30 DAYS WITH U
12. "LOVER" WHO LIVES NEXT DOOR TO 7
Before returning to her apartment, Andra gave her phone to Keila and made Keila look in wonder at Andra.
“What? Why did you give me your phone?”
“Give me your number.”
Keila looked astonishedly again towards Andra. “For what?”
“Because the next five days may be busy, if at any time I want to have lunch with your cooking, I will send a message to you.”
“Oh.” Keila took Andra's phone and entered her cell phone number. After entering her mobile number, Keila then returned Andra's phone to the owner. “This.”
Andra looked at Keila's mobile number and once again, Keila caught a small smile on the corner of Andra's lips. Andra typed in something that might be the name of Keila's phone number and then tried to contact Keila's phone with the number she had just saved.
Keila's phone shook and Andra immediately turned off her call. “Save my number. I'll call you if there's anything I want.”
“Ya.”
After that Andra went back to her apartment and the night just passed.
# # #
As he had said before, Andra was really busy for a few days.
Four days passed without Andra in front of Keila. Four days later, Keila made only breakfast and dinner packed in a food box and placed it on the doorstep of Andra's apartment. For four days, Keila had plenty of free time during the day because she did not have to cook lunch for Andra. The first day Keila went shopping for clothes at the supermarket. Keila spent four hours in the supermarket walking around alone. Because the work is often busy and time-consuming, Keila is used to shopping alone. Another reason Keila likes to shop alone is that sometimes Keila wants to have her own time where she is among thousands of people without anyone knowing her. Feeling that it makes Keila can forget the fatigue due to her work and social relationships that sometimes feel suffocating Keila. Then another reason Keila prefers to shop alone is Keila does not want to be fussed about the opinions of others about the clothes she will buy.
“This shirt I will use. Suitable or not, it depends on me because no matter how I wear it. Anyway, I bought this outfit with my money and not your money.”
Keila once argued with her college students when she went shopping together, just because all of Keila's clothes always got a negative response from her college friends. Because of that, Keila prefers to shop alone and if you really want to go together, Keila used to invite Bonita–.
On the second day, Keila spent her time in the bookstore. Keila looked through several books that listed her name as an editor. Keila also checked out fans of several books that listed her name as an editor. After being satisfied to look around, Keila then chose some books that felt interesting to accompany her in the spare time that was still quite a lot left.
On the third day, Keila spent her time eating lunch with Bonita and continued their conversation which was delayed due to Andra's sudden arrival. Bonita, who has been the wife of Handra and works as a bridal designer, always has time if Keila asks for company. Bonita even purposely empties her schedule into the afternoon just to go with Keila: from having lunch together to watching the latest movie in the cinema together. Keila enjoyed her time with Bonita and was grateful to have a friend like Bonita who always had time for her. Just. . .a few times Keila felt guilty to Bonita for her work, Keila did not have much time for Bonita when Bonita needed her.
On the fourth day, Keila received a call from Irene, Suci and Nuri who asked her to eat together. Keila along with her juniors spent her junior break hours scrambling to tell each other what happened in the company to Keila.
“Should be Brother in the office,” Nuri said.
“What is it?” Keila asked after swallowing her food.
“What's this whole time Brother's seen the face of our company's young director?” asked Nuri excitedly.
“True, Sister. Did you ever see him?” added the excited Holy.
Keila shook her head. “Never. You know for yourself, our work is really solid. So I don't have time to pay attention to a boss who's never even had a job with us. Moreover, our young director is not a person who is very privacy guarding? From what I heard, he even turned down several magazine interviews and even scolded GM for barely making his self-portrait into an ad in the company.”
“It's true. I still remember the incident one year ago.” Irene who had been silent all of a sudden spoke up when Keila opened her mouth.
“But why are you suddenly talking about our young director?” Keila asked because she was astonished.
“Yesterday. .” Suci and Nuri spoke together with excited faces. While ordinary-looking Keila and Irene were surprised to see two of their coworkers so excited about the young director who had rarely appeared in public even in front of his employees.
“Can one tell you a story?” keila said after finishing her meal.
