30 DAYS WITH U
10. "LOVER" WHO LIVES NEXT DOOR TO 5

“Truely here the place?” andra asked when he arrived at the restaurant where Keila promised to meet Bonita-friend. 

“True.” Keila took off her seatbelt and then opened Andra's car door. Before descending Keila did not forget to express her gratitude. “Thank you, Andra. You can go home. I'll be back by bus.” 

Keila then got down from Andra's car and walked into the restaurant where Bonita was already sitting waiting for him. 

“Key, here!” 

Bonita's distinctive screaming voice with a shrill tone sounded in Keila's ears, making Keila who had just entered into the resto immediately find Bonita without taking a long time. 

Keila turned her head to look towards Bonita and accelerated her steps towards the place where Bonita was sitting. “Have you waited a long time, Boni?” 

Bonita nodded her head. “No, maybe about five minutes ago. I already ordered your favorite spaghetti, do you mind having lunch with it?” 

Keila took a seat in front of Bonita while nodding her head in agreement with Bonita's choice. “That's a good choice. I haven't eaten that in a long time.” Keila sat down and realized that the chair beside Bonita was still in a neat state. “Hardan not coming?” 

“That's him.” 

Bonita suddenly waved her hand, making Keila turn her head towards her back. 

“Ah, correct. That Har-“ Keila stopped her remark abruptly when she saw the figure walking right behind Hardan. Andra? Why did he come here? Didn't he just drive me here? Keila quickly turned her head again towards Bonita and hid her face behind her hair. 

“What's wrong with you, Key?” Bonita asked in surprise at Keila's expression. 

“It's okay.” 

Hardan's arrival managed to get Bonita's attention distracted and forget his curiosity to Keila. 

“Sorry I'm late, Key.” Hardan greeted Keila after more than a year of not meeting Keila. 

“Yes, long time no see, Hardan.” Keila raised her head hesitantly towards Hardan and looked at the figure of Andra who was standing up and was about to take a seat beside him. 

“Sorry, who is it?” bonita asked when she saw Andra coming.

Meanwhile, Hardan who was aware of Andra's gaze who always looked towards Keila instead asked Keila. “Is he your acquaintance, Key?” 

“Yes, she was tem-“ Previously Keila wanted to say the word “friend” to her two best friends: Bonita and Hardan, about her relationship with Andra. But Andra first cut off Keila's words and said something that Keila feared.

“I'm Keila's lover.” 

Keila covered her face with both hands when she heard the answer coming out of Andra's mouth. Damnit. His mouth has no filter. He said the words of a lover as good as he could without seeing my situation and condition first. 

Meanwhile Hardan and Bonita were shocked at the same time, directly asking Keila the same question. “Love?? What does this mean, Key? Why don't you tell me?” 

Keila glanced sharply at Andra who was leisurely taking a seat beside Keila and sitting quietly as if nothing had happened. You're a real bitch, Andra.

“Key?” Bonita yelled out to Keila. 

Keila looked towards Bonita who had just called her name. “What?” 

“Explain now!” Bonita then turned her gaze towards Andra and looked at Andra with a smile on her lips. “Who is this handsome guy who wants to be your girlfriend, Key?” 

“Really?” said Bonita who was still staring at Andra. “What's your name?” This time, Bonita asked Andra. 

“Andra.” 

“Usia?” Bonita asked without blinking her eyes from Andra as if bewitched by her charm just as Keila had experienced. 

“24 years.” 

Keila who was lazy to look at Andra, turned her head immediately when she heard Andra's answer about her age. “24 years???” 

“His cup this time Keila gets a lover who is three years younger,” praise Bonita with a smile on her lips glancing towards Keila. 

“You are three years younger than me and you called me directly by my name? While at the police station you should know that I am the same age as Noah, so why don't you call me brother and call me by my name?” Keila asked Andra and ignored Bonita and Handra. 

“I do know. But I don't want to call you brother. We are lovers so why should I call you by sister's call?” 

“. .” Keila ran out of words when she heard the word “lover” coming out of Andra's mouth again. 

“You are compatible once.” Bonita gave her praise when she saw the sweet debate between Keila and Andra. 

“Thank you,” Andra gave her response to Bonita's praise and made Bonita even more unable to let go of her gaze from Andra. 

“You're so lucky, Key.” 

Keila took her breath and tried to hold back the resentful feeling in her heart. Not long after, Keila got up from her seat and pulled Bonita's hand. “Handra, I borrowed Bonita for a while and I put Andra here.” 

“Where are we going, Key?” asked Bonita who was still unable to take her gaze off Andra's face. 

“Cute only!” Keila continued to pull Bonita away from the table where Andra and Handra were. When he felt far away from the table where Andra and Handra were, Keila then forced Bonita to sit at the table closest to him. “We sit here and talk.” 

“What do you want to talk about, Key?” 

Keila then explains everything that happened between her and Andra: their meeting, the coincidence that happened between her and Andra, and the, the small work that Andra gave him and the unpleasant situation that happened repeatedly when Andra claimed to be Keila's lover. 

After hearing a long explanation from Keila, Bonita was more supportive of Andra instead of giving support to Keila. 

“Aren't you lucky to meet him, Key? Look at him!” Bonita forced Keila to look towards Andra who was talking to Handra. “What is less than him? Andra's face is very handsome. Look at his black hair, his lips and his nose, look at it from here as if I saw the main character of the manga come out of the manga. .” 

Since Bonita is holding her head and forcing her to look at Andra, Keila must inevitably see Andra. Because of Bonita's words as well, inevitably Keila had to pay attention to every detail of Andra's face. Honestly speaking, what Bonita said was the first response that ever came out of Keila's mind when she first met Andra. Keila was once enchanted by Andra's charm.

“. . . Andra was the one who saved you from Noah if you had to compare him to Noah, Andra might be a hundred times better than Noah. People of the type like Andra I don't think are the ones who would easily come and go from the life of someone like Noah and your other ex-lover, Key.” 

Bonita's words are right. “But you saw for yourself, didn't you? She had already easily confessed to being a lover even when I disagreed with her. Isn't that outrageous of his name?” 

Bonita nodded her head. “I-it might be true. But if I were you, I would probably choose to try to get to know Andra more deeply. Maybe that way, you can find the reason why without your permission Andra claimed to be your lover.” 

Again Bonita's words have a point. Still by looking towards Andra and feeling the charm coming out of Andra permeating her body and mind, Keila who was forced to pay attention to Andra could only give up and enjoy it. A question popped into Keila's mind as she recalled Bonita's words to her. What was the reason for insisting on claiming to be my lover even after Noah was gone? Is there a particular reason why Andra kept claiming to be my lover even when I rejected her?

Keila's mind worked more than it should and thought something Keila shouldn't have thought about because of her habit of guessing the plot in the novel she read as an editor. Or maybe he just wants to play me? He must be playing me. I'm sure it's because there's no reason to explain why men seem to want to be my lovers.