Lika - Liku Asmara Aldo - Thea

Naritai

Narita Airport, December 2015

Yes, this time it's not wrong. Aldo tightly clenched both his grasp. This time it must be in Japan. Yes it is, since in Soekarno-Hatta to have to transit first in Bali, many times the man who immediately wore a hat that read JKT48 was checking his plane ticket. Thankfully, the ticket was indeed the entrance ticket to the land of sakura. 

Aldo. Thea looked so moody despite the girl's smile. It seems the man knows the reason. He immediately removed the hat. 

"Sorry, The. I forgot that you want to move-on from everything that smells like JKT48. I shouldn't have to wear a hat with a pattern that reminds you of your past again. I'm really sorry."

"It's okay. I can understand. Since the tenth grade, you have fans very much the same name AKB, SKE, NMB, HKT, JKT, to SNH. And now your dream is fulfilled, right? You are in Japan, the country of birth of AKB, her brother JKT48." 

"Ih, you understand very well me," said Aldo while trying Thea's slightly pointed nose. 

Just next to Thea, there was a dull sound. "Halooooo... fun to forget well, if there is one more person who participated in the tour to AKB48 theater."

Aldo chuckles, Thea giggles. 

"Hey, Mousou Wota!" The eyes of Kim Sarang nyalang, forefinger pointed ferociously at Aldo who was frowning. "You must not forget, your debt has not been paid off. You were my maid in Japan."

"Okay, mi-chin-pa-en!" reply Aldo with a very funny pronunciation (for Koreans) in the word 'michin paen.

Kim just glared. "Saekki-yah! Our city is again trying to learn literacy in Korean. Unfortunately, his pronunciation was very wrong. It's weird!"

*****

Dokji-ri, December 2015

It was noisy on the top floor. Surely Kim Min-soo again put up a music CD from his favorite girl group with a volume that can blow up the magnificent house. Kim Daebu who was focusing on the test, so caught his guard. The man walked to the next room. 

Uh but for a second. This music is not typical of Girls Generation. The Japanese language is very good. Eloquently. It was as loud as a native speaker saying it. Moreover, ah Kim Daebu knows something. This is the idol group song. What's name?

Kim Daebu paused in front of her short-haired sister's room. Instead of knocking on the door, he stared at the ceiling trying to remember the name of the idol group he had seen the music video. What's yah? It seems to have something to do with the name of one of the districts in Tokyo. 

Harajuku? Nope. Shinjuku's? Neither. The shibuya? Same thing. Especially Roppongi and Kandasurugadai. Maybe it has nothing to do with Tokyo? Nope-no-no. Kim Daebu's little heart is still convinced that it has something to do with Tokyo. 

Ah yes, Kim Daebu remembered. Akihabaras. Idol group is the origin of the formation of it because it is associated with the city that is already known as the center of otaku. Akihabara is chosen. And, be the idol group named AKB48. 

But since when was Min-soo-nuna interested in Japanese music, especially with AKB48? Doesn't every time one of the idol group's songs is reverberating on radio or television, Nuna is always reposting? Isn't Nuna a true sone? Oh yeah, almost forgot, Nuna was also an active Elf member. So active, Nuna is almost always involved in every meet and greet event between Elf and Super Junior.

Too much daydreaming, Kim Daebu until he did not realize his door Nuna was already open. The Nuna stood before him demanding an answer, for sure. If only Nuna was not his sister, he would have fallen in love. Nuna looks very beautiful with a cream cardigan suit, black jeans, shoes with a heel that is not too high, and short hair Nuna made braid two small. Likewise with a mixture of Pheromone Nuna and French perfume that is so legendary. I swear, today Nuna is perfect for her appearance. Dear Nuna is a sibling. As a result Kim Daebu must be self-aware and so act as usual.. 

"Yaaa, what are you doing here, Daebu?" spray Kim Min-soo. "Wanna peek?"

"Who said, just want to!" reverse spray Kim Daebu. "I went to Nuna's room, because Nuna was very noisy. Why the hobby of putting up songs with a toned volume anyway? With normal volume can't?"

"If you feel disturbed, just plug your ear hole with something. Easy, right?" 

"Nuna still sucks. And if it wasn't for me, Nuna might have been expelled for hiding that fact."

"Oh, so you started playing with your own brother? Arasseo, I get it. From now on, don't wear that Hyundai Nuna again, how about it?"

Kim Daebu was straight away. "Curl..."

