My Lovely Cousin's

Chapter 43: Confession

Zara nodded her head then began to review her usual smile so as not to be suspected by Saga and Tahira.

"Where are you guys, huh? I'm going around this apartment like crazy looking for you" Zara protested.

"Ah hahaha, we just got back from the supermarket. I bought some groceries." replied Saga casually.

"Why not tell me?" Zara folded her hands on her chest.

"Based on you, it's like the owner of this apartment! Did you forget you were in the bathroom." Saga menoyor jidat Zara.

"Ahh." yell at Zara.

Ran chuckled a little at the scene of Saga and Zara. A little jealousy in his heart. Tahira had passed leaving them for the refrigerator to store groceries.

"Btw, about what happened this morning. I'm sorry, and thank you." said Zara after stroking her eel that had been in toyor Saga.

"Hmm no problem. I'm used to it." reply Saga.

Ran frowned. What does the word Saga say is common?

"You mean?" asked Ran suddenly.

Saga turned to her and then commented a thin smile.

"He.. (Pointing Zara) used to do that a lot when vacationing at my house." replied Saga as she looked at Zara with a mocking look.

"Issh, basic." Zara pinched Saga's belly.

"Oh, it turns out you guys have been very close" said Ran flat.

Zara turned her head and noticed the look on Ran's face and then immediately Zara was in 'airplane mode' aka slow loading. Yes, it seems like the man is jealous but Zara is just indifferent. Ran looked at Zara with a flat face, then left them just like that. Saga cringing.

"What's wrong with her?" ask Saga.

"Maybe she's jealous" Zara smiled.

"My player?" Saga asked while pointing at herself.

"Maybe." replied Zara.

The two of them looked at each other and then chuckled together.

"It's so funny your boyfriend, doesn't he know we're friends, huh?" Saga pulled her eyebrows up.

"Of course not. I haven't told you yet." replied Zara with an amused smile.

"Hahahaha, go. Tranquilize himself. He must be very angry." said Saga.

"You kicked me out?" asked Zara with a sullen look.

"It's not like that Zanzara. I'm afraid he'll inhabit you. So go, and woo her." Saga tried not to get provoked by emotion, it was very anxious to talk to Zara when the girl was in 'airplane mode.'

"All right, I'm going" said Zara, who sounded reluctant.

After seeing Zara disappear Saga immediately approached Tahira who was busy arranging food in the refrigerator.

"Ra, are you sure you're gonna tell them?" ask Saga.

"I'm sure. We have no choice, anyway. Because I'm pretty sure that Zan saw us kissing last night and surely he also saw the safety of consumables in the bathroom." Tahira replied in an anxious tone.

"Well you're right. It's my fault, I'm sorry." sorry Saga.

They had discussed the matter earlier when they went to the supermarket because Saga was upset and told Tahira that Zara broke into her bathroom. Instantly Tahira was made worried and then there was a debate between them which in the end inevitably they had to go down that path, telling their relationship to Ran and Zara.

On the other hand, Zara was hugging Ran's body from behind, looking at Ran straight ahead looking at the sky view from the balcony of Saga's apartment. The man did not move in the slightest to respond to Zara who had earlier apologized to him.

"Gomen, I don't mean to make you jealous" said Zara, who began to despair.

The girl then decided to let go of her embrace and plowed. A second later Ran pulled his hand and the man hugged Zara.

Zara was startled and started to hear her heart beating at a fast tempo.

"It should be explained to me first what happened between you and Saga in the past so that I don't get me wrong." said Ran softly.

Zara nodded in the arms of the narrow-eyed man. Then Ran took Zara's hand and wrapped it around her stomach. After perfect Ran again wrapped his hands on the girl's body, tightly.

"Please never betray me, hontoni daisukidayo" Ran said in a very soft tone.

Dasukidayo. The sentence was certainly understood by Zara thanks to the Japanese course she followed for the past five days.

"Watashi mo, hontoni daisukidayo" said Zara in a hesitant tone. Doubt if his words are wrong.

"Well, you're studying hard" praised Ran.

"I still doubt whether my words are true or not." Zara bit her lower lip as it endured the embarrassment.

Ran took off their body link and looked at Zara's bead which clearly showed that the girl was holding back the shame.

Then unexpectedly the man just landed his lips on Zara's lips. The girl flinched and suddenly petrified for a few seconds.

"Mmmm." muttered Zara and then tried to push Ran's body.

But the man did not let Zara refuse him, instead deepening their kiss. Zara resigned herself and finally closed her eyes, letting herself dissolve in Ran's cradle.

...******...

In the afternoon the four of them gathered on the balcony of Saga's apartment. There the atmosphere is so cool, the wind blows breeze. The birds fly with their free voice singing melodious sounds in the sky. From the balcony they can enjoy the beauty of the sunset which is soon to arrive. They sat around a round table with hot chocolate and a few snacks on it.

"I want to tell you something" said Saga after sipping her hot chocolate, the man intending to tell her about their relationship.

