30 DAYS WITH U
21. BE MY TRUE LOVER 1

In the evening, Keila gives Andra a new blanket and pillow and sends Andra to sleep in her room. 

“This is a new pillow and blanket that you can use,” Keila gave a new pillow and blanket to Andra and took her pillow and blanket from her room. “Tonight, you sleep in my room and I will sleep together with my mother. If there's something you need, you can send me a message and I'll come here. Understand?” 

Andra nodded her head while looking around Keila's old room. “So, this is your room?” 

“Yes. Sorry if my room is too simple and not at all feminine for women's room.” 

“Ehm, I think so.” Andra looked at the bookshelves in Keila's room and saw the many piles of books on the shelves. “I can read these books if I can't sleep?” 

Keila nodded her head. “Please. I did not expect if you also like to read books like novels and comics.” 

“I like to read just not as fanatic as you.” Andra glanced at Keila with a small smile at the corner of her lips. “Because of my work, sometimes I have to read a lot.” 

Keila was silent for a moment hearing Andra's reply. “Could you work at a publishing company like me? All this time I never asked because you never wanted a story. But. . . I'm really curious about your work.” 

“What makes you curious?” Andra picked up one of Keila's books and read the blurb on the back of the book. 

“You have working hours that can be said to be irregular. You can even work from home. You also need to read some books. So could it be that your work is related to the book world just like mine?” 

Andra put the book she took because it felt uninteresting and took another book. While reading the blurb, Andra answered Keila's question. “If you are curious about my work, be my lover! If you do, I will tell you everything about myself even all personal assets in my name.” 

“Already. .” Keila turned around and walked away from the room where Andra was going to sleep tonight. “I'm tired of arguing with you, Andra. Good night and good night. I hope you're not nagging because tonight's sleeping in my simple room.” 

Three hours later, Keila, who had not been asleep for a long time, suddenly heard the notification sound of incoming messages on her phone. 

Who the hell are these nights texting me? Keila grumbled inside her mind as she grabbed her phone with her eyes still half-closed. 

[Andra: I can't sleep. Accompany me.]

Keila's eyes immediately opened wide as she read a message from someone she knew was staying at her house. He really bothered me as I thought.

Carefully to keep her mother from waking up from her sleep, Keila opened the blanket that wrapped around her body and slowly got off the bed. Keila even walked by sneaking around and opened the door of her mother's room super carefully to keep her mother from waking up. 

After making sure her steps did not bother her mother and made it out of her mother's room, Keila let out a long sigh. Keila's eyes immediately turned to Andra who was sitting on the sofa in the living room by playing her mobile phone.

“Night.” Andra greeted Keila. 

“Your head tonight! It's not night anymore, but midnight.” Keila approached Andra and sat down beside him. “Why can't you sleep? Is my bed uncomfortable?” 

“No.” Andra shook her head. 

“Then what? Are there many mosquitoes? Should I turn on the mosquito repellent?” 

“Not it.” Andra shook her head a second time. 

“Then what?” Keila asked in an annoyed tone because Andra who could not give an answer she could understand. 

“Haw is a little hot and my stomach is hungry.” 

“You hungry?” Keila looked at Andra with a look of disbelief. “In the middle of the night like this? Where did the food you ate at dinner go?” 

This time Andra nodded her head. “That's why I don't know. What is clear is that I am hungry and it seems that I intend to sleep here only because the weather is a little cooler.” 

“As soon as you want to sleep where. I didn't sleep in my mother's room. Even if you want to sleep outside the house, I will gladly open the door,” replied Keila who then got up from her seat and looked into her kitchen. Keila then found several packs of instant noodles and eggs. “You want to eat instant noodles?” 

“If you do the cooking, I will definitely eat it. Because if I cooked it, I wouldn't eat.” 

“What does that mean?” Keila was astonished. 

“I will not eat because I have no energy to cook it. So the sight of me cooking is a sight that only exists in my mind.”

