THE BAD BOY OF MANHATTAN
Chapter 47. Anything For Emma.

"Geez, Elric .. you're home." Alya was suffocated to see her only son at their home in Greenwich.

Elric smiled as he squandered at his mother's embrace. For a month he had not seen his mother. They only communicate occasionally through cell phones.

"Where's Nathan? (where's Nathan)?" elric asked as he spread his gaze around the room, also upstairs. He did not see his father.

"There's a Hellbound studio, haven't been home since yesterday. They're working on a new single." Alya led her son towards the dining room. There was Lupita who was preparing lunch on the table. "Guide me to lunch, huh?" alya pinta.

Elric nodded. Then he pulled out a chair and let Alya sit down. The gentlemanly attitude of his son made the woman smile happily.

"Hi, Lupita," she said to Lupita, the housekeeper.

"Hello, Young Man." Lupita returned Elric's greetings and the young man replied with a smile. Elric then threw his gaze at the mother who was preparing a lunch plate for him.

"How's East Harlem? Do you feel like you live there?" ask Alya.

"yeah. Pretty fun." Elric chewed on the piece of meat.

"Before I married your father, I lived in Harlem. I understand the environment there. You're not having any trouble?"

"Before I lived East Harlem, I was used to blending in there. I have a lot of friends there."

"Yes. I-i know. My message, don't get involved in things that could hurt you." Alya's face looked worried.

"You just calm down. I can take care of myself." Elric smiled faintly, then grabbed the glass filled with white water and gulped it down. "I ... share an apartment with Emma ... ehmm ... Miss Lopez, to ease the rent."

Alya raised both eyebrows. "Miss Lopez lives in East Harlem?"

"Yes." Yeah."

"Ah, that's great. All of you Miss Lopez can continue your personality course," Alya said. Inexplicably hearing the name Emma Lopez who became Elric's flatmate made his heart feel calm. The girl can watch and take care of Elric. Alya thought that maybe he would meet Emma and leave her only son to her.

Elric chuckled at his mother's words. Emma got him excited about his days. The girl also made him come back excited for music.

"Mom .. can I ask you something?"

"Yes, El ... What is it?"

"I'm planning on selling my car."

"You mean the car your father bought you as a birthday present?"

Elric nodded. "I want to help my friends and also donate the proceeds to orphanages and homeless people." Describes. "I don't need that car. I'd rather use the subway" he continued.

Alya's eyes were rounded. Didn't the woman hear wrong? It's so exciting to hear the words of Elric. His son's intentions are noble.

"How's it?" ask Elric.

"I don't mind. I'm just so happy. I'm sure your father won't mind either." Alya was unceasingly smiling. He saw a significant change in Elric's attitude.

"Can you help me sell it?"

"Sure, El, sure." Alya returned to smile. Oh, that son looked radiant. His handsome and adorable face looks warm. Much different from a few months ago Elric always showed his cold face. Even to him, his own mother.

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Elric had not met Ryan and Michael for several days after he resigned from his job at Fat Tony. The two friends initially protested Elric's decision, but after the young man told him he was joining a band in Columbia, they finally supported his decision.

"Noah will be free in a few weeks." Ryan gave me news.

"Owh, really?" Elric and Michael spoke at the same time.

"Yeah .. parole."

Elric sipped a beer and smoked his cigarette deeply. "Nice (good)," he said. Noah was like his own brother. Although he breng sek, but the young man who taught Elric to stand on his own feet and not be afraid of anything that will happen in his life. "I can't wait to get him out of prison" he said.

"Yeah, me too" said Michael. The three toast Noah's freedom in a few weeks.

"Hey, how's your household with that fierce girl, El?" goda Ryan made Elric laugh.

"Obviously. What should it be? We're just sharing an apartment" Elric said.

"No progress?"

"Progress?"

Ryan clenched his fingertips and stuck them to each other forming a mark like a kissing person. Elric looked at it. "No, no .. I don't dare."

"You're kidding." Now Michael is screeching. "You like Emma and don't try to take the opportunity to be a little aggressive?"

Elric shook his head. "I still love my nose."

"Is Emma that horrible?" ask Michael.

"All women would do the same if suddenly someone kissed her without permission. I haven't even said anything about how I feel about her."

"You haven't tried it yet, have you? After all, you already know each other and live in an apartment." Ryan expressed his opinion.

"It looks like Erlic will just get stuck in the friend zone" quipped Michael.

Elric scratched his semi-cool hair. Although the idea of his two best friends sounds ridiculous, but he is intrigued to try it. How about kissing Emma while the girl's asleep?

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Elric slowly opened the apartment door. The living room looked empty. But he saw Emma's sweater hanging in the corner of the room. Emma is home from work. He hesitated to walk to the door of the girl's room and knocked slowly.

There was no answer after a while he knocked on the gray-painted door. He pressed the door and opened it. Apparently Emma didn't lock the door to her room.

Elric looked at Emma who was sound asleep on her bed. The clock shows at eleven o'clock at night. Of course Emma's bedtime has arrived since an hour ago.

He approached Emma's bed and sat cautiously on its edge. For a moment he noticed the peaceful face of the girl who was in the dreamland. Beautiful, sweet, adorable. That was the scene before Elric's eyes.

He looked at Emma's thin lips that were met with red. Either because the lipstick that the girl had not had time to clean or the natural color of Emma's lips is like that. He hesitated to bring his face closer to Emma's. But, he wanted to feel his lips touch the lips of the long-haired girl.

Perse tan's! Elric's gonna kiss Emma right now. However, not yet had his lips landed at the destination, Bugggh.

Elric's hand immediately cupped his nose which was hit by something. "Auch!" his screeches.

"Elric! What are you doing (what are you doing)?!" Emma's eyes were now rounded as her hands clenched to launch another blow. He set aside his intention to reward a raw bogem on the face of someone who was about to touch it. He was awakened by a breath of fresh air that hit his face.

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