Ran and Zara looked at each other for a moment then turned to Saga. Tahira was immediately made nervous because he was not fully ready to admit their relationship. But without Ran and Zara knowing Saga is quietly calming Tahira by holding the girl's hand under the table.

"What do you want to say?" asked Zara raising her eyebrows next to her.

Now it was Tahira and Saga's turn to look at each other. Saga nodded her head slowly as a signal to Tahira for the girl to resign.

Ran and Zara were astonished. They looked back at each other and asked in a voiceless gesture. Then they answered with a slab, a sign of not understanding. Then a second later Zara's eyes widened to remember her debate this morning with Ran about Saga and Tahira's incestuous relationship. Zara blinked her eyes repeatedly which made Ran seem to understand. They looked back at Tahira and Saga.

"You promise not to tell anyone and don't hate us" said Saga, who looked serious and tense.

Zara swallowed her saliva slowly. He still guessed the direction of Saga's conversation, hoping that bad reality did not come out of his cousin's lips. And the bad reality is their inbred relationship.

"I know this will disappoint you, but we don't know how to behave either. Me and Rara.. Our.. Our.. Establish a blood relationship." said Saga with a heavy tone.

Tahira immediately shed tears, ashamed of what had happened. Saga immediately hugged her sister to feel calm. While Ran and Zara are wide-eyed. Believe it and not between real and not.

"Why my assumptions should be true, O God." - Zara lamented in her heart.

Ran stood up and just pulled the collar of Saga's shirt and beat the man who was the same age as him to fall bounced on the floor. The look of disappointment that emanated from Ran's face and also his eyes darkened the sign of the man was at the peak of his emotions.

"She!" ran shouted right in Saga's face.

Saga could only endure the pain on her face from Ran's punch and take her eyes off the man's face.

"Why don't you think about what you did, baka! If aunt knows about this then I can make sure you have dug a grave for her." Ran snapped.

Tahira flinched then immediately her chest tightened to hear Ran's words. Be ill. That's how he feels. Seeing that Zara immediately took the initiative to take Tahira away from the two men. Zara did not care if Saga had to lose consciousness at the hands of Ran, because indeed the man deserved it. That's why he didn't prevent Ran.

"Come, we're going." Zara immediately grabbed Tahira's body which shook violently, the girl was so frightened.

After Zara and Tahira passed by, Ran looked up at Saga. He gripped the strong jaw of Saga.

"Look at me! Whooo!" ran shouted somehow for how many times.

Saga looked reluctantly at Ran's eyes, there was a radiance of guilt there.

"What's your reason for doing it, huh? Don't you think this will lead you to perdition. Not only you but our Saga family. Be aware!" Ran lowered his face as a result of mixed emotions. Disappointed, angry.

Ran let go of his grip then sat down before the man, looking at him with a full sense of disappointment. Saga improved his position, he sat opposite Ran.

"Please forgive me. If this happens to you then maybe you will also do the same with me." said Saga slowly.

"Tahira's.. After the girl was a teenager I somehow started to get attracted to her. He's like a magnet. And when I looked into her eyes, I felt like she wasn't my sister. My heart is more accepting if I consider him a lover." continued Saga who began to imagine the beginning of their relationship.

Ran listened but could not yet make his disappointment wane. The narrow-eyed man was unmoved, his mind blank.

"Just like you and Zara, the difference is that we are blood" said Saga again who made Ran jerk and then remembered his words this morning with Zara.

"What do you feel when you're with me?" tanya Ran made Zara frown.

"Why ask? Obviously not, when I'm with you, I feel comfortable and loved." Zara answered sharply and was confused by Ran's question.

"It's possible that Saga and Tahira feel the way we feel, Me and you who love each other and give warmth. It's just that they're misplaced." Ran explained still with a calm expression.

After waking up from his daydream, Ran breezed away leaving Saga wordlessly. Saga was still silent while contemplating the incident a few minutes ago.

On the other hand, Zara and Tahira were holding each other with Tahira who was crying a hiccup. The girl was still thick with cotton so she easily cried for the thing that cut her heart like the incident earlier.

"Calm Tahira, strengthen your heart." persuade Zara while stroking Tahira's shoulder slowly.

"Zan, you know.. Hix.. Hix.. How it feels to be loved.. Hix.. Hix.. I love Saga too.. And.. And.. I don't know why this taste is so different. I feel like Saga is not my brother, which is why I took the risk" Tahira said.

Zara was stunned, in disbelief. How could this girl say that she felt like she was not a sibling with Saga. They were obviously the children of Yumna's aunt.

"Don't say that." Zara.

Zara released their body link.

"Don't hate me. I only have one friend, and that's you. You know I'm an introvert." Pinta Tahira.

Zara nodded in understanding. Rather than Tahira grieving like that, Zara would rather say yes. Actually Zara was very disappointed but the pity on Tahira who was thick with cotton made her disappointment slowly evaporate.

'Maybe they were destined that way. What can I do. Who would hate him anyway?' zara said in her heart. He could no longer think, his brain was instantly deadlocked.