Mysterious Gus
#46. Gratters
..."Even if it's just a half-finished scratch, I know it's you. Because of you, vividly painted in my heart and mind,"...
...Alfarrel...
Tiam approached Farel who was still fighting in the kitchen. Tiam looked fresher with his wet hair and casual clothes, the man was only wearing training trousers and a white tee shirt, still looking handsome.
Tiam sat his butt in the pantry, watching Farel who was very focused on his cooking. Tiam believes Farel is making sushi. Farel was grumbling and staring cynically, but he still cooked up what Hyeon wanted. Can you be angry and jealous?
"Do I need to help you?" Although a little upset, Tiam still offered help.
"no need. What do you want to eat? I'll cook it,"
Tiam shook his head, "I eat what you cook for" Tiam replied in his non-formal language.
Farel smiled faintly, Tiam had not called him 'branch' for a long time, Farel was happy with it. It is very difficult to call him that name.
"I'm just going to provide this hot pot and sushi. You sure you don't want anything?" Ask Farel again.
"No, that's enough,"
"Hyung, it's still a long time? I was already very hungry," Hyeon came over while rubbing his stomach which had sounded hungry earlier.
"In a moment, get the equipment ready for the hot pot!"
"We're eating hot pot?" Hyeon asked while preparing the cutlery.
"Hm" replied Farel putting his finished sushi on the dinner table.
"My sushi looks delicious" Hyeon stared at the twinkle on the sushi.
"We're going to eat a hot pot, which goes well with sushi," the apron came from Ha-Jin. The girl was already wearing the casual clothes she had borrowed from Ae Ri.
"Leave it! The important thing is I eat sushi," Hyeon sewot.
Farel let out his breath trying to be patient and continued the work that Hyeon did not finish.
"They were very upset," upset Tiam helped Farel.
"You who have just been upset for a day. What about me for almost a year?" The oddity Farel gave me.
"Why not stay apart?"
"At first after a year I moved in, but seeing Ae Ri being happy with Hyeon, I didn't want to separate her from Hyeon. Hyeon also loves Ae Ri," explained Farel who was not responded to by Tiam.
Now the five of them were already sitting sweetly circling the dining table. The smoke of hot pot sauce looks seductive in the sense of smell, making the stomach even hungrier. After praying according to their respective beliefs, the hot pot began to be eaten.
"Eat a lot! I don't want you to be skinny anymore" Farel put a piece of meat in Tiam's dinner bowl. Farel is Indonesian and now lives in Paris, but the Korean soul is more attached to him. Proven from food, how to eat and style.
"Yes, Oppa looks thinner now. Does Oppa not pay attention to health?" Ask Ae Ri.
"No, Karaya. Only sometimes I forget to eat because of the work that piled up," Tiam lied, but he was so thin because of no appetite to think about the state of Farel.
"What do you do?" Hyeon asked in a stiff-sounding Indonesian. Living with Farel and Ae Ri makes the man speak a little Indonesian despite the hassles.
"Of course my money is more than yours," Tiam replied in Korean, he believes the man could not understand later if answered in Indonesian anyway.
"Very arrogant," annoyed Hyeon who Tiam ignored.
"Feeling Oppa Al is always good" Ha-Jin spoke with a full mouth, his eyes staring happily at the food served.
"Did he eat here often?" Ask Tiam.
"Always," Hyeon who answers while glancing at Ha-Jin is upset, while the one who is satirized knows nothing.
"Do you pray Zuhur?" Ask Farel.
"Had finished the shower. I thought Brother had prayed before we met earlier," Tiam looked up at Farel who had risen from his seat.
"Continue eating, I'm done" said Farel and rushed into his room to pray zuhr.
"Hyung seems to love you so much, he didn't stop looking at you, even though he was putting food in his mouth" Hyeon said.
Tiam just smiled thinly and put down his chopsticks as a sign he had finished eating. Without saying much, the man left the dining table and moved to the front room to relax. He was too lazy to clean the utensils finished eating, they were too noisy for Tiam who liked loneliness.
Playing mobile phone is the thing that Tiam did until he finally felt the movement beside him, which turned out to be Ae Ri with his painting equipment. In front of her were Hyeon and Ha-Jin who were also with her painting equipment.
"You want to paint? Not tired?" Tiam asked as Ae Ri leaned against his shoulder with a thought-looking face, the girl tapped her brush gently on the chin.
"Yes, for school work. I'm not tired, painting is an easy thing to do,"
"What happened to your face? You seem to be thinking hard," asked Farel to come and sit next to Ae Ri, so the girl sat in the middle.
