I LOVEd YOU Since 18
Eps 43 (Addiction)

★★ BACK TO 17 YEARS AGO ★★★

After a meeting with his client at his restaurant, Ariel drives his car to Aditya's office. He had an appointment to meet with his best friend to discuss a big project that they will handle. In addition to meeting Aditya, Randy will also be there, this is the umpteenth time the three of them collaborated to establish cooperation, uniting their different businesses into one unit.

Ariel drove her car casually and did not speed because there was still a lot of time. For some reason now he felt his life was lighter, as if all the burdens and various bad things he often thought about were now simply gone. Her life is happier even though she is in her own state, especially if she remembers Gienka, her little daughter has made her realize all her mistakes. Gienka is growing up very well, and is getting prettier and funnier. Ariel was very impatient when her daughter called herself Papa, it would definitely be a happy moment, moreover, yesterday Aditya had told him that Kyros and Kyra can already call him even the two babies have a special call for Aditya and Cahya. Hearing that, she was very impatient waiting for Gienka to be able to do it to her someday.

Ariel is also still trying to accept her current circumstances, trying to appreciate Danist as the father of her daughter. Although the atmosphere was always awkward when meeting the man, but Ariel still tried to respect Danist considering that the man also loved Gienka very much.

Ariel is still trying to forget all her good memories with Elea, not to forget but to turn them into a part of her life journey, taking her good and throwing away her bad. Elea is only part of her wonderful time, and she has suffered enough because of it, leaving her happy with her present life as her obligation to not have any adverse effects on Gienka later on.

While driving Ariel enjoys the songs she plays and occasionally hums melodiously.

"Hello, it's me, your ex, I called to say not sorry, but I wish you the best, and I don't hold no grudges, promise this ain't a test, we okay, I don't, we okay...!!"

Ariel sang with a smile, as it seemed like the current spinning song was perfect for her mood right now. The song tells the story of a broken heart that usually tends to emotionally turn into happier and evolved. Not wanting to dwell on a deep heartache, this song seems to invite those who listen to focus more and make peace on the failure of relationships, become a better self and not hold a grudge. I even pray to get her happiness now.

In the middle of her senand, Ariel suddenly saw a woman busy with her cellphone leaning next to the car. Ariel passed by but then stopped her car as she saw the front of the woman's car open, hinting that it looked like it had been damaged.

Ariel pulled back her car and stopped in front of the striking car. Ariel came out and walked over to the woman. Seeing Ariel's arrival, the woman hung up her phone and smiled.

"Sir Ariel, good day sir"

"Siang May, this is your car? Why May?"

"Yes, sir, this is my car, do not know why it suddenly broke down when I was in a hurry to return to the office" said Maysa.

"Well, you're just going to the office??"

"Ah no sir, I just had a meeting with a client outside because Mr. Aditya was busy in the office so told me to go"

"OK, if you hurry up and come with me, I happen to be meeting Adit at his office, your car problem just leave it, I'll call my acquaintance's workshop to take care of it"

Ariel then picks up the phone in her pocket and contacts someone who looks like a repair shop person and then mentions her current location so she can come and fix Maysa's car.

"Come on May, leave it here, they're on their way here, get your stuff in the car"

Maysa then took the bag and the documents she would take to the office. "I'm sorry to trouble you" he murmured while bowing his head.

"No trouble May, we're one goal, let's go ahead" Ariel opened her car door and let Maysa in.

Ariel drove her car at a moderate speed. Maysa sat down and just kept quiet, feeling a little awkward because this was the first time she was in a car with Ariel who in fact was a business partner and close friend of her boss. During this time they often meet but just say hello when Ariel comes to meet Aditya.

Ariel turned to Maysa sitting next to her, the woman looked tense and just silent, making Ariel smile. Maysa turned out to be very beautiful when looked closely, the silhouette of the woman was so perfect. But in a hurry Ariel rejected the idea of spontaneity to Maysa.

"How does it feel to have a boss like Aditya? Does she make things difficult for you May??" Tanya Ariel tried to open the chat so that the atmosphere in the car was not tense.

"No sir, you know for yourself that Mr. Aditya is very good and often guides me if I have difficulties"

"Adit often praised your work, you work very well, you have been a secretary for a long time, more precisely how many years May?"

"It's been almost 4 years sir!"

"WOW....!!! Pretty long too yeah, you're really amazing"

So that the atmosphere does not become awkward, Ariel invites Maysa to chat various things ranging from work to other small talk. And finally Maysa has started to look no longer awkward to him. Ariel tried to tell her because Maysa might feel bad or something else so she just looked awkward.

"Where do you live, May??" Ask Ariel again.

"I live in Golden's apartment sir"

"Golden apartment??? I also have a unit there, lived there before, and where are you from?"

"I'm from Surabaya"

"Wow far away too huh....?"

"Yes sir, I am the only daughter, My mother did not initially approve of me working in Jakarta but over time I was able to convince her"

"That's natural, but you have a good career, keep it up and your parents must be proud of you"

Maysa smiled at the words of Ariel, yes of course the goal is only one that is happy for the mother who is very dear to her who now lives far away from her. And she misses him so much for not coming home for so long.

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And when they arrived at Aditya's office, Ariel stopped her car right in front of the entrance, then got off and an officer approached her politely and Ariel gave her car keys so that the officer parked her car. Maysa also got off Ariel's car, and it was not expected that Aditya's car had also just arrived.

Aditya is shocked to see his secretary get off Ariel's car. "You just arrived Iel??? Well, why did Maysa come with you??? Are you.....????" Aditya muttered while holding back his smile and putting suspicion with the two people.

"Ah no sir! Last time my car broke down on the road and it happened that Mr. Ariel was passing by so he offered me to go together" Maysa replied quickly so as not to cause any prejudice from his boss.

