
While in college, I acted as if I was the most hurt person from today's events. I kept positioning myself as a victim and making the people who saw me even more scornful of Lucy and Timothee.
‘There is no place for you here, my inner’.
‘I will make your days like in hell, my inner’.
Drrt... Drrtt...
My phone's vibrating. I took it out of my bag. I grinned as soon as I saw Timothee's name on my phone screen. The man just sent me a short message.
‘From Timothee:
We need to talk after this. I'm waiting for you after this. Contact me if you're done with college.’
Of course I have no intention of fulfilling a request more like that order. I have no intention of correcting the misunderstanding I have exaggerated. It was a good opportunity to corner her and could have been a reason to break off our engagement.
The other thing I should think about is how to maintain the investment that the Jordan family has invested in my father's company. If they withdraw their investment, my father's company will again experience great shocks and his fate is on the edge. I had to think of a way to break off my engagement to Timothee without making them withdraw their investment.
I turned my phone back on. I typed the message and sent it.
‘To:Alexander:
Let's meet after this! We have something important to talk about.’
The man who was standing in front of my class and was giving a lecture, pulled out his cell phone from his pocket. He stared at me for a moment, then looked back at his phone screen while typing something there.
Drrr... Drrr...
My phone is back vibrating. I grinned as I read the reply sent by the man
‘From Alexander:
Sure do. Surely you already have a good plan after making such a fuss.’
The man resumed the class without glancing a single bit at me. He acted as if we had never been close in the slightest while on campus, as it is today.
***
Drrr... Drrr...
It's been the last time Timothee has kept calling me. Either through a short message or a phone call. But there's nothing I'm interested in.
Not only that. I'd rather go home with Alexander than him, even though I've seen his car parked in my school parking lot since.
“It seems he is very agitated now,” Alexander said as he drove his car.
“You won't lift it?” queried.
I nodded while looking straight ahead.
“Again there is nothing to talk about with him. I don't want to fix the misunderstanding that's going on between me and her. It was a great opportunity to break off our engagement without making me the guilty party,” I said.
Alexander quiet. He no longer asks.
Drrr... Drrr...
Not wanting to be disturbed. I also turned off my phone.
“I'm still curious about the reason why you're eager to break off your engagement with her.”
“That's not something I can say.”
I did not have the slightest intention to satisfy the curiosity of the man sitting beside me. After all I also cannot possibly tell you that I have repeated time and gone into the past. He might think I'm crazy.
Whether it was something I should be grateful for or not. But I'm relieved that Alexader doesn't demand too much from me.
“Then what are your plans after this?”
I smiled broadly. It may even be too wide until I feel that my own smile may seem evil and terrible.
“Certainly made their names even more ruined before my engagement and Timothee was completely terminated. I wonder how your parents reacted when they found out that their son was having an affair. Oho! And my father's reaction. Although I didn't expect too much of him.”
The man frowned.
“My parents?” tanyanya.
“Iya. Don't you have the slightest intention to make your parents know that you want to replace Timothee engaged to me?”
Alexander was silent for a moment. A few moments later, a smile appeared on his face.
“It seems that you have not limited yourself so much with me.”
I paused for a moment and thought.
“What do you mean?” my many.
“You no longer use formal language with me or call me father. To be honest it offended me a little even though I knew you were doing it because of the lecturer-student relationship between us. But still it impressed me much older than you.”
I laughed at the explanation he just told me. I was also not very aware of the informal language I had been using since. But I never imagined that the man would feel offended by the formal language I used when talking to him before.
“Are you not much older than I am?” ledekku accompanied by laughter.
“Not until that old age until you have to keep calling me father, even when we are outside the campus area. It impressed her like I was your father's age.”
My laughter grew bigger as I listened to her explanation just now. I never imagined that the man next to me would have thoughts that far just because I always called him ‘pak’ or ‘bapak’.
***
I thanked him as soon as we arrived in front of my fence. I got out of the man's car and put my feet in my yard.
My dad didn't seem to go to the office today. The man was sitting and reading the newspaper in the living room.
“Who just dropped you off? It seems that it is not Timothee,” he said without glancing at me.
“Indeed no,” answered me without feeling the slightest guilt.
“That's Alexander, Timothee's brother.”
The man folded the newspaper back into the newspaper he had just read. He put the newspaper on the table.
“Alexander? Heir of JJ Group?” ask her while furrowing her eyebrows.
“Iya. Anyway Timothee must be spending his time with Lucy at the moment,” I said trying to heat up the atmosphere.
I was quite curious about my father's reaction to Timothee's affair with Lucy. Although I don't want to be too hopeful for the man who always puts his company together on top of everything.
“Lucy? What do you mean?” The tone of voice actually sounded piercing.
“Don't say such nonsense!”
Although I had no hope for her reaction to Timothee and Lucy, I was disappointed. Something inside my chest hurts and I feel disappointed.
“Even at a time like this father still defended him.”
I walked away from the man without answering his question at all. There's nothing I need to explain any further. I was also afraid that it would be even more painful if I explained it and did not get any sympathy from him at all. Seeing him defend the man who hurt me made me realize that I wasn't his son when it came to his business.