My Gentle Boyfriend's
31 Old Friends

The warm air hit the beautiful face that was sitting on a park bench calmly. The beautiful face looked warm and peaceful by the sunlight.

The atmosphere of silence and calm enveloped when the girl was pensive. He sat in silence with his wandering mind. As her golden eyes seemed empty looking forward, she flinched consciously due to the ringing of her phone.

With a long sigh, his white fingers touched the flat screen to answer the caller.

"Arlana, you're off today, aren't you?! Why don't we play out together! You haven't contacted me in a long time, I'm even wondering if you still remember our promise to eat a cake together that was canceled last time?!"

A sullen and annoyed voice sounded across. Arlana let out a long sigh listening to the babble of her friend, she indeed forgot her promise with Kanaya. Especially with the appearance of Zale, and his mother recently made Arlana's thoughts chaotic and her life began to churn back.

"Let's get out then. I'll be right where you are!" Realizing she did nothing and was merely pensive on a park bench, Arlana immediately agreed to Kanaya's request.

Listening to that Kanaya became happy for a moment, they spoke again for a while before hanging up.

With a little laziness Arlana moved from the park near her house to return home and went to Kanaya.

As her toes stepped in boredom, the foot stopped once again due to Arlana's phone ringing.

The girl slightly scrunched her forehead before looking at her phone. A short message managed to make him stand stiff with shock flashing across his golden eyes.

The message was short and not very important. However, the name of the owner of the message made Arlana feel a slight sting in her heart.

Staring back at the screen on HP, he tried to read the message as if afraid that he was hallucinating.

[Can we meet for a moment? I'm Celine, there's something important I want to discuss! I'll wait for you at the cafe in front of your shop until you come!]

After being shocked and silent for quite a while, Arlana finally sighed and went to meet the sender of the message that seemed to command him instead of asking him. But before that Arlana contacted Kanaya and said that it would be too late.

The distance between Arlana's house and her shop was not too far away, so it only took a short while as the girl left from where she was standing towards Celine waiting for her.

As Arlana's footsteps entered the cafe where she was about to meet, the girl's eyes stared around her in search of her former best friend.

Actually he didn't really want to meet Celine! There are no happy memories between their friends. Meeting Celine will only make Arlana recall her bad memories.

Even so after he thought about it again, he had indeed not met Celine for 20 years. So he was a little curious how the girl was doing. After all everything only existed in the past, and it was not good to continue feeling hurt about what happened. They were just little boys who knew nothing. Maybe Celine was forced to do it because of the insistence of her parents.

Flashing lightly, Arlana's golden eyes caught the figure of Celine sitting gracefully in a place. He was playing with his phone looking a little lazy. Arlana slightly sighed when she saw Celine's figure.

He could tell that the girl had grown into a very beautiful and amazing woman. After winning her mind Arlana walked over.

"Sorry to keep you waiting!" Sitting on one of the facing chairs, Celine stared at him as she greeted.

With a light nod the girl replied Arlana "Not too long, I've ordered a drink for you. Drink it first."

Arlana smiled faintly and drank a drink on the table.

Celine fell silent and simply observed Arlana. They both fell silent in silence and dissolved with their own thoughts.

As if no longer wanting to waste her time, Celine finally opened the voice of "Sorry to call you suddenly.."

Arlana just shook her head slowly, she was fine about it just feeling a little curious. It had been a long time since they had lost contact so why did the girl suddenly appear and know her mobile number?

As Arlana wanted to ask that, Celine opened her red lips again to continue saying "I am the master of Zale!"

Arlana's face looked stiff as she looked at the face of Beautiful in front of her who was staring at her with a slight unfriendly look.

He finally understood why the girl before him had suddenly contacted him and how to get his contact number.

With a complicated face, Arlana looked straight at Celine's beautiful eyes and said "So you're her fiance..."

There was a slight sting of pain in Arlana's heart as the sentence came out of her red lips. Without a second thought, he could guess why it happened.

Arlana's heart is uncomfortable and aching when she finds out that Zale really has a fiancee. No matter how much Arlana wanted to wipe Zale out of her heart, the figure of the man remained and was buried there.

"Yes, I'm her fiance!" Celine nodded softly and sighed before continuing "Didn't it be that when we were kids I ever said that I wanted to marry her?"

Arlana fell silent and tried to recall the memories of her past. He just realized that. Zale was the man Celine liked as a child, and it meant that she had met Zale long before in High School.

