100 Million Girls

RECOLLECTION

By noon, Leon had just woken up when he heard a loud ringing phone disturbing his sleep, the man picked up the object lying on the bed, and squinted at the messages that turned out from Naura.

Leon turned to the wall clock that had shown ten o'clock, and the promise with the woman was exactly eight o'clock, of course he was already so very late to fulfill it.

"I'm sorry" Leon said during a call he made to Naura and got an answer.

Naura nagged at first, saying that she had waited a long time, and once again the man apologized for her negligence.

"Where are you going to pick me up?" the man asked finally as Naura's annoyance sounded slightly eased. And Naura answered no need because Daniel was ready to take her.

Leon turns off the connection, feeling relieved when Naura takes him home to his office. And one message from Daniel made the man smile.

Daniel: I drove Naura out of pity, she has no one to accompany here, don't get me wrong.

Leon typed in a reply, 'good luck', as soon as the message he had sent.

Daniel: Successfully for what, I'm not doing the bodo*h approach.

The revelation made Leon laugh, and the man gave an explanation that he had nothing to do with Naura, and Daniel contacted her shortly afterwards.

"Are you not a couple?" ask Daniel across the phone.

Leon who was already seated then leaned on the head of the bed, "no," he replied briefly. Then Daniel went back to tell that Naura was so eager to remember her past with the man.

"There was one thing that made him choose to leave me, and if he remembered his past, maybe Naura would have done the same" the man said. "Help him remember what he wants to remember, and even if it wants him to forget later" he added, and after resuming some chats, they turned off the connection.

Leon returned his body to the bed, and the forgotten chatter of time with Lura that flashed in his memory, made him then smile.

***

William stopped his vehicle at Fernandes' mansion, after lunch at the house of the mother both went home to Lily's place because for a while the house they were going to occupy, the family said, the man was in Lily's room.

"Sister Leon's been eating?" lily's question made Leon who was taking cold water in the refrigerator slightly jump, the man turned his head.

"You just got home?" instead of answering his sister's question, the man asked back.

"What would Leon eat?" ask Lily.

Leon fell silent, looking at his beloved woman so deeply, "Lily, you don't have to worry about me, now there's a man you have to be more important to right now, no need to take care of me anymore" he said earnestly.

Lily was a little stunned, taking care of her brother was already her habit, but what the man was talking about was true as well. "I'm just asking," denied the woman.

Leon smiled, "and one more thing, you don't have to force your stay here to keep me company, William definitely needs privacy, I know that," he said, then walked away.

Left alone Lily so remember taking a drink for William, after bringing one glass of cold water, the woman stepped into his room.

"Thank you" William said as he drank a glass of water offered by his wife, and found the woman visibly upset he then asked her how he was doing.

"Darling, is it true that you're not comfortable if we stay here?" lily asked, "said Brother Leon you must need some privacy, and then I would follow you anywhere, "he said earnestly.

William put the glass in his hand on the table, then knelt in front of his wife who sat down on the edge of the bed, "the apartment is not too good for pregnant women like you, she said, there's no way you're staying with my papa's family, is there?" the question made Lily quickly shake her head, her husband's stepmother did not look friendly, how could she be at home. "What about Mami Willona's house?"

Lily was stunned, Willona's mother was so kind, but she also had a new family, the woman's husband might be content with her existence, and Lily shook her head again, "do you live here you're okay?" tanyakanya.

William tidied his wife's hair and she slipped it behind her ear, the man smiled, "because you feel comfortable, I don't care" he said.

Lily was certainly moved, her husband was so understanding, after saying thanks, he kissed the man's forehead in front of her many times.

William stood up, changed his shirt to a regular shirt, "today I want to be with you all day, because from tomorrow I have to work," he said, rising to the top of the bed, then lying there.

Lily who was still sitting then looked back, "You're going to leave me alone?" ask the woman.

William pulled the wife to lie down next to him, then rubbed his hand on Lily's stomach as usual. "There's an aunt, I'm not going home at night, the afternoon will be back" he promised.

Lily who initially glanced at her own stomach then turned to the handsome face of the husband. "Sister Leon also starts working tomorrow at your company?" tanyakanya.

