CAMELLIAS

episode 49's

Jupiter really shuts Camelia down. After the incident that afternoon, Camelia was not allowed to go home, even Jupiter deliberately hid the keys to her house. Meanwhile Camelia can only sigh, when she must be confined in the house with Jupiter until the morning. 

"I want to make breakfast, I can't open the door to the room first!" Camelia shouted while banging on the bathroom door, as Jupiter was preparing to leave for the office. 

"Yes in a minute!" Jupiter in the.

"Later to be late, I haven't made anything for our breakfast!" 

Finally the bathroom door opened.

"God!! Jupi!!!!!" Shouted Camelia while closing her eyes with both palms. 

"Why?" As if intentionally, Jupiter actually stood up while shaking his waist and one more hand holding the wall.

"You are so short!!" Camelia immediately turned to leave Jupiter. But Jupiter laughed at Camelia with a reddened face, holding back the embarrassment.

"If the brook is long, it's called a sieve." Answer Jupiter casually, as she steps towards the closet and chooses some clothes. 

Camelia just clucked, and passed Jupiter who was still faithful using a short towel limited to her knees. Camelia chose to wash her face and brush her teeth, as she did not bring a change of clothes. 

While waiting for Camelia to come out of the bathroom, Jupiter first exits the room and heads to the kitchen to prepare breakfast. Ordinary life itself makes Jupiter accustomed to the busy morning making breakfast. Although there is no special menu, just a jam sandwich and a cup of coffee, he is very deft to arrange breakfast for him and also for Camelia. 

Not long after, Camelia came out of her room. 

"The rain is taking a shower." Jupiter asked as she shifted the chair for Camelia to occupy. 

"I didn't bring a change of clothes." 

"There's my shirt, I can wear it."

"You got a bra and panties, too?"

"Celana in there. If it's a bra, nothing. You can't wear a bra." Jupiter's Chuckles.

"Why are you so perverted!" Camelia clucked in annoyance.

"I'm not perverted. I just offered! That's also if you want to, if you don't want to." Jupiter answered indifferently, shrugging her shoulders. 

Camelia chooses silence, Jupiter can sometimes turn into a shitty man like Febian. Given Febian, Camelia almost forgot about him, as she had not told him about his current whereabouts, and it was possible that Febian was worrying at the moment. 

"You go to the office, I want to go home." Camelia said while drinking coffee made by Jupiter.

"I'll take you home. But, every time I send a message, you have to reply straight away. Otherwise, I'll have my men pick you up." 

"Why is that? It could be, when you text, I'm on the toilet or I take a shower." 

"Then you must give me news, whenever you want to do something. So I don't think shit. Easy right?" Camelia was flabbergasted by Jupiter's proposal, her mouth gaping, disbelieving Jupiter's rules.

"I'm not a prisoner!" 

"indeed not. You're my lover, who says you're a prisoner." 

"But why do you treat me like a prisoner, every activity must report!" Camelia complains, because she feels that Jupiter has begun to go too far. 

"That's better. I was going to lock you up in my apartment at first, but considering Nadira has the spare key my mother gave me, it would be very dangerous to keep you in here." 

Jupiter may be very frightened, Camelia may suddenly disappear, but her fear has now turned into an overprotective attitude. 

"I'm not going anywhere. Why don't you believe it!" 

"I believe. I'm just in case. Because once I let my guard down, I could lose everything." Camelia does not know if Jupiter has sacrificed everything to choose life with her, but Jupiter is reluctant to tell Camelia in detail. He was even more afraid, if Camelia knew the real story, the possibility of Camelia leaving would be even greater. Therefore, he chose not to discuss it at this time. 

"When breakfast is over, I'll drive you home. Don't forget, always reply to me. Okay?" Jupiter approached Camelia's chair, and briefly kissed her head, before she went into the room to pick up some of the things she had to carry.  

