So In Love
EP. 68. Overly Good

These weeks will be slow to update. I want to take care of my brilliant future first. (Amiiin)

See you on Tuesday night.

Happy reading, yes. 😉

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Before, I had never believed in such things as fate. But, I changed my mind after meeting her. – Shien.

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Shien took a deep breath to hold the tightness in his chest, suddenly inside there like a vacuum, feeling stuffy so Shien wanted to rush out of there. The Sky's possibly involuntary utterance coming out of his mouth was enough to make Shien's heart ache. Ahh, her feelings are indeed that sensitive.

Instead of pretending to like it, talk in the back. Shien preferred that anyone speak plainly in front of him if there was something lacking or displeased. According to Shien, what Sky did was quite bad.

If it was like this, Shien would think everywhere about the Sky. Could it be that he was always like this? Talking behind against something he dislikes from Shien?

DUUKK

“Aduh . . . . “

The sky was shocked as soon as it felt an object hit its head quite hard. He rubbed his head while grimacing stifled. His head is a little bit sore.

“Why, Lang?” Shanna asked who heard Heaven suddenly complaining in pain, she looked back and looked at Nathan who was putting on a face between surprise and guilt.

“Aduhh, sorry-sorry. My hands are slippery, my phone almost fell earlier.” Said Nathan joined the merigis while brandishing his actual phone he deliberately smashed the rectangular flat object on the head of the sky as hard as he could.

Cih, who told him to act so annoying and make Shien sad to tears like that? Since childhood, he had always protected Shien whom he already considered to be his own younger brother. And it will continue like that until anytime. Thus, if anyone tried to harm Shien, he would stand at the very front of the ranks to teach him a lesson.

“Lo be careful, dong.” Sky's frowning face endured the annoyance and pain at once, he wanted to be angry but could not.

“Iya, sorry.” Nathan's great-granddaughter with a look of pretending to be sorry. The sky only snorted to then turn back with a gloomy feeling.

“What is enough?” Nathan asked whispering, one corner of his lips was interested in forming a triumphant smile. Exactly like the expression of a brother who managed to oppress back or hit someone who had done evil to his sister.

Shien snorted amusedly, then nodded with a smile. He knew Nathan was doing that to Heaven. And actually he was not satisfied, Nathan should have pushed the body of Heaven alone to fall down into the water.

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Sky's car has now reached Shien's yard after spending four hours driving home from Jakarta to Bandung, enough to make the bodies of the four people tired.

Shien slowly opened his eyes from his deep sleep as he felt a hand gently caressing his face. He paused for a moment to gather his consciousness while paying attention around.

The atmosphere in the car was quite quiet, the front seat occupants were also empty, it seemed like Nathan and Shanna had gone down first. Only he and Heaven were now looking at him with one hand that was still not separated from his face.

Removing Sky's hand from his face, Shien removed the seatbelt. “Thanks for today.” He spoke coldly before he opened the car door, then went down and passed to get into the house without speaking much more, ignoring the Sky that followed out and kept calling out to him. However, the man also could not catch up to him as there was no way he would enter the house of this late night person.

The sky exhaled a rough breath while leaning his body on the body of the car, then restored his hair in frustration. Since then, after they had finished playing in Dufan, Shien had kept his mouth shut. His inertness made the sky confused. And once the girl opened her mouth, only one cold sentence came out. Shien was cold, but usually he always said a few pleasant words when saying goodbye, when Sky drove him home. Shien usually says something like ‘take care’, ‘when you get there, call me’, ‘directly go home, do not playaban’, or offer him to stop by the house. But not this time at all.

Has he made a mistake? Or is Shien like that due to exhaustion? The sky wondered in his mind.

Rubbing his face that was a little sticky, Sky then decided to get into the car and go home. He would ponder it later, then meet Shien tomorrow to sift through it. Now it was night, his body was quite tired from all day playing. He needs a shower and rest.

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Shien rolled his eyeballs off guard as he saw Shanna was leaning against the doorway of her room with both hands crossed once she came out of the bathroom after cleaning herself.

