Mentari in the Night Sky

The Past: Small Quarrels

"Why didn't you return my message?!" arthur asked as soon as I got in the car.

"I don't want to see you alone with Alvin in the future" William said as soon as he got into the car.

"What happened to you guys?” timpal Arthur with a face of confusion as soon as I saw him and William got into the car with a pretty gloomy atmosphere.

"They both slept in the field hand in hand."

"Hey!!! Zeta!!!" shouted Arthur.

Who would have thought that Alvin and I would fall asleep on the green grass while enjoying the twilight. I woke up because of William who suddenly lay between my body and Alvin. He immediately gave a frightening look as soon as I woke up from my sleep. He also directly pulled my body away from Alvin without trying to say a word to Alvin. Leaving the bewildered Alvin alone in the middle of the field. Also, I didn't reply to Arthur's message because my mood was bad the first time he sent me a message and being with Alvin made me ignore everything. Even I forgot about the time I was supposed to be looking for William in the VIP room.

Really, who would have thought that I would fall asleep in the middle of the field?

"I won't repeat it again," I replied after constantly getting scary gazes from my two brothers.

"What won't you repeat?!" ask William and Arthur at the same time. They are both always compact when it comes to me.

"both. I'll always reply to my brother's messages and I won't sleep alone in the field hand in hand."

"It looks like we have to make a deal on paper" Arthur said.

"Why?" whinek.

"I'll arrange it" replied William.

"You don't want to see me get married?"

"Now is not yet the time" replied William and Arthur together for the second time.

William immediately started the car engine and drove him to leave the school which was still filled with several children due to extracurricular activities. I kept seeing the streets filled with cars, a sight I never liked because it made me feel how busy the city was. Several times William looked at me through the rearview mirror. He wanted to open a conversation about what happened today but he hesitated because he saw me who was enjoying the trip, more precisely pretending to enjoy the streets.

"Why do you and your brother do that?" my question was so unable to stand William's glance that constantly bothered me.

"For no one else will hurt you in the future."

"I don't think I just don't dare to hurt me but I don't dare to be friends with me either."

"Because they don't deserve to be friends with you."

"Then, what about Stephanie?"

"Dad gave me everything Uncle Chester asked for. Everything in the news is not always the truth. Elizabeth's family will continue to take care of that school."

"Sister should have prevented Dad. School was Stephanie's dream."

"...."

"And those who bully me, should they acquire their family company and cut off cooperation with those who do not want to be acquired?"

"Zeta....,” call Arthur as soon as he realizes the changing atmosphere is getting worse.

"If in the future someone takes away my dream, what will Brother and father do?" I don't care about Arthur's warning call.

"They deserve it,” reply William answered the previous question.

"Then, do their employees deserve it too? When they weren't involved in the bullying that happened to me?"

"Zeta, the Allison Group just acquired, we didn't do a mass sacking and we cut the contract in accordance with the contract they signed."

"But those mass firings will happen in the future, right? And that contract termination would end in the company's bankruptcy, wouldn't it? In this one year?" my reply made Arthur shake his head.

Silent. Even in this silence, I already knew all the answers to my questions. I never thought silence would be the answer I hated the most.

"Do you know that children start looking at me with fear as if they see predators ready to prey on them whenever I want. I am also more afraid of myself. The way my father and brother protected me made me not want to be protected."

"Zeta," call Arthur once more, hoping that this time I don't resume this conversation.

"I'm sorry" said William, who closed our conversation and created silence on our journey.

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Today both my parents and William went to visit my maternal grandparents. Last night at dinner, my mom told me that she was sick and wanted all the family members to come together. Actually neither me nor Arthur had any problem visiting his grandparents in Wales but my father told us to stay home. Mother also did not try to negotiate with my father to allow the two of us to come with them so inevitably me and Arthur were left alone in this big house. To be honest I was a little suspicious if they were going to discuss something related to 'heirs' and that's why I didn't take the blame for leaving me and Arthur. Whatever it is, I just hope Grandma gets well soon.

It's 6 in the morning and I'm done getting ready for school. I've also asked the chef at home to prepare meals just for Arthur because I'm still so full. Throughout the night I ate all the snacks in my room nonstop, I also took some other snacks that were in the food storage. I feel guilty about what I said yesterday to William. I know that William did all that just to protect me. And I've said that both father and William protected me in different ways, in ways I might hate but that's how they showed their love and affection.

