Possessive Love
Fear of David

"Oh my goodness, Mas ..your thoughts are, you know? Brother Richard couldn't have done what you thought all along. Aren't you, Sis?" aretha tried to dismiss her husband's negative thoughts. The woman looked back at Richard just to make sure that what her husband was thinking was not right.

"You mean, Re?" Richard raised his eyebrows— was astonished that he had not heard what David had said at the time.

Like Richard, Rendy and Clara also looked surprised to see the couple. They just focused on listening, without wanting to comment.

Aretha took a short breath, before responding to Richard's question. "That's you, Brother ... You can't be messing around with our little princess?" the question made Richard not understand.

Instantly David made him annoyed. "Ah, honey, why should you tell him, anyway? This should be our secret" David murmured inwardly. He did not think, why his wife could easily tell Richard about it.

"What do you mean?" ask Richard.

Aretha was silent for a moment. "Mm ... You can't possibly intend to marry our little daughter?" aretha asked a little hesitantly, making Rendy and Clara chuckle when she heard him. Not with Richard.

"Oh .. is that?" said Richard. Of course he immediately understood David's fear at that time. "It looks like we do have a match, so there's no harm, right, if one day we also have closeness?" it looks serious, even if it's not.

"Ck! Just be careful if you dare to do anything about my daughter. I'm not gonna let that happen. I will kill anyone who dares to hurt him, including an old man like you!" David seemed to be grumbling.

I don't know why David had such niggling thoughts toward his own close friend. Did he not know that Richard could not do such a thing.

Yes, of course David still remembers and believes how hurt Richard was, when he saw her married to Aretha, although Richard had always tried to hide it. But still, he knew how Richard felt about his wife. That's why, David was so scared if his daughter was used as bait to take revenge for her heartache first. Moreover, until that moment he still did not see Richard holding another woman. He was even more afraid that the man really wanted to marry his daughter.

"Ck! No need to threaten me like that! We'll see, I'm getting more and more excited to prove my point" replied Richard, who suddenly made David more inflamed, and he was very happy to see it.

"It looks like it would be exciting if you guys were really married, Haha!" timpal Rendy ended with his laughter.

"You guys!" David seemed to clench his hands furiously at the behavior of his two very annoying friends.

Aruna, who was still very young, seemed confused to pay attention to the conversation of the adults.

Just as David was about to speak again, Aruna suddenly opened her voice.

"Papa, why scold Richard?" aruna protest who understood that the father was scolding Richard.

David could not do much, when his daughter had protested like that, so he was forced not to show his frustration to his best friend.

"Papa did not scold Richard, dear," replied David slightly forcing his smile. "Here, same papa. The pity of Richard is heavy" David added as he was about to take over his daughter from Richard. However, as quickly as lightning Aruna turned his face back to make straight hair as he shook the face of David. The little girl immediately hugged Richard's neck tightly as if she didn't want to be separated from the man whose age was so far adrift with her.

"Aruna wants to be the same Richard, Papa," whined Aruna without looking at her face. Instantly David puts on a wry expression, irritated by his own daughter who somehow prefers to be carried by Richard rather than himself who is clearly his papa.

Again Rendy and Clara chuckled to see him, and Aretha was very anxious to see the behavior of her little daughter. However, she was even more anxious to see her husband's expression. How could her husband have such ridiculous thoughts, she thought.

"Proven, isn't Aruna more comfortable with whom?" ledek Richard who made David exhale rough. "Don't kill me, scold me, your daughter won't see it" he added, ending in a happy grin.

Just watch out, I won't let my daughter fall into the seduction of an old man like you, Richard. It sucks him, Richard's mind at the time.

"Mother Clara, your daughter has grown up not coming here at all?" aretha asked who had been looking around, looking for a little princess who was one year younger than Aruna. The figure in question is none other than the daughter of Rendy and Clara.

"Oh my goodness ... Zeline where are you, honey?" Clara seemed to circulate her gaze in several directions, looking for the figure of her daughter named Zelline Zakeisha Bramasta.

