Love In Butterfly Needles

Have lunch together

The two-wheeled vehicle rolled out of the hospital parking lot, the afternoon weather was shady but not overcast. The shining sun was covered in bright white clouds, increasingly making Dena want to linger long sitting behind Mas Adam.

If only the distance from the hospital to the house Dena must be taken with a time of three hours long it feels Dena would be happy to sit on a motorbike with a sore waist. But in fact, the distance they travel only takes 15 minutes.

Dena felt stiff sitting behind Mas Adam, he did not dare to touch the jacket Mas Adam. This is the first time he has ever had a conversation with a man. He had imagined what it would be like to hug the man from behind. Mas Adam drove his motorbike with minimal speed, only about 200 meters out of the hospital parking lot he opened his helmet glass to turn his face slightly to the side so that Dena could hear his speech, he said,

" I'm hungry Den, will you accompany me to lunch?"

Dena leaned her body forward, closing her face to the left side of Mas Adam's face,

" Maybe, I haven't eaten either" Dena said. Again he felt increasingly real vibrations in his heart when he had to be in close proximity to that warm face.

The state that states in the self that dzahir actually states the situation that occurs in the inner self. Well in dzahir, also in bathin. And vice versa, there is no bargaining in this, Point!!!! He cannot deny himself, cannot be a hypocritical man to admit that he is thirsty for the love of this man. Either it will be more painful, more bitter and more painful the reply he received.

" What do you like to eat?", Adam asked

" It's up to Mas Adam aja, I'm coming", Dena's answer is more meaning take me anywhere as long as you two I don't eat also no matter hehehe.

Finally, Mas Adam stopped his vehicle at a small restaurant that looks not too crowded visitors. Maybe because the office employees' lunch hour has passed 1 hour ago, according to Mas Adam usually this restaurant is very crowded even not infrequently he often does not get an empty seat.

" Come on in, have you ever eaten here, Den?" Mas Adam asked while hinting Dena to follow his steps towards the table at the end of the restaurant that looked empty.

Dena shook her head, though, he has never eaten here because before he did not live in this city for four years so he did not really memorize the favorite places to eat in this city.

" Sit here", Adam seemed to memorize every corner of this room .

Look he chose a place at the end like this because from this place they can look at the park with a small artificial pond filled with ornamental fish. The park which is only limited by glass from their current seating is deliberately made by restaurant owners to spoil the eyes of visitors while enjoying the dish. Green grass grass unfolds neatly, decorated with colorful flowers that bloom. There are 4 small swings complete the park, where children play.

A female servant approached their table, giving the menu to the two of them.

Dena observed the food menu she was holding, reading from top to bottom what food she could eat considering so many foods she had to avoid since being convicted of kidney failure.

" You have to try the grilled gurame here" Mas Adam told Dena and told her that it was her favorite menu at this restaurant.

" Animal protein is good for your body, so that hemoglobin levels in your blood increase"

Dena nodded, in her mind saying

" At this time my hunger is gone, sitting together with you like a couple already makes me feel full"... It is true that love is blind, making the heart that is being entangled in that feeling becomes unable to distinguish which things are sometimes beyond reason.

Finally they both ordered two servings of rice, grilled gurame and sambal, kale which became Dena's favorite although actually had to limit green vegetables, not to forget tempeh and sapo tofu Mas Adam's favorite.

" Corrus ice seems to be delicious during the day like this" said Mas Adam who made Dena swallow her saliva imagining iced oranges passing through her throat.

" Hehehe but it looks like you better drink water only Den, better for the kidneys "

Dena pouted, but for the sake of her health she obeyed everything Mas Adam said.

While waiting for their order to come, Mas Adam told Dena a lot, while Dena was always a loyal listener. He was always interested in the slightest thing about the man in front of him. Especially when Mas Adam told me, This restaurant is the first place he dated a woman. Dena suddenly shrunk, feeling suddenly lost a lot of hope for her wishful thinking all along. But he dared to ask, though,

Mas Adam smilingly replied with an answer that made Dena's heart a little relieved and re-grow the hope that had been lost, which had been lost,

" Not a girlfriend, but an ex-boyfriend".. Hehehe

Dena cheered triumphantly in her heart, Thank God it turns out Mas adam has not had a girlfriend. He could not imagine how else he went through his day which he felt was very heavy without this man who became his life encouragement. This man is the reason he has never been absent or late even to the hospital for dialysis. Though before his it became a terrible thing for him to live, but now he even impatiently waiting for the schedule to meet green butterflies.

" Wouldn't anyone be angry with Mas if we ate together like this and Mas drove me home?" ,Dena ventured to ask to be more convincing if this man did not have a lover.

" Angry?? Why be angry, it's just a regular lunch Den. I think of you as my own sister".

Mas Adam's answer was like making Dena feel slapped by the actual circumstances, "it turns out he just thinks of me like a sister".. " Huuhh..so stupid I, then I want to be considered as what?" Our relationship has been limited to a patient with a nurse. Stupid, stupid, stupid.why do I expect more anyway? Dena cursed herself in the heart. " O heart, can you put the taste in its place.And you keep it settled and never leave even if you know at the moment that it does not reply to your race".

The waiter came to bring the food they ordered earlier, making Dena leave her daydream. Hunger broke out in Dena's stomach after smelling the aroma of cooking, sure enough Mas Adam said the food here is delicious, from the aroma alone has been smelled. Within a few minutes the food was served by both of them.

" It dong Den, eat a lot to let your weight back to the original weight", Mas adam while laughing at Dena's fullness.

Dena also realized she ate a lot more than usual. Either because the food here is really delicious or because he eats with the man he admires. Though at the beginning even he did not feel hungry in the slightest so happy he could be alone with Mas Adam.

" It seems you will have to eat here often Den to increase your appetite, or when I can tell Luke to bring you here, hehehe" , Adam still teases Dena with Luke.

" Iihhh Mas Adam, please don't mention Luke's name again, I don't like Luke.. I like her the same Ma.." 'Dena stopped forwarding her sentence. He almost forgot to mention the name Mas Adam.

" Ciiihhh. I almost called her name". It could fall in my pride if I expressed my feelings so soon, I'm not ready to hear a rejection from her, inner Dena.

" Who does Den like?", Mas Adam asked the sentence Dena who had stopped.

"Hhmmm... there deh. later also Mas Adam tau", Dena berkilah.

Adam scrunched his forehead..

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For Dena, that simple lunch was her first special date with a man. How special is that man, how not? A beautiful woman at the age of 27 years she had never even fallen in love before.

Along the way home, Dena enjoyed the gentle breeze stroking her unraveling hair. Inhaling in the fragrance of the perfume of the man in front of her who carried the wind towards her olfactory. He could even feel the fresh scent of this male body, Dena tightened her body, making their distance very close. But he did not dare to hold the man.

And finally, because he was too enjoying the moment with Mas Adam, Dena even forgot that he had passed his house by how many hundred meters.

Adam patted his forehead, "How could you forget your own house Dena?".

Dena's face was red, embarrassed why she could forget the real world because she was too busy with her pseudo-fiction.

Dena let Mas Adam into her house, but Mas adam said he hunted and apologized for having to go home soon.

Dena thanked me so much, thank you for driving her home, thank you for lunch today. And do not forget to thank for the opportunity that the man gave to be closer to her, of course, this one thank you can only be said in the heart.

From inside the house, Mother seemed to smile and saw how happy the princess she loved was like finding her way back to life.