Chapter 4 the hospital

Chapter 4

It's already passed 10pm when I left the hospital because my parents came and I don't like to talk to them or even breathe inside one room with them.

While driving home, my mind was filled with how I could help Mami'la by giving her things that would make her happy. That's when Miss Suarez entered my mind given the fact that she's my Mami'la's one happiness, our marriage rather.

"Hey, what should I do? Marriage is not in my vocabularies, especially fake marriage. Hey Mami'la, what should I do..." I just blurted out out of frustration.

Fortunately, I happened to pass by an open convenient store so I've decided to stop by and buy some drinks.

After buying drinks, I was about to go to my car when I stopped.

I saw a girl sleeping inside the waiting shed with her luggage beside her.

I'm just afraid that she might be robbed because of the position of her luggage that's why I came closer and to my surprise, it's the person that I was just thinking about a while ago.

"M-Miss Suarez?!" I asserted curiously but he still hadn't woken up so I came closer.

"Miss Suarez! Miss Suarez..." I said weakly before touching her head. Finally she wakes up and was shocked when she realized it was me.

Ariyah's Pov

"Sir Gian!" I was confused and ashamed when I saw Sir Gian. I do not know what to do.

"Miss Suarez, what are you doing here at this hour?"

"Ah- S-Sir, what's the matter, I-I'm just waiting for a friend."

"You sure? But it's late, and why are you carrying a suitcase?" He curiously asked that's why I was more embarrassed. I don't want him to know that I got kicked out of my apartment just because I didn't pay the rent.

"Ah Sir, it's not here. I'm just waiting for my friend. Hey, what are you doing here at this hour?"

"Ah I just dropped by to buy some drinks. Well then if you're really waiting for someone, I'll leave you here then." He calmly promised.

"Ah yes sir. Go ahead." I said when I suddenly remembered Mami'la.

"Ah Sir wait a moment!"

"Hmm what's that?"

"She M-mami'la, how are you? She hasn't been to the cafe for over a week."

He just looked at me before sighing and returning to where I was before sitting down.

He opened a can of beer before gulping it straight down, which is why I was slightly alarmed.

"Ah S-Sir, take it easy. Besides, I just asked a question, you don't need to get drunk before answering me." Half serious and half joking if you say.

He sighed again before grinning.

"Miss Suarez..." He promised nothing seriously and softly.

"Umm, what is that Sir?" I immediately responded.

"Let's get married..." He suddenly promised that's why the hairs on my body rose.

"Sir? Married?!"

He just nodded before looking at me.

"What I mean is that, I wanna hire you to marry me. It will be a contractual marriage for two years."

"yes? but Sir..."

"Okay I'm sorry. I think I shocked you." After a while he said sadly and drank again. I can really sense that there's something bad going on with Mami'la that's why I asked her again.

"Eh Sir, what happened to Mami'la?" I promised but before he answered me he opened a beer for me. After that, he told me about Mami'la's condition so I was also very sad and that led me to tell him my own version of story.

After I told him the crazy story of my life and how the landlady kicked me out, we finished a few cans of beer.

"I see now why you're so close and sweet to Mami'la. You must've missed your grandmother too that's why you see her in Mami'la." He commented after my long story.

"Actually Sir, there is no difference between them. They both love their grandchildren very much and want nothing else to happen but what they think will be good for their grandchildren, for us." I spoke softly before smiling slightly.

"You're right. But we're still in a completely different situation. I think your grandmother deserves to know the truth."

"You are right Sir, my grandmother has a heart disease. She is also old, I cannot tell her my current situation and even more so she cannot know that the house went to the money she worked hard for. his whole life was consumed by fire just like that. He can't handle it." My eyes are dark.

"Hmm yeah, that's somewhat valid. I understand. Anyways, I don't want to meddle with your personal life but what are you going to do now and where are you going to live? It's dangerous for a girl like you to just sleep anywhere. What if you agree with my offer? We share the same interest anyway. You don't want your grandmother to know the truth about your situation which I can help you with, then I want to fulfill Mami'la's wish and happiness. What do you think?"

"Yes, okay..." I answered out of myself and sleepily.

"Did you just say yes? Hey Miss Suarez?! Miss Suarez?!" I heard him say more but I don't know what happened because I fell asleep.

"What? Where do you live?" Lou exclaimed to me.

They are here at Prima's cafe to visit me.

"That's it, vaklas, do you remember the story I told you about the house where I slept one night?"

"Yes why, what about that-- OMG wait.... Don't tell me that's where he's going to live with Mr. Harris?!" Prima concluded before he and Lou looked at each other.

