Cheerleaders

23

Empty words that are not accompanied by concrete evidence will only sound like dog barking.

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“I want to continue this matchmaking, Om. I've talked this all over with my parents .. and I'm ready to get engaged to Estelle after I graduate.”

Jacob threw the paper documents in his hand when he remembered the silly words of Adam this afternoon. “Every betrothed said,” his hisses are upset. The man's jaw was hardened again for the whole time today.

“I won't let him, you thief.” Not wanting to continue his work, Jacob chose to rest his body for a moment. This afternoon he had a disagreement with Ello and Agatha over the decision they had made without his knowledge, then the arrival of Adam who was not expected by him in the afternoon was very, very draining energy and emotions that were on him.

Fortunately Axelle took Estelle out and was able to hold the girl to stay out of the house all day. He could not imagine how the girl would react to seeing her go crazy all day.

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Early in the morning Jacob was awakened to the deafening ringtone of his cell phone. Without seeing the name of the contact that appeared on his phone screen, Jacob answered the call.

“Abaanggg!!! When can I start?!!”

Jacob's reflexes covered his ears and kept the phone away from his ears. Both of her eyes were already wide open due to Estelle's whining-filled scream across the street. Ah well, this is all his fault for forgetting to give the two orders to return. Jacob admits his mistake.

“Aaaabaaangg!!”

Estelle's loud screams were heard again because Jacob never answered her youngest sister's question.

“Iya, Darling. Sorry you just woke up this is the problem,” said Jacob concubine probably. The distinctive hoarse sound of waking up her sleep added to the depressing impression on Estelle's ears.

Jacob connected his phone to the airpod so that he could move more freely while talking to Estelle over the phone. “You've had breakfast?” jacob asked who only got a short deheman from his sister.

“Ka Axelle again take food for Estelle.”

*“Ab*ang?”

Jacob smiled at it. “Iya, this just went down.”

“Are they .. there?”

When Estelle asks her where her parents are, Jacob sees them having breakfast together at the dinner table. And Jacob cleared his throat slowly to answer Estelle's question. Without a word, Jacob joined the two for breakfast.

Silence enveloped the three, Estelle who was across there was no sound anymore.

“Where are your two sisters?” asked Ello who had finished his breakfast the next morning.

Jacob who was busy chewing his food also shrugged his shoulders pretending not to know. This of course invites the suspicion of Ello, the unlucky middle-aged man who is still handsome is very knowledgeable if his eldest son is very loving his youngest daughter, he said, it was impossible to see his son so calm when his youngest daughter did not come home all night.

“They went together, didn't they? Did they stay at Suho's house?” ello asked again not to give up.

Jacob slowed down his mouth movements and again just shrugged both of his shoulders not knowing. This made Ello upset. “Agatha, help me contact Suho. Please ask her if they are there,” Ello's orders are directly executed by Agatha.

Jacob's eyes looked up at him. The man decided to hasten his meal and quickly leave here as soon as possible.

“You will still oppose this matchmaking?” Ello's clear answer to the question made Jacob throw a super sharp look at the daddy.

Irritatedly he ended his eating activities because he was no taste. Was his firm rejection yesterday not enough to explain everything? Thought annoyed. “According to you?” Jacob paused his words when he saw Agatha coming with a cell phone in her hand.

The gazes of the two men were instantly fixed on Agatha. “They're there?” asked Ello who immediately got the head slowly.

“They were there yesterday, but they didn't stay there. Said Suho they went away in the afternoon,” bright Agatha.

Now Ello's gaze was on Jacob. Obviously this was the work of his eldest son, he thought. Jacob who was stared at full of intimidation just raised next to his eyebrows, not affected.

“Where are they?”

Jacob leaned his body against the chair and looked at Ello boldly. “I don't know. You keep asking me the same thing from now on. You think I hid them?”

“You don't approve all of this,” Ello said.

“Ya, then?”

“A. It's not me who complicates all this, but you, Mr. Harrison.”

Jacob looked at the wall clock at a glance before saying, “if no one wants to talk about anymore, I'm sorry.” The man just left regardless of Ello's unfinished call asking her.

As soon as he reached his room, Jacob looked at the screen of his phone, apparently the call had not been interrupted and it seemed like Estelle was muting the call from earlier. “Estelle, are you still there?” tanyanya.

“Ya.”

For quite a long time the two were silent with each other because Jacob himself was also tidying up the files that he checked last night.

“What mom and dad looking for us?”

Jacob exhaled a rough breath. “You may have heard it yourself. Yeah, they're looking for you. Even so don't come back before Brother tells you to.”

“Then when can we go home?”

“Where is Axelle?” Jacob asked instead of answering Estelle's question.

“Abang...,” Og Estelle across there.

“Estelle, please. I'll explain later. Now you follow what you said first.” Jacob tried not to spit out his pity on Estelle.

Across the street, Estelle gave Axelle her airpod.

“Jacob?” ask Axelle. Estelle simply nodded her head in response to Axelle's question.

Next to Axelle's eyebrows raised when he saw the expression of the sour face of the sister. “Why?” tanyakanya.

Reluctant to answer, Estelle turned her face away.

Axelle uses Estelle's airpod. “So how?” He opened up a conversation to Jacob across the street. The sound of a long breath and the friction of the paper greeted his eardrum.

“Estelle beside lo?”

Spontaneous Axelle immediately turned to Estelle who seemed to have also heard Jacob's question from the airpod next to her.

“Keep away if he's next to you.”

Estelle who heard it all clucked in annoyance. With a frowning face he gave the airpod next to him to Axelle's hand. “I want to go to the room first!” said the girl who just passed by.

“Why?”

“Adek lo ramble,” bright Axelle brief.

“Cua just wanted to say, you guys don't come home until they leave for Paris the day after.”

Axelle scrunched her forehead in disbelief. “Bang, the real dong. Our time at the hotel until the day after tomorrow?! What school?”

“Nginep at Estelle's place, who's her name? Anu?”

“Januar,” errat Axelle while rolling her eyes lazy.

“Ya whatever. The point is don't let you meet them. Cave rush, later cave kabarin again.”

After that, the call was immediately interrupted. Axelle tidied up her belongings first before returning to the hotel room following Estelle who was probably rolling around lazily on the bed.

And sure enough, upon arrival there, Axelle was greeted with a view of Estelle who was rolling around while grumbling with annoyance.

“Gabut gabut gabut gabut. They're bummer!” peeking the girl was unaware of Axelle's presence at all.

“We can not go home until the day after,” Axelle said to convey Jacob's words to him earlier.

Estelle moved out of bed to approach Axelle. “Kaaa aja dong! If I don't go home until the day after school, how will I?” whining. The girl scowled because Axelle just rolled her eyes lazily.

“Honestly, you are not cool if told to skip school?” insinuated Axelle who immediately got a hit hard enough in the stomach.

“Enak! Brother don't just recite it dong!”

Instead of complaining in pain, Axelle laughed with satisfaction at Estelle's current annoyed expression. The forehead that was furrowed until the two thin eyebrows belonging to the girl almost fused, the two cheeks that were inflated, the thick lips that were conical forward, the, then the girl's nose that was blooming withstanding emotions was very funny in her eyes.