BLACK SUN

5 (fifth part sequel)

Hakan looked at me as we entered the garden of the house together.

"We'll be back in an hour, sir, is it okay?" I nodded in agreement, I could take a quick shower by then. Ceren had already prepared everything and sent me her pictures, she had made lentil soup, rump and rice, even the stuffed meatballs made by my aunt Seda, from my grandmother's black cabbage rolls in my freezer. Ceren Seda was as skillful as my aunt. I entered the house and went into the kitchen. All the food was on the island counter, today the house was also cleaned. I think Ceren had gone to her house to change, I went to my room and put my gun on the nightstand and went to the bathroom and took a quick shower. When I got out of the shower, Ceren had already arrived and was preparing the table, I put on my black tights and black T-shirt and dried my hair. When I went into the living room, the table looked great, I hugged Ceren tightly.

"Good thing you're with me, you know that right?" he chuckled and shook his head.

"I'm sorry, sir, I don't know if you're happy to be here as I haven't heard such words from your mouth." I smiled and tickled him.

"Then you're an i***t, don't you understand how much I need you." He took my hand and sat me on the chair.

"It might be because you're unstable, my Lir." I pinched his cheeks.

"I love you so much Ceren, never forget that okay?" wrinkled his nose.

"If you think you can deceive me like that, you're wrong, Lyre bird, tell me about your offer." I held your hand.

"You know our team, I mean, you don't know Giray and Mert, but they will come too soon. Apart from his family, all of them, Giray asked me to be barren today. They don't eat home-cooked meals. Men obviously can't do such things, not everyone is Yankı of course. Think like Caner, They're all longing for home dinner, family dinner, I want you to cook for us. In return, you can get a salary plus a painting from me." Ceren looked at me with excitement, checking if I was serious.

"Seriously... are you going to give me the painting I want?" I pretended to think.

"As long as you don't choose one of the paintings on my walls, you can have whatever you want." Ceren hugged me while screaming with joy.

"No need for salary, enough for a painting." I chuckled and wrapped my arms around him. He didn't have much to do with money, and even if he did, he wouldn't want to because he was also a merciful person. I didn't like to give my paintings as gifts to anyone, in fact, I didn't really like to show them. They could only see it in the exhibition and on the walls of my house. Ceren and Caner were begging to buy my paintings. I wasn't stingy... I just wanted to make my art my own, when the bell rang I headed for the door. Caner had arrived, and when I opened the door, he handed me the bags in his hand.

"Did our corps come?" I shook my head, while Caner went to the opposite apartment and knocked on the door, Bora opened the door. He was naked, I think he had just showered like me because his hair was wet. "Brother, come on, my stomach is being scraped, where is the smoke?" When we came face to face with Bora, I avoided her.

"I came." While Hakan was calling from inside, Caner went downstairs and called the others. While Bora was going inside, Hakan walked out the door and walked towards me "It smells great." I stepped back to smile and pass.

"Welcome Hank." He looked at me and smiled, there was a little excitement in his eyes, although I don't understand why, I thought it was because he was going to eat home cooked food.

“Welcome to command…” I frowned slightly.

"I have a name Hakan, I don't like formality in civil life." His smile widened as he placed his hand on her neck.

"Welcome, Lyre." I gestured to the hall to pass with my hand, Ceren was filling up the soups. Soon after, Bora pulled out the door and walked out of the house and walked towards me, I smiled a little. Our guests were very important to us, even if your enemy came, you should have greeted them with a smiling face. I didn't see Bora as my enemy, but I couldn't say that he was very good in the electricity between us, I was looking into his eyes as his eyes slid into my smile.

"Welcome." While his eyes softened, he handed me the bag in his hand, I was looking at the bag in surprise.

"Thank you." While he was passing through the hall, the others had arrived as well. When we said welcome to them, we all went to the table immediately. We were very hungry, while Bora and Hakan were sitting at the head of the table, Giray and Mert were next to Bora, Caner was next to Mert and Ceren was next to him. I was sitting next to Giray. He knew Giray and Mert Caner, but they did not know Ceren. They had met on foot, while everyone was starting to eat, Hakan was looking at the wraps in bewilderment.

"Are you from the Black Sea?" The question was for Ceren. Karen shook her head and looked at me with a grin.

"The lyre Trabzonlu, the wraps that his grandmother wrapped... I blew his freezer tank." While Giray and Mert were grinning, they popped the wraps into their mouths.

