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“Laura why?”
Angel who saw Laura was just silent like never before finally asked. Laura smiled little, then shook her head slowly, “I'm fine, ordinary aj” said Laura.
Angel understands that Laura doesn't seem to want to tell anyone about her problem, she's a nice girl who likes to harbor her own feelings. Though Laura was always there when Angel was in trouble, but when the situation turned around, Laura did not want to tell the story.
However, Angel also did not want to force Laura, maybe Laura just needed time. If he's ready, he'll tell it himself.
Angel pat Laura on the shoulder, “I know you have a problem, if you are ready to tell a story, I will always be ready to listen and help you, okay?”
Laura smiled, then hugged Angel.
“Thank you Angel, I might just need time.”
Angel nods small, “it's okay, I understand.”
After that Laura is ready to go, “I go first yes, want to calm down” whispered Laura, Angel nodded in understanding.
“Friends, I go first yes!” laura said to the others.
“Where are you going? Want me to ante?” ask Devon.
Laura shook her head slowly, “gak need, later ngrepotin, I took a taxi aja” said Laura.
Devon stand up, “no, pretty girl can't go alone.”
Laura sighed softly and smiled small, “ well, take me home to apartment” said Laura.
They also came down from the second floor of the cafe.
Just as Devon arrives at his red ferrari, the two of them meet Devon's father, the Emperor.
“Hey, you guys are here” said the Emperor.
“Papa, why are you here anyway? If I was hanging out as usual” asked Devon.
“Papa no need with his papa Roi, Hi Laura, you are more beautiful aja” said the Emperor.
Laura smiled slightly then asked, “Om when did her date come?”
“Yesterday came anyway, just found out if you go to Maldives,” said the Emperor.
“I'm not in Om, because there is a problem,” said Laura.
“Kok you didn't say there was a problem? Even diem aja” said Devon.
“Yes sorry, I am the type who likes to be alone when there is a problem, only if it is better, I tell you” said Laura.
“You can't force Devon, Laura wants to go home right? it just so happens that Om is free, I just take it with me, huh? Devon here just play with the others, or try to take them to the beach or to the top, rather than no work, Angel is also pregnant, he said, better go to a comfortable place” said the Emperor.
“Good pa, I asked them deh.”
Laura finally leaves in a black BMW that belongs to the Emperor.
While Devon just looked at them with a difficult gaze to interpret.
Meanwhile, Laura and the Emperor were silent for a while, until then the Emperor tried to melt the atmosphere.
“Actually I already know everything, you have a problem with Niko right? you guys broke up?” ask Emperor.
Laura smiled wryly, The emperor is right. Laura has a boyfriend named Niko, although Laura is still 18 years old, but she is dating Niko who is almost thirty years old.
Laura and Niko did break up, because it turns out Niko was forced to marry by her parents' choice. The woman was a famous actress in Korea there, so Laura chose to step down, she knew she was nothing compared to that woman.
Niko's family is one of the most influential conglomerate families, of course with whom Niko married is very important, can not be careless, while Laura is just an ordinary girl whose parents divorced, her family is destroyed.
Laura thought, she could get a chance because Niko accepted it as it was. But it turns out he chose to obey the orders of his parents. Niko is good, even good. Maybe it's best for Niko, Laura can accept it, but that doesn't mean Laura doesn't feel sad.
After there were no parents who could care for him, now his lover left.
“Already, you are very beautiful and sexy, any man will surely bend his knees before you,” said the Emperor.
Laura chuckled at hearing that, leaving the Emperor puzzled, what is so funny about her words?
“Why are you laughing?” ask Emperor.
“Because it's so funny, any man will bend his knees before me, is Om Emperor so too?” ask Laura.
“Then let me be sad, Om!”
The emperor was silent again.
The sad Laura made the Emperor unsettled and feel sad as well, as if she was the one who made Laura that way.
The emperor himself was a handsome widower and still looked young, his wife had died a few years ago, he had two twin sons who were even older than Laura.
David and Devon are 21 years old. The Emperor married his wife, Lisa, at a very young age. He didn't expect his wife to leave him first.
“Already up to” said the Emperor, when his car had reached the apartment building that Laura lived in.
“Om won't drive me to my apartment?” ask Laura.
“Alright, I'll drop you off, is there no one in your apartment?” ask Emperor.
Laura shook her head, “nothing, yesterday my mama came, but now it's back to Melbourne.”
“Then, you while staying at my place alone, I will cook you the most delicious food, so you are not sad anymore, okay?”
Laura nodded slowly, then smiled slightly, “ alright, it's up to Om only.”
The Emperor drove back his car, heading to one of the apartment buildings with views of the beach and sea. It was one of the Emperor's luxury apartments that he had just bought as an investment only, however, since the apartment was convenient, so the Emperor chose to die sometime if he was in Indonesia.
“We play first to the beachfront huh Om!” pinta Laura's.
“OK, come!”
Laura pulled the Emperor's arm towards the beach, they just took a walk there, met the ice cream booth, then bought it, then sat for a while on the beach.
“Om, don't want to marry again?” ask Laura.
The Emperor turned to Laura, but did not reply at all, so Laura continued.
“What has not moved on since om's wife died? What is his love for his wife?” ask Laura.
The Emperor nodded, “Iya, I love her very much, I can't replace Lisa with anyone either, but – doesn't mean I don't want to marry again, if there's a match yes I'll get married.”
“Then what if Om wants to make love to someone? What about hiring women?”
Emperor laughed at the question from Laura, “why is your question like that, hey!” The emperor poked Laura's forehead.
Laura rubbed her forehead with an annoyed look, “but I was curious, yes I asked! Or do you like to play by yourself?”
“Hey, what if anyone heard? I busied myself with my work, even since my wife died, I have never lusted at all, never thought by me – Laura?” The Emperor stopped his words as Laura suddenly stretched out her hand, palpating the Emperor's thigh, while looking at the Emperor with an innocent look, while he licked the ice cream with a gesture that made the Emperor stroke his chest.
“You deliberately lured me or how?”
“Om don't remember yes? I used to date Niko's sister before, I would tease her, and that, actually I'm serious you” said Laura.
Of course the Emperor remembered that, when Laura was 16 years old, how could the Emperor take her seriously? Although at that time the Emperor was quite tempted, but he was not that crazy to take minors seriously.
“Do you want me to tell you a secret?” the Emperor asked, clasping Laura's mischievous hand on her thigh, and then dipping it.
“What's om?”
“At that time I was really tempted by you, but just keep quiet because I know you are small, my little heart does not accept I was tempted by a 16-year-old boy.”
“But I'm now 18 years old, om!”
“Yes yes, but people will still think Om is a pedophile, know!”
Laura pulled her hand from the Emperor and then clucked lazily, she finished her ice cream.
After it ran out, he said again, “why should you care about what people say? Angel and Brother Dexter just shut their ears will blaspheme people, and now they look happy, brother Darren and Airi also so, but Om instead –”
“Laura, you are younger than my two sons.”
Angel is Laura's best friend, she is dating a man older than her. Angel is the same age as Laura, and Dexter is about 35 years old. While Darren is Dexter's twin brother, dating Airi who is Laura's friend as well.
But they are still mending the distance is not that much, while Laura, is teasing about the age of 40 years.
“Then why? I like Om!”
“Shhh, lower your voice, let's go back to the apartment, aren't you hungry?”
Laura nodded, “I'm hungry.”