Moonlight 💫

~Chapter 8~

Feraye always loved visiting her mother's graveyard, regardless of what she was going through. Visiting her mother never made her unhappy, regardless of how horrible her day had been.
"My dear mother," she said, pressing a delicate kiss against her mother's gravestone.

"Mom, I am exhausted since you've left me, and I am extremely lonely. I want you here with me; I want you to embrace me; I want you to tell me that it will all pass; that no matter what happens, you will be with me; that I will be well," she sobbed.

Feraye sensed footsteps approaching the graveyard. She raised her head slightly and looked over her shoulder to find Ates. He sat down next to her, resting his right hand on her shoulder.
"I remember your mother; she was a wonderful person," he replied, disregarding her surprising expression.

"I noticed you while heading by, but I didn't want to bother you. I came because I saw you didn't look very good. Are you OKAY ? "Has something happened?"

She drew her breath deeply and stood up, looked at him, wondering why he cared so much about her.
"Haven't you had enough of me and my problems? "I won't bother you anymore." She answered dryly.

"If I didn't care, I wouldn't be here with you, ; if I grow bored, I'll leave. "Don't worry," he continued, looking extremely serious. "Now tell me what happened."

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"I planned to go to Istanbul. I received an internship offer there, but I'm worried about informing my family, especially my brother, because I know he won't let me go, but I can't stay here because my stomach will start to grow soon. I don't know what to do, and if I go, they're going to just put my father in a nursing home regardless of his approval and leave him there alone".
She wasn't sure why she was telling him all of this, but the fact that he sat there and listened to her ramble about her issues gave her hope.

"Hmmm, I understand,so what are you going to do?" He asked her.

"I'm not sure right now. I am simply thinking of my father. "If he finds out I am pregnant, he will die of shock." She broke down. "But I can't leave him in a nursing room either."

Feraye faced a difficult situation that required her to consider her own and her baby's destiny. Only a miracle could save her from the agony she was experiencing, but she was never one to believe in them.
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Feraye spent so much time talking to Ates that she failed to notice that she'd been late to her first day at the Atelier school. When she eventually arrived, it was already time for her next class. Thankfully, Ates insisted on dropping her off despite her protests. Feraye had realized how much Ates had helped her over the last few weeks, and she was really thankful.
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Ates was known for his kindness and humility, as well as for being highly respectful of everyone, no matter who they were, but hearing his grandfather rage and yell about the same things over and over made him furious. He wanted to yell at him to stop, but he maintained his cool and sat back in the chair, watching his grandfather yell at his brother Yaman, who he believed had humiliated the family by marrying that girl.

"What do you think they are going to say about us now?" He yelled out.

"You married the maid's daughter! Is this how we raised you, and now you claim you're in love her ?"

"You've brought humiliation upon us all"

Was it really such an enormous deal? If they were in love, it shouldn't matter what their social different levels was. At the end of the day, you can't decide who you will end up falling in love with. His grandfather overreacted to the situation at hand. Why was he overly worried about who they married? It's not like he would be living with them. Ates immediately understood one of the many reasons he avoided returning to his hometown: everyone was so critical; they were far more concerned with other people's opinions than their own family members; he realized how different he was; none of that mattered to him.