"Stop that shit and rubbish, Bad Girl! You're really and really mischievous girl, Judith!"
Mrs. Aquila King violently slapped her daughter's face. It could be seen that Mrs. Aquila's face turned redder and redder due to her anger as well as furiousness.
"Slap me again! Slap me again! What you can do to me since I was a kid until now is merely slapping and beating me! Just slap me again if that can make you satisfied!" Judith King's tears began to be visible at the corner of her eyes.
Mrs. Aquila King furiously slapped her daughter for two more times.
"I've been spoiling you too much all these times. You always rebel against what I tell you even though all of those are for your own good, are for your better future."
"Those aren't good for my better future, Mom! Those are good based on your own spectacles, based on your own perspective! Now, you even try to separate me from my Brother Jun; that's also for your own desire, your own satisfaction of your hatred towards Brother Jun's mom!" shouted Judith King somewhat hysterically at this moment.
"You're really such an ill-mannered girl! You not only never say thank you to me for having raised you up all these times, but you also always rebel against my wishes, my hopes and my expectations!" Mrs. Aquila King was seen harshly slapping her daughter again. She was seen harshly pushing her daughter backwards.
"You've been satisfied in slapping and beating me, haven't you? You've also fulfilled the satisfaction of your hatred, haven't you? Now, I can already go to see my Brother Jun, can't I?" Judith was seen touching her red face. With her fractionally tearful eyes, she stared back at her mom.
"Stop daydreaming, Judith! This afternoon, you'll follow me to see one of my old acquaintances!"
"What are you saying, Mom? You sound more and more illogical! You're sick, Mom! What actually are you planning at this moment?"
"Stop protesting loudly! Stop complaining querulously! Just follow me to meet one of my old acquaintances! If you don't, I'll certainly do something even worse to separate you from that Brother Jun of yours! You don't want that to happen, do you? You do know me that I can definitely do anything dreadful which you can't think of, don't you?" hissed Mrs. Aquila King coldly and heartlessly, without any qualms.
"Please, Mom… Please, Mom… You're torturing me… You're tormenting me…" Tears was seen overflowing from Judith King's eyes at this moment.
"Just follow me or I'll do something even worse so that you can't see that lovely Brother Jun of yours anymore… Choice is in your hand, Judith…" uttered Mrs. Aquila King inhumanely.
Judith King stared immensely sharply and piercingly at her heartless mom. Her heartless mom stared back at her with her icy, cold and flat eyesight, never cared at all of what was being thought or felt by Judith King. Judith King harshly wiped off her tears and then muttered,
"Okay… I'll follow you, Mom… As long as you don't do something illogical again…"
"Great then… You know how to select the perfect choice, Judith. Believe me… This is for your own good, for your own better future. Now, you can blame me; you can be upset as well as unhappy to me. Yet, trust me… Someday later on, you'll really thank me for what I arrange for you today." Mrs. Aquila was seen smiling somewhat cynically.
Then, to cut the long story short, Judith was brought by her mom to a quite luxurious restaurant in that afternoon to meet up with one of her old acquaintances.
"Hi, Fernanda… Long time no seeing each other… How are you doing these days?" asked Mrs. Aquila King to Mrs. Fernanda Hongzu.
"I'm fine thank you, Aquila… How are you yourself? Are your fast food restaurants going well?" asked Mrs. Fernanda gently.
"I'm perfectly fine… Everything of mine is perfect… How are your snacks and beverages factories as well? Everything's good?" asked Mrs. Aquila leading her daughter to sit in front of Mrs. Fernanda Hongzu and her son.
"Everything's fine as well, Aquila… Thanks for asking…" muttered Mrs. Fernanda Hongzu.
"We're old friends… I'm quite curious how you've been doing these days…" continued Mrs. Aquila King.
Mrs. Fernanda Hongzu was heard slightly chuckling exultantly. "Is this Judith, your daughter? Wow… She's gentle, elegant and beautiful…" Mrs. Fernanda was heard praising Judith.
Without saying anything, Judith merely showed her quick and unclear smile.
"Yes, she's Judith, my daughter… Is this Aldo? Aldo Saturn? Long time no see, he's grown up becoming a handsome, charming and attractive man." Mrs. Aquila was heard chuckling within her exhilaration.
Judith could at least guess what her mom's purpose by bringing her to meet one of her old acquaintances in this restaurant this afternoon.
