IRIS BLUE
Chapter 12: Stories of the Past

"Not really, it's just that if you want to eat cake, I like to buy it in the store that fork the road, the cake is delicious...At first it was just a fad, so the name of the cake shop was the same as my subscription while still living in the city of B, and after entering, it turned out to be the same store."

"What's the name of the shop?"

"La creme cake and cookies."

"Ohuk.uhuuk.."Elna coughed.

"Aren't you papa?"Rey asked and brought him the water he always prepared in the car.

"No papa, brother, drop me in front of that cake shop."Elna.

"It just so happens that I want to buy the cake, you like it too?"

Elna just nodded, laughing but afraid Rey scolded her.

Rey's car is parked next to the store, Efrina is playing with Ozkhan when Rey and Elna get into la creme cake and cookies.Efrina who sees no customer asks Ozkhan to play alone, but they are not,efrina approached her customers.

"Is there anything I can tire....?"Efrina stared unblinkingly at Elna who was standing behind Rey.

"Elna...?"

This time Rey who was confused, then looked back, Elna who was stared questioningly by Rey only showed a smile.Dan stepped over to Efrina.

"Sir Rey this is my mother.."

"I.i..buu..?"Rey gasped, she never thought that it turned out that all this time her cake subscription was the mother of the woman she liked.

"Meet Anne, this is Rey's sister, the head chef where Elna works."Elna introduces Rey to Efrina.

"Oooo.yeah, please sit down Rey."

"Yes ma'am, thank you so much."

"Elna didn't take it for Rey, did she?Mom sometimes likes to worry, don't don't Elna can't adjust and make her co-workers difficult."

"Not at all ma'am" she said with a smile.

"Mr.s..."Ozkhan shouted to see Elna who had gone home.

"Mom..mother?"Inner Rey, not yet out of shock, she was shocked back with a handsome boy who called Elna by the name of mother.

"Hi baby?"Elna crouched down to line her body with Ozkhan and hugged her baby.

"Where, Ozkhan has no fever ?"he broke Ozkhan's embrace and then grabbed the boy's head.

"Yes mother, I've taken the same medicine as Anne."

"Well, you're smart, baby.."

"Ozkhan, here deh.knowin this om Rey her friend mother."

"Ozkhan om," the little boy introduced himself.

"Oo,, Hai, I'm Rey."Rey tried to smile, although it was inevitable from her handsome face if she was currently confused with a head that was filled with many questions.

"Ozkhan.ayo went with Anne inside, we made her a drink for her friend."Efrina seemed to be shouting that right now she had to make room for Elna and her friend to talk, Efrina could read that the man liked her daughter.

After the departure of Efrina and Ozkhan, silence enveloped the two people who were sitting opposite each other.They were busy with their respective minds.Rey was too shocked by the situation he was facing at this time, so he chose to be quiet for a while.

"There must be a lot that Rey wants to ask, right? "Elna broke the silence that had been going on for quite some time.

Rey did not answer, only her head was nodding slowly.

"True, that child was my son, the son I born myself five years ago, when I was only seventeen, the age at which a teenage girl should feel a period of freedom,where they start looking for new friends in college, start trying to explore their own abilities, but I, I, I have to get rid of it all, at a very young age,I had to take care of another life while I still needed the attention of my parents.It never crossed to not present it to the world,but my conscience does not allow that.The loveliest path of my life is to be grateful for what God has destined, with no regrets in the future."Elna told her story by occasionally wiping away her tears.

"Do you love her?"Ask Rey."I mean Ozkhan's father."

"What's it like to be in love with Rey?That feeling I have never felt until now.Don't love, his face alone I don't remember at all."Further.

"You mean?"

"Hhhhh,,,, that was High School graduation day,and we were celebrating at the Iris hotel in the city of B. I was overconfident when a friend gave me a glass of fruit juice and it was only a moment ago that I found out he was setting me up,I was given a juice that was mixed with a high alcoholic drink, I was drunk, and all I remember was the last man to talk to me, the tall man in a black suit,after that I don't remember anything."

Rey now understands, apparently there is a reason that makes Elna so closed and does not want to open her heart to know men.Trauma past still looms over her to this day.

"I'm sorry my curiosity made you have to go back to remembering that painful past."

"No papa, sooner or later, I will tell you everything, part of all the problems I have, there is one wisdom I can take that being strong is to be alone."Said smiling.

"Do you know, because your personality is what makes me like you, and I'm sure you'll already know about my feelings."Rey finally could not resist not expressing her heart, she thought this was the best opportunity.

Elna nodded, "Yes I know,that's why I tell this so that brother Rey stops liking me.I'm not the perfect woman who can make brother Rey happy.So that feeling please stop.just like this.Frankly I am very happy to know Brother Rey.I'm like finding a friend at once a sister."Elna.

Actually Rey can confirm that he will accept rejection, but he still tried despite the success of only one percent.

"For now, forgive me, but my feelings for you can't stop me, so don't forbid me from liking you, even if my future treatment will make you uncomfortable, hold on, hold on until my heart no longer likes you."And Elna could not do anything, she just had to wait according to Rey's statement.

"I said goodbye, starting today I might come to visit a lot, besides buying a nice cake made by your mother, of course I want to meet and play with my new friend."

Rey also said goodbye and between Elna to the place where Rey parked his car.

"Ooiya..Are you from Turkey too?If I'm not mistaken, I heard you calling your mother...Anne."

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