"Lho, wasn't it just you, honey?" asked Rendy who also looked confused.

"Surely he fell asleep in the car" said Clara as she went out to check Zelline's whereabouts in the car.

"Yes, Lord .. You, your own child is forgotten, astonished!" chirped Richard while shaking his head. He never thought how he could forget his own daughter.

Soon, Clara reenters the house with her little daughter. Zelline the little girl with curly hair was rubbing one eye. It seems true that Zelline fell asleep in the car on the way to the house.

"Mrs ... Zelline was sleepy," Zelline still rubbed her eyes. Clara did not care. He kept pulling his little daughter's hand.

"Darling, come on .. Who are we at home, when you want to sleep?" said Clara nagging.

"Zellina!" aruna shouted loudly, when he saw his best friend Zelline. The little girl immediately asked to get down from Richard's lap, then approached Zelline who seemed to be still trying to collect half her life back, after falling asleep in the car.

Instantly Zelline stopped rubbing her eyes, when she realized that Aruna was standing before her.

"Zelline I don't think you came here, apparently you fell asleep in the car?" Aruna's lips looked agile as she put out that sentence to her best friend.

"Papa and mama slept very noisy, so I couldn't sleep well last night, Aruna," Zelline said, making her parents round and staring at each other, while Aretha and David who also understood what he meant seemed to chuckle at the babbling of the little girl.

It could be that a three-year-old girl like Zelline put out those words. It was a shame, David thought.

"God, you guys ..," said Richard, of course, he also understood what he meant, even though he had no experience of marriage.

"Honey, last night you watched a cartoon movie too long, so you are sleepy like that," said Clara. His face looked like a boiled crab.

"What cartoon movie, Ma?" zelline said she looked confused, because she did not feel like watching a movie before going to bed. It is true what people say, that a child is more honest than an adult.

"Ah, it's Zelline, let's play," asked Aruna who immediately pulled Zelline's hand.

"Honey, let Zelline rest first, pity," Aretha asked her daughter. However, it was ignored by Aruna.

"Let Zelline rest in Aruna's room, Mama," replied Aruna without turning her head to her mother.

"That child" said Aretha, shaking her head as she looked at the princess, who kept pulling Zelline's hand to follow her.

"Please sit. I'm going back for a moment" Aretha said, inviting her to sit down with the uninvited guest.

They were sitting on the sofa in the living room, while Aretha went to the kitchen to prepare drinks for her guests.

Before long, David also said goodbye to take a moment from that place. The man seemed to be going to his study, not knowing what he was going to do there.

Richard turned his head, looking at Rendy questioningly. "Which one am I talking about?" tanyanya's confused.

"Don't tell me you forgot?" Rendy stared full of search.

"But in fact I was confused, which word you meant," Richard replied as he leaned against the back of the sofa, without shifting his focus from Rendy's face.

"On Aruna." Rendy was silent for a moment. "Lo's not serious, is he, wanting to marry that little girl?" with a full glance.

"According to you?" Richard asked back.

"Answer question with question, right?"

"Ck!" Richard clucked in annoyance. "Give me a reason, why should I do that!" added demanding.

"Yes .. could be because you still can not forget your heartache, because of the marriage of David and Aretha."

"And you think I want revenge, do you?" guess Richard guessed.

"Well, that's how it is" answered Rendy and that's what he had in mind, just as David had thought. For the heart of a man who knows. From the outside, Richard looks ordinary, but I don't know what his true heart is like. Only he and God know.

"Well, how long have we been friends?" asked Richard which immediately made Rendy think of remembering it.

"Hm. .. about fifteen years," answered Rendy, after trying to calculate it.

Richard let out a rough sigh, then lifted back his back from the back of the chair. "It's really sad to have a friend like you for that long" he said.

"You mean?" Rendy. "Gue just doesn't want to see you're on the wrong path. Therefore, come on .. you don't try to disturb a little girl like Aruna. If you want, I can help you find another beautiful girl for you," Rendy's story that makes Richard immediately annoyed. He did not expect that his own friend had such a dirty mind towards him.

