He's The Unaffordable
Chapter 26 - Brother

“Who's your name .. ah, yes. Hadiyan.” Reese crossed both hands in front of her chest. “Are you friends with this thief?” He's really a lowly human being. Just because he found stuff in my room that day, doesn't mean I kept it there. Does he always have to incite everyone to hate me?

“Hurp?” Hadi looked at me carefully. We just got to know each other, I was trying to find my real family, and now he must have thought that I was a bad guy who didn't deserve to be part of his parents' best friend's family.

“Iya. If I were you, I'd check if anything was missing from my bag. He's a master thief who can take valuables without your knowledge.” Reese lifted her chin and looked at me with disdain.

“Why are you so sure that he is a thief?” ask Hadi who is still staring at me. “NOTiced from his face, he is an honest man.”

Reese laughed mockingly. “What did you say? An honest man? She stole my mother's diamond necklace and the evidence was in her room. Judging from the clothes, bags, and everything she wears that are not cheap, I'm sure she earned money from stealing.”

“Is he your friend, Mila? Why is he so aggressively accusing you?” ask Hadi. I opened my mouth to answer her question.

“He must still use my parents' name as his name too,” Reese said quickly. “You can't guess who he is and his relationship with my family? Good thing we've broken up or I have to bear the shame of all his charitable deeds.”

“After seeing your barbaric action last night at the hotel, I can't believe your words are entirely true.” This time Hadi looked towards Reese. The girl's eyes were round, not believing what she had just heard. “My friend and I are enjoying our time together, can you leave us and stop saying bad things about him?”

“What? Don't you trust me? Do you think I'm lying? He's lived in my house, my parents' house for years. So, I know what he really is. They nurtured her well since she was a child, see how she retaliated against them. She fakes her academic grades, steals, even acts cheap on men,” spray Reese.

“Reese, enough,” said a woman standing by his side. I've known her as Reese's personal assistant since she became a famous teen model. “Sam has tried to shut up all the reporters last night for your attitude at the hotel. Don't make another incident. Agency could go bankrupt because of you.”

“Agency has a lot of money because of me. What's wrong with the agency also spending a little money for me?” Reese pushed the assistant away from her, then looked at Hadi. “Listen, yes. I said everything about him for your own good. Do not let you later regret after he managed to steal something valuable from you.”

“I asked you to leave us. Why do you keep giving me unimportant advice?” Hadi looked around us, then raised his hand. A male servant came closer.

“There can I help you with, Sir?” ask the young man politely.

“This woman has disturbed the comfort of me and my friend. Can you throw him away from us? I beg you,” pinta Hadi. The waiter looked at Reese wryly.

“No need, Sir. We're leaving here,” said assistant Reese who immediately pulled her hand away from our table.

“Let me go! What are you doing!? I'm not done talking to them. Let go of me!” The girl rebelled, trying to free herself, but the woman did not let her loose again.

The waiter standing next to us let out a sigh of relief, then beg. I looked towards the direction where Reese and her assistant were going. They took their food and drinks on the counter before leaving the cafe.

“Mila Foster, Reese Foster,” Mumbles Hadi. A smile adorned his lips. “Why haven't I thought about that before? I even forgot that Foster is your last name.”

“I'll change my name once I know what my real name is. Father and Mother Foster are willing to help me take care of all the documents later. But for a while, this was my legal name. And yes, he is my foster brother.” I lifted both my shoulders. “She is a good girl. I don't know what made him turn into that.”

“Easy only. He's jealous of you. You are beautiful, smart, and independent. I'm sure his parents are also very affectionate and often boast of you in front of him. Over time he feels that you are a rival, not his brother anymore,” Hadi said casually.

“Ha ha ha. Very funny,” he said sarcasm. “So, am I right? I'm saying that because last night he was acting that way on my sister's best friend's birthday. How long have you been in their family? I just can't stand a minute of being nearby.”

“Maybe eight or nine years. I don't remember exactly. We first met at a hotel in Parapat. I was there a lot because I got free food. Reese loved to play with me, so her parents decided to raise me to be their son. Since I have no parents or guardians, the adoption process is quite long and long.

“He is very sweet and we live as brothers in harmony. I'm sure you'll like him. She wouldn't be a teen model whose career is speeding up if she was an annoying person.” I'm laughing a little. “I told you, he wasn't like this first.”

“Hopefully you can meet your biological family soon. So, you can keep laughing this happy,” he said sincerely. I felt my eyes heat up to hear it.

“Thank you.” Hopefully this is the family I'm looking for, so I don't have to go far to find them. “Ah, yes. I was gonna ask you something. Ng, but I forgot.”

“You asked me why I could recognize you,” said Hadi helping me remember.

“Ah, yes. Thank goodness you remembered it,” I said in relief. He lowered his head, so I waited until he answered my question.

“You can laugh if you consider this an outdated thing. Aunt Claudia and Mama agreed to marry me to a child in the womb of Aunt Abby, if she is female.” Hadi started his story. “Clarissa was born and according to their stories, we are very familiar and inseparable.”

Clarissa. That's my name? What a beautiful name. I can imagine how happy my parents were, as well as my grandparents were when I was born. They thought of a boy from a good family to marry me to. If they are my family, then this is more than I expected. They are a family more than I dreamed.

They do not stop searching and hope to find their lost grandchildren. I could see that when they first met me. They were careful that I would not be suspicious of their sudden attention. There must have been a girl or a girl who was frightened by their attitude so they learned to change their strategy.

Eighteen years, it was a very long search and wait. How much money have they spent looking for the little girl? How many times have they been heartbroken for not finding him? Now I understand why Hadi didn't allow me to meet them in person and offered to do a DNA test.

“I'm not really interested in romance, so I think this childhood promise caused that to happen. It was not just the Clarissa family that needed the end of their wait. Me either. Therefore I was always present on the anniversary of his parents' death. Aunt Abby's face I can remember well, as well as Aunt Claudia's.

“That's why I feel familiar with your face. But I didn't immediately recognize you as a girl similar to Aunt Abby. I only realized it when we were talking about you after Dira.”'s birthday show He ended his story.

“The story of you and the boy is so sweet, why do you think I would consider him out of date? Even though we are already in a very advanced time, there are always couples who get married because of arranged marriages or promised when they were little.” I smile.

“I hope you don't start thinking about treating me as your future husband. Because during the test it has not shown a positive result, you are not him.” She spoke in a serious tone, but I laughed at her.

“I bet. If love grows between us, then you will be the first one to fall in love.” I smiled meaningfully.

“I hate women who are overconfident. Enough Dira who always talk nonsense like that,” said Hadi with a tone of dislike.

“You hate women who are confident or hate defeat?” my tease.

“Yang second. Hadi really hates losing. She will be crisp like a woman with PMS if she loses the competition,” said a girl who came from the side of the table. Hadi and I turned to him and took surprised breaths.