Magnus woke up in bed the next morning. Alec was sleeping beside Magnus and his both arms wrapped around Magnus. Magnus looked up at Alec's innocent sleeping face with a happy smile. The peaceful atmosphere made him felt so much appreciated. Magnus blinked his eyes sleepily and started to think of another person who he's been with yesterday.
When Magnus walked out from the bedroom to the living room, his heart dropped because the house is so quiet and peaceful. And the most important fact is that he was all alone standing there.
'Where is Kazaf?' Magnus feeling panic and the old memories began to wash over him. Is that possible that Kazaf was leaving him again? Not even bother to tell him a proper goodbye?
Magnus worried heart racing fast, then he ran and checked all the rooms. But the sad thing is Kazaf was nowhere to found. At the end, Magnus sat on the couch quietly, until Alec's soft voice calling his name.
"Magnus?" Alec said after a yawn. "Are you okay? What's wrong?" It's easy for him to notice Magnus's sad face.
"Is there something bothered you?" Alec asked in concern tone. Then, he kneeled down in front of Magnus, hold Magnus's hand gently and spoke again. "Why you looked so sad? What's wrong?"
"He left." Magnus whispered.
"Who left?" Alec looked confused at first, but then he asked again in a hesitation. "Do you mean Kazaf? But where did he go?"
"The problem is that I don't know. I can't find him either… He's not at home already when I woke up in the morning." Magnus looked broken. "He left again. Such a big liar, I should never believe him."
Alec sighed. "Maybe… He's just going out for something? I think no matter where he go, he sure will come back to here soon. Don't be so worry, okay?"
"No. He's won't coming back anymore. He always the same… He done this before many times. Why I am so blind and stupid, not even realized this. I'm actually believe what his promised to me yesterday… I am really stupid." Said Magnus with a disappointed voice.
Alec cupped and caressing Magnus's face gently.
"Don't be overthinking. I trust him. Maybe he is going out a while for something. I believe that he will coming back soon. Okay?"
"No, he won't. He is not coming back." Magnus sighed sadly and looked up at Alec. "Whatever, I'll be fine. Who care about that… I should better get ready to face my own life by my own, and with your company of course." Magnus smiled at Alec, but his eyes full of troubles and worries.
Alec shook his head. "Hey, I am here. You are never be alone."
Magnus nodded.
"Go to get a fresh change." Alec pressed a tender kiss on Magnus's forehead. "Let us find something to eat, then I will accompany you to find Kazaf back."
"Who said I want to find him back?" Magnus frowned.
Alec laughed. "Okay. Not you want to find him back, but me. Magnus, I want to find my brother-in-law back, okay? It's impossible for him to disappear all in sudden without proper informing us. That's truly rude, I should teach him a lesson about that."
"Yeah…Help me teach him a lesson." Magnus said.
"Sure." Alec confirmed. "Now, go get a change and then we will go for breakfast together."
Magnus nodded and walked into the bedroom again.
Looking at Magnus's back, Alec sighed and thought himself silently in the heart.
'Where are you going, Kazaf?' Alec frowned.
"Are you guys looking for me?" Kazaf's voice suddenly appeared from nowhere, which stunned Alec immediately.
"Kazaf!" Alec shouted out loud. "Where have you been? Magnus is worried about you."
"Shopping." Kazaf smiled with a satisfied look.
Magnus who in the bedroom rushed out to the living room when he heard Alec's shocking voice. Then, he eyes fixed on Kazaf, who looked clean and fresh in simple white shirt and blue jeans, totally a mundane style.
"Morning, Chocolate." Kazaf smiled. "How about having breakfast together?" Kazaf snapped his fingers to use magic bring back all his shopping stuff. After that, he pointed at the dining table which full of different kind of food.
"Wow~ Where did you get all of these?" Alec looked surprised indeed.
"I buy these with the money of course." Kazaf explained. "Mundane living style never cease to amaze me."
Alec asked in a shocking voice. "You have money to use?" It's hard to imagine how an angel able to have the mundane money and capable in shopping.
"Yes, he did bought all of these with money. Mundane's money." Another familiar woman's voice appeared suddenly.
"Catarina?" Alec looked confused when she saw Catarina showed up with full of grocery and shopping bags in her both hands.
"Cat, what's going on? How come you are coming here together with Kazaf?" Magnus looked at his old friend with an unbelievable look.
