Back To You's

Chapter 143

Rafa sweats. Though the restaurant where, Giulia and her parents had lunch had air conditioning. Even he felt clumsy as Giulia's parents unceasingly stared at him.

Since he and Giulia had come earlier, not much chatter had happened between them. Rafa himself feels intimidated by the look of Giulia's father who looks fierce like a mafia. As for Giulia, it always took over the situation to melt the slightly tense atmosphere.

"Ah, the food is coming!" Giulia said in a happy tone.

Rafa looked at the food served by the waitress in front of him. Of course, Italian food. Because Giulia and her family are from Italy. Suddenly he thought, maybe if he married Giulia, it was this kind of food that he would enjoy every day.

Because, for several months eating lunch made by Giulia, the menu is always Italian cuisine. Even Rafa to memorize the types of sauces that are always present in Giulia cuisine. From bolognese, agglio e olio, pesto, carbonara, alfredo, marinara, and mushroom cream sauce.

"Why don't you bring a gift for my daughter?" Massimo's question, papa Giulia, went on the air shortly after the waitress left their table.

Rafa was surprised. His hand that was about to hold the fork stopped just like that.

"Don't you know if today is his birthday?" Ask again.

"That's...." Rafa answered hesitantly, but was interrupted by Giulia.

"Papa, it's not like that. Rafa's gift is in the office, there's no way I'm bringing him here?" Giulia smiled broadly at Rafa and his parents.

"How far are you guys related? You didn't treat my daughter harshly, did you?"

"No, uncle Massimo. I wouldn't do that to Giulia."

"Giulia! My daughter's name is Giulia, not Julia." Massimo spoke firmly.

Rafa held back in annoyance. Didn't he say his friend's name correctly?

"Papa, don't be like that." Giulia begged her papa. "Rafa is not an Italian who can easily pronounce our names correctly."

"I'm just making sure of it, Giulia. Papa doesn't want you to be wrong to have a man, and he treats you as he sees fit."

"Rafa isn't that kind of man, papa."

Francesca, Giulia's mother tried to calm her husband by rubbing his back. She knew her husband would act like that. Because, Giulia is a child only wayang and their favorite.

Giulia's choice to study and work in Bristol has left Massimo in great agony. He and his wife visited Giulia regularly to Bristol. Especially to celebrate Giulia's birthday.

"Here you go, let's start eating now. You guys should get back to work, right?" Francesca spoke kindly.

Rafa smiled as he nodded, then the awkward lunch began. Rafa started eating spaghetti (again) for the umpteenth time while getting to know Giulia, and the choice this time fell on the pesto sauce. It does not taste much different from Giulia's, but what he ordered now is certainly better.

But suddenly Rafa's enjoyment of his lunch is interrupted by Giulia's father's deheman.

"You ever eat spaghetti?" Massimo asked and was answered with a nod of the head by Rafa.

Giulia and her mother don't even understand the meaning of Massimo's words, let alone Rafa?

"Look! You have to stick your fork like this, then turn it around. Once it's perfectly rolled up like this, you just put it in your mouth. Not just spooning it like you eat instant noodles and everything else. You gotit?" Giulia's father practiced how to properly eat spaghetti.

Rafa blinked, not expecting Giulia's father to be this perfectionist. Again he could only smile stiffly and nod his head.

"Papa, that's too much!" Giulia spoke softly to her father, but was ignored by his father.

The middle-aged man enjoyed his lunch. It doesn't matter how his son or Rafa feels because of his recent actions. Somehow Rafa was able to enjoy his lunch again with this kind of situation.

"Sorry ladies and gentlemen, I have to interrupt your lunch. But I really need my sister's help right now. It's an emergency." Say that woman politely.

Massimo snorted in annoyance as he glanced sharply at Rafa. After drinking and saying goodbye, Rafa is hurriedly pulled away by the woman.

"You have to leave her, Giulia. That guy's not good. Just look, a pregnant woman came and dragged him out like that. He must be having an affair and playing games with you."

"Lad...."

Giulia's tears were unstoppable. Isn't today a happy day to celebrate his birthday?

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Rafa was helpless as his hand continued to be pulled out of the restaurant where he had lunch.

"Where's your car?"

"Fresh it first, Lit. What the hell are you? Ngagetin just suddenly showed up here." Rafa rubbed her wrists that were feeling pain.

"I'm a laper, and I eat ramen where I was waiting for you when I came here."

"Huh?"

Of course Rafa is confused. Because his brain was forced to remember where they met a year ago.

"So you came all the way here just to eat it?"

Alita shook her head. "I'm running away from London."

"Huh? How can?" Rafa still doesn't understand Alita's words.

Before lunch, Alita sent him a few messages. Alita even asks where Rafa is going to have lunch, but does not expect that Alita will follow him there.

"Theo again had business in London, so we went together because of his intentions. But it turns out, it's his business with his ex-girlfriend."

Alita said in an annoyed tone. The woman's tears had even been seen welling up in the corner of her eyes. Knowing this is the problem of the Alita family that he cannot interfere with, Rafa also tried to think of a way.

"OK-okay, we went to the ramen place back then. But I'll pinjem hape you for a minute."

"Make what?" Alita hugged her sling bag tightly.

"Just a minute." Rafa forces her to open her ex-boyfriend's bag and takes Alita's cell phone.

"For your safety and your children." Rafa said after finding Theo's contact.

It didn't take long for Rafa to wait for the phone call to be answered by Theo. It is certain that Theo has been confused since finding out the whereabouts of his beloved wife, who lashed up to travel from London to Bristol alone.

"Your wife ran away to Bristol. I'll send you the location point, I'll also keep him until you get here. So the hunt to Bristol!" Rafa said without wanting to hear the answer from Theo.

After disconnecting the phone call, Rafa sent the location where they were going to eat ramen. Rafa also put Alita's phone into his pocket, no matter if Alita has been nagging him nonstop since.

"We'll eat first yeah, little baby." Rafa said looking down while gently rubbing Alita's stomach that began to enlarge. Then straightened his back and glanced towards Alita.

"Take your papa wait to come here, and pick up your mama who scammed this."