Hello President

Equally Sad

Aira was in the kitchen of her cake shop to help the employees. Although he is the owner, he did not refuse to jump directly into the kitchen making cakes while joking with other employees. Since Junior High he has learned to make cakes from Grandma's recipes. Before she died, Grandma Aira gave a recipe book to her mother so that later there will be a successor who has his own cake shop. But the Mama prefers to plunge into the world of design, so Aira is the one who continues the dream of the Grandmother.

"Is there anything you need? Why go to the kitchen?" ask Lila the employee in charge of baking.

"No need, I just want to make a cake for a long time I have not struggled with a mixer and oven hehe."

"Then let me help you."

"No need, you do everything else." reject Aira gently. Lila also nodded.

Employees who work at the Aira store are happy to get a boss like him. In addition to being friendly and polite, he also does not discriminate employees. And all the employees are very close to Aira.

Aira immediately wore a hat cook and apron with the Ai Cake's logo. Soon he prepared all the necessary ingredients, the plan was that he would make rainbow cake. Every now and then he looks at the recipe book to make sure the dosage is appropriate or not.

"Mbak Aira should not have to make cakes, just take the one in front. If I want something else I will make it." said Tito, one of Aira's employees.

"It's okay, I just want to make it. I haven't made a cake in a long time. It's a pity that I don't show this skill anymore haha."

"Expert? Are you sure?" tito Ledek.

"Cihh you underestimated me? You can just make my cake that teaches me, so I'm smarter than you."

"If that's the case why more often see the recipe he said was an expert." ledek Tito who made other employees laugh with Aira.

Aira also chuckled, "I'll just make sure the dose is right or not. Fear of failing."

"Well, my boss who is very beautiful and kind hearted is indeed an expert in making cakes." praise Tito who felt excessive by Aira.

After all the ingredients came in and it was fitting the dose, Aira immediately took the mixer prepared by the employee and turned it on but the mixer did not turn on.

"Isshhhh why not light up.." Sira said. Aira kept trying but still did not turn on either.

"Why the mixer isn't on either, I've tried it dozens of times. Huh want it to feel like I ate you." said Aira with a mixer in her hand.

Tito who saw Aira was confused immediately approached and checked the Aira mixer. "When you just bought it yesterday, the time is broken."

"Where do I know, you should choose the high-quality."

"But this is the best mixer."

Tito was also confused because he had tried to turn on many times but did not turn on. He also glanced at the mixer cable that turned out to have not connected a socket.

"Jeez, Aira, it just doesn't light up. Not yet connected mbakkkkkk." growled Tito.

Other employees who saw it also laughed at the two people. Aira also chuckled, "How come, it was you who prepared everything. I thought you'd connected."

"Huh mbak Aira this is how it is, he said Expert but trivial problems like this alone can not."

"You taunted me, how dare you bully this boss of yours. I'm raising your pay !"

"It was cut, not raised. If that's what I want too." exclaimed another employee.

"Ahh y'all that's in his mind the salary keeps haha."

Aira immediately went on to make the cake. After thirty minutes passed, the Aira cake was ripe. Immediately he took it out of the oven and prepared to decorate it.

Slice by slice the cake he arranged neatly according to the arrangement of rainbow colors. White butter cream coats the cake.

"Aduuhh, from that smile-smile continue to look at the cake. Who the hell is he doing it for?" the Lila Goda who had earlier also decorated the cake beside Aira.

"You want to know people's business."

"For that handsome president who came here yesterday."

"The secret is haha."

Trings.tring...

Aira's phone rang indicating there was a phone coming in.

"Mbak Aira, there's a phone noh. Hurry up to the chariot." shouted Tito.

"There's a sense of the child yes, the same boss himself shouted" said Lila upset to hear the screams of Tito.

Aira just smiled and immediately picked up the phone that had been on the charger.

"Good afternoon Aira."

"Good afternoon Ellen, what's up on the phone."

"It's okay, are you busy?"

"Ah not really mbak, this is just making a cake."

"Truly, you can make a cake. So you want to taste your cake."

"Hehe is mbak."

"Oh yeah, you have no show tonight? I'd like to take you to dinner and have a chat. Count the words of thanks for yesterday's helping me."

"By mbak, just tell me where it is. I'll try to get there."

After she finished talking, Aira went back to decorating her cake. He put some strawberries and chocolate as the sweetener of the cake.

"Wahh, it's over."

"Yes, who cut me off? See if I can finish it. Beautiful isn't." Aira boasts of her work.

"Cihh very arrogant, remember yes mbak me every day make a lot of beautiful cakes but never arrogant tuh." Tito chirped.

"It's your job to make haha cakes."

Aira said goodbye after putting the cake into a box and put it in a paper bag.

