I Want A Normal Life: No Romance
#24 - A Letter That's Not For Me
“...”
...
“Hoaammmm..
“Eh?”
“I woke up this early? Without alarm?”
“Wah, how great I am.”
“...”
And also, I saw Tino, she was sleeping soundly on the floor, like I didn't do anything last night.
Good though.
“Eh?”
I looked at my phone and there was a notification of incoming messages.
“Hm?”
Good night, Razox, it's me, Fenrir Reyfall.
“Eh? He sent me a message last night?”
Message received at 30/12 At 22:32
“I don't know it.”
How's it going? I hope it's okay. Sorry if this is sudden. Please come to school on the 8th to see me. Thank you
“Why did he send me a message? Is she not on vacation?”
“Wait, 8th later? It ‘kan 1 day before entering school.”
What's wrong?
“...”
BEEPING
Eh?! Directly replied?!
Anyway just come
“...”
What's the matter? Do I need to come?
“...”
TING TONG'S
“Eh? Anyone rang the bell?”
TOK TOK TOK
“Iya, I'm coming!”
I opened the door, and immediately I saw Lisa at the door. I showed my face that was still sleepy, and still wanted to sleep.
“Hai, Razox.” Sweep with a smile.
“Hai, what's up?”
“What's wrong?”
“Just wake up, what's the matter early in the morning?”
“Today ‘kan free show, you want not today take a walk with me? Like us when we were kids.” Lisa asked with sparkling eyes.
“Uhh.. sorry, I have an appointment, maybe next time.”
“...”
“Oh... so yes... sorry yes it bothers you early in the morning like this..” Lisa said with a sad tone.
“Iya, it's okay.”
“You've changed..”
“Sorry?”
“You've changed!” Shouted Lisa.
He ran away, but not to his room.
“Eh? What have I done?”
“...”
GRAFTS
The sound of the door from the side opened.
“Eh? The razox? I'm just going to your room.” Said Lulu who just came out of her room.
“Uhh. yes, I guess..”.
“Come, you take a shower first, get ready. I'll wait for you here.” Said Lulu while scribbling the contents of her bag.
“...”
“Good..”.
“...”
---
Lulu and I were waiting in the hotel lobby. Lulu was sitting and busy playing her phone, while I was also sitting and drinking tea.
“Lulu, where are we going?”
“As I said yesterday, we are going to market.” Lulu.
“Much no”
“No, really, we'll walk later.”
“So yes..”
“...”
I watched Lulu keep looking at her phone screen from back then, even while talking to me, I was at a loss as to what she was doing.
“...”
“Lulu.”
“Hm?” He told me, but didn't look at me.
“When do we leave? My tea is up.”
“...” He looked, not at me, but at the empty glass.
“Come, sorry to keep you waiting.” He also stood up straight away.
“...”
...
We walked out together, fortunately today was not too hot, many clouds were also covering the sun.
“Lulu, where is the market?”
“Near, really, near the station.” Answer with a smile.
“Eh? That's far!”
I immediately limp to my knees.
“Come on, let's be healthy too, I haven't walked like this in a long time.”
“I also want to chat with you as long as we walk to the destination, definitely will not feel.”
“...”
I got up and thought.
“Maybe there's a point too.”
“Alright then, we walk.”
“Well, so dong.”
...
“I'm glad you want to accompany me.”
“Actually I really want to be accompanied, anyway.”
“...”
“Especially you later help me to choose the goods, and also offer it.”
“...”
He kept talking...
Uh, as a good listener, I have to listen to him, and if I can give him a solution.
“There you want to buy what?” I asked him not to keep talking to himself.
“Hmm... I don't know, you have a recommendation? I don't know much about this city.” Lulu.
“So yes... I also do not know the hell about souvenirs so..”.
“Absolutely you didn't try to search the internet? Why are you using your phone?”
“Oh that, my mother asked me how I am, sorry if it is a long time, I am too dear to my mother.”
“Ohhh..”.
“...”
“...”
“Razox?”
“Eh yes, it's okay.”
“You why??”
“No, just that..”.
“Come, just say..”.
“Actually both my parents were dead when I was a child.”.
What did I say?! Why can I say that?! Even Tino didn't know that even though she used to come to my house.
