The Winter Promise
Chapter 17: A Fiery Fire Full of the Heat of Love.
“This time I won from you Amar. You are nothing compared to me.”
Takeshi pointed towards me who had just gotten off the boat. I don't understand why he's so obsessed with it. That would be very troublesome.
“Why is Takeshi so obsessed with you?”
Miyuki asked me in great astonishment. He himself made this happen.
“I don't know.”
I also walked to the inn along with Riki and the others. I still can't forget the underwater scenery I saw earlier. I was very disappointed because the time was very short, so I could not enjoy it for quite a long time.
“After this we have any event what is Rik?”
“After this we are free. After isya, we have a bakar-bakar.” event
We continued to walk to the inn. The sky at that time began to show a very thick orange color. I would occasionally turn my head west to see if the sun had reached the horizon.
When I reached the inn, I saw a woman standing in front of the inn next to my inn. You're right again, that woman is Miyuki.
Maybe you guys are bored with the flow of “Meeting that happens to be this”. But relax, that plot is only at the beginning of this story. I can guarantee that.
Initially Miyuki just stood in front of the inn while looking towards the sea that was right in front of our inn. But after we got closer to him, his gaze immediately fell on us.
“Hai Rin!”
Miyuki waved to Rina and then she ran to him.
“What are you doing here Rin?”
“I want to go to my inn.”
“Where is your stay?”
“That's there.”
Lina pointed towards our inn.
“Really! Means our inn is next door.”
Miyuki grasped both hands of Rina with great pleasure. Even though he had made up with his friend but it seemed he could not forget that he had been hurt by them. Hence Miyuki looks happier when with Rina compared to her friends.
Hmmm.I think I have a good idea of that.
“Hei Miyuki, is there still a little room in your inn to accommodate people again?”
“Room? Of course, this inn is only me with my two friends.”
I also looked at Miyuki's inn which was not much different from my inn.
“Can Rina move there with her two friends?”
“What's the reason?”
“I was at one inn with Rina.”
“What!”
Miyuki was surprised after hearing that. But from his current expression I found out that Miyuki was an innocent child.
I can tell that apart from two things, if he's surprised to hear it means he's an innocent kid, but if he looks ordinary and asks me back about this condition means he is a child who follows the flow of association.
“Alright, so on you can stay at my inn Rin.”
“Thank you.”
And after entering the inn, Rina and her two friends moved to Miyuki's inn.
“At last I can sleep well.”
I lay down on the sofa in the living room.
“Padahan will be very nice if there is a girl in this house.”
Riki looked disappointed that Rina and the other two people were no longer here.
“You can't be like that Rik, it's not good in the public view.”
While we were relaxing in the living room, Mr. Budi also came to see us to discuss the issue of the bonfire later tonight.
“Can you guys help Dad set up his campfire on the beach.”
“Can only Pak.”
“Alright, let's go there.”
We also went with Mr. Budi to a beach in the west of this island, because the beach was the closest beach to my inn.
When I got there, I saw a very beautiful view. Because it was late afternoon and towards Maghrib, I could see the sunset very beautifully. Now the sun has disappeared partly swallowed by the horizon.
We also began to help Mr. Budi to make a campfire that will later be used to burn fish. Although I said we were helping, actually only Riki and Maul were helping, while I was enjoying the sunset at that time.
Maul also approached me who was enjoying the view of the afternoon by enjoying the roar of the waves that blend into a beautiful harmony.
“I guess, I'll shoot Miyuki.”
Did I not hear wrong? Shoot Miyuki!
“Are you sure of that? She is a troublesome woman loh.”
Although I didn't care about Maul's close relationship with Miyuki at first, when she planned to shoot her. That would be a bad sign for me. If Miyuki had been Maul's boyfriend, I would have met her a lot. I had already considered that chance encounter as something troublesome, what more if I had to meet him continuously.
I'm sorry Maul, I have to keep this peaceful life of mine. I'm not gonna let that happen.
“What is this?”
Riki joined our conversation.
“I want to shoot Miyuki, will you guys help me?”
Maul also looks very confident when saying that. It seems that his determination was already unanimous when making that decision. I think the setting sun makes Maul get an urge to shoot Miyuki.
Ah shit, my conscience says I have to help him. What am I supposed to do now?
If I just let it impress like I wouldn't if Maul was with Miyuki in another sense. This is very troublesome, considering that Miyuki who was always close to me when we were together made the assumption that I also liked Miyuki and would not allow Maul to be with her.
It seems like for now, I will just help him. Let Maul feel what it's like to deal with a beautiful woman like her.
“Alright, I'll help you.”
“Is that really Mar!? I'm so happy, I guess you won't help me.”
Maul looked really happy after hearing that I was going to help her. I was also still in a state of worry between having to help him or not. Because I don't know what's best for him.
“If Amar has said that, I will also help you.”
Riki will also help Maul. I'm sure Riki will help Maul even if I don't help her.
“Thank you all, I will not waste your help.”
“Already, than we talk here we better finish our work.”
“Iya.”
We also returned to help Mr. Budi to make a campfire. Maul looks very happy when making a bonfire. It seems like his mood is very good at the moment.
While we were making a bonfire, I saw Takeshi walking with Miyuki on the shore from a distance.
“That guy again!”
Maul looks really upset when she sees Miyuki walking alone with Takeshi. After all, for what he was so sorry, Miyuki was not completely his. It was Miyuki's right to choose who to go with. Is this what jealousy means?
