My fiancee .... A GHOST?
14. Lied
Chapter 14's
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"What are you thinking?" bella asked Felix, the girl was drying her hair, while Felix was leaning on the headboard of the bed.
"Nothing" said Felix. He turned his face away without looking at Bella who was now looking at him.
Bella stopped her activities, put the hairdryer on the dresser, then she sat on the side of the bed.
"I'm serious, are you thinking about your body?" guess Bella.
Felix turned his head and looked at Bella at a glance but she just kept quiet.
"Come on, tell me what you're thinking" Bella said. "This doesn't feel fair to me, does it?" continued.
Felix frowning. "It's not fair what?" said.
"Yes unfair, you can read my mind while I can't. Not even hearing from your mouth can because you're just silent." Bella flicked her lips while looking down at the tile.
Felix chuckled, he approached Bella and turned around to sit next to Bella, his hands outstretched and he scrambled Bella's hair that had not been combed. "Sleep, it's night" Felix said, smiling.
Bella stared intently at the man, so Felix could have told her to sleep instead. Bella asks for an explanation of what Felix is thinking.
"You must be thinking about your body that's somewhere, right?" Bella cupped Felix's cheek trying to avoid the look in his eyes.
"Hmmm..." Felix nodded small.
"I promised to help you" said Bella, not releasing her hands from Felix's cheeks.
Felix smiled faintly. "Yes I know, let's go to sleep!" felix said as he laid his body on the bed. Bella looked at him in astonishment.
"Come here..." Felix patted the side of the empty bed, asking Bella to lie down next to him.
Bella complies and follows Felix's wishes. Felix grabs Bella's body and she claps her chest. Bella became ashamed of herself by their current position. Bella was about to protest, but she also felt comfortable in Felix's arms, Felix stroked her hair gently as if she was sleeping Bella who began to feel sleepy.
"If it's like this, I can't wait to find my body" Felix said on the sidelines of his busy activities with Bella's hair.
Bella looked at Felix using the corner of her eye. "Why?" tanyakanya.
"Yes, so that I can marry you soon," Felix replied as he chuckled softly.
"Issh.
"How long is your college going to be?"
"A little over 2 years."
"A long time. Then I'll marry you a year from now, that's too long." Felix shrinks Bella's head, while Bella loses the sleepiness of Felix's speech.
"I wouldn't get married if I hadn't finished college. I also still want to reach for my ideals," muttered Bella, while Felix had closed his eyes - of course Felix heard the girl's mutterings, he said, even before Bella said it - Bella's mind was already read by Felix.
Felix smiled but his eyes remained closed. "But you still want me to marry you, don't you?" ask Felix to tease Bella.
"Hem... Will you not, huh?" Bella tapped her index finger on her chin.
"It's obvious" Felix said, huffing.
"You asked, you answered." Bella giggles while Felix is silent.
"Have you slept?" Bella let go of Felix's hold on her body, she wanted to see Felix's situation, why would Felix just shut up? Her thought.
But Bella's attempt to escape from the decapitation was unsuccessful because Felix still held her tightly.
Bella returned and she began to close her eyes.
"Have you started loving me?" Felix's question made Bella open her eyes again.
"What?"
Bella is obviously shocked to hear the question, can she choose to love Felix or not?
While Bella and Felix were engaged a long time ago, although of course Bella is still in a state that has forgotten everything about Felix in his past.
"Do you want to love me?" ask Felix. "I mean, would you accept me? Right now I'm not human and can't find my body yet."
Felix's voice was soft, even Bella had heard Felix like this.
"Maybe I haven't remembered the past, but what kind of memories do engaged kids have?" Bella stroked Felix's hand. "I don't think any memories of the past can make me fall in love with you right away" Bella continued.
"Yes, that's right" said Felix, opening his closed eyes. The sleepiness disappeared instantly.
"If in our childhood we had no meaningful memories, what if we made those memories now. Now that we've grown up and created something that might make you fall in love with me." Felix cupped Bella's face in order for Bella to see her seriousness in speaking.
