Magic Key

PART 15 - TWO FRIENDS BEHAVE

"Sas, Fa, thank you for helping me clean up my stuff. Thanks for today." I said at night we were lying together. My two friends hugged me who happened to be in their midst.

"No need to worry, Ay. We're friends, helping is our duty." Reply Sasi.

"That's not a lot of nicotine at all." Added Fara.

I nodded and smiled. Thank goodness they were as good as I thought. I'm lucky.

"Oh yeah, you were looking for Andi, Ay." Said Fara again. Sasi nodded in agreement.

"Didn't mind me?"

"I don't know where you are, that's how."

"What do you guys need to answer?"

"We said you were dating." They answered compactly, and afterwards they laughed. They tease me.

I woke up and tickled them. They laugh incessantly.

"Sshhhhh, don't be noisy." I said after I was satisfied with my work tickled them.

They control their breath, exhausted from laughter.

"Part of you actually went with your friends who used to chat near the security guard post, right?" Sasi rounded his probing eyes.

Gotch!! On target! Turns out they've been watching me all along?

"Are you guys gonna think shit about that?" Me ask carefully.

I was waiting for their answer, but they did not speak for a long time. May they gather up all the curses to attack me? I continued to be unsettled until Sasi asked,

"Who's the guy's name?"

"We've never met that guy in person, have we?" Fara also asked.

"Emmm.... He's Zaki."

"Zaki's? So when can we meet him?" Ask Sasi enthusiastically.

"Emm.. tomorrow, maybe?"

"Huh? Tomorrow then? Well I have to dance and what's dong like for tomorrow? I'm nervous."

No! A flick landed on Sasi's forehead.

"That's Ayri's boyfriend, why are you so excited!" Fara said in a hurry.

"Huh?" I heard Fara's words.

"Hehe.iya yes. Sorry I'm so excited." Sasi cengengesan.

"So, really tomorrow?" Ask Sasi again.

"Yes, tomorrow he'll bring me here."

"Good god, my God! Really?" Tanya Sasi is still excited.

"Yes really. Don't talk about it anymore."

"Why? Embarrassed?" Fara asked while playing an eyebrow.

Damnit damnit! My friends keep teasing me.

"If you don't shut up tomorrow, I won't know you!" My threat. But it doesn't seem good.

"He's a new employee too, right? His clothes are still the same as ours." Ask Fara again.

"Eh but from tomorrow we're in dooong uniforms. Duh happyaaa I've been wearing a uniform so not dicengin son snot again." Sasi added frenzied as usual.

"Yes, we're wearing uniforms tomorrow Monday." My timpal.

I wonder how Sari and Febi's sister are going to be. Not to want to prank them, but starting Monday tomorrow our status is the same, so our rights are also the same. Then I will refute every word they say that is not true. I'm sorry, I open the type of person who can only stay silent if something bothers me. But if that guy's good, I'll be twice as good as him.

Tonight Sasi and Fara kept asking questions about Zaki. Early introduction said. So that tomorrow doesn't look like a confused person.

Well whatever. They asked me to answer. But the light one. If it is deep, I will just sleep.

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I don't know why I'm so nervous. I deg-degan. I see Zaki every day, right? Or because he's gonna pick me up? Didn't Zaki pick me up yesterday? Or is it my friends who make me nervous?

Fara and Sasi had woken up from dawn. They look more excited than I am. They've been busy dressing me up since. Just let them get tired of dressing me up, I end up rejecting everything. I don't like to dress up for just one other person. I prefer to be who I am.

I'm not a sycophant. I like what it is. I'm like this, if they like me like this then the liking will last. But if I do a game of kindness up front, if they find my true nature different from the one at the beginning, then they will run away, right?

I heard Sasi and Fara who were still nagging because I ruined their makeup work, I could only smile and apologize.

I opened the door because I wanted to avoid the chattering of two unrelenting girlfriends, and it turned out that he had been at the door for some time.

"Zaki?"

Hearing the name coming out of my mouth, Sasi and Fara immediately hurriedly raised their heads from behind the door.

"Right be Zaki, Ay?"

"Where's Zaki?"

They both floundered behind me. Oh these guys! Just make me ashamed.

I smiled with embarrassment. What was Zaki thinking after seeing Sasi and Fara so impatient.

"Hi." Sapa Zaki was friendly with a smile imprinted on her lips. This is not what I thought.

Without hesitation they immediately greeted back,

"Hi."

"Hallo."

Zaki chuckled softly for what reason? Is it because of laughing at the ridiculous behavior of two of my friends? Or is he laughing at me who can't dwell with the stiff smile I keep on maintaining?

"I'm Zaki, Ayri's friend." He said in a warm tone.

"I'm Fara Ayri's friend too."

"If I were Sasi. I wasn't Ayri and Fara's roommate, but now we're roommates. Hehe..." The word Sasi is thick with his habits of excitement and whiny.

