Happy at the End of the Dusk
My Handsome Man 7 Years Ago

My handsome guy? doesn't that sound very strange? it turns out I have an embarrassing childhood story:)!!😂

...~Syeza Anastasia...

Aahh it's been a week since I came home, a house that's been like a foreign place to me, how not? I have to conform to the rules and adapt to serve! I feel not free to do something because it is always served, ah it is like the king's daughter!. And I do not like it! and one more thing, if I have entered this house then I will have a small chance of being able to get out again! because I'm sure you'll be tightening security so that I'm not free to go anywhere without your knowledge! dad said "it's for my good! and so that I'm always safe!".

Aakhh but I don't even know if there is an enemy lurking at me?!.

"Can't you guys stop following me?!"

I stopped my steps and turned towards the two bodyguards who were following me starting from me leaving the room and going around the house.

"Sorry lady, this is an order from the great lord"

"Where is dad?! did he just give the order without showing his face before his daughter?! y'all know? I've even been here a week, but I haven't even met you!! aakhh you guys would love to see me like an untamed princess?!"

I put on a pouting face and sat on one of the sofas.

The guards were silent, they were confused too! after all it was impossible that they didn't ask the great master to come home? they had no more right to ask such a thing to a great master! while in one corner of the wall a black-clothed man who followed them secretly gave a small smile as he looked at the girl who was pouting.

"Ah you never change! you're still the same as a little girl 17 years ago!"

Inner man it is.

I then glanced at the two bodyguards who were still faithfully standing.

"Aren't you tired of standing like that?! there is still an empty sofa here, why are you standing?!"

"We're just......,"

"What is it, huh?!"

I cut their words.

"Just follow my orders?! aakhh why are you so obedient to father's orders?!"

I stood up and walked over to them and hooked my hands to their arms.

"Now there are no fathers so, you don't have to worry! and take it easy I'm not the kind of kid who likes to complain so I won't report you guys! so come and sit down!!"

I took them and sat them on the couch, and I stood before them.

"Miss what are you doing?!"

The two bodyguards were about to stand up but I held them back.

"Don't move a little! this is also an order!"

The two guards were silent.

"Why? you guys don't want to obey my orders?! can I report to my father that you refused my orders?!"

"No miss!"

"Well, then sit here quietly and don't follow me!"

"Miss...."

"It's an order!!"

I cut their words.

The two bodyguards who were about to stand up, sat back down on their sofa.

"Don't follow me or I'll report it to you! understand?!"

The two bodyguards only nodded with their eyes fixed focused forward.

I smiled and walked away from them.

After the shadow of her young miss, the two bodyguards looked panicked and were about to walk away after her young lady but a hand stopped them.

"No need, let me catch up with him! you guys get back to work!"

Hearing the voice that commanded them, the two bodyguards bowed their bodies.

"Okay sir!"

The two guards then walked away.

The man only smiled and then stepped out his feet following the girl called young miss.

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I stood pensively in front of a room, well a room that was forbidden by the father anyone should not enter without orders from the father, he said, the room that for years made me wonder what it was so that my father forbade people to enter including my daughter.

What exactly is the content of this room?.

"What are you doing here, miss?"

I looked to the origin of the voice that greeted me.

"Ouh? you?"

"You still remember me?"

I closed my mouth with both hands and smiled in disbelief at what I saw in front of me.

Do you know who the man standing in front of me is? his name is Fino Alvaro! he was my trust assistant, he worked long enough with my father and I was his big admirer, I first met him when I was 10 and he was 13 but it was only a few months, after that my father sent him to Amsterdam to study and today is our second meeting after 7 years of not meeting! aakhh he grew into a handsome man and looks dignified, his smile still remains the same never changed and the smile is still stunning and charming!.

Aakhh I remembered the embarrassing moment when I expressed love before he left for Amsterdam.

"You're still the same miss, your anxious behavior when you're upset and vent it out on someone else is still inside you, and that's what I love about you!"

"Ouhh?"

I'm speechless.

What the hell does this mean? he wasn't shooting at me, was he?.

"Now you've grown into a teenage girl!"

I just smiled clumsyly.

"It's been almost seven years haven't we never met? you're getting pretty!"

Uh-uh? my heart still beats when he says "beautiful" when I heard it 7 years ago!.

"How are you Miss syeza?"

"Oh, I'm good!"

I try to control my breath.

You don't have to feel bad, do you?.

Fino just smiled to see the behavior of his young lady who never changed, it turns out that the admiration for her is still there.

"You still admire me, don't you?"

"Ahahah it turns out that your level of confidence is still the same"

"I am the same as I was 7 years ago! then how about yourself? is it the same as it was 7 years ago?"

Ah what does he mean he said that he is still the same as 7 years ago? even the word she used to say was "beautiful!" not "love!" after all, wasn't it me who first expressed love to him? aahh wait is he mocking me?!.

