(Author's POV)

When everyone had left the round table room, Will and Rumi were still silent with their arms around each other.

"Why are we meeting at a time like this?" Rumi suddenly opened his mouth and asked something that had been bothering him lately.

"I don't know... maybe it's because we have each other's privileges, that's why fate brought us together now," answered the yellow-haired youth gently.

“Hm… you're right. After all… if we had met a few years back, but I was still not of the legal age for marriage, I would have insisted on still being married to you.”

"Ha ha ha. You are... how can I marry a little girl, "Will replied then while the index finger of his right hand poked Rumi's nose.

“Oh… so you don't want to marry me?” Rumi's eyes looked sharply at her future husband, she raised her mouth to look annoyed.

"No," said William, wrinkled his nose and smiled widely at Rumi's gaze.

"Is that true?" Rumi replied to Will's words by acting spoiled and flirtatious.

However, the girl's attitude actually made Will's emotions happy, the young man immediately laughed quite loudly after noticing the unusual behavior of his future wife.

This conversation ended with them laughing and teasing each other.

"Never mind ... I'm very tired today," complained William spoiledly while tightly gripping the brown-haired girl's left hand, but with his eyes fixed on another corner of the room.

“I'm really tired too, but… just being alone with you right now makes that feeling slowly fade away. I… wanted to be like this for a very long time.”

At that time Rumi's gaze became sad, the blue-eyed youth returned the girl's gaze with the same sadness.

"Thank you, Rumi. I am very grateful and also lucky to get such amazing love from a girl like you.”

"I just want to live happily, Will ... and I'm sure my happiness is with you."

***

Meanwhile in another place, in Royce's private room, the young man was now sitting leaning on a wooden chair wrapped in thick and soft cushions. He adjusted the chair to face the window with the door wide open.

"Haahhhh ..." Royce took a deep breath as he looked up and closed his eyes. In his mind now, the slightest thought of this young man could not be distracted from the brown-skinned girl named Maira.

His mind kept on raving about this girl from the North village, “Maira... oh Maira... your beautiful face, your smooth skin, your beautiful hair... why can't I erase it from my memory and mind? Am I… really that attracted to this girl…?”

Then the brown-haired youth opened his eyes slowly, immediately at that moment he could clearly see the sturdy wooden roof that protected him from all the rain from the sky.

“Hmm… am I just being like this roof? The one who always protected the people who kept him stuck here?” he muttered then accompanied by both hands as if to reach for the high roof.

“Really… I can grab it…?” This handsome young man kept muttering nonsense without using his rational sense.

Soon his sense of hearing caught a suspicious sound, the sound of a human moving his legs.

Royce's eyes then became wary of the surroundings. He still speculated that danger could come at any time, even in the house, even though the situation in this house could not be said to be deserted either.

"Who?" Royce cried after the sound of the footsteps was gone.

Knock Knock

The next second it was Royce's turn to ring, someone knocked on the thick and sturdy wooden door.

"Rummy?" Suddenly the face of someone who looked like him flashed. But Royce's feelings were not sure about it. Because if it's true that Royce's youngest brother approached Royce, then his younger brother would not sound calm and peaceful at all. There must always be some noise made by Rumi. Whether it's the sound of his feet walking like someone who is about to make a fuss, or the sound of his loud mouth knocking on Royce's door loudly and in a hurry.

"Where the hell is that kid."

Without thinking, because someone behind the door didn't answer Royce's call, this black-eyed young man hurried up from the comfortable wooden chair to the door of the spacious private room.

When he was about to open the door, Royce hesitated to do that.

“Wait a minute, why am I getting scared, restless, and worried like this…? Though I'm sure no crime will happen suddenly. Ah! That's enough! It sucks to indulge in bad feelings!”

At that time, the young man whose full name was Royce Putra Harfian immediately opened the large wooden plank that was used as the door to his bedroom at home.

BRAAKKK

Suddenly he was surprised to see someone behind the door. The youth's eyes widened instantly, his hands and feet suddenly trembled. While his mouth was stiff he couldn't start speaking.

"Hi, how are you? It's been a long time I haven't seen you... I... miss you so much," said someone in a soft voice full of affection, especially with his original voice so loud it made Royce's heart weaker.

“Ha-hello. How are you? Uh. I'm well. H-really we haven't seen each other for a long time? Because I feel that we only haven't seen each other in a few hours …” Royce answered both hesitantly and stuttering at the arrival of someone he didn't expect.

The person did not answer anything, his face only showed a sweet and spoiled smile at Royce.

Suddenly this young man's heart beat faster due to the death blow from the charm of the person in front of him.

"You don't want to take me inside?" the man asked.

"Of course. Come on in." Royce gave space by changing his standing so that the person could enter his private room.

A person wearing dark purple clothes but with an unusual cut came in while continuing to show a seductive smile at this 26-year-old youth.

When that person actually entered, at that moment Royce's behavior became strange. Before he closed the door to his room, he first checked the conditions outside his room to make sure that no one else saw that a stranger had entered Royce's private room.

"Why?" asked the stranger in a gentle and seductive voice.

"Oh, it's nothing. Just making sure you come here alone,” said Royce before turning to face the guest.

However, when the dashing young man turned his head back to look at the stranger, he was so taken aback that the condition of his body returned to the same as after knowing the person who had come.

Royce was surprised to see the sitting position of the stranger on the bed, like a wife who invites her husband to have sex. Coupled with the stranger's clothes whose cleavage was clearly visible and her smooth thighs were only covered by a quarter of the whole, Royce's mind drifted aimlessly to a place very far from where he came from.