"Judith… This is Aldo Saturn Hongzu… Aldo… This is my daughter, Judith King…" Mrs. Aquila King finally introduced her daughter with a young handsome man, sitting right in front of Judith, who was approximately one year older than she was.
"Nice to meet you… I'm Aldo Saturn Hongzu… You can simply call me Aldo…" Aldo Saturn stretched out his hand, but his hand solely froze in the air because Judith King wasn't seen accepting as well as shaking that hand.
Under the dining table, Mrs. Aquila was seen pinching her daughter's thigh. However, Judith didn't care at all. She still didn't want to stretch out her hand to shake Aldo Saturn's hand.
"He's Aldo, Judith… Aldo Saturn… He used to be our neighbor before all of them moved to Surabaya when you were four years old. You used to play with Aldo around our neighborhood when you were small. Have you forgotten that?" tweeted Mrs. Aquila with her knowingly sharp eyesight towards her daughter.
"I was solely three or four years old at that time, Mom. How can I still remember it? And also, I often tend to forget the things which I reckon not very important for me." Judith didn't want to get drowned inside her acquiescence anymore.
Awkwardly and a bit embarrassedly, Aldo Saturn pulled back his hand.
"I still remember it… We often played hide-and-sick, kites and marbles when we were small…" Aldo Saturn was seen smiling broadly.
"Sorry… Not really remember it anymore…" replied Judith nonchalantly.
Judith merely ordered a glass of strawberry juice. When her strawberry juice had been served, she quaffed that strawberry juice until one-eighth.
Mrs. Aquila subsequently burst out in her bit queer as well as unnatural laughter. "Judith is indeed not really confident meeting up with you again after both of you haven't been seeing each other for quite a long time, Aldo."
"I understand that, Aunt. I'll make her get accustomed with my existence beside her again. I know she surely needs time," replied Aldo Saturn in his quite relaxed fashion. He didn't seem to be upset or unhappy with Judith's cold and icy reaction towards him.
What they ordered before was now served by the waiter and waitress on their dining table.
"You don't eat anything, do you, Judith?" asked Mrs. Fernanda Hongzu with her motherly smile.
"No, thanks, Aunt… I'm still full as I've just eaten in my campus a moment before…" replied Judith, trying to show her courteous soothing smile for Mrs. Fernanda Hongzu.
They finished their lunch without any more conversations among them. Aldo Saturn Hongzu was seen staring at Judith along his lunch, with his slightly unreadable eyesight, which could merely be interpreted by himself.
Realizing that she was being stared and stared by Aldo Saturn, actually Judith was more and more uncomfortable. She became more and more restless in the middle of that tormenting, unexpected lunch.
Both Mrs. Aquila and Mrs. Fernanda finished their lunch merely in fifteen minutes.
"Fernanda… There are quite many shops all around here. It's been such a long time already we haven't been shopping together. Could you have sightseeing with me for a few minutes?" Suddenly, Mrs. Aquila King asked Mrs. Fernanda Hongzu with her somewhat meaningful and knowing smirk.
Understanding what was meant by her old friend, Mrs. Fernanda Hongzu was seen nodding her head,
"Okay then… I also want to buy a new case for this cellphone of mine… Let's go, Aquila…"
Mrs. Fernanda Hongzu turned to her son for a while. "Mom will go sightseeing for a while. Mom will come back soon. Okay, Aldo?"
"Sure, Mom… Just enjoy yourself…" replied Aldo Saturn smiling broadly.
"Mom will come back soon, Judith. Perhaps you can spend some time here with Aldo first for a little while," said Mrs. Aquila King to her daughter.
Judith didn't reply to her mom. She lazily turned round and round her eyes. Both Mrs. Fernanda and Mrs. Aquila were seen leaving their children in that quite luxurious restaurant.
"What are you doing these days? Besides attending the classes in your campus I mean…" Aldo Saturn was the first who opened their conversation in the middle of the stiffness which would turn more and more awkward.
"Nothing… But, I'm trying to apply for a job according to my university study…" replied Judith folding her arms in front of her chest, slightly throwing her eyesight outside the window of the restaurant.
Actually, Jun Kim had got some information about his girlfriend's dining at a restaurant with a young man whom he didn't really know. He attained all that information from one of his men he assigned to keep more eyes on his girlfriend. And therefore, right now, at these lunch hours, he was also inside the same restaurant, sitting at the table not too far behind his Jud Jud Darling, so that he could still overhear their conversation.
"What are you studying anyway?"
"Secretarial management…"