Chapter 5 - I want you to stay here.
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(They speak in Turkish).
“She is not my housekeeper! She is my friend. I have a date with her tonight.”
“What? “A date? What do you mean?”
“I am your girlfriend, and she is your date?”
“Emel, you are not my girlfriend anymore, we’ve broken up. Don’t you remember?” we broke up! And I don’t want to continue it, I don’t want to have any relationship with you anymore. And for that will you excuse me, I have to run after my date.”
Ilker walked out from his apartment and left that Turkish girl gawk.
‘Where can I find that girl, huh?’ Ilker drove his car towards Ylang’s apartment. ‘She might be there, where else she can go. She will not go to any café or bar, I'm sure she is not that type of girl.’
Ilker knocked Ylang’s apartment, but no answer. “Ylang, Ylang, open the door. I know you are there.” Ilker called out loud. He knocked once again and again called her out loud, but still no answer. “Okay Ylang, I know you are there inside, whatever you think, make sure you ‘ll be at my place tomorrow morning, I am waiting.”
He took out his cell phone from his pocket and called her. The phone switch of. “s**t! Where is she?!” he really pissed me off. Then he sent some text message to Ylang said “I am whatever you think waiting for you at my place tomorrow morning. Remember, we have an agreement.” ‘
I’d better go home and wait for her tomorrow, she said that she will come back again tomorrow to my apartment.’
When Ilker back to his apartment, Emel still there and she was sleeping in his bedroom. ‘What is she doing? She made everything worse!’ Ilker grumbled. ‘This is my bedroom, how dare she sleep here. I am not going to sleep with her.’ Ilker then moved to another bedroom, where Ylang supposed to sleep.
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Actually, Ylang was in her apartment, but she decided not to answer Ilker. She stayed quiet and turned off the light, so everybody would think that she was not home yet.
Ylang was annoyed by the arrival of Ilker's ex-girlfriend who she thought was very rude and disrespectful.
Deep in Ylang’s heart, she was upset that Ilker had a girlfriend, Even though Ilker said that they broke up. So she thought she better go home. Ylang didn’t have another place to go; actually, she can go to her friend apartment, but she didn’t, Ylang just wanted to go home and sleep, because tomorrow she had to go back to Ilker apartment as what she promised.
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Tomorrow morning, at 7 am, Ylang was already in front of Ilker's apartment door, she knocked it. Not long after the apartment door opened. Ilker smiled broadly at the door, invited Ylang inside. “Lütfen içeri gel, güzel. Dün geceden beri seni bekliyorum.” (Come inside beautiful. I am waiting for you since last night). Then they spoke all in Turkish.
She is so gorgeous in that Tosca long dress with black hijab. I love it that she only put some light makeup, but it made her face bright, her lips look so tender with that nude lipstick on it, Ilker’s mind. ‘I really want to kiss her, but I know she wouldn’t like, so I hold on myself.‘
“You will make me breakfast, aren’t you?” asked Ilker.
“Yes, I know, I need breakfast too, I haven’t had it yet.”
“So please..” said Ilker.
Ylang went to the kitchen and followed by Ilker. “what do you have? Do you have bread? Cheese? egg?” Ylang planned to make some sandwich.
“Yes, I do. I will show you.” Said Ilker.
Ilker showed her where all those ingredients.
After that, while Ylang was standing in front of the kitchen table making the breakfast, what Ilker did was only disturbing her, he was standing behind her and smell her hijab from the back, “Hmm, you smell so good,” with his nose touching Ylang’s veil.
Ylang felt uncomfortable, “Please, Ilker; I'm making you breakfast, you really annoying me.”
“I miss you Ylang, you left me last night.”
‘He is really aggressive, I don’t know whether I can stand it or not.’“Ilker, please leave me alone, just wait in your living room, when I’ve finished I will call you.”
“You kicked me out of my own kitchen?”. Ilker smiled teasingly.
“Yes!. You are disturbing me, I cannot make breakfastif you keep kissing my hijab.”
“I am not kissing, I am sniffing you.”
“C, mon Ilker you look like a dog, sniffing me!” Ylang continued to do her work while shaking her shoulder, trying to drive Ilker away.
“Okay, okay, I will go. But….” Suddenly He kissed Ylang’s right cheek and ran away.
“Oh, you! Outrageous! you crossed the line!” Ylang pissed off, but then she smiled. She liked the man. She didn’t feel angry.
Ylang prepared sandwiches for double, two for herself and two for Ilker. She is starving, she thought maybe Ilker was also hungry too.
