UNINTENTIONALLY

Episode 96's

I felt like I was taking care of a child, Dinda said slowly. Anything must be served. Whining like a boy, I was so sorry for him. Dinda's mouth in the many-chanting, kamit kamit kamuan not kumuan. He rambled as long as Steve ruled him.

He was in Steve's room, sorting out the clothes for the spoiled man.

While Steve with a satisfied laugh, only saw Dinda looking for him clothes while sitting on his soft mattress looking closely at the little girl.

"Which shirt do you want to wear?" ask Dinda. "I'm confused, your clothes are so much."

"Ehm," Steve scrunched his forehead. "Whatever you choose, I'll love it" replied Steve. "Because a handsome man like me won't feel ugly even if he wears a loose outfit."

Dinda pursed her lips, exhaling a soft breath. "I feel like I'm taking care of a big baby" Dinda said. "If you were my baby, maybe I'd stop taking care of you. Or I'll throw you into the river, you're so troublesome to me. Everything has to be me, this is it, you treat me like a babysitter" complained Dinda who was not strong on Steve's behavior.

Steve approaches Dinda, he doesn't care about Dinda nagging her. "Mom should be proud to have a spoiled baby like me" Steve added. "The baby who wanted his mother's attention" Steve looked up at Dinda's chin while cursing at her with a squint.

"Don't call me Mom" cried Dinda. "I'm not your mother. Understand!" His impact.

Steve gulped his bitter saliva, the woman began to show signs of ferocity. "You dare yell at a big baby like me?" Steve fishing noise. "Don't you have the heart to see your big baby cold with a towel, cover the bottom while the top is open without a cloth?"

Dinda peeked, it's true Steve only uses a white towel to cover the bottom. Steve's slightly bushy leg hair made him ticklish for a long time.

Even her sexy belly makes Dinda can't stand to be seen anymore.

"I helped you last time. For the future, you think for yourself what clothes, what shoes and everything you decide," Dinda chose to give up, the man before her will not stop before everything is fulfilled.

Cih, Steve squeaks. Finally he relented, Steve said slowly.

"When in the Huangpu river an Indonesian woman once said she wanted to marry a handsome man. He promised on a cruise ship while circling Shanghai, I forgot the name of the woman, but he was sad when the handsome man was about to marry another woman named Peni. Too bad, now the woman no longer wants to take care of her husband," Steve insinuated and offended Dinda when they were in Shanghai at the time.

"You're trying to insinuate me?" Dinda understood Steve's direction of speech.

"Who insinuates you" replied Steve. "I'm just telling you the story of a woman who cried in the rain in Shanghai. I remember that the woman was devastated when the two men's parents betrothed her to another woman. Just below the Shenzen building, she was sobbing, not wanting her lover to marry any woman other than her," Steve continued.

"That's me," joked Dinda. He felt that Steve was showing those words to him. "You're insinuating me for real!"

"I'm not saying that to you" Steve won't lose the argument. "I'm just quoting this story from the novel... Um... If it is not incorrectly titled Unintentional. I think the story of the woman is very sad, especially going to stay away by her most loved lover," Steve continues to pick Dinda up with insinuations about the trip some time ago.

Dinda grunts. "I remember too. A man must lower his ego to obey his lover's will" Dinda replies to Steve with a similar story. "When he and his girlfriend vacation in Korea, he wears a bunny-shaped red bandana. She was embarrassed by the teenagers around her. And also he once lowered his ego to get the blessing of the lover's mother."

Dinda's acting up, she doesn't want to be outdone by a narcissist like Steve. "And, I also remember that the man had cried when his lover said goodbye to him who would marry a woman he did not love," Dinda continued, adding the ingredients of the quarrel.

"You!" Screeched Steve.

"Don't be angry" Dinda grinned. "I'm just quoting the poor man's story from a novel called Unintentional."

Hearing that Dinda was replying to him with embarrassing insinuations, Steve clenched his hand hard. His face was flushed, he was holding back emotions.

Steve twisted Dinda's body, as fast as lightning he immediately smashed Dinda's lips until the woman could not speak anymore.

Steve did it with a rough and hunting breath. He doesn't care about anything else, even though Dinda's revolted against him.

"That's a punishment for you being brave against young master" Steve said, ending his kiss. "Don't ever do it again, or you'll get more punishment" Steve recalled to Dinda.

Dinda is confused, Steve treats him suddenly. "Is this how you repay a woman?" sue Dinda's.

"Because you dare to harass me!"

"But you are the one who provoked the debate first" replied Dinda fiercely.

"That's because you dare to go against a young master like me," Steve didn't want to budge. "That's a warning, don't fight your husband" she threatened in joke mode. "Steve is always right, he's never wrong. So don't even try to defy your husband, my little crumbs," Steve teased.

