Loving Qiana

Part 49 - Sapphira - 4

...Safira POV...

Pratama Raka. That man was my first love. The first man to grab my attention. He's a smart guy. So do I. We even took accelerated classes at First High School, making it possible for us to only attend school for two years at Junior High.

I followed him everywhere. We went back to high school. But alas, I couldn't get through taking the final national exam when we were in second grade. Only Raka is the only 2nd year student who passes and immediately continues his education to college without having to pass the 3rd grade of High School.

But we didn't break communication. On the basis of wanting to study at the same place, I always contact Raka. Ask that man a lot of things.

And we met again in England, when I went to the same university as him. We are also in the same department.

Days passed and our relationship grew closer. He also doesn't look close to any girl except me. He's always been cold with any girl besides me.

I believe he put his heart on me. It's just, maybe he still needs a lot of achievements before deciding to get into a relationship with a girl.

I don't have a problem with that. I can wait for him anytime. I was willing to wait for him to propose to me.

When his family came to visit England, I introduced myself to them. Not only me, but also Tommy— Raka's British friend.

I tried to attract the attention of his family. Especially for his parents. I even asked my father to cooperate with the company owned by Mr. Anggara— his father Raka.

I quickly mixed up with the rest of his family. Raka does look very close to all members of his family. But, he looked very close to his female cousin. Her name was Qiana.

Every day I always watched Raka and Qiana who always join hands everywhere. It was as if the girl needed extra attention from Raka. And his parents also explained that they always do it since childhood.

Qiana Larasati's. I've never liked seeing her since we first met. That girl always hogging my Raka. But, when he called me as a sister-in-law candidate, I also liked the girl.

From then on, my relationship with Qiana became closer. But, that was all without Raka's knowledge. From Qiana I know what is Raka's favorite. I sent him a lot of things, so that he continued to provide a lot of information about Raka.

He even promised me that Raka would immediately muster up the courage to propose to me. But, a few years later, the engagement between me and Raka didn't happen. The man is still busy managing his family's company. In order to often have many opportunities together, several times I asked my father to re-establish cooperation with the Raka family company.

And after all my struggles over the years, for the first time Raka contacted me and invited me to meet. He even invited me to lunch with him.

I thought he was going to propose to me. I thought he was gonna get me married. I wear my best clothes. I want to look beautiful in front of her. Maybe he had prepared a sweet surprise to propose to me.

Renting a restaurant just for the two of us, for example. Or decorate the restaurant with lots of flowers just to catch my attention.

But, when I arrived at the restaurant he was referring to. There's no weird look there. The restaurant was crowded with many visitors. The restaurant was not filled with flowers. Not even a bouquet of flowers exists.

Raka waved her hand with a sumringah face. I also replied by not losing sumringah.

“I've ordered food for you. We eat first. After that there is something I want to give,” he said with passion.

“Spaghetti agglio olio right?” tanyakanya.

Did he hide his ring inside that spaghetti?

I really wish it had happened. At least this stiff man tried to be romantic just a little.

I eat that spaghetti slowly. I don't want to suddenly have to choke on an engagement ring and just die before getting married to Raka.

“You are beautiful today, Fir,”.

I know for sure if my face turns red. This is the first time he has praised me. I was even more convinced that Raka would propose to me.

“Ka-you also today look very excited,”.

The man's face grew more and more. “I'm very happy today. And I will tell you the happy news. You're the first person outside the family to know about it. I also wish Tommy was here and watched it.”

My heart was pounding more and more hearing his words. In England, we spent three hours. He must want Tommy to be our cover witness.

“Come quickly finish your food. There was a surprise after that,” he said.

I also nodded. I returned carefully. But, I didn't find any rings in that spaghetti dish.

I looked at him in wonder. His face was getting bigger. Is he going to just give us the ring after we finish this lunch?

I unconsciously smiled a little. What can I expect from this stiff guy. Even just to express her feelings, it took her years.

He now serves as the director of his father's company. His career is very good. The company he runs is also growing better. He must be ready to build a house.

What would I say if he wanted to marry me as soon as possible? Next month? or maybe next week, maybe?

I tried to hold back my smile. I don't want to show you if I already know the plan to propose to me. I wanted him to think that I was so surprised by what he was going to say.

And I was really surprised too. Even the world seemed to collapse before me. It turned out that she didn't want to give me an engagement ring. He didn't want to propose to me.

He's getting married soon. In fact, he's getting married next week. But, it's not with me. I'm not the woman chosen to accompany her. I'm not the woman who's gonna be with him at the bouncy. It turns out that I'm not the reason the man kept showing his face from now on.

She was the girl he recognized as his first love. He told me about his first love. The girl he has loved since the days of Junior High. All this time, I thought that girl was me. But it turns out I was wrong. The girl he was referring to all this time turned out to be not me.

And what makes me worse, that girl is the girl who always helps me to get closer to Raka. That girl was the girl who called me sister-in-law.

Raka invited me to meet just to give her wedding invitation with Qiana.

Qiana Larasati's. That girl hurt me to the bone marrow. I won't be able to forgive him. I will take this pain back to him!