Love That (No) Blind
Part 30-1: Afternoon Chat

[Sara]

“Mas ..”

Sara who had just come brought Arya a plate of fried rice directly touched the man's arm. Arya stopped immediately.

Smiling, he shook his head as Arya looked at him. With her lips, Sara said without a sound coming out of her mouth, “Don't now.”

Arya looked at Sara for a bit, then nodded weakly, like a child who had just been banned from playing in the park. Really cute.

After Sara picked up another plate for Agam – as she requested, the calm atmosphere at breakfast in the dining room suddenly broke because of someone's voice.

“Morning, Onty!”

A loud greeting came from a 7-year-old boy. The boy just walked into the dining room as if he were used to it.

“Morning, Evan,” reply Sara greeted him.

Yes, that boy is Evan, son of Ci Linda, wife of eits ow en (HON) housing complex.

Since that day, the day that Ci Linda came to bring a congratulatory cake that led to Evan suddenly entering and being fascinated with Agam-made robots, Evan became more and more frequent visits to the house.

At first it was just a greeting from the fence. Until one moment, Evan fell off his bike right in front of Agam's house. For this reason, Sara was forced to bring him in to treat her injured knee.

Since then, Evan has come more and more often. Sometimes they even leave their home without telling their assistant. How else, Evan is the youngest of 3 children. His two older brothers are married and in college. So sometimes he feels lonely at home, especially when both parents are busy working.

But, as Evan went home more and more, his ART was no longer confused now. They know where to look.

“Evan not school?,” asked Sara. Evan usually comes in the afternoon or evening, except Saturday or Sunday, the day he usually has school holidays. Because today was not the second day, it was obviously strange for Sara to see him early in the morning already at home.

“Comfort, Onty. Morning, Um. Om, today tumben many smiles.”

“Morning,” replied Agam flatly without responding to Evan's other statements.

Sara held back her gelatinous laughter. Agam was not very friendly with Evan since their first meeting in the work room above.

Yep, workspace. By then Sara had finished treating Evan's knee, and intended to get him a cake. But, after Sara's supervision, the boy had gone missing somewhere. At that time Sara treated him on the front porch.

Yes, Evan is basically a child who is a little difficult to tell. Evan walked in just like that even though Sara had already asked him to wait in front.

With the reason to look for the robot, Evan's curiosity took him up and arrived at the Agam workspace which was not locked at the time.

Not knowing what they were talking about, when Sara found Evan upstairs and took him down with Agam, Agam was already looking upset. Know-know Agam already asked, “Do you think I'm like an old geezer? Do I often pout?”

Since then, a little, Sara has come to know what they're talking about, and always can't help her smile every time she sees their interactions.

However, Agam never gave the order forbidding Evan to come. He just told me to keep Evan downstairs. Doesn't that mean Agam doesn't mind Evan's arrival?

“Evan want breakfast?,” asked Sara again to distract the boy from Agam. Sara did not want Evan to constantly bother her especially with her innocent questions.

“Bread! Evan wants bread, Onty!,” excited.

Sara immediately prepared the bread with her favorite chocolate jam.

While Agam and Arya are still enjoying breakfast, Evan's eyes begin to explore the entire corner of the room as usual. And his gaze stopped on Arya who was enjoying the fried rice made by Sara.

Evan's face instantly turned into astonishment. Like I was seeing something extraordinary. But, what he saw was Arya. What is so amazing about Arya?

Evan's index finger was raised slowly pointing at Arya who was now staring at Evan back but also astonished. Sara who was between them could only gawk at the sight of the two of them.

“Evan?,” call Sara intend to resuscitate Evan.

“O-onty .. i-it ... L-lolt d-dimon ..”

“Who?” Sara gets closer because of Evan's increasingly unclear voice.

Arya who was pointed at by Evan was now smiling as she waved her hand. A gaam? He even relaxed about eating his breakfast.

“D-at home i-this there l-lolt d-dimon ..”

“Hah? Evan!” Sara doesn't understand Evan's words. Therefore, he shook Evan's shoulder slightly. And the boy's reaction was beyond Sara's expectations.

“AAAHH!! THERE IS A DEMON LORD!!!

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“Mas want to until when as comfortable as a smile continues?,” Sara's annoyed nagging because every time she sees Agam, the man is always hiding his smile.

Since breakfast, since Evan who turned out to be excited to meet Arya, since then Agam seems to like it because of Sara's ignorance to make him shocked half to death because of Evan's hysteria.

Evan turns out to be a fan of the battle arena game (*), which also happens to be Arya is his idol player. Evan had seen a photo of Arya in one of the old magazines owned by one of her sisters who is also a fan of the game.

What kind of coincidence is this?

“Mas! Udah, ih!”

Agam even looked down quite deeply, but Sara could still see him. Agam's shoulder trembled as it held back that laugh.

“I don't know if it turns out Arya was once a game player,” grumbled Sara defended herself.

As it turns out, Arya often participated in such game competitions before she went to America first. He had a little story, though timidly, before going upstairs with Evan.

“Korrent if you don't know. You will never play a game like that,” said Agam finally, after a while ago he just laughed.

“Keep the Mas kawain what?”

“Arya story .. when Evan shouted, you .. shocked until the plate was slammed. Evan thinks you're angry ...,” Agam's story on the sidelines of his slow laugh.

Assassin, Arya immediately bring him to play in his room.

But, seeing Agam who was still laughing at the incident earlier, the annoyance seemed to gradually disappear. Laughter was like cooling his heart. Cool ...

It feels like since last night, Mas Agam so looks different than usual. He smiled and laughed more and more. Like it wasn't Mas Agam I've known since we got married.

Not a bad thing. But hopefully this doesn't last a while. I hope you can keep smiling like this.

“Ah, don't know, ah!,” exclaim Sara feign anger. His smile still adorned his face even though he tried to shrivel so that his smile was not too wide. Then left Agam who was still laughing in his study.

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“Arya!,” call Sara while waving her hand for Arya to approach her.

Arya who was playing with Milo immediately put it back into the cage, then came to Sara. As soon as she got closer, Sara directly pulled the man's arm into the living room.

“Every afternoon, Mas Agam always sits there,” said Sara while pointing at Agam who was already on the back porch. “Please temenin your Mas, yes. You guys can talk there. Later if it is dark, invite Mas Agam into.”

Arya's face immediately shone brightly. His smile was perfect. Not even lost when Arya nodded her head repeatedly.

Sara also smiled widely when she saw Arya walking excitedly towards her brother.

Very excited ...

He was still standing in his place looking at the two who were now chatting with each other. Agam in his wheelchair, Arya sat on the porch chair, together looking at the backyard that was pastured.

It was so warm to see them both.

“Ah! Jaga ... must nganterin Evan home,” he exclaimed in the midst of his preoccupation with looking at the two brothers.

But his steps stopped as his phone rang. One name he knew. Mama-in-law.

“H-hello, Ma ..”

“Tomorrow come to the main house. Mama wants to talk to you. Important.”

The call ended without waiting for Sara to answer. Sara's forehead immediately wrinkled.

Mom's tone was not as friendly as usual. What's the matter?

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Author’s Note :

(*) Battle Arena is a sub-genre of strategy video games that began as a sub-genre of real-time strategy. In this game a player controls one character in a team that fights against another team of players. The goal is to destroy the opposing team's main structure with the help of units controlled by computer bots. (Wikipedia)