Give Me Your Hand's

I'm Back Because of You

While cursing himself, Kenan clutched the slender body in his arms and glued his face to Ivy's face. Their skin touches each other. The man stroked Ivy's face with his cheeks and nose. When his cheek stuck to Ivy's nostril, the dark gray eye bead snapped.

“You're alive?” Kenan was surprised to find a flow of air coming out of both Ivy nostrils. He rubbed the corner of his eyes which he had originally left wet with tears.

Aaron's son checked Ivy's pulse on the woman's neck and wrists. The pulse was still felt even though it was weak. He placed the slender body on the floor, while he tidied the bed Ivy who had been ravaged.

The man did not know how to tidy up the room, he could only put the mattress into its original place without a sheet cover. Letting goose feathers scatter and fall around Ivy's body.

He lifted the slender body and laid it on the bed. Shaking his lover's palm to immediately awaken, but his efforts did not seem to bear fruit.

“Wind oil! Yes, Nur used to give wind oil when Ivy fainted on the road,” muttered while flicking his own two fingers.

The two hands were looking for the small bottle Nur had stored. All storage areas are open. It turned out that the bottle containing the mint-scented liquid was inside Nur's wardrobe.

When Kenan was about to take the oil, he saw a blue map that caused him and Ivy to quarrel. The plastic was tucked away in the closet door, Ivy's hiding place.

“When you will lose your life, you still keep this,” murmured while rubbing his front hair back. He snorted annoyedly but he chose to take the blue map and put it just like that on the nightstand that was back standing in its place.

The scent of mint that had penetrated the Ivy respiratory tract, made the woman return to her consciousness. Those green eye beads slowly surfaced. The plump fur that adorned his eyelids in unison rose to his feet. He faintly looked at the figure of the man sitting in front of him and looked at him nonstop.

“Down..” Ivy's voice sounded soft and raspy. He felt the man's hand rub his fingers and sometimes played a ring around his ring finger. “You.... back?”

Kenan approached his sitting position as close as possible to Ivy's body. Gently stroked the brown hair and then down to the woman's chin. “I'm back because of you.”

"Didn't you want to see me again?” continued Kenan with his gentle eyes like drops of water soaking into a rock.

Ivy chose to hug the man she loved rather than express her answer with a few words.

“I thought..., you're going to leave me. You won't come back because.. because you're so disappointed in me.”.

“Sorry.” Finally the magic word came out of Kenan's mouth, even though it sounded very stiff.

How hard it is to say that one word. All this time he could only speak those words in his heart.

Ivy clutched the white shirt that wrapped Kenan's body and made the shirt wet with her tears. “I'm sorry. I didn't mean..”.

“Ssttt...” Kenan lifted Ivy's chin and covered those thin lips with his index finger.

“Actually you want to help me’?”

Ivy nodded her head slowly then turned her body towards her wardrobe.

Making himself and Kenan sit side by side on the bed. The tail of his eyes caught the blue map lying on the nightstand.

His hand hesitated to pick up the plastic object, slowly he turned his face to see Kenan's reaction.

“Take.” The brown lips spoke.

Victor's daughter frowned in front of Kenan, as if she could not believe what she had just heard.

He told me to take it? He didn't rip or burn the deal when I fainted?

With doubt, Ivy took the blue map but his bead could not be seen looking at Kenan.

“Just continue that cooperation agreement.” Kenan said when he saw the sheet of paper had opened on the woman's lap.

“You're serious?” Ivy asked as she raised her head looking at the thin mustache face with her smile.

Her green eye beads were rounded and seemed to glow. Her thin lips expanded like rose petals that had opened her life.

Kenan rubbed his face violently as if Ivy did not believe him. “Did I ever joke when it comes to work?”

Victor's daughter laughed freely showing a row of teeth that look flat. Within a few minutes, his sadness disappeared. He immediately hugged his lover and showered Kenan's forehead, nose and cheeks with the touch of his lips.

“This one hasn't.” Kenan pointed at his own lips.

