
I just wet my palms. That's what I've been doing for a while now, after getting away from the center of the party to the toilet. Even Kenneth hasn't come back since he said goodbye.
I definitely need my peace of heart for a moment. Because the surprise I just got inevitably made my heart mess up. I did not intend to run away to raise suspicion on Kenneth, but I also did not intend to meet with Reiki. That's obvious.
I just have to hang on for a little while at this party. Then I too was determined not to come near Kenneth's life again, after all this reality was plastered clearly before my eyes.
Not long after I went back to the party with my eyes looking for Kenneth. I hope to find the man soon and bring him home.
Uh, but this is his family's show. Did I just go home by myself? But up ahead there must be a lot of reporters. Where can I face the sudden fame of the gegara affair with the rising artist Kenneth class? I can't stand it.
Gravely.
Oh God ...
Can't the world be any more narrow?
Bathinku.
Because what? Just now, as my eyes were searching for Kenneth among the many guests in this place, but my gaze was now even rubbed with eyes that it felt like a long time ago I never saw him again.
That's Reiki.
He was looking at me with his eyes as sharp as ever.
No, his eyes he did not imply at all his strange shock. He just looked at me sharply with a meaning that I didn't understand at all.
Heart's beating. No, it's like playing another movie about us in the past in my brain. About our closeness .. about everything that has happened.
'And so on the sense that it always happens and never decreases ...'
Like that is more or less the picture of my heart that I am aware of now. I tried to forget it, but I couldn't. Even the feeling of it getting bigger makes my heart feel tight.
God ...
I should what?
"Hey, pretty!" Kenneth lightly kissed my cheek while smiling sweetly as I turned my head.
"Ken, lots of people! Don't kiss me!"
"Obsolutely normal, Ra. Moreover, I'm already familiar with the world if you're my girlfriend, so that's very reasonable, right?!"
"No!"
"She's hurrying, Ra," she protested.
"Belvin. It's unnatural. I haven't accepted you."
"Well, Rara. We are in the eyes of Indonesia and its surroundings. Don't talk about it anymore. We are official. You calm down."
I frowned at me. What the fuck is this spoiled guy? Why is he the one who died like that? how do I feel tricked by this alay boy?
"His eyes don't do that, Ra. Meneremin! Ah, let's eat it."
"I forgot, I said I was dizzy?"
"But your face doesn't reflect that you're dizzy, Ra?"
Oh, I forgot. "For the same sprain as you, I've forgotten that I'm dizzy again."
"Bab, Rara. I could potentially make you recover but it's a little bad for the reason."
"Ah know ah! I'm going home now, Ken–"
"Azzura!"
The sound of aunty Kirana makes me turn my head with lips should auto smile. How else, I should be able to act like Kenneth in order to hold all my feelings so as not to be clearly visible in public. Everything should look fine and natural.
"Yes, auntie?"
"Come here, from aunty lookin you,"
"Tuesday, Tan?"
Aunt Kirana pulled my arm to follow her. I stared in horror at Kenneth who walked alongside me and his mother. He's on my right side, while Aunt Kirana's on my left. Then I asked 'why?' without a voice to him. But he just smiled as innocently as possible which made me hold back the upset.
Apparently my heart shock had not stopped when I accidentally bumped into Reiki earlier. My misadventures seem to be in tatters. And my prayers to get out of here have not been answered.
It turns out that aunt Kirana brought me before the Maheswara family.
Imagine ... the Maheswara family!
I want to be swallowed by the earth right now. But what a force, this fate felt bad instantly.
I saw the eyes of Aunt Widia, Mandala, and especially Grandma Fatma staring at me. Sure oes. How not to be surprised at rediscovering their past in me after months.
Same, me too. I was more surprised than them. I never intended to meet and breathe in the same place as all of them.
It didn't last long when our mutual shock was in silence, until aunt Kirana let out her voice breaking the stiffness.
