DELENE
TWENTY
Looks like Gavin just fell asleep for a few seconds. But when Delena shook her body until she woke up, the digital clock on one side of the wall was already showing at seven over twenty. “Udah morning?” ask her with a hoarse voice and half-circumcised eyes. Delena laughs amusedly, “Now seven o'clock night.”
“Oh.” Gavin got up to sit, his hair sticking out. And he leaned against the sofa, almost closed again. “Gavin, wake up!”
“This is up, Del.”
“Come wash your face first keep us looking for food.”
“Hah?” Gavin forced his eyelids to open as Delena began to pull both of his hands. “Ayoo, I'm hungry. You haven't eaten from lunch either.”
Although half-hearted, Gavin still woke up to follow Delena. They were already about to leave the room when suddenly Gavin stopped, like forgetting something. “Why?” Delena asked impatiently. His hand was still clutching Gavin's fingers firmly but the man let go. “Wear my jacket, outside cold.” Taking off the genie jacket she was wearing, Gavin put it on Delena's body. The man rolled up the sleeves of his long jacket as Delena put on, clasped his hands again and walked out.
“Besok I can already go home.”
“Oh, yes? Good if it is.” Gavin smiled, looked at Delena for a while, and then was busy struggling with his phone.
“In front of the hospital there is a chicken meatball noodle maker who is really good. We're going there ya.”
“I'm coming with you. Can you be the same doctor?”
“I'm a hundred percent healthy.”
Delena's actually home today, but she wants to be with Gavin a little longer. So she did a little drama in front of the doctor and nurse this afternoon, and Selena paid a lot so Delena would not be expelled.
“Mas, chicken meatball noodles two yes!” delena exclaimed when they arrived.
There were no customers other than the two of them. The chicken noodle merchant man who used to hang out there smiled, finding Delena suddenly in front of his cart. “Eh, Ma'am Del! Where aja?” warm sap.
“Mas Ucup self-smile same mobile phone, again chat same chick ya!” Instead of answering, Delena teased the man. Gavin simply stared at their interaction in silence before choosing to sit in one of the available chairs.
“Custom, this is the second wife. Again kangen said.”
Delena chuckles. He has indeed become a subscription in place of chicken meatball noodles Mas Ucup. The man sometimes confided in even consultations if there were problems with one or both of his wives. Mas Ucup said Delena was the friendliest customer he had met in his entire career selling meatballs.
“Delay first, mas. Very laper. Ordinary portion yes, the chicken muchin.”
“Siap, mbak.”
Delena took the place next to Gavin. They chatted lightly for a while until their order was finished. And Gavin glared, looking at the two bowls of chicken noodles in front of him as if he had never seen the food before. “This is so serious, Del. Sure it's over?” Delena nodded excitedly.
“Mas does not know yet, mbak Delena was her body doang small. Feeding portion, ouch... Especially if you just got home from work. As follows mah ordinary.” The chicken noodle dealer said, looking proud.
Gavin smiled slightly and nodded. He picked up the chopsticks and started eating his food in silence. They did not heed the merchant who returned to grin alone at the end of the cart. Until their food is both exhausted, and inevitably Delena must interrupt the man's activities because Gavin wants to go home quickly.
“Yes, baby. Tomorrow's the part I go home to you, baby. Patience yes.”
“Mas Ucup,” Delena whisper.
Ucup turned his head, he received the right money that Delena handed him before saying thank you without a sound. Their video call connection was still connected so Delena just left and pulled Gavin with her.
***
“Your menu is unique yes.” Gavin chuckled when they had walked far enough. Delena stopped her steps, wondering if it was a good thing or not.
“Temen you at work, they're funny. Continue mas chicken noodle maker, until very familiar it.”
“You're jealous of Mas Ucup?” Delena only teased Gavin, but the man looked flushed and turned his eyes the other way.
“Serious, Gavin?”
“What the hell, hinggaak!”
