
That morning came back. The Gavin family dining room seems to have been filled with family members. Even Calista's grandmother seems to have joined in the breakfast routine together.
"Grandma, are you feeling better?" Yuan asked as he chewed his breakfast.
"Yuan, why should mom remind you?! Don't talk while you're chewing food, you can choke." Advice from her mother, Ana.
"Sorry mom." Said Yuan who immediately swallowed the food.
Grandma Calista smiled, she was happy to finally be free from the bed and be able to eat with the others.
"Grandma's healed, you can see for yourself, right? Grandma is really healthy." Grandma Calista said.
"Grandma, promise me, next time don't get sick like yesterday again. Yuan was worried, the others were also very worried about grandma." Yuan said.
"Yes, the grandma understood, but the grandma could not promise, since ill no one could predict, he could come at any time." The answer.
"Yuan, you seem to be watching Grandma, but where were you yesterday? You didn't even help me take care of grandma." Nana.
"Eh, Yuan yesterday did you go out of the house?" Ask Ana.
"Where are you going?" Ask Ray.
"Okay, you guys, as parents, don't put too much pressure on her. Yesterday was also Sunday, the time for young people to spend time with loved ones." Said Alex.
"Paman~ "
"Yuan, you got a girlfriend?" Ray asked who interrupted Yuan to talk to his uncle.
"Eh, it— "
"Uncle Ray, I mean father Alex, the loved ones are Yuan's friends. You see, papa had met one of Yuan's friends, so since papa knew them, papa said that. After all, how could Yuan have a lover, he was indeed popular, but looked like a man who did not like women." Nana said, although her words were an element of satire for Yuan, but in any case, Yuan was very grateful to Nana, because the girl had helped him to make an alibi to his father.
"Ti— don't like women?" Asked Ray who was now completely staring intently at Yuan.
While Yuan who was in full sight was only able to smile clumsily. At first glance he glanced at Nana who looked to laugh a little while sticking her tongue towards him.
I wanted to say thank you very much to him for helping me out of my dad interrogation. But her saying it— she deliberately ya make dad suspect that I'm gay?! Fucking cousin sister.
"Yuan, can you explain what Nana meant?" Ask Ray.
"Why should I explain it? Nana said it." Yuan.
"Yuan—"
"That's dear. Nana was also joking earlier, she was just expressing a figurative word. That Nana meant, Yuan was not a man who just wanted to be in a relationship with a woman. Is that Nana?"
"Eh yes, what Aunt Ana just said is true. That Yuan, because so many women approached him, so he could not just pick a lover. Uncle Ray, Nana hope, uncle did not misunderstand the meaning of Nana's words." Nana.
"Young lady Nana, young lady's father is coming to pick you up." Said a female servant who came running from the direction of the living room.
"Dad?" Nana Mumbles.
"Yohan?" Muttered Alex.
"Tell him in first, tell him that Nana's still breakfast." Ray gave the order.
"Okay, big sir, excuse me." Said the servant, then he went to carry out the orders of his master.
"Didn't you ask Aunt Rachel's permission to stay here longer? Why did Uncle Yohan suddenly come to pick you up?" Whisper Yuan who was then happened to be sitting on Nana's right side.
Nana turned her head towards her cousin, she was silent for a moment, then sighed.
"I've had my permission, Uncle Ray helped me ask my mother for permission, but I don't know why you suddenly came to pick me up." Nana replied to Yuan's whisper.
Shortly after the servant left, he returned to the dining room, but this time he came with a middle-aged man in his work clothes.
"Good morning, sorry for interrupting your mealtime." Yohan.
"No, it's not bothering at all. Come sit down and have breakfast together." Grandma Calista said.
"Thank you, Miss Calista. But I'm sorry, I had to turn it down, I had breakfast at home." Said Yohan who then turned to look at Nana.
"Dad, you came to pick me up? Why this morning?" Nana asked as her eyes clashed with Yohan.
Yohan smiled at a glance, but her smile really made people feel hesitant to reply.
"Your mother said last night that she missed you, so I picked you up this morning." Reply Yohan.
"Aunt Rachel didn't go to college to teach? They can still meet on campus." Sahut Yuan's.
"Yes right. But the thing is, Rachel's not feeling well, she's got a fever, from last night kept calling Nana's name. Besides, didn't you not have Nana class this morning? So this morning, I asked for your help to keep your mother until noon." Yohan.
"Rachel's sick?" Ana and Alex ask, together.
"Yes." Yeah." Yohan replied, but the man only answered the question posed by Ana.
"Yohan, I don't mean to stop Nana from taking care of her mother, but Nana, she just finished taking care of me. Isn't it better to take Rachel to the hospital? There Nana also will not be too bothered to care for her mother because there will be medical personnel who help her as well." Grandma Calista said.
"It's just a common fever, Miss Calista. And also, I've asked Rachel to go to the hospital, but she refused. Because it— "
"What about Daisy, why doesn't she just take care of Aunt Rachel? Moreover, Daisy is a prospective health worker." Sela Yuan's.
"Yuan, stop. Nana let's finish your breakfast. Then go home and take care of your mother, but you also have to take care of your own health. Don't eat late, if anything call papa." Said Alex.
