!" gertakku annoyed.

Arman looked at me sharply. "How dare you marry without my knowledge!"

I threw my eyes away from him.

"You can be like me, I love you know!"

I sniffed in annoyance. "Curtain, bullshit!"

Now, both of his hands are turning up to hold both of my shoulders, I reflexively throw out those two disgusting hands. "Don't touch me!"

Arman, he's my ex-boyfriend from High School. I hated him for how often he hurt my feelings. When he gets caught up with another girl, he always quips just friends.

Ko friend friendly? That's what makes me suspicious. At that time I was so stupid because I was blinded by love, just believe what he said.  Over and over again like that, I got bored.

I can't stand relationships like this. So I decided, and he didn't accept it. Arman didn't want to break up with me, but behind my back he was cheating. I feel so bored as a collection by him. Again, I decided it was one-sided. However, he did not accept it back. After that whatever he wants, I don't care! For me, he is no longer anyone.

Until I got into college, Arman followed me by going to the same university. Arman just kept pestering me, approaching and stalking me.

'We're still dating!' The words just kept coming out of his mouth. But, on the other hand, he was courting another girl. What a crazy man! He seems to be obsessed with me, not in love with me!

After a few months, he disappeared. Arman is rarely seen on campus. It was heard that if he impregnated a girl, then his family held him accountable, he was forced to stop college, then work to support the girl he married because of the accident.

I can finally breathe. Arman disappeared from my sight, but now why did he even appear before me?!

"Al, I can't believe it! Said you married om-om huh?" said cynical.

I didn't mince his words.

"She said your husband was a businessman and a lawyer, just you want. Om-om thick wallet. Hahaha ..." Arman. Whatever.

I began to care for him, but I still did not ignore him.

"I heard that your father's business was almost bankrupt, and after that it was heard that you were married to an old man. I'm sure, you must have been forced because of your father, right?"

Goddamnit! Why would he know?

As soon as I remembered dad, sometimes I felt sold by him.

"When you are 24 years old, you should marry the same age as you, me for example."

I glanced in annoyance at him. "Udah speaking? I'm going shopping!" When I was about to step up, Arman held both of my wrists firmly. "What the hell? Not released?!" my snapping.

"I'm still missing, Al."

I tried to take the grip off his hand but it was hard. "What the hell are you! You are crazy, right?! Don't you have a wife?!"

"I'm cerein him! I love you the same!"

"It's not love but obsession!"

"You're calling him yes, we're turning him back" he exclaimed with a glassy look.

"Curtain! Oh wow!" Angry and upset, without hesitation I kick 'juniornya'.

"Aaaarrgh. .. shit!" he groaned in pain, both of his hands holding onto that sensitive area.

I smiled cynically. "Dreams!"

I turned my body away from him, but suddenly he grabbed both my shoulders from behind.

"You can't run from me!"

"Tolo---," My mouth smothered him. Oh my God, help your servant!

The son of a bitch dragged me to a quiet, slightly dark place in the corner of the market. I was trembling and scared.

I grimaced in pain as Arman pushed me violently against the wall. "You're crazy." I said.

Arman looked at me with a face I could hardly describe. Slowly he began to approach me, I took a step back but stopped the wall. I was starting to get scared, what did he really want?

A mysterious smile on his face. His eyes continued to touch me from top to bottom. His gaze was like a starving beast looking at the prey in plain sight.

"Arman ... Please let me go ...." I arrived with teary eyes.

"You're getting hotter, Al. I'm so .. passionate."

There was a sense of relief as I watched from behind Arman's back someone from a distance was running hastily towards us.

Hurry on! That guy's getting closer. However, it seems like I know the silhouette of that body. His face was not very clear due to the dimly lit room.

Bruk!

The man kicked Arman in the back. Arman slumped to the floor, he grimaced in pain.

I started to look at the man. There was a hint of light from the vent that was shining into his face. I slowly began to observe the clinging, and it turned out ...

Andrian! My mouth was clenched in disbelief. How did he know I was here?

Andrian's jaw seemed stiffened, his gaze pointed sharply at Arman. Andrian's emotions begin to ignite, he pulls Arman's shirt collar, then beats him up.

"Shoppers!" Andrian began to throw his punches. I just froze watching that.

"Aarhhhgt ... Goddamnit! Lu who, huh?!" Arman started riding. He stood up violently, then reciprocated Andrian's treatment. Arman began to clench his hands and then throw a punch to Andrian's face, but fortunately Andrian managed to dodge swiftly.

