
A cool morning greets the eastern hemisphere.
The atmosphere was cold, making everyone would feel reluctant to move away from the top of his bed.
A torrent of sunlight, timidly emerging from the east side. It slowly began to rise to the top, showing the sun now appearing, preparing to carry out its duties throughout the morning, afternoon and evening.
At 08:39 in the morning.
Rose was in the kitchen of her small apartment, she looks well dressed with a dry season dress that wrapped her body perfectly.
The girl appears to be putting the food she cooked into several square-shaped boxes.
There was a lot of food that he had painstakingly made since dawn. All that Rose deliberately made is not for him to eat alone, but to take him to a place with someone, someone special.
Last night, Yuan called himself, and his girlfriend took him on a picnic to the park today.
Feeling that it was going to be their first date, of course Rose immediately agreed and said 'yes'.
Yuan, the man promised to come pick up Rose at nine in the morning.
Therefore, since the new sun will appear and until now Rose still looks busy preparing all the necessities for their picnic both. Rose was even willing to wake up earlier than usual.
Once done put all the food into that rectangular box. Rose grabbed her phone which she put on the dining table. The girl opened the message room to contact Yuan.
'Good morning! Hi, I'm ready to go to the city park. You didn't forget your promise about today did you?'
Not long ago Rose sent that message, a reply message from Yuan instantly appeared on her phone screen.
'Sorry ya~'
Reading those two short words, Rose's face that had been beaming, now became dejected.
'You can't come, can you? Yes already, it's okay, we can go next time only.' — Reply Rose.
After the brief message from Rose was sent, a knock on the door was heard. It seemed, someone was knocking on Rose's apartment door from outside.
Rose scrunched her forehead, she felt strange, who in the morning like this came to visit her apartment? Can't it be that it's the owner of the apartment building? As Rose remembered, he had already paid off his apartment rent.
"Yes, wait a minute." Rose said in a slightly screaming tone for the person outside her apartment to hear her.
Rose stared at her phone at a glance, there was no reply from Yuan, the girl momentarily sighed, then put her phone on the dining table again. After that, he hurried off towards the door of his apartment.
"There's ap— " Said Rose while opening the door of her apartment. But, when he saw who had knocked on the door of his apartment, Rose seemed unable to continue his words anymore. She was speechless for a while.
"Yuan?!" Pekik Rose was between happy and also confused.
Yuan smiled sweetly at his lover. Then, he handed a bouquet of red roses that still looked very fresh to Rose. After that, Yuan just entered the apartment that he had once made a place to live for a while.
Rose followed Yuan who had entered first, she closed the door and turned to Yuan who was now sitting on the sofa of her apartment.
"Don't you just text me if you can't come?" Ask Rose.
"Eh, when did I say that?" Yuan asked back.
"Not so long ago, I still kept the message." Rose Say.
"really? Try to grab your phone and read the message from me again carefully." Refute Yuan.
"But I really remember it, you sent me a message with the word 'sorry." Said Rose.
Yuan laughed amusedly at her, he looked at Rose who stared back at him with an innocent look, making Yuan feel anxious with the girl.
"I did send you a message with the word 'sorry', but that doesn't mean that I can't come." Yuan.
"Eh? Wrong huh? Then why did you send me such a message? Moreover, it turns out that you're already at the door of this apartment."
"Ah that— I intend to apologize to you for coming too soon." Yuan said with a face holding back his laughter.
Rose snorted annoyed at the lack of work from her lover. A sigh also irrigated Rose, and then, she stepped away from Yuan.
"Where are you? Oh right, don't you intend to feed your husband?" Yuan asked as he looked at Rose who was in the kitchen.
"You haven't eaten yet?"
"Not yet." Yuan replied by displaying his face. The man then walked over to Rose who was busy tidying up the food box.
"What's that?" Yuan asked as he stood beside Rose.
"You said you wanted to go on a picnic with me today. So I'm preparing a lot of food for us to picnic later." Answer Rose.
Yuan nodded his head in understanding, the man then drew closer to Rose and did a back hug on her lover.
Rose who suddenly hugged Yuan from behind, felt her body stiffen instantly. Rose was really very surprised by the actions of that Yuan.
"Yu—yuan, what are you doing?"
"What's? Oh right, did you put all the food you cooked into this lunchbox?"
"Let go of your arms first." Rose said, he moved, trying to free himself from Yuan's embrace.
"No."
"Yes."
"All right." Said Yuan while releasing his embrace from Rose.
"Have you, are you happy now?" Yuan asked after he removed his embrace from the lover.
"Sorry Yuan. But I'm really not used to it. I hope you're not angry and can understand." Rose said with her head down.
"It's okay, I'm not mad." Yuan said.
Rose raised her head, looking at Yuan with a faint smile.
"Well, now that I'm so hungry, can you feed me this?" Yuan Saying.
