Supposes
(20) Damn Short Message!
Dilan said, “Love is beautiful. If you don't, maybe you chose the wrong pair.” But if said Adyra, “Love is beautiful, even before you have a partner.”
Adyra messed up herself while hiding her shy face in the middle of the book she had just read. Incidentally, this afternoon Adyra has a schedule to her subscription bookstore to add to her collection of books. Instead of dying bored at home, mending to here.
Not bad, it could be while yapping the cashier mas-mas whose face looks like Lee Min-ho. Xixis.
In fact, at first Adyra just wanted to refresh her ngawur brain which had not stopped her thinking Andra's face that made a happy smile. But if you smile a lot, you'll think crazy! But free, there is no fear. Even at the bookstore, Andra's face still looms faithfully.
Sometimes Adyra thinks, is he getting stuck?
Adyra put back the novel by Pidi Baiq; Dilan who once went viral in teenage life in her place, then took the latest published novel beside her. Felt enough hunting from one shelf to another, Adyra turned the body towards the cashier. But, a moment later his forehead creased as both of his eyeballs caught someone's face.
“Ya?”
Adyra pulled a hand from the shoulder of the figure in front of her, then rounded her eyes slightly in surprise. “Bara?”
Bara gasped, budged for a moment, then smiled faintly afterwards. “Hai,” greet Bara clumsy while lifting a little of her palm.
“Gue wrong see no, anyway?” Adyra's forehead wrinkled, “This is really elo?”
Bara snorted and then rolled his eyeballs. “Lo saw me like I was looking at demons aja.”
Adyra grinning, “Yes, just surprised me. There are people like you in bookstores, not samsak.” stores Adyra glanced at the bookshelf that was in front of Bara, then tapped her chin as if thinking. “Lo... New dapet wangsit from which mountain?”
Bara grimacing, “Lo mostly watch the colossal drama Mak Lampir, yes?”
Adyra pleaded, “Enak only! I'm more doyan lemper than Mak Lampir, tau!”
The two harrumphed amusedly simultaneously after being aware of the direction of their conversation that had begun to falter.
“Which hydra?” Adyra stopped laughing after hearing Andra's name from Bara's mouth. “Means?”
“Just aja. You guys are often together. If there is lo, there must be him also here.”
Adyra pulls the corner of the lips, “We are not twins of the time, which everywhere should be together.”
Bara turned his gaze towards the line of books and then traced them. “The fact is that, right? All of our school children also know that you both are very clumsy and everywhere are always together.”
“Hng?” Eyebrow to the right of Adyra raised, “Gue deket same everyone, really. Not just Andra Doang. I also deket the same lo, the same my girl friends, classmate, Pak Tono gardener, Pak Tarjo school security guard, Bi Inem canteen, the same Kang Tatang somay also—“
“Yes is different, Ra.”
“Nothing is different, Bar.”
“That's according to lo. Everyone who sees you both must also think the same as I think now.” Bara pulled a book off the shelf then looked at Adyra, “Lo likes Andra?”
Adyra frowned, “Gue did not know what you meant.“
“Gue know for sure you understand the same what I mean by question.”
Adyra glanced at Bara who showed an expression as if waiting for what sentence Adyra would say next.
Adyra exhales lightly, “The answer is not. That's what you mean.”
Bara pulled the corner of her lips as if there was a feeling of relief enveloping her. Bara immediately paused his intention to speak when Adyra had already interrupted him first. “Gue comfortable deket same he like me comfortable if again deket same other cement. I like him as much as everyone likes him. But if I have the same feeling about him. That means—gue you do not need to know what feelings you should not know.”
Adyra smiled ending her long sentence. Honestly, Adyra had no idea what she had said just now. All of his words seemed to flow by themselves. Adyra frowned, while Bara was still silent since Adyra closed the sound. “Lo why, why diem?”
Bara looked at Adyra, then pulled a thick book and went walking past Adyra. Adyra frowned confused, “Loh, where are you going?”
“Gue is no business,” is cold without looking back at Adyra.
Adyra stared at Bara's back which walked straight towards the cashier. “Gue wrong talking?”