"I'm from Trabzon too, I've been longing for black cabbage wraps for a long time. Where are you from, Lir?" So, Hakan and I were fellow countrymen, so that's why I felt close to him. He was drawing blood.

"We should drive, you?" As he put the wraps in his mouth, he closed his eyes as if he missed him so much and the longing was gone.

"We're neighbors, I'm from Arsin." While Bora was putting the wraps in his mouth, Caner turned to Hakan.

"Then you'll love Lir's kale soup too... just between us, but Lir cooks even better than Ceren, so after her meals, Ceren's food just fills your stomach. Lir's tastes good on the palate." Ceren hit her brother on the head.

"I'm here too, idiot." I frowned and looked at Caner. "Actually, Caner is right, Lir cooks very deliciously. She even knows most of the world's dishes, but she definitely cooks her grandmother's dishes differently." Hakan was looking at me, the excitement in his eyes increased even more, at that moment I realized how much he longed for home-cooked food.

"Can you really make black cabbage soup one day?" I smiled and nodded at him. After we drank our soups, we put new dishes on the plates with Ceren, stuffed meatballs were also very popular, I renewed the wrapping plate.

"Did your grandmother also make these stuffed meatballs, sir?" I looked at Giray, I should have warned him one by one. I didn't want them to call me commander in civilian life, I shook my head.

"Ceren and Caner's mother.. My aunt Seda sent it." the food was really delicious, Hakan loved the wraps. Actually, they all liked the food, I looked at Bora, she had to like the food for her to accept my offer. After we ate our meals, Ceren and Caner quickly cleared the table and prepared the plates. While Ceren and Caner were carrying the plates, Giray and Mert were helping them. When I went inside with the tea tray, I first started serving from Bora. While she was taking her tea, she stared at me, then turned to Hakan and handed out everyone's tea and sat down.

"Sir... did you make these paintings?" I looked at the paintings with Mert's question, not everyone who saw it believed that I did it. I tried for two years, it was normal for them not to believe it, I nodded my head.

"His paintings are precious, princess, there is nothing I haven't done to get that painting you see." Martha looked at me in surprise.

"You are truly talented, sir." I looked at Bora, had she accepted my offer?

"So have you made your decision?" He took a sip of his tea and looked at me.

“Agreed, but in return for the money…” I frowned, sitting across from me so the others couldn't hear us.

"No.. we cook food every day anyway, it doesn't lose anything if you make a little extra." He frowned as well as me.

"You're not a soup kitchen, Lir, if you don't agree, we're taking care of ourselves anyway." I took a shaky breath.

"Okay.. you just share in the grocery shopping." He thought for a while, I tilted my head and looked at him innocently. "Let them have home-cooked food in their stomachs." This state of mine stunned him, albeit briefly, and he looked at the others. All of them were eating the sweets on their plates, they all had smiles on their faces.

"Okay, but he won't cook one day a week." I was not in a position to bargain with him, I happily turned to the others, I had to cook cabbage soup for Hakan after the operation tomorrow. But first, I should have asked my grandmother for cabbage, if she had shipped it early tomorrow morning, it would have been here the next day. We would only come from the operation anyway, even a small home-cooked meal made them so happy. After drinking our tea and chatting, they got up to go, we were going to the headquarters early because we were going to the operation tomorrow. That's why Ceren and Caner rose up with the others, and Bora was the last to leave them behind. While Ceren Caner Giray and Mert were going downstairs, Hakan wished me good night and thanked me and entered the opposite flat. Bora looked at me without putting on his shoes. "Thanks for everything, everything was really good. See you tomorrow." I smiled slightly.

"We didn't do anything, we just ate together." He smiled lightly as I did.

"This is the first time I've seen them this happy in a long time." Parenting was hard, I knew it best. The man felt alone.

"Goodnight." He put on his shoes and looked at me again.

"Good night, Lyre." It was as if he was making progress, as if he had melted the iceberg between us a little bit. When he entered the house, he looked at me for the last time and I closed my door, this was a move I did not expect from Bora. He was more busy scolding and irritating me, but tonight we seemed a little more normal, doing something for them melted the iceberg a bit. Who knows, maybe it would have completely destroyed that iceberg in time, it seemed a little crazy to me, but hope in God would not be lost. Dealing with Bora...it seemed unimaginably impossible to me. I went to my room and did my routine work and put on my pajamas and went to bed. There was nothing that time could not solve, time would show how we would be.