
After his gambling house was torn apart, Wan Siang actually experienced a decrease in life spirit, to the lowest point in his life. The bruises on his face from being punched by his teacher gradually recovered, but his heart had not improved at all. He hoped that someone could comfort his troubled heart. Thankfully, there is the Sweet. With the girl, at least the paralysis of Wan Siang diminished.
The state of Wan Siang makes the Sweet One become pity and care, Wan Siang so have a reason to ask the girl to do something she wants.
Wan Siang woke up in the morning, but he did not get out of bed. The sweet one who saw it was astonished.
“Do you not want to do something?” ask the Sweet One, who had not seen Wan Siang's movements since.
“Do what? I told you that I was lazy to live, including moving,”, said Wan Siang with a flat face.
“How about Mr shower? Let body fresh.”
“If you bathe, then I want.”
Hearing that, the look on Sweet's face changed. He was still acting like a hospital nurse who faced patients, giving a feeling of sympathy for the patient's situation just for the sake of carrying out the task. Now Wan Siang's request becomes a thing that needs to be reviewed even more deeply.
“You said you want to take care of me?” Wan Siang billed the promise of the Sweet.
“Iya, but... Sir is already big, can shower yourself.”
“Yes already, then I want to keep quiet until there are spiders making webs on my body.”
“I prepare bath water and clothes, but later Tuan go to the bathroom by himself huh?”
“Do not want, I want to be bathed.”
Sweet is getting desperate, like he has no other choice. But finally he really prepared a warm bath in the bathtub Wan Siang made of metal so that Wan Siang could soak in it, then prepare a stel of clothes.
The Sweetie finally fulfilled Wan Siang's request, on one condition. He would bathe Wan Siang with his eyes closed, so that he would not be able to see his master's body. The girl tried not to touch parts of her body that she was not supposed to touch.
In order to help Wan Siang who was sad and disappointed, the Sweetie was willing to pretend to be blind to take care of the man. But even though his eyes were closed, he could not avoid the feeling of palpitations in his small heart. His heart was racing faster than it should have caused a pink tinge on both cheeks, due to the faster flow of blood. His face flushed with embarrassment and it was all witnessed by Wan Siang.
Although the Sweet closed his eyes, and the world darkened instantly in his vision, his mind could not stop creating the image of Wan Siang's body that he had seen before. It triggered the Sweet Man's heart to react unexpectedly.
Wan Siang smiled and enjoyed the sight of how the girl with the foggy feeling bathed him. Her flushed cheeks made the girl look even more beautiful, like wearing a natural blush. When Si Manis closed his eyes, Wan Siang could be satisfied to pay attention to the girl's face.
Although bathing with eyes closed, it does not necessarily make the Sweet One can avoid touching the skin of Wan Siang soft. Every time his hand touched the delicate skin of Wan Siang while soaping him, it became trembling, his feelings were chaotic.
The man did not expect that the misfortune he was experiencing made him have a reason to get closer to the Sweet, who usually always try to avoid him.
He even took a long shower. When the Sweetie said it was done, she deliberately asked to clean and rub again this and that part. The Sweetie also touched the parts requested cleaned, arms, chest, and some more that should not be touched by the opposite sex, but Wan Siang deliberately told to hold.
The new Sweetie dared to open her eyes when she had finished dressing Wan Siang.
“It's done Sir,” said the Sweet accompanied by a feeling of relief in his heart.
“Good work,” Wan Siang said with a strange smile.
After bathing, the next task of the Sweet is to prepare food and drinks, because Wan Siang only wants to eat if fed. So that is the routine that must be faced by the Sweet One every day, twice bathing and three times feeding in a day. What a troublesome job for a girl who is just growing up.
“I hope the condition of Mr. is getting better,” said the Sweet One after finishing giving breakfast.
“Why, did I bother you?”
“Let all back running reasonably.”
“So you think bathing and feeding me is unnatural? Isn't that what nurses do?”
“But I am not a nurse, I cannot behave like a nurse.”
“Why can't?”
“I'm ashamed, my chest is so deg-degan, I'm so scared.”
Wan Siang smiled at the grievance of Sweet. The girl did not know what she was really feeling. The Sweet's knowledge of oneself was very little, but Wan Siang who knew more came to understand that the red tinge on the girl's cheek was due to her heart pumping blood faster to the brain.
