Scratches of Wound in Fiona's Heart
A Gift for Steven

That night, after having dinner with Erick and talking for an hour, Steven and Fiona broke away from Erick. The two of them sat on the balcony of the upper room enjoying a cup of hot chocolate while looking at the outside scenery.

"Steve," call Fiona in a soft voice.

"Hem."

Fiona looked at Steven. "Thank you."

Steven who had just sipped his hot chocolate, immediately turned to Fiona. "For?" asked Steven with a surprised face.

"Thank you for everything. If it wasn't for you, I might never have known about my parents."

Steven put chocolate milk on the table after he finished drinking it. "You don't have to thank me, Fio. I do it sincerely and expect nothing from you."

"really?"

"Yaaa," replied Steven confidently.

"I intend to give you a gift."

Steven looked at Fiona. "Gift? What's?" asked Steven enthusiastically. His eyes look sparkling.

"You said you didn't expect anything from me?"

"I want. Now tell me, what gift do you want to give me?" steven asked impatiently.

Fiona did not expect that Steven would be enthusiastic about the gifts he would give. Fiona thinks Steven already has everything and definitely needs nothing more because he can buy anything he wants.

"I haven't decided what gift I'm going to give you. I was just thinking of giving you something."

"May I choose what gift I want?" asked Steven expectantly.

Fiona thought for a moment. "Yeah, but I can't give you an expensive gift" Fiona said with her head bowed.

Actually he was embarrassed because maybe the gift he would give later did not interest Steven. Fiona is afraid that she won't be able to give Steven the gift he wants.

A faint smile was clearly imprinted on Steven's handsome face. "This gift cannot be judged by money."

Fiona immediately raised her head staring in astonishment at Steven. "What gift do you want?"

Steven changed his seat to face Fiona. "What I want is this," Steven replied as he rubbed gently on Fiona's lips.

Without waiting for Fiona's approval, Steven cupped Fiona's face and fused their lips together. Fiona looks surprised for a moment, after which they smack each other and mamagut.

The atmosphere of silence, accompanied by bright shining moon makes the atmosphere feel more intimate. Steven finished his pagutan after a while and then looked into Fiona's eyes.

"Fiona, stay by my side and never leave me."

Fiona nodded. "Yeah." Then she looked down while tidying up her hair.

Not long after, Steven's phone rang. "Fio, I picked up the phone first" Steven said after seeing the name on his phone screen.

Fiona nodded. Steven stood up and walked a little away from Fiona. Actually, Fiona wanted to know who called Steven so she had to stay away from him but she did not dare to ask.

A few moments later, Steven sat down. "Is something going on?" fiona asked as she saw Steven sigh before approaching her.

Steven smiled. "Nothing." Steven stood back up, "wait here. Don't go anywhere."

Fiona looked in surprise at Steven then said, "Yeah." Steven then went inside and came back with a blanket.

"It's cold outside. I don't want you to be sick." Steven wrapped Fiona's body in a blanket and sat back down.

"You went in just to get this?" fiona asked with a surprised face.

"Yes," Steven replied as he nodded.

When Steven held onto Fiona's face earlier, he felt her face cold. She was afraid that Fiona would get the flu if exposed to the air for too long at night so she decided to take a blanket.

"Then why don't you wear a jacket or a blanket?"

Steven smiled. "no need. I can hold it. Anyway, if I get sick, there's you who can take care of me" Steven joked.

"You can't be sick. Many heads depend on you."

"You worried about that? Not because I'm worried?"

Fiona smiled and answered Steven's question. "Of course I'm worried about you."

Steven smiled at me hearing that. "Steve, I want to ask you something."

"What?" ask Steven quickly.

"Sera, how close are you to her?"

"I should have seen you with her a lot."

"Yeah. We did meet often, sometimes he visited me to the office or I visited him to his place of work. We spend a lot of time together" I'm Steven.

"Do you also often vacation together?"

That thought suddenly crossed his mind. Fiona thinks that they might have a lot of good memories together when Steven didn't know her.

"Not really. I don't have much time for vacation. We only went abroad a few times, even then because there was work and Sera accompanied me."

There is envy and dislike in Fiona's heart when it comes to their closeness. Although she is Steven's lover, Steven's mother likes Sera more. That meant Sera was superior to him because without the blessing of her mother, they would not be able to get married.

"So, she used to accompany you to work abroad?"

Steven nodded. "Yes." Yeah."

Fiona smiled wryly. "She looks like a wife accompanying her husband to work."

Steven chuckled little hearing that. "You're jealous of him?"

Fiona turned her face to the side and replied, "No."

Steven pored over Fiona's face a moment later saying, "From now on you're going to accompany me abroad."

"no need. You can take Sera as you normally would."

Steve is convinced that Fiona is jealous. "I never took him Sayaang, he came to me abroad."

Seeing that Fiona was silent, Steven grabbed Fiona's hand and held it. "Fio, I'm with Sera just friends, even though we are familiar, but our relationship is only that, nothing more. Don't you trust me?"

Fiona looked seriously at Steven for a while then said, "If your mother doesn't approve of us and tells you to marry Sera? What are you gonna do?"

Fiona wants to make sure in advance what steps Steven will take if his mother does not approve of them. He simply did not want his struggle to go to waste later.

"I'll get my mother's blessing no matter how. Just trust me."

Fiona smile. "All right."

"We better get inside, it's late."

"Yes." Yeah." Fiona holds a blanket that wraps around her while walking back to her room with Steven.

"Fio, sleep. I'll take you around tomorrow morning" Steven said as they just walked into the room.

Fiona nodded then walked towards the bed. "Why are you still standing? You don't want to sleep?" Fiona looked in surprise at Steven for seeing him not getting into bed.

"I'll sleep outside. Sleep on." Steven intends to step outside, but Fiona stops him.

"Where do you mean?" As he recalled, Steven said only 2 rooms could be used. In addition to the main room, there was one more room that could be occupied, but the room was occupied by Erick.

"I'm going to sleep on the couch" Steven replied with a smile.

At once Fiona felt unbearable to Steven. How could he let Steven sleep on the sofa while he comfortably slept on a soft mattress. Steven may have never felt life was so hard to be different from him.

"Sleep here. We can share the bed."

"no need. You said you were afraid something might happen to us so we better sleep apart. Anyway, I don't want to make you feel uncomfortable."

"You better sleep here. We have no other choice."

"Fio, I don't...."

"If you still insist on sleeping outside, then, I'll sleep on the sofa and accompany you."

Steven sighed then walked towards the door. "Steve, do you really want to let me sleep here alone?" ask Fiona quickly.

Steven turned to Fiona for a moment and said, "I just want to lock the door." Fiona's face immediately reddened because it had misunderstood Steven.

After locking the door, Steven climbed onto the bed on the empty side. "Sleep."

Fiona nodded, lay down to face Steven and closed her eyes. Steven did not close his eyes immediately, but rather looked at Fiona with a complicated look.

Fio, it might be hard to convince you, but I'm gonna figure out a way to get you to bless us. I'm sorry I couldn't marry you right away.

Steven breathed heavily.

If mom had just approved of us when I brought you home, I would have married you by now.

Seriate...