The First Curse of Love
45. Fade Away's

The chatter between Qiara, Arga, and Alisha instantly paused when Danny suddenly entered Qiara's room. They simultaneously looked towards the door. When Arga and Alisha seem surprised by Danny's arrival, Qiara looks ordinary. It was as if he knew Danny was coming.

This was Qiara's second day in the hospital, his condition had improved enough even though he still had difficulty moving. The doctor also said that she could go home today and could continue treatment at home, but because Ray who was supposed to take care of everything was busy with his work, Qiara finally retreated the time of his return. As a result of this morning, Bi Sukmalah was guarding Qiara. It was only when Arga and Alisha came in the afternoon that Bi Sukma returned home.

And during these two days as well, the relationship between Danny and Arga which was indeed rather cold since the death of the two Qiara parents is now increasingly stretched. Instead of greeting each other, Arga was reluctant to even look at Danny.

"Well, is he here?" Ask Arga to Qiara and Alisha, it's up to anyone to answer, just don't Danny. Because if Danny answers, Arga is not sure he can control his anger anymore.

"Gue asked Danny to come. Now you can go. I want to be with Danny first." Said Qiara without letting go of her gaze from Danny.

And can Danny catch, that Qiara is trying to look at him warmly. It was also inevitable to make Danny guess the meaning behind the gaze that seemed very 'attempted' by Qiara.

"But, Qi—" Arga tried to refute. But Alisha immediately clasped her hands to calm her emotions that began to be provoked.

"We're going home, Ga. After all, we're here from afternoon. Let Danny take his turn."

Arga was also destroyed. Nor could he avoid, that deep down in his heart, Arga did allow these two fools to be together. "Yes, I'm home. But if that asshole makes you cry again, I'm sure I'll finish him." Cynical Arga.

"Don't worry" said Qiara briefly with a sweet smile on her face.

Once Arga and Alisha had left them alone in the room, Qiara immediately reached out her right hand, giving the code for Danny to get closer to her. And Danny immediately sighed in relief as soon as his pair of eyes caught their engagement ring which turned out to be still coiling on Qiara's ring finger.

Danny then approached, grabbed Qiara's hand, then sat down before her in such a close distance. "Why is your face thinner than before?"

Danny did not answer. He just lowered his head with an unsettled feeling.

"These wounds have you healed?" Once again Qiara asked full of gentleness while touching one of the bruises on Danny's face without being able to hide his anxiety.

While Danny, he again did not answer, and only nodded slowly instead.

"Sweet child." Qiara's smile widened.

One of Qiara's hands landed on the top of Danny's head and then rubbed it. Just like a mother who calms her son.

One big question suddenly popped into Danny's head. Why did Qiara suddenly change her attitude after she was so sure about canceling their wedding plans? One question continues to disturb Danny's relationship without stopping, to always make him be careful every second.

"Dann, I haven't shampooed in days. My hair is sticky now, and I'm not comfortable. Can you help me wash my hair?"

Danny this time raised his face and observed Qiara carefully. Finally he only realized that Qiara's hair was no longer as long as before. In his heart, his instinct for protest suddenly appeared, but when remembering that this was not the right situation for him to protest, Danny finally swallowed everything round and round. After all, from Qiara's irregular haircut, Danny was able to estimate that Qiara cut her own hair carelessly due to her feelings of disappointment towards Danny. In that instant, Danny immediately admitted that it came from his own mistakes.

Danny agreed too.

As the two of them were already inside the bathroom, Danny decided to tidy up Qiara's disorganized haircut first. Qiara takes for granted Danny's idea.

From the large mirror in front of her, Qiara kept watching Danny who seemed to focus on cutting his hair with scissors and a comb in his hand.

"Don't you agree to see me have short hair?" Qiara said in pleasantries after observing Danny for a long time.

"You cut it yourself. I can what?"

Since earlier Qiara had actually realized the vigilance of Danny's attitude towards her. But he deliberately did not say anything and let it go.

"Aren't you going to punish me for this?" Qiara asked as she touched her hair, then turned to look at Danny's shadow which at that time seemed to focus on tidying up her hair.

