My Lovely Cousin's

Chapter 53: Sorry

Two days have passed since the arrival of the Adijaya family to aunt Yumna's house to pick up their biological daughter who has been raised by aunt Yumna. Yesterday Tahira had left the village with her family, while Saga and Ran stayed at Yumna's aunt's residence to accompany Ran's parents. The plan that day both Ran's parents will return to Japan precisely in the afternoon. Then after that Saga and Ran will also return to the city.

"If you go back to the city then who will live here?" uncle Akira asked Ran and Saga who were sitting in front of them.

"No one will stay here, uncle." replied Saga.

The atmosphere of Aunt Yumna's house was so quiet, and it felt even more gloomy let alone the owner of the house was gone.

Saga could not stay in the house because she had to work in the city. Ran has placed Saga as the manager of the creative team at the company. Before he married Tahira. Because marriage costs a lot, so Ran wants to help her cousin a little.

In the afternoon, they left aunt Yumna's house for the city. Ran and Saga will escort Uncle Akira and Aunt Megumi to the airport, and they will arrive tomorrow. Saga drove his car away from his homeland.

"Ran, the autosan wishes you could find Zara soon. Otoosan didn't want anything bad to happen to him. Once you find Zara, take good care of her. Otoosan wants to see you guys happy" Uncle Akira told his son, Ran.

"Alright, otoosan." replied Ran.

Saga only hears their conversations that she does not understand because Ran and her father speak Japanese.

"Is your divorce business over?" ask Ran's mother.

"It's okay." replied Ran.

"I'm sorry dear, we were forced to agree to your Aunt's request." regretted aunt Megumi, she hugged Ran tightly.

"No okaasan. Don't say it like that. This is all fate."

"Life happy my son." said aunt Megumi again.

...*****...

The next day they arrived at the airport. Both of Ran's parents had moved on a few minutes ago. Ran unceasingly stared in the direction where his parents had disappeared. He felt like he did not want to let go of them, there was an uneasy feeling bubbling up in his chest. It felt like her parents would never see her again. Ran took a deep breath. Whatever his destiny is, he will accept.

"Come on, we don't have much time. We need to find Zara's whereabouts immediately." Saga patted Ran on the shoulder.

Eventually they darted away from the airport towards Ran's apartment.

"I think we're looking for Zara tomorrow, I feel really tired" Ran said with closed eyes.

The man felt very tired after a trip away from the village. He leaned his body. Saga who was driving her car only muttered a fleeting sign approving of Ran's remark.

After cleaning up, Ran was finally able to lay down his body on the bed. For a moment he thought about the events of the past few days that changed most of his life. She married Tahira and then two days later arranged for divorce. And most painfully, Zara left her.

Ran took Zara's phone which he had put on the nightstand. The longing now seeped into his heart. Ran checked the contents of Zara's phone. He smiles when he breaks Zara's phone pin which turns out to be a combination of her date of birth and Zara's date of birth. I don't know why he put that number in. After pinning the phone, he returned a smile after seeing Zara's wallpapper displaying a picture of their pair of shoes.

"What do you go for, if you still love me? I'm sure you'll come back, and hug me." he muttered.

Ran continued to compartmentalize Zara's phone and looked at the contents. Even Ran read Zara's diary on his phone. Zara's entire diary only tells of Ran. How early the girl fell in love with him and how he got the first kiss to the habits that Ran did when they slept together.

{....Brother Ran, if we sleep together I always turn my back on him. Otherwise he will always kiss my lips, not that I don't want to but I'm always embarrassed to have done so. I knew my face would be red at that very moment.

And when I turned my back on him, I made sure his naughty finger would always tickle my ear. Sometimes I get goosebumps treated like that and I will rebel if Brother Ran does not stop his pranks. But even so I really liked his warm and romantic behavior.

Brother Ran took on many roles in my life, he could sometimes be My sister, other times Kak Ran also became a father to me, became a friend, a protector, sometimes he could be my brother, and what I liked the most was when he became a lover and a friend to me because at that moment I felt so comfortable. Brother Ran is my cousin. And there's only one thing he can't do.. That is being a mother....}.

After reading Zara's diary, Ran concluded that Zara had always been comfortable around her. But he regretted what made the poor girl leave. Ran regrets having married Tahira.

After pondering for a moment Ran went back to reading the last diary written by Zara four days ago precisely after the funeral of Yumna's aunt.

{.... At 11.55am..... I am not Tahira who has Saga as her brother and Kak Ran as a husband who will always love her. I'm just a pathetic kara, no mother and no father. So I decided to leave their lives, because I could not face this situation where my greatest strength, Kak Ran, no longer cared about me. He didn't even hug at all to calm me down like Saga and Tahira. My heart aches to remember that at the funeral, Kak Ran left the funeral with his parents without even looking at me. And I saw Saga and Tahira also go to look at me. I stared and could not move my legs. It hurts so bad...}.

Unknowingly Ran turns out to have shed tears reading Zara's diary. Zara's departure was indeed a result of her actions that did not care about the girl. Ran cursed himself.

"Belda! The brood! Baka!" he said half screaming.

Ran felt so stupid for breaking Zara's heart and smashing her to pieces. Saga said, he was stupid. He should have explained all his plans to the girl and made her understand that he would divorce Tahira and would return to Zara's property.

After lamenting her own stupidity, Ran puts the girl's phone into her nightstand drawer. With a position sitting on the edge of the bed Ran stared at his own phone that rang signifying the call and revealed the name Saga. Ran raised the call.

"What's wrong?" ask Ran.

With a voice that sounded panicked Saga told Ran. "The plane that your father and mother boarded fell and drowned in the sea."

Degg, Ran keeps the phone screen away from his ear. He shed tears and began to sob. Why does all this have to happen? From across the phone Saga heard her cousin sobbing and instantly felt what Ran felt. Then Ran disconnects the phone after Saga says she will pick him up. Ran put his phone back on the nightstand.

This is the incident that made him not let go of his parents from before him when at the airport. It turned out that the unpleasant feeling earlier was a sign that they were going to leave him for good. Impas already. He has lost Zara and now both of his parents. Exactly what Zara was thinking right now. They both lost their parents and lost their happiness.

"Hiks.. Hix.. Hix.. I'm sorryaaaal." he said with a sob.