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“Lo likes Andra?”
On a different side of the shelf, secretly a man was sharpening his hearing with a frown.
“Gue don't know what you mean.“
“Gue know for sure you understand the same what I mean by question.”
The guy's forehead was getting furrowed as there was silence there. Until he heard the voice of the girl speaking. “The answer is not. That's what you mean.”
Answer's not.
Notwithstanding.
Notwithstanding.
Notwithstanding.
Notwithstanding.
“Kak Andra why, anyway? Being sure to talk even!” Kanya pursed her lips in a dick for feeling neglected from earlier.
Andra glanced at Kanya with the books in her hand, “Select is up to you! Sister wait in the car, again not feeling well.”
“Loh kok—Kak Andra!” Kanya snorted, then glanced lazily at the line of books in front of her. “Why, anyway? So strange.”
••••
Adyra took one step closer to the cashier and smiled, “Good afternoon approaching maghrib, Mas Min-ho!”
His interlocutor smiled amusedly, then took over some of the books in Adyra's hands. “Alone again, nih?”
Adyra thumping lips, “Mas Min-ho don't suck, deh! About me singles.”
Mas Min-ho—the cashier's clerk pulled the corner of his lips in response to Adyra. Actually his name is Rafi, a student kece who works part time in this store to cover the needs of his life while in Jakarta. All Adyra knows is that Rafi is a real boy. According to Adyra, Rafi has a face similar to one of her idol Korean artists; Lee Min-ho. A clean white face, a sharp nose, plus thin lips that he bought made the guy always look attractive in front of any girl. Pantes aja almost all regular customers of this bookstore all girls. Including Adyra, anyway.
“Total everything, three hundred and fifteen thousand rupiah.”
“No gifs, Mas?”
“No, ah! Owner is married.” Adyra smiled ignorantly, “How about her gif pack phone number Mas Min-ho aja?”
Mode-on danger! Adyra, I'm crazy again.
Mas Min-ho looks surprised to hear Adyra's words. Adyra laughed in her heart, when else can a handsome man?
“Bby, anyway.” Adyra frowned at Mas Min-ho's unexpected answer. “Originally send a minimum pulse of 50 thousand every day aja.”
Well, I guess crocodile ngadalin is one of the biggest mistakes.
Adyra thinning lips, “Bangkrut dong, I!”
The two laughed amusedly in response to their brief chat. Adyra was cuek aja, although there were some people queue behind Adyra who had been raging because of the slow chat. Sirik just see I'm friendly with a handsome guy!
“Thank you, good afternoon!” Adyra immediately took the change, then hurriedly left the cashier queue.
Suddenly, his body came to a halt at the very back of the queue as his hand accidentally nudged onto someone's arm. “Ah! Sorry, Mbak.”
“Yes, not papa.”
Adyra saw the long-haired girl smiling politely as she glanced at him. Adyra frowned seeing the girl look troubled holding some books in her hands. “You want me to help push the wheelchair to the cashier?”
This time the girl looked into Adyra's eyes. A few seconds later, I smiled again. Adyra was stunned when she saw him smile. But a moment later, the pat on the back of Adyra's hand resuscitated her daydream.
“Thank you... I can do it myself, kok,” he said with a smile.
Adyra smiled back in response, “Oke. Careful, yes!” then leave the girl.
The girl's face was familiar. Adyra seemed to have met the girl before. But where is it?
“Taxi!” Adyra lowered her hand as the car had stopped right in front of her. Adyra splashed her back on the comfortable car seat, then turned her head outside the windshield. The car was already running, but a moment later his forehead frowned catching something familiar through his eyes.
From the side, Adyra saw that someone was talking while smiling with a girl. Adyra saw it again. That wheelchair girl! And next to....
“Cowok the—Andra?”
••••
“Sial!” Bara cussed, then dropped his rough body on the sofa. “At first, I just deletin him to benefit him! But now what? He made everything fall apart!”
Reuben smiled obliquely on the sidelines of his activities playing PS, “So... he has managed to make you fall in love?”
Bara gave a short snort, while Levin who was busy turning his brain to fight Reuben resistance with his PS stick followed by throwing amused oddities. “It looks like you got karma, deh.”