Danny who did not understand Qiara's intentions immediately stopped his activities for a moment and was silent in his place. Outside of Danny's calculations, Qiara suddenly turned his wheelchair. When faced with Danny, Qiara pulled one of the man's hands to make Danny's tall body bow before him.

Qiara then hugged Danny's neck with both hands and kissed Danny's lips without hesitation. Danny, who initially did not return Qiara's kiss because he was still in blank, now took off the scissors and comb in his hand just like that and grabbed Qiara's body and kissed her back. A tear Danny fell on his face.

They then stopped him after feeling that they were both out of breath. Qiara smiled then wiped away Danny's tears, "sorry because I cut your hair without your consent."

Danny chuckled bitterly. Again he shed his tears. What made her different this time was, Qiara also shed her tears.

After finishing tidying up his hair and incubating Qiara, Danny lifted Qiara's body from his wheelchair, took her out of the bathroom and sat her on the edge of the bed. Afterwards, Danny painstakingly dried Qiara's hair with a hairdryer.

"If you retire as a producer, you open a barbershop business. I see you seem to have expertise in that field." Danny just grunted. After he felt Qiara's hair dry enough, he turned off the hairdryer and put it back in its original place.

"What do you want to eat dinner for? Let me take a break." Danny turned away from the storage cabinet.

Qiara, who had already laid her body on the bed, shook her head, "last afternoon I ate with Arga and Alisha. I'm still full. If you want, you eat your own food."

"I'm not hungry." Danny answered quickly.

Qiara again nodded then fell silent. Not long after, Qiara slightly shifted her position, as if giving a place to Danny. "here." Pinta Qiara patted the spot next to her.

Danny raised one of his eyebrows in surprise. "You must be tired, here's a little fall. I'm taking a break." Said Qiara again.

Next, they just talked to each other through the eyes. And the more the night, the sadness in Qiara's eyes was somehow becoming clearer. The warm smile that he had been patriarch had started to lose content.

The still-vigilant Danny stepped closer towards Qiara. He slowly sat down, only then to lay down his body beside Qiara.

"It must hurt, right, Dann?" Qiara asked in a choked voice while caressing one of the wounds on Danny's face.

Seeing Danny hurt like this, really made Qiara's heart ache.

Danny just nodded. Not long after, Qiara immediately brought herself into Danny's embrace. He drowned his face in Danny's chest as usual, and lamented the scent of the man he had longed for days. Danny naturally raised one of his arms, wrapped it around Qiara's back neck, then pulled her closer to him. Danny's lips fell on the woman's forehead.

"I'm sorry you had to go through all this because of me, Qi." Danny closed his eyes. His hand moved gently rubbing Qiara's back.

"Danny?" Qiara tightened her embrace on Danny's waist.

"Hm?"

"After all this has passed, let's live happily. Forget the wounds. We just need to live happily without regrets. You, me too."

Qiara smiled mysteriously. She rubbed Danny's cheek to give him some peace. "How can I leave you when I love you so much?" Reply Qiara with sincerity.

"You promise?"

Qiara threw her gaze away for a moment. Then without looking at Danny, he muttered softly, "hm..."

Danny pulled back Qiara's head and let the girl's face sink into his chest. He then landed a kiss on Qiara's forehead and deliberately held it for a long time. "You promised me. After this, don't you dare leave me, Qi."

Qiara said nothing. He closed his eyes, trying to relax in Danny's arms. 'Until the end, you don't also say that you love me.' Bathin Qiara along with the pain that accompanies him.

And without Danny knowing, Qiara secretly shed her tears.

'I'm not leaving you, Danny. I just let you go. Sorry.' Qiara said inwardly once again.

Their hugs are getting closer to each other.

...****...

The morning sunlight that barged in through the window slit, made Danny frown for a while before finally waking up from his sleep. After his life was fully accumulated, Danny realized that Qiara was no longer beside him. Danny immediately got up.

"Qi?" Call Danny in a hoarse-sounding voice.

Danny then got off the bed, circulating his gaze to all corners of the room, hoping to see Qiara, but nil. Danny now stepped towards the bathroom, knocking on the door slowly. "Qia's? You're in dalem?"

