
" I'm.. I seem to have been asleep to you Cruz" Noa answered Cruz.
Cruz looked at Noa with an unusual look. Waiting for the next words to come out of Noa's mouth.
" Sometimes my heart beats because of you, sometimes my blood ripples because of your touch and sometimes my cheeks heat up because of what you say" Noa told Cruz.
" But I don't know if I like you or if I fall asleep because of your charm. Then I saw your world Cruz. A world different from mine, I realized that I was hooked on your charms".
" I fell in your charm. I feel like you're too far away to reach Cruz. Just being your friend I feel lucky. So I ... tried not to want more against you" Noa said.
Cruz did not answer Noa's words. He knows what Noa means. Ceuz hates that kind of thing coming out of Noa's mouth.
" Maybe you just want me to be Cruz's best friend. If the program is over I'm sure you'll forget me" Noa said softly.
***
Cruz stared at the ceiling of his room. After Noa expressed her heart the atmosphere became awkward. Cruz didn't expect Noa to turn him down like that.
Cruz believes Noa is not really aware of her feelings for Cruz.
Cruz woke up and took the keys to the car. Go to Ran's bar. He had to calm his mind there because of Noa's refusal.
Arriving at the bar Cruz sat silent notka much talk. Keep drinking in silence.
Ran approaches Cruz while thrusting a small plate of cashew nuts at Cruz.
" What's the matter?", asked Ran.
" Noa refused me" Cruz replied, gulping down his drink.
" Another?", Ran was surprised.
" Yes. . Again. He said I was hard to reach, our world was different and a lot. I got dizzy from what he said" Cruz said.
Ran smiled at the disappointment of his best friend. " I told you from the beginning. Noa's not an easy girl for you to have Cruz with. You have to approach it in a different way. Not with your fame but with your heart", Ran's advice.
Cruz held up the drink until the toilet. " Am I using my heart less?", asked Cruz.
" Yes it seems so. Use your best, Cruz, I'm sure you can. But remember, don't break his heart. Because I wouldn't be happy if my best friend was crying", Ran patted Cruz on the shoulder slowly.
For Cruz this is a warning from a sister to take care of her sister. “ I won't let her cry Ran”, Cruz replied determinedly.
***
“ So are you sure you didn't fall for him?”, Cleo asked Noa.
Noa was visiting Cleo's house in order to pour out her heart to her best friend. After returning home from Cruz's apartment, all night Noa kept thinking about her feelings for Cruz.
“ I don't know Cle. At first I thought it was like that. I felt like I was falling for her, but after I thought about it again it seemed like I was just blown away by her”, Noa replied as she looked at Cleo's child who was playing in front of her.
“ Why can you think like that?”, asked Cleo looking at her best friend.
“ I... actually I. feel he's too far to reach Cle. I thought if he was with me maybe it would ruin his career and I wasn't sure he really liked me. Perhaps my sudden presence in her life, made her confused by her feelings. The difference between being friendly and liking, I guess he can't tell the difference is currently ”, Noa said again
Cleo rubbed Noa's shoulders gently. “ Noa, are you afraid of falling in love again?”, Cleo asked carefully.
Noa was silent, no sound came out of her mouth. Cleo continued to wait for Noa to speak.
“Cle, I loved both my parents and they left. I loved Sam once, he made me lean on him but he also left me. I'm afraid, if I really fell in love with Cruz and it turns out he left me. What should I do Cle? do I have to go back to lament”, Noa spoke while staring blankly ahead.
Cleo fell silent, not knowing what words she had to say to Noa. They grow up together and Cleo knows how Noa's journey.
Noa turned and looked at Cleo with a gentle smile. “ So I haven't dared to step there Cle. I can't” yet, Noa said softly.
Noa nodded in understanding “ If the time comes. I will do it Cle”, Noa said.
“ Okay, how about you release your stress by having fun at Ran”'s bar, Cleo said.
“I do plan to go there”, Noa replied with a soft laugh.
***
Noa parked her car in front of Ran's bar. Not as crowded as usual.
Noa walks slowly into the bar, looks up at the bartender's desk and does not find Jim there.
“ Jim where?” is, asked Noa to a young bartender who was busy concocting drinks.
“ Brother Jim is off. Can I help you?”, asked the young bartender.
“ Give me a bottle of bir”, Noa peech.
“ Baik”, answer the bartender.
Noa drank alone that night. Spilling all his thoughts on the alcoholic drink in front of him.
The more night he began to lose his consciousness. 'I have to go home', inner Noa.
Noa then got down from the chair a little staggering. He walked outside the bar, Noa did not know someone was paying attention to his movements.
Noa took the keys to her car when she was standing in one of the cars. Noa stood long enough in front of the car while closing her eyes. The effects of the drink began to rise to his brain. But he tried to be aware, Jim and Ran always help him at times like this. But today he has to be alone.
Noa tried to open the car in front of him but could not. He was upset that his car was not open. The car kept issuing alarms noisily.
" Why the car is not open. I'm going home", Noa nagged.
Alarm stops sounding. Someone came and pulled Noa's arm from behind. "No, are you alone?", a man's heavy voice.
Noa turned around and found Brook standing behind her. Noa looked at Brook carefully.
" Hey... You're my friend's friend... Cruz" Noa said fucked up.
" What are you doing in front of my car?", asked Brook, turning off the alarm that started to sound because Noa was still trying to open the door.
" Is this your car? Then which car is it?", asked Noa in a daze.
Brook smiled in surprise at Noa who was beginning to lose her consciousness. " Where is your house? Let me drive you" Brook said.
"Home? I don't have a hix house... Hix... I was hitchhiking at Milli's house" Noa said drunk and crouched beside Brook's car.
Brook took a long breath. He understood that his friend's woman was getting drunk.
Brook took the phone and called Cruz.
" Hello, Bro ... Looks like someone needs to be picked up" Brook said directly.
"who? I'm busy right now" Cruz said again.
" I know, but you better come to Ran's bar. Because this Noamu got drunk and started crying near my car" Brook said.
" I'm going there now" Cruz said.
***