"Bye everyone, this beautiful Aira wants to go home first." joked Aira.

"Yes pretty, hopefully the President likes the same cake" said Lila.

"May you be a married couple, let Aira not be a jones." Tito said.

"It's not you who jones, I'm happy single."

"Mbak Aira knows I'm jones huaaaaa."

***

"What did you bring?" keno's exclamation shocked Aira.

"You're just surprising me, why are you home at this hour?"

"It's none of your business what time I get home. What you brought."

"Then, it's none of your business what I'm carrying around this."

Aira immediately put the cake she brought into the refrigerator regardless of Keno. He immediately headed to his room leaving behind a curious Keno.

Because of his curiosity, Keno immediately opened the refrigerator and saw what Aira was carrying.

"Ohh the cake turned out.." said Keno grinning. He immediately cut and enjoyed the cake that Aira brought earlier.

Whether you like it or do not, Keno devours the cake and leaves only a quarter of it. When he heard the sound of someone coming down the stairs, Keno quickly cleaned the cake and put it back in the refrigerator.

"Why are you smiling by yourself?" ask Aira.

"It's okay, just smiling isn't okay."

Aira rolled her eyes lazily, she immediately opened the refrigerator and took the cake. "Oh yeah I brought a cake."

"Yes I know that too."

"How do you know?". Aira opened the cake box and she was surprised to find that the cake was only a quarter.

"Kenooo !!!"

"What Aira? Where's cake?" Keno pretended not to know what had happened.

Aira pinched lightly on Keno's stomach, "It's not already inside your stomach."

"Hehe, I'm sorry I couldn't help it if it was rainbow cake."

Aira shook her head in disbelief that Keno is very greedy if there is rainbow cake.

"Aira, bribe me."

"Don't you eat a lot, isn't that enough?"

"No words are enough." Keno pulled the hand of Aira who was holding the fork containing the piece of cake and put the cake into her mouth.

"What tastes good? It was me who made it myself."

"Oh yeah? Why did you make it? And for whom?" ask Keno with a mouth full.

"Of course for you!"

"Ah I mean to myself, I just fad made it earlier." Aira answered.

"There's no shame in admitting it. Thank you, I really like it. It tastes better because you must have added love when you made it." Aira blushed in embarrassment and her face was already flushed red.

***

Later that night, Aira was preparing to go to dinner with Ellen. At first he is not allowed to leave if he is not with her, but because Aira is good at seducing Keno, Keno allows it.

Ellen invites to meet with Aira at one of the city's ellit restaurants. He headed straight to the VIP room that Ellen had previously booked. Actually this is too much because it's just dinner.

"Mother Ellen." said Aira to the woman who was playing her phone.

"Hi Airaa, you've come apparently. Let's sit down." Aira sat down opposite Ellen.

"Thank you mbak."

"You go 25 hehe."

"Just call my name Aira, we're the same age" Ellen smiled.

Aira said, "Well, Ele."

"Wait for what you called? Ele?" Aira nodded her head while sipping the drink in front of her.

"Why are you sad? Don't you like it if I call you that?" Upon hearing Ele's name, Ellen's face turned mellow.

"You remind me of my ex-boyfriend. You know, she likes to call me Ele. He said it was a dear call to me because other people rarely call me that."

"I'm sorry I don't know, then I'll just call you Ellen."

"It's okay, just call as you like."

They enjoy the food that has been served at the table with occasional chatting.

"If you may know why you broke up? It's stupid that man left a woman as good and beautiful as you, Ele."

"You're overreacting."

"Actually it wasn't him who left but I left him myself."

"Why? Is he cheating? There are a lot of jerks."

"He's very kind, handsome, and a president. His family is very well-respected."

Aira nodded her head and remained silent hinting for Ellen to continue her story.

"I left because I had to do medicine there. My heart's in trouble and my family's taking me there to get good treatment."

"Did he know you were sick?"

Ellen shook her head, "I didn't say it. I'm just saying that I'm going to settle down and get an offer to model there too."

"She didn't believe it and I told another man to pretend to be my affair. And then he's gonna let me go. At that time I was just afraid I would be gone for good, so I tried to make him hate me so he wouldn't lose me too much." Ellen said with a pool of eyes.

"You should have told him, surely he would have understood and accompanied you on medication."

"I don't want to trouble her" Ellen smiled bitterly.

Aira moved to Ellen's side and hugged her. Trying to strengthen her because Ellen's tears had started to flow.

"You don't feel sad anymore. If you love and love her, tell her the truth. He will definitely understand and will come back to you when you're honest with him."

"I love him so much and I don't know if he'll ever take me back" Ellen said, smiling.

"I'm sure if he doesn't want to accept you again, another happiness will soon come to you. Trust that happiness will always come."

