Chapter 02 Mom

Paul’s POV

“You’re so unfair! I’m still a student for Pete’s sake. Are you f*cking out of your right mind?!” I shouted. I can feel that my hands are trembling while I’m giving my Dad a glare.

“Watch your words, Paul!” he said with his serious voice, “You know our business will get massive once you and Tacia will get married!”

“Our business is big already, Dad! I will never get married with that girl! You know she’s the reason why my life became miserable before, and now you want me to get married with her? You’re a worthless Father!”

I held my lips when I felt his strong punch on me. I moved my jaw.

“I told you to watch your words when you’re talking to me. You looked like your Mother!”

I went towards him and grabbed his collar as I glared at him more, “Don’t you ever try to mention her here. If I know that I’d end up like this, I should’ve chose to be with her,” I said with a serious tone.

I clenched my fist while I’m still holding his collar because of what he have said. I pushed him and walked straight to get out of his office. As I went inside my car, my tears fell off from my eyes.

I started the engine and drive it as fast as I can, I don’t care where my car will bring me, all I know is I want to go far from him. I want to run the problems. This is making me exhausted!

I will never get married to the person who made me lost myself for so long! Now that I totally forgot the past, she’s here again, ruining my life for the f*cking second time!

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I don’t know how long I’m driving, the sun hide already but I still don’t have a plan to go back to my condo. Dad keeps on calling me too but I never answered his call.

Now I just realized that it’s raining from outside, I can’t see the road anymore because of the heavy rain. I felt my hands and toes slowly shivering. I can’t step on the break to stop the car.

I held my head.

“M-mom…”

I can hear from here the every drop of the rain that’s giving me fear. I pulled my hair, trying to stop the car. When I finally stopped it, I put my forehead on the steering wheel to calm myself while I’m trying to catch my breath.

“M-mom… Don’t l-leave me here… M-mom! P-please… I can’t…”

My sight is blurry already because of my tears. I slowly opened the door of my car to get out but my body became more shivered when I felt the rain on my skin.

Flashback

“Paul, come here,” my Mom says while I’m playing, I stood up and walked towards her.

She held my head while staring at me with her smile.

“Is there something wrong, Mom? Does your stomach hurt again?” I asked. Her tears started to fall as she shooked her head.

“Promise me something, son.”

I nodded, “What is it, Mom?”

“Promise me that you’ll be a good son to your Dad. P-promise me you’ll be a better man always ‘til you meet the girl you love once you grow up, o-okay?”

I smiled, “I promise, Mom. I love you and Dad, so I will never be a bad guy. I want to be a Dad when I grow up!”

“Always remember that Mom loves you so much, okay?” she says with her soft voice. I nodded.

Both of us turned our head when a car stopped in front of us. A guy get off from the car, he looks like he has the same age with my Mom. I turned my head on my Dad who’s carrying a luggage while he’s walking towards us. His face looks furious right now.

“Mom…”

She faced me again that made me hug her. I felt the rain started to cry.

Tell me my thoughts are wrong.

“Are you going to leave us?” My voice cracked as I asked her.

She sat to face me for the third time, “No, Mom will never leave you. I’ll just have to go to a trip.”

“Aren’t you ashamed of what you’re doing? Are you still going to lie on your son?! Why don’t you tell him that you’re leaving him because you chose someone else than your own family?!”

“Reynald!”

My tears raced to fall off from my eyes while I’m watching my parents arguing and shouting to each other in front of me.

“M-mom, please don’t l-leave us…”

My Mom became silent when I spoke. Dad held my hand.

“Let’s go, Paul. Don’t beg to your Mom, she replaced us already,” my Dad said as he pulled me towards him.

“Mom! Please, d-don’t leave us! M-mom!” I shouted while I’m trying to remove my Dad’s hands on me.

Even though the rain is getting heavy, I didn’t shaken, all I know is I don’t want my Mom to leave us. I don’t want her to be far from us. I want her to stay here… because we are her family.

While I’m trying to stop her, she slowly turned around to leave her own family…

END OF FLASHBACK

Bavina’s POV

I slowly opened my eyes when I heard the alarm of my phone. I’m still sleepy but I managed to get off from my bed and walked straight to the bathroom to take a bath.

I arranged my things that scattered on my table before I went out from my room. I was about to go straight to the kitchen when I noticed something. I looked at the sofa again, he’s still sleeping deeply until now. It looks like he’s really tired from last night.

I walked towards him and sat on the single sofa, should I wake him up or just let him sleep?

I suddenly remember what happened last night. I’m honestly curious why he suddenly became like that last night but I don’t want to gossip! He might think that I like gossiping!

I’m just thankful that Shia isn’t here, I just hope that she won’t go here. She would probably give this a malice once she knew that Paul slept here.

My eyebrows met when I noticed that he’s sweaty, I slowly held his forehead but I removed my hand immediately when I felt that his forehead is so hot.

I went to the kitchen and grabbed all the things needed before I went back to Paul. I squeeze the towel I soaked on the water before I wiped his forehead and neck.

Whoah, is he still human?! Why I can’t spot a single pimple on his face?! His face is more smooth than my face. Is he a gay? What is his skincare?

