Time Travel To Meet The Prince
The Story

Cassandre stiffened, the cup containing hot chocolate that had just touched the surface of his lips suddenly fell and broke. Make the contents spill, flow everywhere.

Stupidly too, why did he not realize that the sweet drink was still hot, his lips just grabbed. And this is the consequence.

As he began to crouch down to pick up the shards of the ceramic cup, someone held his hand and looked with a worried face "Let me alone."

Cassandre shook his head "No need, Julian. Just do your job."

"But this is my job."

"Yes, sorry."

Julian nodded obediently, glancing at his superior with worry. Both of the women's hands were trembling and stiff. Realizing that Julian saw her, Cassandre hid his hands behind his body, then rushed to his private room.

"He doesn't look okay."

On the other hand, Cassandre raucously hid his sudden shock. Like spontaneously he dropped a glass filled with hot chocolate earlier, like surprised by bad news.

The woman took a deep breath to neutralize her thoughts, while leaning against the closed door leaf "Of Cassandre, nothing bad will happen. Your family is fine, your family-Luz. but he's not okay" he murmured.

Remembering the princess, it made her sad again. Though it has been two months since Luz left this era, towards another era in the past, just as the girl is dead. But anyway, he only had one child, and surely the memories are clearly only Luz.

His chest felt tight, like being stabbed by a blunt object, the pain did not stop. Suddenly, Ereluz's shadow surged out and filled his brain, like a message was delivered to him, about Luz.

Cassandre cupped his hands together to pray for Luz's safety "May you calm down there, son. I miss you so much."

...---...

"Yesterday someone wanted to rent a private room again for a big event, but Ms. Cassandre is not here, the booker has left a phone number on behalf of his company, please give this to the boss, yes," the cashier said when he saw Julian walking toward Cassandre's room while dripping with a mop and a bucket.

Julian nodded in agreement, all of you who want to clean up the remaining hot chocolate spill in front of the Cassandre room earlier.

He first put a mop and bucket in the corner of the room, and switched to knocking on the door of Cassandre's tightly closed room.

"May you calm down there, son. I miss you so much."

But his intention was scrapped when he heard Cassandre's voice sounding was muttering alone. There hasn't been anyone since Julian went to get the mop.

The voice sounded pitiful, causing Julian to knock on his door for a few minutes. The man then decided to mop the floor first, rather than having the brown water dry and the suasah removed.

Recalling his boss's words earlier, Julian thought of something about his son. Back when they were kids, it seemed like they had met, exactly on the day the Julian family was destroyed.

Cassandre's only daughter cried at the funeral of Julian's mother who died after giving birth to Nathalia. The little boy cried out while screaming incessantly, his two little hands were also endlessly tearing the grave ground. He cried just because they did not go to buy a doll, their journey stopped when they heard the sad news from the Girasol family, his father was forced to turn back the car that was about to go to the toy store, turn to the tomb where Julian's mother will be buried.

Although his daughter continued to cry because her desire was delayed, the father also could not comply with her will. The grieving man is his own friend, there is no way he missed the funeral of his friend's wife.

As a result, the young Ereluz left almost everyone on set, annoyed and half-dead. Because, he did not want to stay still and scramble the tomb, the flowers in the cemetery around were taken and thrown everywhere. The atmosphere of grief was made violent by a child not knowing themselves.

His age was the same as Julian's, but Ereluz was more childish, the boy seemed to not understand the situation. If Julian became him, it is certain that he could delay his desire to buy toys. That made him upset, eager to hit the wayward Ereluz.

"Mrs Cassandre is like praying for the dead. But, wasn't his son still alive," his superior had indeed said, as if his daughter was dead.

"Who is dead?"

Almost toppled over, the woman suddenly stood behind Julian who was bending over to mop the floor.

Julian smiled awkwardly, then reached into his pants pocket "Eh, ma'am, this is a new customer's phone number, said the cashier, this person wants to rent a private room here."

"Oh, thank you," the woman replied rather surprised, lucky that her husband already has a 'name' as a director and is quite famous, so it is not difficult for him to open a new business opportunity. "By the way, you came early today. Even away from the usual hours you come."

"My school's off today, ma'am."

"Oh? Why holiday?"

Cassandre nodded his head in understanding "Where are you at school, Julian? It's second grade, right?"

"Yes, I'm second grade. School at La Carlos Senior High School."

"Hey, really? Your school is the same as Luz's, "welcome that woman looks happy.

Julian felt familiar with the name, it seems like he had recently heard the name Luz mentioned "Luz? Is she your daughter?"

"Yes, Ereluz Rivera. You guys knew each other when you were kids."

'Oh, so the name of his son Ereluz, isn't he the child who moved, as Leura told me, ' Julian's inner self. "As I recall there was a student named Ereluz, he had already moved abroad before I moved to the current school."

Cassandre's lips, which had previously formed the arch of a smile, now changed drastically to flat "Luz had indeed moved abroad, he was wayward. That's why my husband and I moved him to live more independently."

'Ereluz is a boy who he says bullies, it looks like Mrs Cassandre lied about this. Or maybe he's embarrassed to have a wayward child like Ereluz, so the school moved, ' again Julian grew suspicious. "Said friends, once a daughter whose name was Ereluz was very evil."

Cassandre was still speechless but his gaze implied disappointment as well as sadness "So many already know? Luz did act from the beginning of school, even since childhood, maybe," he then sighed long "Luz is wayward, but I'm sure now he's better there. Please don't spread bad news about him, will you?"

"What country is she now in?"

Cassandre was made excited by the question his new employee had just asked "Ereluz... Ereluz studied in southeast Asia," where Cassandre spontaneously revealed.

"Well, far away. Which country?"

Seeing Julian looking enthusiastic about questioning his daughter, Cassandre could not bear to let her go, "Later if she comes home, ask her yourself."

"Oh? Is he going home?"

"Do'a'a'll be yes."

...---...

It's eight o'clock, but Julian just left school. He leisurely walked to a place to gain his knowledge. Though it is located quite far from his apartment, but for the sake of not wanting to waste money to ride the bus, it is better to walk alone, which can also burn body calories.

"Hey, Julian Girasol! Why did you just come?! What time is it?"

Just as his feet stepped into the school grounds, it was not a good greeting even a rude reprimand received by him. Julian is wrong. He admitted it, for that his lips were locked tightly and chose to ignore the protests of those who knew it.

"Hi Leura," he greeted cheerfully as his eyes met a glance with the girl, just out an aura of kindness. It seemed like Julian only felt the level of a good person from Leura, not with anyone else.

Who is called to look disappointed "Why you leave so late, many hours of lessons you've missed."

Julian placed his bag containing only one book without appendages such as stationery, on his desk adjacent to Leura's bench "No problem, while I can learn on my own."

The girl looked snorted at the answer. Well, hearing such a remark as if humbling his foolish self, Jukian was like upholding his own intelligence.

Understanding the other person's feelings for which Leura was, Julian immediately turned to the girl "I'm sorry, I mean. I still bothered this morning, so it's a little late for school."

"It doesn't seem so."

"Don't think badly of me, your head will hurt."

"Nothing to do," Leura said with a broken laugh, but quietly "Oh, yes. By the way, when will we learn together. Help me, you're so smart Julian, sharing a little science won't lower your intelligence, will it?"

Julian laughed in response to her "I'm going to your house soon."

'And for the time machine.'

*TBC

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