The First Curse of Love
7. Timebomb

Qiara was lying face down on the bed, reading a novel, when Danny appeared suddenly in front of the open door of his room while eating a pack of corn chips in his hand.

"Tumben woke up early." Danny said in a soft tone while chewing on his favorite corn chips.

Hearing Danny's voice greeting his listener's senses, Qiara immediately lifted his face from the novel he had been teasing while touching the handle of his glasses, "why did it appear in my room early in the morning?"

"Why? Can't you?" Ask Danny. He then entered Qiara's room deeper and casually laid down his body right next to Qiara in the same position as Qiara.

"Surge aaah! I'm not in the mood to play the same. I'm reading this book again." Dispel Qiara while pushing Danny's arm away from her.

"Yes, read it. I won't bother you."

Qiara continued reading, but a minute later her concentration collapsed immediately upon realizing that Danny was staring at her with the noise of the corn chips she was chewing.

"Danny, unbiased! You have a habit of eating in bed. This is if the crumb of corn chips lo in my mattress dredged with ants how? I can gatel-gatel, Danny. Don't be slovenly, huh!" Qiara's real complaints began to fade because of Danny's actions that deliberately disturbed him.

However, instead of serving Qiara's complaint, Danny innocently said, "isn't elo common in the ant sheath?"

"Huh?" Qiara showed a blo'on face.

"Yes! Elo, right, sweet. Sugar shemanis. HAHAHAHA..." Danny laughed loudly at the end of his sentence. While Qiara was still showing her blo'on face with a frowning forehead.

"Danny, crisp!" Qiara said as she rolled her eyes and dropped her face on the book while closing her eyes.

This shitty guy really knows how to frustrate her.

Qiara then took a deep breath before finally slowly turning towards Danny with her jutek face. Qiara understood, if Danny continued to stick like this, it meant that there was something he wanted to talk about.

"Now, what do you want to say? Please leave and don't bother me all day. I have a broadcast later tonight." Qiara finally relented.

Danny started to grin at the horse afterwards. Yup! No doubt about it. Qiara was indeed the best he could rely on in any situation.

"Tomorrow Prissy's a birthday. What surprise do I have to give him?"

"Dann?" Qiara's tone suddenly sounded serious.

"Hm?"

"Lo's sure it was to your ex-boyfriend?"

Danny was silent for a few seconds. Then just like Qiara, Danny's eyesight also started to turn serious. "If I acted like your ex-boyfriend, I'd lose you now." Answer Danny later.

They looked at each other for a long time. And suddenly, their laughter was equally broken after previously both shuddered amusedly with the conversation just now. Danny also raised his right hand to invite the high five who was immediately welcomed by Qiara.

"Cringe, huh?" Danny said in his laughter.

"Ho'oh." Reply Qiara agreed.

"Petch ideas. What surprise should I give you?"

"Remain just as men do usually."

"What?"

"Song singing while weaving."

"Don't the girls not like the classic stuff anymore?"

"But the thing is, you like girls."

"Kok know?"

Qiara then sighed. This guy is really chatty! Rutuk Qiara in heart. Didn't Danny understand, too, that Qiara was lazy to use his brain to think?

"Oh, I'll do it." Qiara said as he softened Danny's head.

Not yet had time for Danny to reply to Qiara's toyoran by bringing him back, suddenly Safita –Mama Qiara appeared in the doorway and said, "Danny, Qiara, let's go down! Breakfast is ready."

"Okay, Auntie!" Danny replied excitedly.

"Papa's mom when are you coming home, Dann?" Safita asked, considering that Danny's parents were traveling out of town, to visit Grandpa Danny who was sick.

"Maybe two more days, Tan."

Safita just nodded. Then as he was about to turn away, Qiara hurriedly said, "Mama, Mama! Siepin for Dean too, huh? I'd like to have breakfast with Brother Dean."

Qiara's words just made Danny's face change. For some reason, there was a feeling of unworthiness in his heart now.

"Good." Answer Safita briefly as it passes.

Qiara got up from the side Danny was about to get out of his room. But just as Qiara was about to reach the door, Danny quickly caught up with her and restrained his wrist. Qiara turned her head and threw a mimic asking the young man.

"Can't I have breakfast here?"

One.

...****...

"YEE! WIN!" Cheeked Dean excitedly as the piece he was running stopped right on the 100th floor of his fierce match against Qiara playing the snake of stairs.

Qiara folded her hands in front of her chest, and waited for Dean's resignation which would give her a hard jolt on her forehead as punishment. Suddenly Qiara regretted having challenged Dean to play the snake ladder when he delivered breakfast to this man.

"Okay, ready, huh?" Dean said as he prepared his index finger as a weapon to flick Qiara's forehead.

