The Toga Rahayu

Bickering

“Lazy for a long time, want hair, skin and whole body care he said”.

“Emang mas Dika has accompanied mbak Eki to the salon?”

“Already, in the first days of our first courtship I always deliver to the salon and shop, long ago I was bored for a long time, because, I also wonder why women like to linger in the salon for treatment and shopping?”

“Ya let it be beautiful mas”, I said with a slightly taut tone to him.

“Emang you also often to the salon?”

“Ya do not mas, boro-boro want to go to the salon can eat and pay for costs alone alhamdulilah”.

“You are beautiful must never go to salon”. Said Dika with a straight forward look.

Just say it's pretty but don't see me hurt.

Fate is only considered as a sister and used as a backup, I said in my heart.

“Do you know we are out like this mas?”

“No I didn't tell him”

“Why mas?”

“Because he will definitely be angry and forbid, he is jealous of you”

I smiled wryly at Andika.

“Isn't it weird to be jealous of you?”

“Because I'm your sister mas?, and I'm just a poor country boy, not worth comparing with the beautiful mbak Eki paripurna”. I tried to guess Dika's answer before she answered my question.

“No, not like that also I mean do not misperceive”, dika refute my statement.

“You are beautiful Yu just my body is less tall a little, but I like the same little boy like you this”. Say Dika with his leisure.

I'm still trying to digest every word Dika mas.

“Stay be my good sister forever ya”.

I just keep quiet regardless of the words of Dika, but there is a name for the relationship between two different types of adults only limited to brother and sister without any blood ties. Brother sister met big story.

The time was rolling did not feel it had entered twilight, me and Andika quickly packed up to get ready to go home.

“When do we play again huh? You still want to go for a walk like this?”, mas Andika broke the silence while on the way to home.

“Bby mas but must be with permission mbak Eki yes, I do not want to be a source of commotion between you two ”

“It is not necessary that I am not her husband who should report my every activity to her nor do I ever restrict her from making friends or walking with anyone”

“Yu have you ever been on a plane?”

“Close grip yes I want to speed it, it feels almost the same as riding a plane”, said Andika explained.

Have you ever felt something very happy?, being in a pleasant location, doing a favorite activity together with loved ones.

Like a plane flying high into a beautiful cloud my heart was flying high, I was dissolved in a feeling that was somehow difficult to explain, it felt all so perfect pity to end it. Entering the Malang mas Dika area began to reduce the speed of the motor.

Towards the magrib we just arrived as usual dika always drove me to the front of the boarding house safely. The atmosphere around seemed quiet because it had entered the time of magrib prayer. Andika did not go home as usual.

“Yu wait a minute”, mas Dika blocking my way to get inside.

“What is mas?”, I replied casually, andika did not give an answer she only pulled one hand to get closer to him, our eyes met our eyes locked on each other, nothing moves between us for a few seconds our eyes are locked.

A few moments later Dika was getting closer so close that I could feel his breathing. I felt more and more unable to move my body.

“Come in the day it has started dark”, whispered in my ear softly very soft.

My face was already flushed like a boiled crab, was that a way to kiss? I don't know, 'cause this is the first time I've been treated like this with a man who's grown up.

I was unable to answer a single word of Dika's behavior, I was still silent in the same place I saw her.

“Rahayu, shouted Dika while running his motor.

My reflex smiled as Dika came back to call my name. I immediately turned around to see him back. Looks like Dika started to open the glass helmet.

“Later tonight can I call you?”.

What kind of question is this?, of course I can go back to nod my head and smile more and more.

Mas Dika was seen waving his hands, then quickly closed his helmet and started riding his bicycle leaving my boarding house.

You asked me how I felt at that time? My feelings cannot be defined between ambyar and happiness.

I am very happy to be close to Andika mas, do a lot of things with her but I am also sad if I remember my status only as a sister and reserve player.

***

One week passed when the semester exam began, all students were getting ready to go to the exam room according to their respective schedules, there were no significant difficulties in this first exam, he said, I can do it all easily and quickly. Maybe it is true that the energy intake of yesterday's streets makes everything feel so easy and beautiful.

The first day exam was on the fifth floor of building F, the exam room on the fifth floor made me have to spend a lot of energy to get to the first floor. Actually there is an elevator that can be used by students as access to go up and down, but the condition of the fifth floor at that time was very crowded. Many students come down after completing the exam.

I decided to walk using only the stairs as well as a medium for sports. Even though the stairs I went through were down but I also felt the breath begin to pant.

Arriving on the second floor the atmosphere looked quiet unlike on the top floor, indeed the second floor is special for the lab area only. Because the atmosphere seemed quiet I decided not to go straight down. I want to look around the lab area first, there are some labs that I have been in and there are some labs that I have never been in.

The atmosphere is still quiet there are only a few students who are running akir tasks that are in some of these labs. I kept walking around some of the rooms there.

I stopped at one of the labs that I used to come to’i during student creativity week, I sneak-sayup I heard there were people who were either arguing or were fighting. I'm trying to get closer to the source of the sound.