Restore Your Smile

A Year Forward

Three months have passed. James is now officially a PNS. Now he is attending the education and functional training of addiction counselors held by the National Narcotics Agency (BNN). He trained for the first functional position of an expert addiction counselor, as an early stage of his career.

There are three stages of career in the profession of addiction counselor. The first expert addiction counselor, the young expert addiction counselor, and the highest is the expert addiction counselor. The increase in office will be determined based on the number of credit numbers. Credit numbers are the accumulation of values from the details of activities that must be achieved by an addiction counselor in the framework of career coaching for his rank and position.

James has been doing things with patience. The important thing is that there is progress in his life even though it must be passed step by step. His target was only one, he wanted to reduce the quite stark difference in status between himself and Celine, in order to keep up with the girl.

And Darrell too. He is also preparing to enter the next stage in his relationship with Cecilia.

The relationship between the two is quite significant. Darrell is comfortable near Cecilia. The girl was sweet, quite easy to understand, not strange and not too troublesome. Darrell himself has met directly with Cecilia's parents to emphasize the seriousness of their relationship.

His father's acceptance was quite an important factor in Darrell's consideration. At first, of course, Andreas was a little disappointed when he got word from Samuel that his daughter was canceling her marriage to Darrell. The reason is because the characters of both do not match.

But as Darrell promises, his disappointment is treated when he is proffered a profile of Cecilia. Who is not familiar with the great businessman Iskandardinata, who dominated the food business in the city of B ? Cecilia is the first daughter of the company's owner. Although the future heir to Iskandardinata company will be his younger brother, still Cecilia status is not something that can be underestimated.

Darrell has the support of his father. Even when knowing the pair's peddling went smoothly, Andreas encouraged Darrell to immediately formalize his second relationship in the engagement.

Not to mention the fact that Darrell again ranked the best sales in the quarter this time. Andreas feels this opportunity will be an excellent moment for Darrell to promote himself to be reckoned as a potential heir.

The best management and marketing skills for four consecutive quarters, plus having an influential partner, clearly add to Darrell's chances of unseating Celine. Andreas was left to convince the shareholders to choose his son over Celine. If the shareholders meeting had agreed with him, then his brother was certainly not able to do anything.

Initially, Darrell wanted to suspend the engagement plans. Besides that he still needs time to convince himself by getting to know Cecilia more deeply, he also wants to make sure Cecilia's relationship with his friends has improved. He felt a little guilty for being a factor in the stretching of the friendship that had been strong.

But unfortunately three months passed without any significant development between Cecilia and her friends. Cecilia did try to hide it from Darrell when asked. He reasoned that they rarely get together because his friends are focusing on their respective scripts.

Very reasonable and reasonable reason. But for the sensitive Darrell, Cecilia's unrest can still be caught. But because he knew the girl was trying to hide it from him, he tried to honor her by showing that he believed the reason just like that.

But to be covered up however, the name of depravity must one day be seen as well. Once when they were dating in a mall, they accidentally saw Priscillia, Sharon and Rebecca were also walking in the same mall. Although the distance separating them was quite far, Darrell knew that the three girls were also aware of their whereabouts.

But a second later, Rebecca looked up and turned the other way, as if they were not looking at each other. Priscillia and Sharon follow Rebecca. After which, Darrell immediately glanced at Cecilia to confirm the girl's response.

It seems clear Cecilia also saw the event, an event where she was not invited to join the Geng Princess together and when she met, she was ignored as if she did not know each other. His face implied pain and longing as he looked at his friends who were going away.

"Cecile ..." call Darrell soft.

"Eh? Yea?" Cecilia immediately turned to look at herself with a forced smile.

"I'm sorry, I was focusing on noticing. The design looks interesting. What did you just say?" cecilia said as she looked around and pointed to one of the clothes shops, and then looked back at Darrell.

