MELODY MUSKETEERS (M911 & TTM)
025. MISCONCEPTIONS

After Niko left, Melody immediately rushed back to her room. He continued to stand in front of the room window staring towards Lion's room.

Her curiosity about what Niko was talking about with her brother, Athos, sank with curiosity what Niko wanted to ask Lion. Is something that Niko wants to ask about her or not?

After he felt a huge longing for Lion in him, he decided he wanted to love Niko so that his longing for Lion that made him tormented was gone. But to get rid of the longing was harder for her because Melody was a girl who was not easy to fall in love with. Until he realized that he loved Lion only, he only felt recently before they separated, even though since childhood they were always together.

Then will she be able to love Niko before they get married in two years? Thinking about it made her very sad. She doesn't want to marry Niko, but Melody feels she has to. Niko is a lucky guy, so she decides to marry Niko.

But it was not easy for the young girl, she just felt love for someone so that her heart was tormented every time she thought about it. Melody continued to shed tears looking at Lion's room across the street. He misses Lion so much at this time, that it feels like he wants to vaporize it by shouting loudly so that Lion hears it. So that Lion knows how he feels tormented by his decision that wants Melody to be close to Niko.

"Lion, you've been so outrageous to me, you made me love you and then you handed me over to your friend. I hate you but I miss you too, fool." Melody wiped her tears with both hands.

At the same time Niko opened the curtains of Lion's room, and saw Melody who was crying. But because Melody was wiping away her tears with both hands she did not realize that Niko was looking at her. Melody looked back at Lion's room as Lion closed his curtain again.

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Lion enjoyed his ramen very well. Niko who was sitting in front of him just ordered a drink and did not order ramen because she had lunch at Melody's house earlier.

Niko still thinks about everything. Tasya's words regarding Lion and Melody's dating, Lion's increasingly strange attitude change and what she saw just now as she opened the Lion's room curtain, Melody cried as she stood staring into Lion's room. All of that was disturbing his thoughts at this moment.

"You hear I'm not?" Lion's cry resuscitated Niko's daydream.

"Why?"

"You daydreaming?" Lion asked with a mouth full. "You're this, I'm talking at length but you're not listening."

"What did you say?"

"This ramen is so good, you should try it. You'll get hooked if you try." Lion. "The two of you are the same, you know? Melon also does not like ramen, he never finished his ramen. But it makes me lucky, so I can spend it. You two are a good fit."

"You come here often with Melody?" Ask Niko.

"I think so." Answer Lion.

"Lion, what's the matter with you and Melody?"

Lion who was about to sip his ramen noodles went silent for a moment, but continued back so that Niko was not suspicious of his attitude.

"What do you mean?" Lion spoke in obscurity because his mouth was filled with food. Lion took his phone and did something and put it on his side table with a closed position.

"I wonder what your relationship with Melody is like?"

"Not like anything." Answer Lion. "During this time his brothers asked me to pick him up, accompany him and this is it. I just did everything they asked of me. What's up? Why are you suddenly asking again?"

"That's when you look angry at Mario for hurting him so much that without a second thought you cut off the friendship with Mario." Niko.

"I did it because I was disappointed in Mario, not because of what Mario did to him." Lion answered very seriously.

"Is it really like that? Then why don't you leave after hearing what he said?" Asked Niko again coldly. "Do you still regret your decision to Mario?"

"No." Answer Lion. "From the beginning I just felt guilty for Mario."

"Did you remember what he said when he stopped you at the airport? If the thing that made you angry was something that was important back then but after you regretted it, does that mean that something important is no longer important now?" Niko. "Hearing your answer just now lets me know that it's still important to you."

"Niko, what exactly does your question mean?" Stare Lion began to feel cornered by Niko's words.

"I heard that you were with him on a date right before I moved in."

"Niko, it's not a date. Oto gave me a ticket to the amusement park so I could take his sister there. I did it just as they did when they asked me to take her or pick her up. You can ask Oto about the ticket. You can even ask your future wife if it's a date or not."

Lion's words sounded very convincing by Niko. Niko also intends to ask Melody for the truth, but it seems Niko is still prejudiced if Lion does not say it honestly.

"Then why does your relationship with him look like never before? Aren't you with him very close? You even said you used to go to this place with him."

"We're close but our closeness isn't what you think it is. I think I should stay away from her when you want to get close to her so you don't think anything about us." Lion. "I don't want you to misunderstand me, but why do you even misunderstand me because I'm not as close as I used to be? What do you really want, Niko?"

"I want you to be honest with me, do you like Melody or not? Or have you ever liked it or not? How have you felt about her all this time? And do you know how she feels about you?"

"That's not all important. You just focus on your plans to marry her." Lion replied with a face that stiffened because it held back his emotions. "Yes sdelal eto iz-za moyey klyatvy vsegda i vezde podchinyat'sha tvoim zhelaniyam."

Niko laughed at Lion's reply in Russian. Niko immediately looked at Lion with a very sharp and serious facial expression. Just as tense as Lion.

"Yes rad, chto ty do sikh por pomnish' tu klyatvu." Niko.

"Well, I don't think there's any more misunderstandings, do you think Niko?" Lion asked changed his expression in an instant. "I'll always support you, you should know that." Lion's smile after that drank his drink.

"I'm sure you'll support me, we're like brothers." Niko smiled. "But you don't have to stay away from her, I'm so mean to both of you. You and my future wife have been friends for a long time."

"Yes, fine if you don't mind." Said Lion smiling fake while taking his phone, and put it back in his pants pocket after turning off the recording of the conversation.

"Lion, I love you like a brother, do you understand?"

"Be quiet, I already know that." Answer Lion. "You don't have to repeat it every time we meet. You're just treating me right now."

Niko laughed at Lion's complaint, while Lion glanced at Niko's annoyance by narrowing his eyes.

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