
"You sure?" Dayana asked Cairo softly with her hands holding each other.
Cairo, who stood beside Dayana with eyes staring at a house so beautiful and cool, turned towards the face of the woman he loved so much.
"I'm sure" he answered steadily.
Dayana turned back. He stared intently at Cairo's face.
"I'm just as good as Papa can't make it this fast, Kai. You can… "
"I don't want to repeat my words anymore, dear," said Cairo slowly.
He shifted his body. Turning himself to gaze fully at Dayana's face always made him calm and comfortable.
"One more step after that we'll get married!"
If this is the case, Dayana cannot refuse. Dayana knew she couldn't change Cairo's thinking for her. Finally with all the courage. With all the courage.
A pair of people who love each other began to walk together. Hand in hand with footsteps that continue to approach a house that became the residence of Dayana since childhood. A warm house. A house that always receives it at any time and under any circumstances.
Up to three beats given by Cairo made a footstep heard from inside and a sound of the door being turned made the two slightly rewind their bodies.
"Father!" greet Dayana by taking off the hand of Cairo when the door was wide open and kiss the back of Jimmy's hand.
Jimmy smiled warmly. He rubbed his daughter's head then turned his head to the side as Dayana finished shaking hands with him.
"Hello, Om," said Cairo stiffly.
The tense face of Cairo is certainly printed clearly there and it certainly makes Dayana feel like holding back laughter. The face that was usually so sweet to her. That cold, cool face he always liked. Now it's turning out like a little boy who's nervous and afraid of something.
"I… "
"You're Cairo, right?" Sela Jimmy in person. "The man who bravely proposed to my daughter before meeting me?"
Cairo swallowed his saliva. However, he knew what he had done. Honestly, he is not afraid. She was completely unafraid of the figure of the man in front of her who looked so affectionate towards Dayana.
The man who gave a warm smile to his daughter. The man who became changed his gaze when he saw the princess that he dearly loved.
"Yes, Om. Forgive me for being so presumptuous first" Cairo said in a heavy voice.
Jimmy didn't say anything and Dayana certainly felt like laughing so hard. But he knew what his father would do. He knows Jimmy's not that cruel. Jimmy never incriminated anyone.
He knew that his father only wanted the best for him.
"Let's go in!" Invite Jimmy who makes Dayana move next to his papa then walk in and followed by Cairo from behind.
"Papa, Day wants to make a drink first!" Dayana kisses her papa's hand as usual and leaves Cairo and Jimmy.
However, before that. Dayana looked back. Blinking one eye with his right hand in the lift and not forgetting to say the thing that made Cairo smile happily.
"Thank you, dear," Cairo said without a voice after Dayana told her noiselessly.
Finally a pair of men who love each other the same woman in a different sense were sitting opposite each other. Both were limited to a table between them.
"What can you promise my daughter, Cairo?" Ask Jimmy directly.
"I can't promise anything, Om. I can only give evidence that Dayana's happiness is above my own" Cairo said firmly. "I will work hard to make her happy with me."
Jimmy was silent. He stared at this figure of the man in front of him who was somehow very familiar to him. Some details of his face that really reminded him of someone.
"You know, being happy isn't always about money" Jimmy said quietly. "Being happy cannot be bought. Especially inner happiness. It can't always be given with the treasure you have!"
Cairo nodded. She agreed with what the future man who would become her father-in-law said.
He is a proof that possessions don't make him happy. He is a figure of proof that the money he had made him calm and happy inner birth.
"I know, Om. I know what it's like to have a lot of money but I can't be happy!" reply Cairo with his voice that slightly decreased and it certainly made something in Jimmy even more curious.
"I can't promise anything. I also can't count on the money I have to make Dayana happy. But I can give you confidence that I will always be there for Dayana, keep her trust, seek happiness together and will love her as much as I love my mama!"
"My mother always said that I should love my wife as much as I love my mother!"
"Why?" Jimmy asked with a racing heart. He seemed to twist the memory in his head when he heard the words of the man in front of him.
Honestly, this time Jimmy has not been looking for a man who approached his daughter. He really did not interfere in this because he wanted to give privacy to his daughter's life.
He would usually find out who was close to Dayana. However, for this time. Jimmy wanted to take the right approach.
"Because my wife won't be my wife forever, Om. She will be the mother of my children. She'll be a woman who's going to school for her kids like I was with my mama!"
Jimmy's hands were sweating coldly. Jimmy's hand clenched as the words were very similar to what someone said. The words of the woman who once loved him so deeply. The words of the woman who until now always made her overshadowed guilt.
The words of the woman who used to be a tranquilizer. A woman who always gives a word of motivation and also an incredible love for him.
"What's your long name, Cairo?" Jimmy asked softly with a truly clenched hand holding the periphery of a single chair and sat down.
A man with a mind that starts to wander. The man who really connects everything. From some point of the face that reminded him of someone. At the words he always heard from the woman he loved in the past.
"Alcairo Alastar" answered Cairo steadily.
Jimmy was curious. Jimmy began to gulp down his saliva to ask what would prove whether the person they were talking about was the same person.
"What's your parents' name?" Ask Jimmy with one breath.
Cairo was unsuspecting. However, he was sure that the man who would become his future father-in-law would ask about the figure of his parents.
"Frans Federick Knight and Azzelia Qaireen."
As if lightning were striking. Jimmy was really surprised not to play. What he's been thinking since. What he connected was true. It is true that the words are from the same figure that once existed in his past.
"It turns out you managed to properly educate your son, Zelia!" jimmy said in his heart by looking at Cairo's stern and fearless face.
~Connected
Hello everyone. I finally made a comeback. Thank you for waiting for this story. I'm sorry, my son and I got sick until we got to the hospital. So one month yesterday I took a complete break but from today I will update again.
Yuk test chapter first. If this chapter comes a lot, I will update again.