You'll Be Mine
Statement of love (1)

Zayden sat with Zesa in the back garden chair of the hospital. They kept quiet for a few minutes. When Zesa opened his mouth, the man turned his head.

“It ..”

“Anu ..”

“Please talk first, Young master,” said Zesa with a flat face. 

“I heard from mom that ... You didn't go. Is that true?”

“I will still go, only postponed for two weeks to take care of Bu Sum.” Zesa answered lazily.

He did not want to look at Zayden at all. The word that came out of Zayden's mouth eleven months ago is still lingering in his memory. After they kissed hot, Zayden easily said the kiss meant nothing to him.

Zesa's self-esteem is hurt. He felt being played by that cold and arrogant man. Love that sprouts, dies in the blink of an eye.

“Why doesn't it work for me forever? You don't have a job either, do you?” ask Zayden expectantly.

He wanted the girl to stay in his sight. A day of not seeing it, Zayden felt lacking something. What if the girl left and never showed up in front of him again?

“Do you not know .. how long do I wait for this day to arrive? If it wasn't for mom, I'd been gone since this morning,” Zesa replied in an increasingly cold tone.

Zayden froze for a moment. They haven't spoken together since that night, the night Zayden broke Zesa's heart. Every day for the past eleven months, Zesa would no longer deliver coffee to Zayden's room. Bu Sumirah did it all, while Zesa's job was only to prepare food.

“You ... has been very cold for a few months now. Did anything offend you? Maybe me or—”

“Young master .. I don't intend to talk nonsense like this. If there is nothing more you want to say, I'm sorry.”

Zesa left wide. If he stayed another minute there, it felt like the rain in his eyes could not be held back. Zesa was already quite injured for not being considered by Zayden, even the man was unaware of what made Zesa's attitude change.  

“Wait! Zaish! … Love you!”

The girl was surprised. The foot that stepped wide suddenly felt heavy until it stopped riveting. Their distance was a little far away, making Zesa not hear everything clearly. He turned around and looked at Zayden with a frown.

I ... didn't hear wrong, did I? He said love you, but I didn't hear a sentence before that.

Zayden walked step by step, approaching the girl slowly for fear that she was running away from him. Until the distance between them remained one meter, the man stopped. He let out a heavy sigh, as if he was throwing away all the doubts that were squeezing his chest.

“Eleven months ago, I lied to you. That kiss .. means more than anything to me. I regretted my cowardice at the time. If only I had said it honestly, maybe we—”

“Haha ..” Zesa laughed out loud, cutting off Zayden's words that were expressing his feelings.

The girl laughed to tears as she thought the man's words were a joke. Maybe Zayden thought so. However, only Zesa knew the reason he let out tears.

If he doesn't laugh, he'll look pathetic. Tears that have been held since were spilled due to a confession of love from Zayden. Unfortunately, Zesa's heart had been shut.

“You think I'm kidding?” asked Zayden with a serious face.

“Yes and your jokes are very funny, Young master. Haha …. If you say that because you want to keep me in your house .. sorry, I am untouchable,” replied Zesa while hiding her hands behind her back.

Every time he said something different to his heart, his palms would squeeze each other. Zayden learned of the habit and Zesa did not show his hand. He did not want his heart to be known to the man.

“I'm not kidding. Everything I say is what I feel in my heart. Can ... you accept my feelings?”

Zayden stepped out, trying to eliminate the distance between them. However, the girl moved back quickly. The man's hand stretched out touching the empty air. 

Is this what heartache feels like? As she widened the distance between us, I felt like my heart was being slashed. I wonder how she feels about me. Does this love get a welcome or .. is it just a sad one-handed clap? Zayden murmured softly.

"I'm sorry, I can't, sir." Zesa replied while shaking her head.

The girl turned around and ran as hard as she could. He can't hold on anymore. His defense collapsed and he cried in the toilet room.

Why are you saying this after my heart has been hurt for so long. Eleven months ago, when this heart was expecting the word love, you .. said that I had no meaning for you.

Zesa muttered softly in his heart. Only her tears and sedu-sedan voice represented how sick her heart was at the moment. He threw the man's name out of his heart. If he accepts Zayden's love, it means that Zesa must be prepared to be hurt more deeply.

In any case, Zesa was not a girl to be paired with Zayden. At least, that's what others will say. Zesa is self-conscious, she is not a girl from the upper class, and she only works as a domestic assistant at Zayden's house. 

***

“Zesa! Zaish! Zes ..”

Zoe came home from the restaurant with sparkling eyes. Hearing that Zesa was not leaving, he rushed home, although it was not yet time to go home to work. He wanted to see the girl as soon as he got home, but Zesa was not in his room.

There was only a suitcase lying in the open on the bed. Half of the clothes were already arranged in the suitcase, the other half was lying on the dresser chair. Zoe decides to follow the girl to the hospital but the intention is canceled when the girl she is looking for is already standing at the door of the room.

Grep's!

“Do not go, Zes. I don't want to lose you. I love you. I am very ..”

Zesa returns home reluctant to meet Zayden. Lazy to hear the sickening word of love. However, she hears a love statement from Zoe upon her arrival at home. Either they're taking the wrong medicine or Zesa's dreaming? What is clear, it makes Zesa's head quite dizzy, until finally he drooped in Zoe's arms.

“Zes .. Zesa,” call Zoe gently.

“Give him to me!”

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