The First Curse of Love
64. Drunken Truth's

"She's Miss Danny?"

Danny, who was busy typing something on his laptop, immediately stopped his activity when Aren approached him. With his face always looking flat, Danny looked at Aren, throwing the question 'what's the matter?' just through the eyes as he often does.

"Thank you for taking the time to see my mother in the hospital." Aren scratched his back head while smiling awkwardly, "when no other employee did that." Reciprocity.

Danny only nodded after earlier sighing softly.

"Thank you too, for already praising me in front of Mom sa—"

"That's not a compliment." Sela Danny before Aren finishes his words. "That's honesty." Danny's Error. "Gue hopes that by doing so, you can further improve your performance so that the more days, the better."

When he saw Aren's face that looked like a lack of sleep, Danny immediately took a box of sandwiches and peppermint tea that he had bought a while ago in the cafeteria.

"You better eat first. After that, you can go home. I heard from the Doctor yesterday, today Mama you can go home."

"Thank you, Danny. Again, thank you very much."

...****...

Since the incident at Clover Leaf a few days ago, neither Danny nor Qiara have paid any attention to each other. Even Qiara who since she returned to ANHTV has always been trying to mend her relationship with Danny, is now starting to look like she doesn't care about the bad guy anymore.

Once upon a time when they accidentally passed each other, they did not even glance at each other at all and just passed each other as if they were just two strangers who never had any story.

"Waaah, Danny! That's Qiara, right? The legendary producer of ANHstar Radio." Said Bagas while staring with admiration at the figure of Qiara who had just passed them.

Danny automatically stopped his steps while listening to Bagas' words. Somehow Danny felt his ears itch, like he had just been taken in by an insect.

"What did you say? Qiara what? Me─melegend?" Danny asked ascertained while showing a disturbed reaction.

"Don't tell me Mas Danny doesn't know who Qiara Serena is!!" Sahut Bagas with his face that suddenly turned serious. But a few seconds later, Bagas suddenly nodded and threw a face as if understood. "But with Mas Danny's nature like this, it's only natural that for example Mas Danny does not know who Qiara Serena is." The knot then was without any sense of sin.

"Lo say what?! What is my nature you mean?"

Realizing that his boss was starting to get black because of his words, Bagas immediately took the initiative to force his laughter before Danny. "Hahaha, I mean─"

"DANNY!"

Bagas immediately stopped his speech as a familiar voice called out Danny's name. With a compact movement, Danny and Bagas turned to the source of the sound. Felicya's figure with her cheerful smile instantly welcomed their sight.

"Good thing to see you here!" Felicya said as soon as he stood in front of Danny and Bagas.

"Why?" Danny asked coldly.

"I've been wanting this to you for a long time, but I don't know where to call you."

And he only listened with his flat eyes. While Bagas was standing right next to Danny, not the least of them let go of his anxious gaze from Felicya.

"I'm sorry about the mess I caused the scandal. But frankly, I never had the slightest evil intention for nquatin you in a situation like yesterday. Again I'm sorry."

"Gue's been mengelupainn about the scandal. So, you don't have to apologize like this."

"Thank you, Danny!" Felicya once again.

This time Danny did not answer.

A moment later, Anna and three other staff members came and approached Felicya.

"Come, Fel! You should get ready soon." Anna warned firmly.

"Yes, Anna." Felicya replied before turning her attention back to Danny.

"I'm leaving, huh?" This time Felicya looked at Bagas next to Danny, "Gas, I go first. I'll chat."

Bagas immediately nodded with a faint smile on his sweet face.

Moments after Felicya and her staff left...

"Mas Danny could do better next time to Feli? He's also been in enough trouble."

That was Bagas' last word before he walked ahead of Danny. He looks upset at Danny.

And Danny, who had not understood anything, just stood there with a face of confusion. Only after realizing, he stepped big after Bagas.

"GAS! YOU JUST GOT MAD AT ME? I SHOULD BE ANGRY!!"

...****...

When Danny was about to enter his apartment building, his steps suddenly stopped when he found Ray who was standing waiting for him. Danny doesn't immediately believe his vision. During these three years, they had almost never reprimanded each other. But now, Ray–one of his most respected people was standing before him.

"B—Bang Ray?" Reprimanded Danny who is still in a state of half-belief and half-do not.

"Yes. It's me, Dann."

Ray then throws a mysterious smile at Danny, who is still in disbelief.

