A Flavor to Love
10-2
Kirana linked her ten fingers and raised both her hands up for a stretch. It does not feel like spring break is almost over when it feels like just yesterday he set foot here. He immediately got out of bed and immediately cleaned it up before he took a bath. After feeling neat, Kirana rushed to pick up her pink towel hanging behind the door of her room to move to the bathroom.
"For Nek..."
"Dearly, let's take a bath, has been awaited Nak Akio from earlier," Demi Papa Mama who is likely to give her a sister with a presentation of 0%, has been waiting for Nak Akio from earlier%, how could he see Akio at his Grandpa Grandma's house now? And of course with that shitty smile of his. Damn it!!! The manipulative opportunist!
Half an hour Kirana spent taking a bath and now she was on the front porch with Akio who had been smiling indistinctly in Kirana's eyes.
"What are you laughing at?" Ask Kirana jutek.
"No, just feeling I made it into one of your strongholds," Akio shrugged his shoulders as he picked up the market hawker Wahya had bought when he knew he was coming to his house. At the time he came to this house, a warm welcome he received directly from a husband and wife who were unpretentious. There was no ordinary inferior atmosphere he could get when others knew who he was. The warmth that enveloped in this house made him miss the affection that had been lost. Naturally Kirana grew up to be an independent person, as it is and always voiced her heart no matter who is in front of her. "It's comfortable, yes, I can relax to calm down. It's only fitting that you escape here to avoid me if there's a pair of Grandpa and Grandma who love and love you so much."
"Come on, what is your real intention Young Master?" Kirana is anxious with the words Akio tends to give a puzzle.
"Lie if I have no intention of you Miss or...Onna?" The slanted grin on Akio's face made Kirana even more angry and pulled the blue hoody t-shirt Akio wore to make the distance between them shorten.
"Pull your word Young Master! I hate it when you say that word like you're harassing me! Isn't that enough for everything you've done for me?!"
"Be mine Kirana," The sharp but tender gaze within made Kirana speechless. The grip of his hand on the collar of Akio's shirt weakened as he felt a warm stream flowing down from Akio's big hand. For some reason his heart was pounding hard for the first time he saw there was seriousness behind the soot eyes. Though the sentence that Akio said he had heard but why did this time feel different?
"Don't joke, didn't I say I wasn't an item, yet" Kirana smiled stiffly. "It's just a matter of covering up your ego that's hurt from dealing with people like me Young Master."
"Akio, call me Akio" Akio said seriously. "And I realized you're not an item but someone who can equip me to no longer run away from reality."
"What do you mean?" Kirana took off her grip and broke off her eye contact. He turned himself to his favorite drink for breakfast, a cup of hot cappuccino to cover his nervousness. Damnit damnit! Why is it that only now he feels this nervousness when he and Akio have already! Nah! Don't remind him that night!
"It's a lie if I say I don't miss your voice, your lips, your sigh and that's-"
"Stop!" Kirana silenced Akio's mouth with both hands. "Please don't continue with that. Do you want to add to the trauma and burden of my life?" Kirana's anger turned into anxiety. "It's enough that I made my whole family, especially my parents, cry over me for the trouble I made before I knew you. Don't add to that by reminding me of the event, you won't understand..."
"Hmm..," Akio released both of Kirana's hands from his mouth. "How many times have I heard the same reason? What was the problem first? Why are you so mysterious? Even I told my intel to know who you really are I found no trace of anything as if someone more powerful than myself was protecting you. You're like a ruby box asking me to crack."
"Who told you to come near me?" Kirana puffed her cheeks in annoyance and released Akio's hand grip which seemed to send a warm stream that triggered her heart to beat faster than usual. "I did it on purpose and even my closest friends don't know who I really am unless he's lucky to meet the people closest to me and that's outside of my Grandpa and Grandma. You bribe with all your wealth they won't open their voices."
"What do you mean?"
"I'm the only son of Fujiwara Interprise heiress who you know is the biggest retail and e-commerce holder with the trademark QLONE who lived under his Grandfather's shadow after the death of both his parents and only had one a friend named Kazuto Hoshi. My little rebellion began when I met my senior Daichi Matsumoto who was both bored with our routine as heirs." Hearing her sister's name was called making Kirana hold her breath for a moment. So all this time his brother had a friendship with this man? I thought her brother was a real troublemaker! Where is that ugly nature?! The feeling of his parents was nothing like that? Kirana's grumbling is upset.
"Clubbing, alcohol, and women were the daily food of the three of us until I made the mistake of almost screwing Kazuto's fiancee's cousin, Park Ha Neul," Akio chuckled lightly at each thought of the incident. "Kazuto was furious and furious at me and Senpai then cursed us both to fall in love with the person who hated us so much. I thought it was nothing but empty talk that would never happen given our track record of failure to conquer women zero and Viola, proved I died a flea in front of you."
"Hey, it's none of my business!" Kirana Protest. "Her fault broke the hearts of many women! That's why it's karmic, right?"
"But I want to turn that karma into something that ends up happy," Akio looked back at Kirana's hazel eyes making his owner gasp. "I'll be back in Japan soon and finish my script and trial as soon as possible to take my S1 title. I wanted to escape the shadow of my grandfather and focus on being the CEO of Fujiwara Interprise completely and no more messing around. If that time comes, would you give me a chance to open up a little of your heart?"
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Kirana looked at the ceiling of her room. Akio's words this time really made him tingle and not wrinkle. Just this time he saw an Akio Fujiwara with bad frills behind him turning into a very mature person in Kirana's eyes. A red hue slowly began to creep across his face when Akio dared to steal a feathery kiss while he was still stunned by the man's words.
"Yahoo!!!" Shouted Kirana frustratedly while hugging the bolster next to her. All his life he had dated several times but none of them were able to make his heart tremble. Meanwhile Sutomo and Wahya looked at each other then smiled knot.
"Kirana is the jewel that fills our loneliness. Even though we got it with our selfishness towards our daughter and her husband. But we are satisfied to have educated him to be a cheerful, simple, and what he is like his mother. And now it's time we release him for someone who's most sincere to him." Said Sutomo when he arrived a foreign guest who is good at his mother's language early in the morning on his quiet Sabbath.
"How did Grandpa and Grandma know I was sincere to her?" Akio looked straight at the old couple.
"Because you look like Kirana's father when he struggled to propose to his mother" Wahya laughed warmly. "If you meet Kirana's mother you will know Kirana's aura to be feared and respected the men came from. So not just any man can conquer his heart."
"And it is visible from your eyes. Even though we know you've wanted to get angry many times and give up because of his stubbornness and straightforwardness and his mystery trying to keep who he is." Sutomo. "Well, how else, she's really a copy of our daughter."
"Will Grandpa and Grandma still respect me even though I've been acting wrongly to her so much that she's mad at me?" Akio asked doubtfully.
"Everybody's done wrong, son, it depends on how you try to fix it." Sutomo bak oasis in the arid desert of Akio's cold heart. A sense of warmth flows in the heart of the man who has long lost the feeling of having a family. "You are a man and a man is judged by his actions, courage and struggle and patience."
Akio smiled considering his visit to Kirana's Grandpa and Grandma's house. His last talk further rounded his resolve to fight for the woman.
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