My Brother's Friend

How's it feel??

"Who cooked all this?" ask Kak Jo on the sidelines of his eating activities

"Bang Reza," I said softly as I lowered my head,

"I think this is your cooking" continued Brother Jo then stopped his activities and looked at me who was now opposite him. He smiled, he smiled,

I didn't answer, I was so embarrassed. When a few days ago, when Bang Reza came home from the hospital, I was planning to cook and make lunch for Bang Reza, Kak Jo and myself.

But, the dishes I made were completely inedible, one dish I made tasted very salty and the other one even became charred on a frying pan.

Truly the very thing I do not want to remember, the shame I feel has really reached an infinite stage.

How not, one side I want to lighten Bang Reza's burden, but I messed it up and on the other side, I just messed it up, I wanted to draw sympathy from Brother Jo but in reality I was embarrassed by my own actions.

"Why don't you cook, shouldn't you learn to cook so that your husband doesn't turn away because his wife can't cook?" Kak Jo, Bang Reza and Syafa only hold back their laughter while continuing to eat.

"Not yet!" My answer is a bit cranky

"Keep the right time when?" Jo started eating her food again

"Later I'll think about it" that's all I can say, it's really a hostile atmosphere.

Syafa who usually defended me, now even like siding with Kak Jo and continue to hold his laughter.

"I've tried Aulia's cooking once," said Syafa I glared at her but she didn't budge at all and instead continued her words

" How does it feel?" ask Kak Jo with a tone to invite

"But after that, I have to buy drugs to the pharmacy!" syafa replied and after that everyone laughed except me. It's really embarrassing, though,

"Learn to cook, ask Jonathan to teach you!" Bang Reza's orders. This is the one time I've seen a change from Bang Reza, he's allowed me to interact with others and not get in the way of what should have happened.

"If you really want to learn, come to the restaurant after school. I'll be happy to teach you the correct cooking!" I nodded still with my head down.

"The rice on your plate won't run anywhere, there's no need to watch it!" continued Brother Jo mocked me and for the last time they laughed again.

We had finished our meal and were gathered in my courtyard sitting on a mat, looking at the sky that happened to be full of stars tonight.

I sat next to Brother Jo, while Syafa with Bang Reza was a little fruitful but still on the same mat.

The two men were talking and sometimes they laughed, not knowing what they were laughing at. Makes me a little jealous, because they deliberately showed their romance right in front of my eyes.

"Why, envy them?" ask Brother Jo who realized that I was watching them

"No!" My answer was short and then changed my view.

Brother Jo laughed, "Your face can't lie"

"Some," that's all that goes out of my mouth

"So, what does that mean?" Kak Jo glanced at me with a sharp look

"Don't know, and don't find out!" I still look in any direction

"Do you have a boyfriend?" the question came out of Brother Jo's mouth, making me a little surprised, why did he ask that.

There is a strange vibration that I now feel, I even had time to think after Kak Jo asked that then he asked me to be his girlfriend 😁😁

"What do you think, why smile for yourself?" Brother Jo flicked my forehead and broke that beautiful daydream. A daydream about me and her that might be a couple.

But all that was just daydreaming and delusion, until in the end it was lost after the actions of Brother Jo

"Just tell me what you're thinking, or I'll snap at your forehead again!" I threatened him but I didn't tell him what I was really thinking.

I was still embarrassed to say it, even more so it was about my feelings for her that I had long since felt.

I don't know from when I had this feeling, a feeling I probably shouldn't have or maybe I shouldn't have.

Brother Jo, Master and friend of my brother, became the first person who was always there when Bang Reza and I were not in good condition. He has sacrificed everything, not only time but also the material he has to help us.

Unhypocritical, his attention and the tenderness of his attitude made me have other feelings. This is all it should be or it's just me who misinterpreted this and became hoping for more of him.

"Sister, since when did Big Brother have that feeling?" ask Syafa to Bang Reza

"It has been a long time" replied Bang Reza, both looking up at the sky, watching the stars that are scattered tonight. Shafa then followed the direction where Bang Reza looked.

"Oh," Bang Reza then turned his head towards Syafa

"Why is that?" Bang Reza

"No, I just want to know" Shafa said

"Then, you yourself since when did you start having those feelings?" tanya Bang Reza then clasped Syafa's hand.

There is a sense of happiness in the hearts of both, the atmosphere of love around them makes the feeling of love that grows bigger and more infinite.

Bang Reza's warm hands covered Syafa's fingers which now felt a little cold

"It's been a long time, a long time even"

"Very long, when?" search Bang Reza

"When I entered Junior High, since the time I often visited and stayed at Big Brother's house, since then I started to like Big Brother" replied Syafa as he bowed, his face felt a bit hot from embarrassment.

"Sama, I also started liking you at that time. But I didn't dare to say it, because I already considered you like my own sister at that moment"

Shafa was surprised by the confession from Bang Reza, he did not expect that since then his love for Bang Reza had been reciprocated just that between the two of them no one dared to express it.

Happiness is increasing, because the sense they keep since long ago is never in vain.

"I guess I'm the only one who has that feeling, I even had a chance to feel afraid if in the end the feeling I have is never reciprocated" Syafa said

"Sama, I also had a chance to think about it"

"Thank you, Brother. I never thought we'd be together!" continued Syafa

"Together, I also thank you, because you still like me even after I once forbade you to befriend Aulia and even I once yelled at you at that time, forgive me"

Bang Reza began to recall the moment where he forbade Syafa to be friends with me shortly after my parents' departure. Bang Reza even had a chance to snap at him and even Syafa cried bitterly because of the work of Bang Reza.

" No need to remember it, Brother. I've forgiven Brother long before today!"

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