"Why?! Please admit to us, you're pregnant?"

My eyes widened when Prima said that.

"What's pregnant?! Hey, you're so cute! No...there's nothing like that, you're a year old!" I was shocked to reply before I laughed but I was stunned because they both thought of me.

"Okay fine fine! I'll explain." I just said before I took my seat.

"Well, it should be okay and we don't know what you do in this life, you have so many secrets!"

"Yes, he's fine... So that's it, didn't I already tell you how I ended up at Mr. Harris's house and what happened there with her Mami'la, didn't I?"

"Umm yeah... done?" Prima responded curiously.

"After that, we met again the night I was kicked out of the boarding house."

"You called him?!"

"Tangik! No Lou, what are you doing!!! Of course it was late at night so I hung out in the waiting shed outside a convenience store and then at that time he happened to pass by there to buy drinks and then he saw me there sleeping. "

"Then...he hugged you, didn't he?" Prima promised again that's why I nodded awkwardly.

"Aysus aysus! Is this what I'm saying! Hey you witch, admit it, maybe you gave up the Pearl of the Orient Sea so that's why he wants to embrace you?!" Lou's Saturday. I feel like I'm in an interrogation room.

"Hey, think too much! It's like this, actually he didn't really say that he would embrace me, he just said, since I helped him with his Mami'la, he doesn't want to owe me so... I can stay at his house freely until I find a new house to move to, because I'm like a wandering child, with nowhere to go." I explained that's why they both went ahhh!!!

"So how many days have you been living in his house"

"Uhmm just one more day..." I lied but they knew me especially Prima.

"Ah one day...the truth?! Hey you witch it's been a week since you got evicted, where did you live for a few days in the garage?!" This is a sarcastic promise.

"Yes, go ahead, it's actually been a week." I can count on us.

"There! That's more believable... One more look at you, your beautiful body is back, you're not losing weight, and you look fresh somehow and you look like you've slept. Hmm, is he taking care of you?" After a while, Prima spoke curiously before smiling stubbornly. I couldn't stop smiling because it seemed so real.

Mr. Harris is indeed cold, always serious and almost no emotions at all but his actions are different. That's why it's still grumpy.

"Heyyy!!! Vakla, you're red!" Prima snaps that's why I was surprised.

"So what's up, how is he doing with his housemate?" Lou asked excitedly.

"Uhmm, actually he's not sweet at all. It's like I have a principal at home with me. He doesn't talk to me often, I'm the only one who talks. He often cooks for us--"

"Really?! Wow that's sweet--"

"Hep hep! Let me finish first, that's not sweet, it actually hurts my pride, because he often cooks because my cooking is not good." I said with a smile that's why they both laughed.

"And then?!" Lou said laughing again.

"Then you know, vaklas, when I lived in his house I looked ignorant because the things there, jusko, I don't know which planet it's from... The high-tech. Jusko Lord, he even has a rice cooker, I don't know yet how to use it! It's shocking, it's embarrassing for him..." They just laughed again at my story.

"Then what was his reaction?"

"No, I know that's a joke to me, I don't just show it, how come, every item I use is like an alien's item, I don't understand. His vacuum cleaner is like a UFO that he just took from his house. Oh, if you only knew, it's like my provinciality slaps me every day when I'm at his house."

They just laughed again and were almost in tears.

"Umm laugh laugh ah... That's us..." I grinned as I folded my arms.

"It's funny because I can't imagine."

"True... Well anyways, so what are you planning to do? Have you found someone new to move to?" Lou suddenly made a serious promise after wiping away tears from laughing.

I didn't answer right away because I was still thinking about Mr.'s offer. Harris to me about contractual marriage.

"Wait, what is his job?" Prima asked who had just finished drinking his coffee.

"U-umm all I know is that he is a Professor and research specialist at a university." I casually promised when they looked at each other.

"Professor at a University?!" they almost exclaimed at the same time.

"Yes, what's surprising about that?" I just casually said before drinking coffee.

"Which university is he at?" Prima said curiously.

"Umm I don't know. We can't talk deeply enough to go to such things, we just say hello there. We only talk when there's something to ask or when we're about to eat." I grimaced in response.

"How come he's a professor at our school?" Lou's Saturday.

"I don't know, but maybe not because we don't see him there."

"Well, the school is so vast and the departments are so far apart, it's likely that there are still many faces we don't know or notice."

"If you're right, but it looks like you're not. It's like he's teaching at an international school, his accent is high-class, and his IQ is Einstein like, so I can't understand what he says so often. He always slaps me with stupidity when he talks to me. I." I promise again before we laugh.

To Be Continued...