Linger

Encounter

The venue of the event is dominated by white, blending nicely with beautiful light blue and pink. Kalea had gone around, checking which part felt lacking. Yet again he felt nothing less at all. All sides are working well, that's what he thinks.

But Gavin still seemed dissatisfied at some point, so he found the man several times walking up to the wedding organizer who was taking care of other preparations to discuss the matter. Kalea refused to follow where Gavin's footsteps were going, because she was too tired. After all, it is common knowledge that Kalea is a lazy person. So, here he is, sitting on one of the chairs for invited guests while hitting his calf slowly that feels sore. Hah.salahnya itself because it uses heels, but it is most appropriate to use sneaker as usual.

While massaging his stiff calves, the phone inside the handbag he had placed on the table rang. Kalea was afraid of the fog reaching for the bag because people began to look at her because the ring generated by her phone was too loud. Or perhaps, the people looked at him because the ringtone he was wearing sounded foreign.

"Hello." Greet Kalea after quick sliding the green button without first checking who is calling.

"Where is Lo?!" sahut who was across with a blaring voice.

Kalea was about to throw her phone when Karel's loud voice lit up her sense of hearing, making her eardrum vibrate as if she had just listened to a sound with a frequency that no human ear should have heard.

"At the hotel."

"At the hotel?! What's in the hotel?! Heh, don't mess around! Want to get married, keep playing at the hotel! Now home!"

Kalea could only turn a puffed-up eyeball as Karel constantly nyerocos from across. He did not tell Karel that after going from the boutique he and Gavin would go to the hotel to check the location of the event. But that doesn't mean the guy has to scream like this, does it?

"Kok diem? Answer!"

"Can't you just say it normally? Don't be excited." Kalea said lazily. He had often said this to Karel, but it seemed that the rancid boy was already used to screaming like he was living in the middle of a forest.

"The problem is you go to the same hotel guy ya, Kaleooo! How can I not be excited, huh?!"

"I went to the hotel to survey the location of the event, not to macem-macem like what you think." Kalea. It's obvious that he's upset.

"Who wouldn't think if you were asked again where do you keep answering again at the hotel?!"

"Oh, whatever. I'm dizzy with you nagging. If you still want to rant, mending I just close the phone yes." Kalea was already planning to turn off the phone, but Karel quickly held back.

"Don't! I want to say important!"

Kalea stuck the phone back to her ear, patiently waiting until Karel conveyed her primary purpose of calling. But the man was silent and did not open his voice, making Kalea sigh upset and was ready to gush Karel with all kinds of swearing that he often saw and heard from his favorite Korean drama.

But had not had the sentence of the oath of absorbency spoken, Kalea had already been made to gawk when a loud voice sounded from across. It was not Karel's voice that was speaking, but the sound of a fart that was so blaring that Kalea lost half her life. Kalea was pensive for quite a long time with her jaw dropping. His appearance is now very ungraceful, not worthy to be shown to the people who are passing around him.

Supposedly, Kalea immediately berated Karel with the serf oath that he had stored neatly in the head, he said, because now the brat was brash that had already run away and turned off the phone after leaving a trauma that would have lasted for a long time for Kalea.

Kalea was limp, she felt helpless. It seemed, what Gavin said was true as well. Maybe he should have made friends with more people in order to neutralize the negative effects of his friendship with Karel. Because if it's like this, what can it be?

"Fuck!"

"Huh?"

Kalea bowed her mouth with both hands as the swear words escaped her lips just as Gavin returned before her. Now, the man looked at her in astonishment. His dark eyes seemed to say: what am I wrong? what about bastards? which makes Kalea feel like it's throwing itself into the planet Saturn right now.

"The error still persists?" gavin asked, starting to shudder in horror as their eyes met.

"I'm not possessed, yes!" peekik Kalea's. His voice rose by several octaves. But actually it was not because he was really upset, but rather because he felt embarrassed and it had become a habit for him to raise his tone to hide his shame.

"Why are you suddenly angry? Why do I have to be a bastard? What am I doing?"

"Not you bastard," Kalea got up, immediately grabbed a handbag from the table and put her phone back in.

"Continue?"

"Nothing goes on, it'll crash."

"I'm serious."

Kalea sighed. He forgets that Gavin is sometimes as stubborn as he is. On some occasions, when this man wanted to know something, then he would continue to urge Kalea to tell him. Gavin won't stop until he gets the answer he wants. 

But swear by anything, Kalea doesn't want to answer Gavin's question. 

Because how could he tell Gavin about the silly behavior of Karel who was willing to take the trouble to call him just to show off the sound of a fart that is not at all melodious? Oh, it won't. Kalea could not imagine how Gavin would see him as a strange human who befriended other strange humans. 

"Kalea," urged Gavin again. 

"I'm laper. Mending we're looking for food, than I'm possessed again." Kalea said in the end. Pretending to be possessed at a time like this doesn't sound too bad. 

"So now what do you say was that you were possessed?" Gavin raised his brow next to it, and it sucks.

"Gavin, can you not tell me without asking this much? You've been carrying around for a long time, like Karel."

