AMONG HIM

Conversation In The Dark

Dee is teaching Shadow to do chores from her school, while the adorable cheek owner chooses to sit on her mother's lap. The sun followed Dee and Shadow as if the little girl understood when her eyes had dimmed many times but was held back.

"Sunshine sleepy?" Dee asked gently to her youngest child, she saw a brown bead like Ricchi's stuffing and rounded it

"Mothers... Sunshine's sleepy when studying." The words of the little girl were heard by Ricchi and Liam who were discussing the film project they were going to work on. The two grown men immediately laughed out loud.

"But the one who learned brother Shadow, not Sunshine." Dee stroked the hair of her son who was laying his head on his chest.

"Mother.we just play. Shadow has learned it? Let's play."

Shadow moved his lips and stabbed his sister in a pencil.

"A little while the spoiled child. Dad, Sunshine said he'd sleep here." Shadow exclaimed to Liam, the narrow-eyed man turned his gaze to the girl who was peeking over Dee's shoulder

"Not true, dad. Sunshine next door is the same bobo." Sergey girl with soft cheeks while shouting

Shadow and Dee chuckled at Sunshine so they forgot about his sleepiness. The little girl walked towards her two favorite men.

"Dad." Sunshine's words climbed up Liam's thigh interrupted the men's discussion.

Ricchi could only chuckle at Sunshine's behavior, the little girl inherited his traits, low interest in learning and liked to bully others with his potent behavior.

"What's up, Sunshine?" Said Liam handing his ipad to Ricchi who was sitting next to him.

"Dad.is school compulsory? Why not school, not morning. Or school at home." The little girl's words poured out her heart

Liam chuckled a glance at Ricchi who seemed indifferent but folded his lips holding back a laugh.

"If your son is like this, I can't shadow him papa and mama when you were a kid, Ricchi."

"I hid under the bed, in the closet because I didn't want to go to school." Sahut Ricchi burst into laughter recalling his embarrassing past.

Still with a light laugh Liam looked towards Sunshine who pursed his lips as he waited for a long answer from his father.

"School is compulsory, Sunshine. Not to be smart, but to be friends. If Sunshine was at home, whose friend would he be ? Bird ? Big Brother Shadow's pet turtle? Since Big Brother Shadow must have gone to school, dad and papa went to work. Mom also sometimes goes with me to the office. Sunshine will take care of the house?" Liam said giving an explanation that could be examined by his little girl who stared with round eyes.

It took how many seconds Sunshine digested Liam's words and then the little girl shook her head violently.

"Yes.. Sunshine wants to go to school." He said in a weak tone

"Later if it's the 18th birthday you can choose a school or want to be an artist, like papa." Liam cupped Sunshine's bakpao cheeks

The little boy knitted his brows as if thinking then cheering in excitement, Sunshine descended from Liam's lap and returned to where Dee was, twitching at his mother's neck.

Ricchi took a deep breath looking at his son "He seems to be talented in my path, bang. But I do not dare to let Sunshine become a famous artist, we see for ourselves most child artists in Hollywood not a few whose adolescence is destroyed, drugs, alcohol addiction, and so on, then he kept on reporting his personal life. I want him to go to college, like Dee."

Liam stared at Sunshine who was so cheerful that he joked with Dee and teased her brother.

"You're too early to think about that, Ricchi. He was 3 and a half years old, the school was still preschool."

"Dee.. Did you have any cravings for Sunshine's pregnancy ?" Ricchi

The long-haired beauty turned to look at Ricchi with a face that took away "So I don't know for myself, why ask again."

Dee returns to focus on Shadow who painstakingly learns while the bully plays his mother's hair.

"Sunshine can still change, we have time to guide her. While there's Dawn teaching her son, she's a very patient mother. Didn't you see Dawn's big change after giving birth to Sunshine?"

Ricchi nodded his head "The calmer, his maternal nature is very high. He used to be able to talk out loud to get his head out. Now her life is filled with Shadow and Sunshine, not arguing over anything we ask for. Bang, is Dee depressed about the life she lives? Are we putting him under pressure ?" Ricchi's handsome face suddenly pias

Liam turned his head to look at Ricchi, both of them looking at each other meaningfully.

...

Dee walked carefully as in her hand was carrying a pot of meat soup to the house next door. Ricchi said he was busy writing, while his two children were asleep until the man could not come next door for lunch.

"Sister." call Dee while putting the nonstick pan on the stove. Women wearing grey t-shirts and bone-white toad pants climbed the stairs to Ricchi's study next to the master bedroom.

"Sister." Call Dee again after seeing Ricchi focusing on his macbook

"Yes." said Ricchi without turning around, Dee also sat his body on the sofa made of leather. He knew very well that when Ricchi wrote, the man could not be bothered.

The actor always took the opportunity to write when Shadow and Sunshine fell asleep, Dee sometimes surprised to see Ricchi wake up regularly taking care of his two children and drove him to school.

While waiting for Dee floated his gaze on the Ricchi workspace, not too much furniture is very minimalist which is certainly dominated by black and brown color.

Dee's eyes were glued to a small green velvet box on the back shelf of Ricchi's work chair.

Slowly Dee walked up and grabbed the box, almost suffocating to see the contents. A beautiful rose gold heart-shaped diamond ring.

"Sir Ricchi, who would you propose to ?" Tanya Dee could not help but know the lucky girl who would have the ring

Ricchi raised his gaze fixedly on Dee then returned to his laptop "That's for you" he said slowly

"Huh ?"