Not intending to say hello or ask what Shanna had come to her room for, Shien simply grunted and walked towards the dressing table, then opened one of the drawers and took the medicine in silence.

“Soal Sky. I'm not gonna give up, Shi.” Shanna walked over to Shien who was completely reluctant to glance at her.

Shien grunting. His throbbing head of pain just got sicker. How long should he serve Shanna?

“Serah.” Shien pressed his shoulders unconcerned. He then opened his daily medicine box to remove a number of bitter objects consisting of various shapes and colors from it.

“Then from that, you are self-aware and release him!” Shanna violently snatched Shien's daily medicine box before the girl managed to take out the medicine.

“Sometimes later, I'm sure Sky can judge who's better for him. Well, of course I can compensate for the life of the Sky. While you can only limit her wiggle room.” Shanna said as she played the daily medicine box. While Shien was just flinching in his position with his hands clenched.

Arghhh, Shien was eager to flirt with Shanna with a glass of water in front of her.

“OK, he might look fine in front of you. But, actually, he's not really happy. You saw his little example earlier.” Shanna added, reminding when they were in Dufan earlier.

“If you are sure like that, you should not bother asking me to release him.” Shien grinned faintly, looking at Shanna's slightly changed expression from the mirror's reflection.

“Don't be naive, Shien. Everyone needs the best partner. Don't expect a true love story. It's only in fairy tales, including the storybook you created.” Shanna smiled wryly, then bowed her body and whispered right in Shien's ear. “There is no such thing as love as is.”

“You hear my statement? Since it was my first time connecting with someone, it was also my first time loving someone. So, I don't know much about this. But, one thing I know for sure. . .” Shien sighed for a moment to then continue his sentence. “Winning someone's heart is not a game, it just happens. So even though you keep trying to be the best in Heaven's eyes to show who is faster, I don't mind. Because I believe, the heart of Heaven is only for me.”

Shien saw Shanna's hands clenched, squeezing the tip of her sexy kimono nightgown.

“I may not be the best for the sky. But, I can give the best I can to him.” Says Shien with confidence.

Sontak Shanna laughed with a look of disdain as if Shien's words just now were just a form of overconfidence.

“I told you not to be too naive, Shien.” Shanna said with the remains of her laughter still heard.

“You clearly know what the true Mermaid story is, right? In the end the Prince remains married to another girl and . . . .”

“Yaa, and I'm not a Mermaid.” Sela Shien fast.

“But the story finally. . .” Shanna smiled obliquely, lifting Shien's daily medicine brain slightly upwards, then unscrewing the lid until all the medicine inside there fell scattered on the floor. “Not just sad end, but tragic end. You will still be a froth in the ocean, just like the Mermaid Princess.”

Still from the reflection of the mirror, Shien stared at his scattered medicine with a dejected look. But he kept trying to calm down.

“So, let go of the Sky quickly, do not waste time and trouble him any longer. Free him from pity, Shien.” Shanna stared intently at her sister from the reflection of the mirror, full of warning. “Because even if you don't let go of him now, you'll still end up leaving him, for a long time, forevermore.”

Shanna smiled with a scornful look, one of her legs wrapped in house slippers with Hello Kitty's head on top of it was stepping on Shien's medicine to shreds.

Shien licked his lips that felt dry, his heart like it was squeezed so hard that it was even difficult to swallow. Isn't Shanna too cruel? Among the thousands of humans inhabiting this world, why should Shanna, the only person who said such a thing when others encouraged her to survive. But, Shanna was even very sure that Shien's life would not be long when Shien himself was still living well and could still stand on his feet without the help of others, why?

“Return faster, it's better, right?” Shanna was not satisfied. “So that person sometimes has to be self-conscious, Shi. You are not worthy of Sky.”

“Whatever you want to say, and please do what you like. I stick to my stance.” Shien said firmly. Then he moved from his seat. He stared for a moment at Shanna's reddened face, which was now looking at him sharply, still from the mirror's reflection. Before moving on, he looked at. “Please come out, and please say same Auntie make cleanin room.” Then, Shien hurriedly left from before Shanna and walked into her personal library.

