I Don'T Want To Be Cinderella #1
17. Just the two of us
Just the two of us
It was fortunate that the attitude of the Boss earlier did not continue, after I stopped coughing from choking, I thanked him while trying to signal him with an eye gaze for him to stop doing stupid acts. And it seems to work! The boss went back to being normal by talking to his friend, ignoring us.
But as I expected Shanty, Dika, and Mr. Edi will not let me go. They are now standing before me with probing eyes.
“Since when?” Shanty first asked who got the nod from Dika and Pak Edi.
“What's that since when?” I'm still trying to look calm.
“Kak Kirana equals Mas Bos,” replied Shanty curiously.
“Since when is what anyway?”
“Have, Na, mending you are frankly the same as us, you have a relationship right Boss? We will keep a secret,” said Dika who got a nod of spirit from Siska and Mr. Edi.
“Yaaa .. relationship of subordinate superiors,” replied me who of course did not believe what I said.
“Na, this is Pak Continent, Na, Pak Continent!” sir Edi was impatient. “From the start of her duties here, she has never once eaten in the cafeteria!”
“And he wanted to see our canteen with his friend.”
“Teruuus .. he opened a drinking bottle, pat-nepuk pungggung brother. Aaaah, Brother Kirana, mauuu!!” santi exclaimed to herself with a big smile, and wiggled her body like a hot worm.
“Yes, maybe it's by chance that he's sitting next to me so the boss is just helping me.” They were silent for a moment while looking at me. “Maybe if the Boss is sitting next to you, San, keep you choking, he will also do the same.”
Santi's eyes glared at the thought of it making him smile widely.
“Yes yes, Brother?”
“Iya, San,” I replied with passion. “Pak Boss is good.” Santi nodded in agreement. While Mr. Eddy and Dika are still looking at me with a little suspicion.
“But why did he know that you ate him fast?”
Geez, Dika stop playing detective-detective for now!
“Because ..” I thought for a while before finally remembering something. “We have been to Aceh together at that time a week, remind who when I was appointed as a translator?” They fell silent before finally patting out made me breathe a little relieved. “So maybe while in Aceh he saw that I eat must be fast, because it is not very comfortable if you have to eat with Bos.”
They all nodded. Finally!!!
“Iya, right earlier it was rich test guts instead of rest,” said Dika who got a nod from Mr. Edi.
“Sama, so I never want to join the Board of Directors' same meal, feel close instead of eating.” Mr. Edi hung in horror, making me nod his head in support of his opinion.
“Well, everyone feels how uncomfortable it would be to eat with the Boss, and imagine this a week! A week!!!”
Mr. Edi and Dika shudder to imagine it, different from Santi.
“If I'm happy to eat with Mas Bos .. saucy bangeet!!” santi exclaimed while hitting my arm spoiled making me grimace.
“Iiiiiih!!” Mr. Eddy and Dika again shuddered while walking away, I quickly caught up with them leaving Santi with his delusion.
During this time ... today I survived my colleagues' suspicions, but if Caraka's tomorrow like that again, I don't know what else to look for. I have to talk to him about this.
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“Hahaha, stop pouting like that.” Caraka laughed with happiness when after work I asked for time to meet him at the rooftop to talk about what happened after lunch. “Tap finally all no one suspects.”
“Yes, but I hope there will be no more next time .. if it happens again, I don't know what reason I should use.”
“Honest ... said we were dating.”
I raised an eyebrow before finally laughing while shaking my head.
“You forgot that the decree of the King has not yet come down? And as long as it's still unclear, I don't want to confidently say that we have a relationship.”
“Why not be confident?” He slowly walked closer and then grabbed both of my hands.
Don't ask me how my heart is right now .. I almost forgot to breathe when I saw him looking at me gently.
“Am I too embarrassing that you are not confident about our relationship?”
I gaped at her words .. Did she take the wrong medicine? How could he say that? There is also me who should feel insecure with him, why is he even like that?
