
"They're both equally nasty, angry hobbies. Andrean remembers that evil Aunty, right?"
"Yes, I remember. But he wasn't angry,"
"I'm sorry to see his face. I always remember when he scolded me first. That's why I hugged Daddy because I didn't want to see his face,"
Devan was a good listener when his son spoke. Apparently the memory of the incident when Elea was angry at the mall on Adrian is still imprinted until now. That is the importance of making a good impression at every meeting. In order not to experience things like Elea who was immediately given a nickname by Adrian 'The evil Aunty' in his first meeting with Adrian and Andrean.
Because it was too passionate to tell a story, Adrian to choke. What he was eating at the moment was spicy fried chicken so when choking it was very painful.
"Stop your food first. Later chat again," said Devan warned. Then the three-child man immediately offered a drink to Adrian who was immediately gulped by the boy.
"If evil Aunty knows you're talking about her choking, she laughs happily, Adrian."
"Yes, uhugg-uhugg---you're right,"
*******
"Where are your children, Lovi? I purposely told Richard to stop by for a minute, meet them,"
"They'll stay at my father's house,"
"Well, what a pity,"
"Richard sit down first. Don't go straight home even if there are no twins," Lovi invites Jane's lover to sit down.
"Have you come here when you want to go home again?"
Richard smiled faintly at Lovi's words. He noticed the Auristella that Jane had just grabbed from Lovi's hand.
As Jane was about to hand Auristella over to Richard, the boy refused in a tearful manner.
"He's not very familiar with you yet,"
Richard wanted to hold and play with him. But alas, Auristella was not like her brother who was already very close to her.
*******
"Dev, why buy the shares that are auctioned?"
"It's okay, I just want to, Pa. Great, to add to the collection,"
"Papa knows what you're doing, Devan. Don't cover it up again."
On the sidelines of Devan eating, Raihan suddenly contacted him and complained that his company was losing competition with the company owned by the child. Yesterday a subsidiary belonging to Devan and Raihan competed offering the highest price in the auction. But the one who won was Devan, he beat a lot of companies.
"How did you know that I won? I was confident before, right?" Devan diverts the conversation.
"Yes, Papa was just told."
"The price that Papa offers is less high," said Devan while laughing amusedly.
"Will it be flanked after you get it?"
"Collected, let up to seven derivatives not run out,"
"God...."
Raihan immediately turned off the phone. Don't wanna hear his son's pranks anymore. After all, her secretary had called to enter the meeting room immediately.
"Dad, my food's up,"
"Me too, Dad."
"Yes already, eat his dessert,"
"Already too. Less, Dad."
"uh? Is your thing over?"
Adrian accidentally shows the flat plate that contained the pudding on Devan. The man blinked and asked, "When did you eat that?"
"So, a pudding as small as that once a hap also runs out immediately. It's different from the story that ate Auris. It could be two hours out,"
"Ck! Why is Auris the one we're talking about?"
"He eats long,"
"little boy, Adrian. We were kids like that too, Dad?" Asked Andrean who was immediately embraced by Devan.
"Then a child eats pudding straight away like you? He could choke,"
********
"Honest to Mama. What are you hiding from us, Devan?"
"Nothing, Ma. I'm serious,"
"Mom knows you're trying to protect our family, right? But from whom? Mama wants to know, Devan."
Rena deliberately used the opportunity when Lovi put Auristella to sleep to talk with her son.
"Ah Mama likes to guess,"
Devan replied with a small laugh, He tried to melt the atmosphere.
"Mama asked seriously, Devan! Don't laugh!"
"Good God this is my mama,"
"Devan--"
Rena is pissed off. He did not speak again, Raihan came. He hid behind a wall, listening to the talk of his son and wife.
"Well you know Arnold?"
"Pa-" Devan flabbergasted. He did not know that his Papa already knew the root of the problem.
"Papa knows everything. He did all that, right?"
"I mean Papa? Arnold's? Devan's best friend?"
