Just A Professional Relationship
Episode Thirty Two
“Care, Miss teacher!”
Seven-year-old male student Nadin waved. He is still a child, but he already has a talent for playing the piano. Made Nadin feel excited every time he taught the boy.
When glancing towards the watch, a few more minutes the needle would lead to the number twelve. It's worth Nadin feeling hot, because the sun is right on his head.
“Aduh, very hot, heck..” murmured, then stepped towards the bottom of a shady tree. Put your hands on your forehead so you don't feel glare.
“Highness yes?”
“Gosh! Axel!” Nadin was aghast when suddenly someone appeared from behind the tree where he was sheltering.
Axel thrust a bottle of cold drink at Nadin who was still grumbling annoyed. “Why the hell, you never show up so ordinary? Keep me shocked.” Then he sipped his drink, without remembering to thank him.
The brown-haired man laughed.
“Omong-by the way, you why are you here?” talk to Nadin again.
“Wait for you to finish working.”
“Hah? Why?”
“You take a walk.”
Nadin looked at Axel's face with question marks. Somehow the man's face looked suspicious, as if something was still being covered up from him.
“You have no schedule, right?”
“Not there, anyway.”.
“Come if it is.”
The two of them walked for a while, until they got near a black car. Nadin continued to step, even though Axel stopped there. “Nadin, where are you going?” call him.
The woman stopped her steps and looked back. Then surprised when Axel said he rented a car for today.
“Where are we going until you rent a car? Why not use your regular motorbike?”
“If use motor will not be enough.”
“Hah? Meaning?”
“Soal, I picked up your mother.”
Nadin was more surprised to hear it. When he opened the car door, he saw his mother who was smiling mischievously in there.
“Mother!!! How come, suddenly, it's here? Why don't you say it, anyway?! You like the habit suddenly like that, deh.”
Axel blinked his eyes and did not touch Nadin's ocechan. Then get in his car. “Schift, ah. Let's get in fast. Heat.”
“Huh!” Nadin stepped quickly, and entered from the opposite door. He sat down next to Axel who was driving.
“Don't be so angry.. Axel has been good to take us for a walk,” said the mother gently.
“Where to try if it turns out Axel is a bad guy who wants to kidnap mom keep asking for ransom?”
“Internally!” protest the people being talked about.
“His mother is good, right? Don't get too tired later!”
“Mommy is okay, really. Nak Axel even brought a wheelchair mom just in case.”
Nadin glanced at Axel who was driving quietly with a smile. It was as if waiting for the praise from the woman who still looked sullen beside him.
After fifty minutes of driving, they arrived at a golf course area. There is a garden filled with shady trees and various types of flowers that bloom.
Actually, for Nadin himself there is nothing special about all that. But, he realized something when he saw his mother's face that looked sparkling. That in fact it was not him that Axel took a walk, but his mother. It made him smile with a sense of disbelief.
Axel took out the wheelchair from the trunk of the car, and helped Nadin's mother sit on it. Then the three of them began to walk around the park. The old woman continued to be silent as she was busy enjoying the beautiful scenery that she had not seen in person for a long time. His eyes were teary as if he was almost crying.
“Tumben quiet,” chirps Axel. He quipped Nadin who was not grumbling like he was in a car. “Laper yes, you?”
“My name?”
“The thing is not!” nadin responded quickly, while his heart assented.
Both are laughing.
“Mothers forget the last time they went to a beautiful place like this. If it's not wrong when your father is still there.”
“Iya. Dad always invite us to go for a walk every month yes, Mom.”
“He never once made mom sad. Except when he's gone forever. But, I realized that we were just separated for a while.”
Nadin could only smile. Before long, he saw Axel take off his left hand from the wheelchair handle, and reached out to him— without saying anything.
After a few seconds, Nadin grasped the hand with his right hand. While his left hand holds the wheelchair handle released by Axel. They continued to walk around the park while holding hands, while listening to various love stories between Nadin's mother and father that made things warm.
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Once satisfied circling the park, Axel, Nadin and his mother ate at a restaurant not far from there. Then you can also stop by the hot spring to soak. Even Nadin did not know that his mother had prepared a change of clothes for him. Then they went home when it turned into night.
Halfway home, they stopped at a gas station after refueling the car. Nadin and Axel bought a canned drink at a supermarket there, and sat down to rest on the bench. Nadin's mother appears to be asleep in the car.
“Still yes. You never fail to surprise me. Especially today. I can see a happy face
mother.”
“I'm also happy to see your mom happy.”
“You choose where it comes from, or did you accidentally?”
“Hm. You see while at your house, I saw many displays and landscape paintings. Because it's not like you're all that advanced, so I think your mother likes to walk in a place where the scenery is good.”
“Wah... You are more talented as a detective than a dancer, like.”
“I mean, my dance is so ugly?”
“I didn't say so ya.”
They both laughed. With feelings for each other that are now developing in the hearts of both. However, none of them revealed that.
At first, Nadin thought the day would end happily. But there was always something bothering him.
The hanging screen that originally featured a typical mini market song suddenly changed into a television show. It seems that the cashier who was bored because there was rarely a buyer, decided to watch television.
Nadin spontaneously stared at the screen. While Axel has not been interested until he realized the change of Nadin's face. The woman who had previously smiled, suddenly became serious. As a result, he also turned his head to find the figure of Mala on television.
Mala seemed to have just held a show, and was approached by a reporter. The problem is, the writing is at the bottom of the screen
most steal the attention.
‘Isu proximity between Mala and Juna, is it just gossip?’
“Mala! Tell dong, about the caption of your photo that has not been uploaded long ago. What do you mean by Juna?” ask the curious reporter.
Mala pretended to sell expensively, but actually he could not wait to give an answer. He stopped walking and stared at the camera. “Iya, right,” the answer is full of confidence.
“I and Juna are dating,”. “And may be heading to a more serious level. Just waiting for Juna to come home from Japan.”
Axel started to feel bad. It seemed like it was time for him to take Nadin away from there, he thought. He immediately returned his gaze to the original direction, and found Nadin's face still staring fixedly at the screen.
“Nadine. Nadin?”
“Hm?”
“Ayo, home. Poor your mother in the car.”
“Hu’um. Come.”
Things got a little awkward too. The two kept quiet throughout the journey. More precisely, Nadin who suddenly shut up. He just stupefiedly looked towards the window by his side. It was as if his mind was drifting out of nowhere.