Waiting for Love to Return
I'm all around you

"Sir Andra!" Andra stopped the move when her name was called. A woman he saw in the meeting room was stepping towards him.

"Welcome to join the company" said the woman when her footsteps were near Andra. It was a sweet smile that he had.

"Thank you" Andra replied and continued. He knew there would be a lot of people like that. Try to get attention from her but remember Andra never allows anyone else to get into her life.

"Compense." Alisya-assistant financial director. Beautiful woman who once collided with Kia and Andra in a shopping center.

Andra herself did not heed the swearing she heard. It's not important to waste time just to deal with abuse from them. Usually, people like that just want to get attention.

As the car exited the parking lot and drove down the street, Andra saw the woman who had cursed Ob's uniform in his office. The woman was buying snacks on the side of the road. Again, just like Kia.

To answer his curiosity he followed the woman until the car stopped in front as an alley that only entered the motorbike or for walking.

He got out of the car and followed the girl from a safe distance. Until he saw the woman stopped in front of a house that had many doors and had the same color of paint. Contract house.

"Mama," the call faded Andra's hopes. A child opened the door and welcomed the woman. It can't be Kia.

He got back in the car and closed his eyes. He asked why hope was playing tricks on him. Because he was too hopeful.

***

"Safe, Brother?" leela asked as they gathered at the dinner table.

"Faith, Mam."

"Meet a pretty girl, don't you?' ask Shafia curiously. As usual, he would flirt. Unlike Kean who chose to nudge his sister's legs under the table. "What the hell, brother? Who knows brother Andra can move on from Kak Kia if you meet new people." Shafia looked at Kean.

"Shafia." Leela asked her son to stop talking.

Andra does look calm, but who knows her heart and mind. It could be that his mind is much noisier but tries to be covered by a calm attitude.

"Continue eating and papi hope no one talks while eating. It was much more polite," Bimo said.

"I'm done, permission to go to the room first Pap, Mam." Andra left the dining table after finishing her meal.

"May ...."

"Yes, papi is sorry." The girl resumed eating after being reprimanded by her father just by name.

In the room, Andra chose to access employee data. But the ringing on the phone required him to pick it up.

"Yes, Kim?"

"So come no, Ndra?"

"Astagfirullah, I forgot. Yeah, I've been waiting for you in fifteen minutes."

He rushed to wear a jacket and shoes and headed for the car. His mother who saw Andra hurried to ask.

"What's up, brother?"

"Nobody, Mom, I just forgot about the kids' appointment. I'll go first."

In a cafe, Hakim and his friends are waiting for Andra's arrival. This is their way of entertaining. Who knows with the crowd Andra will rise from a sense of loneliness that never ends.

"Hi, sorry late. Usual ...." Andra scratched the non-itchy temple.

Hakim's friends introduced a woman who resembled Kia but Andra rejected her in reticence.

"I'm sorry, they're just pranking me" Andra told the women introduced by her friends.

Some responded with a joke there was also a direct sneer Andra but it was not strange for him.

"When are you, Ndra?" ask Judge.

Andra shook her head, "I don't have the answer, Kim."

"But it can't be forever like this either time, Ndra. You seem to be punishing yourself by shutting yourself off from the women."

"Not punish, too, Kim. Yes I just thought maybe until Kia comes back or maybe one day God will predestine new people and erase my feelings to Kia. No one ever knows." Andra raised her shoulders.

"Meeting new people without you opening yourself up is also like, weird ck."

"God always has a way. Right now I just don't want to waste time by getting acquainted with new people. Thats it."

"But you still expect Kia to come back?"

"That's natural, isn't it?" Andra looked at the Judge. To appreciate his friends he ordered drinks.

"It's natural but she's not a woman whose departure needs lo lamenting, Ndra. If she may be your wife is reasonable but Kia? He and I have not been in a legitimate relationship. Do you ever think why Kia has not had clarity until now? Why didn't he call you or something?"

Andra nodded but did not interrupt.

"It could be God's way of testing faith, Lo. Tested with patience one of them or it could be that God wants to see the extent of your love between His creator or on his divine being. Because what I see is too hopeful."

"Gue's just trying."

"Efforting the same force is different, bro. You expect him to come back but you doubt it, don't you?"

"How should I go?"

"Uchlasan. Indeed the word is easiest to say rather than practice but you have to do that. If it were a soul mate no matter how long you were apart, it would be together but instead as close as you are if it wasn't a soul mate, God always has a way to separate." The judge patted Andra on the shoulder. "Gue said this because I'm fine. It could be one day you talk to me like this. Rise, Bro. Show it!"

That phrase is in Andra's memory. Not wrong, but he is not ready.

Returning home from the cafe Andra continued the pending intention. Accessing employee data to ensure that the Ob named K.A.W is Kiara Adinda Wiji. Honey, all her hopes are back. She is not Kiara but Khalisa Aniara W.

He seems to have to make things happen. Until drowsiness led him to sleep enjoying a quiet night and crawled into the morning.

As usual, the morning in his house never calmed down. There are only family members who make a fuss. Starting from Kean who asked for the keys of the bike, Shafia who asked for socks and Leo who spilled drinking water into his father's shirt.

It was his behavior. Now he had already turned into a calm man and only watched the furor with a smile.

"Andra's not taking drugs, Mommy?" leela asked who had just returned from the room after preparing a change of shirt for her husband.

"No ah, pity me Mami is afraid of gouty," chuckled Andra.

After breakfast Andra left immediately, when he arrived at the door of the study room he passed by Ob yesterday. But that's not what makes Andra's heart almost explode, but a note attached to a photo of himself with Kia.

(His work spirit, Brother Andra. I'm all around you.)