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The Part 68
Meanwhile, his relationship with Kiara remained as good as ever. Vano, who now lives at home more often to edit some photos and print them, sometimes spends time with Kiara who is designing. He tries to make up for his guilt by spending more time with Kiara.
They meet anywhere. In the front garden of Kiara's house which is now filled with snow, at her house or Kiara's house, or anywhere that can make them comfortable. Later, they often met in a cafe located around xxx.
Cafe with a thick European and American feel accompanied by jazz music that flows almost every day. And now, the cafe they label as their favorite.
Frequently spending time with Kiara turned out to make Vano know the girl better. He thought that after two months together, he knew everything about the girl.
But in fact not yet. And luckily Kiara generously told him some things she should have known. Seeing how honest Kiara was to her like this, Vano inevitably drowned herself back in the girl's charm. And this time, he can't swim out of there.
Vano is trying his best to enjoy their year-end life together, he wants to carve out moments together with Kiara. According to him, it was not his decision to settle temporarily in Korea, but they can still work here. Because in Korea also has a branch office of the company.
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Days change days, and weeks change weeks until finally they are approaching the Christmas day that many people wait for.
The magazine shot by Vano and with Kiara design, successfully published and successfully became a big hit among fashion magazines in Indonesia. The magazine was like a rock spike for both Vano and Kiara. They get a lot of compliments. Vano with the results of the picture, and Kiara with the design of her clothes.
The day before Christmas Eve, Alexander's family and Kusuma's family were packing. They plan to vacation together for Christmas until the new year. With the bond that has been established between the two families thanks to the engagement of Vano and Kiara, their family members also seem to want to know each other more deeply.
Everything seems to be a good start for the two families, but one thing Vano doesn't understand is Sean's quarrel with his parents a few days ago. When everything feels so right to him, why not his family?
He did not know what they were discussing, not even understanding the slightest of what they were talking about until Sean presumptuously dared to raise the volume of his voice to the head of the family. The only thing he heard was Sean saying,
“Don't do that to them!”
And Vano doesn't know who ‘they’ is referring to.
That afternoon, in the middle of his activities packed the necessary items into his suitcase—they were going to Jeju later that night, Vano apparently needed a backpack.
He remembers carrying an American backpack, but he forgot where it was placed. Therefore he asked his mother who said that his backpack may still be in the warehouse and has not been taken out. That's why Vano is there.
The warehouse in his old house is not so big, unlike his home in America which has a large warehouse underground that looks like a treasure place. A lot of cardboard is stacked, and the lack of lighting down here complicates his eyesight.
Ignoring the unsupportive atmosphere, Vano continued his search. He went through one by one the boxes that were piled up there, took them down from the pile, opened them, searched, then put them in their original place when he did not get what he was looking for.
Then he arrived at the umpteenth cardboard, he no longer counted it and with great difficulty also with a sweat on his temple, he lowered the cardboard from its place and placed it on the floor. After taking a short breath, he then opened the cardboard. And his forehead was successfully wrinkled in seeing what was inside the cardboard.
The objects inside the cardboard look familiar, although Vano is sure he saw them for the first time. But for some reason, he knew that these things belonged to him.
Especially a photo album that is quite thick and looks outdated there. Curious, Vano took the album and kept it on his lap. He then opened the album, and a photo adorned the first page.
A photo of a boy with narrow eyes and thin lips with neatly cut hair that is a little strange in his opinion. That was her. He remembered that when he was in the hospital, his mother had shown him pictures that were said to be his childhood photos and his photos were exactly like the photos he now sees. He opened the second sheet and a photo of a little girl with a big smile and two pigtailed hair greeted him.
Vano frowned.
This photo looks familiar. This girl was the girl he knew.
But who? Who was this girl in her past?
The man was curious, but he did not want to stay in the warehouse for long. Therefore he chose to bring out the cardboard and move it to his room for later he checked. After tracing the photo album for longer, he understood.
The little girl is Kiara.
And that's when his head started to hurt. At first it was just like the usual dizziness he experienced due to lack of hours of sleep or when he was overworked, but the longer, the more inevitable the pain.
Because of his pain, he could not even scream for help. All he did was hold his head while squeezing the end of his bed, he was on the floor by his bedside back then— and hoped the pain would end soon.
As the pain struck him, strange images began to appear in his brain, and he could see the pieces with his own eyes. But the picture didn't help him. It made him feel dizzy so he had to close his eyes.
A few hours later, the bell at his house rang.
Vano had no idea who was coming, but one thing he knew the next few hours was that someone sent him an invitation. Invitation to attend a Christmas party. And seeing who the sender was, it felt like he had to attend the invitation.
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