"No, Ma. Where there are friends who can trap his best friend,"sahut Raihan with hardened jaws.
Devan sipped his drinking water. He was confused how else to hide this problem from his parents. He did not want to make them all think. Let him teach Arnold a lesson until he's completely taken aback.
"Papa found out too. Because Papa is suspicious of you. Papa sees you always trying to calm down in the midst of the terror we get. And you also act like you already know who caused this all while we're the ones who look the dumbest,"
"Pa, I also just found out that Arnold did it. I didn't know at all, but I guessed it because Deni had reminded me that Arnold was going to disrupt my life again,"
"Where does Deni know all that? While we know Arnold's in jail,"
"After being released from the punishment, Deni had met with him. And he said that to Deni,"
"She also knows a lot about Lovi. Even after Lovi. I'm confused as to what's causing it."
"Because whatever you love, he'll hurt you, Devan. "
"I judge from every result of my detective investigation, he was targeting Lovi because he knew Lovi was my wife. But like there's something else that causes her to want Lovi so much, Pa."
Devan rubbed his chin with a squeak on his forehead that was so visible. "The movement to harm Lovi has not existed. All I saw was that he wanted Lovi but didn't want Lovi to get hurt. Because from the beginning the only hurt were the kids and me, too,"
"uh? Have you ever been harmed?"
"Almost, yesterday at the office. Suddenly someone made my car tire break even though before leaving for work everything was sure to be fine,"
"Gosh, how outrageous he is,"
"That's not how much, Ma. I'm sure there's still a lot of Arnold's foul wits to hurt me,"
"Devan, Mama---"
Rena suddenly cried. Devan immediately clasped the hand of the woman who gave birth to him.
"No need to think, Ma. I'll be fine as long as Mama and Papa pray for me,"
Devan rose to embrace Rena. He rubbed Rena's shoulder gently. Devan knows very well how much worry Rena if He is hurt, as much as it is also Rena's love for him.
"Papa will help you,"
"Don't, Pa. As long as I don't ask for help, it means I'm still willing to fight it,"
******
Even though the guest room has been installed air conditioning, still his two grandchildren want to sleep with him.
Andrean and Adrian actually stayed at their Mommy's father's house.
Devan heavily left the two because again they did not sleep in the mansion. But both are just the opposite. They are very happy because finally fulfilled also their desire to stay at Lucas' house even though the next morning they had to be picked up by Devan because they had to go to school.
"Suddenly I was hungry" Adrian whispered to his brother. Lucas deliberately told his two grandchildren to sleep near the wall while he was on the edge so that both of them were safe, not to fall at any time.
"So we ate,"
They think Lucas is asleep. His grandfather heard what they were talking about.
"Adrian's hungry, honey?"
"Huh?" Adrian lifted his head to look at Lucas at the end of the bed.
"Grandpa hasn't slept?"
"Yet. You hungry? Grandpa make food, huh?"
"No need, Grandpa. We ate earlier. Adrian does like a lot of want, Grandpa."
They had dinner. Enjoy a serving of fried chicken purchased by bodyguard Devan on Lucas's errand. Devan assigns several bodyguards to stand guard even when his son does not stay overnight, Devan has treated Lucas' house like a mansion surrounded by guards. Because Lucas, after all, is his father who deserves to be taken care of.
"It's okay, egg-fried Grandpa, won't it?"
Lucas was worried that the children did not like simple foods such as fried eggs, considering that his grandson was the offspring of a very wealthy person, could have been very picky food.
So Lucas told Devan's bodyguards to buy fried chicken for his two grandchildren.
If you tell them now, Lucas won't. They also deserve to rest. Even out there, they sleep in turns. Someone must be on guard even though it's night. Still Lucas wasn't until the liver made them look for dinner-night like this. Better get down to the kitchen.
"Grandpa, no need."
Andrean looked at his sister. He pulled the earlobe of his sister until the boy grimaced.
"It's time to rest! We can't make Grandpa difficult. Remember Daddy's message?!"
