Neighbor Husband
Episode 6 - Changes
Tling. A message went to Luke's phone. From the locked screen, he could see messages from unknown numbers.
"Well, who is it?" luke said as he opened the message from the unknown number.
"How are you? A few days there was no look."
"Oh, yes. It's me, Dede" wrote Dede
^^^"That's why are you so considerate? Where did you get my number from?" reply Luke.^^^
"not attention. You haven't been out for almost three days. If suddenly there is a smell of carrion is not funny," replied Dede.
"I got your number from Grandma Kos. I'm just saying you still owe me" he said again.
"Damn it," muttered Luke.
^^^"Please. I drink formalin, really. So don't worry about the smell of carrion if I die" Luke replied again.^^^
"Well, there's-there's this kid. Really bar-bar, huh. The feeling used to be when High School she was very soft," murmured Dede with a smile.
"Why the hell, Bang? Smile at yourself from now on?" ina search.
"There's nothing. Eat, yuk," Dede switched the conversation. He then kept his phone.
Meanwhile in the house next door. "Ih, it's a waste of my time" Luke said as he put down his phone. He then had breakfast fried rice and an omelet, plus sweet tea. Simple, but delicious.
After washing the dishes, Luke prepared. She wore a neat blouse suit, combined with a blue tulle skirt. His long hair was neatly tied, not forgetting to be pinned by a tiny blue ribbon, in line with the color of his skirt. Her lips were polished pink, very pretty. It was a very rare sight for Luke.
At 07.15. Luke is ready to go. He stood in his house very gracefully. His fingers nimblely play the keyboard on the phone.
"Well, Luke. It's beautiful today. Where are you going?" ask Brother Tyas. He was drying clothes.
"Yes, here. Brighter than usual" said Bang Toni, Kak Tyas' husband who was heating a motorcycle, about to go to work.
"There's a little need" Luke replied.
"To where? Want nebeng?" tawal Bang Toni's.
"thank you. No, Bang," Luke replied politely.
The door to contract number three is open. Dede, wearing a white shirt and hair in a neat comb, looked at Luke sharply.
"Why? What's on my face?" ask Luke ketus.
"Galak is a girl, Neng. Ntar guy on the run if gini. It will be difficult to marry" said Dedek.
"Cih, no guy's on the run, too" Luke replied.
Brother Tyas and her husband just shook their heads, seeing the quarrel of the two neighbors. "You're a very familiar High School, huh?" chirps Bang Toni.
"Yes." Yeah." / "No." Luke and Dedek answered simultaneously.
"What's right, huh? Dedek said you were familiar?" search Bang Toni. Luke and Dede just exchanged glances.
"There must have been something in their past" thought Brother Tyas.
"Well, two days in the cave you changed a lot, Luke. Giny, dong. Very pretty loh. Kaya bidadari came down from the flats," said Kak Nada. His right hand held a bucket full of laundry.
"Well, this is again the kindest neighbor, early in the morning already making emotions." Luke responded to Kak Nada while chuckling. Luke's brownish eyes stare back and forth at the phone screen, he looks agitated.
"We think you've been caged for two days already as a fossil inside. We almost broke down your bedroom door. If there is an accident, it is usually quite good money and rice donations," continued Kak Nada.
"Cih, kirain is worried. It's hard to have a gini-like neighbor" Luke replies.
Drrrt! Luke's phone is ringing. Someone called. Shortly after, a silver car stopped in front of the fence. A young man rolled down the driver's window, and threw a smile at them.
"Ah, I go first, yes," said Luke.
"Well, who is that? Brother's girlfriend?" ina asked who suddenly appeared. She looks beautiful with a blue negligee and simple hair. Dede furrowed his brows. His eyes followed the woman away.
"Daughter? Luke has a girlfriend? Wow this is big news" cried Tyas. Luke passed without saying. The neat-looking woman quickened her pace.
"Pardon my friends, Mas" said Luke as he opened the front door and sat down next to the driver. Luke is too shy to be honest in front of Dede, if he's just picked up by an online driver.
