Twins And Falling In Love
79. Storytelling
“And after this semester is over, I will resign!” He shrugged his shoulders and then gulped back the drink in his hand.
EL's eyes immediately glared at her lover's sudden statement. El can't imagine her life without Olivia, and the girl easily says Resign, EL feels Olivia isn't thinking about her right now.
“If you come out, how will my fate be?” EL stared at Olivia sharply. “You are the one who guided me to get better, if you get out, I'd better jug_”
Olivia nailed the ear of EL while pulling it rough, while the bearded one was now busy grimacing in pain.
“You promised me to be a great person and also to graduate quickly and reach your goals. Are you the kind of guy who likes to make promises just for you to break, huh?”
“Aaa! Sick brother!”
“Indeed you should be in pain! Do you still want to be troublemaking again after I leave?!” Press Olivia.
“Alright I understand, I will keep my promise, stop hiring me.”
Olivia took her hand off the ear of EL, then looked towards her legs which were still cross-legged with a grim look. “This is very important to me, EL”.
“about what?”
“This research I have treated like my son, but I am willing to let go for something much better.” Olivia turned her head towards the ocean while trying to ignore the feeling of tightness that suddenly invaded her heart. “This research emerged from a fragment of my failure, this research is a marker for me that I can continue my life and this research is also my foundation to continue breathing in 2 years this”.
“Then why don't you take this matter to court? Do you really mean to just hand it over to professor Sebastian? Why?”
“I have my own reasons.” Olivia shook her head. “But I feel calm, because I know you will present it. At least I have one person I can trust to oversee the course of the seminar—and you have to make sure that nothing changes from the presentation we have prepared.”
EL silently stared fixedly at the face of Olivia who was looking at the sea waves, “Why don't you want to tell me the reason?” lirih.
Olivia turned her head to look at the EL and now that both eyes were looking at the EL bead, the woman felt that she should really convey her heart and mind to the man in front of her. The EL that is stared intensely like that actually becomes increasingly wrong behavior.
“Because I love you” said olivia in a soft voice.
‘deg deg’ EL heart beats hard, every time you hear a love statement from olivia, the man goes blank and can't say anything.
Olivia shook her head, “Not yet, your age still can't accept my decision”.
Just a moment Olivia makes the EL fly, but falls back because the girl thinks it's just a little boy, the EL wants the girl to be more open to her, telling all his problems was not just a sebait story that made the man's heart start to break.
EL eyes looked at Olivia wistfully, “ alright I won't ask, but can you tell me more about yourself? About things I don't know”
“What do you want to know? I'm being generous today, so I'm willing to answer some personal questions.” He turned his head to look at El.
“First of all, I wonder how you could grow into an independent woman like now?”
The woman smiled, even though the emotion did not reach her eyes. “I got a lot of trouble in my growing up. Unlike most children, I was abandoned many times by my parents, I lived alone without parental help since I was 17, at that time I had obtained a bachelor's degree and was continuing to magister” Olivia was silent for a moment staring at the night sky full of stars.
“I used to be ostracized because the way I was raised was different, my friends saw me as a strange child, because my face and my adoptive parents were different, even our hair color was different, too, I was too lazy to serve my schoolmates until I grew up just reading books, subconsciously I was able to master everything and try to jump over some classes, all I thought about was studying and quickly getting my dream job in order to make both of my adoptive parents proud”
EL still watched Olivia's words carefully, slowly realizing that the woman's eyes dimmed as she talked about her past.
“I became my personal now because of the various collisions I had to face long ago. Sometimes the meaning of life you do not get from a beautiful memory, but rather from a bitter memory that teaches you to continue to rise.” He got up from his position to sit while hugging his own knee.
Olivia leaned her body towards the EL who had secretly taken a champagne bottle and hid it behind her body. “Now allow me to finish the whole bottle of this drink and I apologize in advance if later I get drunk and trouble you—I really need to free my mind now EL”.
EL could breathe the fresh musk scent of Olivia's body that was now almost crammed with her, the simple act of this woman alone had managed to make her heart ready to jump out of her chest cavity. The man's brain was still asking about the reason that made his lover become so confused.
Olivia tilted the bottle until it almost formed a vertical line over her face so that she could straighten out the entire contents of the frothy drink, in her true heart she wished EL had brought more than one bottle so that Olivia could be completely satisfied with the drunkenness. It could be said that tonight is the first day Olivia really out of control since the tragic incident that happened to her a few years ago. After her hard work is seized by her own superiors, Olivia feels that she deserves to channel her frustration through alcohol.
The woman let out a sharp sigh as soon as the entire liquid inside the bottle had been drained. Less, he thought. He wanted to completely forget all the bitterness in his heart, he wanted to forget his worries and bad memories. He was tired of having to be haunted by the nightmare. There was a part of him that demanded to forget the sadistic scene-by-scene that had robbed him of his happiness, but at the same time, he did not want Michel to die in vain for him, if he forgets his memories, Michel will be gone forever. In her attempt to keep their memory, Olivia forgets to take care of herself, she forgets to take care of her feelings, and the end result is clear she forgot how to be happy.
And he felt he needed someone to remind him of the meaning of happiness itself.
“EL~” Said Olivia getting drunk, “What can make you happy?”
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