The Romance After Marriage
1.1 | C : Best Friend Married?

- Kyra -

Our conversation continues. Even until the end of dinner and gathered in the middle room while drinking tea or hot coffee accompanied by a plate of eggs that had been ordered, the topic was still hot discussed.

My ears actually hurt when they ask me that question again - that's what they ask me or Delvin. Questions like...

"Why don't you two get married?"

That is the question that I heard again from this afternoon until this evening. Huh, not bored?!

"Kyra single, Delvin..." Kanaya hung up her sentence, glanced at Delvin who then made the guy raise his thick eyebrows upwards. "Jomblo, right, Vin??"

"Jomblo him, just broke up even though he's been dating for 8 years!" My body is as fast as lightning.

Delvin who was sitting on Om Aric's side immediately glared ferociously at me. But I didn't ignore it, pretending I didn't see. Hehe. My form of revenge for him who has not let out his voice since, even though I have desperately denied it myself. Basic, he didn't want to bother!

While Kanaya seemed shocked to hear my explanation just now, so did Kak Nena who was now even her pupils enlarged with the movements of her tea glass that she wanted to drink stopped in midair.

"Seriously?"

"Eight years?!" Ask them almost simultaneously. Maybe just a few seconds apart.

I nodded, reassuring. "They're dating from High School, you know! That's a long time, right??"

"Crazy, eight years of car loans paid off, huh?!" Seloroh Kanaya's.

"Home credit too, if you take KPR which is 10 years even the remaining 2 years!" Reply, Nena added.

I just heard their calls. Although actually a bit guilty to Delvin for even discussing his breakup like this.

"So, why did it break up??" Kanaya asks Delvin with a look of super curious eyes.

I folded my own lips. Just in case, I was afraid that I might fall asleep and answer the truth. Quietly I looked at Delvin who turned out to be just plain expression by sipping hot coffee relaxed, when I thought he would be drunk. Thank goodness my guilt has diminished. Hehe.

Delvin let the question hang for a few seconds while he was enjoying his coffee, and then he answered. He very casually said, "Not a mate."

I couldn't believe what I had just heard from him. He spoke so lightly, as if it were nothing. Though I know very well about his insane heartbreak!

Yeah, yeah, I know... Delvin was always good at hiding his heart. Same as when he was a kid!

Aku menghela napas panjang. Manusia memang tak mudah berubah. Begitu juga Delvin.

"Nahh, that's right!" Now Om Aric started to sound again after a long time. "How long will you be dating, if not a mate, yes, will certainly be separated too!"

I'm speechless. I don't know why I even remembered Bang Ezra's face all of a sudden. Just this afternoon I started not to remember about her, and now I even remember that face with that sweet smile again?!

That's right Delvin said. I'm a 'bucin'! AARGH!!!

"Eh, Kyra?! Why you??"

Instantly I gasped. The people around me looked at me in astonishment. I looked at them one by one, blinking what I had made sure would make an innocent face.

"Eh, what am I, brother?" I grin.

"So, suddenly growling like that.. You're not pa-pa, are you, Ra?" Ask Kak Nena with a worried look.

Once aware of it, I immediately snorted in annoyance. Inwardly cursing myself who can make a sound that should be enough in the heart! Aihs.

"He he he.." My insipid laughter rang out in the air. Delvin's kulrikik instantaneously. Right, he's staring at me. Sure, he must have known about Kyra's fake laugh. "That's because I'm going to get a beat, brother, because it was not good like it was my throat,"

"Oh, that..." Brother Nena is now nodding. Which instantly makes me grimace.

"Yes, that's it, brother. He he he.." I grinned again.

"Yes, drink water, let's eat it. Or do you want to make honey-thin orange water?"

Kak Nena's good offer then makes me waver. "Eh, uh, no, brother!"

My refusal then made Nena frown. "I made it, huh? Not going to take nicotine, really." She smiles.

My lies are like weapons of eating, sir. Now I'm more guilty of treating me that sincerely. Then, how should I?!

"No need to be shirredded, brother, if he just need a drink anyway." Sela Delvin, I nodded. Making Kak Nena who was about to stand up again sat on the carpet again.

"So, drink!"

I stared at Delvin's hand, which gave me a glass of water, half a glass of it, out of nowhere. I hesitated to accept it, but when my eyes glanced at Kak Nena, her smile made me take the glass out of Delvin's hand.

"Thank you, Vin." I said, then drank the water in the glass a little. As a condition that Kak Nena and the others except Delvin are not suspicious. Hehe.

And then, after that, our conversation continued.

Om Aric said, he and Kak Nena were not lovers at first. Sure, the confession instantly made us shocked to hear it. Unsuspectedly. The sticky couple was never a lover.

"Stupid??" Sela Delvin screeched, in the middle of Om Aric's story.