Dinda laughed wryly. "We're not married yet, don't expect me to be your wife."

"What did you say?" Steve was furious, Dinda increasingly dare to challenge his speech. Think Steve Dinda's been like Stevie, treating her arbitrarily.

Steve wanted to repeat his behavior earlier, kissing Dinda's lips.

But Dinda quickly dismisses Steve's body who wants to get close to him. "okay! Okay fine! I will be the wife of the angry master" Dinda said she gave in. "Hows it? Satisfied with my answer?"

"Very satisfied" Steve pleaded. "If you always obey me, this young master of yours will not treat his girl like this."

Dinda is annoyed at Steve, she is upset because his behavior is always sudden. Dinda threw the clothes on Steve's chest, she didn't want to help him anymore.

Under the sound of Steve's house electric bell kept ringing. There was no Uncle Lu nor was there Aunt Yan.

Dinda wants to open the door, but Steve forbids it because he thinks Uncle Lu is home.

Dinda reminded that the old man and woman had already left. They're on leave, so the only ones in this house are the two of them.

"This shirt is too thick" complained Steve at the top of the stairs. "You think we have Shanghai, we have to wear this thick knit shirt," Steve looked at his shirt to detail.

He felt sultry wearing thick clothes all over his hands.

"Lately the rain has been raining very hard, wearing thick clothes at least makes you warm" Dinda assures Steve not to complain anymore.

"It's up to you" Steve stopped talking. He was stalking Dinda who was about to open the door.

In front of the door, an electric bell that kept ringing stood two people in thick clothes typical of east Asians.

"Mama, Papa?" shouts Steve.

Steve's mother smiled as Dinda opened the door and Steve stood behind her. Dinda took Steve's Mom and Dad's hand and kissed him. It has become a habit of Dinda always behaving like that to anyone.

"You two at home?" his mother said.

Steve nodded. "Uncle Lu is on leave today," Steve replied casually. "Aunt Yan also returned home."

Mom went into the house followed by the father. "Don't Papa come to Jakarta in a long time?" the father began to speak. "Our house hasn't changed much" he said, staring at the ceiling, looking around the room and ending up sitting on the couch.

"What are you saying Mama and Papa are coming to Jakarta?" Steve asked curiously. "Not as usual?"

The father crossed his arms across his chest, while the mother accompanied her husband sitting right next to him. "The atmosphere in China is rather gripping," said this middle-aged man. He took off his glasses, put them on the table. "In Wuhan lately there has been a spread of the Corona virus. Usually known as 2019-nCoV, although not yet arrived in Shanghai but Papa and Mama began to worry about this virus."

"Virus?"

"Yes" said the mother. "It turns out this virus is caused by eating raw bats carelessly. Whether true or not, Mama and Papa are a little worried about Shanghai, so Mama decided to take Papa to Indonesia," explained Diah's mother to Steve.

"So Mama and Papa are going to live in Indonesia?" Steve confirmed.

Steve was somewhat relieved, he thought the two parents would live in Jakarta isolating themselves from the recent Chinese disaster.

"Papa Hungry Ma," Mr. Wong said. "Can you prepare a meal?"

"Father always acts up" Diah's mother pinched her husband's plan. She went from sitting, to the kitchen to making a meal for her beloved husband.

"I'll help you, Ma" Dinda offered.

Mother Diah smiled graciously, took Dinda's hand and took her to the kitchen. "Steve talked to Papa first, don't go to the kitchen" Diah's mother told her son.

Bored for Steve to have to deal with his own father. He felt disdain for the old man, let alone look at his face. Steve lacks confidence if his father looks at him intrigue.

"Just sit down, Papa wants to talk to you."

Steve had expected it, suspecting that his father would say such a thing looking at it from his unusual gait. Steve, who was standing at the end of the sofa, had to obey the man's will.

Or, if she rejected him, it was likely that this man would act as he wished. Like setting her up with Peni back then. For him nothing is impossible, even if Steve has to insist on refusing.

"Ehm," Steve said. "What do you want to say?" Steve wants to know. He wondered why it was suddenly like this.

"Since childhood, you've helped Papa's Business with your genius," Mr. Wong said slowly while reminiscing. "Papa does not want to sue you who are difficult anymore. Papa just wants you to be more responsible and more patient in managing the business that has been built by your great-grandfather. Papa wants you to be able to grow the wong group business to the top level."

"What does Papa mean?" Steve snatching.

"You certainly know clearly that your father is too old as a CEO. Not possible anymore in this middle age, Papa is in control of a big company like this. Papa wants you to take care of all the properties of Wong's group as well as other wong companies spread across Asia" Mr. Wong expressed his wish to his only son.

