
"Leon, are you sure you brought me here?" Monaliza stood beside Leon's car parked on the sixth floor, staring at the hotel ballroom in front of her, where Leon's parents' lavish birthday party was held.
"Stop feeling inappropriate Mona, you're my lover, and I love you, you deserve it wherever you are" Leon said softly. He grabbed Monaliza's hand, put it in her arms.
"Get my arm Mona, we're going in now" Monaliza nodded softly. He tightened his hand in Leon's arms, his heart began to beat irregularly, not because of Leon, but rather leading to the party he was going to attend, he felt unprepared to enter the eternal which was not his social status.
"Be normal, Mona, don't show that tense face of yours." It was Leon's whisper that stopped his steps in front of the ballroom door, but his eyes were still staring ahead.
"If necessary, open your smile, because you will soon be the center of attention in this party," added Leon, he immediately developed a thin smile, he immediately, when some new guests came staring at him and immediately approached him.
"Young master Leon, nice to meet you," said a man his father and mother's age, who was seen coming with his wife.
"Good night also mister and mrs Moou," Leon greeted back while maintaining his faint smile. While Monaliza who stood by his side, and still holding tightly his arms helped develop her smile to the couple.
"Young master, is this your lover?" mrs Moou asked, looking at Monaliza who was holding tightly onto Leon's arm with her sweet smile.
"You're right madam, Monaliza's name," Leon said, introducing her lover with confidence.
"A very sweet name, and very pretty like the owner. Pleased to meet you, miss MONALIZA," spelled Miss Moou as she reached out her hand to shake hands with Monaliza. Master Moou also did not miss.
"Thank you, nice to meet you, ladies and gentlemen, too" said Monaliza with a smile that remained fluffy.
"Young master Leon and Miss Monaliza are very compatible, is that not so dear," praised Mr. Moou by asking for his wife's approval.
"Dear, you're right" said Madame Moou agreeing with a smile engraved on her face.
"Thank you ladies and gentlemen, your words made me want to quickly formalize our relationship" Leon joked, making Monaliza's face red to hear Leon's words. While the master and mistress Moou joined in laughing to welcome the joke from the host.
"Please ladies and gentlemen, please come in, papa and mama are waiting inside" Leon said later, inviting his guest as a good host.
"Thank you young master Leon and Miss Monaliza," said Mr. Moou, leaving Leon and Monaliza at the ballroom entrance and entering the party room.
"Mona, prepare yourself, we go in now" said Leon staring at the face of Monaliza who never bore him admiring her.
Monaliza nodded, taking a deep breath as she closed her eyes and slowly brought it back out through her half-opened mouth, making Leon feel anxious to see her lover.
As Leon felt Monaliza tighten her arms back, Leon began to step into the ballroom in modest steps with Monaliza by his side.
"Megan?" Dirga looked at Monaliza who was walking with Leon's arm by her side. He blinked his eyes, not believing what he saw.
"That's Monaliza Dirga, not the late Megan. The one in the whole room of this party will run away if it's your late fiancee," said Firans resuscitated his friend and CEO.
"Dirga isn't that Monaliza, your receptionist?" surya's mother asked her son to confirm his vision. While Mr. Surya who was standing by his wife's side also looked at Monaliza while gulping down his drink.
"Yes ma, that girl is Monaliza, our employee," said Dirga, with his eyes looking at Monaliza who continued to step with Leon on the sidelines of the guests who gave way to them. Monaliza's dress that shows her shape with her side hemisphere to almost reach her hips is of concern to Dirga who made her unconsciously spend the drink in her glass only twice sip.
"Monaliza, she does look a lot like the late Megan," muttered madam Surya still looking at Monaliza who was talking to Keny, Leon's brother.
"Yes, you're right. I don't know what reaction Mr. Han and his wife had when they saw that there was a girl who was very similar to their daughter" Hardi Surya said, Dirga's father commented.
Dirga did not comment on anything listening to the chatter of his father and mother who were near him, his hand again grabbed a drink served by the party waiter who came near them, and his hand reached for a drink, and his eyes did not stop watching Monaliza from where she stood.
"Dirga, remember Dirga, you've finished three glasses of your drink. Don't get you drunk before the party's over" Firans looked at Dirga, feeling like his best friend was acting like he wasn't used to tonight.
"Dirga, what you're looking at isn't Megan's late. He's Monaliza the lover of young master Leon, the son of the master and mistress of Gamsonrich who organized the party tonight," said Firans, he was worried to see the gelagat that was not right from Dirga.
"Firans, I am not a drunk and do not get drunk easily just because of a few drinks," said Dirga, pointing at the fourth glass to Firans who also saw the glass.
"It is your words that make my head dizzy to hear it. So you better shut up," told Dirga in her flat tone without looking at Firans, as her gaze again led to Monaliza, where the girl was.
"Hi Leon, I miss you" A girl in a dress no less sexy than Monaliza came over and put her face closer to Leon's face to kiss him.
Monaliza, Keny and Nadine his wife who were chatting earlier, looked at Nadya's face without further ado acting as if it was so familiar and close to Leon.
Leon swiftly restrained the girl's face with one hand so as not to touch her face.
"Nadya, be polite, don't you see my lover is by my side and hugging my arm" Leon said with a flat look at Nadya.
"Love? Let's see later, who will be chosen uncle and aunt is beside you and who has the right to embrace your arm is Leon," Nadya smiled wickedly with the face of a rhino, at least he did not feel offended let alone embarrassed when Leon said that to him.
When he heard Nadya's words, Monaliza stared fixedly at the woman's face. The voice he remembered so much, must have been the woman who attacked him a few nights ago while he was still hospitalized, Inner Monaliza. Even at that time, he did not see the woman's face clearly, because she was wearing dark glasses.
"Keny! Leon! Come here" call Gamsonrich's lady to her two sons. To introduce his two sons to his colleagues who came to the party.
"Mona, wait here for a while, I'll be right back" Leon half-whispered to Monaliza. Monaliza nodded then removed her hand from Leon's arm.
"Sister Nadine, leave Monaliza for a while, yes" Leon told his brother-in-law.
"Well Leon," said Nadine.