“Keep Mul, the two of them are just friends. No other relationship.”
“Is that true?”
“Iya, I've heard directly from the person when I first met him.”
Riki tried to calm Maul down. Riki's decision to calm Maul down wasn't bad, now he can work quietly.
Miyuki also saw us making a bonfire. Without a second thought he ran straight over to us leaving Takeshi alone. If you look at it directly, it's very cruel. But I like to see Takeshi being shown like that.
That's what I said love can make you stupid. If Takeshi had used his reasoning, he should have known that Miyuki did not want to be close to him or near him. But he still did not want to give up and continued to approach her.
Do you think people like Miyuki will melt down just because you're so close and spend time with her?
Maybe if Miyuki doesn't have a different view of love like the others she can melt away easily. But right now we are talking about Miyuki, a princess who has certain criteria for determining her own prince.
“What are you guys doing here?”
“We are making a bonfire for the event later tonight.”
Maul went straight to Miyuki when she came to us. It seems I don't need to do anything troublesome.
“Fire a bonfire for the event later tonight huh?”
Miyuki thought a little about something.
“Ah I have an idea... How about we have a joint bonfire event? Coincidentally later tonight I will also hold a similar event.”
“That's a great idea, how's Rik?”
“I can't disconnect it before talking to other friends.”
It was a wise decision as chairman.
“Ohh so.. Yes already, later if there is certainty you can contact me at the inn.”
“Good.”
Miyuki returns to Takeshi, who is still waiting for her from a distance. I saw Takeshi not as the one who was approaching him, but the palace guard who was guarding the princess. He was like a dog who was very loyal to his master.
“What should I do Mar?”
“As far as you are, you should already know what you should do at this time.”
“Amar was right Rik, now you better ask with other friends.”
Hey Mul, you didn't speak wrong. You know what you said just now would put us in a disadvantageous state.
“Alright, I leave the ones here to you.”
Ah shit, I have to expend extra energy to make this bonfire. You have to buy me something after this, Mul.
Riki left us with all the work he gave us. Although Maul looks happy about what Riki is doing and is willing to do her job. But I'm not at all happy about this.
Night came and the burning began soon. For the joint event proposed by Miyuki, it turned out that all my friends agreed. Of course it must have been approved by them, because this was all a proposal from Miyuki.
I had heard talk from my friends who were coming here if there were some men who tried to get close to Miyuki. I wonder to all the men, why they are so easily tempted just by the beautiful face of Miyuki.
And the condition that makes me very uncomfortable here is the sitting position that seems to have been arranged by someone so that I am between Miyuki and Rina.
“Hei Ar, are you okay?”
“No.”
“You must be lying, you look quieter than usual.”
How can I not be silent, right now Maul and Takeshi are looking at me with great annoyance. Maul felt that I had betrayed her, because this afternoon I told her that I was going to help her, but this is what I did to her.
“Amar, can you help me bake these fish?”
Riki asked for my help. Immediately, I went straight to him to escape all the non-wearing gazes.
“I know you planned this, right?”
“Of course not.”
Although Riki said that, but I saw that he was smiling a little. But at least he's trying to help me get out of that.
“There can we help sir?”
Riki and I approached Mr. Budi who was busy preparing spices to be applied to the fish when burned later.
“You just burn the fish that are there.”
Pak Budi pointed to a box made of cork that is used to keep the fish fresh.
Riki and I immediately took all the fish that were there and went to the campfire to burn the fish.
“Are you sure you'll help Maul Mar?”
Riki asked me while burning fish. Looks like he knows that I helped Maul by half.
“So please, I myself do not know want to help him or not.”
“You must know something, right?”
“Nothing, maybe only egoku wants Maul not to approach Miyuki.”
“It looks like you hate Miyuki.” a lot
Riki slightly laughed a little when saying that.
“I don't hate him, it's just that I don't want to get Maul involved in a problem related to him.”
“In your eyes Miyuki is only a source of problems yes.”
“That's.”
How else, since I met him, I have been repeatedly hit by problems ranging from mild to the toughest.
“But you have to change the way you look Mar. I don't think Miyuki's that bad.”
“Heee... Have you started liking Miyuki too?”
I'm trying to get ahold of RIki. Because such remarks are usually issued by people who already have a taste for Miyuki.
“No way, if to like it I used to have a taste with it. How else, who's the guy who doesn't like him.. Oh yeah, except you.”.
“You're right, I won't easily like someone just by looking at the face.”
“But I realized that the closer Miyuki was, the more I knew she couldn't reach me. I can't be aligned with him.”
I just found out Riki's view of Miyuki like that. I guess all this time Riki did not like Miyuki because there was already Kirana beside her, it turns out that she had her own view of it. That's just my friend, able to judge something with his own point of view.
“From thinking about it, we better help Maul. I think Maul also suspects you at this time.”
“You're right Rik, from earlier his gaze was not separated from me when I was near Miyuki.”
I glanced at Maul who was chatting with her friends while enjoying the campfire.
“Alright, it looks like tomorrow something interesting will happen.”
“You're right.”
Riki and I looked up at the sky filled with shining stars. That night even the combined bonfire went smoothly and festively, Maul also seemed to have started to get close to Miyuki, it could be seen from the way they spoke.
I hope that tomorrow I can relax for a while.
the End Chapter 17
