MELODY MUSKETEERS (M911 & TTM)
035. SUNSHINE

Prothos was very happy when Widia asked him to go with her to the garden they used to go to when they first started dating. With a very happy feeling Prothos got down from the car when he arrived in front of the apartment building Widia lived in. Prothos smiled at Widia who was waiting for him. The young man was wearing the hat that his lover gave him. Lovingly and radiantly, Prothos opened the car door to the woman he loved.

"You know teacher, I'm so happy today." Said Prothos who was in the steering wheel turning to Widia.

Widia developed her smile in response to Prothos' speech. He could see how happiness radiated on Prothos' face, until his cheeks looked red at this moment and made the young man even more handsome.

"I'm glad you feel that way." Answer Widia.

Prothus raised his left hand and without asking Widia put her right hand and held Prothus' hand. The young man kissed Widia's palm gently.

"I love you so much, Widia." Prothos' smile looked gently at his lover.

...***...

Melody and Anna were at the dinner table. Anna is busy with her laptop is making a report of the results of the OSIS meeting while Melody is just sitting in front of her playing her mobile phone.

"Why don't you just go with Niko, Melo?" Anna asked, her gaze still focused on her laptop screen and her hands were still typing.

"Monday until Friday she sat next to me, I was tired of seeing her. He always speaks strange things in Russian that I don't understand."

"You're bored with him? Then how will you get married? You'll live with him." Anna replied immediately stopping her activities. "You better think about marrying her after graduation. You're too young to get married, don't you regret it."

"Isn't it the same? Anna's sister will also marry Ars' sister after you graduate. You're too young." Answer Melody.

"It's different. You don't like Niko, you even say you're tired of being with her."

"Are you really getting married, brother?" Melody asked Anna. "From the beginning I was sure you'd be married to Ars's brother."

"I'm talking about you, you don't switch the conversation." Anna. "Melo, you better think again, I know that you don't really want to marry Niko, but because of your brother's stupid act, you're agreeing to it."

"No brother, I've decided, don't say anything now."

"You like Lion, don't you?" Look Anna.

Melody silently did not answer, she focused again on her cellphone.

"Armrghhh!!" Anna was upset. "You two are the same. I can no longer talk to you two. This pisses me off. Oh, my God, my head is getting sick."

Melody looked at Anna who was holding back her emotions from being upset. But he did not want to say anything to respond to his future brother-in-law.

"Then go with her today. You should be with him more often." Anna Exclamation.

"Why do I have to be with her more often?"

"Let you die of boredom or start liking it." Anna was still upset.

Melody kept shaking.

...***...

Athos sat on the couch at the beauty salon that was owned by Prothos. Waiting for Tasya who is doing treatment with her hair.

He took a picture of his lover and uploaded it to his social media account without any caption. It didn't take long for the photo to get a lot of comments from its followers.

You're really a dream boyfriend. Who wants to accompany his girlfriend to the salon today? Only you!

I'm so jealous of your boyfriend. What did he do to make you love him so much?

You're very busy but you're still with your boyfriend, when he's engaged. May you always be together until marriage.

Hope your relationship is quickly resolved.

Don't give up and keep fighting for his parents' blessing. Support you.

There was a smile on Athos' lips. Then he looked at all his posts all along. All of them are photographs together with Tasya or photos of Tasya alone. All of those photos get comments that are mostly positive comments. Everything went as Athos wanted.

"What's up, Ato?" Tasya turned from where he was sitting to see his lover smiling.

Athos simply gave the heart symbol with his finger to Tasya.

...***...

After traveling for almost three hours due to traffic jams. Eventually Prothos and Widia reached their destination.

"Do I have to wear a mask to cover my face again?"

"No need." Widia smiled. "Let everyone see my girlfriend's good looks today."

The two of them got out of the car and took a walk in the garden filled with so many towering trees. Many of these trees are decades or even hundreds of years old.

"Master, why did you become a biology teacher?" Prothos asked as he clasped his lover's hand walking around looking at the trees.

"I don't know why either. Maybe because I'm curious about living things. The nature of living beings and their circumstances are like something difficult to understand. Of the three living things all have nothing in common, humans, animals and plants. They have their own nature and their own way of survival."

Prothus saw what his lover had said. Occasionally without shame on those around him he kissed the hand of the lover he held.

"But of the three plant-dwelling creatures that amaze me."

"What's wrong? Why plants?" Ask Prothos wonder.

"Humans and animals survive on food and drink, breathe oxygen, and socialize with each other in ways that other living things can see. But it's different from plants." Widia Bright. "Have you ever seen them socialize or communicate with each other?"

Prothus shook his head because it was true what his lover said. Plants never show when they are chatting or greeting each other to other living things.

"Actually they help each other. They communicate through the roots. They will share information even that information is not only passed on to their next-door neighbors, but information can be relayed chain, such as domino effect, to more and more neighbors, he said, and humans won't be able to see when they do. They also share nutrients with their relatives. And did you know that plants actually have more senses than humans?"

Prothos shook his head, he was very enthusiastic to hear the explanation of his lover who looked very happy when talking about plants.

"Indeed, plants have no brains, but without brains even without neurons, they can do many things that humans can only do using the brain and other sense organs. For example, without eyes, plants can know a lot of information about light. Without the nose, they can find out chemical information such as smell. Without ears they can understand sound vibrations, and plants can understand electrical cues, temperature, electromagnetic forces, strong metals, pathogens, gravity and others."

"You're really a biology teacher, ma'am." Prothos.

Widia smiled.

"Plants are also different when making their food with other living things. What do plants need in photosynthesis?" Widia stopped walking and looked at Prothos.

"First water, then carbon dioxide, chlorophyll, and lastly sunlight." Answer Prothos.

"All it takes is water, carbon dioxide and chlorophyll." Widia.

Prothos fell silent, knowing that the answer was correct. Sunlight is needed for photosynthesis, but he does not want to interrupt the words of his lover. And indeed in some recent studies even without sunlight photosynthesis can still be done. But still needed light that can come from wherever it comes.

"You know, sunlight is everything for plants. Sunlight is most desperately needed and is a complement to photosynthetic poses."

"What is it like me that completes you?"

Widia just smiled.

...–NATZSIMO–...