7 Days With Althara

Althara's happy birthday

“Surpriseee!!!!” Shouting all her friends by jumping towards me made me realize.

I can't believe it's Althara's birthday. It's worth asking me to accompany her all day, as was her custom on Althara's birthday she just asked to be able to spend time with me and not want anything else.

Althara pretended to smile happily at all her friends who had given her a surprise.

The sponge cake I still hold carefully in both my hands and the candle is still burning above the sponge.

“Make a wish first dong” exciting bebepa his friend behind me.

Althara looked at me confused.

He closed his eyes, and seemed to be praying in the depths of his eyes. Then he blew out the candle with eyes that still stole a glance at me.

“Yee selamet ya tar” said Billa precede kissing his cheek before others.

“Congratulations ya boss finally lo re-tun also” said Sam while greeting and hugging Althara.

“Taraa is very old anyway it turns out, but why is your face like a boy?” Canda Rey beside me as she greeted and hugged her.

It is I who have not yet dived. And everyone was waiting for me to participate and wish him a happy birthday. I'm so clumsy at seeing everyone like that.

“Happy Birthday Althara” says I'm finally.

But Althara just looked at me silently, I forgot Althara's birthday because I had forgotten about the happy day for a long time.

Then unexpectedly Rey spilled all the cake into Althara's face making everyone there scream hysterically and even mash Althara's face with the cake.

Everyone laughed while Althara so resignedly accepted the pranks of all her friends. After being satisfied, all of his laughing friends Althara shook his head and began to chase all his friends who ran scattering out of the house and ran in the yard and in the parking lot so spacious it was.

While I was just sitting quietly in the living room waiting for them. I'm still thinking about the day I just went through. Why would Althara still want to spend time with me on her birthday ? He came back to confuse me.

A woman sat beside me with a small towel in her hand. He had just washed his face from the moss of cake that had been stuck on his face.

He glanced at me then smiled, I returned his smile.

“Hay Alhena” her greeting.

“Hay Bil”

“Sorry yes they are a rich prankster gini”

Say it while laughing.

“Gak nothing”

“You're Rey's boyfriend?” Ask her.

I shake my head with a smile.

“Bukan”

“Oh haha I think I'm already a boyfriend”

Then we chuckled together.

“When we go out foursome yes, we watch or hang out ..”

“Fourth?” My question cuts Billa's words.

Because of so many friends like this why he said only four.

“It's the four of you, me, you,Rey and Althara”

Like being struck by lightning. I was surprised to hear Althara's name mentioned.

“You're Althara's boyfriend?” Ask me carefully.

He smiled with shame.

“I also haven't been her boyfriend Al” she chuckles with her own words.

“But we are that close, only Thara is difficult to admit her feelings, and finally we just live a relationship with what is”

I smiled hearing her story. And hide my disappointment.

“Sorry yes I so confide gini”

Say it while laughing.

“Nothing bill”

Then they all finally came and sat down to join us. Rey sat next to me with a tired-sounding breath.

“You drink?” Ask Rey.

I glanced at Althara who was still standing beside Billa by wiping her face with a towel. He looked at me confused.

“I'm going to the toilet Rey”

“Oh there Al I take ya”

“Nothing, I myself aja”

Then I went to the toilet she was pointing at. I passed Althara by staring at her sharply and cynically. Althara knew something had happened that made me cynical like that.

I went into the toilet and washed my hands in the washbasin. I looked at myself in the mirror and regulated my emotions.

“Lo can Al,lo should be calm” I told myself in the mirror.

I took a deep breath and tried to regulate my emotions.

I came out of the toilet and found Althara was waiting for me outside the door by folding her hands together.

I try not to care about him. And put my foot away to go.

“Alhena” he held my hand.

“Billa what is the same story with you?” Ask her curiously.

I lifted both my halis.

“Ga ada”

“besides saying that you guys turned out to have a relationship” I said by pretending as if not care.

I was going back.

“Wait Al. I don't want you to misunderstand”

“Iya I misunderstood Al. I've misunderstood, thinking that everything will be back well aja”

Cynic me and really get out of there leaving him agitated.

I sat down next to Rey.

“Drink first” said Rey gave me a soda.

“Thank you Rey”

Althara arrives and she immediately takes over Rey and Fadil's job.

“Udah justin his experts who work” said Rey.

“Udah was we wait to dieg aja udah” said Fadil while sitting next to Rey.

“This tar” Billa thrust the steak that had just been on her line into Althara.

“Let me aja” said Althara ketus make Billa look disappointed.

Billa sat down to join us with a sad look on her face.

“Oh yes earlier said lo again busy tar?” Ask Fadil.

“Heeh meet who lo? Client?” Added Sam.

“Gue met someone important” said Althara busy rounding up the steak in front of her.

I sipped my drink to quell my panic.

“It's so important?”

“Penting” He said while smilingly staring at me.

“Gue think lo again the same way Billa” Said Sam make Billa look disappointed.

“Ngga, Althara ga nemuin me” said with a grim look.

Althara was seen smiling cynically.

“You want to know who I'm going with?” Ask her.

“Who?” Ask Sam.

Althara looked at me coldly.

“Alhena”

He made everyone look at me in surprise. And it makes me bumbling confused not knowing what to do.

Althara's completely insane.

I accidentally choked with my drink hearing my name called her.

Everyone was still staring at me in confusion.

“Please bring ketchup that is beside kursi” continued Althara make me dizzy.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, including me.

I immediately looked for the soy sauce he meant. After meeting the ketchup that made everyone look at me, I immediately told Althara with a panicked face.

“Thanks”

I just nodded my head by staring at her cynically.

Althara could make me a heart sport like this. He looked so satisfied that it made me panic like this. I could only sit beside Rey in annoyance.

“There are important people that I have to meet earlier” continued Althara explained.

All silence no longer discusses what they think is unimportant. They don't know if that important person is me.

“Oh yes nyokap where?” Ask Rey.

I looked at Rey with reflexes.

“They again travel here” his words with his hands continue to roll back the steak in his cook.

I round my eyes more and more hearing Mother and Father are on their way here.

Why would I have thought that Althara lived in a house this big by herself, why didn't I think about her parents ?

“They just got home from a family event in Palembang?” Ask Fadil.

“Iya” short again Althara.

He occasionally glanced at me, spotting my pale face which was very noticeable if I frantically met his parents.

Of course I panicked, how could I meet Althara's parents by pretending not to know them like this child. Where can I be ready to meet them with this kind of situation. I wasn't ready to see their shocked faces meet I was suddenly at her house, added Rey. I can't imagine that happening.

Then I got up from my seat.

“Rey I have to go home” I said suddenly made everyone look at me.

“Why go home?” Rey was still sitting in her place.

“Steak her aja belom mateng loh this” said Sam.

“Wait nyicip first, just a little later come home” added Rey.

“Iya Al hastily” said Althara with so annoying.

I ignored them, I kept staring at Rey.

“I have a promise I forgot, if you can't anter me home, I can take a taxi” threatened me because I can't stay here long until Althara's parents come.

“OK okay I inter”

Rey stood up and picked up the phone on her desk.

“Guys I unplug first I will come here again” Rey said to all her friends.

I know they all look surprised by my behavior.

“Al wait for me ya” Rey told Althara.

I picked up my bag at the table and walked up to Althara.

“Happy Birthday Althara” said I look her in the eye.

She looked back at me so deeply and completely. So much meaning from her gaze, made me so long for her shared warmth, but the pain I had been through so far could defeat the loving gaze of Althara.

I immediately regained my senses and left them at the Althara Beque.

Althara's happy birthday.