Bryan stood on the grass with his eyes looking straight at the wide expanse of the lake, taking deep breaths feeling the fresh air around him. His eyes reflexively closed feeling that, after a long time he didn't come to this place he finally came back to calm down.
"Bryan used to be here with Mommy and Daddy, but now it's just Bryan. Where are you guys now?"
The man took a few steps back and then sat himself on the green grass, making his hands behind his back as a support. For a moment Bryan felt the warmth that suddenly enveloped him, he felt his parents hugging him tightly.
"Hey Mommy and Daddy kids!"
Suddenly Bryan was surprised to hear that and immediately turned to the source of the voice, his eyes widened when he saw a girl he knew very well standing right behind him with a teasing look.
Bryan immediately stood up from his seat and walked over to the girl with a straight face. Meanwhile, Kanaya was still looking at Bryan with a mocking look and her hands were placed in front of her chest as if challenging the man.
The man looked Kanaya up and down while raising an eyebrow. "What are you doing here?"
"Well, it's up to me. This is a public place, not a place you can come to anytime and forbid everyone or—"
Bryan grimaced as he rubbed one ear, while his hand reached out to code the girl to stop her words. "I get dizzy hearing you nag!"
Suddenly Kanaya's eyes went wide. "WHAT?!"
The heart's intention to calm down in a place full of memories had to fail because of the arrival of a girl figure who always annoyed him, he remembered what Jessica had said yesterday—which conveyed a message from the girl.
But it doesn't seem like it would be fun if he took revenge on the girl at this time, it would be more exciting to tell Roy. Ignoring the girl's presence, Bryan turned back to face the lake and sat himself on the grass trying not to think that Kanaya was still behind him.
Bryan was busy staring at the calm lake water, it felt like there was a special pleasure for him just looking at the lake water. The man was slightly surprised when the figure of the girl sat right next to him.
Bryan quickly shifted his body, keeping his distance from the girl as if he could eat her alive.
"Why? You're afraid of me until you don't want to be close," Kanaya snarled who saw Bryan move away from her.
"You'd better get out of here," said Bryan simply. He didn't like being bothered like this by other people.
Kanaya chuckles lazily. "My people still want to be here, I just arrived while you were already here when I arrived."
Not wanting to argue any longer, Bryan finally got up from his position and left in front of Kanaya, seeing that suddenly Kanaya got up and looked at Bryan's back which was getting further away.
"BRYAN! I WANT TO SAY SOMETHING TO YOU!" shouted the girl made Bryan immediately stop in his tracks.
Seeing no movement from the man, Kanaya took the initiative to approach the man. With a jog the girl got right behind the man's body. "Actually, when you were at the cafe, you didn't record me, did you?"
Smiling sideways, Bryan immediately turned around and faced the girl. "Who said? I recorded everything, really."
"Oh yeah? Then why didn't you just tell my Papa at that time if you really had the recording."
"Not yet," Bryan said casually. Even though he doesn't have Kanaya's voice recording, he is very sure that Roy will believe him even if it's just his words.
Kanaya rolled her eyes lazily. There was a moment of silence between the two of them, both of them were raging with their own thoughts. There was actually something about his father that he wanted to ask the man in front of him, but was afraid that Bryan wouldn't tell him.
"There's nothing more to talk about, right? I'm busy."
The man was about to turn and leave Kanaya, but Kanaya quickly restrained him by calling the man's name again. "Bryan, wait!"
One of Bryan's eyebrows rose, his brows furrowed when he saw the look on the girl's face that looked restless. I don't know what made him like that.
"What a waste of time," he hissed.
Hearing that Kanaya immediately looked at the man in confusion. His mouth began to open to open his voice. "Euu—you're quite close to my Papa, aren't you?"
"Hmm."
"Do you know what my Papa is going through in his office? He has a story with you or maybe you know it yourself?"
Bryan increasingly doesn't understand the questions asked by Kanaya, he is close to Roy only because it is limited to cooperation, he doesn't know what things Kanaya means.
"You should just ask him, I didn't know that."
After answering Kanaya's question as it was, Bryan immediately walked away, causing Kanaya who wanted to speak again to be forced to stop seeing the man leave.
It seemed that Bryan really hated him to the point that he didn't want to talk to him much, even answering his questions was only modest—don't know if it was true or just a lie.
Kanaya really wanted to ask her father, but she hesitated. Her mother snapped like that because she asked her father for a reward as usual there must be a reason and Kanaya was sure that it had to do with the current state of the office.
On the other hand, a husband and wife are currently sitting on the sofa with the television on, but the two of them are sitting opposite each other because they are discussing very serious things.
"Papa doesn't want Kanaya to know about the current state of the branch office in Semarang, Ma."
Eva took a deep breath. "So, are we going to hide all this from Kanaya? And make her keep asking for a reward from you?"
"At least with Kanaya knowing this, she will not demand you to ask for the reward you promised," he continued.
"Mama, calm down, before he left Papa had a chat with Kanaya and he himself decided not to ask for a reward anymore and he himself also said that yesterday's reward was the last time," said Roy trying to calm Eva.
Even though he just wants to make his wife and daughter happy, he will do whatever is most important to make his family happy and live with him.
"That's fine then, but Kanaya's office in Semarang must still know, Pa."
"I'll think about it later, I'm afraid it'll make him think if we tell him about this."
"Kanaya is an adult, she can definitely accept this, Pa."
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