"I'm sorry if you've opened your old wounds. I really don't know if you're going through something like that." Aira's mind went sobbing.

"Thank you for being my friend and for trying to strengthen me."

"Yes Ele, we'll be good friends later." They also hugged.

"Oh, how are you?" asked Ellen to take off her embrace.

"What about haha."

"Who's your boyfriend? Who's the lucky guy to get you that?" ellen Goda.

"No girlfriend, just broke up a while ago hehe."

"Why did you break up?"

"Kepo nih yeee, ahha."

"I broke up because I'm not a soul mate. So my girlfriend was fooled by her parents. And it turns out that the person who was fooled was my own. They will marry in two weeks" said Aira trying not to be sad.

"Oh my God."

"Maybe God has predestined it this way, I have sinned it."

"I didn't think we had such a painful similarity about love. I thought I was the only one who suffered from love. Our story is equally sad."

"Not really thought about it, enjoy it hehe. There will also be something good waiting ahead."

The atmosphere was silent, comfortable, with the friction of the violin accompanying their chatter. They exchange experiences, introduce each other's personality to ignore the time that continues to spin.

"Ele, come home now!uk."

"Let me take you, Ra."

"No need Ele, I brought my own car. Thanks for dinner."

"Together Aira, when will we meet again huh. Oh yeah if there's time I'll stop by your cake shop."

"Ready, I'm waiting for your arrival, Ele."

Ellen and Aira immediately headed to the parking lot and immediately left the restaurant.

***

Since the restaurant to Keno's house was not too far away, Aira had arrived at Keno's house. Soon he delivered the car that Keno had lent him.

"What time is it." asked Keno who had been sitting in the front yard waiting for Aira to come home.

"Nine hours."

"Ah you're a bitch."

Aira chuckled at Keno sulking, "Why are you sulking? Come inside, it's not good to be hit by the night wind."

Keno followed Aira in, "Why are you so long, almost three hours I waited?"

"You waiting for me sweet boy?"

"Of course, who did you actually meet?"

"Meet the friend I met this afternoon." Keno opened his mouth.

Aira headed to the kitchen to get a drink. But he was surprised to see that the dinner at the table had not been touched. He asked bi Ijah.

"Is Keno not eating dinner yet, Bi? Why is the food still intact?"

"Not Aira, he said he's waiting for Aira."

"Huh that kid is spoiled once."

"Yes son, but just spoiled like Aira kok others bnga." Bi Ijah's tease made Aira chuckle.

Hearing that Keno had not eaten dinner, Aira immediately brought him food and told him to eat. He left the kitchen and approached Keno, who was in his study. He walked in without knocking.

"Why did you miss your dinner? What if you get sick? Who is difficult! "

"Not skipping dinner, I'll eat after this job is done. I'm not too hungry either because I ate a lot of cake."

"That's the reason ! Aren't you eating because you're waiting for me?" ledek Aira's.

"No way it could be like that, who said."

Aira invites Keno to sit on the sofa and tells her to eat. He also did not hesitate to scold Keno when he did not eat it.

"You sleep there, I'll continue my work."

"I'll accompany you. Continue reading the novel."

They also struggled with their respective activities and remained in the same room.

"Ken?"

"Hmm." Keno did not turn her head in the direction of Aira.

Aira returned to flip through her novel again and remained scattered on the sofa. Occasionally glance at Keno who is engrossed in his own world.

"Ken?"

"What's? Sleep in first."

Aira again did not answer when Keno greeted her. His hands turned back his novel. He had yawned repeatedly going to drowsiness that attacked him. Due to fatigue waiting for Keno to finish with his work, Aira was not aware that he was now asleep with a sitting position leaning back while having fun with the book he was still holding.

Keno smiled and saw him immediately he cleaned up all the work and approached Aira.

"It's been said there's no need to wait for me, you're wayward" said Keno smiling as she pinched Aira's cheek.

Keno immediately carried Aira ala bridal style to bring her to the room. He sat for a while on the edge of the bed Aira observed the look on his face that had made him happy and comfortable.

"I love you, stay with me." - Inner Keno.

Keno enveloped Aira and left the room. He went back to his own room, breaking down his body but his eyes never closed either. Turning on the music from his phone hoped drowsiness would attack him immediately.

Yet he still looked at the sky his room was thinking of something. He thought about the reason why his ex-girlfriend returned to Indonesia. Is he coming back with Keno? Will he leave his career and choose Keno?

Keno thought about what if it all happened, what to do. Then he thought back to betrayal. His ex has betrayed him, he doesn't even want to meet him, he prefers another man and a career over Keno.

Too tired to think about all that finally Keno's eyes were closed with the sound of music that was still spinning from his phone.

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