"Andrean, that's it. Don't be like that to your sister. Hunger shouldn't be held back,"
Lucas got up to make fried eggs. Both of his grandchildren followed. Adrian was delighted when his hunger would soon be gone.
"Grandpa, the phone sounds,"
Before Andrean closed the door, he heard a phone ring that belonged to Lucas.
"Please take it out, Andrean." Lucas's voice was a little loud because he was already away from the room.
"Yes, Grandpa."
"Here, I'll take it,"
Andrean handed his phone to his sister. Adrian looks back at the phone. Lucas was waiting for them at the dinner table.
"Try, Grandpa look." He said as the two of them sat near him.
"Your Daddy called,"
Adrian immediately robs impatient objects that are not as sophisticated as Devan's.
"Hallo, Daddy."
"It's Mommy,"
"Oh Mommy? Why phone? Missed me, huh?"
"Hmm, yeah. What are you guys doing?"
While his two grandchildren talk to Lovi, Lucas goes to the kitchen to fulfill Adrian's wishes.
"You eat,"
"Said Daddy, you've eaten,"
"It's been, Mom. But Adrian was hungry again" he admitted.
"So what do you want to eat?"
"Grandpa wants to make a fried egg for Adrian..."
"I think I want a video call. But it doesn't seem to be possible,"
"Why indeed?"
Adrian glanced to his right and left, making sure Lucas was no longer nearby.
"Grandpa phones are less sophisticated,"
Andrean smothered the mouth of his sister who spoke like that. Adrian actually spoke very slowly. But Andrean was afraid his grandfather would hear.
"Could, try asking Grandpa how,"
"Can't, Mommy."
Again he looked around.
"Jeez... don't talk like that to Mommy's dad yeah," Lovi was anxious to twist the little lips of his second child.
He didn't know just how sophisticated Lucas' cell phone was in his day. My dear, time and fate have changed. Lucas, who used to be a treasure, had a lot of phones, because he was too greedy with treasure as if it was never enough with what he had, fell also in the end.
"Sorry, Mom. I've been talking quietly,"
"Can, ask Grandpa for a video call,"
"Okay, just a minute."
Andrean shook his head slowly to see his sister who was currently following the grandfather into the kitchen.
"Grandpa, if you want a video call how?"
Lucas just washed the eggs. After that, he dried his hands, then changed Lovi's call which was just a sound to be in the form of Video as well.
"Yeahayy can do it. Thank you, Grandpa."
"Yes, just wait at the dinner table. Not here,"
Adrian came out and the camera seemed to sway in step. He sat down next to his brother so that Andrean could also see their Mommy.
"Hi, Mom."
"Hi, Andrean. Are you hungry again?"
"Of course not, my stomach isn't as big as Adrian's,"
"What are they doing, Lov?" Devan's voice came from inside the bathroom.
"You eat,"
"Eat again?"
"Yes, Adrian is hungry he said,"
"Huh the reason he couldn't sleep was,"
Devan came out after replacing the Auristella diapers that had leaked while sitting on his thigh. He felt warm while holding Auristella.
"You miss Daddy and Mommy so you can't sleep and ask for more food?"
"No, Mommy and Daddy miss me. Honestly, don't lie,"
"Didn't he? too high a confidence level,"
Devan put his son in bed while he who was wearing a towel immediately approached the closet to pick up a change of pants.
After the two fried eggs were cooked, Lucas put out the blazing fire from the furnace. Then he brought two dishes that each contained one fried egg.
"Please enjoy,"
"Grandpa, Andrean's still full,"
"Eat, let Grandpa be happy." Devan's voice was heard telling his son. Finally to appreciate, Andrean immediately enjoyed a simple meal made by his grandfather.
Lucas knows that his eldest grandson didn't ask for it. But it would be better if the two of them ate again, and be fair as well.
Adrian pointed the camera at the plate. "I'll eat first, Mom, Dad."
