30 DAYS WITH U
11. "LOVER" WHO LIVES NEXT DOOR TO 6
The meeting of Keila and her two best friends: Bonita and Hardan ends in doom when Andra appears uninvited and claims to be Keila's loverfor the umpteenth time. Bonita clearly gave her support to Andra to be Keila's lover while Handra as Keila and also Bonita's husband, giving Keila a choice even though deep in her heart agreed with Bonita's opinion: Keila and Andra are a great couple.
“Not you said you'd just drive me?” keila asked in annoyance when she arrived at the door of her apartment. Keila's annoyance spilled over after during the return trip sitting in the same car with Andra, Keila tried to hold back her sense of regret. “Why did you arrive – arrived and claimed to be my lover?”
Once again, Keila caught a smile on the corner of Andra's lips as she was nagging angrily at Andra. “You didn't answer my question, Andra?”
“Because of this.” Andra then handed Keila the lunch box that had been filled with sandwiches.
“This?” Keila who received the lunchbox then opened and saw that the sandwich inside had vanished. “This does not mean you have eaten it? What does this have to do with your sudden arrival on my show?”
“I'm not full by eating this sandwich alone. I came there to get more food.”
“. .” Keila looked at Andra with a look of disbelief and a gaping mouth for not believing the reason behind Andra's arrival in front of her two best friends was because her homemade sandwich did not satiate Andra's stomach.
Damnit. Keila cursed in her heart for being speechless. Keila opened the door of her apartment and was about to go inside when her memory twisted something important. “Wait a minute. .”
“What?”
“From now on you have to call me with sister's call. I'm three years older than you, so it's only natural that you call me big brother,” Keila explained.
“No.” Andra answered without thinking twice.
“Why not want???” Keila rounded her eyes in disbelief looking at Andra who resisted quickly.
“No lover calls his partner with sister calls.”
“. .” Keila was speechless when she heard the words lover come out of Andra's mouth for the umpteenth time. Damnit. I was really upset by the status of this lover that I never even agreed to. An irritated Keila then stepped her feet into her apartment. “I'm tired. Just do what you want.”
“Wait a minute!”
“What else?” Keila looked sharply at Andra.
“For payment for driving you to meet two of your best friends, I hope you can accompany me to go somewhere this weekend.” Andra said in her flat tone. “And you have no right to refuse. You should go with me.”
After saying that, Andra opened the door of her apartment and just walked in. Meanwhile Keila once again could only freeze silently without being able to give a clear resistance to Andra's words that sounded more akin to absolute orders.
“Sial! He always just decides something at will by himself.” Keila muttered angrily staring at the door of Andra's apartment while kicking her feet toward the door of her own apartment before finally entering her apartment.
Once inside the apartment, Keila who really felt exhausted immediately took off her shoes carelessly and changed her clothes to her home clothes. Keila then cleaned up the makeup stuck to her face before finally lying on her big sofa. Keila took her earphones and plugged them into her two ears and one part into her phone. Keila then played her favorite songs Wish and Dance with me from Blackbeans.
The song started to spin and Keila who was intending to rest her body then started to close her eyes. Fatigue really made Keila fall asleep in a short time along with her favorite music spinning in both ears.
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Not knowing how long Keila had been asleep, Keila could not remember. Yang Keila knew, Keila woke up from her sleep because of the fragrant smell that was smelled from her sense of smell. Still with a tired body, Keila who had just opened her eyes then found her body already covered by a warm blanket. Feeling that something was awkward, Keila removed the earphones that were still attached to both ears and immediately rose from the sofa where she fell asleep.
“You're up?”
Keila blinked her eyes as she looked at the owner of the voice who was busy playing his kitchen utensils without his permission.
The owner of the voice then stopped his activities when he saw Keila who looked at him with a flat gaze and did not answer any questions from him. The owner of the voice then immediately moved towards Keila and touched Keila's forehead.
“Do you feel unwell?”
The close distance made Keila able to clearly see the owner of the voice who had asked him and was busy playing his kitchen utensils. “I'm fine, Andra.”
