The Fate Or Destiny

Eps. 18. You're Not Someone Else

"Rom... Which children?"

"Above the om... Yica was sleepy earlier brought brother to sleep..."

"Tumben clock this time Yica is sleepy..."

"Cape times om.. was mostly playing he did not bobo day..."

"Oh... Via too?"

"The boy was on top as well again with PR ..."

Ben's coming night. The frequency of Ben visiting so reduced after reading the gelagat Keke who no longer return his greetings and tend to avoid. He retreated for a moment, not wanting to force Keke to behave like before. Ever since Ben asked Keke to say his name, Keke has changed.

The top floor of the shophouse is finished, and Ben has not dared to go up even with the reason of meeting Lisya or Livia. Each time Ben refrained from just getting to the store no longer going inside.

"Om busy, huh? Rarely come here..."

"Yes, there's more to be done..."

Ben sits next to Rommel in the back of a display cabinet filled with light snacks, while Rommel is behind his pulse counter. Though eager to meet Keke, if he could actually want to directly look for Keke. Longing to see again freely the figure of Keke, although not tergur greeting, it is enough compared to now... Keke is so far away.

Ben realizes now that the taste he has for the girl named Keke is love. Yaah... Benaya has fallen in love with a Renske. What never appeared in his heart before, never crossed his imagination, that is what he feels now. Papa Fredrik, if he finds out he can laugh now, his obsession is real.

Ben who desperately refused to marry the Manado girl, now as if swallowing his own words. Ben, who removed the love affair from his life, is now powerless to reject the charm of love from a woman.

But the way of his love is not easy, the beloved girl does not give the slightest way for him to enter and show his love. His heart was tightly closed. And it's been a few weeks Keke's been away, somehow touching that heart, Ben has no way but to wait.

"You dessert om.. take it..."

"Can..."

Ben saw klappertart in the closet in front of him, there was a plastic spoon there, he took one and started to enjoy, had imagined Keke when making it.

"Roman... What kind of angry Rens? Avoid that, huh?"

"Rense...?"

"Key..."

"Oh.. Brother Keke if angry anyway. Yesterday, Keke was angry because I wanted customers to ask for a week, even though we had a week off, Mr. Keke said it immediately, after it was finished. Do you feel like Keke's brother is angry, same?"

"Yes.he dodged every time I came..."

"Sir Keke is that anyway.Everyone else does not like to talk..."

A timing? Am I someone else?

Ben doesn't like that. The road is still far away.

"Why?"

"I don't know, it used to be like that. Have you known Keke for a long time?"

"Since the age of five years like him, when he was in Jakarta we often met. Om Reinhart and Aunt Vosye share my parents..."

"Oh. deserved..."

"Why..."

"Sir Keke likes fierce, jutek, same man but same om ordinary..."

A spark of hope appears in Ben's heart. But wonder why Keke jutek is the same guy. Is it trauma for my husband?

"Emmh... The papa kids never come here huh...?"

"Oh. never. Ever since Bonita's breakup, she never came here..."

"Bonita??"

"Oldest brother, his mother Via sama Yica..."

The sparks please get bigger. Ben so remember the words of Yica also Via at that time, he thought the name mama and mami was the same person, the Keke.

"The Bonita lives where it's never been seen here?"

"Kak Boni became TKW in Singapore. has been 2 years..."

"Oh..."

So, what caused Keke to not give him a chance to get close, why was he so cold towards men? Maybe that trauma? Ben recalled 7 years ago, the same feelings of guilt would be present if he remembered that. And now he wanted more and more to bring Keke by his side, wanting to see again Keke's sweet laughter, longing for dimples on both of Keke's cheeks while laughing.

He realized he couldn't change Keke to open up. Keke can change by his own will, but there must be something that makes and encourages him to change. Who would do that? Maybe Ben can't keep retreating and being passive now, if he's silent there won't be any change, Keke will still be standing in his place with the thick walls and the distance he's stretched. Ben had to do something, Ben who had to come closer and knock down the fort. Intention and determination become strong again.forward Benaya 😉.

"Of..."

"Rom.. don't call me. I feel so old..."

"Hehehe.... What do I call dong?"

""Call a name, Bipi, that's my little name..."

"Polite ahh. hehehe I call Brother Bipi deh..."

"As far as you are..."

"Eh brother.. ask you to take care of it for a while, until brother Keke down here. I want to transfer klappertart orders, want to be taken to Jakarta tomorrow morning, just deket in the next hallway..."

"Can.. can..."

"Thank you brother..."

"Yes..."

After Rommel left, some time passed the shophouse felt lonely. No visitor makes Ben sit still and feel funny, during the day he became the boss in the office with a fantastic salary, and tonight he sold pulses...

"Mel.. there between his orders, have been several times they wa... have been awaited..."

Keke sat at Rommel's place, his eyes on the phone answering the message, unaware that the one sitting next to him was Benaya not Rommel.

"Mails..."

Eyes looked at him now and when he realized who was sitting and now looked at him, Keke spontaneously stood up about to enter again.

"Mirror..."

Ben stood up and directly blocked the entrance. Keke voidly moved towards the door, standing awkwardly in front of Ben.

"Sit down. I'll go home..."

Keke sat back to hear Benaya's words. Ben stepped out from the back of the display cabinet toward the outside of the room. But then Ben turned around and said without surgery...

"Rens. I know you're avoiding me, I don't know why you I don't wanna know. But you should know that from tonight on I don't care, you avoid, you don't talk to me, you don't see me, it doesn't matter. But I'll keep being around you, talking to you, looking at you. I'll come and come again, until you want to look at me and talk to me. There's a lot I want to do for you to make amends for my past mistakes.for me you're not someone else Rens..."

Benaya stopped talking and still looked at the bowed Keke, but he knew Keke heard what he said.

"You're no one else to me..."

Although Keke is still silent, but listening to Ben's words earlier he knows now that he will face a different Ben from tomorrow...

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Keke... you should also know, author love leaks... if Ben is determined, then he can not be stopped... well loh.... what is the determination of Ben ya? Readers know. Keke knows it too... Keke's not a stupid girl, is she, uh Rens... 😉 But may not open just a little heart, let smooth romantic-romantic writing....

Enjoy reading's... Happy weekends... Blessing 😊

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