"We just went to shopping. I'm so glad to hear that Kazaf will staying at here for a while, so I think I should take the responsibility to assist him on buying some groceries and daily necessaries." Catarina saying happily.
"Care to make more explanation?" Magnus able to see how excited she is. But it's truly weird! Catarina should be his friend, instead of Kazaf's friend. How come Catarina looked like she is the one who have the longer and closer friendship with Kazaf?
"How come both of you looked so close? Why I not even realised this?" Magnus looked confused and a little bit shock indeed.
"It's a long story." Kazaf shrugged and can't waited to pick a seat for the delicious breakfast.
However, at the same time, Alec was more concern on other points which Catarina mentioned. Alec gazing at Kazaf with raised eyebrows. "So, Kazaf… Are you really planning to stay at here? Is that true?"
"Why asking me like this? Not welcome me?" Kazaf teased when he took a small bite of toast.
Alec smiled and waved his hand. "I'm happy to hear this news! Welcome home, Kazaf."
Kazaf grinned. "Thank you, my dear brother-in-law."
"WAIT!" Magnus suddenly screamed and kept his eyes on Kazaf. "How long are you gonna to stay here?"
"Well… It should depend on situation." Kazaf pointed to the food on dining table. "I'm damn hungry now. When will you guys planning to join me for the breakfast?"
"I…" Magnus planned to say something else but Catarina stopped him in time.
"Magnus, you should go get a change and come to eat breakfast. We can talk later." Catarina said.
"Yeah, don't waste it. I queue so long to buy these, you guys should faster join me." Kazaf looked up at Catarina and urged her too. "Hey, darling, come! You should taste this too." Said Kazaf when he took a sip of hot coffee.
Catarina laughed softly when she noticed Kazaf eating in a rush. "Take it slowly, Kazaf. When a person eats too fast and swallows the food without fully chewing it, the food is more likely to pass through the digestive tract without being completely broken down."
"Urghh… Don't use your 'nurse-style tone' to talk to me, Cat. There's nothing to worry about, okay? Because I don't think that I will break the record of becoming the first angel or first the prince of hell who facing mundane digest problem." Kazaf groaned.
Catarina shrugged with a grin and walked to the dining table.
"Chocolate, you should go to brush your teeth and get a change. Waiting for you to join us." Kazaf smiled. "Alec, you too. Come on! You gotta move it, guys."
Magnus and Alec exchanged a silent look.
"Fine. Whatever…" Magnus sighed defeatedly.
After about 15 minutes, Magnus was sitting there and having his breakfast with his friend and family. They had a chat while eating the food. However, Magnus not really focused on what he eaten because he was a little bit too shocked on what Catarina told him and Alec.
"That means you are having a secret contact with my brother behind me all the time? And you, my old friend, you are assisting on take care of me because I am a task that entrusted by Kazaf to you, am I correct?" Magnus's widen eyes fixed on Catarina. His face expression was shocked but hurt at the same time. As he never thought that Catarina, one of his oldest friend was keeping this kind secret from him.
"I am hard to believe this. Cat, you are my friend! How could you hide this from me? You should know that I was looking for Kazaf a very long time after he left me without a proper goodbye!" Magnus said angrily.
"Don't take it too personally, Mags." Catarina comforted. "I am not hiding it from you purposely. Remember? You are the one who started to forbidden me to talk anything about Kazaf at the very beginning. You're not even allow me to mention Kazaf's name in front of you some more."
Kazaf sighed. "Chocolate, it's not a big deal. Why so serious?"
"What do you mean that it's not a big deal? How do you so sure that not a big deal?" Magnus shouted back at Kazaf. "I was searching for you like a crazy man many years after gone. But how could you act like the whole co-operation between you and Catarina is nothing wrong? It's actually meant a lot to me!"
"Magnus…" Alec tried to calm him down but failed.
Magnus pointed to the cat, Chairman Meow. It was curled up behind Kazaf's seat now.
"That's why Chairman Meow recognized you and looked so close to you!"
Kazaf sighed again when Catarina shook her head.
"Mags, you previously thought that Kazaf was not concerning on you at all. But now already proved that he is still a caring brother to you, but then why are you looked so angry?" Catarina sighed too and tried to convince Magnus. "It's nothing, Magnus. Don't be stubborn."
"You seriously have to let it go. Don't let the useless thoughts blocked your head and affect your wise judgement." Said Catarina sincerely.
"I…" Before Magnus able to speak the second word, Alec stopped Magnus immediately.
