Memory Of Love
The Part 30

I don't know what else Aaron wants, so he has to come to Casey's house.

And even though Casey doesn't want to see him, Casey can't turn him down. 

Because Casey was worried, in case Daniel would be angry with him, if Casey blatantly avoided Aaron.

"Let him in!" casey said, giving instructions to her domestic assistant. "Later, prepare a drink for him!"

"Good, Miss!" The housekeeper, then passed away from there.

"Is there something?" asked Lionel, who looked puzzled. "It's not usually Aaron to visit here, if nothing matters."

"I don't know either" replied Casey.

Steve had also stopped playing guitar, and just leaned the object against the wall, then stared fixedly at Casey.

Looking at the look on his face, Steve doesn't seem too happy, at the news of Aaron wanting to meet Casey.

However, Steve did not comment, and only looked to gather his hands.

Not long after Casey's housekeeper passed away, Aaron was seen walking through the side door of the house, then greeting them there, saying, Aaron then looks like he's walking through the side door,

"Casey! ... Lionel! ... Steve!" 

Lionel and Steve seemed to nod their heads, responding to Aaron's greeting.

"What are you guys doing? Is my arrival just bothering you?" ask Aaron. 

"What are you doing?" Casey asked back.

"Please sit!" said Lionel.

"If you don't mind, I'd like to talk to Casey alone" Aaron said.

Neither Lionel nor Steve seemed to like what Aaron wanted, but the two men stood up from their seats and walked away from him.

At that very instant, Aaron then took a seat beside Casey, then said,

"You know, Steve is just your senior. Then why are you kissing her?"

"What do you care?" Casey asked back.

"Do you like it?" aaron asked, as if unaffected by Casey's question.

"of course! Otherwise, how could I possibly kiss her," Casey replied, without burden.

"But why do you need to find out about it? Don't you have a lover too?" casey continued, frowning.

"Did your Grandpa already know that you had more of a friend than Steve?" Aaron seemed to keep trying to corner Casey.

"What do you really want? Just say it frankly! Don't go out and there!" sahut Casey, furious.

Aaron, who had been sitting slightly leaning toward Casey, straightened his back, and leaned back on the chair.

Aaron, looking up at the wall, seemed to notice the guitar Steve had left there.

"Is he that good?" ask Aaron.

"Are you not jealous when you see Julie trying to get close to Steve?" Casey tries to turn the situation around, to corner Aaron.

"No" answered Aaron. "Because I know that Julie did it on purpose, to get my attention."

"You're both just as crazy" Casey said. 

Aaron turned to the side, and stared fixedly at Casey.

"You think I'm crazy, because you want our relationship to be better?" ask Aaron.

"Aaron! ... I assume that our relationship is fine. We are not friends, but we are not enemies either. What else is lacking?" Casey.

Aaron then seemed to let out a long, deep sigh, then exhaled slowly.

"I've known Julie, ever since we were at university. I owe it to him because if he doesn't find me, I don't know what will happen to me then."

Aaron said that, as if he wanted to explain the basic reason, so that he could relate to Julie, to Casey.

Casey, who had heard about it from Oscar, had no interest in responding to Aaron's words, so Casey was silent at the time.

Then, Aaron suddenly stood up from his seat, picked up the guitar, and went back to sit next to Casey.

"I can't sing" said Casey, perfunctorily.

"Hm ... I haven't played guitar in a long time. Last time, when I was in high school," said Aaron, while arranging the guitar position on his lap.

After a while Aaron plucked the strings of the guitar, Casey seemed to have to admit, that Aaron's fingers, no less agile when compared to Steve, while playing the guitar.

Aaron did not sing, and sounded just like he was muttering in the appropriate tone, with the sound produced by the guitar he was playing.

"Do you know how to play it?" ask Aaron, suddenly.

"No" answered Casey.

"Do you want to learn?" ask Aaron, again.

Without waiting for a response from Casey, Aaron immediately stood up, then put the guitar on Casey's lap, while directing Casey's hand, in order to hold the guitar well.

"First of all, you have to know the key to the tone first" Aaron said.

Aaron stood behind Casey, and slightly bent over, helping Casey's fingers to press the guitar strings.

"Pointing you here! ... Middle finger here! ... Then your ring finger is here! ... That's C major's key!" aaron said, slowly.

With his own fingers, Aaron held up Casey's fingers to stay in the position he showed.

As if being hypnotized, Casey complies when Aaron teaches him how to play guitar.

"Try to stand for a moment!" said Aaron gave the order.

And again, Casey complied, without commenting.

Aaron then sat in the chair where Casey was sitting, then held Casey's waist and pulled her, until Casey sat on his lap.

"Hey! ... What are you doing?" casey said, trying to stand up again.

But Aaron kept Casey, by wrapping his arms around his waist to Casey's stomach, so that Casey could not get away from him, saying,

"It will be easier to learn it, if you sit on my lap. Try it first, if you don't believe it!"

Casey, who did not want any commotion there, would attract the attention of all the residents of the house, finally gave up, and remained seated on Aaron's lap.

"Huuufft...!" Casey snorted violently, but Aaron actually laughed, so Casey's body also felt shaken slowly.

Aaron then directs the fingers of Casey's hand, where the guitar part that must be pressed, in order to produce a tone that fits when sounded.

According to Casey, Aaron did not lie, if it would have been easier for him to teach Casey, if Aaron was right behind him.

However, their sitting position only made Casey feel awkward.

Moreover, Aaron's face that was too close, until the male breath, can be felt in the neck of Casey.

"That's enough! I don't want to study anymore!" casey said, and again tried to stand up from Aaron's lap.

"Don't go anywhere!" said Aaron, arresting Casey.

"My fingers hurt!" sahut Casey's.

"I'll play the guitar." Aaron seemed to insist, to keep Casey sitting on his lap.

When Casey stops moving against him, Aaron plays the guitar, humming quietly.

"Do you know this song?" ask Aaron. 

Casey shook her head.

"The title track is Willingly and the singer is Crispian St. Peters," said Aaron.

"Why did you choose to sing that song?" Casey just asked, without really intending, to find out the answer from Aaron.

"Hm ... That's an old song. It just suddenly flashed through my head, when I thought of you," Aaron replied.

"You've got to be kidding!" casey said, ketus.

"Pffit...!" Aaron laughed, leaning his face on Casey's shoulder. 

"Casey...! Just so you know. The more you keep trying to get away from me, the more persistent I will be to get close to you" Aaron said.