My brother, my destiny
Cheap Women
A week has passed since Elbert's death. Gemini will inevitably have to rise to continue his life. In formal black clothes, he now stands in front of a standing mirror in his room. His face was deliberately not polished anything, his body became thinner than it should be. After feeling ready, Gemini went out of her room and headed to the dining room where the in-laws and her brother-in-law were enjoying their breakfast quietly.
"Morning Mom" said Gemini after sitting next to Monica opposite Jacob.
"Morning" said Monica cheerfully. There were no more sad strokes on Monica's face, probably because there was Jacob by her side.
Gemini ate her breakfast regardless of Jacob staring at her cynically. I don't know why the man is so dislike even tend to hate Gemini. Just met Gemini last week. Gemini finishes her breakfast activities first.
"Mom I left first" said Gemini and left after getting permission from Monica. Gemini went to the company where she worked as a finance staff with her car which was delivered by her family driver to Monica's house. Along the way Gemini just put on a flat face with a mind that tries to throw away his sadness because after all his life must be continued.
Arriving at the Gemini company went straight inside after parking the car properly. All eyes were on him with pity. Gemini is a bit secretive and quiet at work, so not many of her co-workers are close to her. Maybe only a few are indeed a division with him.
"Gem, I'm sorry. Sorry yesterday did not stop to float" Lisa greeted Gemini with a warm embrace. Lisa is actually Gemini's love rival in the fight for Elbert, but Lisa relented when she saw Gemini was stronger and stronger than him in terms of accompanying and accompanying Elbert in difficult times. Lisa just smiled in response to Lisa's words as well as the words of other colleagues.
Without wanting to say much, Gemini immediately began his work that had piled up for taking a leave of absence for one week. Gemini turned her grief to the job hoping to kill a moment of her heart's pain.
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"Jack, aren't you at the office yet?" Monica asked as she saw her eldest son still sitting casually in the living room.
"I'm being lazy Mom. There's a Rei I can trust anyway" Jacob sighed harshly.
"Mom..." Lirih Jacob as Monica sat next to him.
"What's wrong?" Tanya Monica relaxed.
"Actually El has a final request for me" Jacob explained and immediately made Monica squeak out of curiosity.
"What?" Tanya Monica was enthusiastic.
"He asked me to marry his wife" Jacob looked up and refuted his head with his arm.
"Well, Mom, I don't think that's a bad idea. Gemini's a good girl, the one who accompanied your sister through every hard time other than Mommy" supported Monica at the request of the late Elbert.
"Where does Mommy know she's still a girl? And what he did could have been just drama to get Elbert's assets" Jacob accused of grunting.
"Jack, Mommy knows what Gemini is? The circle of association is very healthy and another Indonesian woman taboo to have sex before marriage. Even if someone does that before marriage, it's not Gemini" Monica defends Gemini because she already knows the girl. During his time with Elbert, Gemini always kept the limits of physical contact with the man.
"Yes, very supportive. Trust me she's a good girl, but ask your heart Jack! Don't do it if you can't, El will understand" Monica patted her son's shoulder for support.
Jacob breathed a rough sigh. It is very difficult for him to make a choice, to carry out the last wishes of his brother or not. Jacob was still guarding his heart from any woman because there was someone he had been waiting for until now. Silly indeed because he himself did not know what the form of the girl he had been waiting for until now. Just one meeting when he was a teenager with the little girl. Thirty-eight-year-old Jacob closed his heart to everyone. But now he was really in a dilemma due to his sister's last request.
"I went out for a while Mom" said Jacob immediately left his mother.
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"Gem, wait another hour home. You haven't cleaned up?" Ask Chef Gemini's co-worker who secretly keeps a heart for the girl.
"anytime soon. You guys go first" Gemini stays focused on his work.
Moments later, one by one, his coworkers left the office. Gemini is still busy working, he refuses to go home. Only her work could make her forget her grief.
"Gem, haven't you come home yet?" Gemini's superior approached the girl. The man is a close friend and cousin of Gemini, Tommy's name.
"Not Tom, just go home. No papa really" Gemini smiled slightly at Tom. Tommy sits at the corner of the Gemini table and faces the girl. His hand grabbed Gemini's hand and made Gemini stop his work.
"Gem, don't gini. Wherever you must be able to rise. But not by working and torturing yourself like this. Look at you now so skinny when it's only been a week. Gem, you want us to be there for you. Your family especially Aunt Lidya will definitely be there for you as long as you need us" Tommy tried to comfort his cousin. Tommy and Gemini are closer than any other family member.
"Let's Tom" Gemini stood up and hugged the man. They were not aware that there was a pair of eyes that were staring sharply full of anger towards them.
"Yes, now you're a computer and go home and rest" said Tommy smiled and left Gemini after shuffling Gemini's hair into disarray. Gemini performs Tommy's orders and leaves his study.
"CHEAP WOMAN" cried Jacob when Gemini was in the parking lot and was about to get into the car. Gemini undoes her intentions and turns to look intently at Jacob while Jacob gets down from the car approaching him.
"My sister has only been dead for a week and you've been casually hugging another man?" Jacob gripped the Gemini chin firmly and made the girl grimace. Gemini does not fight, it is true that he hugs other men. But what Jacob didn't know was that the man was his cousin.
"Why silence? Don't you dare to dodge?" Jacob removed his hand from Gemini's chin with a rough orange Gemini face slammed to the side. To be honest, seeing the Gemini mouth that was slightly open because the treatment just made a little bit of desire to lure to master the tiny lips. The strange gelanyar that Jacob first felt.
"Have you finished asking? If I had, I would have to go home now" Gemini reluctantly responded to Jacob's accusations. Jacob was silent and rounded his eyes in shock at the girl's reaction. Gemini gets into the car and leaves Jacob.
"That woman I really should teach you a lesson" Inner Jacob soon caught up with Gemini.
