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"ARGHHHH!!!!" Aphrodite screamed loudly in her room, leaving Helen and Erland gasped in shock at her loud voice.
Those who heard him rushed to Aphrodite's room trying to make sure she was okay inside.
"Aphs? You why? Are you all right?" Helen asked behind the door, panicking.
"Yes, are you okay?" Ask Erland who was no less panicked. They panic not because they are sympathetic, but because they do not want Aphrodite to the point of why and make their situation even more chaotic. If Aphrodite had gone for what, then their three billion debt would not have paid off.
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"Are you just going to glare at the food like that?" Said Helen to Aphrodite who had been sitting at the table eating only silently while stirring the food in front of her with a spoon in her hand. Helen was upset, because since Aphrodite was just silent and seemed not excited at all. It had been two days since Aphrodite came home and suddenly screamed to her surprise, all day yesterday shutting herself up without eating or going out of the room though. The door of his room was locked tightly which made him unable to enter. For the whole day yesterday, Aphrodite didn't even go to work because she was sick.
Erland beside him turned towards the chaotic-looking Aphrodite. The woman's eyes were now completely puffy. His eye bags made Aphrodite seem difficult to see with her pupils. His eyes were like those of a person with severe eye pain, but only because he was crying too much.
"Aphs! Are you all right? At least you have to explain to us not to confuse us" said Helen who did not even get a response at all from Aphrodite.
"What mom said. You have to explain to us, don't confuse us. Oh, and you have to eat a lot too! Either way you're getting married soon, and don't let you look like a living skull when you get married later, just because you didn't eat!" Erland chimed in with sarcasm that even got Helen's shot.
Helen looked at him with both eyeballs almost out, making Erland shudder in horror. Under the table, Helen kicked Erland's leg but did not cause him any pain at all.
"The leg that mom kicked was my leg" murmured Aphrodite, to Helen's surprise.
"Ah what? Sorry I didn't intentionally. I was just trying to improve my sitting position" Helen said.
"Huft~" Aphrodite sighed, she put a spoon in her hand on the plate and got up from her seat. "That's it, I didn't**** dine. I want to go back to the room," Aphrodite stepped away from there.
"Lho, Aphh! Your food is not finished yet" said Helen tried to stop her steps, but failed. Aphrodite did not pierce her words and continued to step with her side of her dragged leg making her like a limp.
After Aphrodite's death, Helen now turned to a giggling Erland trying to hold back a laugh; laughing at Helen who wrongly kicked Aphrodite's leg, not her leg. Helen, who saw Erland giggling and then hit him with a spoon in her hand, made him complain of pain.
"You shouldn't talk like that!" Helen whispered to Erland while glaring.
"Am I wrong to talk like that? It's true, if he doesn't eat he can be skinny, fight.." Erland rubbed the part of his head that had just been hit by Helen.
"Obviously you're wrong! If you talk like that, it's the same way you make him feel like the buffalo we take care of as best we can before we sell!"
"Aish this stupid kid, do I want to hit your head again with a harder object?!" Helen's upset with him. His hand raised the rice pitcher there.
"W-ahh! Ahhh no!" Erland protected her head with both hands.
"When you'll get smarter!" Pissed Helen who then put back the centong of her rice.
"Now how can I get Aph to tell you everything?" His murmur was slow but Erland could hear. Erland looked up at Helen.
"Why did you have to bother to make her talk?" sahut Erland while re-feeding his food. Helen glanced at him.
"You are really stupid! Hear me! If Aph wants to talk, then it will be easier for us to persuade him to marry Frans. Plus, if Aph continues like this, my savings run out just to meet our daily needs, I can-can't go shopping," said Helen. Erland glanced, then put a spoon in his hand on a plate that now looked empty. Snatched his glass of water and gulped it down to the toilet.
"What you have in mind is just shopping," his comments upset Helen. Helen who heard it then hit Erland's head with a spoon in her hand harder than before, it made Erland complain of pain.
"How dare you comment! Aph even just thought about how to make money, he never even thought to take me shopping or so on. If I didn't care about myself, then who would care? You alone even his job can only waste money on having fun with your fucking girlfriend!" His emotion.
"Argh, why did you have to take Keyla with you? She's not wrong, it's good that mom brought her name. He has nothing to do with our problems anyway."
"Nothing to do you say? Do I need to remind you what your fucking girlfriend did?! If you'd listened to me not date a matre snake woman like her, maybe now you can buy the things you want. You shouldn't spoil that woman, after all you're just dating and she could have asked to break up with you after you couldn't use her anymore!"
"Stop vilifying Keyla ma!" Erland.
"God, how dare you speak with such intonation to me. Want me to hit you?!"
"I'm tired, now I want to rest," Erland got up, not heeding Helen's words that seemed very upset.
"Aish, you shitty shit! She really can't count on me" Helen grumbled as her son went missing behind her bedroom door.
"***** my meal went missing because of facing them," Helen grabbed her drinking glass and gulped it down.
"Now all I have to think about is how I can get Aph to talk, so it will be easier for me to persuade her to marry Frans. How they should get married!" Helen began to think of a way to make Aphrodite's mood change. The next second an idea crossed his mind.
"True, I had to use it," Helen rushed to snatch her phone and struggled for a moment with it looking for the phone number she was looking for.
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