9 Requests for Love

luka Maira's

they are still both silent, cool with their own minds.try hard to think about questions that should be the talk. although many things want to be asked but in fact the question feels foreign because time does make them feel foreign to each other.

"how are you..."

"you how are you?"

they asked in unison, and finally fell silent again hoping that one of them continued the question that had been cut off.

Zia took a deep breath and slightly smiled seeing the man acting stiff to her.

"i'm fine"

the man just smiled stiffly. contained his coffee and sipped it just to dispel the will.

"i didn't think we were this far now. What brings you here? is that Maira?"

Prass raised his head and smiled knotfully while agreeing with the conclusion made by Zia.

"huh, I think Maira really escaped your sight"

"how could I just get it out of the way"

Zia glanced at him full of probing

"why? what's karna?"

"no, it wasn't him who told me to but my own heart that moved me to look for you"

Zia just breathed in her frustration.

"then? you're gonna report to him?"

Prass was speechless, letting Zia wait a little with a pounding feeling.

"no"

zia's eyes were perfectly rounded, she was astonished as well as not expecting Prass's answer.

"if you want to make a deal with me"

"what deal?"

Prass hesitates a little, but he wants to try to fight for his love one last time.

"give me all the information about Maira, anything I don't know about her"

Zia was moved to see the struggle Prass who until now still fight for his best friend. But Maira will not like this agreement, thinking her best friend Zia again hesitates to take the approval offered by Prass.

"but how long will the two of them be like this?"

Zia fixed her seat and stared intensely at Prass.

"how can I trust you? you could lie to me"

Prass was speechless, nor could he give a guarantee that could make Zia believe him.

"we can only trust each other."

clearly on Zia's face she was dissatisfied with Prass's reply.

"how can I trust you? can't you also lie to me?"

now Zia feels Prass can be trusted because Prass also believes in him.

"okay, trust me. I hold it"

"okay"

Prass smiled smugly to have gotten a deal from Zia.

"what do you want to know about Maira?"

"i want to know all about him that I don't know"

Zia frowned.

seeing the frown on Zia's forehead made Prass have to explain it at length.and true Zia's guess, questions like this will attack him. Either Maira will be angry at him which is obvious for the time being she wants to save herself first.

"his father was caught corruption so he had to be arrested. The news did not have time to spread because they did not allow the media to reveal his identity"

Prass is shocked to hear the burden on the woman he loves but it is only a small part of Maira's life suffering.

"so Maira decided to move?"

"can't you?"

zia replied lethargic.really Zia still felt pain if she had to recall the painful moment for Maira.

"her mother left her and there was no news. Maira just lives with her grandmother. At first everything was fine until finally grandma was seriously ill and had to get treatment.that's when our family took part in her life. Maira lives with us, Mami and Dedi are also willing to bear all the needs of Maira including bearing the cost of grandmother care but as a child Maira still feel lame without the presence of her parents. I once accompanied him to meet Maira's father in custody but he was not willing to meet her. That's when Maira began to get depressed.he was getting quieter, even more, often confine ourselves even we've found him passed out in the bathroom soaking wet"

Zia wiped away her tears, her voice also getting heavier.

"the color of it was Ummi Razik volunteered to take care of Maira while providing psychological care for her. eventually she stayed in the boarding school and also continued her education there"

"then Lake how could he not know all that?"

"he just pretended not to know"

there was a sense of disappointment sneaking in Prass' heart.

"he knows?"

Zia just nodded balam.

"fuck, why didn't he tell me?"

"so as not to increase the burden".

"so I'm a burden to her"

"no, that's why we just wanted to focus on giving Maira treatment back then. And you think she'd be happy if you saw her in that situation?".

Prass is silent, he is very disappointed to feel fooled by his best friend himself, but he also realizes what is said by Zia is also true.

"that was then, then now why does he seem to not want to meet me and even look so hateful to me"

"he's just too much to correct his mistake"

"meaning?"

"his father is corrupt in the group VPN company"

now Prass can understand with all the conditions of Maira. He could understand why Maira always avoided him.

"now can you understand why Maira is acting like that?"

Prass just fell silent.Even he was currently so devastated to hear the name of the company, it felt like a huge fortress separating the two of them. He hesitates to destroy the fortress or let it separate the lives of the two of them, can he turn away from his love and let another love?

"that's what Maira Prass has been charging. He endured it alone without wanting to see you burdened"

Prass raised his head and focused on the man behind Zia.

"he's coming"

"who?"

Zia immediately looked back following Prass's gaze.

"finished yet?"

Zia nodded her head in a sign that she had assumed her conversation with Prass was over.

"My brass has to go now"

Prass also nods in favor of Zia's wishes

"if you want to fight for Maira then of course she is now because I'm sure Maira needs someone beside her at this time. Nanun otherwise I hope you never see Maira again and let her open her heart to others"

after leaving the message Zia also left Prass who was thinking hard. Should he die, Maira or else fight for him with a higher fortress.