Not long after, the two of them were sitting opposite each other in a coffee shop located right in front of Danny's apartment building. After being silent for quite a while, Ray finally started to open up the conversation at that quite awkward meeting.

"Lo must have been surprised because I suddenly showed up, right?"

Danny raised his face, he was only able to look at Ray with reluctance accompanied by an observing look. A moment later, Ray chuckled as he turned his face away.

"Gue's meeting you tonight, because I want to convey something very important. Because elo is Celine's only brother closest to her, so I think you deserve to know for this."

Before Ray made his point, it seemed like Danny could already understand the purpose of their conversation right now. If only they were still as familiar as before, Danny would have rolled a curse to tempt Ray.

"Yes! Aye! What's on your mind right now." Imbuh Ray who seemed to be able to read the contents of Danny's head.

Danny hissed while grunting his smile.

The cold situation between them slowly began to warm up.

"Late next year, I'm the same Celine is planning to get married. Of course, I haven't formally proposed to him. I just want to let you know first."

"Indeed you should have gotten to this stage, right? So, I'm happy for you guys."

"Thanks. And I hope, you will also soon find your happiness. It's been three years, Danny. Let's just forget what happened in the back. Because we can't change the past. The time that passes can't be anything. The only thing we can do is just accept and forgive."

Danny nodded in agreement. Yes, the past cannot be changed. What should happen, will happen. No one can stop it, let alone change it.

"Oh yeah, didn't the other kids get together in Qia's apartment? Why not come?"

Danny sighed, trying to fill his chest cavity which suddenly felt hollow while listening to the question Ray was asking him. The next few seconds, Danny smiled bitterly. "Gue can't go there just because I want to go."

The incident at Clover Leaf some time ago was enough to make the situation between them chaotic. Danny doesn't want to make it any more difficult. That's why, avoiding being the only wise choice for Danny.

Like Qiara, Danny needed time to learn to accept all the situations he was in. Danny needs time to heal and recuperate before he can completely accept that fact; Qiara has already chosen Dean, and Qiara will never return to him again.

"Dateng only if you really want to come. Don't bother yourself."

"Not good at Dean." Danny answered, lowering his face.

Ray's two eyebrows immediately linked after listening to Danny's last words.

"Why shouldn't it taste good to Dean?" Ray asked, looking carefully at Danny's eyes.

"Qia has chosen Brother Dean. I don't want to make him wobbly anymore. All this time, he's been suffering a lot because of me, Bang."

"So, what do you think now that Qiara is with Dean?" Ray looks very suspicious.

"Dating or not, but I know that Brother Dean already has plans to apply for Qia, and Qia─"

"Dean had already proposed to Qia, and Qia had already given her the answer. Others even know. Do you still not know?" Sela Ray with a look.

While Danny, he immediately sighs with relief after finding a reality that has been covered by unilateral assumptions that he formed with his own anger. From how Ray looked at him and smiled at him, Danny already knew what answer Qiara gave to Dean.

...****...

It was eleven o'clock at night when Celine, Arga and Alisha decided to go home. For the umpteenth time Qiara let out a disappointed sigh, because until the last second, Danny did not appear. Unfortunately, after what happened between them, Qiara still hopes that Danny will come with the others.

And the fact that Qiara could not hate Danny in the slightest, even though Danny was transformed into the most sickening jerk, made him almost crazy. But once again, Qiara could do nothing about it. Danny was already angry with him until he decided to release himself. After all the things that Danny went through, Qiara certainly could not force his will to make Danny understand him.

As Qiara was wiping the table in the living room, her attention suddenly turned to Celine's make up pouch left on the sofa. Qiara snorted while cursing at Celine's carelessness.

Not long after, Qiara heard someone knocking the unit bell he was staying in. Qiara immediately turned her head towards the door after taking the make up pouch. Qiara who thought that the one who came was Celine, immediately opened the door. But, what he got in front of the door surprised him. Because what came was not Celine, but Danny.

"I've asked many times, what's going—" Qiara's speech automatically paused when Danny directly dropped his head on Qiara's shoulder as soon as Qiara opened the door.

Qiara freezes. Time stopped that second as well.

Danny, who was in a semi-conscious state because he was under the influence of alcohol, raved on Qiara's shoulders, "I lost, Qi. I admit defeat. I can't be friends with you. I can't just be a friend to you."

"Dann's..." Lirih Qiara's. Then, as he tried to shrug Danny's shoulders, Danny hugged him and positioned his head to be more comfortable on Qiara's shoulders.