Ricchi stopped his work and turned the chair he was sitting in towards Dee who was standing "Yes, that's for you, baby. Here I put it." The beautifully curved browed man grabbed the ring box from Dee's hand and placed it on the sweet fingers of the woman biting her lower lip.

"Just you, Dee. There will be no other." Ricchi's words kissed the back of the right hand's fingers where the ring was placed, while the beautiful woman's left hand coiled the engagement ring and Dee's marriage to Liam.

...

Liam was sitting at the dinner table about to eat a lunch menu that is very tempting but his eyes were then fixed on the sparkle of the ring on his wife's left fingers.

"Dawn, when did you buy the ring? The model is beautiful." Liam smiled faintly starting to scoop up his rice

Dee looked straight at Liam while smiling broadly "In the love of Brother Ricchi, I think to propose someone turns out for me, sis."

Liam choked and immediately grabbed the glass filled with drinking water then downed it hurriedly.

"Hei Ricchi's... Get to your door quickly. I want to talk."

"What the hell is a bang." Ricchi sounded lazy picking up his phone

Before long the man was wearing an oversized blue t-shirt and an ash jogger pants appeared from behind his door.

"What do you mean proposing to my wife while I'm alive. You pray I die ?" Furious Liam on the phone while looking at Ricchi who was laughing loudly

"Happy birthday, 40th bang."

"Damn you Ricchi, even my birthday is still 3 days away and you've made my heart feel like it's going to fall."

Ricchi laughed even more, actually they did not need to call each other because the sound of the two could be heard clearly with such a close distance.

"A warning to my brother to take care of his health, otherwise Dee would be mine."

Liam pointed his middle finger at Ricchi and the handsome man grew louder and louder.

"40 years of a very mature and perfect age a man. I can even add a sister to Sunshine. A boy seems to be complementing our family." Said Liam putting a grin on his face

"Abang !" Ricchi's strangulation was returned by Liam with a disconnected phone call

...

Liam embraces his wife's body in a warm embrace, a woman who never complains with two children who have very different characters while two grown men become friends of his life, amazing many rules and babbles.

"Today is so tiring of you, Wifey ?" liam asked as he stroked his wife's orange-scented head in combination with the mint

"No dad.. Just accompanying Shadow and Sunshine around doesn't make me tired." Sahut Dee closed his eyes

"But you also cook a lot, Ricchi was busy writing. I'm busy too. Need our help ?"

Dee exhaled slowly then shook her head "Who would work in a place like this every day, to a city 4 kilometers away and into the forest."

"Or you want to go back to L. A." said Liam then gripped his wife's beautiful lips, he was just about to deepen his pagutan but a loud voice sounded from the doorstep

"Mother father... Mom dad..." The compact screams of Shadow and Sunshine made Liam suddenly wake up to open the room door

"Dad." The exclaims of Shadow and Sunshine hugged Liam's leg and looked up at his father with his sulking face

"Dad... Papa said, tonight we can bobo with mom. Can you, Dad?" Pinta's two children are wearing the same modeled pajamas

Liam nodded his head at Shadow and Sunshine then turned his gaze towards the handsome man who was chuckling evilly.

The two little girls cheered and ran to the bed.

"Basic bully." Liam hissed as Ricchi barged into the bedroom. The man wearing cartoon-patterned pajamas like Shadow and Sunshine opened the closet and grabbed a thin mattress and spread it beside the bed.

Dee did not issue a protest, instead the woman was seen enjoying the moment her two children embraced possessiveness on her body.

Liam grabbed a pillow and went to lie next to Ricchi, for the three of them this was not the first time. Long before that when Sunshine was born, they took turns taking care of the adorable little baby in the same room.

"I was talking to Dee and you guys came along to interrupt." Liam folded his hands while closing his eyes

Ricchi screeched not to believe the man next to him saying "Speak or make out. Remember the deal bang, enough two kids."

"Yes, I remember it, Ricchi. Elementary ! I don't want Dawn in the maternity hospital anymore either."

The woman named by her name could only smile knotingly hearing the two men's conversation.

"I was proposing to stay in the city with Dee, if you two agree maybe we should re-settle in civilization."

Then the silence was created complemented by the darkness of the room which only the moonlight that entered between the windows made the two little girls have been asleep in peace a mother's embrace. While the two adult men were busy with the arguments in each other's minds.

"We wait for Shadow to enter elementary school, the remaining 5 months bang. Kindergartennya kelar, and we choose the best school that is not too far from home." Ricchi broke the silence

"What about these two houses? I was thinking if we moved in and this house would be unkempt."

"Just rent it.." said Ricchi casually "It's not that many actors want calm by pulling over."

Liam chuckled, "It's not you who used to, want to be quiet looking for calm."

"That was it, bang. Before I had Shadow and Sunshine. Now my life is very quiet, especially this afternoon a beautiful woman accepted my proposal."

Liam growled loudly "Damn you, Ricchi. How long have you been haunting me?" He whispered but was still heard by Dee. His wife could only chuckle lightly hearing the conversation of two men in the dark of night

"Until later, until death, until we are reunited. When that time comes, you give up for me. Like I'm giving up on this life."

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Shadowed

Sunshine

Paternity

Papa

no complaint yes, if you want this novel to keep going.

oh well, the first house belongs to liam and dee, and the second belongs to ricchi.