Briana
Chapters 74. The Proposal for Clara

Leon was pensive in one of the chairs inside one of the luxury restaurants in Jakarta. The man occasionally glanced at the door to the toilet that his foster sister had just passed. Slowly he took out a red ring box that had been prepared by his two adoptive parents. I don't know what he's doing now, which must be the girl he already considers like his biological sister is indeed occupying space in his heart, although the space was not as big as the space for the girl in her past who was no longer in the world.

Upon seeing Clara again stepping towards him, he re-inserted the ring box into his pants pocket.

"Ma." Call slowly.

Clara, who had just sat on the chair in front of Leon, was silent for a while. Dinner was like this, they used to do it. Not only dinner, but lunch they often do together. The relationship between the two is very good. Leon not only acted like a brother to him, but also like a friend who was able to make his heart feel better. Until finally, he put Leon in a special room in his heart.

"There's something I want to say." Leon Said.

"Speak, Brother. Not that if you have something to talk about, you won't hesitate to talk to me?" Ask Clara wonder. "For what I said this afternoon, don't enter your heart, brother. I'm sorry if I made you uncomfortable. I just want to say what I feel, that's all." The guy feels guilty. Really he did not want Leon to stay away from her just because of the unilateral feelings he had. It doesn't matter if Leon can't get back at him, that's normal.

"I... " Leon was silent.

Clara chuckled at the nervousness on her adoptive sister's face. This was the first time he had seen Leon like a man who was afraid to say something.

"Before everything is too far away, I want to tell you someone who still occupies part of my heart's space." Leon's words made Clara go silent for a moment.

"The girl's name is Briana." Leon's words made Clara aghast.

"Don't tell Briana it's the same Briana...

" I don't know Clara. All I know is that the Briana I love died two months ago in a car accident. His body was not even found by officers. And only a few days ago I got word, if the accident was planned by her own husband.. "

"Dion Atmaja." Guess Clara and be justified by Leon with a nod of his head.

Clara's hand stretched out, then gently rubbed the back of her foster brother's hand.

"If you can accept that part of my heart is still occupied by her, then I am willing to go further than just dating. If you don't mind the thing I just said, then I'm willing to marry you." Leon is sure.

"Went married?" Clara asked to be sure, and again Leon nodded. "Sister, that's too rushed." Clara.

Leon shakes.

"We've known each other enough for years. I know what you are like, and so do you. We've been living at home for years. So, I thought, we don't have to date anymore just to get to know each other." Said Leon.

Clara looked at Leon deeply. Looking caught in the eyes of the man who had just rejected his love, however, he did not find it.

"Seriously?" Ask Clara to make sure.

"Sister, don't be burdened with my declaration of love this afternoon." Clara said slowly. Slowly he removed his hand from the back of Leon's hand.

"No, Ra. I wasn't burdened by your confession at all, to do this. I did intend to remove the name of the girl I couldn't have, and I thought this was the right way. I love you just as much as I loved her. That means, as time goes by, I will definitely love you too, just as time makes a sense of affection for her first, turning into love." Answer Leon.

This time he ventured to hold his foster sister's hand. Hoping, his confidence tonight, was contagious to the girl who was now bowed deeply before him.

"Just give me time." Say again.

"That's not a problem for me, brother. After all, the woman named Briana Kak is no longer in the same world as us. What I'm afraid of is, Brother did this just to keep my feelings." Clara.

Leon shook his head firmly. He was confident in his decision today. After Briana's departure a few years ago from the city of Bali, to date, no girl has been able to occupy her heart other than Clara. He loved the girl sitting in front of him, just as he loved Briana when they were part-time employees at a restaurant in their hometown.

"What should I do, brother? Do I need to persuade Dad about this?" Ask Clara quickly.

"You agree? You want to marry me?" Leon asked back. And Clara nodded quickly.

A smile on Leon's face was seen, accompanied by a sigh of relief that blew from his lips. Moments later, he took out a red ring box from inside his pants pocket, then opened the ring box in front of Clara.

"Son't you prepared this? When?" Ask Clara streak.

Slowly without answering Clara's question, Leon took out a white gold ring with a diamond on it and placed the ring on Clara's ring finger.

"If Dad doesn't approve of us, I'm ready to elope with you, brother." Clara said with tears dripping down her cheeks.

Leon laughed amusedly at the sentence that his little girl had just said. After making sure the ring was given by the father, already embedded beautifully in the ring finger Clara, he then rubbed the soft granules that pooled on the cheeks of the girl.

"Look, I'm ready to cross the ocean if you ask me to. Whatever I'm gonna do to marry you." Said Leon.

Clara glared at me hearing an impossible sentence spoken by a man like Leon. Moments later, the two men laughed together.

"So calm down, let me persuade Dad. Anyway Brother Leon is just preparing to be my husband, already. Don't think about crossing the ocean, I won't let you." His word.

"No, let me fight for you." Leon again said while holding back an amused laugh when he saw Clara again surprised by her chatter.

"I want to get married tonight. I'm gonna have you prepare for our wedding tonight." Said Clara gnawing.

Leon glared in surprise. He's gone if Clara really asks Dad to marry them tonight.