Aldebaran Looking for Love

Chapter 25

"Lo want to hear the sound of fireworks?" sammy asked, suddenly, as he and Ai were walking in the parking lot of Pacific Place.

Ai who immediately understood his best friend's intentions immediately moved away.

"Sammyyyyyy, watch out if you dare!!!" He threatened while running.

But Sammy's coming after him. After being sure he ran quite close to Ai...

"Brrooooooot!" Sammy's farting voice blaring.

Ai immediately turned to chase after Sammy.

"Loooooooo, Saaaaaaam!" mean it.

Sammy laughed satisfied while running faster so as not to be reached by Ai. Because if Ai can catch up to him, his body is gone! He will be beaten and pinched.

Sammy kept running to his car. However, as the distance between him and his car was getting closer, he turned to Ai for a moment. His best friend was already standing down while holding his knee.

"Busey! Just run for a while, you're already raking gini!" Sammy sneered.

"Review lo ya! If you get it, you're done!" threaten Ai, while taking a deep breath.

Sammy chuckles. He walked closer to Ai, intending to help his friend.

However, Ai immediately attacked him. Turns out it was just a trick for Sammy to help him. Sammy was completely beaten and severely pinched. But he was just laughing.

"Hahahaha, aw, so cruel. Aissss, bangetttt's sick!" Sammy kept complaining while laughing.

"Eat him, don't reseeeh!" Ai maki.

"Hahahaha, yes, geez!" Sammy can only protect himself.

Finally, Ai stopped.

"Udah yuuuk, don't mess around anymore. I still have to pay for the hospital. I don't know if it's still open or not."

"Yes, yes."

Sammy and Ai walk back to the car.

"Anyway..." Sammy deliberately hung up his sentence.

Ai.

"What do you think of Etta's brother?"

Ai glanced sharply, "Don't start!"

Sammy chuckled, "It's not meatballs. Don't use urate!"

Ai grunting.

"Seriously, Ai. I'm curious."

"Well, not how, Sam. How do you want anyway? My overall!"

"Haha. Why do I have to be sprained if not how?"

Ai glanced sharply again.

"Geez, that's angry!" Sammy embraces Ai.

"Let's not macem-macem!"

Sammy laughed, leading Ai to his car a little longer. Ai finally got into the car. Sammy can see his face still pouting.

"Lo kayak son of Junior High again like the upperclassmen, you know?!" Sammy sneered.

"Who likes it?!" Ai sneered while putting on her seat belt.

"Like it's okay too. Etta's brother is single, you're also single." Sammy explained as he drove his car.

Ai just leaned her body in the car seat. He sighed.

"Gue doesn't have time for these feelings, Sam."

'Feelings like gini...' Sammy repeats Ai's sentence in his heart to digest its meaning. Ah, Ai was admitting that she did feel something...

"Ai, you have time. Aunty is even more sad if you know you can not enjoy your youth."

Ai just shut up. Not responding. Sammy relented, too confused how to urge Ai to realize her feelings.

The car rolled out of the parking lot of Pacific Place, and they immediately slipped to see the situation out here.

"Well, it's raining!" exclaim Ai.

"Damn! Where it's stuck again," complained Sammy.

Pasrah. There's no point in grumbling anymore. He had no energy to complain. The hospital cashier will close in half an hour. The distance between the hospital and the Pacific Place is actually only ten minutes, but if it gets stuck like this...

"Living. living..." Ai shook her head.

Sammy chuckles.

"Sleep, I'll wake up when I'm in the hospital. It will be a long time."

"Tumben very, usually you want to be cemented."

"Now, don't be noisy." Sammy dropped off Ai's bench. Then, he took a blanket that was always available in the back seat and gave it to Ai.

"Yesaaaaa!" Ai smiling.

"Whisper!"

"It's lucky to be Sammy's girlfriend!"

Sammy sneered.

Ai laughing.

In just an instant, Ai began to dissolve in her sleepiness.

"Thanks, Sammy.." said Ai, in the remnants of his consciousness.

Sammy smiled little looking at his best friend.

"Bas with the little boy! When are you getting caught?"

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I arrived at the hospital an hour later. He immediately told Sammy to come home so that he would not be too long at home.

Ai no longer expected much when stepping inside the hospital. And sure enough, the hospital cashier is closed. Ai scratched her own hair. Does this mean having to cover the cost of another day's stay?

"Where's the money?" I feel like crying. Even though today there is no online order entered from customers for tomorrow's delivery. How can he expect tomorrow to pay off the entire hospital bill?

Ai had thought about what if she had just gone home. No matter what the grandmother said or what she said. As long as he can pay the hospital bills today.

But Ai wasn't the one who used to regret anything lingering. What passes, let it pass...

After moping for a while, Ai slapped her own cheek.

"The spirit of Ai, the spirit! When is God so alone? When did God start to get dizzy without any help at all?" Ai cheers herself up. In times like these, what was left inside him was only a hope. And a firm faith in God, that there is always a way out of every problem he faces.

He rubbed the tears that had previously stagnated.

He quickly walked to his mother's room. When he opened the door, Mira immediately welcomed.

"Well, come home, son?" Mira stretches her hands.

Ai went straight into Mira's arms.

"Ma..."

"Hm?"

"I don't think I'll be able to get out of the hospital tomorrow. Ai's late, the cashier's closing."

Mira, strangely, smiled instead. He stroked Ai's head feeling affectionately.

"We can go home. Grandma paid my mom's bills."

"Eh???"

Mira nodded, "So grandma maksa pay..."

"But..."

"It's okay. He didn't say anything."

Ai bit her lips. Didn't expect that God's help this time came this way. Through grandmother. Grandma hated him for nothing.

Well, there's a reason, but he better keep it in his deepest heart. Too sad to say.

"Not to think about. The important thing is to pay off first," said Mira, again.

Ai nodded. At least he was grateful for the kindness of his grandmother this time.

"Oh yes, Ma. Saturday, I'm going with Etta to her cousin's wedding."

Mira looked at her curious son. Tumben-tumbenan son wants to go with friends on Saturday. And he was so grateful for that.

"Bby dong. That's fine." Mira looked excited.

Ai sneered, "There are, mothers who even like that if their children are crawling."

Mira chuckles, "The mother's son never enjoyed life."

"If the condition includes enjoying life, I do not have to enjoy life forever."

Mira laughed now.

"Oh, you use your medical money to buy new clothes" said Mira, remembering something.

Ai shook her head firmly.

"No, Ma. I'm pinching Gab's dress."

Mira frowned, "Gab again here?"

Ai nodded. Finally Mira nodded. Gab's clothes will be much nicer than anything they can afford.

"Yes already. Hopefully later at the wedding of his cousin Etta, you meet the same cute guy, Ai. Hope you can go fast. You can meet a good guy."

"Yahoo!" Ai protest.

Mira chuckles, "It's time for you to know the same thing called love."

"Nooooooooo!"

"But you are twenty-one years old!"

"Nooooooo!"

Mira laughed at Ai's rejection. But, he really hoped that there would come a time where there would be someone who could help his son bear all these burdens. Not a financial affair, he knew his son could carry the burden of that one alone. Only, he always felt Ai's inner burden was greater. And he just wanted someone to carry that burden together with Ai.

Meanwhile, in Ai's own heart and mind, he remembered a name. Someone who always talks formally to him. Someone who sometimes messes with his mind.

Who else if not his friend chatted two hours ago?

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