End Journeys
The No Touchy Please

Ruby and Felix are only a few meters away. Ruby walked slowly, feeling guilty for being rude to Felix. He sometimes looked back, Felix still standing looking at him.

"No Ruby! He deserves to be treated like that, don't come back!" Ruby hit her own head.

A thick-bodied man came from a distance, he was carrying a large backpack on his back.

Felix walked up to Ruby, afraid something had happened to her lover.

"Miss, what were you doing this night alone?" ask the man.

Ruby fearlessly and suspiciously replied, "I'm looking for a taxi, sir."

"I did too but up ahead there was a big tree down. There is no access to this road except from the tree-covered road. From earlier there was no vehicle that could enter this road," the man explained.

"The vehicle will rotate at a crossroads that is three kilometers from here so until the tree falls here there will be no vehicles passing through" he added.

"Thank you sir for the information. Are you looking for a place to stay? I happen to know a motel near here" Ruby offered to help.

"Thank you for your help. I was looking for a motel that my co-workers said was around here but I haven't found one yet" she replied with the help Ruby offered.

Ruby turned back towards the motel. Felix who was now near Ruby just walked after her without speaking a word.

Arriving at the motel, the man booked Poppy's room. Ruby was waiting behind the man.

"Thank you for your help" said the man.

"Either. I'll order too" replied Ruby.

"Whatchu mean? You'll stay with me!" felix said after hearing Ruby's words.

"Who dare you force me?"

"I'm your lover!"

"I'll never want to share a room with you again" Ruby walked away from Felix.

A fight happened in front of the man. The man just kept quiet after completing the payment and waited for Ruby and Felix to leave first.

Ruby, who feels bad about her new friend, apologizes and leaves after Felix forcibly withdraws Ruby.

"I'll explain everything" Felix said.

Ruby doesn't care what Felix says, she picks up her phone and opens her social media without caring what Felix explains.

"Done I paid, the woman teased me. He forced me into that room. At first he said ask for help so I'd like to" Felix began to explain.

"Solicit what please?" Ruby asked and put down her phone.

"don't know. But.."

"don't know? You idiot!" answer Ruby.

"Yes, really. I'm a stupid man. I know he teased me but I just wanted to get into his room even when I didn't know what kind of help he needed. You can insult me, you can say anything bad about me but please. I never betrayed you" Felix explained with teary eyes. She was really afraid of losing her boyfriend.

"You think I can easily be a fool?" Ruby did not believe what Felix had explained.

Felix tries to convince Ruby, but Ruby remains distrustful. Maybe because he had been hurt by a man who caused him to feel heartache deeply, now he has difficulty believing in the words of men. Moreover, the reasons expressed by Felix are less convincing for Ruby.

"I was tempted at first so I went in. But I don't intend to do that. I was just wondering how brave that woman was. I always remember that I had a lover, I would never betray you. I made a promise to myself, I made a promise to Key" she explained.

Ruby immediately sends Key a message that she is at the motel with Felix. Ruby explained that everything was fine.

Key immediately replies to the message, but Ruby tells him to go to sleep.

"Darling, I'm being honest. The point is I was curious, I know, I was wrong. When I realized he was teasing me I should have left but I was wondering how brave he was after that. I was wrong, but I really never intended to touch her. It just goes through my mind, no" Felix explained.

"OK," Ruby replied and then returned to playing the phone.

Felix understands that Ruby needs time to accept her explanation. Felix admitted that he was guilty of his curiosity.

"You're the one who's been smearing our relationship for the first time. Don't blame me if I do the same thing" Ruby said.

"I accept whatever you're going to do. You want to say rude to me please. I'm not forbidding, just so long as you don't go with another man" Felix replied.

"Are you the only one who can do that?" Ruby said while still turning her back on Ruby.

"I know my girlfriend is a good, smart woman" Felix replied. He knew that Ruby could not do such a strange thing especially until cheating. She realized Ruby had only experienced emotions for a moment.

"Don't get close to me," Ruby moved further away from Felix towards the edge of the bed, even though there had been given a bulkhead using a bolster pillow.

"Honey, it will fall" said Felix who saw Ruby's sleeping position too far to the edge.

"No need to be so caring" Ruby replied curiously.

"If you don't want to get close to me. It's okay I slept downstairs. As long as we're still in one room," Felix takes a pillow and sleeps downstairs, right next to Ruby's right with a fur carpet.

Ruby immediately turned around because she did not want to see Felix.

***

The clock on Felix's phone had shown at two in the morning, but he was still unable to close his eyes. Feeling very guilty to her lover and her sister because she had promised Key that she would not hurt Ruby.

Key sent out a bunch of messages that all contained Key's anger on Felix. He replied with an apology, then sent a voice note to explain what really happened. It turns out that Key hasn't slept either, they end up chatting until morning.

***

"Ah I'm bad luck," Ruby just woke up at 11 p.m.

In the room there is food and drinks served on a small folding table.

"Darling, are you awake? This is food, Poppy brought it," Felix said.

Ruby looked at Felix cynically and ignored the food.

"You're not hungry yet? Yes, eat it later. I put it on a higher table," Felix moved the food to a table that was actually a work desk. Ruby doesn't care what Felix does. He took a shower because he felt his mood was bad. Bathing is indeed one way Ruby overcome the mood that is not too good.

After the shower, he stayed by the window. Looking at the usually very crowded courtyard that day became very quiet. Actually from last night Ruby had felt something different in the motel because the atmosphere was really quiet, and until that day the atmosphere was still as calm. He wanted to ask Felix but just looking at his face had made Ruby again experience a bad mood. He decided to spend all day in bed.

"Honey, eat a little" Felix ventured to speak to his lover.

Ever since he woke up, Ruby looked at Felix cynically. After that, Ruby did not want to see Felix's face again.

Felix felt even more panicked because now he really felt the real anger of Ruby.

Usually when Ruby is angry, the next day the atmosphere will improve even though they have not improved. But in contrast to that day, Ruby looks increasingly hate Felix.