“Close your eyes,” says Ivy with a blink of his eye.

It's not Ivy's name, if he can't make Kenan laugh, get angry and cry simultaneously. The woman picked up her lipstick that fell on the floor. Lipstick is bright red.

“How long was it?” Kenan began to pursed his lips and advanced his face, he was already preparing to touch Ivy's thin lips.

“Wait, I'm still collecting my breath.” Ivy is opening her lipstick.

Put the lipstick in her mouth and place it between her lips. Slowly with a gentle touch, she scratched Kenan's lips with her red lipstick. Her lips touched Kenan's lips a little.

“Why do your lips taste different? Like oily?” asked Kenan who immediately made Ivy laugh giggling.

The woman immediately hid her lipstick under the bed and saw her work on Kenan's lips.

Hearing the sound of Ivy's laughter, Kenan immediately opened his two eyes. The man scrunched his forehead looking at his lover who was still laughing nonstop. Feeling that something was wrong, he looked for a mirror to see his face.

“Ivy!” yelled Kenan in front of the mirror hanging above the woman's bathroom sink.

The man looked at his face like a clown playing his ball game in front of children. The lipstick came out of her lip line, even down to her thin mustache.

Ivy stepped into the bathroom to see Kenan's reaction. In each step, he laughed endlessly. It was as if he had a chance to prank the cold-looking man.

“Do not delete,” said Ivy who is still with his laugh.

“You like?” asked Kenan who went straight to Ivy. He raised one of his eyebrows and threw his charming smile covered by a slab of lipstick.

“You... you're really funny, honey.” Ivy immediately shook Kenan's cheeks up and down, like a teddy bear, then he pulled the man's hand out of the bathroom.

“You know, Honey…. You really made my heart go bad,” whispered Kenan as she hugged Ivy from behind. Ivy's laughter stopped.

“Really?” Ivy placed both of her hands on Kenan's hand which was coiled around her stomach.

“You want to feel my heart beating so fast when hugging you like this?” kenan whispered right behind Ivy's ear and placed his stomach on the woman's back body.

“Ehem...,” Ivy.

Ivy had not yet realized Kenan's revenge. The man immediately showered his face and neck with a million kisses. As a result, Ivy's face and neck were filled with the man's lip stamp.

“Auw! Kenan...” Ivy screamed in her laughter and instantly released herself from the man's embrace. He runs out of his room, while Kenan chases after him and tries to catch him.

“Where are you going, baby,” said Kenan who laughed with Ivy. They chased each other inside the apartment that had been damaged.

But Ivy's laughter and footsteps suddenly stopped when he was in front of his study.

With a shaky step he entered his room. His eyes stared at the chaos that was happening in the room.

His gaze fell on the two mannequin statues that fell down near his boots. A mannequin statue wrapped in her wedding dress and Cansu's wedding dress.

“What Hasan did all this?” Ivy asked, closing her mouth.

Kenan sighed after he reached the study. Just like Ivy, the gray eye bead also stared at the state of affairs in his study. The man put his arm on Ivy's shoulder, because he knew for a fact that the woman would be sad to see the results of her work broken like wasted garbage.

“Without a wedding dress, I will still marry you,” entertain Kenan.

Ivy nodded her head and exhaled deeply. “I'll try to fix it and clean up all this mess.”

Kenan pulled Ivy's hand away from the glass fragments on the floor. He didn't want Ivy to bother cleaning up the mess that wasn't what they were doing.

“We will move from here.”

“Moving? But our mailing address is here.” Ivy frowned, he had no shadow in the slightest to move anywhere.

“They already know our hiding place. For a while we'll be living in Mehmet's apartment. Only tonight. I'll take care of everything. You just get Deniz and Nur's stuff ready, now they're there.”

Ivy did as Kenan said. He stuffed all of Deniz's clothes, Nur's clothes, his clothes and Kenan's in two large suitcases. Not to forget he brought two wedding clothes and two mannequin statues and sewing equipment. That afternoon they moved into Mehmet's apartment across the street.

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