“Not like that ..” I really feel bad to see her face. “How can I be ashamed to admit you as my lover, there is also me who feel insecure.”
“So you don't feel ashamed of me?”
“Ya, no! Who would be ashamed to have your lover like you, who became the most eligible bachelor in this year.” (Most qualified bachelor of the year)
Hihihi. Aaaah, I'm so embarrassed, hihihi.
“Then, we tell everyone that we are lovers.”
I almost nodded in agreement when I saw him talking with a happy sparkling face, but …
“Heiiii .. hahaha!” I laughed when I realized my stupidity. “You think I'll get stuck with your acting?”
“Oh, come on, Na!”
“Hahahaha.”
“Ckkk .. I think, I can fool you.”
“Hahaha ... almost, Boss, but I'm too smart.”
“Not smart, but you are too realistic.”
“Hahaha, right!”
I shook my head remembering that I was about to follow his will by following his hypnotic remarks. But I quickly realized, the stringist and self-confident person she was, would not likely feel insecure with anyone else.
“Are we not like a child who is backstreet because it is forbidden to date by our parents?”
“Which obviously wasn't my parents who banned dating.”
“Ckkk ..”
I just smiled looking at Caraka who was clucking while sighing.
“There is no harm in this relationship just being ours both, being the story of both of us .. wouldn't it be more fun? Only the two of us know about our story journey, no one else knows..just the two of us.” (Only the two of us)
Caraka looked at me for a while before she finally smiled.
“But I wish, I can tell the world .. you’re mine, and I’m yours.” (i hope, I can tell the world that you are mine, and I am yours).
I was silent looking at him who was looking at me with shady eyes with a smile that I was sure that if half the employees of this hotel saw him, they would scream in excitement like they had hit the jackpot. No it does not apply to me. Remember, I have been injected immune to the charms of the Princes, yes .. despite my immunity to surrender to the charms of this one Prince, proved by a strange feeling, yes, but it's the fun I feel in my chest when I hear him say that.
“Hahaha ... will not work for me.” I laughed trying to hide the red color on my cheeks.
“Ckkk ... Why is your immunity so strong?” He asked in despair.
“Hahaha.” I laughed back at her in despair, but only for a moment before she looked back at me softly.
“Alright,” he said while tidying up my wind-blown hair, and that further spurred the pounding of my heart. “I will keep it a secret about our relationship until my matchmaking problem is completely finished.”
I smiled with my heart still beating crazily because he just kept stroking my hair with a fairly close distance.
“Just the two of us? (Only the two of us?)” his tan made me nod while swallowing my saliva which felt like fiber.
“Yes, just the two of us.” (Yes, just the two of us)
“But only in the office,” he said with eyes looking at me seriously. “I will keep our relationship secret only in the office, but if it's outside .. I don't want us to deny it.”
I was silent for a while, thinking ... Since I confessed my feelings to her, it has been my decision to follow my heart, so why not? Didn't I just get wet and wet? So why not just swim and play water, rather than already fused, but just flinch for fear of drowning.
Wouldn't it be a great loss when it's gone, but just stay still and just wait for the sink or wait for the buoy to come?
I will follow the words of Mamah .. I do not want to regret, so I better have fun if it will sink at least I will not regret having ever felt happy.
Confidently I nodded in answer to her question making her smile wide and very quickly she hugged me tightly.
I was stunned by her sudden embrace, before I smiled and hugged her back.
I don't know where I'm going to be with him, whether it's going to get to the finish line or it's going to stop halfway.
But I don't want to regret .. I will make the best use of the time we have ... before our finger link is forced to stretch, before our embrace is forced away, before our embrace is forced away, before the taste we had was forced to go out.
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Assalamualaikum, wr, wb ...
Good night everyone
Also grieving for the disaster that occurred in Kupang, NTT .. may our brothers" there be given health, safety, and disaster that happened quickly ended ..
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