
"Yes, I also just found out not long before I was sprawled in this room" said Mas Liam.
I did not turn my face away from him for a second.
"I don't understand,"
"The dragon is not my brother. You could say my fate is almost the same as Ajeng," mas Liam smiled bitterly.
"At first we grew up together, our age was only 2 years adrift. That's why I'm actually the same Raga sis who is very connected. But do not know why, since we stepped on college, Raga began to change. He no longer wanted to play or just talk.." mas Liam moved towards the big window glass. The curtain is spread by itself.
"It turns out there is a big secret that has been covered by papi. It turns out that I am nothing more than someone else for Raga." he said again.
Mas liam put his hand into his pants pocket, "Maybe this is the destiny I have to live with, to make amends for my mother in the past. A woman who courageously enters into the household of another..."
"Mas.." I tried to reach his broad shoulders.
"It's okay, Chel. Maybe this burden should I share with you first, let me more lightly step into heaven,"
"Sshhh, don't talk like that..."
Again he smiled, "My mother came to the papi to hold him accountable. Papi, who we know as a great businessman, by all means silenced this scandal in various ways. And it turns out my mother died after giving birth to me, and I was taken care of by my mother. No matter what my mother's heart was made of, she could accept a child from another woman. But that's another version, the version Raga heard. The truth is not like that..."
"meaning? mr Raga heard that invalid news?"
"Yes. Because someone who wants to destroy Mahendra's family. That's why I'm desperate to be an assistant brother, I want to know who is the person who always checks on brother with the issues that are not true," said mas Liam.
"So that's right, my mother and papi are old friends. Recently married for a month, my mother was left behind by her husband, my father. Maybe it was a hunch or what, at that time the mother came to the papi office with her big stomach. He asked Papi to adopt me, because mentally and financially my mother was falling. But his arrival at that time turned out, causing new problems. His decency broke while in the papi office, and papi immediately ran the mother to the hospital. And that day I was born, but unfortunately my mother breathed her last shortly after seeing me born safely..."
I held her arm trying to give her strength, but Liam's mas turned out to be tougher than that. His eyes looked at the expanse of the sky with billions of stars that became decoration tonight. It turned out that what made me fall in love with Liam was because of the softness of his heart, evident when telling all the bitterness he felt, he said, he was so calm that not even a single drop of tears flowed from the corner of his eye.
"Then after that?"
"After that papi came by taking me home, and of course it became a shock in the papi household. Mami thought that Papi was playing with another woman, but Papi was one of the most loyal men. Papi told Mami the truth, but she didn't want to believe it. He said that if I wasn't a papi kid, then papi should put me in a parlour. But because papi has already promised to make ngerawat and keep me, yes papi let mami stay with his assumption,"
"You are strong, Mas.." said I who rubbed his arm again.
"I'm not that strong, Chel. But papi, he's willing to be thought of as the man who cheated on him to keep his promise, until I can be like this, he's brought the secret to a rut..."
"Until I finally found an article in a book in papi's study. It's all revealed who I am and how I can be in papi's hands. There I saw a photo of my birth mother for the first time, and most importantly a DNA test that explained that I and papi were 99.99% mismatched. And all that was justified by the lawyer who was sent by the papi while reading a will to all of us,"
"How about mom? I mean, Raga's mom?"
"Mommy is in shock and feels guilty. A year later mami caught up with papi, and that's what made Raga's sister hate me even more. Yes, maybe Raga's family will be intact if I never come and enter this family" said Mas Liam.
"No, Mom! That's not really. Life and death have been outlined by God, we as beings only run our life line, what happens has become His provision. Don't blame yourself." I said.
Now that he turned his back to the glass, I followed where he was going. His steps came to a halt right beside his body that was still lying.
"I'll leave quietly, if you will accompany Raga. The one who can regrow the love and warmth in his heart," Liam's cold hand wrenchedly touched my cheek. I held the hand that cupped both of my cheeks.
"No way, Rachel. Your heart must be given to Raga's feet, even though I am starting to like you, but we are different in the world. We can't have that feeling." said Mas Liam, he let go of his hand.
What if I had to fall in love and get heartbroken at the same time?
"Aakkhh?!!" mas Liam held onto his chest. His face is already shoots now add shoots and cold.
I tried to hold him so he wouldn't fall.
"Don't touch me, Rachel. Or your energy will be drained" said mas Liam.
"I don't care, even if you want to absorb all my energy as long as it can wake you up, I'm willing Mas.." I said.
"Don't be stupid, Rachel. You can faint for days after this." she said, letting go of my hand, trying to straighten her up again.
"I don't have much more time, I'm getting weaker" he continued.
"No, no. You can't say what your hand is, let me transfer my energy. Let you survive." I tried to reach Liam's hand, but he refused.
"Don't?!" said it.
"But why?"
"Just fulfill my last request Racheeel. I'm sure you can, Raga is a good person and she deserves a good one too" said Liam.
"I will fulfill my original promise, allow me one last time, give my energy to you, Mas. It's as if you can move for some time" I said with cheeks filled with tears.
"But only for a moment. Because your body will be weak if you give me your energy. And I don't want to," he said.
"Please, I'll be strong." I looked into his eyes, which were now turning soft.
"All right." said Mas Liam.
"How is it?" nervous say.
"Give me your palm, like this" liam raised his hand to the shoulder and showed his palms, our palms together.
Suddenly though...
"Racheeeeel what are you doing? fast away from her?!" scream someone.
Liam and I looked up.
"Sir Ragaaa?" i muttered.
"Away from him?!" said Mr. Raga who pulled me away from Mas Liam.