Gavin hurriedly covered both his calls. He looked at Delena irritatedly before walking ahead of the girl.
Gavin's footsteps were wide. The man actually left her alone walking behind. Maybe he had a stomachache from eating mostly sambel, Delena thought. So the girl walked slowly, enjoying the freedom that she had not felt three days and three nights. His inner voice screamed pleasure. Until suddenly the girl stopped, when her manic found Gavin standing a few meters in front of her. There was a man with her, but the look of the two of them did not look good.
“Do not because you have successfully raised the company, you continue to be rude to your own brother.”
Gavin looked up, Delena hid her body behind a nearby wall. The girl can still steal their conversation even vaguely. “Well, I regret having been raised by an older brother like Mas Almas, I should have stayed in the home at that time.”
“Gavin!”
“Better Mas go, just take care of Mas's own business.”
“You!” Almas' hand was already raised into the air, Gavin gazed in the other direction looking unconcerned. But Delena saw it, the pain in the guy's eyes.
“Mas, enough.” A woman whom Delena thought was Gavin's sister-in-law broke them. She pulled her husband's arm and led Almas away. Delena turned to face the wall, as the two men walked through it.
“I told you, Gavin is sincere with the girl. Never talk about money, he's not a kid anymore.” The woman nagged, Delena could feel that the woman was a good person. But he was not ready to interfere, when his status was nothing. Gavin did propose to her once, but the man never mentioned her again until now. Relationships that are still quite vulnerable, after all Delena does not know what to do.
Still in her place, Delena was still standing, watching the guy who pulled her hair in a daze, then leaned his head against the door. Gavin threw out a paper bag - which his brother seemed to have taken to the trash before entering. After hesitating for a while, Delena also caught up with him entering into his room. As if I didn't see or hear anything. And Gavin smiled, covering up the emotions that the man had felt a few minutes ago.
“My stomach feels full. Thanks Gavin, I have made me exercise also pursues you.”
“Where was it?”
“Back again to Mas Ucup, mobile phone I missed.” Delena lied, and she knew she wasn't a good actress. Delena only hoped, just this once, Gavin believed her. And Gavin nodded, before beginning to fall on the sofa. “Continue sleeping again?” delena asked in disbelief.
Delena took off the man's jacket and returned it. Then Gavin frowned, sat down and pulled Delena closer. “I think I should go home.” Gavin says slowly. Delena immediately shook her head, then they only looked in silence for a moment later. “I don't want to be alone.”
I don't want you to be sad alone.
“You squirm everything,” said Gavin, more like a statement than a question. His voice was slow while the man's face hardened.
Then Delena's silence was the answer to the man. Gavin took off his arm that wrapped around Delena's waist, taking her to sit next to him.
“Why did you admit that?”
“Nwhat gelakuin?”
“Why are you so rude, same brother you.”
Gavin was silent, his manic dancing in front of Delena for a while. Then his lips suddenly pulled upwards, “You are also rich gini time on the bus. Wiggling me the same way.”
“What?”
“Do not look at other guys like that, understand?”
The girl's forehead wrinkled, before then Delena felt everything collapse around her. Because Gavin pushed Delena's body to the point of lying down with her head leaning against the arm of the sofa. The man's face was spaced very close to his face while both of his hands held his weight so as not to overlap Delena's body on either side.
“You asked me to stay here.”
Sipping her saliva with great difficulty, Delena returned Gavin's sharp gaze to her. Delena closed her eyes when she did the same.
Gavin smelled of mint. His breathing was wafting regularly in front of Delena's face. While Delena moved her face slowly, suddenly Gavin whispered. “Sleep there,” says the man. Delena felt her skin heat up, and she didn't have to look in the mirror to see her face that would have been as red as a tomato. The girl hurried to get up, tucking her hair into both sides of her ears before moving towards her ward.
Gavin was still staring at Delena fixedly, his eyes like the depths of a clear sea.
“I'm not going anywhere.”
