Dusk In Moorea

HR#103

On a clear morning, Arumi's smile suddenly fell when she found the figure of the young man who last night she said she hated standing upright with a smile as sweet as honey on the doorstep of her apartment. Sighing lazily, Arumi immediately closed the door of her apartment back. Five minutes later, the door opened. Still same. The young man still did not leave his place.

"Would you like to come here?" ask Arumi ketus. He thought that Leon would come home as soon as he ignored the young man. However, apparently Leon was still there without giving up.

"fetch you. Especially?" Leon widened his smile.

"I have Leon's own vehicle. You don't have to come here to pick me up!" Arumi smiled but her face looked so furious. Why was this young man unwilling to give up on him as well?

"I picked you up because I wanted to. Is that wrong?"

"Clearly wrong!" arumi replied in a voice that raised unconsciously.

"Who's up, Aru?" Jonathan's voice sounded from within. Not long after, his figure was already at the door joining Arumi and Leon.

"Who is he?" jonathan asked as soon as he saw a young man in Europe who was in front of his daughter's apartment.

"Di-he... "

"Good morning, Mr. Liam! Meet Leon Wellington, Arumi's girlfriend!" Leon hurriedly shook Jonathan's hand which still seemed confused digesting his words. The young man smiled kindly. Trying to take the heart of the future in-laws.

"Where are you from?" jonathan asked curiously as he heard the young man speaking in fluent English.

"France!" answer Leon.

"Why didn't you tell Dad that you apparently had a lover in France?" Jonathan faced the princess. Asking for an explanation that feels difficult for Arumi to answer. What's he supposed to say? It is impossible for him to tell the truth. Should he say that he had been deceived by the young man and the father of the young man also bribed him with money in order to stay away from his son? Just be right. Jonathan's condition could drop back if he heard all that stuff.

Unfinished the eternal that struck Arumi, Jonathan's next words further added to the burden of the girl's mind.

"Come in! Let's talk inside!" Jonathan graciously invited Leon in. And, of course, Leon immediately nodded without needing to be asked twice.

Passing by Arumi who seemed so annoyed yet helpless to do anything, Leon blinked one eye. Teasing her girl with a mischievous smile that further adds to Arumi's anger towards her.

"Make a drink for our guest, Aru!" jonathan's orders were over to let Leon sit in the living room.

"He doesn't need to be given a drink, Dad!" arumi ketus. The beautiful girl folded her hands. Sitting with his face still bent and reluctant to look at Leon.

"Aru!" call Jonathan softly. "Is that how you entertain guests?"

"He's not a guest, Dad! He was just an obscure unemployed who came to disturb people in the morning! Ck, troublesome!" decak Arumi is upset. He glanced at Leon's cynics. Hoping that the young man felt a little offended yet seemed to fail.

Instead of being offended, Leon raised his eyebrows. Biting his reddish lower lip with a smile that is still at home decorating his handsome face with his brownish netra.

"Aru! Watch your talk! What does your father and mother's behavior teach you when a guest comes to visit?" This time, Jonathan's voice had already shown decisiveness. Arumi's attitude in the taste is already quite outrageous.

The girl reflexively bowed. His old attitude slowly began to return. Rejecting Jonathan's orders was something he absolutely could not do.

Despite feeling annoyed, Arumi still breezed towards the kitchen making drinks for his annoying guests. The girl grumbled in annoyance. A bad idea arose in his head.

Five minutes later, Arumi came out with two cups of coffee that he had brought on a tray. With his smile on his face, he put the cups one by one on the table and sat down next to his father while hugging the tray.

"Please drink!" jonathan said. He first took a sip of his coffee and put it back on the table.

Leon looked suspiciously at Arumi who since coming out of the kitchen seemed so cheerful. His upset face evaporated which made Leon suspect that something was going wrong here. Careful, he raised his coffee cup. Smelling the coffee and then smiling. Without the need to taste, Leon knows that the coffee mixture is not sugar but something else. He turned to look at Arumi. It seems, Arumi was intending to work on it. So was Leon's mind.

Leon was used to this kind of thing. Being able to tell the coffee mix just from the aroma alone has become a regular skill in their family traditions. The sheer number of competitors as well as the people who wanted to get rid of their families made Leon trained since childhood to distinguish which coffee or other drinks were worth drinking and which were not.

Seeing the face of his lover who seemed so looking forward to his suffering in enjoying the strange coffee, Leon without a second thought immediately sipped the coffee. Salted. That's what Indra caught. However, his facial expression seemed ordinary. Trying to hide his torment in front of Jonathan.

"How does it feel?" ask Arumi intentionally. The girl's smile was trying to resist from coming to the surface. There's his father here. The middle-aged man could be suspicious if Arumi laughed now.

"Wisdom! This is the wisest coffee I've ever tried" Leon replied lying.

"It's okay if you want to keep torturing me, Aru! As long as you can still return to me, a hundred times more sadistic than this I can endure."

"Then, spend it!" pinta Arumi was delighted.

"Yes. Is correct. Don't be shy!" jonathan chimed in.

Leon took a deep breath. One gulp alone was enough to torture him. If he forced to spend a full cup, his tongue could be sure to experience numbness.

Shaking, the young man's hand again grabbed his coffee cup. Spending the black liquid inside the ivory-white cup in just one breath.

"Can I go to the toilet for a second?" asked the man after the coffee in the cup, the toilet was not there.

"of course. It's over there!" point Arumi towards the toilet door near the kitchen.

Leon excused himself for a moment and immediately passed towards the toilet that Arumi pointed at. Arriving at the destination, Leon immediately vomited his stomach contents. That bad taste tormented him. Cramps are felt in the abdominal area where the former surgery was. The young man also tried to drink tap water to ward off the bad taste in his stomach. However, it did not produce any results. The cramping just tormented him.

Out of the toilet, Leon rejoins Jonathan and Arumi in the living room. His face now began to pale. He realized that his stomach must have experienced problems due to the excess salt consumption that he had just done. In fact, doctors have warned him about the condition of his stomach that has been difficult to improve since the surgery he did a few months ago because of excessive alcohol consumption he had done.