Darrell smiled sadly looking at this girl who was now his lover. I don't know why Cecilia tried to cover up the sadness and turmoil of her heart. Is it because Cecilia does not want him to be burdened because it is a dividing factor between himself and his friends? Or is just this girl less trusting of herself so she chose not to open up?

But because Darrell wants to respect Cecilia's decision, Darrell follows the girl's play. He stroked the girl's head and said to her, "Akupun realizes the same thing and wants to take you to the store. It might be a good idea to design your clothes forward. Wanna go there?"

"Yes!" said the girl cheerfully. Then he wrapped his arm around Darrell's arm. Both of them immediately went to the store.

His father had insisted that he immediately formalize their relationship in the public eye. Thus, only then can his father move to convince the shareholders. His father repeatedly insists on not missing this crucial moment, and Darrell can no longer afford to. Moreover, if he wanted to wait for Cecilia's relationship with her friends to improve, how much longer would it take?

This weekend, Darrell decided to cement his relationship with Cecilia. When Cecilia picks him up at the airport and they go to a restaurant for dinner together, Darrell sets out to reveal his purpose.

"Fille qui bave ..." (meaning: Ileran girl) Darrell calls Cecilia to begin her conversation.

Cecilia's lips immediately throbbed as soon as she heard the call. "When did you call me that? Is there no better call?" he said with a sulking tone.

Darrell laughed then stroked Cecilia's cheek which made the frowning face immediately turn into a blush.

"Malheureusement non, Ma cherie ... Il a teat brevete pour mon surnom affectueux pour toi. L'veement a tete si memorable pour moi et je ne veux pas l'oublier, " (meaning: Unfortunately none, Sweetie .... It's been patented to be my darling's call to you. The event was so memorable for me and I don't want to forget it) Darrell said with a teasing smile.

Cecilia's face flushed. He lightly hit Darrell's arm and protested. "Lequel est memorable ? Voulez-vous continuer to vous souvenir de mon apparence embarrassante ?!" (meaning: What works?! Do you want to keep remembering my embarrassing appearance?!)

Darrell suddenly sees Cecilia's response. The beautiful face was back to frowning with lips more thawing than before. He was happy to play with the feelings of the girl before him and saw the rapid change in his expression.

After laughing and seeing her lover sulking again, Darrell smiled and took Cecilia's hand to hold it. "Cecile ..." call her softly.

"What?!" sahut Cecilia glanced at Darrell with a fierce look.

"Will you be engaged to me?" Darrell continued his words.

Instantly Cecilia was stunned and her frowning face disappeared to nowhere as soon as she heard that sentence. His tongue surprised him with what he had just heard. They have only been together for three months. Fast enough time to move on to the engagement stage immediately.

"I understand that you feel that our relationship is progressing so quickly. But I feel like we're a good fit and I'm comfortable with you. So I felt there was no point in waiting any longer. If you agree, tomorrow I'll go to your parents to talk about this. If you are not ready, that's okay. Just tell me the truth, " Darrell explained.

Cecilia looks so happy. His mind was empty and he could not think. He was still in the fairytale world, where a handsome white equestrian prince had just proposed to him.

Darrell smiled sweetly and again launched his attack. "Acceptes-tu ma proposal, Princesse ?" (meaning: Do you accept my proposal, O Princess?) he said, bringing the girl's hand to his lips.

Getting such sweet treatment, made Cecilia melt. When he was hypnotized, he immediately gave an answer unconsciously. "Oui .." (meaning: Yes) he said with eyes strewn with lope-lope.

After Cecilia's approval, Darrell visits Cecilia's house to discuss the engagement the next day. Both of Cecilia's parents welcomed the proposal. During this time, Darrell did get a positive score as his daughter's partner who has a track record of changing partners often.

The timing of the engagement will be discussed further as Darrell will have to discuss with his father first. Darrell promised to get the word out soon about it.

One stage of life is back through Darrell. And his plan with the Father, began to enter the final round.

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