Love Because Love
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
"Laurel..," Hearing her name being called softly by Arnold, Laurel hurriedly turned her eyes away from the figure of Dave who had already taken a sitting position near them, to keep Arnold unsuspecting and looking back. Not long after, another man walked over to Dave's desk and sat down in front of Dave. And I don't know what the two of them are talking about, but from the look on Dave's face looks so serious.
"Yes.," hearing Laurel's answer, Arnold gives a code to one of the waitresses. Soon a waitress came up with a heart-shaped piece of cake and a sprig of fresh red roses and placed it on the table, between Laurel and Arnold.
Laurel's eyes widened slightly to look at the heart-shaped piece of bread in front of her, above which a beautiful ring was embedded in the bread. Actually without waiting for Arnold to say something Laurel could already know what Arnold meant, but still Laurel's lips asked Arnold's intentions with all that.
"What does this mean?" Arnold was eager to grab Laurel's hand, but it seemed impossible, other than the table in front of them far enough to separate their seats, from the moment Laurel's hands were on her lap, not on the table, making Arnold impossible to reach him.
"Laurel, you know, from the moment we first met..," Arnold took a deep breath, holding his chest for a while, adjusting his breathing before continuing his words.
"Since we first met I've been in love with you. There has never been a girl so much that I couldn't help but be around her all the time" Laurel gasped in shock, although he could already guess the direction Arnold was talking since the heart-shaped bread was in front of him with a ring on it, but still it turned out that he was not ready when he heard Arnold say that from his lips, especially being watched by a pair of eyes from behind Arnold. Inexplicably Laurel finds it no coincidence that Dave meets someone at the same restaurant as her and Arnold, but unknowingly by herself Laurel breathes a sigh of relief that Dave is nearby, so he didn't feel alone with Arnold in that place.
"You don't have to answer now, think carefully, but please give me a chance to show my sincerity" Arnold pulled out the ring that was on the heart-shaped loaf of bread, clean it with tissue and thrust it towards Laurel. Laurel was silent at what Arnold was doing, her eyes looking at Arnold, but not just Arnold, as Dave sat in a straight line in front of her, inevitably he also looked towards Dave who seemed to be sitting by crossing his hands in front of his stomach, with his right leg crossed, resting on his left leg. With a calm look Dave looked at Laurel, as if she was sitting there alone and as if waiting for Laurel's answer to Arnold, make Laurel a little nervous to start talking and make the man in front of Dave a little turn to look at Laurel and Arnold because of curious why Dave's concentration like divided, and why, from the beginning they discussed their business often Dave's eyes were directed elsewhere, more precisely towards Laurel. At first glance the man with Dave glanced at Laurel, and after his eyes returned to Dave, the man smiled faintly at Dave.
"Is it her?" (is that him?) Dave just nodded slowly at the question whispered softly by the man before him, who immediately smiled at Dave's nod of the head.
"Arnold, I'm grateful to know you, but...,"
"Don't go on, I want you to think about it before you answer me. I know we've only known each other, not even a month. But I know clearly my heart, never have I felt attracted to a girl even since we first met," Laurel took a deep breath.
"I know a lot of guys are trying to get your heart, but please, give it a chance to think about whether there's at least a little bit of love for me, from that little bit of liking I'll make you like me even more until you fall in love with me" Laurel smiled at Arnold's words, if only the handsome man in front of him had once made him flutter, he would have tried to consider it, but the thing was, he had never considered Arnold more than a friend, no matter how close their relationship has been, Laurel only considers him a friend.
“Sorry Arnold..,”
“No, don't say anything, I'll give you a few days to think about it, I'll wait for your answer on Friday tomorrow. It's my birthday, let's just say we're celebrating my birthday. For now don't think about what I just said. Accompany me to dinner today,” Laurel took a deep breath, glimpsed by the ring that was on their front desk.
“This ring is special I bought for the gift of moving your house, maybe you are not aware I deliberately have not given you the gift of moving house yesterday,” Laurel took a deep breath hearing that. It seemed like too many people were giving him the gift of moving house which to him was too luxurious.
“No, I cannot accept such an overly personal gift. The ring should be given to the girl who will be your lover,” Arnold smiled at Laurel's words.
“And I wish that girl was you. Ah, never mind, don't talk about that. I want to give you time to think, which means tonight don't you think about what I just said, we just enjoy our dinner as my birthday celebration,” Laurel can only smile by being forced to hear the words of Arnold, actually she felt really uncomfortable eating together with Arnold, not to mention not so long Dave got up from his seat without a sound, followed by the man who had been sitting in front of him, turned his body and walked away from where they were sitting, so Laurel was back alone with Arnold in that place.
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Don't forget to give your answer today, Laurel frowned reading Arnold's message. It feels like some days the feeling is really chaotic because it has to face Arnold who since that night always tried to approach him, while on the other hand, on the other hand, he had to face Arnold who had always tried to approach him, for a few days, wherever Arnold followed him, it seemed like Dave also often suddenly appeared in the same place.
