
"What's wrong with you, Hel?" Airish was astonished to see Rahelsa who entered the room with a reddened face.
"So, it's okay!" rahelsa argues, she does not want to tell Airish about Aarav's ignorance of him.
"Yes, let's sleep!" Airish hugged the bolster and tried to close his eyes, while Rahelsa began to lie down next to the girl.
"Rish..."
"Hmm" said Airish with eyes closed.
"Aarav wants to break off our engagement."
At once Airish sat down. "Why?" tanyanya looked at Rahelsa.
Rahelsa sat down and leaned against the headboard of the bed. "I think she just loves me as a sister."
"Where is possible!" answer Airish quickly.
"That's reality. He said he loved me and I think Aarav thought I was the same .. I think of you and Abrine. Besides, he said he wanted the best for me. He can't handle me anything, he's not perfect for me, so he wants to cancel our marriage."
Airish silently digested Rahelsa's words. He tapped his fingers in front of his own chin while thinking. He knew Aarav from childhood even they grew up in the same womb. The reason this Aarav is enough to make Airish confused, isn't Rahelsa the perfect girl? Is her brother insecure with Rahelsa's perfection?
"I think she loves you more than a sister, Hel." Airish arrived at a thought. "Sir Aarav really loves you, he wants the best for you. He's just insecure of himself."
"That's how he's supposed to hold on, dong!"
"He can't keep up with your perfection."
"I don't understand Aarav's thinking. All I know is that he should have kept all of this. That's why I'm not sure she loves me."
"It's hard if he doesn't want to confess his feelings to you. But...." Airish suddenly has an idea to make Aarav confess about it.
"But what?"
"I have an idea let him tell me, just. I'm not sure if he wants to keep your relationship or not."
"How?"
"Make him jealous!"
"Any, can he be jealous? I'm not sure." Rahelsa.
"Therefore you make things that might make Kak Aarav jealous, from which you can judge his feelings."
"May deh.." answered Rahelsa not so interested for fear of disappointment before starting.
"One more..." Airish hangs sentences.
"What?"
"I think you've been too kind and care about Aarav. Try to act like you don't care about him, I'm sure he'll lose you."
"Where can I go to Aarav, Rish!"
"Once again this way can make him think how much you mean to him. If you need to keep some distance from him, let him know the taste!" Airish smiled faintly thinking about how Aarav would react if Rahelsa really avoided the man. He guessed, surely his brother would be confused.
Rahelsa was silent, for quite a while she thought of the advice from Airish.
"Where? Want to try it?" tanya Airish made sure.
Rachels finally nodded slowly.
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Early in the morning, Rachel woke up and took a shower. He even left Airish still wrapped in blankets.
Rahelsa heads to Aarav's room, tapping it at a glance to hear the owner's voice to confirm whether Aarav is awake or not.
Unauthorized, Rahelsa opened the doorknob and entered it. He saw that Aarav was still asleep.
In silence, Rahelsa noticed Aarav's shady face. The man's eyes were still closed, his thick eyebrows showing the firmness of the owner, his sharp nose, and full lips and sometimes cold. Unwittingly, Rahelsa smiles at Aarav's whereabouts in front of her.
It seemed, Rahelsa always wanted to see this face the morning of her life. He realized that he loved Aarav very much. His eyes were blind and could not see another figure, which was perhaps more radiant than the man named Aarav. For him, Aarav was the most sparkling light and could not be replaced by anyone.
However, Rahelsa recalls that she has a mission to uncover Aarav's feelings. From today he will be indifferent to this man. He will try not to care about Aarav as usual, so that Aarav realizes his concern all along.
With the tip of her index finger, Rahelsa ventured to touch Aarav's shoulder, trying to wake the man up.
"Aaravn..."
The slumbering man did not budge.
"Aarav.. Let's get up!" rahelsa said as she tapped Aarav's shoulder with her fingertips.
"God..." Aarav smiled to find Rachel waking him up this morning. He also rubbed his own eyes while looking at Rahelsa who had a beautiful appearance as usual, in Aarav's heart humming cheerfully to see his girl who was very charming.
"Let's get up, I'll help you for a while, and then I'll have to go to college." Rahelsa said flatly, deliberately, to carry out her intentions.
Rahelsa immediately turned around, wanting to head to the closet to find Aarav's clothes, but Aarav intercepted Rahelsa's departure by holding the girl's arm.
"Els... wait!" Aarav looked at Rahelsa in her still lying position.
Aarav felt the intonation of Rahelsa's voice change, feeling different. Either because of the factor he just woke up or because this girl was angry with him.
Stared with the owner of the firm brown eyes, making Rahelsa flutter. Not to mention after he realized that Aarav's hand was grasping his wrist. His heart had to work hard to withstand the pounding in the morning like this.
"Why?" Rahelsa cursed herself for answering Aarav stammeredly. Is he so intimidated by the glare of the eye that blasphemes him?
"You why? Angry at me for last night?" asked Aarav in surprise.
"No-no.." argued Rahelsa quickly.
"Your voice is different."
Rahelsa was quite amazed that Aarav could realize this quickly, but Rahelsa had just wanted to do her intention to ignore Aarav, not yet fully do it in earnest, alias is still in the testing phase.
"So, that's probably how you feel!" call Rahelsa.
Aarav wanted to get up and sit down, and Rahelsa was quick to help the man.
"I'm gonna take a shower, Els. Would you like to help me with this as well?" tease Aarav with a faint smile, hoping that Rahelsa would not change for him.
"I'll call you Auntie Raya, yeah."
Aarav nodded, but again he caught another tone of Rahelsa's voice which was usually tender to him.
This morning, Rachel was cold.
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"I went to college, Tant ..." Rahelsa shook Raya's hand with reverence. Nev happened to be back in Indonesia so he wasn't in the apartment. Abrine and Airish have no tuition hours today so Rahelsa will be leaving for campus alone.
"Yes, Honey. Careful drive." Raya stroked Rahelsa's hair briefly and smiled warmly at the girl.
Aarav sees Rahelsa leaving, he approaches the girl who is already on the doorstep.
"God..."
"Yes?" Rachel looked at the man.
"Don't you say you want to go with me?" aarav asked with a faint smile.
Actually, Rahelsa wanted permission to go to Aarav, but the intention was undo because he intended to ignore Aaravdemi launched the action.
"Ah, yes.I go to college first. We'll be back here again tomorrow." Rahelsa answered flatly with a forced smile.
Again Aarav caught a different look on Rahelsa's face. It looks sincere but also seems to impose circumstances.
"Sore?" aarav asked to confirm what he had heard.
"Yes, I just got home this afternoon. It just so happened that today I had to finish a fashion design project. I had to adjust the size of the clothes to Zack's body, so that he was comfortable using them" said Rahelsa honestly. Today he will indeed do fitting with Zack who will be a fashion model week as his initial agreement with Alice the colleague.
"Zack?" Aarav looked at Rahelsa with a sharp pain, showing a displeased expression. Of course he knew the figure of Zack who had met him at the Rahelsa campus at that time.
"Yes, she's going to be a fashion model week. In another sense he'll try our new design."
Aarav nodded faintly.
"Yes, I'm leaving first, Rav!" rahelsa said indifferently.
Aarav called Rahelsa back.
"God...."
"Yes?"
"Be careful," said Aarav smiling lightly.
Rahelsa replied with the same smile then she passed from the apartment room belonging to the Aarav family.
Aarav feels something is different about Rahelsa, but he tries to ignore it. In his mind, maybe the girl is very busy and hasty to immediately handle her college project. But, on the other side of Aarav's mind, he wanted to ascertain Rahelsa's attitude later.
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