Enigmatic Love

Chapter 35

"Stop!" Copter who was drinking while sitting on the edge of the floor of the quarter with his feet on the ground was suddenly screaming while his hand was up with the 'stop' signal, making the fast running step of a child stop. "Sandee, you don't have to run that fast coming here, since I won't go anywhere. I don't want you to stumble down, hurting your knee again."

The boy named Sandee who was actually running to Copter, who previously stopped running, taking his step slower step by step but for only a few steps when he was running once again pounding on Copter, hugging him on his waist.

"P'Cop!" Copter was just shaking his head but to just laugh at the cute action of this kid. Peraya who was sitting beside Copter on the floor's quarter while his baby lying on the mattress beside her would just smiling watching Sandee's action along with Copter.

It was a very inexplicable thing every time Copter could tell things even people who could see couldn't realize yet. She remembered how Copter running fast to Sandee, despite being blind and all, when he was the only person who realized there was a big snake, snaking just behind where Sandee was.

Copter was playing with the kids not far from where she, Plum, Kimmon, and Gan were watching them all the time, yet the one who saved Sandee among all others was Copter. Yes, he was standing not far from where Sandee was, but to realize the ever sneaky snake not far from the flower bushes behind him, and to act accordingly while he couldn't see anything, was a very remarkable thing that could happen. At least to her.

And not to say, to Sandee, who was a pitiful child who only lives with his father. When his father fell ill and was currently getting treatment at the hospital in the city, he didn't have any chance for a visit. And right now, he was living with a kind neighbor who was willing to take care of him while his father was hospitalized, not sure till when.

"P'Cop, let's play yesterday's game again. It was really fun." Sandee was still hugging Copter on his waist while looking up at Copter pestering him to play the game they were playing since the first time he met the group of kids here.

"Okay, but let's wait for the others first, okay? While waiting, do you want to have some cookies? Auntie Peraya made it." Seeing the cookies on the plate beside Copter, Sandee was excitedly standing up and was climbing up to the quarter's floor while sitting right in front of the plate.

"Just eat it. I make plenty of it. If you need more, tell me, okay?" Sandee was nodding his head to Peraya. "Where is Sun?" Copter would ask. "He followed his father going to get some groceries from the main kitchen. Mr. Kimmon didn't want the main kitchen to bother with your menu, so it was up to us. So, all we need to do was taking the groceries from the main kitchen, I will prepare your food. That is another reason he wanted us, as a family to be with you among other things he said. Living with you these few days, I understand what he meant."

Hearing Peraya, Copter would just turn ahead and up to the sky, feeling the wind on his face like he always does. "I was living and brought up in an orphanage until I was at a legal age to live by myself. Even after I was living by myself, I couldn't help but to always come back to the orphanage to play with the boys and girls, and even sometimes spending the night there.

I did it for three years, until one day the mother had told me not to come again. Only then I realize, how I can't live alone despite being an orphan. That's why I was really feeling thankful to P'Kim for bringing me here. But before P'Kim, it was Tae and Tee who were helping me, and be a family I never had.

Though my condition turned to be this way, on the other hand, I gain three-person I could call family and it was them who gave me the strength to face all this reality I had on me." Copter was kept on talking while Peraya was listening to him very attentively. She might not use to the city kind of living, but being an orphan was never a good thing, even in this village. Warodom's family decided not to make any house for an orphan. If one turns into an orphan in this village, they will be taking in by any relatives here or outside the village. But if there aren't any, they will be sent to an orphanage in the city. Warodom also had contributed to the orphanage, but the management was done by the HQ in the city.

"Here they come, Peraya. Please watch us, while we were playing, okay?" hearing Copter, Sandee was trying his hard to finish his last cookies, and even the cookie was still in his mouth, biting it, he jumped down the ground right away. "Yes, of course." Smiling Peraya would answer Copter.

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"What are the important things you wanted to discuss with me, Miss Yihwa?" Kimmon had asked a person he knew less than two hours before who was sitting opposite to him in a coffee shop that was placed around the hotel they were previously in. Yihwa had dragged him out of their lunch with an excuse so that they could know each other better, but along the way to the coffee, she was telling him about a favor she was about to ask.

"Dad told me, you have a very influential position in your family, and that you have the power and resources I don't have. I know I was being ridiculous right now, but the reason I agreed to this marriage because I hope I could use you and your power to help my cousin. I wanted to say this bluntly to you because I was just that person. I'm not going to pretend I like you or love you when I don't know you, and precisely, because I couldn't use any of the resources in my family, that I had to do this."

Kimmon was looking straight at the woman in front of him and honestly, he was quite shocked to hear that. Well, he knew most people who knew who he is approaching him because of him and his status, that he learned how to make that stoic face over time, but he never met someone who was bluntly saying that out loud.

"Well, I couldn't say I was fond of this marriage too, but let's get to the point, shall we? Let's listen to your important things first then I'll decide what I can do with them." Yihwa then opened her phone and opened Wayo's picture on the gallery on her phone then showing it to Kimmon.

"I wanted to find him and want to know what had happened to him." Kimmon's eyes had wide open, never thought that this world could be this small. "Your cousin was Wayo Panitsawat?" Kimmon would ask. "So, are you one of Piniwat?" He added.

"I thought you knew who I am? Was I being deceived? I thought you were someone with power and all and the fact that you didn't know who your wife-to-be is? Maybe I need to rethink my choice of resources. Should I?" Yihwa was retorting back.

Kimmon was laughing. "Calm down, Miss Yihwa. The reason I didn't do any checking on you, or asking anything about you is because I trust my father fully. I don't have to investigate you to get to know you, since my father knows everything about you and your family, and I trusted him 100%. Well, this actually turned out well. Phana did tell me, that Wayo's cousin has done some digging, and now it was easier for me. Just give me every information your P.I have all this time. We will proceed from there."

Yihwa was blinking her eyes to the turning of the event. "You knew Phana?" Kimmon was nodding while smiling. "Should we met earlier, I don't have to proceed with this wedding." Yihwa was pouting irritatedly while drinking harshly the iced coffee in front of her, making Kimmon laughed a little.

"Well, maybe. But in my case, I never have a choice but to marry my father's choice of bride,  considering that he already chose you long before, you will still end up with me, I guess." Yihwa was slumping in her seat hearing Kimmon, with her retorted face but then she recovered fast from her turmoil and was sitting up straight once again.

"But, please, no matter what you do, make sure Bas wouldn't be harmed in any way. Phana might make sure for his Wayo, so, I don't have to worry for Wayo, but Bas was alone. Please." Kimmon was taking in a deep breath. 'Of course, he will take care of Bas, that was Copter's happiness after all.'

End of Chapter 35