Look at Me, Elle
Chapter 13 Still Love

The sound of the door being knocked on made Leonathan a little surprised that he had just checked his phone. "Lake in!" screeched the man in a short-sleeved black shirt after swallowing fettuccine alfredo, a flat noodle mixed with butter and cheese.

He saw the door before his eyes pushed open by his younger brother who walked straight towards him, right after passing through the door and finally the wooden door was closed again. "Hows it? Could it be this afternoon?" ask Leonathan not to use pleasantries. Moreover, asking questions when his sister was sitting on the same sofa with him and sitting on the left.

Leonardo, who had just leaned back, raised his hand and stretched his muscles. "I just got here and you've been asking us about our meeting with my girlfriend, Nath?" Leonathan lightly nodded before picking up another delicious savory pasta with a fork. Until the noodle came into his mouth, Leonathan chewed quickly. "She hasn't told me until this second."

Slightly shrinking, Leonathan absorbed the savory salty noodles into the throat. "You mean?" tanyanya. "No word from your lover? Short message?"

"No news after he left last night. Even good morning to me is not there."

"Could he be in a lot of pain?" guess Leonathan while focusing on his almost finished pasta. "That's why he focused on his pain. Putting you aside for a moment, because he has a hard time taking care of himself," he added before putting a fourth mouthful into his mouth.

"Maybe." Leonathan chews back very quickly, it's never too late to crush the food that tastes good. "So, I'll see him tonight." Let's just say Leonathan looked over. Seeing Leonathan's rapid head movements, heaped big question marks and a feeling of dislike in his heart. "What's wrong? What's with your surprised face?"

"Can I come?"

"For what?! You're not her boyfriend, Nath!" The brother laughed as he heard a jealous tone from his mouth. "What's? Nothing funny!" Leonathan, who was almost choking, hurriedly grabbed the bottle and sipped as necessary until his throat was no longer troubled. What did Leonardo think of him? "I don't want to invite you or let you approach her with other intentions and purposes, other than your sense of caring as a sister-in-law candidate to a sister-in-law. He's mine, Nath," he pressed down with a gaze so solemn that Leonathan let out a sigh. "Remember your position" he continued again and replied Leonathan with a headband.

"You think I'm what? Interested in your lover? Like a woman who is none other than the lover of my own brother?" Laughing loudly, Leonathan struck his sister's right arm quite tight and exclaimed, "come on! Sane little, I can't possibly corner you. You're my only brother and I love you, just like a mother loves you. We're brothers, Nard."

"You sure you won't love her and it doesn't cross your brain to have her?"

Leonathan laughed again and now embraces Leonardo. "Come on, use your common sense! I'm not a mean brother." Leonardo was silent and a few seconds later raised the tip of his lips slightly. "What's wrong?"

"Do I look like a jealous person, Nath?"

"Yes, that's how it is."

"No way!" he cried while laughing, Leonathan even laughed widely and shook his head. Both of them also cleared their throat to drive out a wide laugh from their own mouths. "I love her so much, Nath."

"Yes, I can tell that. It's clear from your eyes."

"Eleventh that?"

Leonathan. He patted the sister's right shoulder before reaching for the bottle again and bringing the hole closer to the lips. "You were so worried and frustrated when you told me about him that you haven't told you yet." Then pour the mineral water and gulp it many times with your head up.

Leonardo suddenly remembered when he and Brielle could fall in love with each other and ended up him first expressing feelings. The main reason he could fall for Brielle was the hero who always protected the woman wherever she went. Yes, he is Elnathan. The son of Brielle who has a face and characteristics like not a native Indonesian was able to captivate him. Seeing Brielle who is trying to make Elnathan happy, makes him more interested in Brielle.

"You know what makes me love her so much, Nath?"

"What?"

"The part of him that makes me so in love with her is genuine affection. His affection for his little hero was so pronounced, I could feel it. Know it? Like my mom's attention and affection to us first."