"Thank you for being Ayri's friend." Said Zaki.

"Yes we are friends with Ayri. So Ayri's friend is our friend too, right?" Sasi without brakes.

No! Again. Fara flicked a finger at Sasi's forehead.

"Jaim dikit dong be a girl! Did you know he belongs to a friend of his own still want to be teased?" Omel Fara on Sasi.

Why did Fara have to tell me about who she belonged to? When did they stop embarrassing me? Not after this Zaki will assume that I have told all sorts of stories about him to these two friends.

"Yes. Ayri's friend was my friend too. So we're friends too." Zaki said crispy. Sontak Sasi wanted to prance if he did not get a plot from Fara.

"Can I take Ayri away now?" Ask Zaki. I will finally be free of these two friends.

"Ah yes yes, please." Said Sasi again.

"Can you leave now?" Ask Zaki who was addressed to me.

I'm nodding. "Yes." Yeah."

Zaki caught my wrist and grasped it gently. I was shocked and embarrassed.

This is in front of my two friends but Zaki unhesitatingly holds me? Ah, maybe my cheeks are flushed now, as my heart beats madly.

"We go first." Pamit Zaki's. I'm still silent, noiseless. I was busy trying to feel my own.

"Yes. Please take good care of Ayri." Sasi. Zaki simply nodded to answer.

"Yes, careful. Don't come home too late." Fara's Message. Ah this is what I like about Fara, she's grown up, she keeps my attention despite teasing me all out. Not like Sasi who even like to plunge me.

Haha, but I love them both. They were the first friends I got after living in this Wind village. May our friendship last.

*****

"Do you know my room number?" I asked Zaki who was starting the engine.

"I don't know." Reply Zaki.

"Was that you at the door?"

"I'm just following my feelings. Apparently real. We're really connected."

"Connecting?" My reply doesn't understand.

Again Zaki shook his head, choosing not to answer.

"We'll get breakfast first, okay?"

"Yes." Yeah."

"You're not allergic to the same food sold on the street, are you?" Zaki asked sounding worried.

I'm shaking. "I also can only buy snacks on the side of the road all this time. I just can't eat pepper, already." Said explain.

"OK if that's it. We're there now."

*****

Zaki stopped the car a little bit away from the sellers, then he got off and opened the door for me. Actually I could've opened the door myself, I didn't force him to do this at all. But it was Zaki who forced him to open the door for me.

Zaki led the way and I just tailed.

Zaki stopped, then faced me.

"Want to eat here?" Tanya Zaki pointed to one of the merchants who in front of him written chicken porridge complete with a picture of a bowl of chicken porridge made as attractive as possible.

"Chicken porridge?"

"Yes, don't you want to?"

"Want to?" I asked back.

"If you mind we can find another one."

"I'm sorry, but I don't really like chicken porridge."

"If green bean porridge is willing?" Ask Zaki again.

I considered Zaki's suggestion.

"If you want, there's a green bean porridge sale." Zaki pointed at one of the taverns that was a bit far from where we were standing.

I followed Zaki and I found the tavern. But I was instead interested in the sale of the next door.

"Zak, you don't do ketoprak, do you?" I asked who soon found Zaki laughing.

"Do you like ketoprak?"

I hesitate to nod or shake. I'm afraid my answer will hamper breakfast this morning and drain Zaki's patience.

"Let's go there." Zaki pulled me towards the ketoprak seller I was referring to.

"Sir, I order two yes." Zaki ordered on the sale.

"Good mas. All complete?"

"One doesn't use tofu" said Zaki. And no matter how many seconds I immediately add.

"Not wearing know all yes, sir."

Zaki looked at me with a slanted smile.

"Same two warm sweet teas, sir." Zaki added the order.

"Well, ma'am, please sit down and wait, please,"

"Thank you, sir." Then Zaki invited me to sit at one of the rather ignorant tables of most people who were also eating ketoprak.

"Same kok?" Ask Zaki.

"What?"

"Not using tofu." Said Zaki. I replied with a shrug, then we laughed together.

"I'm the same Zian quite often eat here. I don't think you like this kind of food. That's why I didn't think you were here."

"I'd rather ketoprak than have to eat chicken porridge. I if sick just do not want to eat porridge especially those who are still healthy gini. I don't like to eat sick people's food." I clearly.

Zaki chuckles. "Not food sick people, but usually sick people are difficult to eat so given porridge so that they can immediately swallow."

"Yes yes." My reply ended the conversation about porridge.

"I like a lot of crackers when I eat ketoprak." Said Zaki.

"If I'm the right portion, but like cremated, let's not bother biting." I'm in the opinion.

Shortly our orders arrived. I can't wait to taste it, because I even forgot the last time I ate ketoprak. I've imagined the taste of the appetizing chili.

I picked up a glass of warm tea from our order, but Zaki held back one hand as I was about to drink.

"For today, please don't discuss the invisible issue, okay?"

*****