Qiara immediately closed her eyes in anxious expectation. But in his heart he was sure, that Dean would not have the heart to touch his forehead hard. Qiara was very confident, that Dean would do it slowly.

But what happened next overturned Qiara's beliefs in an instant. Because it turns out that Dean is touching his forehead so hard that it makes him sick.

"AWW!" Ringis Qiara quite loudly while holding her forehead and hiding her face to the side.

What Qiara was doing was automatically bringing Dean's laughter to a halt. His joy that had been burning since then had now turned into a feeling of worry.

"Qi, Qi, are you okay?" Dean asked without being able to hide his panic while holding onto both of Qiara's shoulders, and slightly lowered his face.

"Qi, Brother Dean is sorry." Dean was full of guilt. He was still trying to see Qiara's face.

Dean, who had no idea what else to do, grabbed Qiara's head and carried her into his arms, "sorry, huh?" said Dean, softly stroking Qiara's long hair.

On the count of three, without Dean being able to take into account before, Qiara suddenly laughed in satisfaction and immediately broke free from Dean's embrace. Turns out, he only pranked Dean to avenge Dean's treatment earlier. Now, Qiara really felt that she had broken even.

"You lied to Dean?" Dean asked with his face still looking panicked.

While Qiara, he just kept laughing while trying to control himself.

"So Brother Dean was really loud. Really hurt, you know. Look, I must be blushing right now." Qiara said as she brought her face closer to Dean and showed her completely flushed forehead.

Once again Dean grimaced with guilt. Then attentively, he rubbed Qiara's forehead with a gentle gesture.

"Doooh, Brother Dean apologizes once again, huh?"

...****...

Danny was about to climb up the stairs to his room when suddenly his attention was on Dean and Qiara who seemed to be joking in the living room. For a moment Danny smiled looking at the happy looking Dean. The cold glare in his eyes was nowhere to be seen while with Qiara. However, just moments later, when Dean grabbed Qiara's head and carried her into his arms, something in Danny that he did not understand, knowingly jerked himself without warning.

Degh's! Danny's heart in there seemed to have just been punched by a mysterious hand. The smile that had been expanding on his face was now slowly fading.

He then sighed which inexplicably sounded heavy.

Two.

...****...

30 Minutes ago...

"Can't I have breakfast here?"

Danny doesn't know why he suddenly intercepted Qiara's wrist and implicitly asked her to stay and not see Dean. But since then, he felt very disturbed when he heard the sound of his brain and heart that continued to fight endlessly. Unfortunately, his brain lost, and it was his heart that had won the battle.

Danny's feelings suddenly slipped, like something had broken inside him while Qiara released her hand from Danny's cage. Without a single look away from Danny, and with a smile on his face, Qiara said, "lo knows too, right? I have to nemenin Brother Dean now."

Danny lost. He can no longer avoid.

He could only smile bitterly as he looked at Qiara's back, which was increasingly disappearing from his eyes. Moments later, Danny clucked softly and then hit his own head.

"Sniff! What did you just do, Danny Adhitama?"

...****...

"Sore, Al!"

Tegur Qiara was full of spirit as soon as he entered the lounge of ANHstar Radio. Alisha, who was focused on checking the broadcast script, just waved at Qiara without distracting her from the script she was reading.

"Is there something to edit tonight?" Qiara was once again heard asking, while sitting right in front of his colleague.

"A little bit." Answer Alisha.

In one of the divisions at ANHstar Radio, there are two special teams in which there are several students who are given responsibility for each holding one program event. Qiara and Alisha happen to be on the same team. Alisha is an assistant scriptwriter who dreams of becoming a lead writer someday.

"Udah pas. Try reading first. The script that I sent, it turns out there are some mistakes. I'm done with it now." Light Alisha while sticking out the manuscript right in front of Qiara.

Qiara immediately accepted it, then placed her cell phone and tumbler bottle on the table before finally reading the script that Alisha gave her.

"If so, I'll face Mba Uchie first, yes?"

"OKAY. Good luck, huh, Al?"

Alisha steps out of the lounge, and soon meets Mba Uchie, the lead author of the program. Alisha deliberately wanted to meet Mba Uchie to do his regular consultation on script writing.

While struggling with the script, Qiara suddenly felt her phone vibrate. He paused his excitement for a moment and grabbed his phone that was on the table. He just received a message from Danny.

Qiara sighed after reading the message Danny sent. Then, with no intention of replying to the message, Qiara put her phone to its original place and refocused on studying the script.

"Keep, until when should I care about your romance, Danny Juan Adhitama?" Grutter Qiara slowly then flipped the sheet of the script he was reading.

To Be Continued...^^^