The Fate Or Destiny

Eps. 21. After the Rain there is Love

Livia doesn't want to get away from Ben.

"Via... get off, Ben wants to take the car..."

"No. hiksssz..."

"Rens.you take the car, it's okay to sit in the back with them."

"But I don't usually take a car like this..."

"Just like.. try yes..kasian them..."

Keke looked at Via who was tightly hugging Ben's neck and leaning on that burly shoulder. The boy is still sobbing. Keke finally did not.

"His key?"

"In the right pocket..."

Adw... Keke stared at that pocket, time had to take on its own. Ben smiles at Keke's mimic, eventually moving Via's body weight in his left hand and retrieving the key.

Keke is trying to master the luxury car that is far different from his pick up car. Ben who understands tells the step that Keke must do. Eventually the car ran though Keke initially hesitated to add speed. Arriving home, Ben was still accompanying until Via fell asleep. Rommel who persuaded him was ignored. Keke could only silently agree to the child's will. The child was sad, it must have left a trauma for the child.

Keke remembers Via when Rocky left, sitting at the door crying every day. Likewise, when her brother Bonita left, the attitude of the child was the same for days sitting at the door of the house crying. Like expecting them to come again, waiting for them at that door. It was only fitting that Via was quiet, he already understood who his parents were, and he already understood the sense of loss. Abandonment is a painful feeling, including this child of course even though he was a child.

"Via's asleep Rens... Kasian. You should pay more attention to him for a while. until his sadness is gone..."

His daydream stopped, Ben was already sitting in front of him at the dining table.

"Yes." Yeah."

"I'll be here to see him... I'm asking for your phone number.if tomorrow there's anything with Via, it's okay you call me, I'll come..."

There's nothing so come here often, whatever else there's a reason. Livia didn't want to come down from Benaya's sling, maybe because she felt Benaya was like her papa? Ben does look to have the heart of a father, maybe because he already has a child yes. At Keke indeed they are rarely spoiled, like understanding Keke's busyness, but against Ben the children look comfortable.

Keke did not memorize his own number, he grabbed the phone from the drawer of his bag on the side chair, Ben immediately took the phone without hesitation and saved his own mobile number.then made a call to his number, Ben immediately took the phone without hesitation, next he tinkered with his own phone.

"Thank you brother.. kids.. uh we have nicotine..."

"Don't ever feel like that Rens. Ever since Beca's husband died, I've been used to taking care of the kids..."

"Oh... Beca's sister's husband is already..."

"Yes.. You know Paul, right?"

"Yes, my sister Beca married me there..."

"Oh yeah... It's been like having a child since he left. Beca was down to be my children who hold. Until now, the children have not stopped telling me to come back to Jakarta..."

"Oh... Bens doesn't have any kids yet?"

"Hey..how can I have children, my wife doesn't have any..."

"Huhuh? Brother Bens isn't married yet?"

Ben laughed, so all this time...

"Haha... What's in Rens' head?"

"That's what...."

Keke pointed at Ben's finger. Oh.. Ben just realized, the ring he hasn't let go.

"This is my shield, so as not to bother the girls in the office. Hahaha.. So you think I'm married?"

Ben wanted to make sure, as well as being carried away with the beautiful atmosphere after a tragedy in the mall earlier. He became grateful because the unpleasant thing had opened the way for him to enter even deeper into Keke's heart.

Can this fall into the category of 'after rain there is a rainbow?' Because in Ben's heart there are beautiful colors now...

Keke replied softly and not looking at Ben, there was a sense of shame and another sense that was quite foreign to him while creeping in his heart. She had never been this close to interacting with a man other than Rommel. But he likes this foreign taste, and he's starting to like talking to Ben like this.

"Mirror..."

Keke raises his face and meets Ben's warm gaze at him...

"I'm not married yet, I don't have a boyfriend or a girl like that..."

Keke turned his hot face away. She realizes something in Benaya's view, and she becomes aware now that there is something for her in Ben's gaze, in all of Ben's attitude all along.

"I was approaching someone, I was interested and started falling in love with someone. I wish he would open his heart to me..."

Keke became tense and stiff. Although I can guess, but he's getting uncomfortable. Ben read that and Ben did not want to rush, he was quite satisfied with the position now, the situation that began to be comfortable between them.

"You were fierce as well just now, the same father of children... eh...he's their father, right?"

Ben diverts it so Keke does not close the access that Ben has opened with difficulty.

"Oh that's it, yeah, he's their papa."

Keke replied furiously, angry as if rising up again. The man, who cheated on him, did not want to admit his children anymore. And for Ben, it's better to see Keke angry than to see Keke lock their communication room.

"Your starlings are also ye..."

Ben repeated, he was also surprised by Keke's attitude, so remember when Keke was a teenager.

"Eh. abis the Via he pushed it down, if you don't see Via Sama Dede already cry, I hadepin anyway..."

"His wife wants to hit you like she..."

"Well, I'll probably ever slap."

"Seriously?"

"Yes it happened Sunday we also went out to eat in KF C, I was in line to order food, the children were sitting with Rommel. They beside me satirically, add more spicy, fitting they say the name of brother Boni continue to talk not true, I slap them both."

"God... Rens..."

"Biarin, he's not responsible, has gone from brother Boni, yes go away, why do we want to recokin our lives again, I don't bother them, those who abstain yes. Until the security mall..."

"I'm not surprised.have the seeds first, like to fight me, fight with me, hahaha.me who taught me times yes you dare like that..."

"Maybe.. Brother Bens used to be fierce anyway, I reply aja galakin..."

"But why was the last time, you were silent when I was angry, even the brother did not want to come back home again..."

"I have a feeling of shame and often bothers people..."

Keke replied with a bow, the events after Ben's last delivery were too painful for him, and the pain was still sometimes felt.

"I'm sorry, I was too selfish at the time. Maybe if I wasn't mad at you about Reinhart just as Aunt Vosye still exists... Sorry Rens..."

Long Keke bowed, remembering the mami papi who loved him so much, as well as the emotions since earlier in the Mall, finally two tears came out of his eyes. Yes she is a woman who has this side, sometimes wants to cry too when there is a burden in her life. Quite a lot of the time he went through all the stories of his life saving himself in kink. But tonight for some reason she became weak in front of Ben, she cried later.

"Sorry Rens..."

Being so guilty, the way he diverted Keke's attention instead threw Keke into a grief. He wanted to bring the now slightly shaken back into his arms, but he was afraid Keke refused. Finally Ben just moved beside Keke, slightly distancing the chair he was sitting on and holding for a moment Keke's head.

Ben thrust a tissue as Keke glanced at him. Ben painstakingly held his hand that wanted to pull Keke into his arms. Finally his hand just lifted up again to Keke's head. When Keke was silent not resisting, Ben rubbed the head fondly. Understand the burden of Keke who has been responsible for himself, not married but must take responsibility for two young children, working diligently in order to ensure their lives. Ben knows it's not easy, and he's determined to take Keke's burden, he's getting more affectionate.

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