"It's a shame I'm not interested" Richard refused without making small talk.

"Come on, Bro. Lo don't destroy the little girl's future. He is still too small to be bait for your heartache" Rendy advised. "Even after Aruna grew up, I'm sure David wouldn't approve of your relationship, if someday he had to marry an old old man like you. You forgot what your age difference is? Twenty more, Bro,"

"Lo think I'm as bad as that what?" Richard looked round his eyes, furious at the accusations of his best friend. According to him, Rendy had gone too far to accuse himself like that.

"Wiiih .. relax, Bro," said the powerless Rendy looking into Richard's eyes.

"Darling, you've gone overboard" said Clara, who seemed to understand Richard's annoyance.

"Excessive of mana, dear? I just want to make sure," argued Rendy did not admit. "It would be wrong if I let him be on the wrong path" he added.

"You're not afraid of her fangs coming out, if you keep getting her mad like that?" ask Clara later.

"I don't intend to make him angry, dear. Again, I just made sure! Shouldn't we remind each other when our friends are on the wrong path?" rendy said with great emphasis.

"Where do you know I'm on the wrong road, huh?" furious Richard. "Lo was friends all that time with me, but you yourself don't know me, don't know what I'm like. You can accuse me of being that bad. Jeez, Rendy ...," he added annoyedly.

"Lho, this again. Who is accusing? I reiterate once again, I'm just making sure! Why doesn't anyone understand what I'm saying at all, anyway?" refute Rendy again did not accept.

"But your words lead more to accusations, dear," said Clara who heeded Richard's remarks.

"Lho, honey, why are you defending him, anyway? I'm your husband, you know," protested Rendy.

"And you think I should defend my husband when it's wrong, right? Remember that! I'm not defending anyone here, I'm just saying what I think is right!" clara answered with emphasis.

"Lho, how the hell, dear .. I'm your husband, you know," whine Rendy who already felt attacked and could not do anything, when the wife just blamed him.

"It has absolutely nothing to do with our status. You're wrong, yes you're wrong" replies Clara, who was a fool about her relationship status with Rendy at the time.

"Clara, I think your husband needs a spiritual flush, so his brain is clear," Richard's repulsive insinuation made Rendy immediately pop her lips. However, no comment whatsoever.

Finally the fierce debate stopped for a moment. Because, Rendy was confused to say what else, after getting an attack from his wife.

"Gue was also still sane times. Which might make an innocent little girl like Aruna as bait for my revenge" Richard said. In fact, he never even thought about it.

"Seeing Aretha is married to David, it's really painful, but that doesn't mean I have to fall forever, right? I am happy to see the happiness of both of them. So, there's no way I have such petty thoughts that you're accusing. Because it's not at all beneficial to me. Aretha also can't possibly come back with me, right?"

"Lo's sure?" Rendy looked sure.

"Lo still can't believe it?" Netra Richard increasingly rounded cynically staring at Rendy.

"OK, okay, I believe," replied Rendy seemingly giving up.

"Lo just look at how angry David is, when he sees me so close to his daughter, and I'm happy to see him scared like that" said Richard, whose emotions had eased a little.

"You mean, you deliberately approached Aruna to scare David like that?"

"Haiish! Not like that concept. It's crazy that I'm right as to what you're accusing me of!" cut off Richard, again refuting Rendy's words. "My closeness to Aruna just happened. I don't know why that little girl is so happy to be around me. In fact, I didn't do anything. And it's undeniable, she's indeed very adorable, and I love that." Richard looked happy.

"Well, so you mean, you deliberately used your closeness with the little girl to trick her papa?" guess Rendy.

"Smart!" Richard looked to pluck his finger. "Lo see, right, how scared is she to see her daughter close to me? Hhh! Really a very silly thought," he added, as he laughed.

Instantly Rendy was crushed. How could he accuse his own best friend with such a spark, he thought.

"Haha! I thought, you did deliberately—"

"Ehem! It's exciting, what are you talking about?" asked David who suddenly stood in front of them with a questionable gaze that made them embarrassed to answer what.