Nadine is now with Harris, working on several field practice reports that must be submitted this week.
"Have you made your presentation materials?" Nadine asked Harris who seemed focused on the material.
"Of course."
"Can you help me?"
"Which part do you find difficult?"
"I want to bring the theme of industry and the environment but I don't know how to process the words from the sources that I have sorted out."
"Okay, but not for free."
"Okay, I'll treat you later."
Harris then stroked Nadine's brown mane and explained what Nadine had done.
It might seem normal to see two teenagers working together on their assignments, but not sitting too close together, which made the angry glint of someone watching the two even more fiery.
"Charlie, may I have some money?"
Charlie who just came home looked annoyed with Nadine, he even threw his wallet at Nadine and looked away.
"Charlie? Sorry if I got you wrong."
Charlie remained silent, confusing Nadine who kept thinking what was her fault until Charlie acted creepy.
"I'll be going Charlie, I'm going to buy some groceries, but I've got your dinner ready."
It hurt so much that tears rolled down her plump cheeks.
"Why is loving someone so hard?"
***
In fact, Nadine is not the first. Charlie only has a dark past.
"Nadine and Mina are two different people, Charlie."
Charlie smiled sadly, then took another gulp of the intoxicating liquid that made his cheeks turn red. It's already a glass for who knows how many, but it feels like his body is very tolerant of the liquid.
"You have to believe in your wife, however I see she loves you very much."
"Brother, thank you for accompanying me."
Yes, Charlie asked his older cousin, David, to accompany him to the bar while he left his wife at home.
"Oh my, you're so troublesome."
After losing consciousness, David takes Charlie home in his car.
The man had expected Nadine to be waiting for Charlie in tears.
" David, what about Charlie?"
"Charlie is drunk, let's get him to the room."
David could see Nadine was behaving like a good wife, she carefully took off Charlie's shoes and corrected Charlie's sleeping position because he was drunk.
"Thank you, ."
David hugged Nadine afterwards, "don't cry."
"Sob. It's my fault ."
"Yeah Nadine, it's your fault. Charlie doesn't seem to like Harris, so please stay away from Harris."
"Charlie jealous?"
"Possible."
"But , really I'm not having an affair."
"Yes I know."
After David left, Nadine lay beside Charlie, she couldn't sleep and just stared at her husband.
"Forgive me."
But Nadine had to feel the pain when Charlie, delirious without her knowing it, called a foreign name that Nadine didn't even know who she was.
"Mina . . . ," Charlie mumbled in his sleep.
***
"Good morning," he said cheerfully as if what happened yesterday was nothing.
"You have an ugly face."
Nadine pursed her lips, Charlie was still annoying.
"Where's the thanks?"
Charlie massaged his temples, still feeling dizzy, "thanks for what?"
"I saved you when you were drunk."
"Don't make it up, I remember David's brother taking me to my room."
"But I gave you water, took off your shoes, and covered you."
'Me too that's okay when you call someone else when you need me, Charlie. Am I not important to you?'
"Okay thank you."
Nadine pinched Charlie's cheek then, "Don't get drunk again, you brat."
"I just have a lot on my mind."
Nadine, who was already getting ready with her neat clothes for college, then got into the blanket again, sitting next to Charlie who was half-rising.
"Are you in trouble? I'm ready to hear."
"Just a matter of work."
"Are you tired? Here I massage."
but Charlie swatted away the hand that was about to grab his nape, "amusing."
a smirk tugged at the corners of Nadine's lips, it didn't take long for her to rush at Charlie with pinches on the nape of the neck and stomach, did not accept being treated like that, made Charlie reply.
It's ticklish.
Even Nadine laughed until the shape of the mattress was no longer neat.
And a flash of lust pierced Nadine's net after that.
"Today you are not allowed to go to college."
"Yeah, Charlie! I've had a shower!"
hot morning.
***
"Umm actually I want to ask something."
David frowned, "what's wrong Nadine?"
"Umm that, who is Mina?"
Nadine was sure that her cousin-in-law would understand because Charlie probably poured out his heart that night to this handsome man.
"Oh."
"So, who are you?"
David chuckled then "she's Charlie's ex-girlfriend."
Nadine smiled sadly, "No wonder Charlie is handsome, he must have had a previous girlfriend."
"Charlie wanted to marry him, you know, but Mina left him."
"That Mina is such a jerk, was she blind to leave a man as handsome as Charlie?"
"You should be grateful, Nadine. If Mina doesn't leave Charlie, then you can't marry Charlie."
"Charlie called his name last night, is it possible that Charlie still loves mina?"
David's gray eyes stared intently at Nadine, emitting a code for her to believe him, "Charlie is only taking his past as a lesson."
"Yes, Nadine, I'm going home first, I have to go back to Canada tomorrow."
Nadine nodded, "thank you."
***
"Just because you're Sir Charlie's wife, you often don't go to college, Nadine," Cheline pouted tiredly at Nadine.
If only Cheline knew, Charlie was the one who made her unable to walk.
"I'm sick."
"Good thing you're his wife."
"Why do you underestimate me?"
"Because if the president's daughter becomes his wife then sir Charlie can't be cornered, you have to be careful."
"Do they dare to fight me?"
"Didn't you hear the rumors?"
"What gossip?"
"Sir Charlie has an affair."
Nadine's mind was racing, having a handsome husband turned out to make her dizzy.
Brak!
"Can't you be polite?" Charlie asked in a cold tone, he had just been startled by the presence of Nadine who without greeting or anything immediately slammed the door into the room.
"What's wrong with you?"
Nadine didn't respond, "I'm tired, go!"
but Nadine's business is also Charlie's business.
"Why are you hmm?"
Suddenly Nadine rose from her stomach, she cupped Charlie's cheek and cried loudly.
"Whoa, why are you so handsome?!"
Charlie chuckled "Why can't I choose not to be born beautiful"
"You have to be ugly!"
"Do not want to."
"You have to accompany me to be ugly!"
"You seem self-conscious."
"I don't like you who are too handsome, I'm so addicted to that gossip huaaaa!!!"
"What gossip?"
"You're having an affair right?"
For God's sake, Charlie wasn't that jerk, and Nadine's adorable crying face was a fetish for her.
"You want me to prove my seriousness until your body is destroyed?"
"Huaaaaaa!!!!"
Too late to rebel, Charlie had his wife's body under him.
"Listen Nadine, I know you asked about Mina to brother David"
"sorry."
"She is very beautiful, have you seen her?"
Nadine nodded and felt a pain in her chest as Charlie complimented the other person in front of her.
"That's why I chose you to be my life partner, not him."
"Why?"
"Because you're not as pretty as her, you're ugly, so I feel safe."
Charlie kissed Nadine after that.
"And I'm not such a jerk to second you to a beautiful woman or man. I feel sorry for your life, so I will make you happy because I have you."
"Charlie I love you woohoo!!!"