OLEANDER'S OBSESSION
Killing Slowly

..."If you want to hurt me slowly, then why treat me with this kind of warmth? This is tantamount to killing me slowly!" - Rain...

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..."As stupid as I am, this hotel was founded as proof of my love for Oleander, which is not really mine." - Rain...

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Blackened clouds with an unrelenting outpouring of rainwater drenched the city were clearly visible from the glass walls in the penthouse room of the Hotel Nerium Oleander.

Rain woke up while twitching his eyes. His eyes went around to the left and to the right looking for the figure of the girl who always shook his mind.

"Omm, you're awake?" joey asked gently with a smile, The girl walked into the room carrying a tray filled with porridge and water. Then he sat next to Rain on the side of the bed.

"Let's have breakfast" he exclaimed. He helped Rain sit up from his sleep.

"Morning, Sweetheart," Rain said with a smile. Then he kissed Joey softly on his forehead, forgetting all the bad things last night.

Joey gasped in shock, how could the sick man come back romantic and kiss her gently this morning. Did he forget last night?

Rain held onto Joey's cheeks, then he looked at the girl with a warm gaze. "I'm sorry for my cold attitude last night, I'm just jealous. Let's forget about it and have a good day. Enough no more replying to the message."

Joey listened to the man's words. Forgetting the bad thing last night? And he just forgave her? What's the matter? Why are all the man's behavior and mannerisms so warm and kind?! It was really frustrating and it was getting harder to get away from the man.

"Sweetheart? Why silence?" tanya Rain who saw Joey daydreaming. The man kissed Joey's soft lips.

For some reason, suddenly that pale glowing face gave a small laugh. "Hahaha.. You feel weird huh? I suddenly like this? Hmm?"

"I'm just trying to be a warm and kind husband to you, I want my wife to be happy by my side" Rain continued, grabbing Joey's hands and kissing the girl's fingers.

Rain suddenly drowned. His shining face suddenly gloomy and turned to be worthless when he saw the ring that he held yesterday he did not find on the two fingers of the girl's ring. In addition, the blank eyes of the girl stared at him. What the hell is going on?!

"Where to? The ring ... I put on your finger?" tanya Rain choked. For some reason, his heart suddenly tightened and bitter when asking about it, he said,

"I .. no. We ..." Joey swallowed his saliva. "Let's get rid of all this madness."

Like a full glass that suddenly fell broken to the floor, the entire contents spilled with broken glass that was divided into pieces, such is the condition of Rain's heart today. He tried hard to forget his jealousy in order to stay fine with his beloved Oleander, he tried hard to abandon all cold nature, self-esteem and selfishness, he said, but why is this kind of painful reply he received from the girl? Is it true, all this time the girl had never loved him and only had to because of the return for fourteen years?

Joey removed both of his hands from the handsome man's rough grasp, so the man gasped from his daydream. He reached for the porridge bowl that Brown had delivered to the penthouse. "Breakfast, Om must drink o-."

"If you really want to hurt me slowly, then why treat me with this kind of warmth? This is tantamount to killing me slowly!" tukas Rain fierce. The man's words sounded so bitter and could be felt by Joey. The man's eyes looked teary and implied such a deep pain, as if this was the most painful wound he had ever felt in his life.

"Oms. Realize that love can't be forced" Joey clenched his hand. He curses himself in his heart when he says the exact opposite of himself. He really loved that guy, it's just that their current social status is not possible and he also does not want to be a barrier for the man to target the position of CEO in the largest giant company in Southeast Asia.

"So, you prefer Kale?" Rain swallowed his saliva. The man smiled bitterly, this was the first time he showed an insincere and coercive smile in front of the girl.

Joey just nodded without saying anything.

Rain suddenly chuckled while holding his stomach. Slowly, the man laughed back and forth while holding both his stomachs.

"What I've been doing all this time. Clearly, I was so stupid to be consumed with love" Rain complained with a blank look. The man slowly threw his gaze around.

"Saking stupidly me, this hotel even I founded as a proof of my love for Oleander which is actually not mine, even became the number one hotel in Southeast Asia," continued Rain poignant.

Joey's down. He is increasingly haunted by guilt and his feelings become raging. If common sense did not hold him back, it was eager for him to rush to grab the weak body in front of him and hug him very tightly.

"Om, a-."

"That's it. I won't force you anymore" Rain cut. He got up from his seat and forced himself even though he was still not healed.

"Om still sick" Joey said, holding Rain's hand.

Rain took the girl's hand. "Stop. Save your fake attention!"

"This house, come here often, because I will never set foot on this 37th floor" Rain continued as he walked to the door.

Silently and without looking back at Rain who was slowly leaving the room, Joey stared outside at the whirling rain. His chest felt very tight and he became difficult to breathe.

"Just throw away the ring, because marriage won't happen between us" Rain said, ending his conversation as he disappeared from view.

Guruh thumped at the same time as Rain said that marriage would not take place between them. The cold weather was so piercing to the bone, making Joey's body stiff and unable to wart. Only his eyes were heating up and slowly began to let out a circle of tears one by one.

Today, her first love ran aground. As well as his beautiful dreams, it is time for him to wake up from the beautiful dream and start facing the real world.

TING!!!

The sound of the elevator rang out from the room where Joey was being glued to silence. The girl rushed up from her seat and ran outside towards the elevator that was available inside the penthouse. He wished that the man was still there and had not left. Unfortunately, when he arrived in front of the elevator, Rain was gone and no longer there.

Joey sat on the floor blankly looking at the elevator. His heart was so sick and shattered into pieces. In between the raindrops, Joey cried as hard as he could to release his first love which he could no longer reach. Because in a few months, the man will be the man's husband.

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SERIATE...