AMONG HIM

How You Do Say Goodbye

Since that day, Ricchi returned to filming and never returned home. Even when Liam toured promoting his film, Dee was only alone with Shadow.

Lonely ? Of course yes, but in between the busyness of Liam, her husband did not forget to give her news by calling or sending a message. Another week of the 3-week tour schedule of the film directed by Liam will end and they can gather again.

If you remember the day after the incident Liam said a sentence that Dee will never forget for life. There is a very visible awkwardness between the three. They can still sit together at dinner, but they don't talk much.

Ricchi also when the morning arrived straight back to the set, just saying goodbye by kissing Shadow and the rest without any news.

Dee didn't bring it up with Liam either. Everything seemed to evaporate without any more discussion.

When Shadow falls asleep, Dee's chance to play the game fills the void of her time. For a moment he stared at the flat screen, opened the messaging app and stared at Ricchi's contacts. He was tempted to send a message to the man, but back he undoes his intentions.

...

The day passed very quickly and almost 2 months Ricchi did not return. According to Mike, the handsome man took a new series of medical drama genre. The density of the filming schedule made Ricchi choose to stay at the hotel rather than return home.

Hearing Mike's words on the phone reassures Dee that Ricchi is avoiding him and Liam. Everything has been tangled, the relationship of the three of them.

"Sister." muttered Dee in Liam's arms

"Hmmm..."

"Son't no more movie offers, is there ?"

Liam opened his eyes and loosened his embrace to look at his wife's face "There is... But I'm still thinking about it, Wifey. Yesterday was still tired. Didn't accept the film's offer because I felt it was time to be with my son."

"What if we go back to Indonesia, brother? Mom and Dad miss their granddaughter. We can all look at the house. Our children also need to know their origins."

Liam rounded his eyes at Dee's words, his hands stopped in midair as he cupped his wife's face.

"Did I not hear wrong? You want to go back to Indonesia, Dawn?"

The beautiful woman nodded her head "Shadow is enough for us to carry her. She's not as fussy either, your daughter's getting calmer."

Liam turned to look at Shadow's bed, his 7-month-old son. Her little girl who was getting more and more agile, she fell asleep from the fatigue of playing. When awake Shadow always reaches everything he sees. Although not yet able to walk, but the smarter use his hands to grip firmly and climb the sofa in the living room.

"You sure, Wifey ?"

Dee nodded as she clasped her husband's fingers.

Liam looked at Dee in the face, and he saw that there was something sad behind the smile that he was trying to show. Guilt also perched in his mind because as long as they were married he left more Dee. Even during her honeymoon, Liam had taken the film.

His poor girlfriend, how much you've suffered.

Liam kissed Dee's lips, then hugged her.

"We'll go home, I'll arrange our return. As soon as."

Dee closed her eyes, she felt a calmness in that sweet masculine-scented chest.

...

Everything is ready, the return of the small Farubun family just counting the departure hours but there is something Dee needs to finish before leaving the dream city. Meet with Ricchi.

With Liam's permission, he can also step foot into the set where the actor is filming. Mike who reported the leisure schedule Ricchi, the manager of the actor also who had picked him up in the parking lot.

Dee exhaled, expelling the nervous whack of her heart. His steps stopped for a moment to see Ricchi's caravan. Clenching his hands together, he hesitated and slowly knocked on the black door.

"Lake in." Ricchi's cheerful voice from the inside made Dee pick a moment

Kriet's...

The door leaf in the open from the inside, Ricchi's figure appeared using a black t-shirt with his hair disheveled.

"Dee ?" The eyes of the two looked at each other

"Sister." Dee said in a sudden hoarse voice, perhaps holding back the tears that were about to break into her levee

"Dee..." Ricchi immediately grabbed the pale-looking woman's hand into his caravan.

The actor who looks thinner than 2 months ago.

After both of them sit on a camel-colored sofa and made of fine velvet. About 10 minutes Ricchi and Dee just sat side by side but did not make any sound.

Dee played her nails with a downcast face, slowly after gathering the words she had arranged at home, she looked at Ricchi's face.

"Entah Ricchi already know or not, but we will return to Indonesia.. Tomorrow afternoon." Say it in the lowest tone possible

Ricchi's round eyes and tense face convinced Dee that this was the first time the actor had heard the news.

"Why ?"

"What's why?"

"I mean, what are you guys going home for? How long?"

Taking a deep breath Dee squeezed her own hand

"Sister Liam doesn't know yet, but I will plan to settle down in the homeland alone, brother. Demi Shadow is close to papa and mama. And... I feel more at ease being there than here."

Dee glanced at Ricchi's face then bowed, the man who then stood up from his seat.

Dee looked at Ricchi's back that was standing not far from him, the man's hand as if he was twitching his temple.