Meanwhile, Camelia opens her phone and presses Febian's number to contact the man. In any case, Febian must have been worried about his circumstances. 

There was no reply for a long time, but Camelia kept trying to contact Febian. Until the second call, Febian just received a call from him.

"It's a long time!" Camelia complains as soon as the voice of Febian is heard across the street.

"Lo who doesn't tell you all day, I'm normal!" Tuke Febian.

"Yes, I'm sorry."

"Why apologize. I know, you're at your boyfriend's house. So don't care about me, I'm happy there!"

"Lo's mad, Feb?" 

"Why angry? I can never be angry with you." 

"Feb, please,,"

"Gue again there is work, if you want to go home I am not at home. I'm back in the afternoon. Yaudah, bye," Febian cut off the connection. 

"Who?" Camelia towered in surprise, as Jupiter immediately asked suddenly. 

"Febri," 

"Oh, let me drive you home. I'll pick you up again tomorrow." 

Camelia did not want to argue any longer, and chose to obey Jupiter's words. Little did he argue, eating Jupiter would definitely discuss it longer with answers that increasingly make Camelia feel constrained. So she chose to be a submissive boyfriend, and followed whatever Jupiter asked for. 

"Who?" Ask the person who had been waiting for Febian to finish his conversation with Camelia.

"Kara," Febian replied with a knotty smile and stuffed his phone into his pants pocket. 

"How are you?"

"Good news. How are you, Rosaline's mother?" 

Febian did meet someone since the morning, today after a long time finally he was able to meet someone who meritorious for his parents, namely Rosaline, aunty Camelia. 

"My news is good too. How's yours?" Rosaline asked, while sipping hot tea that she had deliberately ordered to warm her stomach.

"My news is still the same as it used to be. Fine," Rosaline smiled, she was very lucky to find Febian, and asked him to look after Camelia.

"Is taking care of Kara really troublesome?" 

"No. Taking care of it is so easy, but taking care of my heart is not easy." Febian chuckles, he smiles even though his heart is a little flushed. 

"It wasn't really my guess. You will fall in love with my nephew. She's too pretty and nice to turn down." 

"Maybe!" Febian shrugged his shoulders. 

Maybe all this time he could lie if he was a man with a sexual disorder. But he is actually a normal guy. But just to get close to Camelia, and make the girl willing to accept her help, she must be willing to pretend to love the same sex.

"Why don't you just meet him. Maybe he'll be very happy, it turns out that there are still people who care about him and always watch him from afar." Ask Febian. During this time he never asked why Rosaline asked him to take care of Camelia, Febian only ordered to help and always reported everything related to Camelia. 

"I'll definitely meet him, but not now. Because there is still a lot of work to be taken care of. Not long after, so I'm asking you to be patient." 

"Maybe I can still be patient a little more,"

"Patience, for the opportunity is always there for those who wait." Rosaline gives encouragement to Febian. He did not mind if Febian could finally be with Kara, because Febian could be relied upon to look after him. 

"If only he could see my sincerity, or at least he knew all the meaning of my concern." Febian smiled bitterly, for as much as he paid attention to Camelia, still he only considered her a friend, nothing more.

"It's all because of your mistake to use same-sex enthusiasts to get close to her. If from the beginning you were being frank with her, and not lying to her, she might like you too." 

"He's hard to get close to. You know for yourself, don't you?" 

Rosaline chuckled amusedly, Camelia is indeed very difficult to approach. Especially when the girl comes out of prison, she is increasingly difficult to adapt to anyone, even Camelia is very limiting anyone who approaches her, especially men. So he felt that Febian was using the right way, pretending to be a same-sex person to get close to Camelia, although in the end Febian found it difficult because of his own lies. 

"He was very secretive, especially after Nathan's death."

"Then what about Nathan's death, is there any new evidence?" 