After Shien's body disappeared from her sight, Shanna rushed out of Shien's room and into her own. His body immediately slumped to the floor, he rested his back behind the door with both hands drooping on the sides of his thighs.

“I'm not a bad person, you made me like a gini, Shi.”

Shanna shook her head along with her falling tears splashing down her face.

Recalling the words he said to Shien earlier. In her heart, Shanna pulled all that. No. gabe. Shanna didn't want God to hear all her bad words.

Not much different from Shien. Inside the small, illuminationless library, he sat curled up on the sofa by putting his chin to his knees. That feeling of tightness was still lingering in his chest. Perhaps this was the most stifling heartbreak Shien had ever experienced. It was too painful, because what hurt her heart was her own brother, whom Shien had always considered her soulmate.

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“Next week Jackson book launch, don't forget.” Fina put a tome with the title ‘Pray, Dream, and Loves’ onto Shien's desk.

The semi-formal-looking girl then took the book, then opened the page randomly. His head nodded, his gaze looking satisfied with the design of the book. There was no need to read the contents because he had reviewed the script of the book before.

“Ohh, yes, Shi. . . .” Fina sounded doubtful, as well as her gaze fixed on Shien who was still trembling to observe the book cover and flipping through the book like a lack of work. “It . . ., eung. . .”

Shien raised his head with his eyebrows raised questioningly.

“You, right, quite familiar with Deket same Jackson. Can you tell dong his idel type like how?” Fina said at last while her grin was unclear.

Shien blinked, then squinted his eyes suspiciously. “Don't say you. . . . “

“There are handsome people in plain sight, the name is not normal if not interested.” Sambar Fina was quick, the red hue on both of her cheekbones arising as soon as her memory captured the figure of Jackson who had god-level good looks. Especially her masculine body. Fina's eyes immediately sparkled just by imagining it. He hopes to have X-Ray eyes, so that he can see how many ABS the man has behind the clothes wrapped around his body, it could be not only six, but eight.

“Mesum.” Shien smacked Fina's head with a ballpoint pen until she broke the tomboyish-looking girl's beautiful daydream.

“Ihh, nethink.” Fina dodged while rubbing her head which did not hurt at all.

“Your eyes look.” Shien thunts.

“So how? I have no hope about” Fina back at the initial discussion.

Shien paused for a moment while looking at Fina with a hard-to-translate gaze, before he said. “Never hope. . .”

Fina immediately put on a sullen face hearing Shien's reply. “What because of my appearance? Style can be changed, Shi. If she likes a female girl who wears skirts every day, I'm okay, kok.” Said grumbling.

“Not so. . .” Shien's law hangs. Fina was silent waiting for the next sentence that her friend and co-worker would say. “From what I know, Jackson never wanted to hook up with girls.”

“She's gay?” Guess Fina while holding her gaping mouth. He regretted if the handsome man had a turning personality. Redup is his hope.

“I guess not, deh.” Sahut Shien hesitated a little.

“But, for sure, he is a YOLO (You Only Life Once) misunderstood.” Shien. Actually, he didn't like to gossip like this. But, he must not let Fina like the male model Jackson who lives freely, doing whatever she wants even crazy things, which is important happy and not cross the law. Shien later said that Jackson only loved himself and never intended to commit to anyone. That's what he heard when Jackson was talking to Aunt Hilda when he was seventeen years old, the time when he first met and knew Jackson.

“So, you don't expect that madman.” Shien exclaimed later. But, Fina even smiled to herself.

“Hey, that lifestyle can change. And I'll be the one behind the change.” Fina is confident. Shien just thunched while twitching his shoulders, whatever.

Fina was about to open her mouth to go back to discussing Jackson, but was interrupted when her phone suddenly rang a chat message sign coming in. He scrunched his forehead as soon as he read the name of the Sky on the phone screen.

“Your phone is off, Shi?” Fina asked shortly after she read a chat message from Sky asking for Shien's whereabouts because the girl's phone could not be reached.

“Ceet nanyain you.” Then point his phone to show the message to Shien.

