Look at Me, Elle
Chapter 3 Spanking

As planned, after cleaning the body full of sweat due to work, Leonathan returned to work with a favorite car to find the target woman who ran away when he fell asleep. Not even having time to say sorry or say hello in the morning, Brielle has disappeared. Really, his feelings exploded until now.

It's just that Leonathan must be able to calm down in order to find the address in KTP Brielle, in the area of South Kuta. Quite a distance away, because the position of Leonathan's house is in Seminyak. The distance traveled approximately 12 kilometers, or twenty minutes if he speed and the road is not jammed.

Until finally Leonathan arrived in front of the house that looks very nice and well maintained. From the front, Leonathan can guess if the price of the house is not cheap. Out of his car, he did not take off his glasses and headed to a white fence that was not up to three meters high. Not yet had time to approach the opening of the fence, Leonathan's shoulder was patted by someone from behind.

"Good night" he said after Leonathan turned to him. "If you can find out who, Bli?"

With a rather surprised heart, Leonathan reached into the bag of black jeans that he was wearing, pulled out a matching color wallet and presented Brielle's self-identity card that he did not forget to bring. "I'm looking for an old friend, it just so happens that Elle's ID card is left behind. I want to give it back to him" said Leonathan, who was lying. Luckily he was able to find a reasonable answer. Because if not, what reason should he use if the woman in front of him asks for Brielle's ID card?

"Gee, the Princess hasn't lived here for over a year." Leonathan, who had felt a little relieved to find Brielle's address, returned lethargic until he let out a long breath of emotion. "To know I'm the Princess was expelled because of a treasure problem in her extended family, Bli." While giving back Brielle's ID card, he slightly pulled over. "Because I'm a housekeeper, I often hear news from people here when I get together."

"Elle expelled?"

"I heard, long ago when the grandmother and her father Princess or Elle died. The princess left probably because she gave up. He also rarely went out at school in the past, rarely chatting with people."

"Suksma matur" replied Leonathan, putting his two hands in front of his chest like a namaste greeting. "I was looking for information through my friend, thank you very much" he added before approaching the car door and entering his black BMW Z4. Once he entered, the person who provided the information also continued his path. Until the woman entered the mansion, three houses apart from the Brielle family house in front of her. "Where should I look for you if things get more complicated like this?!" Scrambling his hair in confusion, rage, and anger, Leonathan hit the steering wheel many times until finally choosing to go home.

His goal after arriving in the living room was to inform Alice. Make a phone call, do not want to talk by sending a message that will likely be long replied by a friend he once loved. Until her guess is right, Alice raises her call. "I want data or information about Naomi."

"Why does your voice have to sound so serious?" the receiver of the phone from across. "What's wrong with you, Nath? Relax," added Alice, who was upset that the twenty-five-year-old had started to set it up and sounded different than usual.

Pulling and pushing air through her nostrils before explaining, "Elle's ID card is on me, and I've come to her home address. Too bad, that house hasn't been in for over a year." Despite the brief explanation, surely Alicebisa digested and understood quickly. "That's why I asked for information about your best friend, Naomi. She must know Elle well, so I can find Elle from your best friend."

"Well, tomorrow I'll accompany you to Naomi's parents' house or to her family's flower shop. During my school days I used to stop by there and become their loyal customer."

"I need it today, Alice! Understand, this matter is very precarious. I can't possibly let Elle do anything no-no after we make love. You must understand my guilt towards him. I didn't mean to hurt her."

"You? You really made a big mistake, Nath!" shouted Alice who almost broke the glass in her hand. "Are you sleeping with Naomi's best friend?!"

"Here it is, I don't need your snaps or scolding," Leonathan broke up while pressing a button on the remote he held, turning the LED television black, off. He got up and swung his legs into the bedroom and continued, "all I want is Naomi's information. I'm sure he knows Elle's residence. This time, help me. I'm not the only one who always helps you by listening to insubstantial curses about your former assholes."