"My teacher said, every painter has a strong memory and in that memory there must be someone impressive. I was given the task of painting someone that impressive,"
"Don't you know a lot of impressive people? Meeting me for example," Hyeon said confidently, while Ae Ri as a kind girl only chuckled a little.
"Ehhmmm," murmured Ae Ri still coolly leaned on Tiam's shoulder with a wandering mind to think about what was memorable for him.
"Don't push yourself too hard. You're just getting home from school, your brain needs to keep thinking, '" Tiam advised.
"I know what to paint!" Girang Ae Ri then started to make something in her canvas.
"Who are you painting?" Ask Ha-Jin.
"Who?"
"I don't know either. But he's very impressive. Who did you paint, Ha-Jin?" Ae Ri asked back.
"Of course Oppa Al," Ha-Jin replied with a teasing smile towards Farel, while Farel could only be patient.
Ae Ri chuckled, "You're so obsessed with my Oppa,"
"Your Oppa is very handsome, I like it," Ha-Jin's grin irritates Farel, as does Tiam, in contrast to Ae Ri and Hyeon who laugh.
Nearly fifteen minutes they were silent. Ae Ri is still busy with her paintings. Occasionally his forehead creased to remember the figure.
"Aish, I forgot what color the bag is," Ae Ri's grunts filled the front room.
"You wilt-" Farel turned his gaze from the phone to look at Ae Ri's painting, but his sentence came to a halt when he saw Ae Ri's half-finished painting.
"You?" Farel looked at Ae Ri and the painting in turn. Although still half-finished, Farel knew who the figure was. He is another person who always fills his heart and mind, Fisha.
Ae Ri smiled sweetly as she nodded, "The photo that Mr. Jong sent that time. Which he said from Oppa Tiam. Oppa knew him apparently, but still half-finished,"
"Who? Who's the picture I sent? I sent too many photos and ti--" Tiam's sentence hung as he turned to the painting.
"You know him?" Ask Tiam.
"No, Oppa pulled the phone right away, so I didn't see it clearly and forgot to remember. When I asked who the girl was, Oppa didn't answer,"
Tiam nodded and shifted his phone screen, then Tiam showed a photo that Ae Ri meant.
"This?" Tiam made sure and made Ae Ri's smile grow sweet. His hand grabbed Tiam's phone and resumed his painting.
Farel stared at the half-finished painting that belonged to his Ae Ri. He missed the girl, but could do nothing. He wanted to meet, hugged her as well if necessary, but again he could do nothing. Right now, his body was chained.
"You don't know him, but you like him?" Tiam asked when he saw Ae Ri's smile never fade.
"I don't know him, but I like him. She looks so pretty even though I haven't seen her face yet,"
"Who are you drawing? You're so happy," Ha-Jin is curious because of Ae Ri's gleeful smile, and he sees her best friend's painting.
"He who? I've never seen him" Ha-Jin wondered.
"I don't know him either. But it seems like my Oppa really likes it," Ae Ri glanced mischievously at Farel.
Farel smiled faintly and rubbed Ae Ri's head, "Oppa loves her, just as Oppa loves you. Do you mind?"
"No, because I'm sure, he'll love me as much as he loves Oppa, too,"
"Then, how am I? Not considered?" Tapping Hyeon with an annoyed face.
"I forbid him to love you!"
"Who is he?"
"The girl," Tiam replied in Korean, deliberately so that the girl named Ha-Jin was curious.
"His girl? Who's girl? Whose girl?" Sure enough, Ha-Jin asks.
"The one I painted turned out to be my Oppa girl," Ae Ri replied making Ha-Jin speechless for a few seconds then nodded and went back to painting.
Tiam smiled faintly, he was glad the girl did not approach Farel any further. Don't do it for the girl's good, before she falls too deep.
Farel smiled though very thinly, ignoring the dispute, "Does it matter if you Oppa Tiam took him home and gave the painting to him?"
"Of course I don't mind!"
"Don't forget that it's schoolwork, Karaya," said Tiam who invited Farel's breath. He forgot that it was Ae Ri's job.
"No problem, it's for duty and I'll paint better,"
"You're gonna be exhausted. No need then," broke up Farel.
"No! I want! Painting is not a difficult thing for me!" Stubborn Ae Ri is just as stubborn as Farel, finally Farel can only agree.
"I want to talk to you," Farel got up from his seat and walked out of the house, and Tiam without saying much followed.
"What do they want to talk about?" Kepo Hyeon's.
"Not knowing,"
"You're heartbroken, Ha-Jin?" Hyeon asks Ha-Jin whose face has now turned tangled.
"No,"
"Key,"
Tbc...
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