Slender. No one answered.

"Qi?"

Still quiet. Still no one answered.

"QIA!!" Danny finally shouted out Qiara's name quite loudly while opening the door. But again, he found no one there.

An increasingly panicked Danny unintentionally directed his gaze at the sofa. There were already hospital clothes that Qiara used last night folded neatly. Danny, who thought that Qiara had been discharged from the hospital without his knowledge, grabbed his jacket from the sofa. And as soon as he reached into his pocket to retrieve his phone, the first thing Danny got was Qiara's engagement ring.

That made Danny even more confused. His confidence was growing stronger, that Qiara had indeed left him. All his strange attitude since yesterday afternoon further confirms Danny's prejudice.

Danny tried to contact Qiara, but of course Danny did not get any answers. Qiara had already turned off her phone.

...****...

When Danny's car arrived at the Qiara residence, Danny got out of it and slammed the door very hard. With a hurried step, Danny walked towards the door. As soon as Bi Sukma opened the door, Danny immediately barged in while shouting emotionlessly,

"QIARA SERENA!! OUT!!"

Hearing that there was a commotion from the living room, Celine who was making breakfast for Ray in the kitchen immediately stepped towards the source of the sound. Celine was immediately dumbfounded as she looked at Danny with eyes full of flashes of anger. During his time with Danny, it was the first time he had seen Danny so wrathful.

"Danny, what are you doing?"

Regardless of Celine's question, Danny, already overwhelmed by anger, climbed the stairs one by one with increasing levels of anger.

"QIARA! I SAID GET OUT!!"

Every pound of Danny's footsteps sounded so terrifying yet filled with sadness and despair in them.

And when Danny did not find Qiara in his room, he instantly collapsed instantly. His strength seemed to be drained to the point that Danny unconsciously drooped helplessly on the floor.

"Qia, I'm sorry. I was wrong, please forgive me. Don't stay with me. I should have been honest from the start, I shouldn't have covered anything from you to my meeting with Pricilla. I'm sorry, because it wasn't on your side when Om and Aunt died, I'm sorry for accidentally killing my phone so I can keep Pricilla in the hospital without any distractions or questions from you. I'm sorry for making you suffer and having to go through all this. I'm sorry for being the main cause of our baby's death. I'm really sorry for ruining our wedding plans, but please don't stay with me. I'm sick of not being able to hug you. And I don't think I'll be able to hold on if you leave me."

Amidst his suffocating despair, Danny admits to all his mistakes. But out of all that barrage of mistakes, not once did Danny realize that he never said that he loved Qiara. Nor did Danny ever know, that it was for this reason that prompted the other causes that made Qiara finally choose to leave him, instead.

Danny then turns around, and finds Ray and Celine standing right behind him. With the remnants of hope still in his possession, Danny pleads with Ray.

"Bang, please tell Qiara where. I can't do it without Qiara, Bang. Please." Please."

Ray, who used to trust Danny more than anyone else, has periodically begun to lose faith in Danny. Since the death of his parents, his disappointment in Danny has accumulated. Especially after knowing, that the person she trusted the most, even had to impregnate her sister and make her suffer so much that she eventually miscarried.

For once, Ray wanted to be indifferent to Danny. And this is how Ray's gonna punish Danny.

Without answering Danny's question, Ray immediately leaves him and makes Danny more frustrated in the regret that makes him crowded.

"Cel...lo know where Qia is, right?" A hopeless Danny now looks up to Celine, begging for a miracle that Celine can at least tell him.

Celine shook her head slowly, "gue doesn't know." Answer Celine briefly.

"Cel, I beg you."

"Even if I knew, I wouldn't tell you." Close Celine before finally going after Ray, and leave Danny alone there.

"With or without a hint from you guys, I will definitely find Qiara." Danny told himself with such a strong conviction.

That belief was the only thing he had now. That belief is the only thing that makes Danny survive.

But after that day, Danny was no longer the same person. On the day Qiara left, that day... Danny has left himself.

Since that day, Danny's been dead in terms of feeling.

To Be Continued....^^^