"Tonight I was busy. Wait tomorrow morning, I promise, tomorrow morning I'll take you to Naomi's parents' flower shop. Good night, Nath. See you in the morning." The call was closed unilaterally by a white woman like her.

"Damn it," said Leonathan before throwing his phone into bed. The man ransacked the wardrobe and replaced his jeans with sleeping trousers. While the black plain shirt is left attached to the body. After that slammed his body on the mattress with a recumbent position and looked at the ceiling of the room. "I'll find you until I get it, Elle."

Leonathan, tired of heart and mind, now left his eyes closed. Putting aside Alice's stubbornness and arbitrary nature, she chooses to look for Elle's face and ends up taking her to dreamland. Although only a dream, at least he can say an apology, a feeling of regret that really comes from the bottom of his heart if he knows Elle's decision. "Hurm is the worst decision, Elle," he murmured before actually getting into the dream world.

Not alone anymore, this morning Leonathan is looking for Brielle with Alice. The man who looked handsome in a plain black short-sleeved shirt, displaying his tight muscles was driving. Sitting behind the wheel, Leonathan still wears his sunglasses with a forward focused gaze with occasional glances at the woman on the left. "If you hadn't set aside my duties, we'd have found Elle since yesterday."

"Where can I check non-essential employee data?" ask the woman who is sitting in the passenger seat. "You haven't been bothered about what I've been doing in your cafe, why are you so excited now?" Crossing her arms in front of her chest, Alice glanced at Leonathan with a sharp gaze. "Because of that woman?" his question sounded annoyed in the ears of the driver of the car.

"Yes, if it wasn't for my first love, I wouldn't be this crazy."

"First love? To my knowledge, I was your first love. He's not your first love, Nath .. ha .. ha. so funny!"

Leonathan stopped the four-wheeled vehicle that he was driving according to the order of the red light in front. "But after all, only he's ever slept with me." Looking at the blond woman on his left, Leonathan smiled obliquely. "Now I love someone from first sight, isn't that what first love is?"

"But there's more to it than first love." Alice who did not want to lose was also smiling sideways. "True love means more than first love, Nath. It's free that you have first love, if the ends of your first love can't be true love, a feeling from within your heart that is truly sincere, selfless or conditional."

Alice smiled even more when she saw Leonathan who seemed to think, thinking about what true love is like. "It is not physical, but purely because you love him, based on the deepest feelings from the bottom of your heart. Does your first love also include true love, Nath?"

Leonathan suddenly chuckles and his behavior makes Alice shrivel confused. "If I'm not sincere with her, I can't possibly look for her until it's this dizzy." The bellowing is amused because Alice underestimates her feelings for Brielle.

"Even over a week I've been looking for a woman who's managed to frustrate me and feel the love I've long craved." Alice had no comment, she puffed her mouth and chose to turn her face away from Leonathan who was still showing that sweet smile.

Yes, as Leonathan said earlier, the search for Brielle has lasted more than seven days. Because the information about Naomi is not clearly obtained, Leonathan went to look for it throughout Bali by relying on places that Naomi used to unwind. Even when Alice takes her to Naomi's parents' flower shop, the information she gets is just the apartment Naomi rented during her holiday to Bali.

The same news as Alice told her about Naomi's original residence, which was not on the island of Bali with her parents. Alice as her best friend only finds out that Naomi lives in Jogja herself, and to Bali is only on vacation. Just that fact that Alice had, did not know at all the apartment rented by her best friend.

Leonathan, furious at the time, finally decides to find Brielle alone without Alice's help. Worse, the news of the apartment was unreliable because it reached there, Naomi turned out to have been out of her rental apartment.

"It's fortunate that one of my employees reported this shocking news to me in person." Looking at Alice, Leonathan shook his head. "If you don't, you probably won't check Elle's data like I ordered."

