DISTURBING NEIGHBORS
57. Coincidence or ...

Neska was shocked to find that the person sitting next to her on the plane was Karel.

"Hi, Nes?"

Even the young man greeted Neska as if not surprised if the one sitting there was the girl. It's a coincidence but why does Neska feel weird.

"You?" Neska frowned in wonder. "Can you?" tanyakanya.

"Can what?" Karel didn't seem to understand the girl's intentions.

"We can get one plane, just keep sitting next to this."

Karel simply sniffed his shoulders in response to Neska's remark as if it didn't really matter.

"Where are you going?"

"I'm going to Singapore, there's a bit of business there" replied Karel, sounding ordinary.

"Oh." Neska mangosteen.

"You yourself? Want to go back to Singapore? Aren't you under contract with the lotion company? Um, sorry yes, I know because I accidentally watched your press conference on television," Karel explained.

"Yes, it just so happens that my work is flexible, still adjusting the same activities I also in Singapore," he explained.

"Such a boy, pantes you want. I don't think modeling is your passion, do I?"

Neska did not answer Karel's question this time, she only returned with a small smile.

They were both silent after engaging in that short conversation. Although Neska used to know Karel and vice versa, but so many years did not meet of course there is a partition on each of them who do not want to be too open to each other. Moreover, Neska who had not been too enthusiastic about Karel since the young man had been rude to her by forcing her to kiss him.

"Dis?"

Neska who was sitting by the window turned to Karel again.

"Are you alone? No crew or anything?"

Neska knew this time Karel wanted to ask the companion who accompanied her on the plane. Maybe Karel's point is where Neska's boyfriend why not accompany her? It's just that Karel didn't want to openly ask that.

"Yes, I'm alone" answered Neska honestly.

"Ah yes, because I want to go to Singapore too, can dong sometime I play to your place. To your college, maybe." Karel looked at Neska earnestly.

"May, my campus is a public place and you can go there at any time" replied the girl realistically.

"Yes, but I'm there to see you dong, Nes. Why would I go there if I didn't find anyone I knew."

"For?"

"Why are you? To play dong, you forgot that I temen you fit SMA? Or you haven't considered me a friend since I hurt you."

"Don't talk about it, Rail. I've lost it" said Neska not entirely true. He still remembered Karel's behavior back then, but he also couldn't possibly discuss it directly with this young man.

"Thank you if you have missed something in the past. I've felt guilty about you ever since."

Neska just thinned her lips. He really had no intention of discussing the past with Karel.

"You still see Vita, Nes?" Karel switched the conversation.

"Vita won what I was?"

Karel nodded. "You don't know how he is, do you?" guess it.

Neska wanted to say yes, because she and Vita had not communicated for a long time. Lastly, they had sent each other messages through social media, and even then only asked for news and activities of each.

"Vita is married and now lives in Papua, with her husband."

"Kok you know?" tanya Neska who this time seemed enthusiastic because she talked about the figure she knew quite closely.

"Yes, her husband happened to be my sister on campus. Not long ago they got married, only two months ago."

Neska nodded her head.

"Sometimes if the reunion is good, yes" Karel later said.

"Yes, I may, but wait for me to stay in Indonesia." Neska began to look stiff again, the talk about Vita that had been discussed Karel actually became the opening conversation of the two who became familiar again.

After some time, air travel. Neska and Karel arrived at Singapore Airport as the day began to darken.

"Where in Singapore do you live, Nes?"

"I'm in the Apartment, Rail."

"Now what are you going home?"

"Taxi" answered Neska.

"Where if I am the same, I also take a taxi anyway, but let my taxi just anterin you get to the Apartment. How's it?"

Karel did not want to force Neska, he just let the girl pass because he did not want Neska ilfeel with him if he wanted to deliver the girl.

"Okay, slow down, later you will certainly not be able to escape me and instead you are begging me, Nes." Karel smiled as he looked at Neska's slender back that had passed.

...***...

Neska went to college as usual. Live everyday like other students. Without ever being expected, Karel actually went to the university where he studied.

Given their conversation yesterday while on the plane, there was nothing strange. Karel seemed to want to be friends with him. Maybe Karel is looking to remember the past or because he did not have so many acquaintances while in Singapore.

"Hi."

"Hi."

"Are you ready for college?"

Neska nodded. "It just so happens."

"Well, that's a damn fit. I'm here to see you like I said yesterday." Karel nodded at the end of his sentence.

"You're done here?"

"No, there are two more days. This just came home from the settlement of the matter, but it's not really runaway."

Neska nodded.

"Are you worried because I came here? I'm sorry, because I'm not used to it yet, so I consider you as the host and I'm the guest."

Neska did not know what to respond to Karel's statement this once.

"If we go for a walk today, can we, Nes?"

"meaning?" Neska almost catches up with Karel's intention of trying to approach her again like she used to.

"Ehm, sorry, I mean, I'm not familiar with the places here. So, you want me to show you the fun places that are here?"

"I don't know that either. Because I rarely hang out, every time I go back to college I go straight home, "admit Neska frankly.

"Hmm, yeah if so. I can't possibly mean you. Sorry yes."

Neska was slightly stunned by Karel's words. The young man also seemed to be lethargic. Neska thought Karel would force her like the old days, in fact the young man relented. Maybe Karel has changed a lot over time, Neska thought.

"Yes, I'm back."

"I'm anterine huh, Nes?"

Neska wants to shake her head, of course.

"Nes, you don't want to take me to the fun places that are here. But you also refuse to make me anterin. Are you the same as me?"

Neska immediately bit her own lips, for some reason she felt guilty to the point that Karel was cribbing like that to her. It is difficult indeed if used to live concerned, Neska so feel sympathy with Karel's remarks.

"Okay, you can bring me home. But sorry, I can't keep you here even if you say you're a guest. Sorry, Rail. I can't entertain you because you're not my guest" Neska said to the point. He wanted to be escorted by Karel just out of sympathy no more.

Karel nodded, feeling that Neska's acceptance this time was an opportunity that he should make the most of.

"Where's the cab, Rail?" ask Neska then.

"It's there."

Neska and Karel walked side by side to the taxi stand that was waiting for them.

"Anyone wants to buy? Let's stop by first?"

Neska shook her head at Karel's question. He sat quietly in his position. He would assume Karel was a visiting friend. So, Neska was acting as habitually as possible.

"This is your apartment building!"

Neska nodded, she got down and entered the elevator in her Apartment building.

Until finally, Neska arrived at the corridor that connects with the location of her room. Neska was surprised that Karel was following her. Neska was feeling uneasy, but her mind still said everything was fine.

"Dis?"

"Why, Rail? You're following me?"

"Here, sweep your hands behind you in the cab so I chased you."

"Sweep hand?" Neska was still astonished.

"Which apartment unit?" karel asked to switch the conversation.

"That's it" said Neska pointing to a door of her apartment unit. At the same time, Neska felt her mouth smothered and the next split second she saw was just darkness.

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