The Lovely One's

Chapter 17: With You

Starla is offered to eat but she refuses because she does not want to bother so Aozora offers to go around her house.

"Eh? Is your sister healthy?" ask Starla. "I'm fine in the living room too."

"I'm better" said Aozora. "It's supposed to be Aunt Novi who's taking you around, huh?"

"That's not what I mean" Starla said. "I'm here to see Brother not to play let alone investigate Brother's house."

"Alright, I won't offer any more, Starla-san," Aozora understood, the corner of her lips slightly pulled upwards as if satisfied with Starla's answer. "Can I ask you a question?"

Starla, who was stirring the tea that was just served by Aunt Novi, replied in a potluck, "Hm?"

"Where do you know my house?"

Aozora's question almost made the tea that Starla was stirring fall; of course the young man was curious. "I asked Lala, she said she was your friend, Brother,"

Aozora leaned back on the sofa relaxed. "Lala is indeed a penaku friend with Rizki who is in Bali, we have a chat group. Lala was also the one who recommended me here after I asked for an opinion which city is good to visit."

Starla smirked a little; a golden opportunity to ask her social media account! "Sir Aozora has a fakebook?" he enthusiastically took the phone in his pocket and prepared to record the name of Aozora's fakebook account.

Aozora raised her eyebrows. "Mrklips?" it repeats. "I don't have that account, to be honest I don't really like playing the internet."

Starla bowed in disappointment but, moments later she felt something warm in her hand, she saw what it was and her heart pounded that was Aozora's hand.

As Starla looked at Aozora, the young man revealed a small smile that successfully stunned the girl's heart for a moment.

Aozora took Starla's phone, and wrote something down there, then returned it to the girl.

Starla checks her phone, wondering what Aozora wrote, her heart drifting as soon as she sees it's a phone number.

"That's my phone number" Aozora said. "You can call me if you want."

"Um," Starla, who was still in disbelief, replied that she immediately kept the number in her contacts. "I sent my sister a message" she said. "Save my number, too, huh?" shy door.

'We exchange numbers~exchange numbers~' Starla hums ria in her heart.

His feelings when exchanging numbers with Rendy and Aozora are very different, of course he blushed when he got Rendy's number only when with Aozora made his heart so flowery.

'I haven't felt attached to someone for too long until I forget what it's like.' Starla said in her heart.

"I've been." said Aozora after saving Starla's number. "Call me if there's a need, I don't mind helping you, you've I've considered a sister."

Starla's heart that had been floating in the air immediately fell to earth when Aozora said 'Adik' precisely saw herself as a Sister not a woman.

'I'm in friendzone?' ask Starla in her heart.

Starla shook her head, it's okay Aozora thinks of him as a sister anyway they just know each other should he be lucky to be recognized than Rendy who one bench ignored Aozora. "Ah.. I would also like to ask, Brother."

"Yes?"

"Sister Rendy said Big Brother was completely indifferent to her" Starla said, she could see Aozora's gray eyes widening in shock, feeling unwell, she immediately added. "If you don't mind of course."

Aozora did not reply, she pensively pondered for a while, wondering whether to answer honestly or lie.

Starla tilted her head slightly. "Sister?" call slowly.

Aozora turned her eyes out the window of her house, empty. "Because I'm trying my best not to hurt a lot of people,"

"What?" Starla could not hear him clearly, Aozora's voice was too small. "Can you repeat?"

Aozora smile. "Because I'm not a smart guy to get along with,"

Eh? "Oh..." Starla believes Aozora's words were different but, deciding not to debate them, she may have misheard them.

Drrta! Drrta! Drrta!

"Where's Miss Starla!? Why isn't the clock coming home? I was waiting at the bus stop but Miss wasn't there" Arthur said anxiously.

Starla finally remembers that she has not told her mother or Arthur if she wants to visit Aozora. "I'm sorry, I forgot, I'm looking at my sick friend,"

Arthur breathed a sigh of relief. "Then let me pick you up, it'll be night, by day,"

Starla keeps her phone away from her ear to check the clock on her phone, the clock says five o'clock, "Yes, I sent her address on Denis' phone, she's there, right?"

"Sir Denis is there, he's fixing the bike, miss" Arthur said.

Starla rolled her eyeballs; it was like Denis never finished fixing the bike, "Well, I'll tell you again, Arthur."

"Yes,"

Starla turned off her phone, then stood up, "Sorry, yes Brother, I have to go home, it's late."—besides going home, she also wants to continue drawing it. "I hope you'll get well soon."

Aozora also stood up, "I'll take you back."

"Eh?"

"The road ahead is quite far," said Aozora then her cheeks slightly blushed. "I'm not like Rendy, I only have a bike, we can ride a bike if we want, but if you're shy, we can walk together."

Starla immediately his spirit rose again; ride a bicycle or a road? Cycling they can be close together but briefly, when walking, they are far apart but can spend longer time together.

There are advantages and disadvantages of each.

Starla is confused which one to choose. "I want to see what his bike is like, brother?" he wanted to make sure the type of bike Aozora used to ride if she was a mountain bike, it would be difficult for her to ride in the back, and there was no way she could sit in the front, she was not a child.

Aozora nodded. "You wait outside, I'll get the bike out on the side."

Starla nodded, then exited Aozora's house, she even waited on the front road of the house to make it faster. Waiting with hope for an ordinary bicycle. He was a bit surprised when Aozora finally came out while carrying a black bicycle complete with a bonning chair behind him.

"Who do you ride a bike with?" ask Starla.

"Oh," Aozora noticed Starla staring at the back seat of the bike. "I used to bike with my mother, Starla-san even went shopping at the market, I used to drive my mother around."

In that instant, Starla's goal of going home grew stronger. He thought there would be no way Aozora would live alone, but with her mother, she was not ready to meet the young man's mother, "Then I want to ride a bike."

Aozora nodded. "Let's go up."

Starla realizes that she is wearing her gray long skirt, should she be tilted? "Sister's condition is really better? I'm heavy, I don't want Big Brother's stomach to hurt me again."

"I'm fine" said Aozora. "Let's go up, hold on to me tightly."

'Hold on tight...'

Automatically his cheeks blushed red imagining it, timidly he sat on his side, holding on to Aozora's waist, even with a small touch like this his heartbeat was pounding unbecoming, "I'm ready." said embarrassed.

Aozora confirmed Starla's grip around her waist to be wrapped around her waist, "Bicycle balance is not as stable as a motorcycle let alone on an irregular asphalt road so holding on like that can make you fall, he said, I don't want you to go home with a wounded body."

Starla was stunned to hear him, she bit her lower lip; attacked him in such a way, her heart was not ready at all; then she ventured to lean her head against Aozora's back, "Um, this is true... ?" tanyanya.

For a moment Starla did not get an answer, she could not see Aozora's expression, which could be seen only the young man's head being bowed down like it was looking at her tightly coiled hand on the young man's waist.

"Yes,"

Starla breathed a sigh of relief hearing it, and was it selfish for her to judge Aozora's reply as the softest she had ever heard from the young man's lips?

However, Starla is very happy right now, she did not expect cycling to be this exciting.

All his grief over two days of not being able to meet Aozora, paid off with this.

"Spirit!" exclaimed Starla innocently.