MELODY MUSKETEERS (M911 & TTM)
086. WE ARE VERY SIMILAR

Prothos sat in the hospital cafeteria alone watching himself who had just met some of the media interviewing him. A television that was there displayed her saying only a few sentences. It made some people who were in the hospital cafeteria also whispered to look at him.

'Athos is still in intensive space, he is still not past his critical period. We need your support to get through this. That's all I can say.' Prothos said on television.

Prothos took his eyes off immediately when the number of notifications he got from me social media that he opened on Mona's mobile phone. In an instant Prothos gained an enormous number of followers on his account, reaching almost a million followers.

"It's so exhausting." Prothus' murmurs rubbed his face as was his custom.

Prothos closed his social media account and was diverted to the gallery folder on Mona's phone. With a hint of hesitation Prothos opened it. He looked through hundreds of photos in the gallery.

"When she wears ordinary clothes and her hair is unraveling, she's pretty good too." Prothos comments when seeing some photos of Mona. "The style of dress can be too, she has a unique style. All this time I've only seen him wear a hotel uniform and tied hair. Unfortunately because of her way of speaking like that, she's not my type at all."

Prothos lowered his cursor to look at longer photos taken and look at a photo of Mona with a man. Prothos knew that the man was Mona's ex-lover who made Mona his mistress.

"He should have deleted these photos." Prothos was about to remove it but stopped because he realized something.

Even he does not have memories with Widia at this time. Prothos who does not have a mobile phone makes him not save a single photo of his togetherness with Widia. His sense of regret within him began to reappear.

Mona receives a phone call, and the name Vino Ex appears on the screen. Seeing her makes Prothos know that she is Mona's ex-lover.

"Mona, did I hear you moved to work? Where do you live now?" Ask the guy on the other end of the phone. "I want to see you."

"He's at work right now so don't bother him." Prothus answered it.

"Who are you?"

"I'm his master." Answer Prothos

The man named Vino immediately hung up the phone without saying anything more. Just this time Prothos answered the incoming call on Mona's phone, usually Prothos never answered even if the name of Mona's friend who appeared yesterday.

Prothos took a look back at Mona's gallery, and saw a photo of the girl celebrating her 18th birthday with her ex-boyfriend on December 31.

"It turns out the age difference between me and him is not up to two months" Prothos said looking at the photos.

Then Prothos saw a video taken in September last year. The video shows Mona studying in her room.

"It turns out that college was really tough, if it wasn't for wanting to be a teacher, I wouldn't be going to college." Mona muttered in the video talking to herself. "I plan to become a killer teacher lest anyone dare to refute my words!! YOU'RE ALL GONNA DIE BAD BOYS!!" Mona screams in the video.

Unknowingly Prothos laughed seeing it.

...***...

Leo welcomed his daughter's return from the hospital in the afternoon. Niko drives Melody home, while Lion hitchhikes with them in Niko's car.

"Are you okay?" Leo and Melody asked. "Come in, Grandpa's waiting too. Niko come in first, eat a snack with Melo and accompany grandpa for a moment."

"All right." Answer Niko.

"Lion, wait a minute!!" Leo exclaimed as Lion was about to walk towards his house.

Melody watched him and wanted to know why her father had called Lion. And Niko too.

"I'm still full, I don't want a snack." Lion.

"Take me to the laundry to get the laundry." Exclaimed Leo.

"Wear is a lot, Niko's hand is still like that. Now you also dare to refuse my request Lion. I want to give you Italian souvenirs."

"By-by?" Lion immediately ran into Melody's courtyard with a smile.

Melody went straight into the house with Niko behind her. Niko felt that Lion was already very close to Melody's father, it made her become jealous at this time.

...***...

Lion put the washed and ironed clothes into the trunk of the car. The number is indeed so much that Lion had to repeatedly transport it back and forth, while Melody's father, Leo, only ordered Lion while leaning on his car.

"You're too much of a father, you enslave a child while you're just standing there." Lion complained after putting everything in the car. "I'm sorry I've been fooled by being lured by souvenirs from Italy that are just chocolate, even though I was hoping you would give me a Panerai watch. I'm also sure you bought the chocolate at the airport, right?!"

Leo, Melody's father paid no heed to Lion's chatter and got straight into the car. In a fit of annoyance Lion also walked into the steering wheel chair.

"You're a family that likes to torture me." Mumbled Lion while running the car.

"Lion, what's your response to Niko's plan to marry Melo?"

Finally what Lion thought was right, Melody's father took her away for sure because he wanted to discuss the matter with her.

"You're Niko's friend, right? What kind of person is he? Will Melo be able to live with her?" Ask Leo again because Lion has not answered his question at the beginning.

"Niko was a very nice person, she was always honest, so sometimes she sounded like she was showing off. Melon must have known that, too, so she agreed, right?" Lion focused on looking towards the front road.

"Melo's character is exactly the same as his mother, no difference at all. Melo once told me that she was going to marry a man who looked like me, it must be because she felt that only a man like her father could make her comfortable. Melo's nature is very cold and stubborn at anything, only a warm man is able to soften it. I don't think it's Niko."

"Uncle, what do you mean?"

"Lion, we have a lot of similarities. In addition to the meaning of our names and our dates of birth are the same, you can also always handle the nature and attitude of Melo. You're the only one who's been able to soften Melo."

"No uncle, I'm just trying to give in because I'm afraid of you guys if Melon gets angry." Resist Lion.

"So you don't mind if Melo marries your friend Niko?" Look at Leo to the Lion who never once looked at him.

"Melon agreed, right? Yeah, even though I'm having a little trouble because they're so young. I just feel sorry for Melon who couldn't realize her dream of getting married at such a young age that she wasn't even sixteen yet."

"Alright, I've caught your word." Said Leo. "It's not until Melo's sixteenth birthday is two months away, I'll ask Niko to get married after she turns sixteen."

Lion held the steering wheel very firmly with both hands, he held back his sense of regret towards him who could do nothing.

"It's too fast. Finally my beloved daughter should I let go to a young man, even he will leave me and live in a very far place. It's so sad." Said Leo leaning against the car seat and exhaling. "All right, Lion?"

"Geez, then you can move to Russia, Dad!!" Lion looked at Melody's father.

"Don't call me dad!!" Excited Leo glanced at Lion. "You are not my son!! You are a nobody!! From now on don't call me dad!!"

"All right, Leo." Said Lion with laughter.

Melody's father just laughed when Lion called her by her name.

We're very similar. Inner Leo.

...–NATZSIMO–...