You're My Antidote
Munchies

Rani had tried to convince herself that everything the King said on the television screen was for their own good. Save his good name by showing that they love each other.

But his heart is troubled. Either fear of being hurt if he gives up his heart, or fear being disappointed because he puts his hope in what the King says is true.

His intention of coming to the parlor to pack ended unfocused. Rani chooses to accompany her younger siblings playing in the backyard of the parlour to take her mind off a King. A man who can make him miserable.

The first fifteen minutes he could still play and laugh with the children. But the next minute, the kids play by themselves and the focus has gone somewhere.

The sound of children's laughter. The screams of those who were near him seemed to be in another dimension. Unseen to the eye and left him alone there.

I don't know how long he has been cemented, until his brother's call to name that has made his heart and mind chaotic pulled him from his own world.

His head quickly turned behind his back. The king stepped closer.

The more the King approached, the more his heart pounded hard. The King's movement was even slowed down. Feels too long. Makes it hard to breathe.

Rani shook her head hard. What's up with him?

"King's brother is here?" welcome stand.

Rani who used to say anything to the King - even though this man in front of her did not like - now felt awkward.

I don't know what to do with the king. Bewildered in his mind to behave as usual and assume the King's talk is only a wind past. But why does it feel so hard?

"There was nothing to do in the office." the towering man before him raised one hand and stared at the circular object there. "I thought you were done packing. So I came to pick up because the driver had to go back to the office."

Rani whines in embarrassment as she stares at the clock on her wrist. So much time was wasted as he daydreamed earlier. He didn't even realize it was sitting there that long. He had promised to go home before the King came home and cooked a special meal. But the man came to pick me up.

"Why?" The king looked at him with a astonished expression.

"Rani hasn't packed up at all.. Sorry.." great-granddaughter when muttering the word sorry.

The king shook his head and spoke before turning back to enter the parlour. "You're always so good at work. But it's always going outside."

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There are so many drivers. And the driver that the King asked to help take Rani was a driver who was specially hired for him. So there's no reason for the driver to go back to the office if it's not on the king's orders.

But the King decided to pick Rani up to go home together and send the driver home.

The king believes Rani already knows the news that has been circulating. And the King is sure that even though Rani looks tough and ordinary, the girl must still feel sad and inferior.

In his heart there is a sense of wanting to protect and not allow Rani to be sad. Especially if it is related to him.

Justright. As soon as he reached the home, the chairman's mother said Rani had not started packing and was playing with the children in the back yard. When he got there, the view he got was Rani who was silent. Far from accompanying children to play. The king even believes Rani is daydreaming to see the girl who is not aware there are children who are fighting and fighting over toys.

The king wanted to give time to Rani himself. Give the girl as much time as needed until her heart and mind are relieved. He just stood at the door and stared at one point for a long time. But his existence was first realized by one of the orphanage children who called his name so cheerfully.

Rani turned her head towards him so quickly after coming to her senses from the daydream.

Act as if it just came. The king put his hand in his pants pocket and walked up to the girl. Returning pretending not to know that the girl has not packed up just to scorn Rani and leave her back in the orphanage.

Rani chased after him at a quick pace and aligned him. "Where is the king going?"

"Your room?"

Without showing that he was ashamed. The king turned around and walked calmly and his expression was flat.

"What do you want with the king to go to the room, Rani?"

"Help you pack." she replied briefly as usual.

To be honest the King wanted to know Rani's reaction after hearing what she said at the conference this afternoon.

Will Rani feel confident and loved? Expressing it noisily as usual and even hugging it?

Or does the girl think that what she is saying is just a charade and swallow it whole without even considering it?

The king accuses Rani of stopping in front of a room. "Sir King sure you want to come in?" asked the girl holding the doorknob behind her back.

"Can't it?"

Rani shakes. "Rani's room is a mess."

King grunts. Is the girl ashamed of him now?

Shifting Rani's small body, the King opens the door of the room and enters. Staring around Rani's room which measures 3x3 meters. Room where his wife used to sleep. The spacious room is not even to the extent of his bathroom.

There's a two-door closet flanking the dresser. Above it are some books. Also a single bed for Rani to sleep on.

The girl immediately ran around collecting whatever was scattered. Because the mess that Rani means is not just a pleasantries. But it is a mess in its true definition.

"Rani said what too! rani's room is a mess!" decak the girl after hiding the items the girl had picked up and storing them in a large paperbag.

The king only replied by raising his shoulders and sitting on the edge of the bed. "Bring what you need to bring! leave what you don't need!" he didn't want to hear Rani grumble.

Because Rani refused it helping pack the goods. The king chose to look through the collection of books on the dresser.

"Rani get Rani's letters in mom's room first huh, brother. Brother King wait here."

The king nodded without turning his head because he was looking for a book that was interesting enough for him to read.

His hand found an orange book with a brown ribbon. From the first page that contains the opening, the King can already guess if it is a diary belonging to Rani.

The king knew he had no right to know what was inside. Violate the privacy of people if he reads the contents.

But the King accidentally opened the last page containing some of the girl's wishes that wanted to be realized. And there's a name in one of those sequences.

When I heard steps approaching. The king put the book in its original place. He also sat on the bed and pretended to play on his cell phone. I don't know how many times he's been pretending in a few hours. And for the same girl.

There was a complicated feeling after reading Rani's wish list. I don't know what he should do.

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