"Don't shut down. Let's just keep it connected,"
"I want to eat, Andrean too. Who would Mommy talk to? oh Grandpa huh? yeah, I'm giving her back the phone,"
After the phone moved hands, Adrian began to focus on filling the stomach. While Lovi who has not been too comfortable talking a lot with his father chose to give the phone to Devan.
"How are my kids there, Dad? they're making Daddy trouble?"
"Not at all, I just feel like you want them here, so you have friends,"
"It's staying here, Dad."
"You agree not?" devan asked his two children. "AGREE,"
"Daddy, aren't we moving into the house?"
"It seems not to be. Keeping each other in the same place is easier than splitting up,"
"Actually guarding from whom, Devan?"
"Dad was confused when there were a lot of guards outside my father's house,"
Devan had not had time to answer, Adrkan had opened his voice.
"A few days ago--"
Adrian swallowed his food first before continuing his words, "There's a bad guy messing up the mansion, Grandpa."
"Eat first, don't talk!" reprimand Devan firmly. The boy nodded obediently.
"It's okay, Dad. Don't worry,"
Devan always said that when he saw people around him worried after hearing there was danger lurking. That's why Devan doesn't want them to know, because his job is increasing. Keep them at once calm.
"There's nothing wrong with you, is there?"
"Thank God no, Dad. It's just that some of the bodyguards who happened to be on guard that night were killed,"
"Oh my God, it's so cruel that innocent people are victims,
"That's why I want to do the same. But it's not time yet. Errrgghh," Devan fumed that his two children had become listeners.
Lovi pinched her husband's arm. "Talk good!"
"Do what, Dad? a crime? can't! God doesn't like that, "it's not usual that Andrean immediately welcomes Devan's words. It was as if he was afraid that the role model in his life would behave badly.
"If it's evil, it won't shut it down, Dad."
"Adrian, Jeez. Hahahah," Devan, Lovi, and Lucas laughed suddenly while Adrian was talking seriously.
"Adrian never watched a cartoon series what yes, Adrian forgot. The story is, he was evil to his friend. He likes to steal, then incite others in various ways to hate his friend. By the time he died, his eyes were open. It's just creepy. Adrian just turned off the television. Because what? because Adrian felt he was being bullied. Adrian was afraid of being carried away by a dream,"
Lucas shook his head slowly with the rest of the laughter that saw how serious Adrian told him while his parents were still busy laughing.
"Yes, Daddy would be a good man then,"
"If you become a good person, his face will always shine. Trust in Adrian,"
"That's from what cartoon again?"
"Sama, there are two roles in the series. The evil one died like that. If it is good, the opposite is true,"
"So when he died he was closed?"
"Yes, keep smiling too,"
"Woaaah that great you get a lesson yes,"
"Lesson? Adrian's not in school, Dad! this is again about the cartoon series,"
Adrian is not aware that from the spectacle, he got something that can make him learn to be a person who is always good.
"Yes, don't talk anymore. Jesus, Daddy let you babble, yeah,"
Adrian with his mouth full nodded his head. Andrean eating looks calm, if Adrian sometimes like not breathing when eating because it is too hot. Sometimes that's what makes Lovi reprimand him. "It's like you've never been fed. Don't so eat her. Get used to chewing finely, then swallowed. Remember the doctor, right?"
Adrian had indeed experienced indigestion and according to doctors, it happened because the food that Adrian swallowed was less smooth.
"What makes you chew in a hurry?"
"Fear of being taken away from her food" the boy's innocent answer made the doctor laugh as well as resisted the anxiety. "Who will take it?"
"Either, but I'm just afraid of being taken,"
Andrean sneered softly, "It's like a meal's fidelity."
"What?! I'm not every time like this either. If you're hungry,"
"Ah you are hungry all the time,"
"So you know!"
"A fight again. Start yes,"
Daddy glared at Adrian because the phone was placed Lucas in front of Adrian, leaning on his drinking glass that Lucas just took.
"Thank you, Grandpa."