I took out the wish paper that William gave me a few days ago and began to scratch the writing on it. It didn't take long for me to finish writing down the first wish I had of William. I immediately put all the school stuff in my bag and walked out of the room as soon as all my needs had been put in the bag. I walked towards William's room to put down this wish paper.

Krik, I opened William's room door.

As I expected of William, he never locked the door of his room. The habit that you always hate to remember so many documents in your room but that habit is enough to help the servants in this house when cleaning his room. A habit I am grateful for because he has not changed.

Tok..

I immediately turned my body towards the sound of knocking on the door with a surprised face. The annoying face of Arthur that I saw so twisted my body. He walked over to me and immediately picked up the wish paper I had placed on William's desk.

"I'm sorry for everything I said yesterday. Let's have dinner. Your hopes?"

"Give me back that paper!!!" I shouted while jumping up and down, trying to grab the paper of hope that was in Arthur's right hand.

"No matter how hurtful your speech may be and no matter how annoying your behavior may be, William will never hate you. Don't throw away your wish paper for something you're sure to get," Arthur replies as he rips the paper in his hand and puts it in the trash.

"Sister Arthur!!!" call me while trying to pick up a piece of paper in the trash can which is certainly directly blocked by Arthur.

"I'm going to tell you a story" he said as he made me sit on William's desk and crouch down in front of me.

"Today William always went to the VIP room, didn't he? He tried to reduce the number of companies that would be affected by what Ken caused. All of my class mates were silent about not interfering because William told them to. William even tried to negotiate with my father about the school belonging to the Elizabeth Family because he knew how valuable the school was to you even though he failed in the end. He doesn't care what he is, all he cares about is you, Zeta. I didn't always like the way things were done, but I always liked his determination to protect you. Protecting the only little sister he has."

"..."

"Because of that can't you prioritize your dreams and your love for this family over your love for Alvin?"

"We're both jealous to see you smiling freely to Alvin but not to us. William is happy you can find love but deep in his heart he also wants you to love him. He doesn't care if you don't love him as much as he loves you, he just wants you to accept him and accept yourself as part of the Allison Family. The family you hate and the family that loves you so much.”

"I'm sorry Zeta."

"You don't have to apologize, Zeta. I also hate this family but compared to my hate, I prefer to love it because it contains the people I love. I hope you can do the same with me. Don't mind the people's view of the Allison Family's cruelty, just care about the people in it who love and love you so much with their lives."

Arthur stroked my hair gently. I've always shown how much I hate everything about the Allison family especially when dad and William try to protect me. I never realized that what I showed them also hurt their hearts. I only think about myself and always try to run out of this family. Something I shouldn't have done. I always forget the fact that if father and William hadn't helped and protected me, I would never have survived to this day. There will definitely be a lot of people approaching me just to get information about the Allison Family and will take advantage of me. I should be grateful, something I have never done in earnest.

Arthur handed me a piece of paper and a colored marker. I looked at him confused. As if to my confusion, Arthur wrote something on the paper. Something he had never written.

'Hei Will, I love you and forgive me for all my mistakes. I promise I will continue to protect and look after Zeta when you are not around because it will take care of your responsibilities unhurriedly. Xoxo'

Once again Arthur thrust the paper and marker towards me which I immediately greeted with both hands.

'Welcome home Brother!!! Forgive Zeta for what Zeta said yesterday. Zeta was carried away with emotions so as not to try to look at it from Big Brother's point of view. Once again forgive me, Zeta. Zeta also wants to thank Will for always protecting Zeta no matter what. Zeta hopes that in the future Will will continue to protect and protect Zeta. Zeta promises to obey all of Brother's words in the future and pardon Zeta for some of Kak Will's advice that Zeta did not follow in the past. Zeta will always love Brother William'

A helping hand asking for back the paper in my hand greeted me as soon as I finished writing down the thing I wanted to tell William. I gave the light yellow paper back to Arthur. He instantly made heart-shaped origami, reminding me back to when we were kids.

Whenever we had a fight and we did not have the courage to apologize in person, we would write a heart-shaped letter. Something we haven't done in a long time. Arthur then placed the heart-shaped letter on William's desk. He also placed a can of William's favorite coffee on the letter, a sign that the letter was from him. I don't want to lose and also put a lollipop and Botan Rice Candy on the letter.

"Come, go."

"Sister not having breakfast?"

"Didn't you ask the chef in this house not to cook?"

"Zeta only asks for Zeta and stays..."

"If you don't eat breakfast then I won't eat either" Arthur cut me off as he walked out of William's room.

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