“I'm it.” The saint offered himself. “Yesterday the young director who never even showed his nose in front of us, suddenly just went around to the whole department. Maybe because there will be an audit the next day. But because of that, all the women in every department were excited to realize that the young director we had never seen was still young and very handsome.”
“True.” Nuri added. “His stern and cold face was able to hypnotize almost all female employees in the company except the older brother who is not in the company.”
“What do you think, Irene?” Keila asked with a curious face. “Are you not hypnotized as well as happened to Nuri and Saints?”
Irene smiled slightly. “I admit our young director is really handsome. His face is absolutely perfect like the perfect picture we always read in novels: a tall body wrapped in a suit, white skin with veins clearly visible in his hands, the perfect face image of the round eyes, the pointed nose and the sensual shape of the lips. But his face and the look in his eyes were really cold making me feel a little scared of him.”
“Why??” tanya Suci and Nuri together who heard Irene's explanation. “The impression of a cold man like our young director is really the perfect picture. That is the picture of the ideal man who attracts the heart.”
“Hahahaha.” Keila let out a small laugh hearing the commotion from her junior about that young director she had never seen before. Somehow the picture of the young director reminded me of someone who was very annoying. Keila shook her head feeling that what she was thinking at the moment was an origin mind only. “I was really curious about our young director's face until you guys got hypnotized and argued like this.”
“Then from that, I hope this month passes quickly. When Brother came back, Big Brother could see the young director's face and see that what we said was indeed true.” Nuri spoke without losing her spirit.
“Yes, Brother. We really miss you, Brother.” Suci added. “But. . . I'm really upset.”
“Why?” Keila asked with a curious face.
“Because Big Brother isn't around, Brother Yuna from the design department is getting so-so. Even he easily made the declaration of wanting to make our young director fall in love with him,” was obviously Sacred.
“Ya, right. I heard that too. She really is a snake woman who is not satisfied with one man.” Nuri added.
“You two just relax.” Irene suddenly cut the tension between Saints and Nuri.
“Why is that?” tanya Suci and Nuri together even with a slightly raised tone of voice made Keila almost surprised and almost dropped her drinking glass.
“Seeing the face of our young director and his attitude all along, I'm sure our young director won't fall in the trap of a snake woman like Yuna Kak.”
“Ah you're right, Irene.” The saint approved Irene's words.
“If Irene says that, then our young director will not fall for Yuna. Hasn't Irene's judgment never been wrong?” said Nuri while sighing in relief.
Keila smiled seeing the closeness of the three juniors that these two years were under his teachings. “Then, you should not be afraid to become an admirer of that young director because Yuna will not be able to snatch your new idol.”
“Ya, Brother.” Saints and Nuri answered together with her happy face.
After a long conversation about the young director that Keila had not seen, Nuri, Suci and Irene had to return to the company because their break hours were almost over. Before returning to the company, Irene deliberately pulled Keila away from Saints and Nuri and spoke four eyes with Keila.
“Kak Key.”
“Yes, why did you pull me here? What's up, Irene?” Keila was surprised to see Irene go to great lengths to take Keila away from Saints and Nuri.
“On the secret admirer Brother all this time, could that person be the young director who had never shown his face in front of us?”
Keila smiled at the question asked by Irene. “How do I know that, Irene? The director in our company is not just that young director, under him there are still a few more directors if I am not mistaken considering the leadership structure in our company. Young directors in our company are few and not one, Irene. That's even if I don't remember wrong.”
“Ah is right too said Sister. We won't know before we catch that flower-sender wet and cause misfortune to the Big Brother.”
Keila raised one eyebrow upwards hearing Irene say to him. “Then. . I might assume that secret admirer was the source of my misfortune. But after I thought about it, thanks to him I could tell how Noah's real face was. Thanks to him, I was able to escape from Noah.”
“Irene! Come. . . We're almost late.” Sacred shouted out to Irene who was away to talk to Keila.
“Have gone there. Suci and Nuri can be late back to the office because of our conversation.”
“One more, Brother.” Irene whispered to Keila.
“What else?”
“The flower stopped coming this month, Kak.”