"Answer my question first, Sarah," Ben said casually with a smile on Sarah and of course, Sarah wouldn't be able to answer such a question from Ben.
She just smiled in surprise at Ben's presence in front of her.
"Why are you here? Aren't you supposed to be in Minneapolis?" Sarah asked, still confused.
But Ben seemed to ignore Sarah's question and immediately approached Archie who had been watching Ben's presence for a long time.
Ben gave Archie a crooked smile as he held out his hand.
"I'm Ben Randall, the handsome man Sarah never thought of, but from now on I'll be the man she sees."
With an unusual smile, Ben made Archie couldn't believe the words that Ben had just spoken with confidence.
Before Archie answered Ben's self-introduction to him, Sarah looked closer at Ben, and...
Hit!
"Ouch! It hurts, Sarah!" Ben groaned in pain as Sarah hit his upper arm.
"Why did you who just came immediately say carelessly like this? You idiot!" Sarah immediately grumbled at Ben's words, which were always ridiculous without guilt.
However, instead of being angry, Ben smiled happily. Sarah's attitude that always said spicy words to him did not disappear with sadness.
"Gosh, Sarah... Why are you never gentle with me? Your strength is still the same as before, and now it's even stronger!" said Sean with a laugh.
"Oh, so you want me to hit you again? All right, here you are!" Sarah returned ready to clench her fists in front of Ben and make Ben continue to laugh.
Seeing the closeness of Sarah and Ben like that, made Archie feel alienated, so Archie could feel that the relationship between Sarah and the young man who had just arrived was not just ordinary friends.
"Sarah, I'll excuse myself, okay? It's getting very late," Archie said goodbye to Sarah.
Before Sarah could answer Archie's words, Ben responded to Archie's words as if he was the host there.
"Why so fast? I just came, you know. Come on, let's talk first!" Ben said casually with a friendly, meaningful smile.
"Oh, it's okay, Doctor. Please don't listen to what he just said. He likes to joke when he talks. Wait a minute, I'll call Brother Spencer and mama!" said Sarah who was reluctant to Archie because of Ben's attitude just now.
Then Sarah went inside to call Spencer.
When Sarah was no longer between the two of them, Ben changed his face and tone to a serious one.
"Sorry, Bro. The introduction was just a joke and this time it's really serious,"
"Introducing, I'm Ben Randall. I will be Sarah's future husband. This time I'm serious," Ben said seriously and again stretched out his hand to Archie with a smile serious look on his handsome face.
Archie smiled hearing and responding to Ben's words just now.
"I'm Archie. I'm an obstetrician who treats Sarah. But sorry, I'm a little bit don't agree with what you just said. No one knows who will be Sarah's future husband. It could be me and not you," Archie replied with no less serious tone while welcoming Ben's outstretched hand like accepting a challenge.
'It's like De Javu, huh? It feels like repeating what happened in the past, when I answered Alex's words, hahaha!' Ben laughed inwardly until his lips parted into a smile.
Archie's words to him reminded Ben off when he always answered Alex's words that confirmed Alex and Sarah's status. But now, he knew Alex's annoyance which he had always denied in the past.
Now Ben knew how it felt when Archie answered him.
Ben and Archie's still hanging handshake, fell apart as Spencer's voice broke the stares between the two of them.
"Woah, there's Ben too? When are you coming back, Ben? You're fine, right?" Spencer greeted Ben as he shook hands and put his arm around Ben who had not been seen for a long time.
"I'm healthy and fine, Bro. I just arrived this afternoon and had time to go home before coming here," Ben replied happily.
Then Spencer and Ben's conversation was cut short by Archie's words of saying goodbye.
"Spencer, I'll say goodbye, it's getting late. Please give my regards to your mom, will you?" Archie said goodbye and immediately walked to his car in Sarah's yard.
"All right, be careful, Doctor Spencer!" Spencer and Sarah answered Archie at the same time. Until Archie's car was out of the yard, Sarah turned to look at Ben.
"Ben, aren't you coming home too? Aren't you tired? You just came back and came straight here?" Sarah asked Ben who looked relaxed even though it was true that it was already very late.
"Gosh, Sarah... Why didn't your nag go away from me, too?" Ben complains about Sarah's constant cursing at him.
"Okay, I won't talk nonsense to that doctor anymore. If I see you tomorrow or anytime, I'll be serious!" Ben replied with a smile on his face.
However, when he said the next sentence, Ben's face turned calm.
"From tomorrow onwards, I will introduce myself as your future husband, Sarah," Sean said quietly.
Not only, Sarah, but Spencer was also stunned when he heard Ben's words with ease. Even they still think that Ben doesn't understand Sarah's current situation.
"If you say I haven't changed since the old days, I can answer too, you are the same. You haven't changed either. You also stay relaxed even though what you say is very serious, Ben!"
"I'm going inside," Sarah said as she stepped inside. Sarah's face, which had been smiling, immediately became gloomy when Ben said that.
"Why do you talk like that, Ben? You don't know Sarah's life story, do you? But you talk so casually when Sarah is going through something very serious," Spencer shook his head as he put his arm around Ben to sit on the patio chair with him.
"I know, Bro. I know everything, and I don't think it's a problem if I speak the truth like that in front of you guys,"
"The real problem is not with me, Bro, but with Sarah. I haven't been away from her for a year, but Sarah is already like this. I don't think I want to believe what I see," Ben's words made Spencer even more speechless.
"You guys are also very rude to me. Why didn't anyone tell me that Alex had an accident? According to Tommy and John's information, the day of Alex's accident was only a few days apart when we met at that time,"
"If they hadn't put me in their chat group and told me about Sarah, I probably wouldn't have known all this until Sarah gave birth," Ben expressed his disappointment.
Hearing Ben's complaint, Spencer could only lower his head and smile sadly, because indeed, at that time no one remembered to tell Ben about Alex's accident and Sarah's plight.
Ben tells Spencer about the news he received from four of Sarah's best friends through a group chat invitation he received.
Their conversation started as an exchange of news after so many months without contact with Ben. Until finally continued to discuss Sarah when Ben asked how Sarah was.
Ben was like receiving an unstoppable lightning strike. His heart ached at the thought of Sarah's sadness because Alex left her.
Coupled with the news about Sarah who was summoned by the school because she was pregnant and the accusations made were very cruel to Sarah.
Sarah's friends hope that Ben, who has strong connections and influence at their school, can help Sarah to overcome her problems.
"You don't know, Bro, how it feels to hear news about Sarah like this, because before the day of Alex's accident, I saw them who were very happy. At that moment I convinced myself not to interfere with their relationship again. I do not continue to be in the middle of their relationship."
"But it seems God didn't allow me to give up and leave Sarah. When I started to let go of her relationship with Alex, he instead left Sarah with this kind of pain,"
Ben expresses his sadness when he finds out Sarah's life is so sad and heavy.
"I'm sorry, Ben. At that time no one could do anything. Everyone panicked and our focus was only on Sarah,"
"You know, Ben? Before Sarah was in a better phase like now, I felt so useless as her brother,"
"I can't stand seeing Sarah who seems to have no desire to live. Don't want to eat, doesn't drink, and only sleeps when she's tired of crying all day. Who wouldn't be devastated to see Sarah who used to be happy to be like that?"
"Our toughest point came when we found out that Sarah was pregnant. How would Sarah have lived her life without Alex with her pregnancy at such a young age?"
Spencer uttered many long sentences describing his feelings at that time. Spencer seemed to tell Ben about his powerlessness to make his sister not sad and stay strong.