“Oh, sorry to make me say that.” Lulu looked shocked until she closed her mouth.
“Ti-it's okay. Let's continue the path, we'll be in a minute until.”
...
“Hmm..”
I saw the place that was our destination.
“Markets near the station..”
“What do you mean by Malioboro?”
“Yes, have you ever been here?”
“Not yet, anyway.”.
“Then, come.” Take Lulu while pulling my hand.
There we walked along the straight Malioboro road, from end to end.
Lulu saw a store that sells souvenirs typical of Yogyakarta and immediately attracted me.
“Razox, do you think this is good no?” Ask Lulu while trying to wear batik.
“Eeerrr... Didn't you just say you want to buy souvenirs for your mother?”
“Yes, indeed, I know. I mean, what do you think of this shirt?”
“Iya, good.”
“If used on our wedding day?”
“Eh?! Why are you suddenly asking like that?”
Why am I so nervous to hear it?
“Hehehe, I'm just kidding. I know that day will not come.”
“...”
“Good, I know that too.”.
“Indeed this shirt is good, sih.” Said Lulu while looking at the shirt.
“Razox, please ask the price, dong. If it can be bargained.”
“...”
I picked up the shirt and walked towards the cashier.
“Excuse me, how much does this shirt cost?”
“Oh, the shirt, the price is already listed, ‘kan?” Said the seller while pointing at the shirt.
“Hah?”
I saw that shirt too, it turned out that there was a price tag on his collar.
Rp. 2,250,000
“Uh... what can not be less?”
“Sorry, deck, it's been price fitting.”
“...”
“Te-thank you.”
I went back to Lulu and said the price, unfortunately the price can not be less.
“Eh? Seriously? Yes already if it is the price.” Said Lulu who took the shirt.
And he walked to the cashier.
“Come, we go somewhere else.”
“...”
Why would he ask me to bid if he could buy it at that price?
As we walked, as usual, Lulu was always the center of attention, for some reason.
He looked at the shop that sold various souvenirs as well, but it seemed like the store did not sell clothes.
“Razox, let's go!”
He looked at the miniature temple with sparkling eyes.
He must have told me to bid again.
“It's price already fit, yes..” Lulu looked at the label hanging in the miniature.
“...”
...
He went to various stores to buy various souvenirs, how much money had been spent?
“Lulu, it looks like your luggage is heavy, I'm the one who brought it, yes.”
“Oh? Finally you're sensitive too, this.”
Uh, it was heavy, he was carrying this casually.
Is this all for her mother?
And it turns out that the luggage keeps on increasing.
“Lulu, can we rest for a while?”
“Oh yes, of course.”
...
We were sitting in the park, and Lulu was eating ice cream for a while.
“...”
While I was exhausted myself.
“Lulu, can I ask you something?”
“Hm?”
“About how you socialize, are you really afraid of socializing? I mean, it's like it's made up, for some moments, you can act like normal to people. Like this holiday. You don't know everything, but you can blend in with the others.”
“Razox, are you okay? That's right, really. Maybe I'm not afraid to socialize because there's someone I know there.”
“Umm... so yes... then what about your social media?”
“That's easy, I don't use my real identity, so people won't know that it's me.”
“...”
If he uses his true identity, his followers will surpass Ivi no, huh?
“Oh yes, Razox.”
“What?”
“Hopefully later we can one class when second class.” Said Lulu while giving her smile to me.
“Uh, I hope so too..”.
“Eh? Why?”
“I didn't even know I was going to class or not.”
“Value exam yesterday alone nothing good.”
“Razox, take it easy, you'll definitely take class! We'll take classes with the others!”
“...”
“Thank you... I feel better.”
“...”
“Like you're not tired, let's continue the path.” Take Lulu.
“...”
I should have stayed limp.
“See!”
“There must be someone celebrating the new year for free, let's go there!” Take Lulu while pulling my hands full of her groceries.
“Eh? You ‘kan fear of socializing, there are many people.”
“It's okay, let's just come with.”
And it happened, before we got there, Lulu was already the center of attention.
“This looks like a fireworks party, buy the fireworks first there.” Said Lulu while giving me a wad of money.
“Eh? This is too much, after all, do I have to go there while carrying this much stuff?”
“Alright, put your stuff here, you go buy it, I'll wait for you here.”
“...”
