SYAHDU (Contract Sleep Friends)

Marry Me, Syahdu.

Arga galloped into his apartment building. The Syahdu guards said the girl had returned to the apartment and they were driving her to the front door.

Although Syahdu did not run away from him, but his sudden departure scared him. Moreover, he remembered when Syahdu left him on his birthday. Of course he doesn't want it to happen again.

He wondered what made Syahdu grow. Is there a wrong sentence that he said on stage earlier, which makes the girl uncomfortable or something.

Arga arrived at the door. He hurriedly entered and found the room completely dark. Usually, the lights will turn on automatically if the door is opened.

Arga felt the wall, pressed the light button and brightened the apartment room that made him fixated.

Inside, Syahdu stood holding a birthday cake with a candle that had not been lit on it. The room also looked so adorned that it made Arga touch his head and laugh while shaking his head.

All sorts of bad things he had thought of considering Syahdu who just left earlier. Know-how the girl prepared a super special surprise for him. Yes, super special because although it looks simple, but able to make his heart beat erratically, also flattered half to death.

"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you..." Syahdu lit a candle, approached Arga. He sings with his voice. The birthday song sounds very beautiful, like the face of the singer at this time, which makes Arga can not look in the other direction.

After singing, Syahdu brought the cake closer with the candle still burning.

"Happy birthday, Arga. May you live a long life, always be given health, and all your dreams be achieved. Make a wish?"

Lama Arga stared at the black bead belonging to Syahdu. His dream could be achieved a little more if Syahdu would cooperate with him.

"A wish?"

Syahdu. "A wish.."

"I have a wish. But not to God. A wish to you."

Syahdu eyes narrowed. "Me?"

"Yes." Yeah." Said Arga nodding small. "Can you grant me a request?"

Syahdu shook his head. She hasn't heard Arga's request of her, but she knows it's something she might not be able to grant.

"Why.." Arga said in a disappointed tone.

"Because I can't grant man's wish, Ga. I'm not an angel." He answered with many reasons for Arga to stop wishing for him.

Arga then smiled wryly, realizing that Syahdu was avoiding him.

The man blew out the candle without making a wish. For him, begging in front of the fire did not make his prayer come true except for his own efforts to open the heart of Syahdu which still seems not wide open.

Arga put down the cake that Syahdu was holding, then pulled the girl's hand to sit on the bed.

Perhaps her request would be burdensome for Syahdu, and Arga did not want the girl to leave again just because of it. The first thing he should know is about Syahdu's feelings.

Arga pulled out the nightstand drawer, then pulled out Syahdu's old phone. The girl stumbled. He received his phone with a million astonishment moreover the contents were still the same and complete. He remembered that he had deleted everything.

"Where did you get this?" Ask curiously.

"That's not important. All I want to know is that it's just one." Arga pulled Syahdu's phone again and opened the girl's gallery.

"It." Arga showed me a photo that made Syahdu close his lips. "This too, this .. then this.." Arga swiped the screen of Syahdu's phone, showing some photos that were inside.

"Shahdu, do you know why I wait for you to come back to my life? Why am I so sure, waiting for you when I don't know where you are. Are you married, or even have children? I don't know. All I believe in is that photo. From there, I know that you like me too. Isn't that right, Syahdu?"

Syahdu just looked down, not daring to look at Arga.

"If you don't like me, why are you secretly photographing me sleeping? All these photos at different times and days."

Arga smiled brightly at Syahdu's reply even though the girl had not yet raised her face.

"I want to hear from you directly."

Arga slowly raised Syahdu's chin. He stared at the red lips that made him always smirking. Want him to*********, but all of this is different. In the past Arga could at will arrange and pull Syahdu to serve him on the bed. But now, that contract is over and he wouldn't have done it if it wasn't Syahdu who gave him permission.

"Look at me, Syahdu."

Slowly Syahdu's eyes looked at Arga's brown eyes which in them emanated a warm and shady light for him.

"Tell me, why are you photographing me secretly, why do you keep it on your phone, why are you selling it? Hm?" Ask Arga while stroking Syahdu's chin with his thumb. His heart began to tremble waiting for the answer Syahdu that he had been waiting for a long time. If Syahdu had confessed about his feelings, he would have kissed those ranum lips.

Syahdu bowed again, staring at his phone. While Arga waited for his answer while gently stroking Syahdu's hair.

Syahdu also swiped the screen and noticed all the Arga photos he took. Right, he liked Arga who looked different to his face when he was conscious, and fell asleep.

Arga's sleeping face was so soft and looked so beautiful. It was different when the man woke up. That's why Syahdu photographed him because he secretly admired an Arga.

Syahdu's finger was stifled, when suddenly accidentally a photo of Wicak and himself opened again. The photo is still there and Arga didn't delete it.

Ah, Wick. Has he ever seen photos of Arga on his phone? Syahdu guessed himself after hearing Nani's words at that time. Syahdu's heart felt guilty again. Can she be with Arga who has betrayed such an extraordinary man as Wicak?

"Shahdu.." call Arga, make Syahdu close his phone.

"I'm going to sleep." Syahdu went into the bathroom, making Arga sigh. Then he grabbed Syahdu's phone and opened it.

She was dumbstruck, then in her heart wondered. Is Syahdu's true feelings still for Wicak?

...🍁...

Early in the morning Arga woke up. He felt the bed with his eyes closed, about to hug Syahdu's body. But his hand found an empty place to make him immediately sat down from sleep.

His memory goes back to the past 7 years, where just this morning, on his birthday, Syahdu left him.

"SHAME!" Shouted Arga tight. He panicked especially not to find Syahdu anywhere.

"SHAME!!" He called again, but the sound of the door opening made him turn his head.

Syahdu and Popi in. With a bright morning face, Syahdu smiled and greeted Arga whose body was already quivering half to death.

"Good morning."

Arga sat on the couch. He knows he's overreacting. The man leaned his head against the sofa, rubbing his face which must have looked stupid since.

"Arga, why?" Syahdu approached when he realized something was wrong with the man. "you're having a nightmare, huh?" Asked seriously looking at Arga who was still looking up closed his eyes.

Arga let out a heavy sigh, then began to stare fixedly at Syahdu. "Shahdu.."

"Yes?"

"Marry me."

"Huh?" Syahdu. It was still very early in the morning and Arga gave him a sentence that made him really unable to think about anything else except Arga who had really changed his thinking now. Be married? A word that should not be in the man's dictionary.

TB