Early Bird (Erkenci Kus)(Part 2)

23. So it's to be a cold one

"You fell in love?" Akif scoffs and looks at Can in disbelief.

"Indeed," Can nods. "But she's driving me crazy. She's in love with me but she refuses to accept it. She'll come around though, I know it." He puts his whiskey down. "It's weird, she runs when I get close to her, but then she also runs when she gets close to me." Can shrugs. "It's like she's always running."

Akif frowns. "Why?" he asks.

Can stares at the house for a second, seeing himself in the glass. "I have no idea, I want to find that out for myself, but she's impossible to understand," he huffs. "She's crazy, uncontrollable. A very unusual girl...And there's this guy that lives in her neighborhood, what's his name? Mustachio or Muzafter or something like that, he keeps going on and on about taking Sanem away with him...They both need to be admitted...Maybe I should be too..." Can clicks his tongue and shakes his head.

Akif snorts and laughs at Can's frustrated tone and gesturing. "Oh," he mocks, "you're willing to he admitted with her huh?"

"Yes, I am. She's driving me nuts," Can says again, looking at the pool with a groan. "Bolts and all, and not only that, I'm changing and it's not settling well with me. It's like I'm forever trying to convince her, this amazingly pretty and smart girl, to come to me and confess how she feels."

"You?" Akif's eyes widen. "The great Can Divit is having trouble convincing the fairer sex? No way!"

"Yes, the great Can Divit is begging around every corner," Can rolls his eyes.

Akif blows out a breath and chuckles, shaking his head at Can's dismayed frown. "Wow! You're completely done in my friend."

"It's baffling me too, Akif. She's managed to destroy me, and it's incredibly frustrating." Can drinks from his glass then looks at Akif again. "I've done everything I can to try and make her see but she still doesn't get that I love her...Truly love her. She keeps trying to get away but there's no way I'm going to allow her to. Not anymore. She'll realize she loves me eventually but until she does," Can lifts his arms and grins at a staring Akif. "It's war."

"War?"

Can's phone rings before he can explain further. "Hold on." He swipes and puts the phone to his ear after checking the caller ID. "Hello, Deren."

"Can, we have a problem."

"What kind of problem?"

**

"What he did to Metin..." Emre shakes his head as he trails off. "He broke off their connection in seconds. If he finds out what I've been doing it's over for me." Aylin puts two glasses on the kitchen table as she listens. "He'll never talk to me again."

"Emre, please let it go and calm down," Aylin looks at him with a small smile. She knows he's been unable to stop thinking about it but he was repeating the same issue over and over. As much as she loved the man, he was driving her up the wall. "No one will ever know about our involvement, okay? We won't let them." She pours him some wine and then moves on to her own glass. "Now, about Metin, your brother's the one losing the most on that front. He no longer has his best friend at his side because he doesn't want to understand." She shrugs. "He's going to be very alone very soon, but he doesn't realize it yet."

Emre stares at her as she drinks after putting away the bottle. "How are you so calm? You like this, don't you? The fact that Metin is no longer with us?"

"Emre, we talked about this not even 12 hours ago. Your brother needs to leave. Without Metin, he's alone and more so, defenseless. Now it's only Sanem. And it'll be even easier to seperate the two of them with him this low already." Aylin walks to the backdoor with a smile and sighs happily. "Everything is working out."