“Buy that many fireworks and firecrackers, yes.”
I went to buy fireworks and firecrackers at Lulu's request, and came back to light them in the middle of the field. Fortunately when I returned, nothing happened to Lulu.
...
...
DUARS
“Excellent..”.
The sky was filled with the dark colors of the night and the colors of the firecrackers that exploded in the sky and colored the sky.
...
“Hopefully this year has been a good year for me..”.
Why did Lulu say that?
...
...
A few minutes later, we returned to the hotel before 2 a.m.
“Wah, pleased, thank you, yes, Razox...”.
“Iya, equally..”.
As we walked down the corridor to our room, we saw Tino walking with a very happy face.
And we passed him.
“Eh? You why?” Ask Lulu.
“I'm so happy, I shot Love, and I got accepted.” Tino answered happily.
“Hah?!” We were both shocked to hear it.
“Timing it was so fitting!”
“I shot him at zero seconds! Perfect change of year!”
“...”
Suddenly Lulu pulled me and away from Tino.
“Hey, why did you pull me?”
“It's okay, it's just, I don't feel good to hear Tino tell you such a story..” Lulu.
“Uh, me too, sih.”
...
“Razox, thank you, for keeping me company all day. See you tomorrow, don't forget to get up early, we go home tomorrow.” Said Lulu as she walked into her room and closed the door.
“Iya, equally, it seems you said that..”.
“Alright, I'm sleepy too.”
I walked to my room thinking about how to stay up early.
“Eh?”
But I saw someone, Ivi and the girl, they were on the balcony, out of curiosity, I came to them.
“Hai, Ivi, you guys are not sleeping?”
“...”
Ivi was hugging the girl while holding back a cry.
“...”
He rubbed his eyes before speaking.
“Be-yet, I'm not sleepy yet.”
“Hee?? What's up?”
“Ti-no, no nothing.”
“Don't lie, you're holding back crying while hugging the girl. Just tell me.”
“Uhh..”.
“So like this, you already know ‘kan that Tino is now his girlfriend Love?”
“Iya..”
“I've told Love to still not accept it, it's not the right decision.”
“No.” Sela the girl.
“I accept Tino because she does not want to give up and keep trying to get my heart, I really appreciate her efforts all this time. No one wants to accept me like that since I've been paralyzed like this.” Say the girl.
“But what if you become a burden if you are with him?” Ask Ivi.
“Just relax, he also accepts me as I am, kok.”
“...”
“I shouldn't ask.”
“And also I shouldn't have approached them.”
I immediately walked back to my room and slept.
---
In the morning, we gathered in the hotel lobby, ready to go home.
“Haaa... does not feel we already want to go home.” Juniardo.
“Hmm... if Lulu is a lot of money, why don't we take longer vacation?” Ask Tino.
“I told you to be here only a few days.” Ivi replied with a cold expression.
“...”
“True, this is also so that we value time together more.” Add the girl.
“You're right, Love. Why didn't I think about it, huh?”
“...”
“We'll be home soon, be patient, yes.” Juniardo's words calm his girlfriend, Claudia.
I looked at Claudia, she looked panicked while holding her stomach, why is she? Stomach pain in the morning? Diarrhea? A maag?
“Why not go to the toilet? We're still at the hotel?” Ivi.
“Ah, no need, he can hold it, maybe later on the train.” Reply Juniardo.
“...”
“If that happens, let me just bear.” Juniardo.
“I'll be in charge.” Added.
“...”
“Come, the cab will arrive.” Tino.
The taxi we booked came, we boarded, and Tino took over the girl's wheelchair.
“Hey, what are you doing?!” Ketus Ivi's.
“Let me just.” Tino said casually.
“No need, this is my obligation.” Said Ivi who was back in control of the girl's wheelchair.
“Alright then, later I push it, yes, at the station there.”
“No need.” Ivi replied coldly again.
Looks like Ivi is still upset with Tino because of yesterday...
...
We went to the station by taxi and returned to Jakarta by train. The 10-hour journey made me spend time on the trip by sleeping.
...
“Holiday we take another walk, yes.” Say the girl with her smile.
“Ya, of course.” Reply Tino.
“Alright, see you later, when we get to school.” Said Lulu who left immediately.
“...”
After that, we broke up to go home.
