30 DAYS WITH U
54. SECRET LOVER 6

Next day.

At the weekend, Keila who ran out of groceries then went to the market alone by riding a city bus. As soon as he reached the market and saw the crowd unknowingly Keila's mouth said the sentence he always said when going to the market together with Andra. “Don't be far from me, Andra.” 

After saying that Keila then realized if someone who always held his hand tightly when shopping together is no longer there. Keila then recalled her memories together with Andra when she first came to this market. 

Keila looked at her hand held by Andra's hand with a look of wonder, “Why are you holding my hand??” 

“Didn't you say don't stay away from you?” Andra raised Keila's hand which she held. “This is my way of not being far from you.” 

After that memory appeared, Keila then spoke to herself. Your way is really classic, but. . . I really like it. It should have been. . I've been telling you the truth a long time ago, Andra. Ah no Tee Rak.

After that Keila entered the market and started shopping. Then all the time shopping in the market, Keila would receive the same expressions and the same questions from merchants who used to be Keila's subscription. 

“Why did you come alone, Miss? Where's your handsome and sweet lover?” 

Hearing the same question and seeing the same expression over and over again, Keila would subconsciously answer, “My love is out of town because of her work.” 

Hearing Keila's reply, the merchants then replied to Keila's words in the same sentence. “I've guessed you guys are really a couple. You guys really are a matching couple.” 

After hearing the same answer over and over again, Keila then realized something. How can they know if I and Andra really became lovers when all this time I always denied all the words of Andra who introduced herself as my lover when shopping together? A happy smile then formed on Keila's lips. Those merchants were even more sensitive, their eyes were more observant and their feelings were sharper than I had expected. If Andra heard this roughly what reaction would she make?? 

Next day. 

Upon arriving at his apartment, Keila found the door of Andra's apartment, which had been sealed for several days, suddenly opened with a slight gap. Seeing that situation, Keila who had been very homesick with Andra then ran quickly into Andra's apartment which had never been entered by Andra on the grounds of being messy. 

“Andra!” keila shouted with a hopeful face as she opened the door of Andra's apartment. But Keila's hope was instantly dashed when she saw the figure inside Andra's apartment was not Andra. 

“Nona Keila. .” 

“Sorry if I crush Miss.”'s expectations Liam quickly caught Keila's change in look when he saw her. 

“It's not your fault, Liam. I was wrong for being too hopeful,” Keila replied with a bitter smile of self-pity. “Why are you here and not Andra? Is Andra still not back?” 

“Director is still out of town. I first returned to do the pending work of the Director. I'm here to retrieve the files of the Director left here.” Liam gave an answer while checking one by one the files in a pile on Andra's desk overlooking the balcony of the apartment. 

“Ah apparently she is still busy,” said Keila disappointed. “He didn't even contact me these few days.” 

Hearing Keila's scolding, Liam spontaneously made a small smile on his lips and his hands stopped looking for the files he was looking for. Liam then looked towards Keila and said, “Please understand Miss. Every time this happened, the Director would be so busy that he had little time to rest. Moreover, this was the first time the Director had a lover. Maybe this time the Director forgot if he who now has someone who will wait for his arrival, unlike before.” 

Liam's words made Keila slightly comforted by discovering that she was Andra's first lover as Andra had been saying all along. I guess for this one thing, Andra didn't lie to me. I was really his first lover. Keila then returned Liam's smile. “Thank you, Liam. Before that can I have a look around, Liam?” 

“What Miss has never been in here?” Liam turned around to ask Keila. 

“But.” Keila replied by shaking her head. 

For a moment Liam felt a little hesitant to let Keila into his superior's apartment. But after looking back and forth and not finding anything important inside her superior's apartment, Liam then nodded his head in agreement with Keila's request. “I don't think the Director will be angry. Miss can go in and have a look.” 

Keila then takes off her shoes and walks into Andra's apartment for the first time. Once inside Andra's apartment, Keila saw many stacks of reports scattered around various corners. Keila also saw the size of Andra's apartment looks wider than Keila's apartment because there are only sofas, small tables, dining tables, refrigerators, tvs and work tables with piles of files that are mountainous. No wonder Andra always forbade me from entering her apartment. This apartment is really messy even though it is not as bad as my apartment which is like a broken ship. But seeing that there wasn't much furniture here, I could clearly see that this apartment was really as quiet and cold a place as when I first met Andra. This view is inversely proportional to Keila's apartment which is full of many items, especially Keila's collection books and Keila's cookware. 

After being satisfied to look around, Keila then sat on Andra's sofa with her eyes fixed on the only photo attached in Andra's apartment. I think I've seen that sight. Feeling familiar with the photo, Keila then got up from her seat and walked over to see the photo on display. Wait, this bridge is. . .

“Liam,” call Keila still by staring at the photo in front of her. “What this photo belongs to Andra?” 

Liam who was still busy looking for Andra's files then looked up to look at Keila. “Ah Miss recognizes the photo apparently.” 

“You know this bridge?” Keila turned towards Liam with a surprised look. 

“Of course I know, Miss. The bridge in the photo is the same bridge where Miss met the Director during the attack of the man named Noah.” 

Keila looked back at the photo in front of her. “It was true. This is indeed the bridge, but the angle of this shot was taken from below - more precisely from the direction of the river bank. What did Andra do to be there? When Andra took fo-“ The question that emerged from Keila's mouth suddenly came to a halt as Keila's eyes looked at the bottom corner of the photo showing the time of the photo's capture. Waitthis?? Keila stared once again at the time of the photo shoot and this time clearly Keila was able to when the time of the photo shoot was. This was seven years ago?