"Sorry, Steve doesn't understand what Papa means?" Steve interrupted his father's words.

"Papa just get to the point if you don't understand," replied Mr. Wong speaking with a fairly fast rhythm. "Papa wants you back to Shanghai. Take care of the central company there, and branch offices in several cities in Asia, will be handled by local employees."

"So you mean, Steve has to go back to Shanghai?" Guess it.

Mr. wong nodded his head. "Papa just wants you to focus on the central company in Shanghai, and expand the business in this city. Business prospects in Shanghai are much more profitable than following the trend of doing business in Southeast Asia."

Why is it suddenly like this? Steve doesn't usually think.

Steve was pondering the words of his father. It was true what the old man said. Steve wants to think about it carefully, although he actually hates Shanghai but about the business with a bright future, which entrepreneurs dare to refuse.

"Can Steve make a wise decision" Steve tried to be convincing. "Steve meant, could Papa give Steve time to think about the business issue first."

"There is no need to rush" said Mr. Wong as he sipped warm tea. "If you're not ready, Papa can still ask Alianor to handle the company in Shanghai."

"Xie-xie fuqin" Steve told his father in Mandarin.

(Thank you dad)

Mr. wong smiled warmly, he saw the handsome face of his fierce son. "Your Mandarin is still a beginner, learn hard so that you do not have trouble communicating with office employees in Shanghai."

This old fox is still suing me, Steve murmured softly.

"I'm going to study hard, as Papa would," Steve pretended to agree to his father's request.

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"You and Steve have to make up, son" in the kitchen, Diah's mother advised Dinda. "Don't fight even if he's always angry. It has been his habit to always be cold since childhood. Mama's worried about you, afraid you're bored because she doesn't treat you well."

The two of them chatted while hand-handling various kinds of vegetables.

"No, Ma" Dinda replied. "Dinda actually thinks that he is a warm man," he said praising Mother Diah.

"You're exactly like Mama when you were young" Mother Diah pinched Dinda's cheeks gently. His hand smelled of onions, Dinda held her breath so as not to inhale too much of that unpleasant scent. "First, when Mama was young, Papa Steve was like that too. He treated Mama a bit harshly even though he was considerate" he continued, recalling the story of his youth.

She knew, Dinda pretended to cover up Steve's grumpy behavior. Long before Dinda lied about the warmth of her son, she knew better what Steve was like in childhood.

"Previously, Papa Steve was just like Steve. Both of them are personal introverts, even when Mama works in her office in order this and that. Once, Mama hated Steve so much for having Mama finish so many reports on the table in a day. Mama almost died of exhaustion in the rush of time, but fortunately because of the incident, Papa Steve no longer behaves like that to Mama," he explained.

Why is it similar to my story? Dinda scrunched her forehead, the story was as common as she experienced.

Diah's mother pours out all the stories of her youth, all told to Dinda.

Is it possible that all of Steve's personalities are hereditary? Dinda guessed. Moreover, hearing the story of Mother Diah, it is clear that Steve did get cold behavior from the father.

"Oh one more," Mother Diah recalled. "Steve has been very naughty since childhood, even he likes to break a big vase in Shanghai because he thrashed not wanting to part with his grandmother. Therefore, Mama is worried that if she gets angry, this whole house could be destroyed!"

Dinda blinked her eyes repeatedly. The story Diah's mother was referring to was in line with what Steve had said.

"I've never heard of it," replied Dinda ostensibly naive. "For a long time Mr. Steve was fine. She's very warm to everyone."

"In this kind of situation you're still covering up lies" Diah's mother looked at Dinda's two beautiful black eye lenses. "Steve has never been kind to anyone. Especially as his mother. She was always cold to Mom. Except for Stevie, he's the only one who dares to act on that mischievous Steve."

"So you know that Stevie always had a little fight with Steve?" sahut Dinda did not expect.

"Mom knows it" replied Diah's mother. "Had Stevie always been angered by her Papa. She always complained to Mama whenever her Papa nagged her for not taking good care of her sister. Sometimes he vents his frustration at Steve so Mama can know what Mama's sons and daughters are like" he told reporters.

Dinda scrunched her forehead, everything Steve said was true.

"That's why Mama likes you since Stevie told me that Steve likes a woman. You besides being beautiful, also still uphold your Indonesianity," he said while touching Dinda's soft nose. "You're different from most of the women his father has introduced."

Dinda smiled, this lady's hospitality made her also like this Steve's Mother. "Mama praised me too much" Dinda blushed.

"Mama said we both had the same fate. Meet men we both hate and maybe we think are cruel, but they're considerate" Diah concluded.

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