Dusk In Moorea

Meet again

Two months Arumi has been working in a boutique owned by Nastya. The girl felt very happy with the job she was now in because it really made her free to express herself. Many ideas have been contained into the white paper of his brilliant brain that has been stacked and never got a distributor.

Arumi had even been like a work maniac when even in the Aldric family mansion, he remained at home drawing and would only stop if he overslept himself. No one wanted to protest the girl. Both Charlie and his parents just resigned and let Arumi do what he wanted.

The girl was already like a bird that had just broken free from the golden cage that locked her talent. And the Aldric family certainly does not want to pester the new pleasures of life Arumi found by too meddling in the affairs of his work.

"Aru ! take a look at this ! Do you think this fabric fits into our new design ?" Rose, Arumi's co-worker who works as a tailor, showed an example of the fabric they would wear for the winter clothes they were about to launch.

Arumi felt the cloth that Rose had thrust. The girl's forehead looked a bit wrinkled and a moment later she said. "It's still too thin, Rose. Find a warmer, thicker fabric again."

Rose nodded and passed back. While Arumi is still busy putting some pin needles on a wedding dress ordered by a young lady who is about three months away from getting married.

Although it is fairly quick to order a wedding dress, but the time given is in fact worth the request of the young lady who wants every detail of her dress made of hand stitching. Of course it is not an easy thing and it takes extra effort, considering installing one by one small details in the dress is not an easy thing.

"Aru, what about this one ?" Rose returned with a new cloth.

"That's kashmir ?" Ask Arumi.

"Yes." Yeah."

"All right ! That's more suitable. Just use that." Arumi smiled at Rose who was nodding back by the golden blonde haired woman.

At 5 p.m., Arumi put on her jacket and prepared to go home. He said goodbye to some of the other employees who still had jobs and rushed out and walked down the street to enjoy the afternoon air for a bit.

The girl arrived at a street that looked so crowded with passersby. Maybe in front there is a festival or something that makes people crowd this much.

Intrigued, Aru immediately turned to the crowd to come forward. And rightly so. There is a carnival featuring many people in interesting costumes accompanied by music walking along the road. The girl immediately laughed happily, as a clown suddenly walked up to her and gave a flower that had somehow just suddenly appeared from her palm.

"Aru !" The whisper in the girl's ear disperse Arumi's momentary pleasure. He turned around and looked everywhere. There was no one with the voice he knew that was among the crowd.

"Have you forgotten me, Aru ?" The voice again whispered in the girl's ear. Until again he turned around, looking here and there where the owner of the voice was.

"You're looking for me ?" Shouted a young man from behind Arumi.

The girl froze for a moment where she stood. Slowly but surely, he turned his body around again and saw a man standing about two meters away from him with a face he could not yet see clearly as the crowd passed by.

Over time, the man's steps seemed to be getting closer. And when the face was now 5 steps away from where he stood, Arumi turned back to his body. Run as fast as possible to avoid the young man he had forgotten.

Arriving at the side of the road some distance from where the carnival took place, Arumi's hand moved to stop a taxi and immediately opened the door to enter. However, his body had not been docked into the taxi, the man had already embraced Arumi's body from behind and lifted him back up on the sidewalk.

"Sorry, sir ! It's not so." Leon smiled at the taxi driver and told him to leave. His hands clasped tightly onto the hands of the half-dead Asian girl he had been looking for all this time and only now did he find them.

"What the fuck are you ?" Jerk the girl angrily while jerking her hand held tightly by Leon.

"You don't miss me at all, Aru ?" Leon asked with a smile.

"No." Arumi turned away.

The handsome man before him looked grimacing. "Dearly enough. Means it's just me missing you half-dead all this time and you don't. My heart aches to hear it, Aru !" Said Leon while holding his chest.

Arumi who saw it only snorted bitterly while walking quickly left the annoying man who suddenly appeared without the slightest guilt.

"Aru ! Where are you going ?" Leon pulled Arumi's hand which was immediately jolted back by the girl.

"It's none of your business, Leon." His grunt was fierce while still walking quickly without direction.

"Hey, why are you this angry with me ? Did I do anything wrong ? "

Leon as much as possible equalizes his steps with Arumi.

"Don't talk to me, Leon ! I told you, I have nothing to do with you anymore."

"Arumy ! Stop for a second. Let's talk !" Leon again tried to grab the Asian girl's hand. However, rejection again became a bitter gift for him.

"I'm sorry for leaving you alone in Moorea, Aru ! Sorry I didn't keep my promise." Shouted Leon who had stopped following Arumi's footsteps again.

The man's jaw tightened as the roar of his breathing felt increasingly rapid. Really ! He was really almost crazy for missing the girl who was currently walking away from his back.

Before long, the girl's footsteps stopped for a moment before Leon's sentence came out completely from the man's mouth. He turned around and walked quickly to Leon. A slap of disappointment landed on the cheek of the man who had given false hope during his time in Moorea.

"What's your purpose in reappearing, huh ? Want to play me again ?" Arumi grinned. Holding back the tears that have been creeked not to spill over just to cry over a shitty man like Leon.

Leon held onto his cheek which was hot from Arumi's slap. The man stared at the girl who was half dead, it was hard for him to forget.

"Are you not angry anymore ?"

"What do you mean ?" Arumi's eyebrows shot up in wonder.

"Would slapping me make your hatred less ?"

"No." The glint of anger at the girl's black bead completely slashed at Leon like a sharp knife. Leon gulped his saliva roughly and bowed for a moment to think. He couldn't possibly tell Arumi the truth about her father's attitude and the engagement that had been going on for a month and a half. He did not want to lose this Asian girl again.

Leon grabbed Arumi's hand. Sticking it on her cheek that was slapped by the girl. "Then do it again. Do it until you're not mad at me anymore."