Belongs to Other Women

The story of Lisa 6

Tika POVs.

After helping Alex choose some items to serve as his nephew's birthday gift, he immediately paid everything at the cashier's desk. Then we waited for a while for the store employee to wrap the item using gift paper.

"Lu laper isn't?" alex asked as he glanced at his watch, "it's already this afternoon." Then he glanced at me who was standing next to him. I shook my head and told her that I still felt full from the food this afternoon.

But as if not to give up, Alex again offered me to just enjoy a cup of coffee while passing the twilight at that time. I finally accepted the offer, because I felt I still had not received an answer to the question I had previously asked him.

Now all the groceries are neatly wrapped in a large box and are wrapped in a layer of glossy paper with funny pictures surrounding them. Alex picked him up and took him in the car. He put it in the back seat, then rushed in after me who was already sitting in the front seat. Without saying anything else, Alex immediately started his car engine and drove his car to one of the coffee shops that he had told me.

"So you plan to go to college out of town?" alex asked to break the silence between the two of us, when a glass of coffee order owned by each of us has been presented.

I just nodded in response to that question. Then sipped the ice caramel latte in front of me slowly. Alex is a good guy. I've known him for a long time, since elementary school and only separated in high school. This time we met again.

"Can the cave have something?" I asked her permission to ask the question that had crossed my brain. Which he answered only once.

Just as I was about to ask my question, Alex suddenly raised his hand, giving a sign as if telling me to hold back my question first. He swallowed the drink already in his mouth, then said, "May the name, just don't ask the same question or something like that."

I gawked, "Why?"

"Do you still need a cave to answer?" Alex asked back. I weighed my answer again before answering her question. When I looked back at him, he looked at me first. I became misbehaved and threw my eyes in another direction. To cover the rhythm of my heart that feels more racing.

Alex sighed then exhaled violently, looking like he was trying to let go of the tightness in his chest. I could clearly hear that sigh. "Gua just want to know, why you still want to help the cave earlier. Though come to think of it, the cave is so evil that you refuse without a clear love of reason." I tried to vent my discomfort to the man in front of me at this moment.

"Unfortunately that's your mind." Alex answered without looking at me again. He was busy with his cup of v60 coffee and also his cell phone screen.

I stared at the sky out there, the slowly moving disk of the sun disappearing from the horizon. Where the light of the sky will turn darker. As a sign that all the stories that happened today will soon end and turn into a memory. So is my day that is about to pass, but not for my story.

Alex and I are still in this place, sitting together but not for each other. We were swept away by the thin objects we each held earlier. Until I finally saw Alex remove the thin object from his hand. Put it on the table and then support his chin on one of the palms that he deliberately also put on the table, as a buffer.

This time I can feel it if he's looking at me. We sat facing each other, but my position was facing the other direction with my back leaning against the wall. I looked up and found her smiling looking at me.

"Why?" askaku. He just answered with his head. I changed my sitting position to face him. Then I held both my hands on the table, looking at him fixedly.

"So why?" shirihku. I just keep looking at him.

"What?" relax and then smile. His smile looks so sweet. Now I shake my head to respond to her treatment.

Suddenly I remembered Lisa who I left with Max at the mall. I asked Alex for permission to call him. Just to make sure, are they still there or go straight back home after I leave them.

***

A light came back to blind my eyes, just after Alex's car came out of the fence. My footsteps stopped before pushing the front door. The light came from a car I recognized as Max's. Yes, it was indeed Max's car that slowly approached and stopped right in front of the garage.

"Just home?" scold Max who is now walking over to me.

"Yes," said I who then took a gulp to Max's back, looking for my best friend. "Where's Lisa?"

Max answered him with a headband and removed my hand from the doorknob, so that he could push the door and pass from before me. I feel a little strange about that answer.

"I'll ask him to do nginep here," I said again while trying to catch up with Max's foot steps are quite fast.

"Try asking him again. Hape is on the charger. I'm tired of going to bed!" Max waved his hand as he continued walking and disappeared behind the door of his room which was downstairs.