I'm clucking. Then, I hit his arm with a scroll of magazines that I had unconsciously held since then. Making him grimace, pretending to be sick even though my punch was without power. Ck, you lebay!

Delvin grunts. But he did not reply to my words. Good, that means he's conscious!

"Please continue, Om," I said.

Om Aric smiled. He also continued his story.

Well, according to Om Aric, Om Aric's relationship with Kak Nena was originally just a playmate. Coincidentally Kak Nena is the sister of Om Aric's best friend. And when they are playing or gathering together, Kak Nena almost every opportunity always come with the Brother. Which makes them finally get to know each other. At first, even Om Aric only considered Kak Nena's sister, nothing more, considering their age was quite far apart. Moreover, Om Aric has seen Kak Nena since he was a child, that is what makes Om Aric view Kak Nena not as a woman but a little sister.

I cringe. "Keep, why do you know how to get married?!"

Om Aric smiled. "The secret of fate."

The answer it instantly made us who heard this story snort annoyed. What the fuck!

"The truth is, Om," said Kanaya. "Clearly, why did you get married? Who first realized his own feelings?"

"We both know that we can complement each other." Imbuh Kak Nena answered Kanaya's question.

Now, it was Kak Naya's turn to tell the story. He said, a breakup made him slumped long enough, until then Om Aric tried to cheer him up and become a partner in crime which when done with him everything turned exciting. Because often together, over time Kak Nena was aware of his feelings for Om Aric. And unexpectedly, his honest expression instantly shocked me instantly. That is, when he said;

"Because I realized the same feeling, jaudah, I finally revealed it directly to the person. And, he's not happy, but instead like a dazed person!" Then Kak Nena laughed a little, as well as Om Aric who also smiled widely.

"Don't you shoot Om Aric?" I don't believe it.

"Not shooting anymore. He's a marriage nodong!" Om Aric's successful vow opened my jaw. What kind of plot twist is this?! Geez!

"Yoy! Nena is so cool!" Delvin laughed as he gave his thumb.

While on my right, Kanaya was just a head-scalp. Unbelieving and in shock, just like me!

"Keep, Om Aric answered immediately, yes, that?!" I was curious about his story.

Brother Nena shook her head. "Boro-boro! He's hanging me a week, you know!"

"Geez, Om, teganyaa..." Kanaya.

"Eh, listen up, Nay!" Aric took a stand. Defend oneself. "But after that week, Om went straight to his house to propose. So, Om instead of hanging on purpose, but immediately love certainty at the right time!"

"Bravo! Bravo!!" Delvin clapped. He smiled broadly. "It's cool, Om, it's bad!" Again, he thumbs up.

Welcoming the praise of Delvin, Om Aric chuckled.

"Eh! Vin, Ra, you realize that we're both telling the same story as you?" Om Aric asked to see me and Delvin took turns.

I cringe. "Huh? How is it, Om?"

"Yes, that, you are actually aware that you can complement each other, just that you are not aware of the same feelings of each other's hearts!" It was obviously Om Aric who made me laugh snorting for a moment.

"Oh, Om Aric knows it!" My reply.

"Eh, right loh! Aye, no? Yes, no?!" Om Aric immediately looked for the sound by looking right and left, at Kak Nena and Kanaya alternately. Which is directly embraced compact by them.

I'm shaking. Disagree with their opinion. "We have criteria that don't match each other. Delvin doesn't like the beautiful 'princess' girl who is popular, doesn't like her the same as Kyra gini. He called me, I guess, like a tortoise with letters!"

"Maybe it's Delvin's affectionate call to elo, Ra..." Kanaya smiles at me. "Ciyeee," then, she nudged my shoulder on purpose. Made me look at him straight away, fierce. And he just grinned.

I grunt.

"Perhaps, you just don't know, Ra, if it turns out that Delvin's type is as good as you're not a popular princess." Added Om Aric, who seemed to be teasing me more and more. Then, he glanced at Delvin. "Yes, isn't it, Vin?!"

Attention was focused on Delvin immediately. The one stared at only displayed his flat face while saying, "No comment!"

Aric laughed suddenly. There are two women on his left and right.

"No, Ra, Delvin won't answer. It means true!" Again Om Aric teases me.

I snorted coldly. Is it fun to tease me?! Huh.

Upset at Delvin who doesn't know the condition at all. I looked at him fiercely. It sucks! His back to me, he was fishing in the murky water with that answer. Basic insensitive!

"Watch a movie, watch a movie! Good, what movie? Hm.." I muttered as I moved from my previous position and turned to the front of the television looking for a remote to turn it on.

Instead of me continuing to be their moons, I better just go from there!

I heard them giggle. The most dominant sound certainly belongs to Om Aric which is indeed the loudest sound and bass.

"Hurm him, don't want to be interrogated.."

Even if they insinuate me, I don't care!

Huh.