When they had breakfast at the dining table, Ilker’s bedroom door was opened, Ylang and Ilker both looking at the door, a beautiful Turkish girl came out, stretched her body still while yawning.the girl then widened her eyes at Ilker and Yang, who was having breakfast at the dinner table. “ who exactly is this girl?” Asked the Turkish girl almost yelling.
“She is my friend, and I have a business with her. And please do not yell!”
The girl then walked gracefully towards Ilker, and then hugged Ilker's shoulder and said, “Ilker last night was great, thank you.” and kissed Ilker's cheek
“Emel, what are you doing? We are done, you are not my girlfriend anymore. And for you to remember, I didn't sleep with you last night, I slept in Ylang's bedroom.”
The woman's face immediately blushed in shame. “Since when that strange woman has a room here?”
“Since yesterday.” Said Ilker. “I have a business with her, so she has to stay here with me.”
“What kind of business is that?”
“Milk business!”Ilker replied curtly.
“What!!?” Both Ylang’s and Emel's eyes widened. They can’t believe what Ilker said.
“So Emel, you'd better get your feet out of here. You and I don't have any business anymore.”
“Ilker, you can't kick me just like that. And I'm not yet finished here”.
Ilker waved back, while he was still sitting facing Ylang.
Without another word, she took her belongings and came out of Ilker's apartment.
“Thank God, alhamdulillah. I’ m done with that girl. She cannot behave well.”
“Now it's just the two of us.” Said Ilker, “When will the new semester begin?”
“It’s September.”
“What are you doing now? I thought now is summer, isn’t it? And everybody is on holiday.” Asked Ilker
“Working for you to get the money for paying my semester,” Ylang answered. While putting the sandwich slice into her mouth.
“Okay.” Ilker smiled and winked his eyes. “And how about last summer, what did you do ?”
“Hmmm, mostly in summer, I go back to my country to see my family in Indonesia. But now, because my family is bankrupt, I can't go home. If I go home, then I will not be able to come back here again. You already knew that. Even almost all my friends are back to Indonesia these days.”
“I’m sorry about that. So you are alone here?”
“You can say that, but I don’t mind being alone here as long as I can get money for my school.”
“Great girl! I love that.” Ilker smiled. He continued, “Ylang, From now on, I want you to stay here with me. You don’t have to pay for your apartment, just move here. You can save more money.”
“No, I can’t. I don’t know you, I’ve just known you.”
“How can you say that? I trust my money on you, even I use my lawyer to write our agreement, so what you afraid of. I'm only asking you to stay with me.”
“I don’t want to stay here because I can see that you like to touch me.”
“I do like you, that’s why I like touching you.” Said Ilker
“But you cannot touch me, I'm not your wife!”
“What era are you living in?” Ilker asked in amazement
“Twenty-one century, of course! I am a new modern girl who doesn’t like being touch before marriage. That’s me. And that’s final.”
“Huh, you..!” Ilker looked hopeless
“I am only asking you to marry me if you want to touch me. That’s all. No need legal paper, only you, my parent and 2 witnesses. That’s enough for me. And if you get bored with me, you can just divorce me.”
Ilker sighed. “Marriage is easy in your eyes.”
“Not really, but in marriage, you take a woman by the name of Allah. So you can't mess with it. It's about woman dignity. When you touch a woman without marrying her, it’s mean you disrespect her. For that, we have to make marriage easier. In Islam, s*x out of marriage, it’s haram.” Ylang explained.
“Are you done with your speech?” Ilker looked upset.
But Ylang laugh. Almost out loud.
Again, Ilker sighed. “Look tonight I’m going to Los Angeles, and I’ll be back on Wednesday morning. So I want you to see you when I am back here. And please do me a favour to keep my apartment clean and neat. I love it clean and tidy, so please make it that way.
“Don’t worry, I will clean it for you. And I will take care of your dirty clothes too.”
‘Actually, I don’t want her to clean my apartment,etcetera. But I want to make this apartment familiar to her. I want her to feel like home.’
“As you are not around, I ‘ll be safe here, so I will come, every day until you back.”
“Am I that dangerous?” Asked Ilker. His face looked sad.
“I think so,” Ylang replied
“But I want you to be here when I got home at Wednesday. ”and I don't want any rejection.”
“Alright, alright. I will be here when you home.” Ylang said to calm Ilker
“And tonight you stay here,” Ilker confirmed. I am going to the Airport tonight.” He said it firmly. Ylang wanted to protest, but seeing Ilker's face, which seemed incontrovertible, she finally remained silent.
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