HIDDEN STEP

CHAPTER 23

Blind dating

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"Blind date?" Zian asked with slanted eyebrows.

Then laughter rang throughout the room. "Blind date?" Zian laughed out loud. Makes Andrian scratch his forehead. Andrian didn't like being laughed at like that by an sixteen-year-old high school teenager.

"Why did it arrive? Seeing Brother Tian marry sister to be married?" Zian sneered with a laugh that still could not be assuaged.

"Why?" Ask Andrian. This Zian did not know the manners to the older man as it turned out. Just make Andrian ashamed.

"Why? Yesterday I told you that you were young, twenty-three years old and now you want a blind date?" Zian loved Andrian's current expression.

"I don't want to get married yet doesn't mean I don't care about romance." Andrian.

"Many women who want to be the same sister, just choose. Done it. What's the problem so far that I've never seen you hold a woman before?" Ask Zian who is now sitting at Andrian's desk.

"You're a kid. Know what you're having love problems. If love really exists, people who fall in love should be happy, not hurt." Andrian looked towards Zian.

Zian laughed, knocked on Andrian's desk and said, "Consequences of love. You won't know how your story continues. But you will feel what you call happy love if you live it regardless of ego and others. Love is about sacrifice and pain. If love itself only spins on the axis of happiness. You won't know how much love means and the sincerity of love." Finished saying, Zian looked at Andrian and settled in.

"I know I was a kid. But if you measure someone by level of experience, I should be very senior to you who never had any experience in this field. Brother knows? You always look at the negative side of something before you dive into it, think about what you got. What you get is bigger than what you sacrifice. You always do something based on the percentage of profit you get, until you don't know how to do it sincerely without wanting a reward."

Andrian pensive. Zian is right, very right. Andrian too select select action. Everything he does will be carefully planned. So, when he finds something is not as planned, he will feel disturbed to the axis of his heart.

"I don't know" Andrian replied. Put the files on his desk in the drawer.

"It's not that you don't know, but you don't want to know." Answer Zian. "Now, if you love someone, and that person gets married what are you doing?" Ask Zian.

"What's? He's the one who wants to get married, if he doesn't want to be with me that's fine." Andrian rolled his eyes.

"The bingo! You've always been like this. That is, until now you did not know what it was like to love. You're gonna back off if you don't feel like you're getting in one fell swoop. You give up, even before you fight." Zian.

"You're wrong! I've fought but my struggle won't be appreciated." Andrian pointed to his own chest.

"I'm wrong? Where is the wrong part. Brother think big brother is fighting?"

"No....." Zian shook his head and shook his index finger. "Sister tried, but secretly. You didn't reveal it directly. Is that visible? Nah! People will assume that my brother did nothing. Big no!"

Andrian sighed, then sighed at Zian's head slowly. "Troubles brother, get you out of here." Andrian said calmly.

"Ap--" Zian did not continue. His emotions are buried inside. His intention was that he only wanted to advise his brother but was instead expelled.

"Fuck," he said. Then leave the room.

***

Alex sits himself on the living room couch. The cell phone in his pants reads there's an unknown number.

"Hello?" Alex heard nothing. Just a breath that's like being held.

"Hello." Her voice is like a girl. And Alex doesn't know who it is.

"Sorry, who is this?" Alex asked after a moment of silence. The woman replied, "I was the one. The one you spilled out this lunch for."

"I've been laundry and now I'm asking you for the money." The teenager said quickly.

"Alright, how many? Let me send it to you." Alex rubbed his itchy nose.

"Send? I don't want to. I want you to give it to me directly." Say the boy. Alex was a little confused, he was very busy. To determine a meeting that he thinks is not very important is very difficult.

"But I'm busy." Said Alex.

"busy? How about sunday. I chose the place." The teenager spoke happily.

"alright. But I didn't promise." Alex agreed to the plan. On Sunday, he had no plans.

"Alright sunday. You have to prepare a lot of money to compensate." The teenager laughed.

"Yes" Alex replied seriously. Maybe Alex thought he had to prepare a lot of money.

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Andrian waited at one of the restaurants. He is waiting for a girl named Reina. The girl he chose for a blind date.

"Sorry too late" a tall, white woman with long hair greeted him. Andrian smiled a little. "It's okay."

"Have you waited so long?" Ask the woman. Andrian did not answer, but shook his head. Then call the waiter to order.

"What did you order?" Ask Andrian.

"Anything." Said the woman. Because the woman said anything, Andrian ordered fried rice, beef, and some meat-based foods.

Andrian started eating the food at the table. He had not eaten after work, he did not even prepare and immediately made an appointment.

But the woman in front of him just drank the juice without touching the food. Andrian was confused by that.

"You don't eat?" Ask Andrian.

The woman smiled and said, "I'm full." Answer the woman. Andrian sighed, "At least eat a little, you look so skinny like him."

"I'm sorry, I don't eat meat. That's not good for my diet. I usually eat a salad of fruit or vegetables" answered the woman with a smile.

Andrian's mouth fell. You heard when Andrian asked what he ordered? He said anything, right? But why is it like this. Andrian cleared his throat to remove awkwardness.

"Then order a salad." Andrian cuek. He shook his head, "No, I'm not hungry." Said the woman.

Andrian was very upset with this woman. Why not tell me if you're not hungry. What is the benefit of prolonging the problem. Andrian was upset, but he still had a calm face on his face. Because he was hungry, he ate what he ordered.

The next event was, taking the woman to the cinema. Just like what the woman wanted. They chose horror movies.

Andrian thought this would be an interesting date because it turns out that both of them like horror movies. His gaze was dashed as the woman continued to cling to him like a leech out of fear. Holy hooch! Why choose horror if he is afraid. Andrian was once again upset.

Andrian is very tired of the date tonight. The woman asked to go to the Time Zone. Andrian felt this was a trifle.

The corner of his eyes flashed as the woman played the claw of a doll. There was a little boy running with the woman behind him following.

Andrian curled the corner of his eye. Then the boy saw Andrian and stopped running. Andrian faces back so Denis doesn't recognize him, first telling him to Bila.