AS A SLEEPING FRIEND

12. Don't wait for me

I gasped when I heard the door handle being pressed. My head reflexively looked up, looking down at the passageway that turned out to be Mr. Gladwin just coming home. I was on the sofa in the tv room while watching there, not unexpectedly I fell asleep while holding my hands in a sitting position.

"Elin?" sapana. "What are you doing?" asked the man while glaring at me with his gaze.

"Ehm, I ..."

"Don't tell me you're waiting for me?" guess it.

I shook my head quickly, too embarrassed to say the truth.

I waited for him to come home because I cooked him a meal. Unfortunately, he had only come home now where the day had begun to be quite late.

"I-I was watching tv earlier," I replied.

"Oh ..." The man was bearded, his lips were twitching like they were holding amused. "But what I saw earlier, the tv watching you sleep," he continued.

"What?" reflex I asked.

"What's wrong, forget ..." He avoided explaining. Although I had heard the answer clearly enough, but somehow I wanted him to repeat the words again. It's nothing, I heard a joking tone issued by Mr. Gladwin. Not usually, right? It's a rare thing that I would never have thought of if he could throw out such a sentence.

"Move to room. Don't sleep there," said the man later, and he passed into the room, while I followed him like a chick trailing its mother.

When the man looked over, I lowered my head deeply. Without speaking he walked back into the room and I stepped back. I thought this was something weird and .. funny? Did ya?

He took her clothes and supplies in the closet, then took her to the bathroom.

I sat on the sofa waiting for him. She came out of the bathroom after cleaning herself in a few minutes.

"Why don't you continue sleeping?" when I saw him, he just sat still.

I'm shaking.

"Don't wait for me, Elin."

"Have you taken your time to Mr Aro's place again?" tanyaku refers to his return which is quite late at 1 am.

Mr. Gladwin did not immediately reply, he glared at me with an astonished look. "You mean?" tanyanya sounds confused.

"Usually you'll be there and go home in the morning, right?"

I heard a long breath from him. "I'm not there, I work all day. Why are you asking that? Do you miss your old place?"

I shook my hand and nodded. "Of course not, sir. I just want to know, 'cause you used to spend your time there."

The man walked over and sat by me. I don't know why I feel hanging around him.

"I don't routinely go there."

"But for three days I was there, you went there in a row, sir." I dare not look at him beside me.

"Yes, that's because ..." Mr. Gladwin paused his words, I waited for him to continue. Unfortunately he did not continue the sentence that had paused it. "Alright, Elin. Now you go on sleeping" he said later.

I hesitantly tried to shake my face to see the man's look.

Until in the end, I could glance at Mr. Gladwin who was staring straight ahead without seeing me at all. Heart melos. I don't know why this kind of foreign feeling is on me. I find it hard to describe.

"Have you eaten before?" my many.

My question managed to make the man turn his head, until our gazes met and rubbed against each other.

"Why?" He asked back.

"What's wrong. I-tadi .. I cook," I replied, biting my lips, keki.

"You cook?"

"Yes, but maybe now the food is not worth eating, I think you'll be home at lunchtime."

The man laughed. Things I never imagined a man could do like him. It was like I hit the jackpot when I heard his typical laughter. I got clumsy because of that.

Before long, he cleared his throat, probably to neutralize the atmosphere and circumstances.

"So .. Are you really waiting for me?" tanyakanya.

I threw away the view. Too embarrassed to admit it.

"Well, I'll be home sometime at lunchtime if you want to cook for me again."

"really?" I looked at him with an incredulous look.

"Yes, why not?" Now he is smiling thinly.

"Well, I'll cook again, sir."

The man nodded. Then go back to flat mode by asking me to sleep.

"Sleep, Elin. I also need to sleep," he muttered which I could still hear.

I lay by his side. Now my fear of him began to slowly disappear. It turns out that Mr. Gladwin is not as terrible as the one in my shadow. The cold man could also compensate me in a joke or a joke.

"City ..."

"Yes?" I glanced at Mr. Gladwin.

"Do you have a wish?"

Why would he ask that? Of course I have many desires, but I cannot describe them one by one.

"The answer to my question before you actually fall asleep, Elin."

"Will you grant my wish?" I'm not gonna waste a chance.

"Yes, since you've been trying to cook for me, then I will grant your wish."

"Ehm, yeah. Say it!"

"I'm a-"

"Begging for anything, just don't ask me to just let you go" he suddenly said.

I complained to the man lying down with his own arm. He returned my gaze with a highlight I could hardly understand. I feel like he's afraid I'm leaving, but I don't know... Is this just my feeling of being overconfident? Or is this just because he doesn't want to lose because he has already redeemed me with a lot of money on Mr Aro?

"May I meet and see my mother? Just a moment, because the last time I saw her, she was still in ICU at a Private Hospital."

There was a shock I could read from Mr. Gladwin's response when I said that. He soon nodded too.

"Yeah, you can."

"really?"

"Huum."

"Thank you, sir." I reflexively hugged him. Without any intention, because actually I was also unconscious when doing that action.

The moment I realized my presumptuous position, I immediately withdrew.

"Ma-af, sir." I was suddenly nervous. Although he did not look angry, but I was too embarrassed to show my face, maybe my cheeks were red, so I slept with a back position.

...****...

I cook in the kitchen singing cheerfully. My feelings are very happy, it's all because Mr. Gladwin allowed me to see mom and see how she was.

"Morning ..."

I've been aghast since when the man was there. Did he see me swaying while singing while cooking? Oh my goodness, shame.

"Morning, Mister," I said.

The man occupied the stool bar and sniffed the aromatherapy tea that I had deliberately served there for him.

"I'm just gonna wake you up, sir."

"Hmm, it's okay. I woke up without you waking up" he replied.

I glanced at him at a glance, now he was sipping his tea.

"Uhm, Elin?"

"Yes?"

"Thank you for setting up the tie" he said, brandishing the fold of the tie when he had held it. I prepared it before cooking.

I nodded my head, then refocused on the cooked food and had to serve it immediately.

"Later .. help me wear it again, yeah."

"Good, Sir."

"Ah, one more Elin."

"What's up, Mister?" I asked while releasing the apron I was wearing.

"Stop calling me Sir. You can look for another call or just call my name."

"But ..." I suddenly went blank. Confused by his request this time.

"When are you going to see your mother?" tanyanya diverted the conversation.

"If you can be soon, sir."

He clucked his tongue. "Javier's. I'm Javier. From the beginning, I've emphasized that because I didn't like your call to me" he said.

I lowered my face because I remembered that the other day he had warned me about this.

"Then what should I call? In the Casino everyone calls you 'Master', even Mr. Aro calls you that."

"I've said anything, if you want, you can just call my name."

"I can't. You must be older than me."

"It's only been a few years" he said lightly. "What are you cooking?" ask her while looking at the food I just served in front of her.

"Eat it, I don't know if you like it or not" I said.

The man tasted the food and nodded.

"It's not bad. You're good at cooking as it turns out," he said.

I don't know why the compliment made me blush.

"Thank you, brother..."

At the same time, he choked. I panicked and got him some drinking water, then helped him grab a tissue. It all happened so fast that I didn't know what caused it.

"What did you call me?" ask after the situation has subsided.

"Sister?" I said with a questioning tone. I'm afraid he's objecting to my new call.

"Yes-yes, I can," her response stammered.

Here I am astonished. Is something wrong? I think the 'Sister' call wasn't so overdone.

...Connect ......