Toxic Relationships
Friendships

...Happy Reading's...

“How about that one?”

“What is not too great Jack?”

Jack took a deep breath and threw it away slowly. They've been driving around for nearly four hours to find a new home in the middle of a bone-chilling winter. And always like this answer Clara, the house is too big, the yard is too wide, the floor is too high and there are many other reasons.

Clara just glanced at her lover, Jack looked annoyed but held her back. A few days ago Jack forced her to find a new home for them as the beginning of the wedding preparations. Jack was too proud to live in the house Mr. Hilton gave him. For him, the house was too small. But I don't know, from a few hours ago Jack just showed me such a big house with more than two floors. To him it seems excessive. There were only four of them in the house.

“Are you angry Jack?”

Ask Clara. Jack is now seen taking a deep breath and throwing it away slowly before turning to look at Clara. Jack seemed to be smiling broadly, Clara giggled amusedly at how hard Jack was to smile at her.

“No, I'm not angry.” Jack said with a smile.

“What house is suitable for you Jack? If you like it, then I like it too.”

Jack looked at Clara, who was now smiling. As Jack's smile faded, there was a feeling of not wearing in him. All this time he rarely asked Clara's favorite. And he was trying to give Clara what she liked by asking her opinion first. Moreover, it was a house that they would live in for many years to come.

“Why are you always like this Chal? Always follow all other people's requests that even you yourself don't like.” Jack said and looked at Clara inside. Clara just fell silent with Jack's words and started to smile thinly.

“Isn't it too selfish to obey everything I like, but other people don't like it?”

Jack was silent at Clara's words with that faint smile. It was as if Clara's words were so insinuating to him all along.

“And vice versa? Wouldn't it be too selfish if someone forced something to make you like it.”

“I will probably get used to it and can like it too.”

Clara said with a sweet smile, Jack was silent for a moment. How lucky he is to have a lover like Clara. A good girl with such great understanding. As for him, he was just a stubborn man who was so ambitious chasing something to get it. Especially with emotional hard to control that sometimes trap him in a misery.

Clara still looked at Jack with her smile. For a year without Jack he began to realize how meaningful everyone in his life was. And the choices he doesn't like aren't necessarily bad either. Sometimes people just want to save their lives. Like Jack. The man who has a rude nature, easy emotions and so possessive it just wants to protect him from the cruel world outside. He realized it when he started to feel it for himself.

“If you don't like it, then we'll find another house.”

Jack said flat and drove back. Clara bit her lower lip, the warm atmosphere instantly began to cool. He shouldn't have talked like that, he just wanted to make Jack happy with the man's choice. But he thought it made Jack seem to dislike him.

“Sorry about Judy's treatment a few years ago, Chal. I can't even believe Judy could do such an evil thing to you.”

Jack said, still focused on driving. Judy had been in trouble for almost a year, and this was the first time she apologized to Clara. For her, life was so unfair to Clara. After so much struggle that girl did for the people around her. But it all seems like it's never been seen. And that's why he's so eager to protect his woman.

Clara just glanced at Jack. The dark memories seemed to return to his mind, when Judy slapped and cursed him in front of many people.

“It's Jack, I've even forgotten it all. Anyway Judy must have a reason to do it all.” Clara said and looked at the car glass right next to her. Jack seemed to glance at Clara at a glance before finally looking back at the front.

“Reason?”

“Judy must have been so depressed back then. Now all he has is you and Anne, and when one of those is missing from him, he must be so worried and angry. At the time, the media was reporting on me as Chris's girlfriend. Judy must be so wrathful.”

Clara said softly, Jack again and again glanced at her lover at a glance and began to smile. Unlike her, Clara always thinks mature. He always put others as himself, which is why Clara is rarely angry. Before acting, he always thinks about the feelings of others.

“Hey, won't Anne be having a birthday soon?”

Clara looked at Jack excited. Clara is now staring at her phone screen and smiling as the calendar she's pinned is written in two weeks is Anne's birthday.

“Anne?”

Jack asked doubtfully. He didn't even know the date of his nephew's birth. I don't know, he never remembers anything like that. Even his own birthday he often forgets that no Clara brought him a cake all of a sudden to his office.

“Then what do you want, Chal? Don't tell me you want to come to Anne's birthday?” Jack looked at Clara with horror.

“Then, aren't you coming to your nephew's birthday?”

“I'll come, but after I marry you.” Jack said casually, Clara just stared at the man in disbelief.

“Restu? I don't need that.” Clara was still gaping at Jack's casual remark. No, no, it wasn't this kind of marriage that he expected.

“Jack, you've been trying to get Tiffany's heart to bless us. Shouldn't I do the same in your family?"

Ask Clara excitedly. He wants his marriage to Jack to be okay, he wants to get it all done. I don't want any more problems to befall my little family.

“With my father who will scold you? No, thanks. Anne's birthday will only be filled with quarrels.” Jack seemed uninterested.

“Master Hilton wouldn't do it if you were beside me Jack. Trust.”

Clara tried to convince her boyfriend. Jack just took a deep breath and threw it away. These aren't all good ideas. He did not want to think about the worst possibility even though it might happen.

“I'll make them believe if you can be happy with me Jack, I want our relationship with the Hilton family to be fine.”

“I've been happy with you, I don't even need their recognition!”

Jack began to rise, Clara took a deep breath and exhaled before she leaned her body against the car seat. It's very difficult to give Jack any understanding, Jack remains so stubborn.

“If I told you that's what I like, would you still not bring me to your family, Jack?”

Asked Clara grudgingly, Jack remained silent while still looking towards the road. Jack took a deep breath and threw it away slowly. He had no choice if it was Clara's request.

“But if my family hurts you, I won't bring you back with them for good.” Hearing Jack's words, Clara now immediately got up from her seat and looked at Jack in disbelief.

“Really? Are you really going to meet me with them?”

“Sunday tomorrow we will fly there, besides I have some office business that I have to take over from Judy.”

...----------------...

“Halo Tiff, what's up?”

“I was at the cafe, next to your shop. Meet me here.”

And here he was, still playing his fingernails so nervously. Almost ten minutes of silence. Jack and Philip, who appear to be playing with their phones, look out the window, looking at the thinning snowflakes.

“So, when did you get married?"

" Tiff..." Clara looked at her best friend and Tiffany smiled.

"I know if I'm late to realize it, I'm sorry for keeping you out of your happiness, Chal."

Tiffany's question now made Clara and Jack look at her with a look of confidence. Then Clara now began to stand up and walk towards Tiffany and hugged her best friend tightly.

“Thanks Tiff, thank you very much.”

Clara now felt her eyes begin to get wet with a sense of hilarity and happiness. Finally, slowly every problem in his life was finished. Jack and Philip just smiled at the two friends who were hugging each other.

“Jack, if you come back to hurt my best friend. I'm really gonna make you rot in jail.”

Tiffany said and stared hard at Jack. Jack just swallowed his saliva, while Clara smiled while still hugging Tiffany tightly.

“And I will support my wife this time, Jack.”

Philip's chirping now made the four of them laugh. Jack now pushes Philip on the shoulder and makes Philip hit his best friend right in the head. The two best male love languages are physical attacks.

“Then what do you want to do after this, Chal?”

Tiffany now let go of her hug on Clara and looked at the girl seriously. He knew he knew very well how Mr. Hilton was trying to get Clara out of Jack. And killing people like Mr. Hilton is no easy feat.

“I'll meet the Hilton family on Anne's birthday, I can definitely convince them.”

To be continue...