Alec said. "Magnus, it's ok. You should be happy, it's not necessary to bring troubles to yourself. See? We are all sitting at here and having a breakfast together. This is already kind of blessing, doesn't it? The most important thing is that your caring brother that you longing for so long is back to you again."
"Alec!" Magnus shouted. "You should help me!"
"Yes, that's why I'm helping you now."
"Excuse me? When you helping me? You joined them to convince me like that I'm the wrong one who not supposed to make hard on Kazaf…" Magnus's agitated words stopped by Alec immediately.
"Magnus, there's no one said that you are wrong. It's okay to make complaint because Kazaf should never hide his caring towards you. However, in this case, it seems nobody get hurt…" Alec said.
"But I'm hurt!" Magnus looked serious and raised his voice uncontrollably.
The whole living room in a deep silence after that.
Everybody fixed their gazes on Magnus.
After a while, Magnus took a deep breath and spoke again in a defeated sad tone. "I'm hurt…You left me Kazaf… You left me alone. You don't even bother to show up yourself when I'm injured and dying. You should supposed to come personally, I never want you to assign anyone else to look after me. You are the one I need all the time…"
Catarina sighed deeply when Alec squeezed Magnus's shoulder to show his support on him and to comfort Magnus silently.
Kazaf looked at Magnus with a soft and apologetic glare. "Sorry for hurting you."
Magnus stunned by the sincerity of Kazaf.
Kazaf then took a toast and pass to Magnus. "Nah, take a bite. This is really delicious, Chocolate."
Magnus sent a dead glare on Kazaf. "I'm talking seriously to you right now. Please don't change the topic!"
Kazaf replied in an honest tone. "When did I change the topic? Just take this toast, it's my sincere apologizes to you."
Magnus stunned again by Kazaf's smiling face.
"Are you kidding to me? Am I a joke to you?" Magnus frowned.
"Forgive me, my dear little brother. You are the best brother in this world." Kazaf praised with a delightful tone.
Magnus hissed. "But you the worst brother in this world. I hate you."
Kazaf not angry at Magnus's comment but laughed happily. "It's okay, Chocolate. Because I will always love you, no matter what." Kazaf urged Magnus to take the toast again with a pleading sight. "Please just accept this toast. I'm starving, chocolate."
"What kind of angel you are? Starving your head!" Magnus pouted his lips again but took the toast anyway. "You should be grateful to have a brother like me generous enough to forgive you."
Kazaf nodded and the clapped his hands gently. "Thank you, Chocolate."
Magnus took a bite of the toast but still acted a cool manner. Catarina and Alec exchanged a grin, feeling happy for the brothers.
"Have some coffee." Alec helped Magnus to pour the hot coffee in the cup.
Magnus sent him a soft glare and eating the toast happily. But Magnus's smiling face disappeared very soon after Alec opened his mouth.
"My parents already back to Idris as per the clave's instruction." Alec suddenly said.
Magnus kept his mouth shut and looked like he was focused on his breakfast. But actually, Magnus was still troubled by the fact of Alec's parents not fully accept him to be their son-in-law.
Kazaf and Catarina noticed Magnus's sad face obviously.
Alec did noticed it too, but he's not really know how to comfort Magnus.
"It's okay to just ignore them." Alec said to Magnus, quite a firm tone.
However, Magnus has totally different point of view. "No, it's not okay to me at all, Alexander."
Kazaf sighed deeply and measured the couple silently.
"I don't want to pretend that like I don't care their thoughts anymore. Because I did cared about them, whether they ready to give us their blessing or able to approve our marriage or not…" Magnus looked down on his plate, his face was full of sorrow.
Alec bit his lips and not sure what to say at this moment. "I'm sorry… It's all my faults." Maybe other than these, there's no other sentences suitable for Alec to say anymore.
Magnus shook his head and looked back Alec, trying to ensure that it's not Alec's fault.
"Alec, please assist to make a proper arrangement soon. I'm hoping to have another chat with your parents." Said Kazaf.
Magnus and Alec looked surprise.
"Sure. I will arrange for it as soon as possible." Alec nodded.
"Thank you." Kazaf smiled.
"Kazaf…" Magnus seems wanted to say something to Kazaf but he's not sure what to say. What should he says? Should he thanks Kazaf's effort to try communicate with his in-law family for his marriage? Or should he stopped Kazaf as he not really wanted to bring troubles to his brother?