William nodded, "for a while let him adapt first, after that just opened a personal effort," he said, taking one arm as his own head pillow, then said again. "Your brother would like that" he added.

Lily looked up, "what position are you going to give Brother Leon?" tanyanya.

William thought a little, "cleaning service," he said.

"No," upset William by pinching his wife's cheek, "of course according to his expertise in what field," he said later.

Lily who laughed made her husband more anxious, and repeatedly kissed the woman's lips to be satisfied.

William turned his head back as his wife pushed his face, "it's still noon, what do you want?" lily asked as her husband tried to disarm the T-shirt she was wearing.

William chuckled, "the new bride always knows no time, you should know it's Lily dear," persuaded the man by continuing to kiss the sensitive area of the woman in his arms.

Lily pushed back William's face to move away from his neck. "I was pregnant young, and according to the doctor should not be in frequent contact," he reminded.

The man who supported his head with his hand then seemed to think, "only once" he said, playing with his wife's hair lying before him.

Lily frowned, her countenance looking in disbelief, "really just once?" tanyanya was unsure.

Her husband closed his eyes for a moment, "two" she whispered after putting his lips to her ears.

Lily wriggled amusedly, "no," her scolding did not accept.

"I promise I'll do it slowly," said the man with a slight force, his gaze seemed to be pitying, and Lily was powerless by it.

***

This afternoon Naura asks Leon to pick up the woman at her office, and the man who does not know Naura also invites his cousin to come home together.

"You two alone, I can take a taxi," rejected Lura who felt bad if she had to be between them, but Naura continued to force her, so inevitably Lura also came with both.

"Aren't you going to pick me up again tomorrow?" naura asked that made Leon look at the woman, who was sitting in the passenger seat next to her. "Tomorrow you'll start work, right?" naura said, still pointing at her body, facing the man sitting behind the wheel.

Leon seemed to think, "if I wasn't busy, I could have picked you up again" he said, focusing on the steering wheel.

"But from tomorrow papa has allowed me to take the car, as long as it is with Lura, so not being picked up is okay, but if you want, then let my car be taken by Lura alone, I'll go home with you," he said at length, "wasn't that so Lura?" tanyanya asked for an opinion on the cousin who looked busy with his phone in the back seat.

Lura looked up, the woman looked excited, turning to Leon who looked at her through a deep rearview, "ah, of course," she replied cheerfully, though not listening too much to their chatter, but Lura can catch the intention of her cousin who will leave her car if picked up by Leon. Seems like.

"Take time for me Simba, because with you I feel like I have found my world back" Naura said.

At first glance Leon again glanced at Lura through the deep rearview mirror, and the woman who looked busy with the object in her hand was just plain, without the man noticing, as Leon's gaze turned to his cousin, Lura glanced at the man through the same rearview.

"Do you have any progress?" leon asked enthusiastically.

Naura nodded, "i remember you when we were both teenagers" the woman said.

Leon frowned, "has it really gone that far?" tanyanya did not believe.

Naura nodded again, then turned to Lura and smiled, who was met with a smile also by her female cousin. "When I met the doctor, he told me to remember someone who might have been in my past, and what I remembered was you, after that our teenage shadow just popped up" he said.

"Dad?" Leon seemed happy.

But for a moment the woman hesitated, "but if I was close to you as a teenager, why can't I remember Lily too!" tanyanya's confused.

"Lily lived in Outer Country as a child, being cared for by her grandmother since her mother died, and when her grandmother also died then she lived in this country." Lura replied, and it made Naura turn to him with a look of amazement.

"You know what?" ask Naura.

Lura smiled, "i've been friends with Lily since college" she said.

"Do you know each other?" naura asked with a look at Leon and his cousin in turn.

"Only limited to knowing the name, but not as close as you," replied Lura who made her cousin nod in confidence.

At first glance Leon can catch Lura's gaze through the deep rearview on it, somehow there is a feeling of regret, why he did not try to know the woman for a long time.

"Straight, please" asked Naura as Leon turned on the turnlight to turn towards his house. "We take Lura first, I want to take you somewhere" she added, and without denying Leon's will.

There was a feeling of sadness as Lura watched the closeness of the couple before her, ever since Leon's hot kiss that night, she felt like having the man for herself, was selfish, but that was how she felt.

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