DISTURBING NEIGHBORS
22. Protectively

"I can't, Brother. If you still consider me a sister, please. That is the right of my brother. But if I want to keep my distance from Big Brother, I hope Big Brother also does not mind, because that is also my right, Brother."

Cean's tongue felt mute, he could not understand the words of Neska who felt striking it. Right, what this girl is saying is the truth. They both have the right to decide.

If Cean could only regard Neska as a sister then Neska also had the right to stay away in order to keep the girl's own feelings from continuing to be hurt by Cean's assumption of her.

"Well, if you want to keep your distance from me. I'll grant it. I'm sorry if I hurt you, Nes." Cean nodded faintly, then passed and entered his own Apartmen.

Up in the confined room, Cean breathed a rough breath. Why does Neska have to be like this? As dramatic as this? Can't he just be ordinary?

But somehow Cean was quite tangled due to Neska's attitude. Yes, however the girl does deserve to determine the best for herself, and Cean is not worthy of forcing her.

"Well, why should you care too. Keeping your distance from Neska does not matter, after all we also know a few weeks."

Cean believes that Neska is still unstable in interpreting feelings. The girl could still anchor her liking to the other young man. Rion. But, again somehow imagining it made Cean's head dizzy.

"Well, from now on I shouldn't care too much about him." Cean was determined.

The next day, Cean left his apartment unit and inevitably had to cross paths with Neska who was about to go to school on Monday.

"Dis?" As if it was a habit, he had forgotten that the girl was willing to keep her distance. He even greeted her.

Neska simply responded to Cean with a forced smile then gawked away. That's when Cean realized, wasn't he determined yesterday not to care too much about the girl? Ah, yes, he thought.

"Nepza ..."

Again Cean stopped the steps to pay attention to Neska's interaction with Yola. Looks like this is their first meeting after the bar incident the other day.

"Yes, brother?" Neska said Yola's greeting. Cean saw the two engaged in a serious conversation.

"Nes, I'm sorry about that night. I will no longer take you to work at my place."

"Ah, about that. I'm sorry, too, brother. Did you get in trouble at work because yesterday there was a commotion because of me?"

Yola let out a short sigh but sounded heavy. "If it's about that, yes, anyway. But it's okay, I'm wrong. Precisely I am not very good because you get seduced so. You must be so scared, Nes." Yola touched the back of Neska's hand as if she was feeling guilty.

"Yes, Brother. How about it again. It's happening too."

"Ah, yes, this is Nes..." Yola handed some blue sheets to Neska. "Make you, the salary for the night," he explained later.

Neska looked puzzled, did she have to accept this money? Even her work wasn't finished that night and she also caused Yola trouble. Although he also did not want the commotion to happen because of the flirtatious man who teased him. Ah, if you remember the incident Neska so the thought of action Cean who punched the man.

Geez, again Cean thought. Neska cursed herself.

"Does? How dumb, let's go get it!" Yola urges.

"But, I'm causing you trouble at work."

"That's a risk I'll take you to work there. Udah, come on, take it!" Yola forced.

Neska does need the money, she finally took it, after all she had time to work there, right? Although not complete.

"Thank you, brother."

"Yes, Nes. I'm sorry ya."

Neska nodded her head.

Without both of them knowing, there are Cean who pay attention to their interactions from a distance that is not too far away. He also heard the conversation of Neska and Yola.

"Ah yes, almost forgot, he said that time you were helped by your girlfriend, yes, Nes?"

Neska scratched her temple at a glance. "No, Brother. It was just my acquaintance who happened to be there too" he explained.

"Your acquaintance?" Yola frowned with her eyebrows raised up, because she felt an awkwardness. "Just your acquaintance doang? Sure enough? How can you protect yourself?" he continued interspersed with a seductive smile.

"Ah, yes, Brother. Just that acquaintance, really. Not more."

"Times, anyway?" Yola poked Chubby Neska's cheeks as if to continue teasing the girl.

Neska bowed with a face like a tomato. "Yes, Brother. I have a boyfriend."

"If people protect so there is a sign, you know."

Yola's words managed to make Neska glare, as well as Cean who was still in his position. Ls i?

"Ah, so yes, brother. Yeah, hell. She has a sense of the same me .. Assume I've been like her sister many times," said Neska indifferently as she sniffed her shoulders. Both then laughed.

"Yes, school there. It's late again "

"Ah, yes, Brother. It's Monday, I want a ceremony. Bye, Brother." Neska waved at Yola.

After seeing Neska leave, Cean galloped and came out of his hiding place. Actually not intentionally to hide, just that his position was blocked by the wall because he had not turned in the direction where the elevator was.

"As Cean?" Yola saw Cean there.

Cean did not reply to Yola's friendly greeting. He just put on a flat face. I don't know, Cean is upset because now he knows that this woman was the one who asked Neska to work part-time at the Bar on Saturday night. Although Cean could have guessed it - when Marko mentioned having known Yola at the same Bar.

"Mas, why the rush?" Yola chased after Cean who entered the elevator, even the woman also entered there even though Cean was sure the woman did not want to get out of the apartment building in the morning like this.

"I'm late." Cean answered flatly, not even looking at his interlocutor.

"Mas, you know, there is something I want to ask from yesterday, just yesterday the moment is not right because there is also Beautiful."

"What?" ask Cean at last. He confirmed the tie he was wearing when the elevator was already moving down.

"Actually I had met several times Mas Cean outside the scope of our apartment you know, Mas." Yola said familiarly.

"Oh, huh?" asked Cean with a wry smile. "At the Bar?" continue guessing.

"Well, did Cean know? Did you secretly see where I was there?" Yola smiled as she smiled.

"No, Marko's the one who told me about seeing you there."

"Oh, so Mas Marko was close to Mas Cean, huh?"

Cean nodded. They got out of the elevator and arrived in front of the lobby.

"Beware of the work, ma'am." Yola uttered the sentence uncomfortably, as if her attitude today had indeed deliberately followed Cean all the way to the ground floor as if she was escorting the young man away.

Cean smiled obliquely, without Yola ever expecting it, the young man turned to her again and approached her side with a slight inclination.

Yola gasped, she was already piqued if Cean would be interested in her.

"I hope you never try to get Neska to work again at a nightlife venue like that," he continued to make Yola's eyes widen instantly never thought Cean was actually talking about the girl he had met.

"Who-you mean?"

"I know you understand what I mean. I don't like Neska doing work like I do. So ... don't ask her again." Cean emphasized his every word.

While Yola frowned deeply because she felt that Cean's attitude was too protective of Neska. Doesn't this sound weird? Cean seemed to warn him about this.

This makes Yola so remember the one Neska said as her acquaintance. Yeah, a very protective acquaintance of that girl? Is Cean the one? Was he also the one who made a scene that night to help Neska from Bram who intended to tease her? Yola wondered more and more in her heart.

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