Although Arnold holds his promise not to bring up the problem of Laurel's answer to his love statement until the time has been set, but on the sidelines of his break time Arnold often immediately look for it, whether it's in his office, whether it's in his office, I don't know if it's in the cafeteria at lunch. And whether it's Laurel's feelings or it's completely unintentional, each Arnold visits her room, not how long Mira must have delivered a message from Dave to meet her at the director's office, or as he eats lunch in the cafeteria and Arnold sits at a table with him, Dave will immediately sit at the table to the left or right of the table where he eats, make him have to be really careful when getting the words out.
And the incident is still coupled with the delivery of red tulips every day to his home. The sender who always thinks of himself as Lord Shiva and her as Goddess Parvati who in the story of puppetry is the wife of Lord Shiva really makes it a headache to think of who the prankster who has sent her every flower a day with greeting cards containing strange love statement words.
“Doctor Laurel, be careful,” For focusing too much on his phone Laurel almost hit Leo.
“Eh, sorry doctor Leo, I did not see a doctor,” Leo smiled looking at Laurel's face that looked guilty.
“Whose daydreaming?” Laurel smiled at Leo's question.
“Eh, no doc,” Leo laughed amusedly looking at the face of Laurel who looks a little flushed and looks wrong behavior.
“If I can help, I will definitely help doc,”
“Ok, leave this document to the boss, you have to go to his office, this is an important document,” Laurel stared deeply into Leo's face, thought a little, if it is an important document why he should be told to convey to Dave, not Leo himself.
“Just relax, I trust you,” Without waiting for a response from Laurel, Leo directed the brown envelope she held in her hand towards Laurel without asking for her approval.
“Just now you leave it to the boss, don't forget, it's the boss's birthday, even though it's only tomorrow the boss's birthday party is held, but today wish him a happy birthday,” Leo rolled his eyes at Laurel before he turned his back to go to his own office, which was actually not far from Dave's office.
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With hesitation Laurel knocked on Dave's office door, but not to mention she heard the voice of the order to enter, a loud voice came from inside Dave's room.
“Prang!” Hearing the sound of things breaking with Laurel's reflex opened the door to Dave's room without waiting for the order to enter, and what she saw in the room really made Laurel growled.
He saw Dave with his right hand holding Hana's left hand on top of his head like he was about to put his hand on Dave's shoulder, with Dave's body standing leaning on his desk, hana was right in front of him with her body so close to Dave's body, under Dave's feet were broken glass that seemed to have accidentally fallen when they did an action that is currently enough to make Laurel shock.
Hana looks at the sound of the door opening suddenly, and unexpectedly, as soon as Hana sees Laurel standing at Dave's office door, Hana spontaneously kisses Dave's cheek.
“Happy boss's birthday,” Seeing the events in front of him, Laurel grew increasingly stretched, making her legs retreat a few steps back.
“Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt,” Laurel quickly turned her body and ran away, leaving Dave's office door open. Leo just ran after Laurel because there was one more document left for Dave, immediately knitted his eyebrows and joined to see what was going on in Dave's room so that made Laurel so shocked and immediately ran away.
“Dave...., Hana...” Hearing Leo's voice calling out the names of the two of them and walking up to the two of them, Hana immediately jerked her hand from Dave's handrails, and without a word Hana instantly turned her back, walk out of Dave's room and close his office door.
“Crazy! Dave's! What did you just do with Hana? In front of Laurel? You are really outrageous!” Dave took a deep breath while holding his forehead with his right palm.
“Unlike you think Leo is, not like it happened,” Leo walked over to Dave with an emotion-filled face.
“7 More years you are waiting for him! And now you make it all fall apart in just seconds. If indeed from the beginning you want to let go, do it a long time ago, not when he is back here!” Dave closed his eyes for a moment while sighing.
“This is just a Leo misunderstanding, unlike what you see,” Dave tried to calm Leo who looks so emotional.
“Mistake? Letting another girl kiss you in front of your wife you said it was a misunderstanding?” Leo took a deep breath, trying to hold back his emotions.
“Listen Dave! All this time I have so admired your love for Laurel for 7 years, I sincerely try to help you so that you can get Laurel's heart soon! But with today's incident, I'm telling you! At first I held back knowing that Laurel was your wife! But from now on, let's compete fairly! Let Laurel decide to return to your side or I will take her by my side!” Dave was shocked to hear the words of Leo just now, he really did not expect that it turned out that Leo had been putting his heart to Laurel.
“Leo! You know she's my wife! Don't mess around!” Dave clutches Leo's clothes crate, but Leo quickly removes Dave's hands from his shirt crate.
“What you just did with Hana does not show the attitude of a man who already has a wife!” Leo quickly turned his body and walked towards the door.
“Leo! Hear me! Listen to my explanation!” Leo paused his steps for a moment, then turned to look at Dave without turning his body back.
“Just try to explain to Laurel, it's not me who needs your explanation!” After finishing his words, Leo immediately walked out, letting Dave who instantly clenched his hands and punched his workbench hard, making his hands leave bloodstains on the workbench he just hit.
