ARAKAS

CHAPTER 16

"What are you talking about?" tanya Karrel then switched the conversation. His head looked up at the overcast looking sky with both hands tucked into his pants pocket.

The girl did not answer. He looked at the back of Karrel who was behind him. Actually he hesitated for fear that the man was offended.

"Mm...ka..you didn't tell anyone else k.. If Ravel's brother was my brother, right?" ask carefully.

Karrel looked back at him. Sharp look. Ara grimaced softly, didn't she.

"You're asking me to just say that?" there was an unhappy tone from the man's words, and... angry?

Ara smiled clumsily feeling awry.

"A.aku h.just want to make sure" he said slowly.

"And I'm not one to gossip." Karrel replied coldly. I don't know why Ara became upset by herself because of Karrel's attitude. He just asked, it was wrong.

"Yes, I'm just his name." he said lazily.

"I don't want anyone to know Ravel's brother is my brother" he added, let the man in front of him be offended.

The forehead of Karrel is faintly wrinkled

"Why?" tanyakanya.

Ara sighed tiredly

"You know for yourself Ravel's a famous star. My life will not be free if they find out I'm his sister." replied Ara gave an excuse.

Makes sense. Thought Karrel. The common answer. He looked straight at the girl again and then turned away without saying anything.

Ara breathed a long breath. Basic sucks. Why would a man with a strange personality like Karrel be born in this world.

"When are you there? Don't want to come down?"

it turns out that the man hasn't really left. Ara turned around and looked exasperatedly at the man who was about to reach the stairs with a position facing her.

"I hear here haunted, there are often strange noises" Karrel said scaringly. Who asked him such an unimportant question. Ara who heard looked calm. He laughed at Karrel's lies.

"I'm not afraid of the devil or anything" she said confidently. He is actually scared but he does not want Karrel to succeed. He knew the man wanted to play again. Basic nosy.

Karrel chuckled slowly. The girl's words and expressions were much different from her words. It made him more interested in teasing the little girl.

"Yes already. You're here, I'm going down, bay." the fishing rod turned around to get out of there. Surprisingly, not yet down the stairs, his arm was already held tightly by Ara with a wide grin from the girl's face. Adain, it's a coward. Her thought.

The man laughed a little. I don't know when he started to feel good every time the girl stuck to him like this. He was eager to wipe the girl's head because of anxiety but in her custody. He tried hard to maintain his attitude.

Ara still clasped Karrel's arm tightly downstairs. He stuck to the man so scared. Even when Karrel stopped his steps and looked at him for a long time, giving the code that they had reached the bottom, Ara still had no sign of letting go of his hand from the man's arm. The girl looked back at the man confused.

"Until when do you want to keep this up?" karrel opened his voice. The conscious Ara quickly released her grasp from Karrel's arm. He smiled at the man.

"Would you like to go back to class?" ask him just a pleasantry.

"Why? Wanna come?" the man stared at the girl in front of him. Ara shook her head quickly. There are people, obviously they have different classes, why he is coming.

"Gapain is coming to your class, like there's no other job." he said.

"Yes." replied the man flatly then sauntered away. Ara stared at the sturdy back while shaking her head, playing away so, not very polite. Shortly thereafter, he walked in a different direction.

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At home Ravel sleeps on a soft mattress with eyes that look up to the ceiling of the room. His mind drifted to memory a few years ago. When he was fourteen. At that time Ara who was twelve years old, was still a boy. They used to be very close and even difficult to separate, his sister was always attached to him like gum.

He remembered Ara had a high fever because she had to participate in the three-day Olympic race, the girl was very dependent on him from the past. Their family used to be very happy, but since the events that took their mother's life, their relationship has been strained. Her father continues to blame Ara for her mother's death.

Ravel's own attitude turned cold to Ara and blamed her sister. If only four years ago Ara did not play out of the house, their mother would not panic and look for him until hit by a car. Ravel clenched her hands tightly. His jaw was hardened, he had not accepted how his mother died.

Ravel's daydream suddenly came to a halt when she felt someone enter her room, she turned to the door. No maid dared to enter without permission in her room, Tristan the manager and his best friend were driving her mother to the hospital, The only person who can and often goes in and out of his room without permission other than Tristan is his sister Ara. The man growled in annoyance. He was surprised how to behave again to his sister in order to stop disturbing his calm at home.

Ara's face also always reminded her of their mama and it made her even more upset. Was his cold and rude attitude all along not enough to make Ara stop bothering him?

"Sister." called Ara softly and with a cheerful tone, Ravel did not want to respond instead threw a face. Ara put on a spontaneous snob expression she pelted her brother with a pencil box she took from the study table Ravel.

Ravel threw a sharp glare, clearly visible glint of anger on her face but Ara was instead relaxed, it was common for her to be stared at so.

"Anterin me to my friend's house huh?" the door with a clear tone. Ravel looked at him flatly.

"Go alone" he refused. Ara's expression turned sullen.

"O sister, just this once Mm?" this time the girl approached Ravel and wiggled the man's hand, forcing him to desperately, he gasped as his hand was violently smashed by the man. His heart was almost broken so shocked.

"I said go alone, don't you know?" beat Ravel the circus until Ara takes a step back.

"So why the hell is it always rough with me? Is she still mad at you for mama?" tanyanya. Ravel looked at him coldly. Very lightly the girl said the word mama without any guilt and sadness.

"Get out of here." throw him out in a flat voice.

"Sister and papa are the same!" screaming Ara with tears held back, she tried to hold back her tears so as not to fall in front of Ravel and quickly ran out leaving the man. Ravel stared at the girl's departure with an unfathomable thought.