Bara turned, “Karma?” then smiled cynically.
“Lo and Andra are the same! Both have karma.” Bara's right eyebrow raised, “At first Andra also nolak it a girl raw, right? But now.so really deck. The world is fair, Man!” Levin snorted amusedly on the sidelines of his sentence.
Bara raised his head upwards, staring at the ceiling of his room while using his arms as a cushion. “Continue according to lo, I should what?”
“What else?” Reuben grinned, “Capture what should belong to you, lah!”
••••
Andra let out a long sigh as if trying to escape from the feeling of tightness. Andra's heart is in normal condition. And the ventilation in the room is also enough to hold oxygen from the outside air. It wasn't the first time I felt this kind of feeling. But this time, it was very different from before. It was as if something was deep and hard to get out.
Andra stared blankly at the comic in her hand. Nothing interesting at all. Concentration is everywhere. His hand was raised to open the drawer of the study table and return the book there. But, there was something that made his movements stifled. A heart-shaped lunchbox—PUNYA ADYRA.
What's his name? As Andra always tries to dodge, the universe seems to deliberately make it closer and deeper. But as Andra approached, the universe seemed to be trying to keep her away. Positive and negative poles that will attract, and will repel when one pole and the other are the same.
What kind of joke is this?
‘Kalo he does not like the same lo yes why? Who is he? Why do you have to think this late?’ At first, Andra agreed. But a moment later, his head shook spontaneously. ‘Lo has fallen in love with her! Conscious, dong! If not, why do you bother thinking about all this? You're not the type of person who likes to take care of people's affairs, are you?’
Andra ruffled her hair. He became senewen himself heard his inner talking as if there were demons in the left ear and angels in the right ear.
Actually Andra again got karma, trials, or curses, anyway?
••••
The clock's needle is ticking, pointing at exactly 7 p.m. And Adyra has ended his learning activities that only lasted an hour.
"Did I see wrong? But his face looks a lot like Andra!" Adyra sighed then sniffed her shoulders. "ah! Just similar, kali."
His head moved, scouring his messy bed for something. When Adyra was checking her phone, nothing caught her attention. His chat app is just filled with boring messages from his friends. Start from; what's the schedule tomorrow? Mat's lesson has no assignment, anyway? Other than English PR, right? Don't forget tomorrow there's a physics replay! And do not forget to also make me cheat tokcer—hah? Whahuh? I swear to what sent the last message was so barbaric!
Adyra took the earphones on the nightstand, then put them in the ear. After tuning the music, his thumb accidentally pressed something to display the WhatsApp Andra contacts on the screen of Adyra's phone. Adyra opened the empty chat box and smiled when she saw the display picture installed.
A portrait of himself in a cafe playing mobile phone without glancing at the camera. And that's the prettiest pose Adyra version during seeing photos of Andra on social media that more often show legs and body without a head.
Armed with a fad, Adyra typed something in the message column. What good, huh? Good night? What again? what did you eat tonight? Okay stop! There's nothing more mainstream than that, what?
Adyra laid down her body, then looked at the ceiling of the room while thinking. Shortly after, both of his thumbs moved mischievously over the screen of the phone.
To: Andra
To the Night Market at the end of the school street, yuk!
Haha! Adyra smiled to herself while drowning her face on the pillow. What kind of stupidity is this? Everywhere, guys always take the street girl first. Not otherwise. Oh, come on, Ra! Selling is very expensive, can you?
Adyra opens her phone again, then intends to press delete. But a moment later, both of his eyeballs were rounded in shock. Adyra's heart beat fast when she saw the insolent symbol hanging on her phone screen.
Check two! And that means....
“My campus! Mampus!”
Adyra pounded a pillow, kicked the sheets, then threw them on the floor. It's the wrong keypad, not the thumb! Try the same delete button enter a bit far away, surely the end will not be gini.
Adyra gasped, as her phone rang. The atmosphere became a horror instantly. Adyra pulled her phone, then opened the message listed there.
Andras.
Okay, I'll pick it up now.
Hibernate to Antarctica with Princess Elsa!
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