"Yes, after that go straight to sleep huh,"
"Oh of course. Since the stomach is full, so I'll go to sleep later,"
"You want Mommy to sing no?"
"No, there's a Grandpa who can do it. Isn't that right, Grandpa?"
Lucas will not refuse. Because he had never done that to his grandchildren. Such a moment that he sometimes wanted to do but could not because his two grandchildren were not close to him, living apart.
********
"Where are you going?" devan asked when Lovi had permission to leave at ten.
Lovi helped her husband put on the shoes because Devan was already a little late today.
"Shopping for the next month,"
"Nothing, Lov. Let the maid do it,"
"I can do it myself, Lov." Prohibited Devan when his wife would help him wear the left shoe.
"It's okay, so hurry."
It didn't take long, the shoes were finished. Devan got up and immediately grabbed his wife's shoulder.
"I'm going yes,"
"Yes, one of the provisions I prepared was eaten before work. That's for breakfast,"
Lovi reminded Devan not to forget that today Lovi brought him two provisions with different menus for breakfast and lunch. Because Lovi minimizes the possibility of her husband eating out amid the dangers that are scouting. Devan, who often does not want to be brought supplies, wants lunch outside directly obeying what his wife said. There was also a truth to what Lovi was thinking.
"Yes, My love,"
Devan kisses the forehead, left right cheek, chin, and last lip. Especially the last, Devan did it many times until Lovi chuckled.
After that, Devan approached the princess who was still closed comfortably with a careless position. Auristella is sleeping that way. His sleeping position was like Adrian, making everyone's stomach tingled.
"Be careful, yeah."
"Yes, you too. Do not shop by yourself. Let's just wait, yeah,"
"But I want to," Lovi whines when Devan is about to leave. Devan exhales, asking Lovi to understand that he is worried that Lovi will come out of the mansion.
"Yes, do not escape the guard. I don't want you to do anything," Devan summed up Lovi's face with anxiety. He glared firmly and Lovi nodded obediently.
*********
Before leaving for the office, Devan had to pick up his two children at their grandfather's house. After that, take them to school.
Arriving at Lucas' house, he saw his two children sitting on a small terrace that was very shady. Both of them have performed with school uniforms that Lovi brought yesterday so that they no longer need to go home to the mansion to shower and change clothes. It will not be too late to come to school.
Devan's car hasn't arrived in front of Lucas' house yet, they've gotten out of their seats and jumped up happy. That is the enthusiasm of his son when he met him after a few hours apart.
Devan was immediately embraced by his two children who ran over when he got off his gallant iron horse.
"It's handsome. Bathed Grandpa huh?"
"No, shower yourself" they answered, which made Devan even more happy. "They are independent. Though the father who wanted to bathe them, but was rejected outright. Come on, you sit down first," take Lucas so Devan doesn't leave immediately. At least return to normal breathing after driving in the middle of city density must be tiring.
"They've been bathing themselves, Dad. But while staying here, I guess they asked to be bathed by Dad. It didn't, and it's good. They're independent,"
"Have you been able to shower yourself? it's great!"
"Yes, Grandpa. 'It's been five years, it's gonna be a birthday, by the way. Grandpa came to my and Andrean's birthday party, yes,"
"Wow when is that,"
Adrian seemed to think for a while while Andrean Langsug replied, "Five more days, Grandpa."
"Grandpa's definitely coming,"
"No need to think about the gift. Relax, the gift problem is set by Mommy and Daddy. Grandpa just came, we're happy,"
"Yes, Grandpa. Most importantly the presence of the Grandpa,"
Despite being warned like that, of course Lucas will still bring a gift for them. It was their first birthday after getting to know him.
"Dad, we'll stay here again can't we? go straight to school here,"
"Ask Mommy first, yeah,"
"Hmm. yeah, I did,"
Seeing Adrian pouting, Lucas chuckled across his grandson's cheeks.
"Anything must be with parental permission. If you are granted permission, please come again. Grandpa was so happy that you guys stayed here. But if Mommy's not allowed to, don't sulk, yeah,"