HERBS

Partners

"Don't cry" she said gently to the girl sitting behind the table, facing him.

"But I've been crying, Dev."

Devandra Putra, the man's name. He laughed at the reply on the sidelines of his little friend's sobs. The action made the girl glare fiercely at him.

Instead of stopping, Deva continued to laugh. The girl he had known since sitting in kindergarten threw mineral drink litter right into his face.

"Maya Lily, I swear! You're a fierce matchless."

"Tara is not here! Same Dodi most!" ketus the woman.

Deva pulled the bangs of Maya in a fit of anxiety, not inferior to her tone. "Not Tara but tara. You think big letters aka people's names? No!"

Maya who laughed. The two men's work hours ended an hour ago. But they decided to do a vent session first before starting the journey home.

"Let him go, May. Why try to survive?"

"Yes how? It's love."

"Okay of drugs, huh? Not good but good. Oh, sakau!"

"I want to confide here, not to be lectured."

Deva moved, about to leave the simple cafe.

"It's ten, May. Let's go!"

He stepped slowly which Maya followed behind him. Putting on an annoyed expression, the path just went to stomp a foot.

"You even know what it's like, Dev. Can you put off your feelings for Kavya ... your Lavender flower?"

Deva shook her head while smiling behind her grunt.

“Stupid!” he whispered, barely audible by his own ears.

"If my rival is not your brother ... Doctor Taslim Dharma is ... compared to me, he is indeed superior!"

Maya approaches Deva who is about to reach the door.

"They're getting married next month." Maya says it.

"Hm, I know. You told me."

Maya surprised. As he remembered, he had never divulged the secret that Kavya had been waiting for so as not to tell Deva before the invitation was spread.

Maya's face that has been Deva poultice makes her pull back the girl's bangs.

"Maya .. I memorize every expression. I even know what you want to say before you pronounce it. Just by looking at your expression."

Maya smiles. Teases Deva by saying that she is fit to be a mother or a second father to him. Deva responded by saying that Maya deserved to enroll in a mental hospital.

They walked towards the motorized rickshaw base. Not because they do not want to order another vehicle from an application, it's just that, they prefer to ride a rickshaw.

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Today, Deva is off. He plans to visit Dodi after the store to buy a book that Maya wants but has not been bought because he is busy. When he left the bookstore, he decided to stop by a coffee shop, enjoy a cup of coffee for a moment.

He sends a message to Dodi to meet him during his office lunch break. Deva just wanted to ask for clarity over the man's relationship with his best friend. He felt pity and heartache for the Maya complaints that Dodi often ignored or sometimes caught the man with Tara was joking and looking friendly. Maya who because of her love, can not ask the problem directly to her lover. Deva never thought that a woman's love can kill a character. For example, Maya who is fearless and dares to decorate and even argue no matter what he says it can make a hole in the heart, became very afraid if he mispronounced in front of a lover.

"Will all women be that sweet?" Deva monologued, smiling at the book she was holding. There is Maya's name and a smiley picture sticker.

"Whose sweetie?"

The natureak! There are people who hear. His voice was familiar, similar to that of Dodi Pratama. He had just sent a message, but quickly the friend arrived.

"My mother." Deva answered originally and flatly. Although in fact he is holding a fast racing heart rate. Still amazed by destiny. Once invited to meet, directly deliver.

Unfortunately, Deva was wrong. He thought Dodi asked himself. It turns out to the person next to him. It seems that the young man who became Maya's lover was not aware of the existence of spy figuran Devandra Putra.

"I can't leave Maya, Tara."

Unexpectedly, Dodi said that to his mistress. At least so alleged Maya and Deva for and until now.

Deva did not expect at all, if Lauhul Mahfudz outlined this kind of surprise. His soul instantly appeared. Want to know more about this complicated love triangle relationship.

"Why?" tara asked, her voice was very dislikeful.

"Love."