I snorted in annoyance, dissatisfied with the answer. Then immediately climb up the stairs to go to my room which is upstairs. While climbing the stairs I tried to contact Lisa.

"Hallo, you said you wanted to pick up a doang shirt, why not come back here with Max?" my protest was immediately after Lisa answered my phone.

There was the sound of her breathing being so heavy from across there. Makes me a little worried about her condition. Then Lisa said her apology because she couldn't accompany me tonight to stay here. Because he suddenly wanted to be alone. I appreciate his decision. But is it possible that it has something to do with Max?

(bossy)

Lisa POVS.

After Max's return, I immediately locked the front door and ran into my room, headed for the bathroom and turned the shower faucet. I stood under the shower, complete with the clothes I was wearing, without taking them off. Wet yourself then slump down to the floor.

I'm ashamed ...

It was stupid to say all that to him. I should've just held it. I was careless enough to kiss her. Then even I added again with all the words and hugs earlier!! Damnit damnit!

I don't have any face to meet him anymore. How will I get through my next day?

Long enough I sat under the shower, regretting what I did. I have long admired my best friend's brother. I don't know why, I just suddenly acted like that. Like a cheap woman trying to tease him. I should have realized I was nobody. I'm not on par with them and Max just thinks of me as his sister's friend, nothing more!

Long enough I was pensive along with the teardrops that became one with the water that soaked my body. Then I remembered my dream of living with my students that I had to live. I took a voracious breath and then exhaled it violently.

"What am I ashamed of? Let's just say that this never happened. Besides next week I'm not here anymore either" I muttered as I stood up and finished my bath.

After that, I dried my body and immediately used my pajamas, then climbed onto the bed. I was ready to pull my blanket and turn off my sleeping lights. I just tried to close my eyes, and suddenly my phone rang.

🎶

Wait, can you turn around, can you turn around?

Just wait, can we work this out, can we work this out?

Just wait, can you come here please? 'Cause I want to be with you

🎶

I turned my body and grabbed the thin thing that sounded from the top of the nightstand. Then look at Tika's name on the screen. Without a second thought, I immediately answered the phone call.

"Hallo?" my broom. I just said a word, but Tika was even chatty about asking why I did not stay at her house tonight, even though I had promised to stay there before.

"Em, tired cave, Tik. Maybe tomorrow, yes, the cave is there. Sorry yeah?" I express my regret for not being able to keep my previous promise. I also have other reasons I didn't mention. Yeah, I'm enough to know the reason.

***

The morning sun shines so beautifully. The light enters through the gap of the window curtain that is not tightly closed. Warming my face with eyes still covered by dreams. A sleeping flower that recently always appears in my sleep. Makes me feel reluctant to open my eyes and not willing to lose a second of his shadow in a dream that feels very beautiful!

Yes, the last few days I have been dreaming more of Max. His figure was so calm without ripples. Makes me feel peaceful and at ease just by looking at his face. Even though it was only as deep as a dream, I was satisfied.

I really messed up this morning. My sleepwalker last night was unable to erode this deep-seated grief. I've spent hours on the bed doing nothing. My mind drifted to and fro in an indeterminate direction. I'm not usually like this.

Teeett teeett ...

The bell on my doorstep rang. I lazily moved from the bed to the front door to see who was visiting me this early. I had a glance at the wall clock in the middle room, still at 9 am.

Ceklek ...

I turned the key and opened the door immediately, it turned out that Tika was standing in the doorway while looking at me fixedly.

"Who thinks this morning ...." I immediately turned around and walked towards the sofa, he followed behind me. I threw my ass on the couch and grabbed the television remote and turned it on.

"Lu why? What-what-apain cave brother are you?" inquiringly.

I stared at him in surprise, not believing what he had just said. I straightened my seat and denied Tika's words. "No. The cave is just a kangen parents cave anyway, nothing more." The direction of my gaze returned to the television screen I had lit up earlier, but my mind floated, wondering why my only friend could say that. Did Max tell him about my attitude towards him last night? Or is he just guessing?

I sighed, then I glanced at him, but he was still watching me. After that, we were dissolved in silence.

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