Seeing Arlana's silence, Celine coughed softly and said "So here I heard from Aunt Bianca that you had seduced her and wanted to ruin our engagement.."

"I thought your mother was just a cheap one, so I was surprised to find out you were as cheap as her! Arlana because we're old friends, why don't you be kind and stop seducing Zale! You know how much I've loved it since I was a kid. I'll find you another, richer man, so give Zale to me!"

Arlana's face looked blankly staring at Celine sitting down. She couldn't help but wonder, Why did this friend of hers become this kind of girl? At least as a person who had been and had been friends with him, he should have known how badly his mother's figure had hurt him.

Not only did she not understand, but Celine instead gave another wound to her heart!

She originally wanted to re-establish a good relationship with Celine after such a long time, but that desire faded instantly.

Arlana gritted her teeth hard restraining the anger that exploded in her chest and replied "If she did like you wouldn't she not be tempted by another woman?!"

"That can't be done when there's a cheap woman like you who will keep clinging and giving a body to herself" Tones of ridicule and glimpses of disgust flashed in Celine's eyes.

Arlana's irritated hand grabbed the glass at the table and threw the water right in her face.

The cold water from the drink splashed right on the face of Beautiful Celine, the girl glared in shock with a blackened look of annoyance.

"You-you!!!"

"Listen carefully!" Arlana got up from the seat and glared at him "I'm not interested in Zale, but because of your despicable nature I changed my mind! To give a man like Zale to a stealth snake like you is a waste! If you can tease her with your body, or even your wealth, then do it! Let's see who among us will win in the end?!"

Arlana's body walked away when she was done with what she said but looked back or listened to Celine's insane scream.

....

When Arlana's annoyance has not diminished she just bowed her head in a taxi that drove to where Kanaya was.

On the way, he just fell silent and went back to thinking about what had happened. Somehow they the strange people continue to disturb him even though the figure of Zale himself is not visible. And even stranger than that was Arlana's actions, she continued to provoke them by saying strange sentences.

With a long sigh Arlana stared at the highway with a blank look. Thinking that Celine was Zale's fiancee made her have a sour feeling in her heart.

Arlana already knew for sure the answer from her heart, but her rationality as a woman rejected it. Especially with everything that happened he felt tired just by thinking about Zale. All he wanted was probably not to see her again...

As his mind whirled and wandered, the taxi he was riding stopped at a luxurious and beautiful house. Arlana got out of the taxi after paying for it and walked over to get closer to Kanaya's house.

"You here?" Kanaya's figure appeared behind the door, the girl smiled brilliantly towards Arlana. But the smile on his lips stiffened when he saw the look on Arlana's face that looked a little strange.

She hesitantly asked "Did something happen?"

Arlana did not reply, she just kept quiet and looked at him in silence. Seeing this Kanaya became more convinced that something had happened.

He re-opened his voice "Come in!"

Arlana nodded lightly and followed Kanya's body. He sat down on one of the chairs and got a drink.

After seeing that Arlana was a little better, she went back to talking "Arlana, I know you are a strong girl and like to solve your own problems. So I won't force you to tell a story, but if you need a talkative, don't ever doubt that I'm always here!"

In the silence Arlana just kept silent and stared straight at Kanaya. After being silent for quite a while and thinking about various things, he finally let out a long sigh before opening his lips.

"Zale came to see me!"

Kanya slightly gasped in surprise, but she quickly returned to normal and just kept quiet while nodding softly in response.

Seeing this Arlana again continued "We didn't have a chance to talk, I kicked her out! And he disappeared no longer visible. Then her mother came and said a lot of bad things, not only that but her fiance also came and insulted me!"

Hearing this Kanaya frowned with a stifled thought, she quickly understood what was happening and became speechless.

Kanaya was silent for a long time, she was silent and just stared at Arlana who was also just silent while lowering her head.

After a hard thought he finally opened the voice "Then, if you meet Zale back.. What are you gonna do? Are you going back to him? Or are you going to turn it down and cut off all relationships for good?"

"He has a fiancee..."

"I don't care about her fiance!" Kanaya looked at Arlana sternly and resumed "I'm sure Zale's mother knew about you from Zale until she came and tried to get rid of you. And so is his fiancee! She came to you because Zale definitely had no interest in her and it was an engagement she did not want! So here my question is, what would you do if Zale asked you to get back together?"

Hearing Kanaya's words and her firm face towards him, Arlana couldn't help but be a little surprised. This girl before him always looked ridiculous and never really had a serious face. But now the girl looked at him with a probing look.