Lu[C]Ka Love
9. UP AND DOWN FEELING

A few days later,

I feel like I have to spend my 24 hours with things that keep me busy and focused on things. I don't want the last engagement day to haunt my mind.

I know Lucka's been very upset with me, and he hasn't said anything since that day. In the past, I always imagined, after a girl got engaged, her life one by one began to change. It must have turned happier.

But what I feel .. I don't know what it's like right now. Feels empty, and lonely. Even so I was happy, because I realized my feelings and dared to state them.

-flashback

"Why are you doing this? Is this what you want?" Lucka's emotions are unstoppable.

"I'm sorry, I just don't want you to break grandparents' hearts." And I just answered with a clean sliver.

"So this is what you want? Don't you have a dream you want to achieve? You're so young."

I think he's starting to care about me.

"I'm trying to live all this with my heart, Lucka. Even though it feels heavy."

"Yes. I get it now. This is what you want! After graduating high school, you look for a rich man and marry him. That right?"

But I was wrong. He doesn't care, he just wants to make fun of me.

"What do you mean, Lucka?"

"This is your true face..."

I saw his eyes that hated me.

"No. I'm not like that. I'm just trying to sincerely run this will. And also, I think I'm starting to like you!"

But for some reason, I said something different.

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That statement made me even further away from him. He's still cold to me. My heart aches when I remember it. I only met him at breakfast. How ironic. Far from the word of a couple who just got engaged.

"Miss, so Miss got permission from the Great Lord?" Alisa's voice broke my daydream.

"Yes, that's it." I answered by developing a smile. I don't want to look weak in front of Alisa.

And here I was, on a dark day, struggling with my morning routine that I had just started today.

"Miss, here's the fertilizer." A servant man approached me.

"Thank you, Edi. Check the plants over there. After watering this here, I'll be there."

"Good, Miss."

"So, you really know about plants?" Alisa asked while amazed.

Maybe he thinks I want to do this because I 'want' and 'like'.

"Not really. I'm just growing crops for the first time."

"Then why would you want to do this?"

"I'm just adding to my list of activities. After all, at home Tea Rina a lot of ornamental plants and flowers. At least I often noticed him while taking care of his plants. I think I can do this self-taught, hehehe."

"Miss could have."

"Let's move over there!" I said with a strong spirit.

I decided to garden. More precisely, taking care of plants that are already here. Yep. Charge my free time for 24 hours to really feel full.

...***...

At five o'clock in the morning, Lucka prepares to exercise. He was jogging around the mansion. After warming up, Lucka started running small and put a headset on his ear. Exercising while listening to music makes him more excited.

From a distance, Lucka saw several people in the garden of the northern mansion, his mansion. He also stopped his running steps. He squinted his eyes to look at the person.

Tommy, who accompanied Lucka, came to a standstill.

"What's he doing this blind morning in the park?" ask Lucka.

"Alisa says Cinta asked Mr. Jansen for permission to take care of the garden in the mansion itself. And apparently Mr. Jansen gave her permission."

Lucka just scrunched his forehead and then screeched. He continued jogging the next morning without commenting. Tommy just smiled at the behavior of the master and his best friend.

...***...

Love gets a call from Lala, his best friend who asks to meet. After training with Rini's mother, Cinta asked permission to leave the house. And Grandma allowed it.

Cinta meets Lala at a cafe near a top university. Turns out Lala just finished completing the administrative file there.

"It's great that I could meet you. I guess how many years I haven't seen you, Ta." said Lala.

"Yes, I'm happy too." Love's back.

"Ta, you really don't go to college?"

Love shakes.

"Lo really want to get married? The news is wide. That's why I asked to see you, I want it directly lo."

"Lo's fine, right?"

"Yes, I'm good. Just calm down." Love keeps developing her smile.

While chatting, a young man approached the two of them.

"Love? Lala?" Greet the man.

"Sir Reno? What's going on here?" Ask Lala.

"Gue is studying here. You go to college here too?" ask a man named Reno back.

"Yes, I'm listing here. And receive. So, you're gonna be my senior dong!" lala's story.

"Hehe, yes. It turns out the world is narrow. Oh yeah, love, how are you?" Reno is turning to Love.

"Eh? Good news, Brother." Love answered nervously.

Reno was the older sister of Love class in High School. And he had expressed his feelings for Love several times, but always rejected on the grounds Love wants to focus on his school.

Reno joins Love and Lala. They are nostalgic. And, Reno looks at Love as if she still hopes Love will accept her feelings.

"Wow, I forgot. There's a file I haven't given to admin. Ta, I unplug first don't you think?" lala said a little panicked.

"Yes, not papa La."

"Sir Reno, I'm entitled Love Yes. Be careful not to do anything. She wants to be somebody's wife." Pamit Lala clenched her hands towards Reno.

After Lala's death, the atmosphere is increasingly awkward between Love and Reno.

"So, you always refuse me because you've been betrothed?" ask Reno.

"Sorry, Brother. You better not talk about it."

"Yes, okay. But, do you really love your future husband? All I hear is, the heir to JB Group is songong and annoying!"

"It's noon, I have to go home soon. Sorry, Brother Reno. I'm sorry."

Love says goodbye to Reno and gets out of the cafe. Currently his status is the fiancee of Lucka and the future daughter-in-law of the famous Bahari family, he does not want anyone to see him together with other men.

"Ta, I'll drive you home!" Reno intercepts Love and grabs her hand.

Love immediately brushed it off. "Sorry, Brother. I went home alone. It's not good that anyone's seen."

"Love!" Reno's shout was not touched by Love who went straight into the taxi.

...***...

The evening after dinner, as usual Cinta enjoys the beauty of the night while sitting relaxed in the garden mansion. It breathes the air of a very cold night. Tired today seems to evaporate when you see beautiful flowers blooming.

Before long, he saw Lucka walking quickly towards him. Love stands when she finds Lucka approaching her. Love was so happy that Lucka finally met him.

"Luck!" love is accompanied by a sweet smile.

"Where were you going this afternoon?" Without a word of greeting first, Lucka immediately menyjar Cinta.

"What do you mean?" Love answers with questions.

"My question is quite clear and I don't need to repeat it."

"I met an old friend of mine. Why the hell?" This time Love answered more casually.

"Old friend or guy friend?"

"Huh?" Love scrunched his forehead. 

"Who is this guy?" Lucka showed me one photo. It was a photo of Cinta and Reno at the cafe.

"Ooh, him? He was my upperclassman back in High School. And that's why it was photographed only the two? The three of us." Defend Love.

"Don't switch the conversation!" snapped Lucka.

"sorry. Where did you get that photo from? You're spying on me, aren't you?" Love is not afraid of Lucka's clasping and even teases him.

"What's? Don't be so confident. I'm doing this all for the good name of the Bahari family."

"OKAY. I get it." Answer Love is relaxed.

"Never leave this mansion without my permission. Understand?!"

"Why? I asked Grandma for permission, and she said I could."

"Don't argue! You are my fiancee! And I have more right to rule you than Grandma."

"Ciye, just tell me you're starting to care about me, aren't you?" goda Love.

"Whatdidyou say? I told you not to go 'pede'an. I'm just protecting the family's good name and the company."

"Yes-yes, I know. No need to scream at me! Is there anything else you want to say?"

"Go to your room. It's night." It's night." It was just Lucka's last sentence, and after that he waltzed away leaving a smiling Love amusedly looking at his behavior.

I know, it's not all that easy. Sometimes I feel very happy, sometimes I am very sad with your cold attitude towards me. But today, I know ... at least little by little you started to care about me, and started to assume I existed.

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