"I understand papa." Nana said, after that she stood up from her sitting position, then walked up to her stepfather, Yohan.
Yohan smiled as she gently rubbed the top of Nana's head.
"Everyone, please continue your breakfast. Again, I'm really sorry to interrupt your meal time. Then, excuse me." Yohan said politely.
"Yes, it doesn't matter, if there's anything with Rachel, just call us, you can also take time off work." Said Ray.
"That's why, since Nana's been looking after Rachel, it's likely that I won't be taking time off work, and I still have projects to work on with Alex. But thanks for the chairman—'s attention I mean brother-in-law Ray." Yohan.
"Nana, give my regards to your mother yes, then aunt Ana will go there to visit your mother." Ana said, she looks worried.
"Yes aunty."
"Then, we'll excuse you." Pamit Yohan who then grabbed Nana's hand and pulled her gently, they walked together away from the dining room.
•••
Rose got out of the bus after the bus stopped at her destination stop.
The girl immediately pulled her suitcase down the sidewalk, she still had to take one more bus to get to the hospital where her mother is currently being treated.
"Miss, the lady in the red shirt. Hey!" Call a middle-aged man from behind Rose.
Rose turned her body, she turned her head towards the middle-aged man who called out to her.
"Yes? What's up?" Ask Rose.
"Your phone, your phone was left in the bus. Good thing I saw it, this I return to you." The middle-aged man said as he handed Rose's phone.
"Oh my goodness, thank you uncle, I am so grateful to uncle. If it had been completely lost and uncle had not found it, I would have been very troubled." Said Rose.
"No need to thank you, I just accidentally saw it, coincidentally, I got off at the same bus stop as Miss."
"I'm really grateful to uncle, this, this is a little money for uncle." Rose said as she gave some of the money she had for the middle-aged man. For some reason, seeing her appearance that only wears plain blue sports clothes and flip-flops, Rose felt sorry.
"Eh this— you do not need to give me money miss, I am not a beggar, I—"
"It's okay uncle, take it, I also do not consider uncle as a beggar, this is my gratitude to uncle, I hope uncle does not reject it. Besides, it's not much." Said Rose.
"Ah then, thank you very much miss."
Rose smiled, though,
"Of course, I also thank my uncle for finding my phone. Now I have to leave immediately, again I say thank you to uncle, I'm sorry." Rose said, after which she turned around and left before the middle-aged man.
"The next time I see him again, I will definitely return the money. Besides, right now I need money too. Hah— if I had been more careful and listened to my son, I would not have looked like a beggar. Embarrassing, but the girl was kind, friendly and loyal. I really need to see him again next time. He looks like he fits my son's nature." Said the middle-aged man.
•••
Yuan stopped his car in front of an apartment building that Rose lived in.
After parking her car, she got out of the car and walked up the stairs that connected her to the third floor, where Rose's apartment room was located.
Arriving at Rose's apartment doorstep, Yuan knocked on her door, looking impatient, Yuan looked even more like a man banging on the apartment door than knocking on her.
"Rose?!" Call Yuan, to be honest he was upset, annoyed that Rose since last night could not contact him at all. Even the girl did not call him back. Rose's phone also seems to be still dead until now.
"Young man, are you looking for the girl who lives in that apartment room?" Asked a middle-aged woman, she came out from inside the apartment next to Rose's apartment.
Yuan turned his head, he looked at the middle-aged woman from top to bottom, looking like he was judging her appearance.
"I'm aunt Meng, her neighbor Rose, are you looking for her? Ah no, what's your name Yuan? If it's you, then I'll deliver the message Rose left." Said the middle-aged woman named Meng.
"Yes, I'm Yuan. Tell me, what's Rose's message? Did he go to college first?" Ask Yuan.
"Ah so right you are yes. Let aunt answer each of your questions. First Rose's message was, she apologized to you, for not being able to go to college together. Second, he did not go to college first. But he— "
"If he's not in college, why can't he wait for me? Did he go to work? But just now that I drove mom to the restaurant, I didn't see her there?" Yuan said, he actually asked himself, but his gaze was still on Aunt Meng, so aunt Meng thought that it was a question directed at her.
"Ah that, your question is so many, I don't know where to answer it, nor do I understand the words in your question." Said aunt Meng.
Yuan silently did not respond, he was still busy wondering to himself, why did Rose suddenly disappear without any news?
"Don't you want to know where Rose went?" Ask aunt Meng.
"Auntie knows where Rose is? Why didn't you tell me?"
"Eh, why blame me? You're the one who just suddenly interrupted my explanation."
"All right, I'm sorry. Now please auntie tell me where Rose is?" Yuan asked, this time he sounded more courteous than before.
"He went to C town C area C2, he said his mother went to the hospital, because it was yesterday evening he wanted to go straight to the city. But it looks like he was left behind by the bus, so he put it off and this morning at about three, he just left again."
"Did your aunt know what her mother was sick?" Ask Yuan.
"Auntie doesn't know, Rose won't say."
"Oh, then, excuse me. Thanks for the information, Aunt Meng." Said Yuan who then sauntered away.
"By the way, no one knows Kenan, right? Does no one miss?" Ask Author
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