Damnit. He played me. Keila cursed in her mind hearing the answer from Andra. Keila exhaled her breath holding back her sense of regret. “Ya. . yeah. . yeah, I'll cook it. Satisfied?”

“Ya.” Andra replied with sparkling eyes like a child who felt very happy. 

Damnit. Really shit. He made me cook him midnight food. Keila cursed in annoyance but her hand did something different. With a quick movement, Keila started to take the water and heat it in the pot. As soon as the water boiled, Keila put all the herbs, noodles and eggs together. Within fifteen minutes, Keila's instant noodles were ripe. 

Keila was about to bring the hot pot containing the noodles and eggs to the table in the living room. But Andra without a single sound first brought a pot containing hot noodles to the middle room table in Keila's house. 

“You like it??” Andra started scooping hot soup from instant noodles before finally drinking it. “If you like, then be my lover.” 

Keila who felt annoyed at hearing that sentence again then pulled the pot containing instant noodles closer towards her and away from Andra. “If you want to eat, stop saying be my lover. Still want to eat?” 

Andra who was already very hungry quickly nodded her head in accordance. “I won't say it at this time only.” 

Keila smiled at Andra who quickly complied. Keila then pushed the pot filled with instant noodles into the middle and allowed Andra to start dinner or rather dinner. Keila who cooked instant noodles could only silently watch Andra quickly finish the two-pack instant noodles with two eggs in them. 

“You're really starving apparently.” Keila took the blanket and pillow that Andra used to sleep on and moved it to the sofa in the living room. 

“Yes. I'm really hungry,” replied Andra who was washing the dirty pot and spoon of her used meal. “But. . . Why don't you eat? I thought you were going to eat because you put two packs of instant noodles and two eggs in it.” 

“I am not so hungry and again eating in the middle of the night will make the fat in my body accumulate.” Keila had finished staring at the blankets and pillows that would be used by Andra who was sleeping on the living room sofa. “You sure you want to sleep here?” 

“Ya.” Andra who had finished washing then approached Keila. “But. . It would be better if you accompany me to sleep here. Maybe I can't sleep because I'm not used to it.” 

Keila stared intently at Andra. “Don't you sleep well in the hotel? Why is it now here you say you are not used to sleeping in a foreign place?” 

“I don't know why.” Andra shrugged both of her shoulders. “But if you do not want me to send a message again and your sleep is disturbed, it would be better if you accompany me to sleep here.” 

“Where? Here there is only one big sofa and I will not want to sleep on the same sofa as you.” For a moment the panic suddenly spread throughout Keila's body. 

Meanwhile, Andra who realized the panic that attacked Keila, then took her pillow and blanket and placed it on the carpet. “I will sleep here and you will sleep on the sofa. Hows it? You want to accompany me?” 

“You won't mess around, right?” Keila looked at Andra with her sharp gaze. 

“You can hold my words, Keila. I wouldn't do anything without your consent. I didn't even do anything while eating at your apartment, did I?” 

Also true. He always treated me with respect. So what does this magic of mine exist for? Keila nodded her head in agreement. “Good. I'll accompany you to sleep here.” 

Keila then took her pillows and blankets in her mother's room and then lay down on the sofa while Andra slept carpeted in the living room of Keila's house. 

Due to her fatigue, Keila then closed her eyes. With the rest of her strength and before completely falling asleep, Keila then said her final greetings to Andra. “Good sleep.” 

“Ya, good sleep,” reply Andra with a smile. 

Keila who fell asleep then moved her body from a supine position into a tilted position. With Keila tilted, Andra could clearly stare at Keila's deeply asleep face. Andra gave a small smile looking at Keila's sleeping face like an adorable baby. Unknowingly, Andra's hand then moved towards Keila's face to gently caress her. 

Andra then rose from her sleep to be able to look at Keila's face closer. Andra stroked Keila's face slowly before finally giving her a kiss “goodnight” on Keila's forehead. Andra then whispered to Keila, “Good sleep, my lover.” 

After giving a kiss of her good-night, Andra then went back to lying down and closed her eyes with a happy smile on her face.