"So you came just to say goodbye, Dee ?" Ricchi's voice turned around and crouched down in front of the black-haired woman's knees

"Not good-bye, we're going home. That's all." Stiff-nosed

"You're gonna leave me, that's the point!" Ricchi's tears trickled down without excuse as if he was acting on a drama movie scene

With quivering lips Dee's short breath challenged Ricchi's bead eyes

"Who left first ? 2 Months 17 days ! She left the house without words. Even Kak Ricchi's promise to come home when Kak Liam toured, was not kept. Shadow and I were only two for 3 weeks. Even I know that brother's schedule isn't tight, because Mike's brother said it." This time Dee who passed the clear liquid in her fertilizer, sniffled.

"You never called me, Belviyah Dawn!" Reply Ricchi moved back away, resting his hair in a huff

"Dee..." Ricchi returned, this time he had dared to hold the fingers of the woman very much missed him.

"I think brother was angry, I gave time to ease those feelings. But I was just a big sister, always waiting for my sister to start, but what I got.. Ricchi's brother is getting away. What kind of man never goes home by himself. Until I feel like an unwanted occupant. We just hitchhiked in brother's house."

Dee's words were like a heart-wrenching indignation to Ricchi.

"I'm sorry, baby." said Ricchi cupped Dee's fingers together and carried them to his chest.

"Sister Ricchi is evil." cried Dee.

Ricchi exhaled a tight breath in his chest.

"Yes, I'm evil." Lirih

Ricchi sat on the sofa and immediately held Dee's body in his arms, the woman roared more and more with tears.

It dissolves in a moment of soul-stifling novelty. While rubbing Dee's back, Ricchi dropped one tear at a time on his cracker.

Why the love embedded in his heart can not be lost for 4 years 2 months 17 days, even stronger. Ricchi tried to stay away, but the feeling pulled him back.

Unbeknownst to the people at home, for 2 months he tried to date the woman he met. But only after two sleeps together, Ricchi has no desire to continue a relationship that has no direction.

And this time, he had to face the woman who was in the top position of his life would go, crowded thousands crowded squeezed him.

"Can your deck not come home? Abort it... I'm going back home." Mumbling softly about Ricchi tightening his embrace, he was really not ready to lose Dee

Scalp in the decapitation, hit Ricchi's chest.

"Isn't there any strength that can hold you back from staying here?"

The back of the weak head in the arms made Ricchi let go of his embrace. He cupped a reddened face from the crying, which belonged to Dee.

"You hate me, baby ?"

Dee shook her head, the woman cleared her throat "Maybe I hate myself more brother.I am the cause of all our awkwardness, I am the estuary of the lives of the three of us who ended up like this. I shouldn't have been near Brother Liam, shouldn't have known Brother Ricchi, shouldn't have been between the two of you. I should have stayed on the path of my life, not fallen into the glitter of your lives. I shouldn't have returned to Indonesia after living in Moscow, should have made sure you guys were happy just showing up. I should've just married Andrey, I'm the cause of all this."

Ricchi could see the seepage of Dee's tears like a spring in the mountains. It is the same.

"We won't have Shadow if you take another path, baby."

Dee's body was shaken at Ricchi's words.

"I'm sorry Brother.I'm sorry Brother Ricchi." Pekik Dee hysterically, Ricchi hugged the woman again.

"Maybe our way of life is like this. Can be anything but live it."

Ricchi felt how warm Dee's tears wet his clothes.

"Sister.if I go home... Big brother spirit here.I always pray for Brother Ricchi to be strong."

Ricchi bit his lip "How can I be strong, if what strengthens me is far away."

Be ill... That's what both of them feel..

Ricchi shifted the feeling by tying the hair of the woman who was still at home on his chest.

Dee pulled the body and wiped the rest of her tears. Raising his gaze to Ricchi's face, took a light breath.

"Dee.... "

Ricchi locked onto Dee's black bead then let out a very long sigh.

"Dee.. Do you love me ?"

He saw a glint in Dee's eyes, the woman who looked down.

"Thank you dear. I know the answer. Although I don't know the magnitude of that feeling in your heart, at least my feelings are reciprocated."

"I'm too greedy to be a woman, but there's only one I can have." Dee said pulling a faint smile

The man in front of Dee pulled his lips in and trembled, eyes dropping a clear liquid.

"I'm sorry, bang." Ricchi said softly at a glance closed his eyes, he also raised both his hands cupped Dee's face. Without permission, he fused his lips with Dee's.

Two people frowned with tears falling on their cheeks, evaporating the wrong feeling and stifling the heart.

"Sister Ricchi should be happy" Dee said after parting with the man's lips in front of her. He gently wiped Ricchi's tears.

The man just nodded slowly, staring at the woman that no one would ever replace.

"I love you, Ricchi.. I love Brother Liam too.. Tomorrow if I die, I'll be in hell because of this feeling." Dee said with narrowed eyes, a faint smile on her lips.

Ricchi shook his head "No, I will replace you, if that happens."

With small laughs with watery eyes Dee looked at the handsome actor

"In the next life, I'll choose you, Brother Ricchi, I promise."

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alo petas🥺..

back author remind, do not be too deep in this novel, as if this happened in real life..

just enjoy the drama, the tears are coming to an end... 😊

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