Kim Min-soo chuckles cynically. Again, his charisma was used for something wrong. But that's what Kim Min-soo is. 

"...eee, Nuna, Nuna since when do you like AKB48?"

Kim Min-soo. "It's cornered apparently. Indeed, everyone who has lost it likes to search for unimportant topics to get attention again."

Kim Daebu just chuckled.

"You are very different from him who is very insistent. You tend to be planless."

*****

Narita Airport, December 2015

Despite the reply, Aldo still took Thea to walk around some points in Narita. Counting eliminates jet lag. During that time, Aldo felt there was something strange with his lover. It's not usually Thea this marihoo. Since then, only this time Thea happened like this. Usually Thea is most uncomfortable if Aldo embraces or holds hands in the public crowd. But this time it was different. In fact, Thea took the initiative to brace herself and hugged Aldo's hand. 

Aldo was clumsy, but happy too. It was strange to find the expression of blankness emitted by Thea's face which usually tends to be more installment style. 

"The," said Aldo grinning. "What the hell are you doing? Spoiled tumben like this. It's not like the Thea I used to know, huh."

Thea pulled her muscles in order to give one of Aldo's sweetest smiles. "Then anyway? My feelings are still the same as I used to be."

"Seriously, The, this isn't the usual you. Thea I used to know was even like jutek if I tried to embrace her shoulder."

"Oh, you want me to embrace?" Thea changed position. The woman placed her hands on Aldo's shoulders. Her boyfriend is getting more wrong. 

Aldo gets even more misbehaved when some airport visitors notice him and Thea. Perhaps the scene they both performed in was unusual at the airport which was the main entrance to Japan. In the midst of the man's clumsiness, there was an unfamiliar music. The music was apparently a ringtone from a mobile phone belonging to one of the visitors. In the aftermath, Thea even put on a flat look. It was quite a contrast with his action wrapped around both shoulders Aldo. 

"It looks like the visitor was from Indonesia, deh," said Aldo just from the beginning. 

"Times?" thea's response was almost without any tone. Not in a happy, sad, or upset tone.

"That's not the song Pareo Wa Emerald version of JKT48. I remember the same Melody voice."

"Yes time."

"Are you that cynical?"

"Not really."

"So spoiled, now cynical, what do you want?" Aldo chuckles. The man ruffled Thea's hair. If Thea were the usual one, that woman would definitely be tampering. This time, Thea had to smile again. 

"I've been smiling, haven't I?"

Aldo's stomach so heartburn watching Thea whose first day in Tokyo was quite hilarious. "Haha... Thea, Thea. You are this since graduation, why even new skills arise?"

Thea scrunched her forehead. "Expertise? What skills?"

"Clown. You fit in as a comedian. I think upon arrival in Indonesia again, you must audition for stand-up comedy, The. Right now, you've made me want to talk, you know." as well as Aldo who tried not to laugh off. 

Thea bends her lips. "What the hell? Wrong, wrong, wrong, want you what the hell, Do?"

Aldo chuckles. "Thea, Thea, I think I was upset when you were jutekin. I've always liked you for who you are, The. Maybe couples in Indonesia there are not accustomed to the style of courtship that does not have embrace, handrails, hugs, to fondle and kiss in crowded places. But I don't care either. Foolish times are the same style of our courtship that may seem strange to most other couples. After all, we are living and do not feel uncomfortable with each other, right?!"

Thea's stunned. Just as the woman was about to respond, or at least Aldo was back in words to mute her, her lover's phone began chanting "Kibouteki Refrain" which was deliberately installed as a ringtone. 

Not yet Aldo-say hello, Kim Sarang already said first, "Hey, where are you? Come quickly! My friend is coming soon. You guys have been walking around a long time, anyway."

"Yes, yes, Kim. I'm the same Thea's sorry. We both went straight there well," Aldo said grinned. 

"You still know the way, right? Not to get lost, right? If I did, I would bother looking for it too. None of you are fluent in Japanese. You just can't read the letters."

 "Yeee, haphazardly! Not really, not to the point too. You're why Kim, my hobby is so bad about me?"

There was laughter on the other end of the phone. "Yes, yes, I'm sorry, michin paen."

"Hey, stop using that name why!? We are both fans too. If a truck driver says in Indonesia, fellow fans are forbidden to insult each other."

"What are you talking about?" Kim Sarang unceasingly chuckled; quite audible from his voice. "Yes, if you still know the way, come back here immediately. Know right?"

"Yes, yeah, I'm the same Thea's going there."