The First Curse of Love
53. "You Said, FRIEND?"

Apparently Qiara's hopes did not materialize.

Because now in front of his eyes, not far from his position now, it looks Danny who is watching himself with a flat face.

At that time, Qiara had a schedule of reading fairy tales to children in orphanages. Qiara had been doing the routine for the past two months. And during her escape three years ago, Qiara settled in Brisbane for less than three years. He decided to settle on the island of Banu six months ago and became a local radio broadcaster there. Fill out an event that he produced himself. Qiara starts her broadcast at ten o'clock every weekend.

In the event, Qiara read out messages sent by anyone, read their curses about various life problems, and try to provide solutions. Therefore, Qiara was quite famous on the island of Banu. Everybody loves him. And all the children in the orphanage called her 'Sister Fairy'.

While staring at each other with Danny, one of the managers at the orphanage suddenly approached Qiara, then said something to him. "Mba Qiara, Iam today can not come. Just now Iam Ngabarin, on the way, he fell off the bike."

"Keep Iam all right, right, Tris?" Qiara asked worriedly.

Iam is a cameraman who is in charge of recording every activity in the orphanage.

"Sleeve broken. But other than the arm, thank goodness Iam's fine." Answer Trisa.

Qiara then sighed while rubbing her chest.

"So, who's the cameraman today?" Trisa asked with a pretty serious face.

Of course, today's activities will not work properly if the camera is not present.

"You are."

"But Mba Qiara, I'm not good with cameras. I don't understand angle either."

"Yes too, my God. How about dong?"

In the midst of the confusion that was engulfing Qiara, Danny who had indeed since noticed and could slightly hear the chatter that was going on between Qiara and Trisa, finally approached and volunteered as a cameraman for the day.

"I'll be the chambermen!" Danny sternly.

The sudden appearance of Danny certainly makes Trisa who feels foreign to the figure of Danny to be quite surprised made. Trisa looked at Danny with her eyebrows knitted and mimik asked.

Sensitive to that, Danny immediately introduced himself. While Qiara who was at that time was beside Trisa, was instantly flabbergasted.

"Oh yeah, introduce me Danny. I'm a producer of ANHTV." Danny held out his right hand in front of Trisa.

Trisa Kontan feels doubt and amazement to see a producer, from one of the largest TV stations now standing before her dashingly.

"Trisa." Trisa answered while welcoming Danny's hand. The girl looked wrong.

"But, why is a producer from ANHTV here?" Trisa asked after parsing her greeting of introduction.

"I—"

"Di—dia's going to college with me, Tris." Qiara hurriedly interjected before Danny said more about himself as well.

'COLLEGE THEME? YOU SAID 'FRIEND'? Danny screamed in disbelief in his heart, before finally snorting cynically.

"So, Mba Qiara knows this Producer?" Trisa's getting confused. There was something even more surprising in his opinion.

"Yes, Tris. We are college. Once a major. He's here for the holidays." Reply Qiara pretentiously.

Qiara then turned her gaze to Danny, then with a depressed look Qiara muttered in a pleading tone, as if asking Danny not to explain anything else, "yes, right, Dann?"

Instead of replying, Danny just stared at Qiara coldly.

Not long after, Qiara approached Danny. Unexpectedly, Qiara patted Danny on the back, trying to look as friendly as possible and saying, "thanks, yes, make your help. You can always be reliable." Qiara then laughed awkwardly at the end of her sentence.

Danny again snorted, but this time blatantly showed his fed-up face in front of Qiara. But Qiara did not care. Danny's already pushed him into the water, they're both wet now.

So, why doesn't he just continue the play until the end?

...****...

Suddenly Dean felt a cold air rush through his entire body after reading the message sent by Qiara. Dean could not say that he was fine after learning that Qiara had already met Danny. However, amidst the rumbling in his booming chest without warning, Dean stuck to his one belief, that no matter what happened, Dean would always trust Qiara. Dean would not allow himself to falter just because he knew, that Qiara had met Danny.

Dean then put his phone in his pocket while reviewing a smile, trying to pull away all the negative thoughts that tried to corrupt him.

...****...

Brisbane, January 2020...

"Qiara, someone is looking for you." Said Qiara's roommate in the dormitory who had just entered the room while carrying some books in her arms.

The Filipino woman is named Tiffany. He's Qiara's closest friend since college continued S2 at Brisbane — in his hideout.

"Who?" Qiara asked in full calculation.

After learning that someone was looking for him, his brain immediately said that the person could be Danny. In silence Qiara was also actually hoping that the person was indeed Danny. That was why he felt his heart pounding so fast right now.

"I don't know, I've never seen that guy before. He looked unfamiliar." Tiffany answered with a frowning face.

"A man?" Qiara tried to be sure. If it was Danny, then what should Qiara do?

"Yeah! Hurry up and see him. He sees to have been waiting for you for a long time."

"D—Did you ask his name?" Qiara asked in a huff. What if it really was Danny?

"No, but I think you should see him right now, Qiara!" Tiffany started to sound bad.

"Okay, thank you, Tiff!"

With a fluttering feeling, Qiara walked out about to catch up with someone Tiffany meant. In his mind now, Qiara had already formed a hypothesis.

If the one who came was Ray or Celine, they would definitely contact Qiara directly, instead of waiting. After all, Tiffany had met her sister several times and had greeted each other, so it was impossible if Tiffany did not recognize Ray.

While on the way to the ground floor, Qiara did not stop to catch her breath. Inside his heart and head was now a lively commotion that Qiara could not think of anything.

As soon as the elevator opened, one tall body stood towering not far from Qiara's position as it instantly greeted him. For a few seconds, Qiara felt the situation around her suddenly quiet. And as soon as the tall body turned around, Qiara knew that the one who came looking for him was Dean, not Danny.

For reasons he did not understand, Qiara suddenly felt disappointed as well as angry at himself.

How could Qiara presumptuously hope that Danny would come looking for her? Even in a dream, Qiara was willing to bet that it would never happen.

"Qia..." Greet Dean gently, very gently.

There was a feeling of happiness that rose within him when for the first time he could finally see Qiara after almost two years had passed.

"Sister Dean, ke—"

Before Qiara could finish her words, Dean's burly body had already crashed into his body and hugged him tightly.

Aye! Dean knew what Qiara was thinking and feeling right now, Dean knew very well that what Qiara expected his presence to be now was Danny, instead of him. But for just this once, Dean wanted to be the bad guy, Dean wanted to be a selfish person who only thinks about himself. To hell with anything, as long as he could see Qiara, it was already more than enough for Dean.

"I'm sorry, because Brother Dean failed to pretend he didn't know about you, Qi. Brother Dean has refrained from seeing you for two years, but this time Brother Dean loses. Brother Dean wasn't that strong to keep pretending."

Qiara was silent. He didn't return Dean's embrace either. But a moment later, out of his will, and without his permission, his lips suddenly blurted out...

"Is Danny... okay?"

^^^To be Continued...^^^