"Please don't leave me again. Don't go with Dean. I really can't without you, Qi. I'm a jerk, I'm a liar, no one's worse than me, but please don't stay with me. If you do that, I'll be even more devastated than before."

Qiara, who did not want to respond to Danny's rapport, immediately took the initiative to bring Danny inside. Looking at his condition now, it doesn't seem possible enough for Danny to go home alone.

After painstakingly gnawing at Danny's heavy body, Qiara finally threw him just like that onto the sofa. Qiara wiped the sweat on her temple while looking at Danny who had almost lost his consciousness with a pretty irritated look.

"Lo's been almost thirty years, but why do you always get drunk so recklessly? Your habits are bad!" Omel Qiara while trying to regulate his agitated sigh.

Qiara's once irritated look at Danny, now softened when she saw Danny's face that looked uncomfortable. Scrolls of pain and fatigue were clearly drawn there and triggered her mother's feelings.

Qiara, who was completely controlled by her heart, slowly sat down by Danny's side. After quite a long fight with doubt, one of his hands finally landed on Danny's face. It also made Danny's face that had seemed uncomfortable immediately turned calm after Qiara's hand landed there. The pain disappeared without a trace.

"I'm sorry for leaving you alone, and making you have to go through a hard time because of me." Without feeling it, a tear of Qiara fell down on her face.

Danny's breath that was originally hunting, began to calm down. Although in a state of unconsciousness, but his body had already memorized Qiara's touch. Qiara then crushed her defenses without thinking for long, letting her body move naturally close to Danny until her lips fell gently to the surface of Danny's lips.

Danny who felt it in silence opened his eyes for a moment. What Qiara did not know was; danny did not completely lose his consciousness.

...****...

May, 2026...

"Mommy!"

Shennavia ran towards Qiara after Dean opened the door. Qiara, who was sitting on a hospital bed doing something on her laptop, immediately gave up her job and turned her attention to the princess.

Qiara smiled as she stroked Shennavia's cheek which was filled. "No need to run, Shen. You will fall. Now, you wash your hands, huh? Mba Nila brought you lunch."

"Okay, Mom!" Shenna replied as she lifted her tiny thumb.

"Mba Nila, please help Shenna wash her hands, will you?" Pinta Qiara politely to Mba Nila.

Mba Nila is a babysitter who helped her take care of Shennavia since she was a baby.

Without the need to linger, Mba Nila directly brought Shenna to the toilet which was also located inside the Qiara treatment room which was quite spacious.

After Dean confirmed that Shenna had gone into the toilet, he immediately looked annoyed at Qiara, "and why are you still working, when she is sick? Rest." Omelnya.

Two days ago Qiara fell ill from work fatigue. He had to be hospitalized for two days. As a result, it was Dean who took on the task of picking Shenna up to school today.

"I don't work, brother. It's just sending me an email again."

A little while later Danny suddenly went into the room, and at the same time, Shenna also came out of the toilet. As soon as he saw Danny, Shenna's eyes immediately sparkled. He hurriedly removed his arm from Mba Nila, then excitedly shouted, "Daddy!!"

"Yohooo! My princess, come hug Daddy!"

Danny squatted down while stretching out both his hands. Shenna jumped into Danny's arms and immediately rewarded Daddy with kisses all over his face.

Seeing the behavior of the father and son, Qiara and Dean both smiled amusedly.

"Shenna miss Daddy! Tomorrow if Daddy goes out of town, Shenna's coming."

"If Shenna's coming with Daddy, then who's looking after Mommy? Hm?"

"Just Shenna kangen Daddy!" Shenna who was sulking immediately hugged her Daddy tightly as if she did not want to let go anymore.

"All right! Looks like Shenna doesn't need Papa Dean anymore." Dean said, clapping both hands. Shenna simply smiled at him, showing off her rows of white teeth that made her look adorable.

Dean finally broke down. But it was not because he did not want to be a bully among the small family togetherness, but because there were indeed some work that he had to finish immediately.

"Thank you, yes, Brother Dean picked up Shenna today." Danny said as he looked at Dean with sincerity.

Dean just nodded. He then rubbed Shenna's head before finally completely exiting the room.

Not long after, Danny who was still hugging Shenna in his carriage approached Qiara. He landed a kiss on the top of his wife's head.

"Darling, sorry, I got home a little late from my schedule."

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