Andra lowered her hand on Keila's forehead. “I'm worried. You really. . how can you fall asleep without a blanket with the apartment window open? If it wasn't for me coming to check, you might have shivered in the cold and maybe tomorrow you'd be sick.”
“I'm used to sleeping with the window open. So you don't have to worry about my body condition.” Keila pulled her body and kept her body too close to Andra. “What are you doing here, Andra?”
“I'm hungry. So I came looking for you and intended to collect the hotpot you said you wanted to make. But seeing you still asleep, I can't bear to. So instead, I cooked something else.” Andra then returned to the kitchen and finished the dishes that she had left behind.
“Because I can't cook hotpot, so for dinner I made steak. Do you mind?”
Keila shook her head. “No. It was also not a bad choice for dinner. You fit in with that apron. Later when being a husband you have to help your wife in the kitchen.”
“Ya.” Andra nodded her head. “I would do it if my wife was you.” Andra then put two dishes containing steak meat on the dining table.
“Stop messing with me!” Keila, who received Andra's first dinner, sliced the meat and tasted Andra's steak.
“Nak right?” andra asked with a proud face.
Keila who had wanted to answer with a good word, undoed her intentions when she saw the gaze directed at her by Andra. “Shouldn't you ask how it feels?”
“I won't ask like that because I know my steak must be delicious.”
Keila swallowed the slices of meat again with an annoyed face because she realized what Andra said was true. Shit, he's right. This steak is really good. Next time I have to make him cook this steak for me.
For a few moments of tranquility became friends who accompanied Keila's dinner together with Andra until suddenly Andra opened her mouth and said. “Five days ahead, you don't need to prepare lunch for me. Just prepare breakfast and dinner for me and put it in the lunchbox in front of my apartment door.”
“Tiba once?” asked Keila who was surprised as well as feeling happy in her heart. “Is something happening?”
“Yes. I have an important job to do. Do you mind doing what I ask?”
Keila shook her head feeling pleased as her work reduced by one. “No, I don't mind.”
The situation became quiet again and only the sound of a fork and knife touching the side of the plate when cutting meat. During that calm atmosphere, Keila occasionally stole a gaze towards Andra for wanting to ask Andra something.
“Is there anything you want to ask?” Andra suddenly said and almost made Keila swallow her flesh whole before chewing on it.
“Uhuk.” Keila immediately took her drinking water and looked at Andra. “How do you know if I want to ask you something?”
“You saw me. So what do you want to ask me?” andra asked before devouring the last piece of her steak.
“I-it's your request at the weekend, will it still be implemented?”
“Why?” Andra looked at Keila by putting both her hands on the table to hold her chin. “Do you have any plans of your own?”
“I do have a plan. It's just that I can postpone my plan until the next weekend if I have to accompany you to go.” Keila had also finished her dinner. The last piece of meat had just entered his mouth.
“What do you have plans for?”
Keila first swallowed the last piece of meat before answering Andra's question. “I want to go home and see my mom. Rarely do I have time to spend a few days at my mother's house.”
“You'll still be going with me this weekend. So postpone your return until the next weekend.”
“I understand.” Keila grabbed the glass and drank the water inside.
“I'll accompany you home to see your mother.”
Water that had only half entered into Keila's esophagus, immediately gushed out and landed on Andra's face because Keila was surprised by Andra's words to her. “I'm sorry.” Keila immediately grabbed a tissue nearby and gave it to Andra to clean her face that was hit by a burst of water in Keila's mouth.
Andra who received Keila's tissue then cleaned her water-soaked face from Keila's mouth without commenting to Keila.
“You're not angry?” ask Keila who feels bad.
“No.” Andra finished cleaning her wet face. “I'm not angry. But instead, you should take me to your house instead.”
“. .” Once again Keila could only silently freeze to hear the words from Andra's mouth that sounded more like an absolute order that could not be resisted.
Damnit. Keila cursed in her heart realizing the mistake she had just made. He found a reason to make me have to bring him back to my house. Shit!!!! What exactly is in the mind of this man to keep clinging to me?? If she really came with me home and met with mom, what reason would I have to make in front of mom later?