
Lauren stood up with an angry look and her hands folded across her chest.
"Why did you slap your niece, Leona? I never taught you to be light-handed to anyone, let alone your own nephew! And you, Yuna! Why did you snatch your aunt's lover! Are you five-year-old girls who hit each other just for toys? How humiliating!"
Lauren went inside and locked them out of the house. "Consider what you did, after that I will open the front door! If one of you doesn't apologize, I won't let you in! Just keep it out there!"
"Grandmother, I'm sorry for riling up my grandmother" Yuna said. This is what he fears if his relationship with Shane is known to his family. Especially at this time, Leona has just been heartbroken because Shane broke with her.
Lauren, who just closed the window curtain, is now reopening. "I apologize to your aunt! Straighten things out if it's a misunderstanding!" he said while closing the window curtain.
Yuna sighed, she looked towards Leona who was sitting on the garden chair. His fingers seemed to be fighting the tears that kept flowing on both his cheeks. Yuna walked over and approached Leona's aunt.
"Bi," said Yuna timidly.
"Hmmm" Leona replied. "I never knew you knew Shane first,"
Yuna bowed. For now, he would choose to be quiet and just listen to Leona sigh. In fact, he would accept all the emotions that the 30-year-old woman was putting out.
"Where do you know Shane? Match apps? Blind date?" sue Leona in question.
"We met at the Mall when my aunt invited me to meet at the time" Yuna said. "And we met again in front of my campus when I was bullied by Sabrina and her friends. He helped me and we got close,"
Leona nodded. "Why don't you ever tell us you like someone?" ask the woman. He took a breath and exhaled his coarse. "If you tell me you like a guy named Shane, I'll be more alert and not express my feelings to him, Yuna,"
"Ma-I'm sorry. Shane used to come to our house, but Grandma kicked him out and forbade him to come near me" Yuna said. "Then I never told you about Shane again,"
"Yes, maybe back then, she went on a blind date and we met. In just three days, I fell in love with her" Leona replied. He's cluttered through every possibility that's happened.
They both fell silent. The atmosphere of the night was warm and quiet. Leona who that night in pajamas slept with the outer, released her outer and gave it to Yuna. "I'm afraid you got the flu, just wear it. May my mother be kind, open the door for us,"
Yuna looked at Leona with teary eyes. "Bi, sorry. Again, I'm sorry,"
Leona finally gave her smile to Yuna. "You love him?"
Yuna shrugged both of her shoulders. "I don't know but I'm happy to be with him. My heart always thumped when I was nearby,"
"He's a grown man. Your age is far away. Your way of expressing love is different. I wish you could take care of yourself if someday I would allow you with Shane to date" Leona said. He looked at his nephew. A little girl who from childhood was very obedient to him and Laurent, is now starting to grow up and get acquainted with love.
There is a fear in Leona's heart if she allows Yuna to have a serious relationship with Shane. She was afraid that the little girl would have the same fate as her mother.
However, her fear faded as Yuna answered Leona's statement. "I know, Bi. I still kept my distance from him and did not receive any gifts from him. Usually, if someone gives, indirectly they will expect to receive something from us. I do, don't I?"
Leona smiled automatically. "Smart kid," she embraces Yuna fondly. "Don't repeat your mother's mistake. You're smart, don't waste your cleverness,"
"I know, Bi. I wouldn't be like that. Besides, there's still something I have to finish tomorrow morning" Yuna replied. "Thank you also because Auntie's been so good to me, too,"
Seeing her son and granddaughter hugging, Lauren looked at them full of time. He unlocked the house and called the two girls who were hugging in the park.
"Hey, you! What time do you want to sleep? I'm so sleepy!" lauren pretends to be angry and upset.
After Yuna entered, Leona still stayed for a while outside. He knew Shane was still there, so he approached the man in his car.
"Hey, come in,"
"Thanks" Leona said as she got into Shane's car.
"What are you waiting for?"
Shane shrugged both of his shoulders.
"I don't know either. I want to apologize for lying and playing with your heart,"
"Yuna told me everything. I understand and I'm stating I've allowed you guys to date" Leona said.
"I just wish you could take care of my niece. He was very small and young. I don't want her to get into trouble" Leona continued.
Shane looked at Leona in disbelief. "really? You really let me date her?"
Leona nodded slowly. "Yes. Soon Yuna will be getting a thesis and I don't want to because she's dating you, the script gets left behind. Anyway, I don't want your dating activities to interfere with Yuna's college. You gotit?"
This time it was Shane who nodded with a smile. "All right, I get it,"
"Thanks" Leona said briefly. He rushes down, but Shane pulls him up and holds the woman's body into his arms.
"Thank you and again, I'm sorry" Shane said.
There was nothing more Leona had to say about the matter and she assumed both Yuna and Shane were familiar with the terms she had given them.
The next day, again in the morning at Lauren's house there was a commotion. "Yuna, your friend's picking you up!" lauren initially asked a young man to enter the house.
Yuna assumes that the one who picked up is Shane. But he had to be disappointed when he saw Mario coming to pick him up.
"Morning, Yuna," said Mario.
"Pa-, morning Brother," Yuna replied briefly. Then he went back into the room.
'Why Mario? Then, what if Shane comes to pick him up?'
Sure enough, Yuna's question. Lauren screams again, but this time it's not her name that's called, but her aunt's name, Leona.
"Leona, your lover is coming!" lauren called Leona.
"I don't have a boyfriend!" sahut Leona in room.
Again Lauren's voice sounded loud. "You've got and he's right next to me!"
Leona and Yuna came out of the room and saw who their guests were. It turned out that what Yuna was afraid of happened. Shane and Mario came together to pick up Yuna that morning.
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