Brother But Stupid

CHAPTER 33

Ten minutes ago, Riki had just finished her meeting and now the man was seen daydreaming inside her room all alone.

The man was thinking about last night, where Nayla had a nightmare. Honestly, he was blaming himself for everything that had happened to the girl.

Tok...

Riki gasped after hearing a knock from the door of his room. Instantly, he woke up from his daydream.

"Lake in!" he said with his tone.

Not long after Riki said that, the brown door opened.

The man frowned in surprise when he saw Jojo's figure who went inside and walked towards him with a facial look as usual, always judes. Riki was curious about the girl's purpose here. This is the first time he's been here.

But the curiosity paid off, when he saw a blue bushel hanging on his left hand, surely the one who asked him here was Nayla.

"Why are you anther?"

"Nayla is busy." he said as he placed the bushel on Riki's desk.

"Then excuse me." she turned around to leave, but Riki intercepted her.

"Don't go yet!"

Riki deliberately held the girl back, because she wanted to make sure of something from him.

While Jojo seems confused by Riki suddenly holding him back, usually the arrogant man does not feel at home lingering with him, and vice versa.

"What's wrong?" Jojo turned back to look at Riki.

"Is there something I want to ask you?" Riki's face looked serious.

"What?"

"We talked there." Riki pointed at the sofa in front of him then got up from his seat.

"Here it is." Ketus girl was reluctant to move to the sofa.

Riki let out a breath of air, "i'm not kidding. I want to ask you seriously." Riki also moved to the single sofa.

Jojo gasped when he saw the look on Riki's face that was very serious. This was the first time he had seen such a look on Riki's face, was it possible that he was really serious. But what does he want to ask.

Jojo went up and sat on the sofa in front of Riki.

"What do you want to ask about?" Cetus Jojo just sat down.

"How far do you know Nayla?"

Riki's black bead stared deep into the girl's brown bead.

Jojo confirmed the position of his glasses first, before answering Riki's question.

"Why are you asking that? do you doubt it again. And-and

"Not that." Sergeh Riki fast.

"Then what?"

"You're his best friend and you know very little about his past life?"

"Why didn't you ask her directly?" jojo said indifferently.

"Do you think he wants to tell you everything?" Riki raised next to his eyebrows.

Jojo sighed justifying Riki's assumption, Nayla was the type of person who would not tell her grief to others, even more so to this man in front of her.

"Which one you want to know..are you curious about the life of her who always seems cheerful but in fact she is a very sad girl, yes?"

Riki's neck choked at Jojo's words. Riki is indeed a man who looks cold and also mysterious, but not many know if the man has a soft heart and when he heard Jojo's statement stating that Nayla is a cheerful but sad girl is the thing that makes his heart full.

Riki admitted that the girl did have a bright personality and was always cheerful, but who would have thought behind her cheerfulness was stored deep sadness, she said, especially when Riki witnessed for himself how tortured Nayla when having nightmares.

"Everything." replied Riki staring at Jojo's nanar.

"Nayla has never felt happiness in her entire life, except when she was with your family."

"What do you mean? his papa loved him very much and must have been happy." Riki said in wonder.

"Never once, quite the opposite."

Riki was again dumbfounded, "What do you mean?"

Jojo let out a light sigh at once the look on his face turned sad, when he wanted to tell how the story of his best friend's life always made him proud and sympathetic.

Because, when Jojo first knew Nayla, she was a tough and strong girl according to Jojo. Because Jojo and Nayla's first encounter is when Nayla saves Jojo from bullying.

Jojo, who always looks geeky and quiet, is always the subject of bullying by a gang of 5 women and Nayla fights and defeats them, alone with her bare hands.

But after knowing a little barrage of suffering he got from his only parents, Jojo's heart was sliced with pain. How did Nayla maintain her bright smile until this moment.

Jojo's tears just escaped when he remembered Nayla's life story. If with a story alone he could be this light, how else when he witnessed Nayla's plight firsthand.

While Riki who saw Jojo who was very sad was increasingly confused and curious.

"Why are you quiet?" riki asked, "Does this have anything to do with Nayla's nightmare?"

Jojo hears Riki's question. "You saw Nayla have a bad dream?" Jojo wiped his tears.

Riki nodded.

"What do you see?" ask Jojo.

Riki looked uneasy, "He cried in pain, cried out pleads and apologized."

Jojo's tears flowed again, "it turns out he's still having that dream."

