M&L
#Kenzo and Laura
"He's done eating, sister" cried Farel approaching his older brother who was standing at the kitchen door while staring at Laura from a distance.
Kenzo nodded.
"My sister-in-law's candidate, brother?" ask Farel while grinning.
"Ssttt .. so you know! Brother go there first." Kenzo left after patting Farel on the shoulder several times.
Laura was eating a piece of cake as a dessert and then she looked up when someone stood in front of her.
"Laura .." said Kenzo.
"You ..." Laura was involved in thinking because she felt she had met Kenzo.
"I'm Kenzo, we met at De Willson's corporate dinner party that day."
"Oh yes, it is fitting that your face is not foreign. Sit down."
Kenzo nodded with a smile then pulled the chair in front of Laura.
"How are you?" ask Kenzo.
"good. How are you yourself? your business with De Willson is smooth?"
"I'm good too. Business eum... smoothly, Farel will move to Restaurant De Willson in two weeks' time maybe."
"J-jdi Farel is your brother?"
Kenzo nodded.
Laura nodded. "Then who's cooking here?" ask Laura then.
"There are other chefs working with me."
"Oh so .." said Laura then took her juice.
Kenzo cleared his throat for a moment, he was a little agitated and hesitant to discuss his childhood with Laura. Whether Laura still remembers or has forgotten, Kenzo's name alone does not seem to remember Laura.
"Maura ..."
"Hmm?" sahut Laura while drinking her juice.
"Eum .. You, you really don't remember me?" ask Kenzo.
"Considering you? did we ever meet before other than in the lobby that day?" Laura asked back.
Kenzo nodded. "But it's been a long time, when we were kids."
"Still small ..." Laura tried to remember.
That day little Laura shouted to the father when she saw the middle-aged woman selling with a little boy and a baby in the little boy's arms.
Laura was seven years old the same age as Kenzo was that day and Farel was a baby.
"What's up, Lala?" asked Arsen out to his daughter who was shouting on the front porch.
"Daddy wants to buy that." Lala pointed out the gate.
Kenzo and his mother stood smiling in front of the gate, they heard Laura's screams that made their hearts happy that someone was willing to buy their merchandise.
"Come on." Arsen clasped his daughter's hand leading her to the front of the gate.
When the security guard shifted the gate to open, Arsen's eyes were immediately turned toward Kenzo who was carrying Farel. Rahma, the mother had to hold many bags of food to make her unable to carry Farel.
"Sell what?" ask Arsen.
"I'm selling Master fish and some cookies."
"Let me see" pinta Arsen.
Rahme squatted down to open some of the plastic she was carrying.
"This is the fish, sir. And here's the cake."
"That's what?" ask Laura to Kenzo.
"My sister." Kenzo opened his kebat side slightly exposing his Farel head only. Farel was asleep in Kenzo's arms.
"Wuahh Baby ..." Laura's eyes widened perfectly.
"Daddy ... Daddy's got a baby." cried Laura.
"She's a little girl and her sister's a baby, why did you ask her to sell?" ask Arsen to Rahma.
"I can't leave them, sir. We only live three, if I sell alone I am afraid of anything happening to them" said Rahma.
"Where's your husband?"
"My husband is dead, sir."
"Where's your house?" ask Arsen then. Laura was rubbing Farel's head in Kenzo's sling. Laura looks very happy.
"At the crossroads of roses, sir."
"Is he in school?" Arsen pointed at Kenzo who was laughing with Laura.
Rahma shook weakly. He could not send Kenzo to school because of the economic situation that was very lacking.
Arsen. "I'll help you. School them until they can go to college, your needs every month will be met."
"Really Sir?" rahma's eyes sparkled with pleasure.
Arsen nodded then turned his head towards Kenzo. "Hey boy, what's your name?"
"Kenzo" said Kenzo.
"The baby?" ask Arsen.
"Farel," Kenzo said.
"Hahaha gosh .. So you're Kenzo and Farel who that day, geez Ken, obviously I don't remember you. You've changed so much now and after that we never see each other again. Huh, where you been all this time ..."
Kenzo smile. "I'm busy working on Laura's business."
"But you can visit my house many times" said Laura, pursing her lips.
Ken, keep your distance from Miss Laura. His family has helped us so much. You have to remember, we're just poor people who don't feel good about being close to rich families. Moreover, they have helped us a lot.
Kenzo smiled bitterly remembering the words of his mother when he was a child. The sentence seemed to be the daily intake for Kenzo, Rahma always forbade Kenzo to play with Laura from childhood, making Kenzo did not dare to meet Laura.
Kenzo recalled the day where he could only watch Laura silently in front of the gate. That day Laura was playing with Nathan, Summer, Winter, Nala and Lalita in the courtyard of the mansion.
Kenzo wants to play with them, the children of the rich, but he always remembers Rahma saying that she is very different from Laura and others. As a result he could only watch silently in front of the gate.
The needs of Kenzo, Farel and the Mother are always met from Arsen. Arsen sent one of his men who took care of Rahma's economy and his two sons until Kenzo went to college. Arsen himself never came to Rahma and Kenzo's residence other than to have his men take care of them.
Until they grow up, Kenzo doesn't dare to approach Laura because of caste differences. Laura turned into a famous model while she was still pioneering a restaurant that day.
"Hey, Kenzo!" Laura wagged her hands in front of Kenzo's dreamy-looking face.
Kenzo gnawing. "Yes?"
"Why daydream?" ask Laura.
"No Laura" he said with a smile.
"Did my Daddy not recognize you either?" ask Laura.
Kenzo shakes. "Mr Arsen must have forgotten it too. I haven't told her yet, because I wanted to tell you first .. thank goodness you remember, Laura ..."
"Oh yeah, how's your mom doing?" ask Laura.
The smile on Kenzo's face faded away instantly. "My mother died in an accident."
"W-what?"
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