I rubbed my huffed face at the fight between the two. I hope Andrian is okay.

At first glance Andrian looked at me, until he finally let his guard down. As a result, Arman managed to punch Andrian's left cheek hard, then one kick right in his heart.

"Andrian!!" I screamed hysterically.

He fell to the floor. Several times he coughed up blood. His breath gasping for breath plus sweat flooded his face.

I grimaced to see it. "Arman, what are you doing, huh?!" emotional mine.

"Hey, what's the fuss?!" A few middle-aged men came over to us. I breathed a sigh of relief, because my fate and Andrian could be saved. Arman who was originally going to teach Andrian again, he paused after realizing the arrival of four men.

You wimps! He immediately ran the lacquer razor away with his battered face leaving me and Andrian lying helplessly.

I approached. Sticking on the floor. Raise Andrian's head and I make my thigh his pillow. My chest felt tight, anxious, sad and worried to see him like this.

"What's this about? Why is that kid getting battered?" asked a man from them while surrounding the two of us.

I turned my head, then replied, "It's okay sir, just a little fight."

"Oh yes already. Take it home, Neng. Poor," said the father worried. I just nodded. The four men left us.

"Andrian, are you okay?" I am full of worries.

"Mommy's fine, right? Is mom hurt? Mother flanked by him?" He asked me about my situation, when his own condition was worse than mine. You stupid kid!  However, in my honest heart I like the attention of it.

"No need to ask about my mother's condition. Your face is so rich!" spray me with a fierce 'pretend' face.

Kuseka sweat and blood spots on the temples of his lips with a handkerchief that was previously in the bag of my jeans. Andrian smiled instead. Goddamnit! I was once again fascinated by his smile.

A second later, the look on that face turned flat. There's a gurat of anxiety plastered.  "Mom don't go alone anymore, pinta Andrian aja, so Andrian can take care of Mother."

Hearing her sweet words made my heart beat fast and my heart melt. Is that how much he wants to protect me? Not responding, I fell silent and just nodded my head.

"Why do you know Mom's here?" soft ask.

"Come, it was Andrian's heart that led him here ..." Again, my heart was made to melt by it.

A moment later he chuckled. " So when Mom took a taxi, Andrian immediately followed Mom using the motor."

"really?"

"Hu 'um. Andrian was going to the perpus, but suddenly there was a bad taste so Andrian turned around and followed the taxi that I was riding."

Oh my God, this kid. That's how much he's interested in me. I was touched.

"Let's go home. Can you stand alone, Dri?" I'm worried about his condition.

"It can be." Andrian gets up from the bed. I grabbed her shoulder to help her stand up.

"Slow down the path." I pulled it out of an abandoned market building. Several pairs of eyes had looked towards us with a frown on the forehead.

"You can seriously ride a motorcycle with this weak condition?" ask me when I get to the parking lot.

"Uhuk! Nothing Andrian slowly ko," he said accompanied by a cough because of the hit from Arman earlier that hit his heart. I wiped the blood on the corner of his lips, he looked at me intensely.

"If you can't, we can take a taxi. Your father will be carrying a motorbike." Andrian shakes. I took a breath. "Yes, then."

When he got home, Mas Reza was surprised to see Andrian's bruised face. I told him all the chronology of the incident this afternoon.

After hearing that, Mas Reza was furious. He wanted to report Arman to the police, but I arrested him. But for what? I just don't want to deal with him anymore.

***

Tonight, I tried to go to Andrian's room to check his condition. Honestly, I was worried, and I don't know why tonight I wanted to accompany him and treat the wounds he suffered.

Go inside, and I find myself fast asleep. Must be Andrian kapean due to a fistfight with Arman earlier. Sitting next to the bed, staring at him closely. Look at every inch of his face.

I caressed his head full of love. "Thank you, you're always there for me" I said softly.

Slowly these creeping hands stroked her cheeks, her eyebrows, her nose, her lips, her hair.

My chest rumbled, my heart skipped a beat, but my breathing was tight.

Am I starting to admire you?

I lay my body beside him. Closer my face to his ear, began to whisper, "why do you have to love me secretly if it ends up hurting you? Why love secretly if you have to end up tormenting you? Why should you love secretly if in the end you can't have? Why should you love secretly if at some point you may lose?"

I breathe slowly. "Andrian, may I also love you secretly?"