_The past within the present?

After placed the orders, we randomly chatted about our boss, aka my dearest uncle from my paternal side; retirement, departure and et cetera. Not so many customers at this hour because, yeah, we got early here almost 12 at noon and the surrounding fairly calm and comfy enough for me.

"Hey!" Romeo suddenly spoke and turned his focus on me.

"What?" spontaneously I responded to him and turned the focus like him.

"What happened with your housemates? The evil triplets? That's quite long you've didn't mention their stories. Did they still bothering you emotionally or physically?"

He expectedly opened the topic about those triplets. I groaned out loud while recalling the last night events.

"Urggh..." I rolled my eyes while shaking my head. So disturbing.

"Not to mentioned their loud snoring, they came back with wasted self early in the morning. The Lily girl kept knocking on the door like wanted to shattered that poor door with her loud banging at 3 am. I just happily hope that her hand will bruises from what she did."

I continued again. "Then the others two came back in the same state at around two hours later. You know how I feel when somebody ruining my slumber? They got keys set each other but didn't use it at all. I knew they purposely do that and got me miserables all this morning to try to sleep back! but I couldn't at all. I was not able to sleep earlier like I expected it."

I huffed while crossing my hands angrily.

"Yeah I knew well about your beauty slumber..." he looked at my face.

"No wonder I could see your puffy eyes. Not to say about your earlier flooded cheek before. God, you look like a Chinese girl with small eyes but still cute!" He laughed teasing at me while trying to reach to pinch my cheeks.

"Stupid! I was made by mixing together between Chinese and Malay genes, Romy. Don't you remembered about it?" I sneered at him swatted his hands playfully.

"Yeah-yeah I got that. You don't have to say it out loud of your dirty thought woman!" he retracted his hands and making disgusted faces. I laughed wholeheartedly love to tease the Romeo.

"Well anyway just want to say that that is why you should kick them out from there as per I advised you before but to think again nothing to worried about cause boss and his lady already offered the salvation. Isn't it? So I guessed you better to off yourself from those creatures first before they attack you with their new strategies. I don't even like them. Beauty with evil heart! Me as a guy would rejected them when I know how evil they were."

He scoffed at their attitude retribution and kept babbling like a mother scolding her stubborn child. I didn't knew that he loves to talking to me this much before but I do appreciate it because he did concerned about my well being. Unlike my uncle, he's not very talkative person but once he start talking serious, he will talk to you from the beginning until the ending and should absorbed every single details.

If I don't glued the detail into my head, he would deducted my allowances as per the mistakes I did. He also had the merit system in his line of work. Basically, minus the point. Hmm...below that certain average point you will receive something. I don't want to mention it because it's too embarrassing. Nuh-uh! No!

"So insolence. That spoilt brats! And you are so easily becoming their own personal maid. What are you? Their Cindralella? To expect all the job done?"

He scrutinized me, called me Cindralella instead of Cinderella, suddenly after did cursed them and I stared blinking didn't know what to say because I got carried away...zoned out for certain period of time.

"I called you Cindralella because you not pretty like Cinderella." That was the only reason he could come out off of me. I thought he was more stupid than I do! Yeah...he told me long ago when I was opened up to him about my life before.

Yeah, the reality is I was so brave with my inner self only. Could do my rainbow curses within meself but couldn't utter a single word to back up openly. How pathetic who I was, right? It's true and I knew it.

For the certain times I could expressed it out loud then regrets it later because the responds that I got back (dared to fight back!). I sighed inwardly 😪😓.

I laughed nervously shortly before him, showcased my dimples set on my corner lips. Twitching my lips, I feel bad about my behavior. I did some therapy when my uncle claimed me from those horrible persons.

"Sorry about that. Couldn't help it but I'm trying to get a hold of myself. However, I'm not sure if that Hibiscus lady knew about her triplets. And, I wondered what if she find it out about them herself? Or would she knew already about it or be startled by them?"

I grumbled before sipping my delivered drink awhile ago. Romeo stunned and smirking evilly, out of the blue. Raising an eyebrow getting interested, I looked at him. Must be something in his head, right? Sometimes, his typical brain could produced something brilliants instead of his childish thought.

With wildly grinning, he type off something on his phone.

No, actually I was stupid enough not to think something before and he just the one whose could let meself wondering almost to blank: how come I never crossed to that things before? And he just said: I just saying it. Plus, it was a common thing, dude!"

I give you some example:

When I was on my duty, driving the truck while he sitting beside me, I forgot to bring my handsfree. Just to dangerous to answer the phone while driving, I ignored the call for a few times. He, Romeo just simply touched the loudspeaker button on the phone. So stupid I am at that time. No, he just told me after my out loud thought, that my brain hardly or too lazy to access the alternative way just to stick to one way.

I did that sometimes because I was to lazy to let my brain wandered to the other zone for the memory access. From what one of my therapist evaluation, she told us that it's happened when my previous guardian suppressed my thinking ways and only let me learnt the basics. If I'm against the law, I'll be severely tortured but during recovery I'll showed them good responds but sometime it will be the glitches somewhere. And I did to overcome it until I'll do 100% sure....cured but not yet. I was not cured yet.

But, can he just answered the phone for me? He just sit there do nothing!

"I think I have a solution for that."

"How?" returned back from slight memory, I happily asked.

"Through recording. I've already told Danny about that and he agreed to lend his devices. So, the sooner we install it the better we can proceed but please...once it's done you have to act normally. Not do something to trigger that they being watched. You got that?"

"Crystal clear! I just worried about the Hibiscus lady, that's all." I shrugged it off.

Being watched was a bad thing not only for me. Who likes to being watched by someone, not to say someone unknown. I knew it because I've been through that before without my consent. I hate myself for the acting normally part because I was the main lead, which mean I need to perform the act 'very normally'. I knew I could do it like usual but deep down still worried about the after. Oh...hope everything is going well not like my previous life.

About that Hibiscus lady, I wondered how come she's came from my maternal side? Is it true she was one of long distant aunts? I bet momma not pleased with that Hibiscus and her kin. How possibly I knew it if that lady just appeared in my life after both my parents perished forever claimed that they willingly be the legal guardian to me, switch the hand and took me in again? What kind of game was they played before? I was the pawn but pawn of what?

"I knew she was a horrible person but nevertheless she's still your family bound by blood. Urggh...I felt really bad whenever I mentioned about it. *scoff* What kind family she was when abandoned, abused you?"

Romeo looked away. I knew how he feels bad about it but after all he was a good listener from the beginning and made me smile often and now I was happily to showcased my smile when I wanted it to happen, with whom who I wanted to smile. Just so happy he always around to support me along with Sofea and the rest.