What does not want to be equated with? Gavin and Karel are similar. Both are annoying in different ways. On several occasions, Kalea also found Gavin as chatty as Karel. When the man scolded him for being late to eat, for example. The speed of speaking is like the world's top rapper whose songs have topped the charts for weeks. Gavin was actually eleven-twelve with Karel, only he was slightly more handsome than Karel. 

Kalea snorted bitterly, but still swung step by step after Gavin.

"Wait!" kalea shouted as Gavin had stepped far ahead, as if not poking at all.

When he manages to align with Gavin and they arrive at the lobby, Kalea accidentally sees a familiar figure standing in front of the reception desk carrying a medium-sized suitcase. His steps automatically stopped, making Gavin confused until finally follow-up stop swinging legs.

Kalea was memicing, trying to convince herself that she wasn't looking wrong. Then when the person turned his head and their eyes met in a considerable distance, Kalea finally knew that she did not see wrong. So with a big spirit as well as a big smile, Kalea ran over to the person who was also smiling at him. Leaving behind Gavin who was still unable to digest the situation.

"Irina!" call Kalea when she's right in front of the woman. He needed to look up a little to be able to look at Irina because her posture was indeed higher than her.

"Hello, Kalea." Irina greeted back with a growing smile.

"Oh my God, you remember my name." Kalea couldn't hide her excitement just because Irina remembered her name.

"Why not? Your name is beautiful, just as beautiful as you."

"A beautiful person who wants someone else to be beautiful." Kalea throbbed, but a second later, she smiled again.

"By the way, do you know who I am?" tanya Irina who suddenly made Kalea excited.

"Ofcourses. You're one of the flagship models in the KL Group." Kalea's smile grew wider, but it invited another frown on Irina's forehead. Because, of the many people he met lately, only Kalea answered so. Only Kalea doesn't talk about her date with Gabriel Permana. Only Kalea who actually eagerly called it as a mainstay model instead of aunty girang as he often heard lately.

"What a flagship model, what I have is the burden of the company." Irina smiled smirked at the end of the sentence. It was not his wish, being involved in a scandal with a smelly boy did not make it into the list of possibilities that would happen in his life. So when the rumors of his date with Gabriel came out just because they were found several times in the same place, he could only sneer at a fate that seemed to play games with him. He built this career with great difficulty. Though there had been a lot of sweat and tears that he had shed to be at this point. And the smelly boy named Gabriel wasn't supposed to be there to make things worse.

"Who dares to burden you? Here, let me punch his face until it's battered out of shape."

Irina chuckled as Kalea showed a fist to her face. With such a serious look, the girl seemed to be able to actually throw a fist at anyone who dared to disturb her.

"By the way, what are you doing here?" kalea asked as her attention turned back to the large suitcase on Irina's side.

"Boss in the apartment, so stay here for a few days, all together with some work. Yeah, counting healing let's not be crazy. While saying that, Kalea saw Irina's gaze fixed in the other direction. So he followed the woman's gaze and found Gavin standing next to her.

Aware that Irina and Gavin both seem confused because they do not recognize each other, Kalea took the initiative to introduce them to each other.

"Oh yeah, Irina, you know, this is Gavin, my future husband." Kalea. Slightly slow down the voice when calling the word prospective husband because honestly he is still not used to it. It still feels strange to call Gavin that name. Because it feels like just yesterday they met and knew each other's names.

Irina seemed to smile wider, her hands outstretched towards Gavin and it didn't take long for the man to welcome her outstretched hand.

"Greetings, I'm Irina." Irina said with a voice that sounded so graceful in Kalea's ears.

"Gavin's." Unlike Irina who seemed friendly, Gavin actually did not look too interested to get acquainted with the woman. Well, Kalea understands. Mother once told him that Gavin would only be friendly to those he wanted. In addition, he will be cold and tend to seem unfriendly. So Kalea isn't too concerned about Gavin's response right now.

"I'd like to call you for a minute." Pamit Gavin after retracting her hand, made Kalea astonished but still nodded her head. The man then walked quickly leaving her and Irina.

After Gavin was completely out of sight, Kalea turned back to Irina. "Next week we're getting married. It just so happens that the recipe is held here, so if you have time, you can come." Kalea brightly lit up with a faint smile.

"Can I come?" ask Irina astonishment.

Kalea nodded steadily. "Can."

"But we're totally strangers."

"Nope. From now on we're friends." Said Kalea, who once again managed to make Irina astonished.

Because what kind of person would invite a stranger to her wedding? This girl named Kalea is really interesting apparently. Worth it, Irina shook her head as the damn thought came back to her head. He tried to smile, then nodded his head briefly.

"Okay, I'll come."

"Promise?"

To be honest Irina was surprised as Kalea suddenly stretched her little finger before her. But in the end Irina just smiled and stretched out her pinky and linked with Kalea's little pinky.

"Promise."

Irina felt her heart like it was being pierced by a dagger as Kalea's smile grew wider. While behind his small body, Gavin stood a few steps, staring at the two of them with a gaze that was too difficult to translate.

Seriate.