"Know, Ma'am, Mas, Mother .. This girl is Kenneth's girlfriend. His name is Azzura."
"Yes, right," sambar Kenneth excitedly.
I feel like I'm gonna faint. My legs are limp, but I can't do anything if my eyes can still open properly.
"Azzura." that's Mandala's voice. The man looked at me warmly. He was more able to control his expression than his mother and wife.
"Yes, Om."
"How are you?"
"Good, Om."
Now Kenneth and Aunt Kirana were looking at me in surprise.
Oh my God, when is this night over?I wish I could run away like Cinderella ...
"Azzura this is my friend's son, Kiran." Widia's aunt told Kenneth's mother. "Nadhifa. You must remember?!"
"Oh, ma'am Nadhifa. Yes, I remember. You guys used to play together a lot."
"Rara, aren't you telling me?" Ken asked me.
When do I have to tell her story, Ken? All of this just happened before my eyes. Because of you, of course!
"Ken, are you dating this woman?" ask grandma. His tone was bad in my ears. There is humiliation, there is disdain, and there is mistrust.
"Yes, grandma. Azzura my boyfriend."
Pimply. I wouldn't be able to just in case the middle-aged woman let out her bad words. I swear, I'm not ready to bear all the results. I don't think I can stand here anymore. I gotta get out of here.
"Sorry, aunt," I turned to Kenneth's mother. "I'm going home now. I'm not really feeling well."
"Yes, honey. Nothing," Kenneth's mother replied with understanding.
"Om, Auntie, Grandma .." I said with great difficulty to all of them. "I'm sorry." I don't even have to wait for the answer from the three.
It was that short before I turned around followed by Kenneth who must still be curious about me.
"Rara–"
I stretched my fingers out before the man's face, so that he would understand that I did not want to talk.
"Rara listen first," she's still trying.
"So, Ken?" I was almost frustrated. I wanted her to scream, but I realized, this isn't the right place for me to argue with Kenneth.
"You're so pale,"
"Well, let's go home!"
"Yes, just a minute." I didn't expect Kenneth to sit me in a chair again. I want to get out of this place immediately.
"Shut up for a minute, I'll get you some water so you don't collapse before you get in the car. Because it's likely that we'll be intercepted again by reporters, and I know you'll be more stressed, so I don't want you to fall down before you're in a safe place. You don't like viral, do you?!"
I shook my head slowly.
"good. So wait a minute, let's not pass out in front of reporters, and you don't go viral. Know?!"
I'm nodding.
"Pinter's son!" Kenneth kissed my forehead before walking away in search of water.
And a few minutes passed but Kenneth hadn't returned yet. He's not looking for water from the source right away, is he?! He didn't go to the mountains, did he?!
"Azzuran ..."
deg
A voice entered my hearing horribly. It was the last voice I wanted to hear again in this life. Or maybe ... no?
Okay ... That's the voice I still miss. A voice I have not heard for a long time. And that voice that used to always whisper warmly in my ear. Am I hallucinating? Certainly not. Because he is here too. In the same place as me. Don't tell me now that he intends to talk to me. Nay! I can't stand it.
I looked over with great difficulty. Because my heart is beating irregularly with all the apparently feeling.
Well ... true it is Reiki. He stood a few steps away from me.
He still looks handsome.
I found him staring at me with ...
Ah no! I don't think anything.
We've been staring at each other for a long time I think. I don't know how long. To be sure, only the gaze spoke between the two of us. Without noise. Because it's so hard to bring out what's churning in my heart right now.
I almost collapsed when Kenneth finally brought the spring he had been looking for since.
"Rome! It's drink!"
I immediately gulped down the glass of water Kenneth gave me. I felt like I needed water to flush my arid and bitter esophagus. Of course to reduce my current anxiety.
Then I heard Kenneth speak.
"Mas Rei, recognize ... this is my girlfriend."
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