My Heart For You
9. Introductions
Karina follows Kenan as the man says he will take her somewhere. They both stop at the cake shop and Kenan goes down to buy a cheesecake. Her face looks bright today especially when choosing that cheese cake.
After that, they went and stopped at a simple house that looked so beautiful in Karina's eyes. The question of who he was going to meet kept raging inside his head. Kenan immediately went down without caring for Karina as if forgetting there was a girl he brought from home.
Karina came down and followed Kenan to the house. A woman with bound hair welcomes Kenan's arrival.
“you brought me another cake? Who's gonna eat it? Yesterday was not over. But thank you for always remembering what I love.” Said the woman with a happy face.
Karina guessed the relationship between the two of them and then her eyes were fixed on the stick held by the woman.
“you brought your future wife? I asked you to bring him here right?”
“I brought him, he stood behind me.”
“where there is a future wife standing behind her future husband, you should have let him stand by your side.”
The words he spoke just pierced Karina's heart. Although Karina did not know why she should feel uneasy when she heard that sentence.
“Karina, introduce her Kiara.”
“Karina.” Karina said as she extended her hand.
“Kiara.” Kiara said without extending her hand.
Karina felt awkward and pulled back her hand after the sound of deheman from Kenan. He did not know how to act out of fear of offending the woman in front of him.
They are both welcome to enter the living room. Kenan swiftly helped lead Kiara towards the sofa. The man also went straight to the kitchen to grab a snack and make a drink. Discomfort re-emerged in the corner of Karina's heart seeing Kenan seemed to have been very familiar with every part of this house.
“Kenan took care of me after I was blinded by an accident three years ago.”
“accident?”
“right, it just happened and I don't remember it. Only me and Kenan survived and Kenan was the only one who remembered the incident.”
“dia must have been in trouble all this time.”
“you were right, therefore now I am happy to see Kenan will marry the woman of his choice.”
Karina did not hear the sentence from the woman. The sentence is not wrong because Kenan did choose it but with a contract not with love.
“so your relationship..”.
“I think of him as my best friend, if more than that maybe as a sister?”
The conversation is interrupted when Kenan returns with a tray of three cups of tea and a cheesecake. Karina could see that Kiara was so loved by Kenan. He tries to shake off the strange feelings that continue to disturb him because his relationship with Kenan is nothing more than a coworker.
Karina glanced at the clock on her phone and interrupted Kenan and Kiara's conversation which sounded still exciting. It's time to go to work in the afternoon - the hotel. He has not submitted a letter of resignation, therefore there is no reason for him not to go to work even though he is engaged to the hotel owner.
“you can go by yourself right? If you walk for a while to the front of the alley, you can easily find a taxi.”
“of course.”
“Kenan, you have to deliver her, she's your wife-to-be.” Kiara protested Kenan's actions that seemed to ignore Karina.
“no problem, he is an adult not a child who has to be escorted everywhere. More importantly you are here because Bi Yani is not at home. I'll be home after Bi Yani returns.”
“Mas Kenan is right Ma'am Kiara, after all I can go alone.”
The current Karina could no longer hold back her irritated feelings seeing Kenan's excessive concern for Kiara. Questions came to his mind about the contract he had signed.
Karina could work normally because the news of her engagement was not disseminated. Only the higher-ups were present that night, so he didn't have to worry about any of his co-workers knowing his status now. He finished his work well and then went home when the time had shown ten o'clock at night.
He returned to Kenan's apartment and remembered the certificate the man had given him. Karina left the certificate under a pile of clothes in the living room closet at Kenan's parents' house.
“I need to talk about it immediately.” He muttered while pressing a series of codes to open the apartment door.
Karina was surprised to see the lights of her apartment lit up all over. He was worried that someone might enter his apartment without permission.
“Pak Kenan.” Call him out loud to see if the person who came was Kenan or not.
“Pak Kenan?”
“...”
Karina approached the man's body and painstakingly turned her body around. A very strong smell emanated from the man's body.
“dia drunk?”
“when I'm tired and want to rest.” Mumbled slowly.
Carefully, Karina took off the shoes and socks that were still worn by Kenan. He also took off the tie and removed the belt that was still attached perfectly.
Karina wiped the sweaty face of Kenan and set the temperature of the ac before leaving the room. He decided to sleep on the living room couch because that was the only place left. In this apartment there is only one room and there is no place he can use to unwind besides the sofa.
Many times Karina sighed at being annoyed. But while thinking about her current life, Karina suddenly felt grateful that her life was much better than before.
Kenan awoke from sleep while the sun was still not showing itself. He groaned feeling dizzy in his head from drinking too much last night. After returning home from Kiara's house, he attended a banquet with his colleagues and was forced to downing a sufficient amount of alcohol to render him unconscious.
He spread his gaze across the still dimly lit room. The fragrant aroma of the fruit gushing into his nose made Kenan astonished. Kenan turned on the room light and realized where he was sleeping. With a shunt, Kenan exits the room and searches for Karina. He found Karina folding a blanket in the living room.
“you slept here last night?”
“Bapak is awake? I'll make some soup to relieve the hangover, wait a minute.”
Karina walks past Kenan to the room to put down her blanket and rushes to the kitchen to make soup for Kenan. It did not take long for him to make the dish because he was used to making it while at the uncle's house. His uncle always came home from work drunk so he had to cook a drunk soup in the morning.
Kenan sipped the soup in his bowl and felt the warmth radiating throughout his body. He then looked at Karina who was eating her breakfast.
“do you always get up and have breakfast so early?”
“I always wake up early to go to the market to get good and fresh groceries. If breakfast is usually not.”
“why?”
“by the nature of my aunt and uncle, giving breakfast to me is a luxury that I rarely feel.”
Kenan nodded his head and then returned to eating Karina's cooking. The girl's cooking really had a very fitting flavor to her tongue making her addicted to tasting the food she made.
“later nine o'clock we will go to the boutique for wedding dress fittings, after that go see WO.”
“what should I go?”
“of course have to come with me, I married you instead of marrying myself."
“good.”
“then, wear the clothes I have bought, you can choose in the closet.”
“good.”
Kenan stared at Karina for a bit and then moved away from the dining table. He went to the reading room next to the bedroom. There is a medium-sized bed located in the corner of the room and looks still neat. The bed is covered by a bookcase that is deliberately used as a barrier. Kenan used to use it for a short break while working. But it has never been used again since he had his own private home.
“Karina.”
“ya?”
“start tomorrow if an incident like last night repeats, you can sleep here.”
“what's no problem? This is your workspace.”
“no problem.”
“good.”
After saying that, Kenan went home to his private home. He also said he would pick up Karina at half-nine.