I Borrowed Him
Naoko's Past (2)
***THIS EPISODE STILL USES A FIRST-PERSON POINT OF VIEW AS NAOKO***
Naomi's...
The name Evans gave to my then newborn daughter...
Evans said that if he wished Naomi would grow up like me to be worthy of being a companion for Jester, then somehow Evans said that time to bother me.
Being like...
A beautiful sentence like Evans' praise and pride for me was clearly heard and beautifully embedded in my mind.
As if Evans had commanded me, I instilled well into educating Naomi that she would be like me. Seeing how calm Naomi was when the baby made my previous worries gradually evaporate, I was happy with the development of Naomi's toddlerhood...
"Yahoooooooo!!!" the cry of a six-year-old boy was so loud that I came out of the house running fast enough to see what was going on in the front garden of my yard.
"Ahahaha...is a man weak?" naomi laughed mocking the boy in front of her who was lying face down on the ground
I looked at my five-year-old daughter, she grew wild and like a boy in general. Not a single piece of elegance Naomi had shown me and Evans all this time, I ran back and yelled at Naomi to stop to bully the boy. Immediately I checked if the child was injured and sure enough, his eyes were torn off probably due to the rocks on the ground.
"Get into your room Naomi!!!" I snapped at my daughter, I looked into her eyes that showed no remorse or fear at all.
Naomi just ran into the house just like that, I also drove this boy to her house. His parents were our neighbors. There I only met with his nanny, I sent him a message to express our apologies on behalf of the family and then I returned home.
Arriving home, Naomi again made a tantrum by breaking some of my bonsai pots that I had placed in the front garden for me to take care of. There I saw Naomi hurt her leg because of the sharp cut of the bonsai pot scraping her leg, I panicked with the amount of blood that came out but all the panic was inversely proportional to Naomi... she just laughed at me as if asking for my mercy so as not to scold her.
Not finished tired I walk from the house to the house of the boy Naomi usik, now I have to endure the fatigue of my heart to see the condition of Naomi whose legs are covered in blood. I carried him and took him to his room and treated his wounds there, I couldn't say any more words then. Maybe because I'm too tired.
That night, I got a visit from my neighbor who held me accountable for Naomi. Evans, who had just returned home from work and looked so tired, had to face our nagging neighbor. They snapped and we could only bow our heads apologizing, and we gave some money as compensation.
"Haah... How do I tame that one child?" evans asked sounding annoyed, I took his handbag which was grasped by Evans.
"Sorry Evans san. I don't know.." I answered stammering, I felt Evans' disappointment at the time.
"You're his mother, do something!" somewhat snapping at Evans back then to me, I gasped at his snaps.
It's been a long time that I've never had that clash, the last one I got before that night was Evans's snap when he asked me to stay away from him first when we were still dating. Today for the first time, I got the same shot.
Time passed and I began to be hard on Naomi even though Naomi seemed not afraid of me at all, I was troubled to take care of Naomi's naughty and wild behavior. Until the age of Naomi when it was eleven years, Naomi also did not show signs of her getting better. Evans looked desperate, and I felt disappointed even though that attitude was never shown to Naomi.
One night when I greeted Evans after he was tired of coming home from work, in the courtyard of the house I saw his face so tangled at me. "There's something in his work" I thought so, I ran up to him and took his suitcase.
"What's wrong?" just worry
"William wanted to bring Jester together with Naomi, I didn't have a good reason to reject him" Evans replied, sounding sad, I was surprised by Evans' reply.
"What would William say if he saw Naomi like that? I don't have a face to meet him!" evans said again sounding so embarrassed and angry that became one, I could only be silent to think of the way.
I was petrified in the courtyard of the house, only able to stare at the back of Evans who kept walking into the house leaving me in the courtyard of the house. Evans' disappointment was so heart-piercing, I was disappointed in myself and my own son. How could this happen? me and Evans both have a calm attitude, but Naomi seems to be a contradiction of our nature.
I increased the intensity of my hard upbringing to Naomi, I had to turn off my motherly instincts to make Naomi the person Evans wanted to be. Put her into personality classes, teach her meekly by teaching her piano and violin, until I had to call Marrie to ask her to meet.
In a suburban coffee shop, Marrie and I met eye-to-eye for the first time since we split up at High School. An unpleasant meeting I had to do to preserve Evans' dignity in front of William, all I did for Evans' sake...
"What's wrong? you invited me to a place like this? are you broke? Was it William's money that made you rich, but invited me to a place like this? that's an insult" Marrie's scathing insinuation has never changed since we were in High School, I held all my emotions in for one important purpose.
I bowed my head before Marrie for the first time, I'm sure she was surprised to see me like that. Perhaps she would never have imagined, a Naoko Kanade, the winner of the school's beauty queen, the second-smartest number after Marrie, the number one most talented in manners, and number two in athletics under Marrie is now bowing his head before his arch enemy.
"Give me time to get Jester to Naomi!! I can't tell you why, but I beg you to understand!" my door to him
"What's? you invited me just for that?" asked Marrie whose voice sounded so confused
"I'm just asking for your understanding, Marrie, whatever I'm going to do as long as you give me time" I asked again to force Marrie
"Why? you don't have to bother doing this, you just keep your son away from my son. I don't want to be your boss" asked Marrie to press me
"I know, I don't want to either, but this is about Evans, all I'm doing for Evans, who is so hopeful that Naomi will be the son-in-law of the Gates family. You know how much I love Evans.You know what I sacrificed to get him..." I begged him to accept my request
"Alright~ put it this way.. assume I accept your request but...." Marrie hung up her sentence as if waiting for me to raise my head to look into her eyes, I looked into Marrie's smiling face despite not knowing what she was thinking.
"But what?" ask me curious
"Tell Evans, the kid now really doesn't like being betrothed. Let them meet each other naturally, if they meet someday, whatever the circumstances, we will accept the shortcomings and advantages of each child and make him a son-in-law without much protest. I'll say the same to William, so we can only hope for fate" Marrie replied, expressing his idea that made perfect sense to me
"Agreed!" my dream without any consideration
No, I wasted my time, I got harder on Naomi to achieve my goals. Even I forced him to become a selebgram, so that I could monitor him through the eyes of netizens. I said what Marrie asked Evans, and Evans agreed, saying that if William said the same thing, I was relieved to hear Evans agree to the proposal.
A year passed and Naomi returned.... Naomi falls from a tree and Evans tries to catch her...
I remember when Evans' blood poured out of his head and soaked my hands.My eyes were blurred, my heart was broken, my mind was blown away - a shadow of life without Evans and I was devastated...
A valuable lesson for Naomi with a very expensive fee...
Naomi has been more manageable since that incident, but I still don't believe her. I kept monitoring her and right. The seeds of rebellion began to show Naomi when she entered High School, all this time I did enter Naomi at the second level to avoid the possibility of Naomi meeting with Jester.
But that's my fault.... He meets people who are not comparable to him, High School is a time where love can arrive - suddenly appear and develop to anyone for reasons that make no sense anyway. Daniel. I will remember that name forever.
Somehow Naomi could still keep in touch with this man, I had been keeping her very tight but it seemed that I was too naive...
Graduation High School became a place for me to immediately keep Naomi away from this man, I had no choice but to enter Naomi into an expensive university so that this man could not follow in Naomi's footsteps. But just registered and Naomi declared accepted.I forgot if Jester was also in the same campus.
