Linger

Bleeding

"Oh my God!" Kalea shrieked with a stifled voice as she found blood stains littering the sheets.

Gavin, who was asleep, woke up from the screeches of Kalea. With a panicked face, he got up and intended to check out what was going on. But Kalea's next scream managed to make her stop moving.

"Reverse!" kalea's orders.

Although he did not understand why Kalea told him to turn his back on her, Gavin did. He patiently waited until Kalea gave her next instructions.

But after waiting for a long time, Kalea did not speak. Gavin itched, so he turned around quickly and immediately fell silent when he saw Kalea trying to clean the blood stains that were stuck in the sheets.

"Gavin! Why look?! I told you, get back in the body!"

Kalea looked panicked as Gavin continued to look at her.

In contrast to the frenzied Kalea, Gavin's reaction was relaxed. Even the man had a smile before moving down from the bed and walking towards the closet to return shortly then carrying a pack of pads that were directly thrust towards Kalea.

"There to the bathroom, the sheets let me clean." Said relaxed. As if he did not know that what he said managed to make Kalea's cheeks flushed red. She was ashamed, of course. Who wouldn't be ashamed if a monthly guest came and seeped everywhere like this? Even if it was Papa or Karel, Kalea would still feel ashamed.

"Kal?"

"You're out. Let me clean the sheets first." Kalea Sahut. He lowered his head deeply, trying to hide his red face.

"Let me clean, Kalea. You go to the bathroom, clean the body." Gavin walked closer, pulling Kalea's arm up from the bed. But the woman was still determined not to wake up so that made him sigh slowly.

"You want me to carry it all the way to the bathroom?" gavin asked casually which again managed to make Kalea at a loss for words.

"No way, right? Yaudah, there's a hunt to the bathroom."

"But-"

"According to you, please?" for the first time, Kalea listens to Gavin's alpha tone.

His body that had initially pushed hard to get up from the bed suddenly moved quickly. As fast as lightning, Kalea snatched the sanitary pad from Gavin's hand and ran to the bathroom.

While Gavin just shook his head while chuckling at Kalea's behavior. Then after his weakness stopped, Gavin began to remove white sheets wrapped in a large mattress. He let the sheets fall to the floor to check if the blood stains seeped into the mattress. Luckily the mattress was safe, so Gavin only needed to change the sheets.

Gavin walked towards the closet, pulled the dark blue sheets from the bottom pile and carried them to the mattress. Gavin painstakingly began to attach the sheets to the mattress, tidying the corners so that nothing looked chaotic in the slightest.

Finished with that, Gavin picked up the dirty sheets on the floor and immediately carried them out of the room. With the sheets in his arms, Gavin walked slowly down the stairs to the laundry room on the first floor.

Meanwhile, in the bathroom, Kalea did not move from her place. He sat on the closet with a bright look. Half his life seemed to float away, making him not feel whole anymore.

Of the many embarrassing moments he had experienced during his life, it felt that this incident was the one that made him feel the most embarrassed to almost desire to drown himself in the ocean.

"Mamaaaaa.. shame..." Kalea whined in a soft voice. Then, he covered his already completely red face using the palm of his hand.

Perhaps, Kalea will need a whole day until she gets the courage to meet Gavin after what happened.

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Gavin leaned against the wall, watching how the bed linen that had mixed with the water and detergent inside the washing machine began to swirl. Each round similar pieces of happenings that followed each other entered into his head, making a smile slowly rise adorning his face.

"It's funny, anyway." Gavin muttered as he recalled the red tinge that slowly appeared on the cheeks of Kalea. Dare to swear, in Gavin's eyes, the woman looked a thousand times more adorable with that red tinge.

Perhaps there will be more conversations with yourself that Gavin would have done, if only the shakes on the phone in his pants pocket did not interrupt. Gavin quickly pulls out his phone, only to find Taruna's name on the screen.

There was no reason for Gavin to ignore the phone from Taruna, so without thinking for a long time, Gavin immediately shifted the green log so that the phone was connected.

"Hello." Sweepings.

"Irina's free until 12 noon, so if you want you can come to her apartment now." Without further ado, Taruna explained something she had previously asked for.

Last night, when Kalea suddenly walked towards him sneaking around, Gavin was actually calling Taruna to ask about Irina's schedule today while monitoring the development of dating rumors that hit her lover. Last night Taruna had not had time to answer about Irina's schedule and had only a little information about her date rumors because Gavin was forced to disconnect the phone so that Kalea did not hear further their conversation.

"Vin?"

"Okay, I'll be on my way soon. Thanks." Thanks." Gavin.

"No prob."

Then the phone is closed, coinciding with the turn of the washing machine that stops. Gavin put his phone back in his pants pocket and quickly finished his laundry job. Because he had to go see Irina to ask about the package delivery yesterday morning. He had to make sure that it wasn't Irina who sent the package.

After a long time struggling with water and detergent, the washing activity is finished. Gavin walked towards the back door with his bedsheet clean and half dry. Deftly he stretched the bedsheet on the clothesline and immediately re-entered the house.

Gavin stepped quickly towards the stairs, climbing the stairs with a rash movement until almost slipped while trying to jump one step so that he could step directly onto the next step. Lucky his hands are quick to hold on so that nothing unwanted happens.

Arriving at the door, Gavin opened the door and barged in. Just to be confused because Kalea wasn't there. From the direction of the bathroom, there was a sound of water rustling so Gavin assumed that Kalea was still in there. Maybe it's not done with the business.

Gavin slowly walked towards the bathroom. His hand was raised, knocking on the bathroom door a few times only to find it opened slightly and Kalea seemed to peek out from the narrow gap.

"Are you not finished?" ask Gavin.

"Yet. Wh why? You want to use the bathroom?" kalea's voice sounded so small that Gavin had to put his ear slightly closer to the door in order to hear what Kalea had to say more clearly.

"No." Gavin shook his head. "I just want permission."

"Your genie?"

"Yes. I want permission to go out for a while, I have something to take care of. Can you?"

"Can."

"OKAY. I try not for long. Thanks, Kalea. Call me if you need anything. See you." After saying that, Gavin half ran out of the room. The man did not even change his nightgown with a more decent outfit if he was going to go see someone else.

After Gavin was no longer in sight, Kalea opened the door wide and began to step out of the bathroom. He lied about not cleaning up. In fact, it's been done since a few minutes ago. Kalea was just too embarrassed to face Gavin, so she decided to lock herself up a little longer in the bathroom.

"Luckily Gavin left, so I don't have to hang out in the bathroom anymore." He said he breathed a sigh of relief.

"But where is Gavin going, you think?" I don't know who it was to. But the question did not bother him much, because the most important thing for him now was to be able to avoid Gavin for a while until he managed to get rid of the shame in his mind.