After I wiped his body, I changed his clothes as well since it’s wet already because of his sweat.

I went back to the kitchen to cook for our breakfast. I took a deep breath when I thought that I can’t leave him alone here, I won’t attend my class for today. What if he’s planning to steal here?!

Well, they say we shoouldn’t judge anybody immeditely but what if he’s really planning to steal, right?

I cooked noodles and rice because I’m sure that he’s hungry once he wake up. While I’m waiting for the rice to be cooked, I pulled my phone from my pocket and a smile automatically formed on my lips when I read the new comments from my readers. I tried my best to reply on every comments they commented. They are all praising me for making a pieces because I somehow help them to scream their unsaid thoughts.

I put my phone on the table when the rice is cooked already. I put the noodles and rice on the table. I went to the living room to see if he’s awake already but he’s still sleeping deeply.

I sat on the single sofa and opened my laptop to write. I haven’t updated the novel I’m writing, my readers might get bored while waiting for the chapters because I’m slow and lazy to write sometimes.

There are times that I’m lazy to update, there are times also that I’m diligent. But as a college student, I’m not the one who’s holding my time for there are also a lot of activities that needs to be finished.

I looked at my phone when it vibrated. I saw Shia’s name that made me stood up and go back to the kitchen.

“Hey, girl! Where are you? Why are you taking so long?! I’ve been waiting for you!” she said. I even put my phone away from my ear because of her loud voice on her line.

“You’re so loud!” I whispered as I complained, “I won’t go to the class today, I’m not feeling well,” I said and fake my cough. I’m just hoping that she would believe me!

“Huh? It’s just a cough, don’t overreact! Try to go here since the prof isn’t still here!”

“I’m kinda feel dizzy, Shia. Just write an excuse letter for me, okay? My body is too weak to go to the class,” I said. I even changed my voice to make her believe that I really have a sick. I even sniffed even though I don’t have a runny nose.

“Omg, can you stay there alone? I’m going home now, hol---”

“No!”

“Huh? What do you mean no? Hey, Bavina, are you really sick?!”

“Yeah! But you don’t need to go home, you can just buy me a medicine later,” I answered.

“Okay, just call me if you need anything, okay? I’m going to pull your hair, you witch!”

“Yeah, okay, I’m going to hang up now. I want to rest,” I said. I didn’t wait for her response and I ended the call already.

I took a deep breath. I feel guilty but I feel relieved somehow. We promised to each other not to lie but here I am, making excuses because of someone I just met.

“D*mn!”

I went to the living room immediately when I heard him swear. I assisted him when he tried to get up.

“How’s your feeling?” I asked. He looked at me, he didn’t answer me and he’s just looking at me. It’s obvious that he’s trying to remember what happened last night.

He smell his own breath that made him change his expression on his face.

“What happened last night? I wasn’t drunk, w-wait…” He looked at himself. He gave me a shock and big eyes as he hugged his body, “D-don’t tell me there’s something happened between us last night?!”

I laughed a little, “Do I look like a pervert? You should be thankful because I took care of you,” I said as I shooked my head that made him stop.

He looked at the basin on the floor before he looked at me.

“How’s your feeling?” I asked one more time. He looked away.

“I-I’m hungry,” he answered that made me laugh.

I stood up to get the foods I cooked. I didn’t oven it since it’s still hot.

“Here, you should eat first,” I said as I put the foods on the small table.

I looked at him when he didn’t get the foods.

“You didn’t put poison on the foods, right?” he asked. I grabbed the plates.

“Just don’t ea---”

“Oops, I don’t reject when it comes to foods,” he says playfully before he grabbed the plates from my hands.

He ate the foods immediately and smiled at me. I sat beside him and put my hand on his forehead, I smiled when I felt that he’s not that hot anymore compared earlier.

“You should take a rest since that’s the only one you lack. Your fever is so high earlier, I’m relieved that it’s not that high now,” I said.

I stood up and grabbed the medicine kit to get a medicine.

I handed him the medicine and water, “Here, take this after you eat. You need to be okay, you still have a small concert in the university, right?” I reminded him.

“What’s your name?” he asked.

My eyebrows met, “You don’t know me?”

“I know you,” he said as he laugh that made me shooked my head.

Is this the effect of his fever? He looked st*pid!

“What happened last night? Why am I here?” he asked while eating.

“I’ve no idea, I just saw you last night kneeling in the middle of the road and the rain. Are you crazy? What happened last night why you suddenly became like that?” I asked him. He froze on his position and just stayed looking at me.

“O-ow, I crossed the line. Sorry, I-I didn’t mean to ask you something like that,” I added shyly.

“You mean, I collapsed last night in the middle of the rain?” He asked. I put my lips together and nodded. His face expression is serious while looking at me, I can’t look direct to his eyes because of the embarrassment and awkwardness I’ve created between us.

I looked at him when I heard his deep sigh. Our eyes met.

“Sorry for the trouble,” he apologized with his low voice.

“Are you okay? I-I mean… you can tell me if there’s something bothering you,” I offered.

“Do you want me to be your boyfriend?”