"Nayla cried because she was always beaten and tortured by her papa." Jojo's lips twitched.

"He cried out pleading because his papa was trying to kill the maid who always took care of him and protected him..." His voice is getting louder.

"And...." Jojo was back.

"And what? And what, Jo?" Riki looks demanding with facial expressions that have also been glazed.

"And. he apologized, because.." Jojo's neck choked. "... he apologized for being born as the child who killed his mother."

Instantly Riki was shocked to hear that, without realizing his mouth was gaping because he did not think about what Nayla had felt.

He also did not think that Papah Romi could do such a cruel thing to Nayla, which Riki knew, if Papah Romi was very kind and gentle to her and also very fond of Nayla, who was very fond of her, that is what Riki concluded when he saw firsthand the interaction between Nayla and Papah Romi. However, who would have thought Nayla's life could be this tragic.

While Jojo who had calmed himself back looked at Riki.

"So, I beg of you, that you may do good to him. He has suffered enough all this time, but he has always been kind to you and he always hopes you can be good to him... because your family is the real family, the place of affection and protection...." Tandas Jojo then moved from Riki's room.

Riki was still pensive with pity mixed with guilt. He regrets his past, why when he was waiting for Nayla at the airport, he did not buy a ticket to catch up and pick up the girl. Wh why?

Riki's chest tightened, her eyes were filled with tears and the next second the man cried. He became a weak and also crybaby man at the moment.

"What's going on, Rik?"

Aldi who had just entered the room Riki was amazed when he saw his best friend crying.

Aldi had never seen Riki cry this much, what did Jojo tell Riki to make his boss like this?

Not without reason Aldi assumed like that, the article was he had met with Jojo when the dilift earlier, and the girl's face looks swollen, her eyes are also wet with tears.

"What's going on, Rik?" Aldi asked once more, but the man remained silent and moved from his seat to the toilet.

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Nayla was seen preparing to go to sleep after performing a little ritual in the bathroom and turned off the main lights of her room, now the room is only illuminated by a sleep lamp with dim lighting.

The girl went to her bed and lay down and covered her body with a blanket. However, he had not closed his eyes all of a sudden,

Drrtt....

His phone on the nightstand was shaking.

His hand was stretched out to grab the flat object and saw a chat message from Riki.

Nayla frowned in surprise after reading the message, why did Riki come so late at night? is he going to stay again? but, my parents are back. But there's no harm, he's coming, this is his house too.

The girl uncovers her blanket, then walks downstairs to open Riki's door, because the maid and driver are still on leave.

"Nay...."

Nayla's body staggered backwards as she just opened the main door and Riki immediately hugged her.

Riki hugged Nayla very tightly and buried her face in the recess of Nayla's neck.

"What's up, Ki?" Nayla asked in surprise, "is there a problem?" continued again.

Riki just shook his head slowly in Nayla's arms. The man did not want to let go of his embrace, at this moment he was still overwhelmed with guilt and sadness and back sobbing.

Nayla who heard Riki's stuffing was even more confused, with difficulty the girl pushed Riki's body to escape from her embrace.

Nayla was astonished to see the face as moist as the man and the girl's reflexes rubbed the remaining tears on Riki's cheeks.

"What's the matter with you, Ki... Why are you crying?"

Riki did not answer the question of this anxious-looking girl in front of him, she just stared intensely at Nayla's face. Riki recalled the first time Nayla returned to this house, her body was very thin as unkempt and her face was deathly pale, and now it was different.

"Ki... Riki!" Nayla again exclaimed while hitting Riki's dreamy arm.

"Let's go in." Nayla leads Riki into the house and sits in the dining room.

Nayla takes a glass of water for Riki, while the man still focuses on looking at Nayla.

"At the drink, Ki." Nayla puts a glass of water in front of Riki.

Riki smiled at Nayla, "thank you."

Nayla nodded.

"Why are you crying, Ki?" Nayla again asked after Riki finished her drink.

"I don't cry." the reason.

"Then?"

"I just shed tears."

Nayla let out a breath of air, "i'm serious again, Ki. Don't joke around."

"Who is also joking. earlier my eyes were flickering and it felt sore, so I immediately hurt you earlier." he lied.

"Related?" Nayla squinted her eyes.

"Yes..," he answered, "Eh, Nay." Riki rubbed his stomach.

Nayla sighed again, "you came here just to eat right?"

"thats right." Riki gave his thumb.

"Yes, I made some fried rice first." Nayla headed for the kitchen.

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