Before showing him the insides of the village, Stephan wanted to buy Kenny a treat, a homemade ice cream shop, where they make ice cream from personal supplies, with nothing artificial.

After getting two ice creams with chocolate and pear, they suddenly heard a car from outside, stopping and the loud cry of a younger boy than him.

Quickly getting outside the shop, hearing a loud pop of a rubber ball, Stephan quickly knew the situation, even without the context.

The man quickly got out of the car and apologized, but the boy’s mother gave him a sour face, showing him signs that everything was alright and she apologized back, telling him to buy him something from the shop, as compensatory material for the scare that he got. The man wanted to give the boy’s mother some money for the ball that popped, but she joyfully declined, nervously backing herself up, whispering towards her son to excuse himself, along with a gentle shake of his hand. And he did as he was told.

“Please excuse me, mister, it won’t happen again”

“Not a problem, big man. Miss, have a nice day”

He smiled, going inside the car and slowly driving off in his expensive and red car.

“All good, big man?”

Asked Stephan, giving out a quick chuckle after seeing the mother with her son

“Stepho!”

Joyfully exclaimed the boy, giving out his hand for a handshake which Stephan took part of, both making a few seconds long sequence of handshake combinations

Stephan passed his ice cream to the boy, wanting to make him feel better after losing his toy.

“Here, take mine, I don’t really eat sweets”

“Oooh, neat!”

Abruptly said the boy, instantly taking the kind offer.

“Thank you, Stephan”

Said the boy’s mother, giving out a large smile on her face, almost like she was laughing out her words. She couldn’t close her mouth entirely from the smile which was stuck on her facial expression, that’s how happy she was to see him.

“No problem miss.Ele, my treat!”

Exclaimed Stephan with a large innocent smile

“By the way, how is your girlie, I haven’t seen her in so long”

Abruptly said the woman, pointing out her question with a gentle tap with the back of her wrist, on his chest, along with a quick chuckle.

“She went to see her cousin off-country. She flew out yesterday”

Continued Stephan

“Good, good, the wedding is still happening… right?! I literally cannot see you two apart, you two are such a good team and love birds”

“Oh come on Miss.Ele, you’re making me blush with your compliments”

Chuckled Stephan with every word he spoke out, but at the end of his sentence, his smile faded away, zoning out for a quick second, gazing at the ground with a pair of sorrowful eyes.

While he was holding his mother’s hand, her son constantly pulled her hand in a hurry.

“Let’s go, let’s go, Marily will wait for us if we’re not hurryyyyyning!”

His mother looked down a his face and whispered at him

“One second and we go, alright?”

Gently said his mother, showing the time with the context of her hand gesture, showing off her index finger to his son.

“We’ll meet again (chuckles)”

“I hope so… Miss.Ele”

Said Stephan with a fading smile, then seconds after, re-energizing himself like his batteries would be switched with a brand new pair.

The mother and her son left the shop, but only her son was in a hurry.

“I didn’t know you were getting married. Aren’t you nineteen?”

“Thirty actually”

Replied Stephan, with a weirder accent, feeling like something would poke his chest.

“Dang!”

Exclaimed Kenny, putting his fist to his mouth, giving out a shocked reaction

Stephan stood still and gave Kenny a joking look, but still a little bit hurt by what he said.

“Sorry, that wasn’t… my bad”

Continued Kenny, really embarrassed by what he said, thinking that it might not be suitable for the context.

Stephan gave out a loud wheeze, followed by a lively laugh, almost falling down on the ground, not being able to control his nerves, after which he slapped Kenny’s chest with the back of his fist.

“Oh, you were joking… nice one… wow you actually got me”

Said Kenny, quickly changing his worry into a quick chuckle, feeling relieved

“Let me get you a strawberry shake, my treat”

Stephan pointed out his left palm, then showed the left side of the shop with his other hand.

“You got shakes around here?!”

Asked Kenny with a large shock on his face, placing both of his palms on his neck, unintentionally showing off his sculpted biceps.

“We got choco, banana, wasabi…”

Continued Stephan, pointing out his answers on his fingers, counting them one by one.

“Wasabi? That sounds awful”

Groaned Kenny with large eyes and a confused overall face expression.

“You can’t know until you try it, am I right?”

Said Kenny, smilingly

Outside, in the hot air, loud voices and other chit-chatting went on, bikes ringing their manually placed bells, birds singing and general laughter covered the surroundings.