Shien was silent with his countenance turning cold. Shien did not want to meet or communicate with Sky today. Eating it, since last night his phone accidentally turned off. He was still disappointed by Sky's unconscious speech yesterday. Not only that, after exiting the puppet palace, Sky ignored him and returned to playing with Shanna. In fact, Shien had previously invited him to go to the Ice Age rides.

“Abis riding roller coaster, yes, Shi.” Say Sky after Shien's invitation, for then he passed away with Shanna.

Shien simply nodded at him. He waited with Nathan at the rendezvous point, but until the afternoon of the evening, the sky just returned with a sparkling smile adorning his face.

“Shi, why dream?” Shien flinched, Fina's voice and hand wave instantly disperse his daydream.

“Many works, I matiin mobile phone let not be disturbed.” Shien pretexts while avoiding eye contact with Fina, pretending to read Jackson's book.

“Yes now, right, it's time to go home. You turn on the phone dong again, Shi.” Fina Sahut.

“Not yet on charge.” The girl again reasoned.

“This time you want to reply chat him what is not?” Ask Fina. Shien then replied briefly. “Nggak.”

“You guys have another problem?” Ask Fina full of questions.

“Ehh, Fin. Said he was going to the mall looking for a gift for your dad?” Shien hurriedly switched the conversation. He doesn't want to share anything with anyone right now. Shien just wanted to calm himself down at this moment. That'sthat's all. And he will meet the sky later after his heart is calm. At least one day.

Fina patted her own eel. “Almost I forgot. Good thing you ingetin.”

“Ayo.” Shanna then stood up, then grabbed her bag that was draped on the back of the chair.

“Lho, you want to come?” Fina asked with both eyebrows linked in wonder.

Shien nodded. “You guys want me to buy.” He said later, considering he wanted to buy a tie clamp for Papa as a gift. Come to think of it, Shien had indeed never given a gift to his parents. Maybe she wants to buy something for her mom too. And he could ask Fina's opinion for the item she was going to buy.

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It was enough to spend an hour for Fina and Shanna to buy the items they wanted. Counting fast because they already know the goods and stores to go before they enter the mall.

And now, the last goal is to buy a gift for Mama. Shien had yet to obtain it as he was still thinking about what to buy for the woman who had given birth to him.

A few minutes thinking, Shien decided to go to the jewelry store as per the advice of Fina. She said mothers usually like something sparkling.

But, perhaps Shien's decision to come to the jewelry store in the afternoon was a big mistake. In fact, there are still glittering items besides jewelry. He can buy shoes or branded bags that are famous among mothers. Being here now, at the wrong time, made Shien suddenly have trouble breathing.

He saw Heaven and Shanna there, coinciding with a beautiful girl who looked elegant with her hijab greeting and chatting with Shanna.

“Yeah, I didn't expect to see you here. More beautiful, Sha.” Said the hijab girl after breaking her arms with Shanna. Shanna laughed gracefully, then went back to praising the hijab girl.

“Ohh, yes. Who, Sha?” The hijab girl rolled her eyes towards the sky with a meaningful smile. “Pacar? Or a future husband?” Shoot later.

Shien smiled shyly. Then, he intentionally hooked his hand on the arm of Heaven.

Shien looked at the man who seemed oblivious to his existence seemed to move uneasily, but his mouth was still frozen, neither denying nor justifying.

But, the silence of Heaven can make anyone misinterpret. Including the hijab girl who then nodded meaningfully as if confirming if Heaven and Shanna were in a special relationship.

I don't know what the hijab girl and Shanna were talking about after Shien witnessed it. Clearly, his world seemed to have stopped, there was not the slightest sound that Shien could hear right now. His ears were ringing loudly, like something was clogging him.

Until the small paper bag containing the tie clamp he was carrying fell on the floor, then he realized, and along with that, Heaven and Shanna turned to him.

Shien stared blankly at the two people in front of him. The hijab girl was no longer there. It might have gone and Shien didn't notice it.

“Shi. . .” The sky looked surprised as he released Shanna's hand which was still pampering his arm.

“Sky, can you not be too nice?” Shien asked with a disappointed look.

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To be continued. . . . .