Allow Me to Be With You

CHAPTER 9

Nico and Frisca both live in the room. But it didn't last long. The next second, mom came in carrying a new sheet. Frisca immediately volunteered to help put the sheets on. Feeling that the situation was so safe enough, Nico returned to tidying up the CD.

"In changing the sheets first, yes Fris. Afraid of something." said the mother winked at Frisca who chuckled. "Or, how a man.." continued the mother again, making Nico rotate his eyeballs while sighing long.

Nico looked over briefly from the activities of compiling his CD, then looked up when he saw the object held by his mother.

"Mom, what's the pattern of the sheets are flowers anyway?" ask Nico coldly.

Mom and Frisca looked at Nico with puzzled expressions.

"Yes, why then?" ask mother without guilt.

"A floral print in my room? Who really dong ma'am?" nico said again with more emphasis on the words 'flower' and 'my room'. "This isn't Nathan's room, ma'am!"

"Ah, this Nico. It's okay, isn't it? It's so sweet, again." said the mother as she unfurled the sheets onto Nico's bed, contrasting the Queen poster behind her.

Nico stared at the bedsheet in disgust for a moment, shook his head, then put his CD-CD away at the table and moved towards the door.

"I swear, I won't go back into this room as long as it's still there" Nico said with a sour face before exiting his room.

Mom and Frisca giggled together.

*****

Tonight, everyone gathered at the dinner table. The food that is served is really special. Nicos got confused himself, because their dining table suddenly arrived crowded with fried gourami flour, capcay, stew chicken, and sapo tofu.

"So, when are you gonna be here?" nathan asked Frisca.

"Oh, so you want to tell me to go home, huh?" reply Frisca pura sulking. Nathan, father, and mother laughed.

"No, even I want it anyway you are here continue, do not need to go back to London again" said Nathan honestly.

"Oh, if that's not Nat" said Frisca. "I have to go back to London in about two months.

"Two months is not enough." Nathan said with a serious face. "You should have stayed here."

Frisca laughed crisply. "Well, I want to" said Frisca, glancing at Nico, who seemed completely uninterested in their conversation.

"Co, you stay quiet. Are you the same as Frisca?" mother asked, making Nico almost choke when eating tofu.

"It's normal." answered Nico briefly as he grabbed his glass and drank a lot. Since then Frisca no longer shows her smile during meals.

Nathan stopped eating, then looked at the clingy Nico, wondering what made him look as cynical as ever when Frisca was here, with them. There's no way Nico could've forgotten Frisca.

After a quick meal, Frisca and Nathan chat in the gazebo. Nico chooses to watch TV, not wanting to see Frisca and Nathan together.

Nico leaned his head against the cushion of the sofa. Too much happened today and somehow Nico seemed unable to deal with it. This isn't Nathan, this isn't dad, this isn't Tian or whoever it is.

It's Frisca. The girl who was always in her dreams.

*****

Frisca tried to close her eyes, but what she imagined was during dinner last night. Nico didn't look at him at all, nor did he steal a glance. Nico seems to have completely forgotten about it. When Frisca just arrived, Nico did not even want to shake his hand.

Frisca turned her back, then a tear fell from her eyes.

In fact, Nico was the only reason Frisca came back to Indonesia. But even reason itself did not expect his arrival.

*****

This morning, Nico woke up feeling empty. He hoped Frisca's arrival was only a dream, but the fragrance of the girl's body was everywhere in his house.

Nico got up, took a towel, then went into the bathroom. He washed his head with water, hoping that it could erase Frisca's shadow in his brain. Nico lifted his head letting the cold water from the shower fall right into his face.

On February 14, 2018, we come here again, we continue to read our letters.

When he recalled the sentence back, Nico smashed the wall in front of him hard until his knuckle felt sore.

After finishing the bath, Nico immediately stepped towards his room, for a moment he forgot that there was a girl sleeping there. He only remembered after opening the door of his room noisily and getting Frisca lying on her bed covered in half a body. He saw Frisca wearing a tanktop so that it displayed a smooth neck skin.

Nico sighed softly with a turbulent heart. He had already entered, and all his clothes were in his room. Nico soon has to go to college.

Nico stepped heartily into the room towards his closet which was located right beside the bed. Nico couldn't resist the temptation not to turn to Frisca.

Frisca looks so sweet when you fall asleep. Her soft hair covered part of her face. It felt like Nico stroked the girl's head, brushing her hair so that her beautiful face was not covered.

The next second, Nico flinched. He can't let his fantasy wander. Nico immediately opens the closet and picks up a random black t-shirt.

"Co?" said Frisca, ternyat awoken by the sound of the clanking closet

Nico turned his head in shock, but immediately calmed his feelings by turning his face and opening his shirt.

"My clothes are all here." Nico explained as he slammed his dirty T-shirt across the room, which went right into the dirty laundry basket.

"Oh," Firsca muttered while sitting leaning back and watching Nico who was wearing a new T-shirt.

Nico felt that gaze, but as much as possible ignored it.

Frisca arrived. "Co, you know, if anyone comes into your room right now, that person could have misunderstood you."

Nico turned his head, figuring out what Frisca meant just now, then the next second he understood. The situation where Nico is changing clothes and Frisca is sitting on the bed with a blanket covering her body, is really like the scene if they are just spending the night together or what is the name.

Nico threw away his face, then closed the door of his wardrobe with a slight slam.

"Nobody will misunderstand me" Nico said as he grabbed his backpack, randomly inserted the book he picked, and then galloped out of the room.

Frisca stared sadly at Nico's back which disappeared behind the door.