"Ah, it's okay. Glad to be of help" the online driver replied kindly.
"This is the purpose of the faculty of MIPA University R, right Kak?" ask the driver.
"Yes" Luke replied briefly.
The iron horse slowly left the contract. The neighbors still look at the vehicle until it disappears behind the Ruko building. I don't know what they're talking about. Luke's heart is wounded.
Dede, who once made sweet and bitter memories in her life, is now back again with a different status. Ah, why didn't he realize that Ina was his underclassman? Of course Dede will be more interested in a beautiful and feminine woman, not in someone who is able to rival her masculine.
Along the way Luke chooses silence. If only people knew, his tomboyish appearance and the martial arts he practiced, for the sake of protecting himself.
When Junior High he almost became a sacrilegious victim by a classmate, and made him very traumatized. But it made her sick and hurt by her first love. Not only does it open old wounds, but it also makes the trauma they experience growing.
He was determined, from now on it will slowly change his appearance again. Not for anyone, but for himself.
"Sister, sis..had arrived," the driver scolded, breaking Luke's daydream.
"Eh, what?"
"It's up to the goal."
"Oh, yes. Thank you, yes," Luke said, glancing at the watch. "Wow, it's almost eight o'clock. Hopefully it's not too late" he murmured.
"Thank you, yes" said Luke. He rushed down from the car and half ran towards the physics building.
"Sister, wait. Brother hasn't paid yet. The brother chose cash payment" exclaimed the driver.
"Wow," said Luke, patting the bidat. Some students looked at him while whispering.
"This. Sorry, yes," said Luke, holding in shame.
"It's okay. I know big brother is in a hurry," he replied kindly.
...*****...
Luke stepped awkwardly on the building's terrace. I don't know how long he hasn't set foot here.
"Is there anyone who remembers me here?" muttered Luke.
"Sit here first yes, brother. Later called," said one of the physics department employees. Ah, it turns out that a lot has changed here.
Luke sat on one of the wooden chairs. There were others waiting for their turn as well. Luke knew none of them.
While waiting, Luke opened his phone. He found a message coming in.
"Sorry about this morning. I hope we can be good neighbors" Dede wrote.
"Sorry about this morning? There's a lot of sorry you have to ask me" Luke said in his heart.
"Sir Lukella," call one of the young officers.
"Yes." Yeah."
"Please come in, brother. Mr. Erwin and several other lecturers were waiting for his brother in the meeting room" said the official.
"Oh, fine. Thank you" replied Luke. He took a breath so as not to be nervous.
...*****...
"Your qualifications are excellent. But we consider first. Even though you are alumni here, we still choose the best one," said Mr. Erwin in the meeting room earlier.
"Good, Sir. Thank ye. I hope to hear the good news" Luke said before saying goodbye.
"Well, it's a clear day" said Luke, staring at the angsana tree that had fallen off its leaves as the wind blew. The cool atmosphere of the campus makes his feet lazy to step home.
"What's autumn abroad like this, huh?" muttered Luke. He sat in the middle of the park. Enjoy the trees that grow high, which drop their colorful leaves every wind blowing.
"Ah, I know what to do" said Luke cheerfully.
"Luke?" greet a young woman as Luke enters a room on the third floor. He was wearing a long, dark grey hijab. His hands were full of books.
"Hi, Sister Dian," said Luke.
"Hey. You haven't been here in a long time. A lot has changed from you. What business is there here?"
"There's a bit of business in the department" Luke said. He chose to sit in the corner of the room. Slightly covered by old book closets. It was Luke's favorite place in the library when it came to college.
"Oh, brother stay first, yeah. There's still a lot of work" said Kak Dian, the library keeper.
"Okay," Luke replied briefly. He looked around the whole room. Some students are busy looking for books and doing assignments.
Tling. A message came into his phone.
"Congratulations! Lukella's novel was voted the favorite novel of the month. Please claim your bonus here."
"Well, thank God," Luke said happily as he read a message from the online novel app in which he wrote. This became a remedy for his heart from some bad events since this morning.
(Connected)