"You hungry? But, all the food I've made I put in that box." Rose said as she pointed at the rectangular dining box on the dining table.
"Everything? Not leaving a single thing for me?"
"No."
"You're so mean."
"Eh? But that's also for you to eat. All the food in that box is our picnic stock." Said Rose.
"Ah well, then let's quickly go to the city park, I'm really hungry."
"If you're really hungry. I guess— we don't have to go to the city park just to eat, we can eat here." Said Rose.
Yuan looked at his lover in silence. For a moment the look on his face looked flat, but the next second, a tinge of an irresistible smile emanated clearly on his face.
"What's with your smile?" Ask Rose.
"From the beginning, I wish you'd said that."
"Which words?"
"We'd rather eat here than in the city park."
"Eh? Why?" Ask Rose.
"It's nothing, it's just, I feel better eating alone with you here, than in a crowded city park that there will definitely be a lot of people who disturb our romantic atmosphere." Yuan.
Rose felt her face heat up when she heard Yuan say a romantic word before her. He really felt like there were fireworks exploding in his heart.
Sorry Rose, the real reason I don't want to go to the city park is because today I'm having a company project visit, unfortunately, the project was done right near the city park. Because I haven't been able to reveal our relationship, so I was forced to avoid meeting between you and dad. I don't mean to lie to you, but really, I just don't want your heart to hurt later. Because I don't know for sure if dad will agree with our relationship or not.
•••
"All right, today's meeting is here." Alex said after he finished the meeting that morning.
"For the project chosen earlier, please take a copy of the document about the project to my room." Said Alex again.
"Good sir."
"Please, you can go." Alex said to the office employees who were in the meeting.
"Alex." Call someone when Alex just stepped out of the meeting room.
Alex turned his head, he turned his body and looked towards the middle-aged man who had just called his name.
"Oh, you. What's up?" Alex asked the middle-aged man, Yohan.
"Today take Nana home to my house. He's been staying at your family's house long enough." Yohan.
"Just two days and two nights, have you said that long enough? Let him stay for another three or four days." Reply Alex.
"No way, he's not an orphan who has no place to live so you have to put him in, he still has his own house to go home to, he also still had a family that was always waiting for him to come home." Yohan.
Alex sighed, smiling back at the greeting of the last officer who came out of the meeting room, then refocused on Yohan who was still standing before him.
"Who do you think Nana's staying at whose house? He was staying at the Gavin family home, his own biological family home. You never forget that in Nana's body it flows my blood, which means, she's a pure descendant of the Gavin family." Said Alex.
"Are you proud of the blood in you? You also don't forget who you really are, you were once just an illegitimate child of the Gavin family." Reply Yohan. The sentence was like a precise bullet hit the target.
Alex smiled, looking shaken. But then, he managed to control his emotions that were almost overflowing from within his heart. After all, decades ago, such reproach was his daily food. So now, he was already very immune to that poisonous word.
"Oh yeah? Your memory is so sharp, apparently. I'm really amazed at you, even though you're in your fifties, but your memory still spins well." Said Alex while patting Yohan's shoulder casually.
"But even then, then or now, the blood that runs through my body is also the pure blood of the Gavin family. So even if a lot of ****** are barking at me, I'll ignore it." Alex said again, then after that, he left in front of Yohan.
"Where do you want to go?! Don't let you forget what I said. You have to take Nana home for whatever reason." Yohan said when Alex had walked a few meters in front of him.
Hearing the words of the man who seemed to be his eternal enemy, Alex stopped his steps, but did not intend to turn his head at all.
"You're just his stepfather. Never force your will on him. Just because you don't like to see him close to me, you make his heart sad and also make his life become restrained because of you. Let Nana choose what she wants. I would never have prevented him if he'd rather be close to you than me. Just like when I let Rachel choose you and marry you instead of marrying me. So, let Nana choose her own way of life." Alex said, after that he stepped back and went out of reach of Yohan's eyes.
•••
"Are you very hungry? Eat slowly, don't rush like that, you'll choke later. Nobody wants to fight over food with you anyway." Rose said as she looked at Yuan who was eating like a starving person.
Rose sighed as Yuan again ignored his advice and still ate greedily.
"Looking at you like this, I'm worried about the eating system in your house. Are they restricting your food? Or is there a certain rule that you cannot eat with satisfaction? But, after all, even if you can't eat at your house, you can eat at your mother's restaurant. And also, Aunt Ana couldn't possibly let yourself starve." Said Rose.
"What are you talking about? How could my family lack food, even if mom and grandma allowed it, we could eat a steak with high-quality meat every day." Said Yuan while chewing his food.
"If it's like that, then why do you look so greedy now? Like never eating for days."
"This is because the food cooked by my wife is so delicious. So— me as a good husband, should appreciate it well, therefore I should eat it voraciously." Said Yuan who was able to make Rose's cheeks blush red.
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