"Hmmm..." Bella smiled as she nodded.
"We're gonna try, you want to?"
Bella nodded again.
"But..." Bella hesitates to continue her sentence.
"Why?" Felix frowned and a moment later he found out Bella's head. "Say.." she asked Bella.
"You asked me to love you, have you also tainted" Bella's words were cut off when Felix peeked at her forehead.
"Don't ask me that, we better get some sleep now" Felix said.
Felix avoids Bella's questions that he already knows where she's headed. Felix did not want to indulge his feelings before his status was clear. He prefers to find the body first then he thinks about how he really feels about Bella.
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"Yesterday Arka asked you." Sera begins her conversation with Bella.
Bella clucked her tongue, it was still early in the morning and Sera had started by talking about Arka. Bella is so lazy to talk about Arka right now, for some reason.
Seeing that Bella was silent, Sera continued her words.
"You told him you were engaged?" tanyakanya.
Bella also nodded.
"That's just to avoid Arka, right? It's not that you acknowledge the fiancee in your dream, is it?"
"Ser, I said it was indeed to avoid Arka," said Bella.
There was a sigh of relief from Sera.
"But, about the fiancee, I was engaged and Mama explained it to me, too" Bella continued.
Sera flabbergasted. "So Bella's really engaged?" inner Sera.
"You mean Mama you said you were really engaged?" ask Sera in shock.
"Huum." Bella nodded confidently.
"Does this have anything to do with the figure in your dream?" ask Sera.
Bella seemed silent for a moment to think, until she finally answered Sera's question.
"The dream may be just a sleeping flower, later I have never had a nightmare again" replied Bella.
Strange, really weird. Didn't Bella say the figure was even present in reality and helped her paint? again the inner Sera guessed.
"Then do you say that being present in your life is wrong?"
"Maybe I just got carried away because it was always a nightmare that made me so paranoid that I was transported to the real world" explained Bella.
Sera nodded her head, meaning that her fear had been meaningless, just Bella's feelings were too excessive, she thought.
"Then, why don't you remember that fiancee? When did it happen?" Sera continued to interrogate him.
"Maybe it was because the engagement was done when I was a kid so I forgot, '" Bella said briefly.
"Oh, yes I understand. Then where is your fiancee now?" ask Sera again. He was relieved because Bella's explanation meant that the fiancee meant to be a real human being, not according to her fears.
Bella glanced at Felix who was standing not far from her, from then on Felix just kept quiet without interfering in his conversation and Sera.
Bella tells Sera this so that her best friend does not think that she is getting weird. Of course, so that Sera does not feel afraid to be close to Bella who incidentally has been engaged to Felix who is not human as in general.
"Felix Schools Abroad. We hadn't met for a long time but the engagement was still going on, Mama said," said Bella and Sera seemed to understand the situation, Sera didn't ask much more after the argument Bella gave.
Bella's answer made Felix shake his head.
As Sera and Bella return to class, Felix whispers in Bella's ear.
"Why should you lie? Isn't Sera your best friend?"
Bella remembers what Felix said a while ago if they were going to communicate through Bella's mind, so Bella wouldn't have to talk to herself.
The girl thought of an answer for Felix.
"Just let Sera think as I told her, I didn't mean to lie to her but just let her think that way because explaining the illogical reality would scare her, she said, as you said yesterday, Sera would think I was a strange friend. You know, it's hard to convince someone that this is beyond logic."
The contents of Bella's head were immediately heard in Felix's hearing.
"Yes, I understand," Felix replied in a voice.
Bella spoke again in her head. "For that, just leave it like this. Until the time I can introduce you directly to Sera as a real human figure." Bella smiled too.
Felix grinned, "How sure you can do that?"
"We are going to do it together and first we have to know where your body is."
"Yes, it's up to you to start from where," said Felix resignedly.
...TBC......
