
"Are you guys gossiping about me, huh!"
"It's so annoying for both of you. So strong is talking about the person who is clearly behind you. Tell me, what way do you want to die!"
Xia pulled the ears of the two men in front of him tightly. Sean can only beg for mercy because it is difficult to handle this teenager when he is in a state of not okay. While Tama, she says that Xia should not touch her and immediately remove her hand from her ear.
"Why? To you am I such a disgusting person, that you don't want me to touch?" ketus Xia, with his hands still pulling Tama's ears.
"Not that problem. But we can't contact directly. We're not mahrams" Tama explained.
Slowly, Xia released Tama's ear. Not with Sean's ears. "What is mahram?" ask Xia.
"Take me off first, Miss. It hurts so bad" Sean asked.
Tama asks Xia to remove Sean's ear first. Then he will explain what the word mahram means while continuing the journey. Tama sort out the good words so that the delivery is not wrong to Xia. Explaining the meaning of mahram, made Xia curious about the religion that Tama embraced.
"Huft, your trust is too complicated. I just love freedom, it doesn't seem to suit me!" yun exclaimed after receiving an explanation from Tama.
"Xia, trust is not a matter of fit or not. You have to be able to appreciate what other people believe" Sean said.
Xia just nodded.
Not long after, they arrived at the new building where the party was held. The new thing that Xia had seen was the large number of Muslims in the building. All are not Chinese citizens, but not a few citizens there are also present.
"Is there a Chinese man wearing a hood?" ask Sean.
"It's called a hijab. As a Muslim woman, the law is mandatory" Sean said.
"Did it be summer, did they wear it too?" ask Xia again.
Sean replied that time with a nod. Before entering, Xia had already been warned by Chen to keep his attitude. The adorable teenager nodded in agreement, whatever her brother said would definitely agree anyway because the person Xia cared about the most was Chen.
"Chen, is this you?" ask a young woman with blue eyes.
"Yes, it's me, Mom. Mom, how are you?" chen's smile that Xia had never seen, that night a bright look adorned his handsome face.
"Dad, Mom, introduce. He's my second brother, his name's Sean. Sean, come ..."
Sean was moved when Chen introduced himself as a younger brother to both of his biological parents. Although Sean already knew who Chen's parents were, but it had not been officially introduced.
"By his side, there's my third brother too. Her name is Xia, she's 15, this year,"
Hearing her name being called, Xia became even more dumbfounded. She did not know what her sister had told her biological parents. But Xia sure, if at that time her brother had already recognized himself as a sister.
"It's so pretty, does she speak English?" ask Rebecca, Chen's mother.
"How many years he's been in school in America. He certainly knows English" Chen replied with a smile.
Rebecca touched Xia's soft cheeks slowly. The touch apparently made Xia's heart flutter, instantly freezing with a feeling that was hard to describe. The soft touch that Xia had never gotten from his mother, now he could feel from Rebecca's touch.
"You're so pretty. Her lips are tiny thin, her eyes are round, even when you smile, her eyes are crashing like a crescent moon, she smiled" said Rebecca.
"Auntie praised me too much. Aunty is also very beautiful, that's why Bibi can give birth to a child as handsome as an older brother and also as beautiful as Ai," Xia said.
Everyone laughed too.
"Look, very sweet talk. Come here, let me hug my youngest daughter first," Rebecca stretched out her hands, hugged Xia and confused the teenager.
Xia looked at Chen just then, as if he was saying that he did not know what Rebecca said about the youngest child. Chen hinted with his eyes as well if indeed his mother thought of him as the last child, the younger brother of Leticia.
"Y-mother?" Xia asked.
"really. Chen and Sean call me that, why don't you? Aren't you willing to be my daughter too?"
Rebecca's words made Xia not know what to say. At that moment, he could only nod. Xia did not expect if her brother's biological family received it well.
The show has been running for 1 hour. Xia was getting sleepy and bored, he asked Sean for permission to come out for a while. Sean allows Xia to walk alone outside the building.
"Want a drink?" when pensively alone, someone suddenly offers Xia a bottle of alcohol.
"I'm still under age. Brother doesn't allow me to drink," Xia replied.
"Hey, how could you be a minor. Then, why are you wandering around here all night?" the half-drunk woman made Xia uncomfortable.
Already many times Xia refused offers of drinking together, still the woman forced. Having promised her brother not to make a fuss, Xia could only pull over and move away from the woman. Unfortunately, the drunken woman almost wanted to poke Xia with a drink.
"Sister, don't be like this. I don't want to drink!" shouted Xia.
Xia's shout was heard by Tama who was currently receiving a phone call.
"Sister, don't upset me, or you'll know the consequences later," Xia still tried to resist.
"Sweet sister, pretty sister. Come on, have a drink and accompany brother for a minute. Later brother will give you some money, "that woman is really drunk.
"I'm not short of money!" Xia tried to hold back.
"Come on, have a drink ..." The woman again tried to strangle Xia.
Some of the drinks in the bottle entered Xia's throat to make him cough.
"Sister, ja—"
Tarr.... !!!
The bottle fell due to being pushed over by Tama.
"Silver .." Xia said softly.
Seeing that someone was helping Xia, the woman just left.
"Xia, are you okay?" ask Tama.
Xia nodded, his face flushed red and his eyes were already out of focus.
"Xia, can you hear me?" ask again to be sure.
"The woman put a drink in my mouth. It looks like I'm drunk, can .. big brother, can I ..." Xia's words stopped when she saw Tama's sexy lips.
Looking at Tama's lips, made Xia swallow her saliva. His gaze dropped to the neck, then returned upwards looking at Tama's beautiful eyes for him. "Sir ...."
"Xia, are you okay? I'll take you inside first."
"Sister .. have you always looked handsome like this?" Xia was already drunk, so his speech started to carelessly.
Tama immediately brought Xia inside by being carried. They were in such a hurry that they almost fell. However, that night Xia looked at Tama with another look.