Scorpios

Complicated situation

"Well, sweet boy. Are you the new neighbors? Greetings to know"

"We just moved this afternoon, introduce my name Samudra" said Samudra introduced himself when one of the neighbors greeted him.

"Ella has also been a child of papa, Bellara!" ella introduced herself.

"Oh?"

"Let's go before the store closes" Samudra took Ella's tiny hand.

"Goodbye grizzled aunt" said Ella waving her tiny hand at Aunt who was speechless at the new call for her. There-there was just the inner aunt chuckling.

"Ella wants a big chocolate!"

"Yes, if you win at my game" said Samudra with a small smile staring at his son who was silent at what game Dad would give him.

"What kind of game?"

"Later Papa tell me. If Ella wins Papa gives you a big chocolate, and if Ella loses then there is a punishment waiting for Ella at home" explained the Ocean looking at Ella's slightly trembling eyes.

"Punishment?" Ella muttered considering the time in the past where she will be punished when not doing the order of the mustachioed old man correctly, then he will be immediately punished. Like, not eating three days, locked up in a dark barn, and other horrible things.

"You scared?" Samudra asked when he saw the look on Ella's face that looked pale.

"Yep"

"Papa's punishment won't make you die" the ocean's carefree silence made Ella pause to look at her plain-looking Papa. _Papa brutal!_

"P-pa!"

"Hm?" By Samudra to his son.

"No, no" Ella smiled broadly.

"You look so stupid" said Samudra, making Ella put on an upset face with her lips deliberately raised. 'Get a fool'

"Ella's not stupid!"

"Huh?" Shocked the Ocean when many people were staring at him with judgmental looks. "Hey, you don't yell like that" Whispered Ocean glanced at his son who was displaying an innocent face that looked irritating in his eyes.

'Did I take the wrong child?' inner voice.

"Papa Ella wants to eat!" The little girl's scream pulled Ocean's hand towards the cake shop not far from where they were.

"Be careful"

Ringgates

"Ella wants bakery cake!"

"sorry. But—"

"Chocolate cake one" cut Ocean put both hands into the pants pocket.

"Thank you, please sit down first" the waiter said before leaving to bring the ordered chocolate cake.

"Hm"

At 08.30pm, a father held his sleeping daughter in one hand carrying a chocolate cake at a cake shop.

'I don't understand'

'Do I need a book to understand?' His mind glanced at Ella who was slightly moving in search of the most comfortable position of her father.

'No. After this mission is over I'll return him to the orphanage' his inner voice shakes when he thinks of what he just said.

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On a bright morning a little boy was standing looking at his father with an upset look because he did not want to study on the grounds 'Ella is smart, Ella does not need books and study!'. While the boy's father just looked at him with a slightly scary flat look for Ella herself.

"Ella doesn't want to learn!" Ella snapped once again withstanding the turmoil of fearing her.

"What did you say? Repeat once more!" The Ocean looked down at his frightened son.

"Ella's smart and doesn't need to learn" her great-grandson was a little unclear.

"You have to learn!"

"I must know the extent of your knowledge for the preparation of next Sunday's test" he continued, staring at his son with sharp eyes.

"Ella doesn't want to, Ella is smart" her great-granddaughter again lowered her head reluctantly to look into the eyes of her father who looks scary.

"Listen, if you don't graduate, then I'm going to get you back to the orphanage!" Threatened to leave Ella alone to hold back the tears. "The kingdom doesn't need a child like you."

"Ella could do it. Kan, Ella's smart" she looked at her father's departure with sadness.

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