30 DAYS WITH U
16. HELP WITH DATING 3
“What kind of lover do you want, Key?”
In the past, Keila had gotten that question from her Bonita-friends. If Keila doesn't remember wrongly, that question was accepted by Keila when she was 18 - right before Keila left for college.
“Like My Father. In my eyes the most perfect man is my father and therefore, I hope I can find a lover, a life partner who is not much different from my father.”
“You're really looking for a lover who's like your father, Key?” bonita didn't believe it. “I finally understand why until the age of 18 years, you are not interested in having a lover. What you're looking for seems way too high, Key. A child our age, can never be as good as your father. Your father has all the virtues of a man: your father is handsome to a man of his age, kind, has a warm heart, understanding and lastly most importantly is that your father is the one who loves you most and his family.”
“Do not dreams and hopes have to be made as high as possible?” keila replied with a smile on her face.
Those were the times when Keila felt her life was happiest. Since childhood, Keila was the one who spent the most time with her father. For Keila, her father is the perfect figure for a man who can be a life partner, the perfect picture of a father for his – children. For that reason until the age of 18, Keila had never had a lover even though many of her school friends were trying to take her heart.
Reasons easy. In Keila's eyes, the schoolmates who were trying to take her heart were not on par with her father figure.
The same thing happened when Keila entered the student world. The beautiful face her father handed down made Keila the center of attention of students of various levels. But then again, Keila had absolutely no interest in getting close to the men who approached her because none of them could be said to be similar to her father figure.
Keila always refused the men who approached her until a tragic accident came to Keila's father and took his life a year after Keila went to college. The death of his father when Keila was away from his father, made Keila completely devastated. Keila who lost her father suddenly, then could not hold back her sadness to make Bonita and Hardan-friends, must take turns to look after Keila and comfort Keila.
Over the course of a year, Keila fell into grief until something happened and made Keila finally rise from her grief and deep loss of her father.
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“You're up?”
Keila who had just opened her eyes, suddenly rose straight from her sleep when she heard someone's voice.
“Andra!” keila shouted in surprise at Andra's figure as soon as she opened her eyes. “Since when did you come?”
“Not long. Look!” Andra showed her watch to Keila who showed it at five past ten minutes. “Why are you sleeping here instead of in your room?” Andra asked in a soft tone of voice.
Keila looked at herself and then looked at the room around her where she was asleep in the villa's living room with the door leading to the beach slightly open. Keila then tried to remember her reason for falling asleep in her place now instead of in her bedroom.
“Ah, I didn't intend to sleep. Since my feet are tired after walking on the beach since then, I just want to rest my feet. Who would have thought if I ended up falling asleep?” Keila opened the blanket covering her body and was shocked to realize the blanket was not there when Keila rested her body. This blanket, he must have done it again.
“Other times sleep in your room. Sleeping in a room like this with strong winds will definitely make you fall ill later.”
He was worried about me excessively again and this feeling made me feel uneasy. Keila nodded her head. “Ya. . . yes. . . I-i understand. I won't repeat it again. I'll remember that well. Then what about your job? Is it done?”
“Already.”
Keila walked to the veranda of the villa and sat down while looking at the sunset. “Then, after this what will we do?”
Seeing Keila sitting on the porch and staring at the sunset view, Andra then followed by sitting next to Keila. “After this, I'll take a shower. Then we'll have dinner together by the beach. I've ordered dinner for both of us.”
“Eatnight huh??” Keila nodded her head still by staring at the sunset scene.
“Why? Don't you like having dinner by the beach?”
“What makes you wonder, Key?”
Keila deliberately did not immediately answer Andra's question because he was busy looking at the beauty of the sunset that was right in front of his eyes. As time goes on, the sun sinking becomes larger and completely lost. The sky that lost the sun then turned dark and Keila who had deliberately withheld the answer to Andra's question then turned her head towards Andra.
Keila's eyes suddenly rounded big as her head turned and saw Andra was staring at her. Keila blinked her eyes several times trying to give confidence to herself that what she was currently seeing was reality not a hallucination.
“Se-since when did you look at me?” Keila asked nervously.
“Since earlier.”
“Ke-why look at me instead of staring at the sunset?” keila asked still with her nervousness.
“The sunset view has been seen often and I think the view is not as beautiful as when looking at your face.”
“. .” Hearing Andra's words, Keila who was feeling panicked then quickly turned her head in the other direction to avoid Andra's gaze and hide her nervousness.
“You haven't answered my question, Keila?”
“Which questions?” keila asked still in her nervousness and panic.
“I was asking you, what makes you feel astonished?”
“Ah, correct. I forgot.” Keila let out a long sigh before finally turning her head again towards Andra and looking at Andra. “Actually I want to ask you. Why did you bring me here? At first I thought you needed my help with your work. But in fact, you left me here alone and finished your work without me. Then I thought, maybe you'll need my help at night for your other work. But when I asked, you answered that we would only have dinner by the beach. This really makes me wonder, what exactly is your purpose in bringing me here?”
Keila looked at Andra's face and found a smile forming again at the corner of Andra's lips.
“I really need your help tonight. We'll do it at dinner later.”
“What is it?” Keila asked with a curious face.
“I need you to accompany me to dinner later.”
Keila's forehead shriveled at the answer Andra gave to the question from her sense of hers. Something in Keila's mind suddenly appeared. What could you possibly mean by dating? N-no way! This must be just my thinking. I've made it clear to Andra over and over again that she's not my lover. So there's no way she's asking me here for a date.
Keila denied the idea that came to her mind all of a sudden. But because Keila's curiosity was so great, Keila finally brought out the idea that came to her mind and asked Andra. “I'm sorry because my mind isn't working properly, but something in my mind comes to mind and it bothers me a lot. So I'm gonna ask you to make sure, Andra.”
“What is it?”
“Can you bring me here just to spend time with me like a couple?” Keila chuckled as she felt that her words just now should not have come out of her mouth and were only stored in her mind. “There's no way you're asking me here for a date, is there?”
Keila caught a smile on Andra's lips getting wider and this time not only seen in the corner of Andra's lips. Andra's entire lips formed a wide and sweet smile. Andra's hand suddenly moved and landed on top to Keila.
“One-time smartphone. That's my purpose in bringing you here. For dating. Dating can only be done by two people, therefore I need you to be able to date.”
Shit, again. Keila who was frozen heard Andra's reply could only curse in her heart while receiving a soft caress in her head.