"Then, what about Naomi? You used to love her so much, didn't you?" Leonardo moved his head up and down many times until now his body is no longer leaning on the sofa. Staring at her brother is serious and looking far into the past, where she is still in a relationship with the manta. "Is his love less than the love of your present lover?" Leonathan asked a question while checking his phone. Damn, the news is still the same. His men have not found Brielle anywhere.

"Not less, Nath."

"Then?"

Leonardo shakes. "He changed. I myself don't understand why he's suddenly cut-off and gets a little rougher after we move here." Leonathan looked at his brother with a look of disbelief. "His nature gradually changed after we moved."

"You mean Naomi changed all of a sudden?"

"Yes." Yeah."

"What's wrong?"

Leonardo shakes. He grabbed another bottle on the table, in front of them, and replied, "I don't know what's wrong with me. But all of his good qualities just change."

"It's impossible if it's unreasonable, Nard." Leonathan replied with an earnest look toward the younger brother who no longer looked at him. The man chose to leave his back stranded on the back of the sofa while staring at the ceiling of the room. "I don't know your love story, you haven't told me in detail since breaking up with Naomi. Does your decision have anything to do with your current lover?"

"I don't know, Nath. I want to focus on my current relationship. Moreover, we are engaged, there is no way I bring up the past when the future is already in front of my eyes."

"You still love Naomi?"

"What are you talking about?" Leonardo raised the question with a surprised look on his face. "There's no way I love him. I've closed my story to him, Nath. Don't make up stories."

Leonathan quick laughs. "Let's relax, I'm just kidding."

"Well?!" with a slanted smile, Leonardo raised two of his feet on the table and kept his two hands on his head while continuing, "not funny! Doesn't sound like a joke, that's bad."

"You're not married!"

Leonathan, who had reached the doorknob, looked back and said, "if I had found my woman, I would have married her right then and there." Leonardo nodded and gave a thumbs up before he completely closed his eyes, taking the shortest nap possible before returning to his clothing store.

Before leaving Leonathan's room, he took the time to try calling Brielle again. Because of the concern still creeping in the chest, Leonardo immediately contacted the lover and lucky not to wait long, Brielle replied. An angst-clad bahagaia was circling his face. "How are you doing? Is your stomach gone, honey?" her question was so friendly that she got an answer, but full of anxious tones from the man's words.

Brielle tries to calm the lover and replies, "I'm a little better. But, most likely I am exhausted. Can I withdraw from your shop?" with a voice so soft and smooth.

The man who had originally leaned back on the sofa was sitting upright and his expression changed. He seems to be worried about the woman behind his cell phone. "Is your illness too serious? You want to resign" said Leonardo surprised not to play.

"I'm exhausted, and my diet is less regular." Leonardo nodded in understanding. "I think I should stop working with you and run a flower shop with Naomi instead." Brielle said it very carefully, Leonardo knew that even though he only heard it through a device. "Do you mind?" he added that made Leonardo could not hold his lips to smile.

"If it's the best for you, it doesn't matter. Do what's best, honey."

From across Brielle was very grateful, even he did not expect the answer given Leonardo, so wise for him. "Are you sure it's okay?" his question once again ensured Leonardo's sincerity regarding his decision taken from last night.

Leonardo smiled again. "Why do I forbid my lover? Working in one store is enough for you and Elnathan, no problem. Soon we'll also be married."

"Certainly? What connection?"

"All your needs will be met, my dear." It was heard from the other side that Brielle was just pounding and laughing, so very slowly that Leonardo heard it faintly. "By the way, have you eaten?"

"Have you, yourself?" Leonardo answered with an answer no different. "Welcome to work" his message that led Leonardo to prevent Brielle from saying additional closing sentences.

"I love you" he said, prompting Brielle to reply, as Leonardo had said. "If so, I'll hang up. Oh, yeah .. I'll see you tonight, with my brother. Good afternoon, Say—"

"Wait a minute!" sela Brielle cut. "Walk me? You and your brother?"