Almost Deva's lips let out his ultimate curse.

"But you love me too. You have to choose one."

"You don't understand Tara."

"If there are two, why not? Isn't that man's ration four?"

Actually for the sentence just now, Deva agreed. He confirmed that the male ration is indeed four. It's just that Deva doesn't accept it. It means semi-polygamy. Not married but already have two. Worth it?

"You're the dickest, Dod." Tara said cynically.

Deva agreed again. This time because of Tara. He pulled the right end of his lips.

"From the beginning you were my partner, Maya. It will forever be." Deva whispered as she looked at the book she was going to give Maya.

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Maya feels strange with the demonic smile that Deva is showing her. Let's not let this friend go crazy because Dharma and Kavya's wedding is just counting days.

"You why?" ask Maya who is getting uncomfortable with Deva's view and of course his strange smile.

It was even worse because they had just arrived at the cafe. Five more are still on the way. Maya is not smart to ruqyah people possessed by supernatural beings. So he was worried in case it turns out that the peculiarity of Deva is caused by the disturbance of creatures whose story is listed in the letter Al-Kahfi.

"I have an offer. You want?"

Maya takes a breath. Inwardly pout as well. Sook put up a look of horror just to make an offer.

"What?!" exciting Maya.

"Be my partner forever."

Maya cringing. Process what your best friend wants to say. After he understood his point, he said with great emphasis, "I have no such feeling for you and I know you do too!"

Deva confirmed, but inexhaustible, he replied again, "If you want, we can be partners anywhere and anytime. Isn't this relationship profitable too?"

Maya secretly agreed too. The beans that were in his hands, he began to eat slowly. Thinking of his best friend's offer that there might be no other way to treat a broken heart. Similarly, he will recover from heartache, and plus will get extra protection from Deva.

"Interesting too." Maya nodded.

Deva responded with a wide smile. After all, he still believes in Javanese wise words: Witing Tresno Jalanan Soko Kulino.

One day the feeling will grow. Friends become love is already a lot of stories. Friends so love then married also exist. However, a best friend marries not on the basis of love, it may be rare. Maya and Deva are one of those rare ones.

"So?"

"What's your dowry for me?" cecar Maya's.

"Whatever you want. Of course it also has to match the contents of my wallet."

Maya laughs.

"Anyway, May .. This is a red day. We shouldn't be working."

Huh huh?

"I'm here, because of your status at we-a. Just use this embarrassing moment of yours."

"Deva!! Oh God!!! Strengthen the servant with human beings is not it, the devil is similar .. This kind of Deva!!" maya is frustrated.

Deva laughs while running from Maya's pursuit as well as throwing nuts that the girl brutally targeted her.

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Maya comes to her parents, saying that Deva is going to propose. There was Dharma and Kavya talking. All of Maya showed Kavya, he thought. Friends, sometimes they show off to each other. Like last month when Dharma gave her the ring as a proposal, Kavya showed it to Maya while making fun of Dodi who was not a man, so.

Now replace Maya who wants to show that Deva is much better than her own brother. Not to date but to get married.

"It seems, Adek needs privacy to talk to Daddy and Mommy." Dharma stood up from his seat. He glanced at Kavya who was understood by the girl.

Then the two went from the family discussion room to the lounge. He and Kavya sat there watching a show that is currently loved by most Indonesians.

"Kavya, do you know what partners mean?" Dharma suddenly asked that, certainly after the commercial break.

"Friends, friends." Kavya responded, but did not take his eyes off the television according to Dharma.

"Partra comes from Sanskrit. It means friend, friend. But there is another meaning of partner. In English ... Partner also means Partner, Pair, Mate." Dharma explains as a teacher to the student.

"What is our language equivalent that is able to mean partner, hm?"

At the end he asked too.

"Travel Friends. Use italic," replied Kavya.

Dharma laughs. Kavya laughs at the laughter of her future husband.