So the man listened to Sweet tell him about his situation by pretending not to know what was really going on.
“Quietly, it's not a danger.”
“Really, no danger Sir? I'm afraid..”
“Don't be afraid, you won't die because of it. It is precisely I who will die if not taken care of.”
“Means I want to take care of Sir, I'm afraid Mr. dead.”
“What is my life worth? I've made a lot of you difficult, but you want me to stay alive.”
“If you want to bother taking care of me, I will definitely live on.”
***
That afternoon Uncle A Seng and the men of Wan Siang at the gambling house came, wanting to know the state of Wan Siang after being beaten by his own teacher. Uncle A Seng felt the wounds on Wan Siang's face begin to improve, but he thought the young man's mental condition was still not back to how it was.
Uncle A Seng also brought a tablecloth containing money he had saved from the gambling house on that fateful day.
“Luckily I still had time to save our money,” said Uncle A Seng.
“Uncle is indeed smart,” said Wan Siang.
“This includes money in the drawer and safe. Could be our next venture capital.”
“But I'm not going to open a new business, Uncle.”
Wan Siang opened a tablecloth containing a lot of money, some of which he shared with Uncle A Seng and his men.
“This, let's just say severance. You open a business so you can live,” said Wan Siang wisely.
“Then how did you?” ask Uncle A Seng to Wan Siang.
“I want to shut up first.”
“You till when? You are our leader, and there are still many people who depend on you. You must rise, Wan Siang.”
Wan Siang thought about what Uncle A Seng said was true. But his soul was fragile, his heart still hurt.
“I've been beaten by my teacher who was told by my own Papa. I'm broken, I need Uncle's time. The broken glass can not be immediately intact again, it takes time to be rearranged. I'm trying to organize myself.”
“Uncle ngerti. Yes, you rest first. Later we can cooperate again another time.”
That's what Uncle A Seng thinks. It seemed like Wan Siang indeed needed to pull away a short item to reassemble himself from the rubble of destruction. And when he was destroyed like that, there happened to be a girl who played an important role in rearranging his life, namely the Sweet One.
***
When night falls, Wan Siang only want to sleep if accompanied by the Sweet, it also must be told first or sung lullaby songs while meninaboknya.
But sometimes they also take the time to talk for a moment.
“Sweet, did you miss your friends in the village?”
“Sometimes, Sir. But lately I haven't thought of them.”
“Can't I be your friends instead?”
“Master is already the person I think about more than my friends. All day I always think of the state of the Master, until not the mind of friends.”
“Did I consider you more than just a friend?” asked Wan Siang while paying attention to the look on the face of the Sweet One.
Sweet seemed to be thinking, he himself was confused, why his mouth could smoothly say things that had only been in his heart. The girl immediately noticed Wan Siang who was looking at her fixedly with a gentle gaze.
“I don't know. But I now think more of you than others. Every day I have to take care of you to shower and eat. That alone has kept me busy.”
“Do you mind taking care of me?”
“I can not object, life Sir is more important than my objection.”
“If I am forever dependent on you, do you mind?”
“I have no other choice. From the beginning, my father gave me to the Master, so now I am his Mr.”
“Yes, you're mine. You have to remember that.”
Wan Siang brought his face closer to the Sweet who was immersed in his thoughts. He was confused by the change in his feelings. The girl could not yet understand why the one in her mind was mostly Wan Siang.
But he used to think more about his father and friends who he always missed. Does he really not want to play like he used to? He hasn't played for a long time, so playing isn't what he thinks is important. After all, playing is a child's activity just to fill free time. The girl no longer felt like a child who needed to play. He finally realized he was an adult.
But becoming an adult is a leap of life that is so important and great for everyone's life. It's easier to be a kid who doesn't have to think much about the future. Being an adult is the process of recognizing oneself, mostly depending on the surrounding environment.
The environment of the Sweet at that time was very different from the environment that used to be. Life changes and the effort to know themselves are very determined by the environment that is not far from the life of a young man named Liem Wan Siang.
Maybe because the atmosphere was so calm and so close to the position of Wan Siang with the Sweet, the young man was encouraged to do something that was very surprising to the girl. Wan Siang brought her reddish lips closer to the moist lips of the Sweet One, then kissed her gently.
The eyes of the Sweet One became widened with surprise, without being able to run away anywhere. The girl felt how soft Wan Siang's lips were against hers.