About Us 1 & 2

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Evgen looked back into the children's ward. He swallowed his saliva a little heavily.

He does not know if there is such a relationship in the world. He did not realize, that sometimes there are children who are only given a strong heart, as capital to live the hardships of life.

It was only fitting that Shenina could answer so quickly when she asked such a question. Perhaps it was because Shenina had experienced such a life, or perhaps, because she understood more about the meaning of life than she did.

Shenina smiled gently, she wiped the corner of her eyes. Pulling oxygen that felt heavy entering the cavity of his nose.

"Remember, when I told Uwak's wife I rejected me and Seta in her house. But this parlor accepted us very easily. I don't know who they are, I don't know the mothers here, but why? Why can they accept me who is hated by my own brother, but can be very accepted by foreigners."

Shenina smiled wryly and shook her head.

"Sometimes the world has to be this funny, Evgen. There are some people who refuse shellfish waste, but only accept the pearl. There are some more, they collect clam waste, to be a most valuable object. You ever heard that shell art can be more expensive than its own pearl?"

"Earlier," Evgen replied gently.

"Do you know why he is valuable? Though it is just a waste of shells that are often displayed?"

Evgen shook his head, now he began to understand. There's a wound the girl's trying to heal behind all this.

"Because of the journey of the shell, bitter, sweet, the story that is engraved when passed into a precious object that makes it valuable. Perhaps, some people like to pick up pearls in comparison to the waste, without him realizing, that all pearls are the same shape, but the shell waste, he will be formed how the manufacturing process." Shenina closed both her eyes.

Enjoying the pain that re-pierced his heart. Sometimes people forget that people like Shenina are part of the world.

But many times, Shenina and her brother in this parlour were only considered to be a decoration that could be thrown away if it was no longer useful to the picker.

"Evgen, here we learn to protect each other. Here we learn to love each other. We learn about how to defend ourselves, but we also learn about how to fight together. We are just a pile of abandoned humans, but we are all here to protect each other, share the burden of the heart and also treat each other's wounds. We can be very close without any blood relation, even sometimes we don't know, which part of the world he came from. All we know is one, when we are here, then we are the ones who will fight to love each other" Shenina explained gently.

Evgen was still speechless, with a thousand questions re-formed in his mind.

This time his eyes saw for themselves, what was a relationship that was mutually bound without blood ties.

It may be true that love can bring everything together. Even the bloodless ones.

Evgen lowered his gaze as he felt a pull at the end of his jacket.

The six-year-old boy looked back at Evgen's face with a twinkle of his clear eyes.

"What's wrong?" evgen asked gently, "why haven't you slept?" continued.

"Son, I dreamt that Dad would pick me up here, but I don't know what Dad looks like, can I overshadow my dad's face like Big Brother's?" ask the little girl plain.

Evgen let go of his smile, he knelt down in front of the little girl and stroked the tip of the little girl's head.

"Don't shadow like me. Because in this world a handsome person is just me" Evgen replied gently.

"In that case, may I imagine being a sister's bride when I grow up?" ask the little girl back.

Evgen again widened his lips, making both eyes narrow with water ganangan adorn the corner of his eyes.

"The baby is what you want to see. As long as it's your imagination, then others won't be able to ban it, right?"

The girl nodded her head, her little hands hugging the small doll that was already cuddly and also ambiguous. But it seemed like it was a very precious thing for him.

"Do you want me to sleep with you? I can read you a fairy tale."

"Come on!" The little girl pulled one of Evgen's fingers and dragged Evgen's large body towards her room.

Some other children were already asleep. But there are also those who are still lying while staring at the weathered ceiling of the orphanage.

"That's a lot of books there." Show the little girl to the row of used books in her room.

Evgen shook his head, he raised the tiny body up his level bed.

Evgen pulled out his phone and lay down next to the little girl. Open a comic app from inside his phone.

The girl's round eyes widened in unison, her little finger wanting to touch Evgen's phone screen. But reluctantly, afraid that his hand will make a mistake.

"Touch it, just hold it if you want to hold it" Evgen said, noting the girl's feelings.

His little head shook his head, he brought his head closer to Evgen's field chest. While her little hand hugged the little doll back in her chest.

"This is called a comic, you can read the story with the picture like this. Do you like it?" ask Evgen softly.

Evgen smiled again, but the tears from his eyes flowed by themselves. Between sad and sad, he does not know how to describe his feelings at this time.

Haru, sad, happy, and happy. Everything mixed up into one when I saw them all here.

"The comic is the name of the book that has the picture, it can not be eaten. You knew?" ask Evgen back.

The little girl shook her head. He still did not understand what the handsome man was saying.

"What's your name?" ask Evgen softly.

"Lena."

"Lena, what a pretty name. As beautiful as the person is," seduced Evgen with a gentle smile.

Lena looked back at Evgen's flat screen, still confused by what Evgen showed. He also did not know what Evgen was holding.

"What's this called?" ask him while touching the corner of Evgen's phone.

"This is the name of the phone, this can be used for calls, texts, chats and can make other," explained Evgen back.

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Evgen laughed again, for some reason when he was close to the little girl. Feelings of affection began to appear in his heart, whether this is what Shenina meant by love without blood relations.

I don't know, but now he's starting to understand how they can all accept each other. They only see who their friends are, but do not see where and who they are.

They are only friends with the person without seeing the status and past of the person.

"Alright, Lena. Let's go to sleep, don't play the phone anymore" Evgen said gently.

Lena nodded her head, her little hands started to hug Evgen's neck. Hiding his face into Evgen's chest.

The moment Evgen fell silent, there was a sense of turmoil that began to arise from within his heart.

Compassion, compassion and also pity. He felt it all when he saw this little girl.

Evgen sighed, folding one hand to make a pillow. His eyes stared at the seedy ceiling of the room.

His mind went back a few years. Back in the days when he and Rezi still often played together.

Rezi finds out that he is not his younger brother, but Rezi never considers him a stranger.

In fact, often Rezi relented for him, became a protector and shelter from all wrongs.

How spoiled he was for his brother, how much he relied on his brother in every way.

One by one, Evgen's tears shed as he recalled old memories. One by one their sweet memories were twisted in Evgen's imagination.

Maybe he doesn't know why Rezi hid all this from him, but all he knows is. Rezi was very sincere in treating him as a brother, he was even very sincere about himself.

Evgen glanced at Lena, he let go of the tiny arms hug. Scrubbing her head, kissing the girl's tiny forehead before exiting the room.

Outside of the room, Shenina revealed her smile. He was a little moved when he saw Evgen become soft while with the children.

"Lena's asleep? Then let's go home," Shenina gently asked.

Shenina walked down the grounds of that rundown house. Back home, because the night is getting late.

Evgen chased after Shenina's steps, he wrapped his arms around her, hugging Shenina from behind.

Shenina looked at Evgen at a glance, then she lowered her gaze, blushing.

"Shen, I don't know how the road you've been on all this time. But now I realize, that in this world there are many things that we can learn from the experiences of others," said Evgen softly.

Shenina smiled gently and bowed her head.

"Gue don't know why we always fight, but from now on I want us to start all over again." Evgen closed his lips to Shenina's ears.

"Shen, let's start dating again, repeating it once again. Because I want to be your girlfriend again."