Be aground

An unexpected response

"Your boyfriend is jealous?" ask brother Beni suddenly after spending a plate of rice with grilled duck ordered.

Makes me sip warm lemon tea, so choke. "Eh ... Not too, anyway," I said confused to get a sudden question like that.

"That doesn't really mean dear, dong?" reply Beni with a wide grin.

"If you have to be jealous, then? If I think it's as proof that he believes in me, that's why he's not jealous," I explained.

I honestly don't know how jealous Arjun is either. Whether he is jealous or not. All this time because we only have the status of friends, I did not pay much attention to his nature of that one.

"Keep, if he knows how I'm going?" Beni's question seemed to drag me back to the crowded restaurant room.

"I don't know either. But we are not doing anything. Why should I be jealous?"

Brother Beni looked at me for a long time, the sharp look of his eagle eyes as if forcing me to nail his gaze to him. For a moment our gazes locked onto each other, until I finally turned my face toward the outside of the restaurant. I immediately felt my face heat up.

"If he knows how you're going with a guy who likes you?" Beni's voice forced me to look back at her.

"Ha-ha, don't know," I answered honestly. Because I really don't know how Arjun would react if he knew I was walking with another guy.

"Well, you don't know how your guy reacted? Nine years of dating?"

Wew! Like his own lies.

"Uhm, how is it. I'm also not too anxious about such a problem, Brother ...."

Beni's gaze seemed dissatisfied with the answer I gave. Her dark eyes were still glued to me. Next to his thick eyebrows raised up as if looking forward to the next string of words from my hanging sentence. I feel like a defendant.

"Rome yuk, sister." That's the only word I can handle to cover my nervousness.

Beni glanced at the clock that was coiled around his left wrist. Sighs.

"Come on! Sorry to make you late outside" he said, rising from his seat, waltzing toward the cashier with a difficult expression.

I was amazed by the way Beni controlled the situation. On the way to the motto house, he was still able to make a light joke. The feeling of carelessness that was created this morning, just vanished. Maybe I have a lot to learn about human nature, not just judging someone from the outside, or from first impressions.

"Thank you, brother," I said as Beni's car docked to the edge of the fence of the Maktuo house.

The atmosphere around the house was starting to calm down. There are only a few motors that occasionally pass break the silence.

"Tomorrow to go back to Bandung, huh?" Brother Beni's voice stopped my movement that was about to go down.

"Yes, Brother." I dropped the intention of getting out of the car. Looking at the owner of the face with sharp eyes beside me.

"I can still call you after this, right?" tanyanya looked doubtful when saying that.

"Yes, of course I can."

I was confused as to why that sentence could just come out of my mouth. Whereas before, I always avoided those who actually put their feelings on me. It's nothing, I just don't want to be impressed to give them hope. But there is a different taste when dealing with Beni. I'm also hard to explain.

"Your boy won't be angry, will he?" as if there was a tone of emphasis on that sentence.

"Why should I be angry?" ask to ascertain the meaning of the question.

"Is there another guy who called you?" a line of question sentences is back.

"Or don't say anything weird, not only will he be angry, I'm angry if it is," chortle I dispel the sudden awkwardness.

"Just say kangen, okay?" A prickly smile was seen decorating the curves of her lips.

"Oh! If it's me too, it's bad" I was nervous. A speck of thump that I did not ask for was present when my eyes stared back at the faintly visible bead in the dimness of the street lights.

"Hha-ha ... Kidding me!" get down, then get out of the car.

I still haven't escaped my shock. Or rather disappointed. Disappointed? Wh-wh-what for? I didn't get the answer.

The passenger door was opened by Beni, allowing me to go down like a romantic movie actor I had ever seen. I went downstairs, feeling confused because of the strange feeling that suddenly came, it was hard for me to explain.

"I'm sorry, I can't do it tomorrow. I've started to go to work" he said as I pressed the bell.

"It's okay, brother. Thank you." Thank you."

Vienna opened the door after a few minutes of waiting.

"Eh, it's back," he said, opening the lock of the fence.

"Ha-ha, thank you, brother. Not offered to stop by, yeah. It's night," said Vienna.

