GAIA SERIES: THE VESSEL (Hiatus)

THE LONELY MAN

Author note: I'm creating this stories before at 2012, so i can follow some competition, I got a pass until becoming ten finalists. But I didn't win. And then I save this one at my laptop but then almost all parts lost, leaving only the few beginning words, make me cries. So now I just try creating again from the start. Hope I can make it better than before.

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Frans JuMeyers just back from his dangerous adventure at midnight. This time, Frans get many ancient artifacts; he found at the site, where he helped. He also gets a lot of precious gems. He will sell some later. Some of them will be used for his hobby later.

Dirty and dusted, this German-English male walking through the messy garden. Frans look around his house that supposed to be beautiful and taken care of. Even though there are some trees and flowers that looked beautiful but the wild grass make them looks mess up. He will take care of all of that later, now he needs to clean his body first.

Open the door with the keys he hides inside the rocks around the fish pool, Frans enters his house and put all his belonging in the family room. He took off his leather boots, the ones he wears all around. The boots looked old with some stretch everywhere. The boots have never been left on all his adventures.

Frans strips all his dirty clothes and scattering around the house until reaching the bathroom. He turns on the hot water and washes his body includes his tiredness.

"So fresh, it's been so long I can feel this fresh and hot water."

Using the bath coat, he's moving to the bedroom and take clean clothes to wear. He's walking to the freezer and wants to search some raw ingredients. It's full of food and drinks, he can use all. This stuff makes him smile. This meant that the keepers still do the tasks well.

He feels like to giving some bonus to the children that take care of all of that. Frans never paid any housekeeper, he just loves to make a donation to an orphanage near his house. He had four adopted children there. They are a bunch of good kids. Frans disliked to trust others, but he trusts these children. Except for the children, Frans only has one other person he trusts the most in this world.

"I need to visit them later and pay all these expenses if they not coming today." Frans cooks some simple dish to eat and eating a lot.

This guy living alone for a long time. He's been left at the orphanage since born, he leaves the orphanage when he was just a little boy. He likes freedom and never likes to be bound by the world rules, Frans likes to travel around and go to many dangerous adventures. Never once he got a formal education from any school. He does anything to live. He got a house now because his most trusted person asks him about his address.

After ate late dinner Frans turn on the garden lamp and look around his garden. He wants to take care of his garden even though he must sleep now. Frans never follows the rules like common people and always do what he wants, no matter what the time. Determined, he starts to work on his garden. He touches up his garden and fixes rusty water tap.

Near seven in the morning, all his chores finished. His abandoned garden doesn't look like before when Frans just arrived. The garden appearance is beautiful now. This beautify garden looks make four young kids surprise when they tried to look pass through Frans house gate. Their expression looks shocked and then happy because beautiful and clean garden means their adopted father is back now.

Half running, these children go inside the house, passing through the garden that's been clean and beautify by someone. On the dining table, there's five portions of food been served, Frans eating one of it. These four children sat on the dining table and start to eat one portion. They eating so happily even though they eat before at the orphanage. They all finished the food without talking until Frans decided to talk.

"So, what's happen to all of you when I'm gone?" ask Frans while he drinks his coffee-latte to all his adopted children.

Feeling happy because Frans asking about them, the children start to talking together, these make Frans laugh and said; "One by one, please, otherwise I don't know whose to hear. Ok, let's start with Hasan!"

The kid named Hasan start talking; "While you leaving, I read all the books you sent to me." That 12 years old kid looked shy.

"Oohh..Have you finished all the books?" Frans wonder.

"Not yet, all those books are hard to interpret," Hasan replied with a reddish face.

"I see, I will stay here for a few days. You can ask what you don't know to me." Frans tried to give some hints so the boy can ask help from him.

"Sure, I will ask you later." Hasan looked happy Frans wants to teach him a foreign language. His blue eyes looked contrast with his dark browned skin, it's sparkling.

"How's your activity, Alan?" ask Frans to the boy a year older than Hasan.

"I'm still continuing my study," told Alan looking straight to Frans. Frans like how Alan always looking straight to his opposite side when he talks, that feels interesting and tough.

"Piano lesson? You still not bored yet?" ask Frans, wonders. As Frans know, Alan always easily bored with the things he has done.

"Nope, the piano lesson still interesting for me." Alan looked dazzled with his lesson.

"Do you have a lot of practice? There's no piano at the orphanage, right?" Frans stroking his nose, think deeply.

"Alan likes to play with Mr. Smith piano." said 11 years old with green eyes and hair like Alan; Liana. This little girl is Alan younger sister.

"Hoo..isn't the piano in there old like the house owner?" said Frans confused.

"His piano is old and abandoned at his garage." Deva; Frans other adopted kid continue. This boy is the same age as Hasan, he's Alan and Hasan best friend.

"I see, wait here!" Frans left his children and go to his bedroom.

In there, Frans looking for name card for music store owned by his acquaintance, Frans called and speak for a moment. He makes an appointment with the owner. After a while he came out, Frans found Hasan dan Deva cleaning the dinner table while Alan washing the dishes.

"Are you all busy today?" Frans asks the kids. They all shook their heads. "Good, come with me. Just leave the dishes, we can clean up later."

All the children stop cleanup and follow Frans to his jeep.

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