"Yet, the case of his death is very difficult to investigate. Even the evidence I have gathered, nothing is accurate. Unfortunately, when it happened, there was not a single witness at the scene. So it's very hard to get back to." Rosaline sighed in disappointment, because all this time her efforts to clear Camelia's good name on Nathan's murder charge have not been fruitful. 

"I also found a lot of awkwardness. But the case is hard to solve. Like someone's protecting and covering up the case." Febian hasn't stayed silent, but he's still looking for evidence to defend Camelia, and cleared her name of being an assassin. 

"Then from that, I ask you to take care of her a little more. Because I'm still looking for evidence to solve this problem. I couldn't get it done quickly, because my husband's job was always moving. So, I beg of you, please be patient a little more, and stay close to him." 

"I like being around him, even though it's not good for my heart health." Febian Kekeh.

"Alright, may your heart still beat normally." The two of them ended up laughing together, and continued to eat breakfast, before Rosaline had to go back to business with her husband. 

Febian and Rosaline, talking and sharing information. But their meeting did not last long, because Rosaline was just a transit before she continued her next trip. Febian and Rosaline had to separate, after Febian escorted the woman until she left. 

After Rosaline leaves, Febian decides to go home because he knows Camelia must be home. On the way home, he re-thought of his conversation with Rosaline. He does not expect, in the end he must meet with Rosaline and end up becoming a masked knight for Camelia's life. 

Febian laughed to himself, as he recalled how his meeting with Camelia had begun. Still clearly remembered how the beginning of his meeting with Camelia. Febian takes weeks to get close to Camelia, as the girl is very close, especially the boys. 

Even what makes Febian smile amused, which is when he had to pretend to be gay, just to make Camelia want to be his friend. And foolishly he just pretended to be the partner of a man named King, who was none other than his own best friend. 

As with Febian, the King was actually a real man, even the man was willing to marry for two more months. Febian was very hopeful, until the King's marriage, his pretended relationship was not uncovered. Because if that happened, Camelia would hate her so much and Febian wasn't ready for it yet. 

Playing with fire can burn itself. Same thing with Febian, who initially approached Camelia just to help the girl, because of her sense of debt to Rosaline, but slowly the sense of it came and grew more and more, until the sense of compassion turns into a sense of wanting to have. However, however he tried to get Camelia to think of him as a man and not a friend, it still did not work because Camelia already knew, Febian is a same-sex person. 

But according to Febian it was better, than he had to stay away from Camelia he preferred to keep pretending to be a same-sex lover, in order to keep her near Camelia. Although he has to endure jealousy, every time he sees Camelia making out with Jupiter. Febian knows enough, because Jupiter is the toughest rival to face, maybe even Febian only has one percent of the possibility of a million opportunities. 

But Febian is still very hopeful, even though the opportunity is only half a percent. And Febian will take advantage of that half-percent chance, to open Camelia's eyes. Febian won't do any cunning to get Camelia's attention, he'll just wait for an opportunity, without having to take Jupiter down. Because according to Febian, nothing will work, if it begins with a mistake in a devious way. 

Arriving at the apartment doorstep, Febian first sighed, trying to regain his strength. And as soon as the door opened, camelia immediately stood up from the chair to welcome her arrival. 

"Why long?" Camelia complained with bulging cheeks and folded her arms around her chest, as if she was asking her husband who was late to come home. 

Meanwhile Febian could only smile, as he continued to walk closer.

"There's business. Why, kangen?" Ledek Febian, although in fact he really hopes Camelia will answer yes. 

"It's not kangen, it's laper. No one is sad." Whine Camelia while struggling spoiled on Febian's arm.

"Basic!" Febian clucked Camelia in the forehead, and the girl squealed in pain, but then smiled broadly. 

The smile that was able to make Febian's heart back had to work twice as much, because Camelia's smile that could make her heart not careless. 

In Febian's heart he chanted prayers, so that he would not lose control and embrace Camelia, or embrace the girl suddenly. 

"God please strengthen my heart!" Febian in the Heart.