"Ok, it's nothing. I'll come back too. I'll see you soon, Runa," said Beni's sister looking at me.

"Yes, thank you, brother," I returned his smile, staring at the tall figure of Beni's brother who disappeared as he got into the car.

"Deu, who was so excited," the vienna tease smiled ignorantly looking at me who was still unmoved at the place earlier.

"What the hell, Win," I followed her step into the house.

***

"So how's the date going with Brother Ben?" asked Vienna in a curious tone when I finished cleaning myself.

"Kok dating, anyway?" my protest, shaking the body on the opposite side of the queen-size bed.

"Yes, that kind of thing," he chuckled. This time Vienna sat facing me. As if waiting for me to tell a story, both hands of her tie propped up her chin, with a knotty smile that decorated her thin lips.

"What was your relationship with Beni, Win?" tanyaku hirau will curiosity that is printed clearly on the face of Vienna.

"Yes junior relationship with senior. Why?" The curious face of Vienna is increasingly visible. "Fear I've had a crush, huh?" guess it.

"Nope ...." I went back to silence. Why am I thinking about Beni.

"So there's a feeling?" vienna asked still with a ignorant smile decorating her lips.

"Feeling what, new people know this," my tepis.

"Yes, you're the same as Ben, like at first sight ha-ha," quipped Vienna.

"Why don't you like Beni?" my question is to muffle the laughter of Vienna.

"You know, my kind of guy is an oriental guy. Not the face of a bule like Brother Ben," he said seriously.

I chuckled at Vienna's reply.

"Keep, you feel the same, Brother Ben, how?" back he asked.

"Well, I told you, I already have a guy. And I and Beni's brother also just met." I grabbed the bag I had placed on the edge of the mattress when I arrived.

"It's okay, Run. Just make some cement. If for example later you suddenly break up with your guy, there is no backup," he said.

"Ih, so mean, Win. Time people are made into recommendations!" my protest stopped the movement to search for cell phones from inside the bag. "It should be, Brother Beni likes you, it's been a long time together," I continued.

"Well that's it, I'm not the kind of girl that Beni likes to be a girlfriend, either. Too chatty. She likes a calm girl, like you."

"Ha-ha doesn't know how she is."

"What is clear is that I am not rich who immediately chattered when I met a new person."

Yes, Vienna is indeed the type that is easily familiar with people. His chic carrying made it easy to make friends. Not as hard as I am to find a friend. But once I meet a suitable friend, my friendship usually lasts.

"Udah ah, Win. Don't fool me with Brother Beni. Kasian my guy knows." Trying to stop the series of question sentences that came out of the lips of Vienna.

"Are you sure your feelings are really feelings of love? Not just a feeling of mutual comfort because it's too long together?" This time the sound of Vienna sounded serious.

"Huh? Meaning how?" I stared and paid my full attention to Vienna.

"Sometimes, because two people are always together anywhere, there is a feeling of comfort that grows. But it's not love, yeah. Therefore, not infrequently the relationship of two friends who then become a break up. Because after being made, they realize the feeling that they have always considered love or whatever it is, it does not exist. The comfortable feeling was present when they were just friends, " said Vienna.

I'm stunned. Indeed, all this time Arjun and I have always been together because of the comfort of each other. I could never get close to a guy other than Arjun. Moreover, not many are able to understand my nature, other than her.

"Try thinking again my words," continued Vienna when I saw me speechless.

"But not that a relationship should be based on a feeling of comfort, from there just grow feelings of love?" I'm making an argument.

"Yes, it's not wrong either, but the feeling of comfort is not enough. Like a building, the sense of comfort is new bricks arranged to form a wall, well the sense of love as a reinforcement," explained Vienna behaving like a love expert, but itself is also single.

"ah! No, I don't know, Win. Ribet thinks so much like this."

"Emang, so now I'm at home single, to calm the mind and empty the heart." Vienna patted his chest. "Let's see when I meet a guy who really fits, I don't feel comfortable" he continued with a serious face.

Wanting to not want the word Vienna to make me think. Is it true that my feelings for Arjun are just a matter of comfort, nothing more? I hope it wasn't. I hope my relationship with Arjun is okay.