I then poked towards him.

"Why are you looking at me like that, miss?"

"Well!! you're mocking me, aren't you?! listen carefully, what I said 7 years ago before you went to Amsterdam is not the right thing! back then I was too small to understand such things!"

"What did you say 7 years ago?"

I returned to squinting.

Did he really forget what I said back then? aahh but isn't that a good thing?.

I smile.

"Aahh you don't have to worry! I still remember very well what you said 7 years ago before I went to amsterdam!"

"Ouhh?"

My eyes fell wide, and I turned back to him.

His sucks!! is he playing me?! but, why can't I be mad at him?! why syeza?! are you really still a fan?!.

"What are you thinking? are you thinking about what you said 7 years ago? can I help you remind you?"

I turned around and shook my hand at him.

"Aahh apparently you still remember it well huh? I thought you'd forgotten it!"

Fino smile.

I closed my eyes for a moment.

Aakhh syeza why are you so stupid? you realize? you just said something you shouldn't have said!.

"But thank you for the past 7 years and thank you also for growing up to be a good and smart girl!"

I just grin.

"Do you remember my message 7 years ago before I went to Amsterdam?"

"Your message was 7 years ago?"

I furrowed my eyebrows trying to remember the message 7 years ago.

"Aakhh apparently you only remembered your statement 7 years ago and forgot my message!"

"That's because for 17 years my life was filled with love, so I just remembered that word"

I'm trying to make up things that might not make sense.

Fino seemed to be laughing.

"You laughing at me?!"

I was squeaking towards him.

"Ahah no!! I just thought that you were adorable from the moment you were born until you grew up you were still adorable"

"When was I born?"

"Aakhh I mean, since you were born you must have been the most adorable baby of the year so that when you grew up you were still adorable!!"

"Oohh"

I nodded but still thought about his words.

Ever since the baby? that sounds like he knows me from the baby, doesn't it?! aakhh but...., huuufff my head is really dizzy thinking about this!.

"Aiss what else are you thinking? I think you've grown into a thinker girl too!"

I rolled a lazy eyeball.

Fino smile.

"You listened to my message 7 years ago?"

I'm nodding.

"Aakhh you're so enthusiastic!"

I went back to looking at him.

"Well, I'll say!!"

Aakhh why do I look so familiar to him? maybe 7 years ago wasn't our first meeting? was it a meeting the other time? did I know him in the years before 7 years ago?.

"Do you remember this?"

Fino raised her right hand and showed me a red bracelet with the inscription on the bracelet that was coiled around her arm, I then approached and read the inscription on the bracelet.

"My handsome guy?"

I furrowed my eyebrows.

"Aaakhh don't you think this looks tacky?"

"really? you made it for me!"

"Ouh? did I make it?"

"Yah!"

Fino nodded.

"really? did I make it?! aahhh this....., I knit it myself?! really true?! aakkhh don't you think I'm an amazing girl?!"

My eyes immediately sparkled.

"Aakhh you just said this looks tacky but, a second later you said this is amazing?"

"That's because I don't know who made it!"

I tried to smile to hide my shame.

Fino laughed a little.

"But Iyh is right! you are a wonderful girl!"

"Aakhh you don't have to praise him!"

Fino smiled again.

"But how's the story of me knitting this bracelet?"

"Aakhh about that I don't really know, you just said that you learned it from your mother!"

"Aakhh iyh! mom is a good girl! but, I don't even remember those memories! all the memories about my mother, about my childhood, just disappeared without anything left in my brain!"

I smiled bitterly.

"Aakhh sorry, I didn't mean to make you sad!"

"It's okay! continue how was the story I gave you the bracelet? I want to know! that's part of my childhood story, isn't it?"

Fino smiled and nodded.

"Seven years ago the night before I went to Amsterdam you met me, gave me this bracelet on the grounds that I would not forget you! you said that you learned to knit it so hard just for this bracelet!"

"really? Aakhh I must have been so fond of you back then that I was so facetious of it!"

Fino smile.

"Then do I have a reason why I'm engraving such writing?"

"of course! I also had a chance to ask, why did you carve with my handsome man writing on this auction, then you said that out of all the men you know I was the most handsome man!"

"Ahahah, was that time I was so innocent? Aalhh I don't think so! I even said you're the handsome guy!"

Fino laughed a little.

"Don't laugh at me! that's embarrassing!"

"Alright!"

Fino tried to hold back her laughter.

"What was your message then?"

"you want to hear it?"

"Yah"

I'm nodding.

"At that time, I just told you to grow up to be a smart girl, a happy girl with no thought of pain! and you did well!"

"Aakhh really? am I a submissive girl?"

"Disabled!"

Fino shook her head.

"Ouh? no?"

"Yah! you only obey me while your father does not at all!"

"Hahahah, don't I look like that girl......? Aakhh that's a shame!!"

Fino and I laughed together.