Magnus sighed sadly, his gazes once again staring back to his plate. He felt shameful indeed.
"Just leave it to me, Chocolate." Kazaf promised.
"But…"
"I'm your big brother. Let me take care all your problems for you, it's my responsibility."
Magnus looked up at Kazaf when he heard what Kazaf said to him. Kazaf's words made Magnus feeling warm.
"Hey… Maybe we should change to other topic. It's a great morning, we should not ruin the breakfast." Catarina suggested kindly. "It's very rare to have Kazaf having the breakfast with us. So, maybe Magnus you should just cherish on this moment, okay?"
Magnus nodded and said. "Okay." He smiled at Kazaf, and then Kazaf gave Magnus a silent nod to show his agreement.
Alec asked in hesitation. "Kazaf…So, how long do you planned to stay at here? And, there are few empty room here. Have you picked any room yet?"
Kazaf laughed gently. "Don't worry, I will handle it myself. You guys just live like your normal living style, I'm sure that it won't have any changes."
Magnus and Alec exchanged a silent glance.
After that, Kazaf took out a smartphone and showed to Magnus and Alec. "Here my new toy. I just dialled and missed call your phone. Please remember to save my phone number."
Magnus and Alec exchanged another surprised look silently.
"Contact me immediately whenever you need me. Of course, you all also able to try summon me if needed." Kazaf winked at them. "Normally I will mute the others' when they calling me. However, I will certainly reply to your call."
"Look like someone is getting seriously on what he had promised to me this time." Magnus asked again. "Really planned to stay at here?"
"I will take that room." Kazaf pointed to the room which nearby the living room, but totally different direction with Magnus and Alec's bedroom.
"Of course, I will do some renovation and set up a new design on it. For those parts, I will fix it myself, there's nothing for you to worry about." Kazaf added.
Catarina teased at Kazaf. "I don't think the room part is Magnus's concern. Just make sure you answer the phone and quick response if any calls from Magnus start onwards."
"Well said, Cat." Magnus looked at Kazaf with serious gaze. "You must let me know whenever and wherever you go out from here."
"I will try?" Kazaf said.
"Not just trying. I want you to promise me that you will do it." Magnus replied.
"Magnus, it's a hard condition. Not even I can do that if anyone of my siblings requested." Alec tried to be fair. But he decided to keep his mouth shut when he received another warning glare from Magnus.
"Maybe I need some privacy on it. Can I do it depend on the actual situation? You should know that sometimes emergency happened." Said Kazaf.
"Fine. But you must need to keep in touch with me all the time. I want to know what you are doing and where you are, if possible." Magnus narrowed his eyes.
"Well, it's impossible. Like what I said, emergency cases happened unexpectedly." Kazaf explained.
"Even like that, please at least keep in touch with me whenever the situation allowed." Magnus sighed. "This is my bottom line. Because I don't want to search where you are like a crazy man again. You seriously have many bad records in the past, you left me too many times and caused me lack of sense of security. It's all your faults, so you will have to bear the consequences yourself."
Kazaf sighed and sent a wry smile to Alec and Catarina.
"Kazaf, answer me." Magnus urged for the answer.
Then, everyone in the living room heard Kazaf said firmly. "Sure. No matter what, I will keep you updated of my status. Happy now?"
"A little bit happy now." Magnus admitted.
"Good." Kazaf nodded. "I will follow your rules, but you will have to follow my rules as well."
"What rules?" Magnus frowned.
"Not yet think of. Maybe tonight I will give you answer." Said Kazaf.
"Okay, be fair. If you follow my rules, then I will follow yours as well." Magnus confirmed.
Catarina shook. "Oh, come on. You two brothers just stopped from now. Please don't affect the happy breakfast mood."
"Without clarifying these, then how can I enjoy my breakfast?" Magnus shrugged.
Alec grinned. "Magnus."
"Don't Magnus me again. Alexander, you should always stand by my side. Got it?" Magnus stared at Alec.
Alec nodded and gave up. "I'll always be your supporter unconditionally."
"Glad to hear it." Magnus smiled in satisfaction, then he focused on Kazaf again.
"I'm your big brother, Chocolate. That means I am older than you too." Kazaf said.
"So what?" Magnus replied immediately.
"So, you will have to listen to me too." Kazaf laughed softly. "You should having your breakfast now. Then, we can looking for Azazel and Jonathan together."
Magnus nodded and smiled.
"Yeah. I can't wait to get my power back!"
[To Be Continued]