Leonathan goes back to discussing how relieved he is when there is a way out he can take. So shocked at the morning at seven o'clock less, he was told that there was an employee named Brielle who had not entered work for more than five days and did not use a doctor's certificate or permission. "If my employees don't tell you, you're definitely not paying attention to other employees' data either. Do you want me to fire?"

"Okay, I'm sorry. Next time I'll look at all your employees, Nath."

"Only five employees, and when one does not leave." Exhaling while gripping the steering wheel tightly, this man tried to hold back the emotions. Leonathan again had to draw oxygen deeply and focus on the streets so as not to get angry.

"I know you've just taken care of my second cafe. But why do you never look at the faces of employees? Moreover, Elle works at the cafe you handle? Why didn't you know him when you were shaking hands at the nightclub?" Only now can Leonathan be angry and emotional this to a friend he once loved.

Without seeing Leonathan, Alice lowered her head in guilt. "I told you, I'm sorry I never paid attention to all your employees. After all, your woman is also beautiful when it comes to La Favela. I admit, she was so beautiful that night. Obviously, I don't remember that woman working at my Mixture Cafe."

There was a sense of resentment in his heart when he heard how sharp Leonathan's voice was in defending Brielle. Not jealous of love, but strange in his opinion. Why would a Leonathan get this angry at him just because of the woman he just met in a few hours.

Leonathan just glanced at it. He is still inexhaustible with Alice who is so light of a job, even has become a trusted person. If his close friend had memorized Brielle's face, he would have found her home as soon as possible, without counting the days. The most unfortunate thing Leonathan is that Brielle served as an employee at his cafe, the second Mixture Cafe guidance Alice.

Enter them in an elite boarding place in the Canggu area, precisely on Jalan Raya Canggu Kerobokan Number 88. Without lingering, Leonathan rushed down from the car after getting off a four-wheeled vehicle consisting of only two seats. Just closing the door and walking with Alice, he saw Naomi coming out of the boarding house. Leonathan then pursued and pulled his left arm.

"You must have just met Elle. Please call her, there's something I want to talk about" Leonathan said without greeting her as he was eager to meet Brielle.

Instead of telling, Naomi actually gave a hard slap for him. Until the new Alice approached gawking with wide eyes. Still staring at Leonathan glaring, Naomi loudly replied, "GARA-GARA YOU, ELLE IS NOT IN PLACE KOS! HE'S GONE!" His expression was so angry and seemed disappointed.

"If I could slap you in the face so many times, I would slap her a thousand times until I was satisfied! Unfortunately, I don't have time to serve a jerk and a brash like you!"

Throwing her lightning-like gaze at her other best friend, Naomi shook her head weakly. "I shouldn't have introduced Elle to you two. Because of you, I lost my best friend."

Leonathan, who cared little for the hot and sore cheeks, was taken aback by Naomi's last words. "You don't know where Elle is right now? Isn't he at the boarding house right now?"

"Stupid! You yourself know that I just got out of there, and there's no Elle inside. His roommate said that he's been gone for a few days and hasn't come home yet."

Passing through Leonathan's body, Naomi waved her hand at the online taxi she had ordered. Entering through the back door, he gave a sharp look at Leonathan and Alice as a farewell greeting. The online taxi passed from there.

Leonathan only saw the car that Naomi was riding away until it disappeared, then he stepped quickly into his four-wheeled vehicle. Returning in and sitting on the chair originally, his clenched hands were continuously thrust into the steering wheel with all his might. Wreak anger, resentment, and regret there.

"There's still time, Nath .. we can still find Brielle all over Bali. I'm sure he's still around here."

"You think which other place can I go?! All the information I've got and the last road is just where he lives. Naomi doesn't even know where Elle is!" Rubbing his slapped cheek, Leonathan grimaced a little. "If there's anything with him, I won't appear to the world again. I'll give you the Mixture Cafe."

"What are you talking about?!"

Not answering Alice's question, Leonathan chose to drive his car again and drove the expensive vehicle at an average speed. His mind was floating everywhere. Even the man was determined to kill himself if he couldn't find Brielle yet.