Neighbor Husband

Episode 32 - Your Meaning of Seeing Me

"Sorry Satria. I'm doing fine, all right. I'm just late to wake up. Thanks for last night. Sorry for bothering you too." Satria reads a message from Luke.

"He's been replying to my message for the past hour" Satria said.

^^^"Thank God you're better. Always take care of your health, yes" Satria replied.^^^

"👌" reply Luke briefly.

"Duh, sweetness.." muttered Satria with a smile of her own.

"What's sweet, sir? The tea's too sweet, huh?" sisi asked, a nurse who was also his assistant.

"Eh, no. What's my next schedule?" satria.

"There are two more patients to deal with. Fire victim in the flats yesterday. The nurse in front is preparing her medical record" Sisi replied.

"Well, you can take a break" said Satria.

"Duh, focus on Satria. You just made someone else misunderstand" he murmured

But his heart and mind are not in line. His memory goes back to last night.

"Why am I so reckless? What if what Luke's next door neighbor says is the truth? I don't even recognize him" said Satria lirih.

"That's a good thing Luke doesn't know. I almost made a fuss over there, if it was wrong to accuse people. So cool you're Satria." Satria continued to mutter alone.

"From last night's incident, I realized that Luke had a trauma to the crowd. But how did he become a lecturer and stand in front of the students, huh? Was it just a trauma at the party? I have to find out why. Luke seemed to suffer a lot last night." Satria was getting dizzy thinking about it.

"Excuse me, doctor. This is Aruna, twelve years old. Since the fire disaster yesterday, he has become more sensitive to sound" Sisi explained. He takes a patient to Satria.

"Alright, please come in. How vital?" ask Satria.

*****

"De, I want to ask you something, beyond the news of this event" Lukman said.

"What's that about?" ask Dede.

"Do you like Luke?" ask Lukman straight to the point.

"Well, why are you asking like that?" Dede.

"Well... You looked so panicked last night. Like there's a close connection between Luke and you. Have you ever had a relationship in the past?" lukman.

"Then you and Luke, how was it? Do you like it too?" Dede asked back.

"Also? Hmmmm.... I assume that's the answer to my question. It means you like Luke" Lukman said with a smile.

"Hey, why did you conclude like that? I became like a kid, caught stealing chocolate in the fridge" Dede said.

"Haha... Already friends... Just keep blatant. I won't 'buckle' like the other neighbors. Think of it as a conversation between two grown men" Lukman said with a chuckle.

Dede was wrong. "Jawab first my question," urged Dede later.

"Duh, yeah. That's luke... Someone very valuable to me. He always encouraged me when I was desperate. Although he almost never talked to me first, but the little things he did made me feel valuable, when others dropped me as low as possible," Lukman said.

Dede listened carefully. He didn't know what to comment.

"So, I don't want to see that quiet girl get sick and hurt by anyone, myself included. Last night, it made me very sorry. I almost made it through a hellish night" Lukman continued.

"Ah, nothing special. He was just a classmate of mine at High School" said Dede.

"But when you were snuggling with Luke yesterday, I heard that you were his ex?" search Lukman.

"Yes, right. Luka likes me from when. But he never revealed it. One day, I said something bad to her. So that he would stay away from me and not interfere with my plans to get Ina." Dede reminisced about the past.

"But apparently, it actually made our friendship broken. He became a more closed person than ever. L'm... Actually do not want it to happen," said Dede lirih.

"Does last night have anything to do with the problem at the time?" ask Lukman.

"Yes, right. At that time, I was only a spectator when friends bullied her. He thought I was spreading bad things about him. It wasn't me, but somehow I didn't deny it. Then I just remembered him as a brengs*k person for years," said Dede.

"I don't want that to happen again last night. But the truth is, I was just a loser who could only let him go weak and hurt" the man continued.

Lukman was silent on hearing all the facts. It turns out Luke has been through a very tough thing, more than he thought. It was only fitting that he was so closed. Surely the cavity in his heart was still filled with dark memories of the past.

"Then what about you next? Do you really want to split up?" ask Lukman carefully.

"So, I used to be crazy about him. Even the advice of my mother, I never ignored. I got rid of all the barriers in order to get it, including Luke," Dede said.

"But now, that feeling... 'Pooofffff' suddenly disappeared like the wind" Dede continued.

The tling! A message came in on Dede's phone.

"I don't want a divorce. Just wait for my father's attractive gift, if you keep asking to part with me" Ina wrote.

"B*ngs*t," exclaimed Dede annoyed.

*****

Dede looked at the ceiling of his room. His conversation with Lukman this afternoon, more filled his memory than the threat from Ina.

Lukella, he's not just anyone for Dede. Although no one knows, Luke has his own place in his heart.

Dede first gets to know Luke, when the girl is nearly harassed by their upperclassman. With his old-fashioned phone, he recorded the lecherous man's cab*l on Luke. Dede hopes that the footage can serve as evidence to save the woman.

Unexpectedly, with a small body and martial ability that could not be taken lightly, the teenage girl managed to save herself before being treated even further by the despicable man. The girl also managed to keep her chastity.

That same day, Dede lost his phone, causing uncensored video to spread throughout the school.

Dede as the prime suspect could do nothing. Dede's parents were forced to pay high to the current police chief, so that Dede's identity was not spread and he did not stay behind bars. Well, who else if not Ina's father.

A few months later, the innocent girl came and helped herself selflessly. Rescue him from the shackling entanglement of remedial physics. He also put a little taste in the girl.

However, Ina's arrival at High School as her underclassman, makes things change. Dede like a buffalo on his nose, he followed a high-class gang to be seen by Ina.

Luke's right, he's a brengs*k guy. Who still follow the groove even though they know it is wrong. Join the highest caste and bandits in the school, in order to get Ina, the Primadona School. It was she herself who had ruined Luke's life, the girl who truly loved him. And also, the special girl in his heart.

How should he fix all these situations?

(Connected)

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