MELODY MUSKETEERS (M911 & TTM)
135. FATHER'S SECOND MEETING

Athos and Tasya were in the room where Athos was being treated. The girl helped her boyfriend change his clothes because soon they were planning to go home.

"In your house your room is on the second floor, doesn't it matter, Ato? You still can't walk." Tasya said while helping Athos wear his shirt. "Let's marry Ato, I can't wait to stay with you."

Athos smiled in response to Tasya's words.

"When you don't want to answer, you always smile, what are you hiding from me?" Tasya asked as she hooked the buttons on Athos' shirt. "Dion and I didn't get married and our engagement was off, it should have been a green light for our relationship."

Athos clasped Tasya's hand that was hooking the buttons on his shirt making Tasya stare at him.

"You have to trust me." Only that sentence was thrown from Athos to answer all the words of his lover.

Tasya smiled as usual, and Athos immediately pulled her in his arms.

"Geez, I think it's ready and we go straight home, you guys are still making out." Prothos opened the door. "Hurry, before noon we have to get home."

Tasya ignored Prothos' words, the girl even kissed his lover's lips, the same time Mona entered the room, seeing Mona was about to come out of the room again.

"Where are you going? Quickly bring the luggage!!" Prothos on Mona. "Tasya, you don't know the situation, you pervert girl."

Tasya just smiled at Prothos while hugging Athos. Mona was carrying a big bag out of there.

...***...

"I'm sorry for calling you so suddenly." Said the President who is Tasya's father.

Right now in front of him was Leo, Athos' father. The two met at Tasya's father's office in his company. The President sits at his desk while Benny, his assistant, stands faithfully to the left of the President.

"No problem, I happen to have no show this morning." Leo answered with a smile. "Then what problem are we going to talk about? Honestly, I'm not too interested in meddling in my son's affairs."

Hearing the words of a father made the President astonished to make him laugh, and laughter was also reciprocated by Leo.

"It seems like the relationship between father and son in your family is very unique." President.

"I've never felt that way, because I don't know what the father-daughter relationship in the other family is like." Answer Leo.

"How do you raise your children?" Ask President.

"What's? I don't think this meeting is about learning the tips I'm raising my kids." Said Leo and was greeted with laughter by the President and Benny. "Actually what makes you want to see me? Like I said, I'm not interested in meddling in my son's business. I will only support everything my children do, I don't want to force them to follow my will, so if you want to threaten me then you're the wrong person. I won't be afraid of your threats, I'll still let my son do what he wants to do."

"Is that how you've been raising your child all this time?"

"Yes, it's his life I have no right to set anything on him. I think everything I do to my kids is right, they don't need me for anything."

"Just this time I met an old man who had a mind like yours." President. "It is fitting that your son Athos be what he is today. His way of thinking is beyond his age."

"That's right. He's my most unruly son. Even if he never listens to my words, and instead, I always listen to his words. Sometimes I even feel like I'm his son and not him." Leo answered with a small laugh. "So it's a waste if you threaten me."

"Not threatening, I have no intention of threatening."

"You call me to your company and we talk at your desk, you sit there and I'm here. I think from there it was your intention to intimidate me. Isn't that what it is?" Look at Leo coldly.

"It turns out you're the boy's father." President's Smile. "Listen to everything that happened yesterday, to be honest, I thought it and I followed all your children's games well. But unfortunately there were some mistakes he made so I still wouldn't let my daughter along with your son."

"I told you, I'm not interested in meddling." Mumbled Leo.

"So it's just like that? Yeah, well I'll tell him." Reply Leo casually. "You shouldn't have called me to come here and just say on the phone. I will definitely send your daughter home immediately."

The president was silent watching Leo's facial expression that revealed a knotty smile.

"President, I have advice for you." Said Leo. "Every child is never asked to be born, they are born because we want them so it is not their job to follow all our wishes, but our job to make them happy. We just need to direct without forcing. They will listen to our words when we listen to them. That's how I raise my kids."

...***...

There is only Melody and Niko currently at home. They were both at the dinner table. Melody helps Niko in doing schoolwork that she has not done while tomorrow they have entered school.

"Looks like you don't need me to answer his questions, Niko." Melody.

Niko smiled at the girl sitting in front of her. "I'm not that stupid to not be able to answer the questions I've been studying for three years."

"Why don't you do it yourself at home? You didn't do anything at home, did you? You should have filled your time with this schoolwork." Melody.

"If I've done it, there's no reason I'm here with you... And there's only the two of us... "

Niko's words sounded like there was a certain intent but Melody tried to be relaxed and did not want to pierce the young man's words. He was also afraid that his trauma would reappear.

"We only have two weeks left, before my parents come, and a week later we're engaged. It's getting closer but somehow the relationship between us still hasn't changed much." Niko. "Do you want no change?"

"What does that mean? To this day, I am still trying to grow my love for you. I told you this wasn't easy." Answer Melody. "Why are you fighting it again now?"

Niko silently looked at Melody who was also staring at her. At this time he somehow felt that he became more sensitive when he thought of the truth about Melody who did not love him. Though previously she had not thought about it, as long as she and Melody were married she did not care about Melody's feelings for her.

"I'm sorry." Niko's words were accompanied by a sigh. "You don't have to think about what I said."

"Niko, there's actually something I want to ask you." Melody. "Regarding your ex-fiancee."

"What else is it? I've explained everything to you. I promised I wouldn't kiss another woman. I always try to listen to what you say."

"I wonder if you still like Emma or not?"

Niko fell silent again, she was surprised to hear Melody's question. He was not exhausted with the girl by asking her such a question.

"If you still like it, I don't mind, I'll help—"

"What's your purpose in asking like that to undo it all?" Tanya Niko was cold.

"I don't want you to suffer more just because you want to repay my brother for what he did by venting it on me. It's gonna get worse for you."

"Listen Melody, I never forced you in the first place. You agreed to follow my will. I'll stop if you don't want to." Niko said with a look of anger. "But just so you know, I've never liked another girl, I've never liked Emma. We never really loved each other. Your words just sounded really bad about me. Replying to your brother's actions by venting them on you? If it was like that I would have done the same thing as what that jerk Felix wanted to do a long time ago and not hold everything back. If you want, I can do it worse than that."

Melody fell silent, and so did Niko. For a moment they both remained silent until Niko finally chose to leave her place and leave Melody.

...–NATZSIMO–...