Ariel enters Aditya's room and sits at the mini bar, while Aditya takes 2 bottles of soft drinks from the refrigerator and gives them to Ariel. Randy was still on his way to this office so they had to wait for him before starting a discussion about their cooperation plan.

Before long Maysa came to bring the files of the results of the meeting with the client, to hand it to Aditya. "Excuse me Mr. Aditya" Maysa said, knocking on the large door of the room.

"Lake May!" Aditya answered and walked to his desk.

Maysa thrusts the files at Aditya. "This is a report from the meeting this morning sir, and these are files from our subcontractor company that you can learn from before tomorrow afternoon meeting them, this is also the schedule for the next week that I have arranged"

Aditya checks the files, but then glances his eyes towards Ariel who sits while drinking soft drinks, but strangely Ariel's gaze is focused on her secretary. Aditya smiled as he shook his head.

"Have you arranged my meeting with the GMs I sent to Switzerland yesterday?"

"Already sir, on Friday, I have also contacted them to come on time"

"Good, immediately arrange all that we will give them, now you can leave this room, because if you don't, there's already a big snake here ready to eat you" Aditya muttered which immediately made Ariel choke and cough.

Ariel turns out to be immediately aware of Aditya's innuendo and immediately directs his gaze forward no longer to Maysa. While Maysa was confused by what his boss said, how could there be a snake in a room like this, maybe his boss was just joking. Maysa said excuse me and left Aditya's room, apparently at the same time Randy had arrived.

Ariel was still coughing from the choking earlier and decided to stand up to get some water.

"Why is this brengs*k coughing Dit? Did you give him rat poison in his drink" Randy murmured.

"Not poison, he's the one who's about to put poison in my office, you know Ran, that he came here with my secretary, I can't believe Maysa's reason that his car broke down, because I think Ariel picked him up on purpose, hahaha"

"You mean Maysa???"

"Of course, which secretary I am"

" Wooowww" said Randy then stepped closer to Ariel and clapped.

While Ariel looks confused and mutters annoyed at Aditya's taunts. "Shiiits... I just gave him a ride because his car broke down why you've been fighting about it, you're fucking Dit" he muttered exasperatedly.

Randy forcibly takes a bottle of mineral water from Ariel's hand and immediately drinks it. "Good friend, you should start moving on and start a new relationship, I agree if you're with Maysa, she's a nice girl and very smart, I agree, don't you get entangled again with a magic queen like Viona, I support you, you yourself how's Dit?"

"Why not??? I'm okay if indeed this brengs*k is in a relationship with him, and Randy is right, Maysa is a good and innocent woman but very smart"

Ariel snorted in annoyance as she stepped towards the sofa then threw her body on the sofa. How can the two friends mutter unclear about him and Maysa. What relationship they discussed, he only gave a ride to Maysa because the woman's car broke down, that's all but Aditya overreacting.

"Be quiet and stop mocking me, I don't have time to think about a relationship, I only helped her once and you mocked me" Gerrutu Ariel.

Aditya and Randy do not respond and instead continue to laugh at Ariel. Aditya really feels happy if Ariel does have closeness with Maysa his secretary. It seems like it's time Ariel Mai moved on from Elea also forgot the bitterness of her life due to Viona and Ariel had to start a new relationship again in order to be happy.

★★★

After the police station and Aditya's house took care of the fire problem at the house of Aditya's father-in-law, it turns out Ariel did not return home immediately but returned to Aditya's office again. She had contacted Maysa that she would drive the woman to fetch her car at the workshop. He had been contacted by the workshop that the car had been towed there and had also been repaired. Maysa refuses to be picked up by Ariel and intends to take her own car because she does not want to bother Ariel, but Ariel forces and still wants to pick her up.

Ariel waited for Maysa in the parking lot while looking at the exit of Aditya's office, soon after work. Before long the employees started to get out, including Maysa, Ariel rushed to start her car and approached Maysa.

Ariel got out of the car and stepped closer to Maysa. "May afternoon, come on in" Ariel opened her car door and let her in.

"Sir Ariel, I told you there's no need to pick me up"

"It's okay, let's go before the workshop closes"

Maysa looks doubtful but then she gets into Ariel's car because it feels bad and Ariel has picked her up. Ariel also got into her car and started driving it.

"How are you doing today, May??" Ariel opened the chatter again.

"Surf sir" answered Maysa briefly.

"You seem to really like your job as a secretary, is that because it's been your wish for a long time???"

Maysa smile. "Yes sir, my mother used to be a secretary too and I saw her very cool, so I wanted to be like her too"

"WOW....!!! Then your Papa's profession?"

"My father died when I was a child, and Mama had to work hard on her own to support me, Mama went to Jakarta while I was living with my grandmother in Surabaya but one day Mama chose to stop being a secretary and chose to go home"

"Did your mother not marry again?"

"Recent but only briefly and then separated even I do not know what the face of her second husband, after that Mama went home and made a business at home, and I did not even know, after graduation I took turns to come here and become a secretary like Mama"

Ariel turned her head towards Maysa and quietly threw a smile at the woman. Looks like Maysa is an independent woman and loves her Mama, seen from Maysa's gentle stature. Her mother would be proud to have a daughter like Maysa. And they must be Mama Maysa is a great woman so they can have a child like Maysa who really understands her situation.

When they arrived at the workshop, Ariel and Maysa went down and entered the workshop. Ariel goes to the workshop owner and asks about Maysa's car damage.

Unexpectedly Ariel bear all the costs of damage to Maysa's car. There was a debate between him and Maysa because of course Maysa rejected it, because it felt too excessive and Ariel had helped him too. But certainly not Ariel if it can not handle problems like this. Finally inevitably Maysa obeyed and let Ariel pay the workshop bill.