Chapter 215 - I will stay here ! (1/2)
Aria took the lemonade she prepared and came back to the living room where her teacher and Helios were . She gave the first glass to Aden since he was the child and the second glass to professor Benjamin . The third glass she gave , it to Helios .
' How dare she give me the last glass of lemonade ?! ' thought Helios with an annoyed expression .
” Thank you ! ” said professor
” It's my pleasure professor ! ” said Aria .
” Is it a problem if we talk in private . As I told you I have a very important thing to say to you . ” said professor Benjamin with a serious expression .
Aria looked at Helios with a serious expression , indicating him to get out for a bit . Helios ignored her as usual and didn't wanna leave .
” President ! This is very important to me too ! Please , can you wait for me in another room ?! Please ! ” said Aria with a serious expression .
Helios noticed the strange atmosphere around them and the seriousness in Aria's eyes .
” All right ! I shall get Aden too so that you can talk in peace . ” said Helios with a defeated expression and took Aden's hand then went to his room .
” Thank you president ! ” said Aria with a smile .
When Helios and Aden went to Aden's room Aria looked at professor Benjamin with a polite smile .
” I can tell that you have had a hard time . You asked me to leave in order to go and visit your family and enjoy some hard-earned vacations . If I knew that things would take such a turn I would have never agreed to give you that permission...Why did you leave school ?! ” said professor Benjamin with a serious look in his eyes .
Aria understood right away that he was angry and upset at the same time .
” First of all ! I am eternally grateful to you professor for helping me with my studies and showing me the right way to learn through your harsh lessons . ” said Aria and lightly bowed in front of him in a respectful manner .
” The reason why I left school is because of my little brother . I have finally found him a possibility so that he can be cured . Even if all that I have done and all that I have worked for is thrown like trash . ” said Aria with a smile .
” Do you wanna continue this even though you may never be able to turn back ?! ” said professor Benjamin .
” Yes ! If it's for my family and especially for my little brother , I will never hold back ! Never ! ” said Aria with a serious expression .
” There's a bright future filled with success , fame , power and money that's right ahead of you.....you are wasting it just like that ?! Do you realize what you are doing Aria ?! What happened to that student who had all those ambitions to shone among common people ?! To secure a bright future not only for yourself but for your family too ! I more than anyone know how hard you have worked for all this time . Now that you are close to the top you want to give up all our work through these years ?!....You disappointed me ! ” said professor Benjamin .
” I can never apologize enough to you professor . Among all those excellent and rich students you choose me ! I was a mess ! I was poor and I wasn't good enough in my studies either . You were the one who made me arrive at the level I am today and I am eternally grateful for that . I will definitely repay your kindness in the future . ” said Aria .
” ...Your brother is diagnosed with autism , right ?! You know very well that his condition has no cure . ” said professor Benjamin .
” I heard that there's a gram of hope in his case and I will do anything I can to make sure that he gets well . I know that this possibility has a high chance to just end before it even begins but...if I don't take the chance , I will never know the outcome . ” said Aria .
” For a chance you aren't even sure off , you are throwing away all of our hard work ?!....What have I taught you ?!....You always need to check twice before making a step because there's always a trap in front of you......yet now , you tell me that you will give up everything for a one percent of success possibility ?!.......Have you gone crazy from studying too much ?! ” said professor Benjamin with an angry tone .
” ........That small chance ! That one percent rate is the only thing that can change my whole world and can help me start a new beginning . Have you ever had a person who's diagnosed with autism in your family professor ?!... ” said Aria with a sad smile .
Professor Benjamin remained silent when Aria asked him such a question .
” You don't have a person like this in your family . You can't possibly know how I feel ! Just thinking that he will never have friends , will never be able to go out with friends his age , will never be able to date a girl , will not create his own family when he grows up.................You can never imagine the pain that I feel when he has so many things that he isn't able to enjoy in life because of this cursed disease . I am in pain every time I see him . When he smiled at me in such a warm way , my stomach feel empty and I can hardly hold my tears back . I wanna scream for help so badly , just to get rid of all this anxiety that I feel inside but I know that the moment I show a weakness........All of my hopes will be crashed in a second . In my family , I am the only one who's truly strong . Because of this my mother has suffered from severe stress in the past . I didn't know what to do when seeing her like that . She only found strength in me . Since then I decided that I will work hard to become strong since no one apart from myself will be my strength . ” said Aria with a serious tone and the sadness could be felt clearly just from her voice .