Allow Me to Be With You

CHAPTER 7

"Niko! Wake up! What time is it?" mother shouted while knocking on Nico's room door loudly.

Nico flinched, then woke up. Immediately, he grabbed his alarm clock. The clock is dead at number seven. God fucking. His escape plan that he had thought of in a mature manner vanished already. Inevitably Nico had to attend the slaughter ceremony today.

Nico wakes up with a thousand and one curses, before opening the door for mom. The mother of the alley looked very neatly astonished at Nico.

"Why did you just wake up at this hour? Let's get a shower!" said the hysterical mother then pushed Nico's body into the bathroom. But, before getting into the bathroom, the bell rang.

"Let me-"

"Gee!!" exclaim mom who makes Nico surprised, as well as decide the sentence to be said. Nico looked at the mother who was like a beard fire.

"Udah Co., don't take a shower! The same! You just sit there, spit!" the excitement panicked, then hurriedly pulled Nico into the living room that looked unusually odd.

Unlike usual, the living room was full of ribbons, balloons, and food. What looks the strangest is the big cake that has twenty on it. It took Nico a long time to conclude that someone was having a birthday. When he saw Nathan who looked like a flower, he realized that today was Nathan's birthday. And oh, sure enough, that also means her.

"Happy Birthday!" exclaim mom while kissing both cheeks Nico. Nico himself had yet to make a move, still in shock with this chaotic state.

Shortly after, he emerged from the front door, then greeted Nico awkwardly, as if Nico had just managed to read a book until it was finished. Then Nico sat next to Nathan who did not seem to want to regret it.

"Co! Bengong? Not a smile." said mom.

"Kok ma'am" said Nico lying. Actually he was still very surprised. The whole package: monday, dad hasn't left for the office, Nathan skipped college, twenty big cakes, his birthday, it all makes him wonderfully confused.

"Well, who was it?" ask Nathan.

"Huh? Oh, not who. Newspaperman." said dad quickly. Nico looked at him sharply. Obviously not a newspaper man. Nico just saw that there was a newspaper this morning at the dinner table.

"Eh, by the way you guys didn't congratulate each other anyway?" ask the mother again, who is trying to divert the direction of the conversation.

Nico and Nathan looked at each other together, practicing simultaneously again face-disposing.

"Goodbye!" nathan's mumbling was unclear.

"Lo survived too!" reply Nico.

Father and mother looked at them in turn, but immediately understood. Nico himself realized that there was something strange about dad this morning. It seems that he is happy or what, because there is no innuendo tumben that is usually released every morning.

"Well, now is it?" mother asked as she looked at father with a meaningful smile. Nico and Nathan thought something was wrong.

Dad nodded, then got up. "Well, since there's no other event, I want to give you a gift."

Nico grunting. Since when do you buy gifts on your birthday? For Nathan it's still possible, but dad often pretends to forget Nico's birthday - which is a coincidence with Nathan's birthday.

"Yes really. But this time the prize is special. You guys wouldn't have expected. And you should thank me for this gift." said the father with a mysterious smile, then moved towards the front door. "You know, you have to stay from London, you know!"

Hearing that, Nico became very confident that the prize would be a Ducati bike or whatever Nathan wanted. And as always, Nico doesn't get anything.

For a few minutes, the father disappeared and returned with a cramped face. Instead of carrying a motorbike key, he was carrying a suitcase.

"You are ready. Here's the prize!" exclaim father, then move about two steps to the left.

A beautiful girl with very long and wavy hair appeared from behind the father, smiling like an angel. A girl who seems very familiar to Nico and Nathan.

For a few seconds, the room was quiet. Neither Nico nor Nathan moved. Both of them were silent looking at the figure of the girl, trying to remember, digging up a memory that had been buried for so long.

"Hello!" greet Frisca kindly while smiling.

The first to notice was Nathan. He got up and walked towards Frisca, thinking he was in a dream.

"Fris ... ca??" nathan muttered in disbelief.

Frisca nodded small. "Nathan!" he shouted, then jumped towards Nathan who was still standing stiff.

Frisca hugged Nathan tightly. He hadn't seen this man in a long time. A man who was once part of his beautiful childhood memory.

Nathan hugged Frisca back after waking up to what had happened, then swung her while turning around. Sia misses the figure of this little girl, who has grown up according to her fantasy. But this was no longer in his imaginary realm. It´s real. This is the real Frisca, the one in front of him. Oh no, even now it's in his arms.

Frisca took off Nathan's embrace and looked into his eyes. The boy had changed a lot, although Frisca could still recognize him easily from the radiance of the eye. Nathan grows up to be a handsome and well-built man, no longer a whiny boy who always asks for protection.

"How are you?" frisca asked with a series of beaming faces.

"Well, it's never been this good!" nathan exclaimed, a little out of control. "How are you?"

"As you can see. I'm good too!" frisca Sahut. "You must be surprised, right?"

"You have no idea." Nathan replied, trying to refrain from hugging the girl once more.

Frisca smiled, then turned to look at Nico who was still sitting on the sofa reluctant to approach.

Nico could only stare at Frisca nanar. The figure of the real girl, who was standing in front of him this had made all the memories of his past flash in his brain uncontrollably. Everything really twitched his head so that Nico could not move.

It all went through Nico like a video. The date of February 14 which should be the date of their meeting, the departure of Frisca who arrived, the absence of Frisca gave news, all volatile quickly and piercing all the defenses that had been built by Nico. The figure that once betrayed him suddenly appeared and looked very sparkling in Nico's eyes, until Nico did not dare to look at him for long.