"Yes. Wh why? Is something wrong?" Leonardo, who had calmed down, was anxious when he heard Brielle's shriek that was so panicked. "Darling? Is there a problem?" Leonardo stood up from the sofa and sharpened his ears as soon as Brielle took a deep breath. "What's up, honey?" he added again because the lover never gave a reply to a curious question.

"I need a break, and there's no way I'm seeing your sister in pain. Tomorrow I'll come to your shop to say goodbye. Just how is it?" brielle after being urged by Leonardo. Surely he twisted his brain first before blurting out that sentence. "Honestly, I'm lazy to leave the room .. There's no way your brother could have gotten into my room."

"All right, get well soon, honey."

"See you," said Brielle and the call was closed by Leonardo. The man walked out of the room and met the man as soon as possible. Downstairs, Leonardo conveys Brielle's unwell request to Leonathan and says that Brielle cannot see Leonathan today.

"Your love is strange." commented the man standing before the younger brother. Leonardo who did not want to extend then shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. "But you're going to see him? Without me?"

"Of course, she's my lover."

Leonathan had not had time to protest, his sister's cellphone rang. Focusing on the coffee machine, he turned his head when Leonardo called him. The little brother left after he received the call, "there was a sudden order."

"Alright, be careful you're on the road." Leonardo patted one of the brother's shoulders after it turned around. "My sense of suspicion is growing on your lover, Nard," he murmured as he looked at Leonardo's back as it approached the exit, until the man completely departed from his cafe.

At Naomi's florist shop and managed by two friendly women, Brielle paced back and forth while ********** her finger. The hours of rest that are usually used for eating and berleha-leha is actually now used to rotate the brain. The woman wearing a dress with flowers motifs did not stop going back and forth. "What should I do now? As soon as possible I have to break this relationship," said Brielle, who was heard by the woman who had just entered the green room. "What sentence is appropriate? I want to break up with you, Leonardo ... or, I want to end our relationship ... huh, which one is right?"

Naomi Mendehem, who turned out to be able to make the beautiful woman in front of her suddenly turned her head, turning her head to look back. "You sure? Breaking up with Leonardo just because he's Leonathan's brother?"

"I'm not sure I'm going to continue this relationship." Brielle looks so cute. Even this one girl didn't stare at Naomi for long. Thinking back on which sentence he fit so that his relationship with Leonardo ended without dispute and without a big question mark.

"Think of Leonardo's feelings, Brielle."

Brielle turned her body until her body and gaze pointed right in front of her friend who looked sad. "Think of my feelings, your feelings too, Naomi!" brielle's long bursts held Naomi's two arms, her left and right held her tightly. "Conscious! If I continue, your heart will be hurt!"

"Leonardo is more hurt."

"You don't just think about how she feels to love me so much. If you do have pity, think again that my heart has not accepted his love as deeply as his feelings for me! Understand, I don't really love Leonardo yet."

"But I want to see her happy."

"By seeing me and getting married?!" brielle's jolt immediately pushed Naomi's body. "Use your brain and heart! Do you want true love just for me? For me who hasn't loved her as deeply as she knows?!" Funny thing is Naomi nodded, assuring Brielle's words.

Naomi looked up and looked at Brielle, brought her face closer and saw Brielle closely. His gaze seemed to be begging, and it made Brielle very uncomfortable. "Married to him, only you can make Lonardo happy and Leonathan destroyed. Don't you want Leonathan to have a good lesson?"

"I'm not a demon who wants to see people suffer" Brielle broke up before she walked out of the room. "You can talk like that, Naomi." Inexhaustible with her own best friend, Brielle took a deep breath and immediately tied up her long black hair as the heat surrounded her. Suddenly a message came in, heard from inside the bag.

After Brielle, Naomi cried. "Leonardo must be sad, Elle .. think about the feeling!" the door screams that still reaches Brielle's ears.

Outside, Brielle was cheering as soon as she found Leonardo's message which she said would go to Jogja for about seven days. "Maybe this is the opportunity I can make excuses for. I'm sorry" he said before returning to the store, joining the customer and one employee there.