He snorted. "Yeah, seems like you a lot."
She bit her lips. "I'm really sorry, Seijurou."
"I forgive you and your Grandma, but just in one condition. Go away from my sight and stay here with your dearest Grandma like you always want to do meanwhile I will go home to do my works or if I want I can spend my own holiday in Paris or Venice like what I planned before!"
He turned his back so it faced her and finally walked again further to the highway. Jeez, for almost his entire life he never felt this terrible feeling toward someone—especially this was a Granny who humiliated himself. He tried to forget it until he realized something.
Does she follow me or not? Do I have to turn my back to make sure that she's not following me—no! If I do that it just makes her thinking that I'm hoping her to chase me and force me to stay here or at least come back home with me—
He stopped his steps when he felt something around his waist. He attempted to glance behind him and saw the pink haired girl. She put her forehead on his left shoulder so he hardly to look at her face now.
"Satsuki, what are you doing? Release your hands now so I can go home immediately."
He could feel her head shook behind his back. He tried again to release her hug but both her hands were tighter around him and they were almost like going to break him. He lost his patient as he was chattering his teeth. He forced himself to turn around so he could face his wife now. But still she looked down on the path.
"Just leave me alone, Satsuki!"
She still didn't say anything to him. And it made him more upset, he didn't like to be ignored.
"Hey, answer me!"
She just rubbed both her hands.
"Satsuki, look at me when I'm talking to you!"
She still kept the silent. He was going to nudge her shoulder to make her facing him until he saw her shoulders were trembling and he could hear her voice was like she was crying now. And yes, that's right, now she faced him with those eyes which filled of tears. He couldn't say anything, well if he had a weakness it should be girl's crying. And now she was covering her face with her hands.
"Stop crying, Satsuki," he said to calm her but saying it in command's way. But she didn't follow his command.
"Hey, I told you to—"
"Why you don't understand, Sei? Is it your attitude to calm someone who is crying because of you?!"
"What are you talking about? I didn't do anything to you. It should be me who is angry, not you. Now I ask you to stop that tears and after that I will walk you to Grandma's house. So I can go home in peace—"
"I don't want it."
"Why?"
"Why you still don't understand? I'm crying because of you! I will not be like this if you didn't yell at me and stared at me with those eyes. You don't understand that I'm really scared when you acted like you hate me because my Granny insulted you—"
She stopped to talking when Seijurou put his index finger on her lips. Suddenly he wiped her tears with his thumbs. And their distance was confined by a gap between their noses. After that he brought her to his hug.
"Stop talking nonsense, Satsuki," he said as he stroked the top of her head, "Well, I'm offended, of course. But I never hate you at all just because something that was not your fault. It just because nobody ever talked to me like your Grandma did to me. So I guess this is what people feel when they got insult too. Remind me to keep my attitude towards your Grandma."
He chuckled and somehow it made her chuckled too.
"So," she released the hug so she could look at his face, "You stay here, right? You have to stay here because you made me crying."
"How could you do that?" he muttered, "Well, I will. If you pay off my money for our honeymoon to Paris and Venice—"
"Hey, that's unfair!" she pouted to him and he chuckled again.
"I'm kidding. I'll stay here without any reward. But, I think I have to find the way to make your Grandma likes me. I mean as Grandmother to her Grandson.