Just A Professional Relationship
Episode Nine

Nadin had never had a sleep disorder before. The busyness he had, always made his sleep soundly. He rarely even made her dream.

But this time, his eyes still refused to shut until late at night. His body was forcing him to rest.

Nadin's head did not stop thinking about Juna. The shadow of his girlfriend still kept appearing every time he closed his eyes. “Arggh!” annoyed.

Nadin also grabbed a cell phone. Wanting to find a friend chatting, but he only realized that all this time only Juna he had. The man is not just a lover, but a friend and family. Makes Nadin think that all this time he was too dependent on him.

The next name I thought of was Axel. Not only hope to meet, Axel always bothers Nadin by sending a message— which he rarely reply. But, he still could not and did not want to talk about his personal feelings to anyone.

Besides, only his mother was left to think about. Although there's no way she's calling her mother in the middle of the night like this.

Finally, Nadin chose to spend the time to open the Amstagram. His account was never empty. Every minute there are new comments coming in. There are often messages coming in. Of course nadin could not reply to all of them one by one.

Nadin thought, even though social media is so crowded. But there was not a single person he could talk to. Even Nadin does not know which followers are really sincere to want to be his talking friends.

For a moment, Nadin remembered the figure of the woman he had seen with Juna. He tries to search the person's social media accounts, which are easily found.

@LadyMala

The account with twenty million followers was amazing. Nadin did recognize the beauty of Mala, especially after seeing the photos.

It seems that the age of Mala is not much different from Nadin. However, her makeup and dress style are much different, making Mala look much more mature. If you think about it again, Nadin feels Mala is much more suitable if being with Juna. That's why the two may often be paired whenever there is a photo shoot.

If you notice, almost all the photos in the medos, Mala posed alone. Even when he took a picture he was with someone else. But one thing is for sure, there are no signs that Mala already has a boyfriend.

Nadin still continues to pay attention one by one photo Mala. Until it stopped posting about two weeks ago. In her picture, Mala is seen posing on the chair of a cafe. Someone who was eating with him was the one who took his picture. From some of the food on the table, it can be concluded that Mala was alone with someone who knows who it is.

However, Nadin felt very curious because in the bottom left corner of the photo, there is a cellphone that was also photographed. And the brand is exactly the same as the one owned by Juna. Nadin just snorted, laughing at himself. Of course, it is not only Juna who has a phone with the brand.

Even so, Nadin began not to calm down, after reading the caption of the post.

‘Two months and still counting.

There is really no conclusion that can be drawn from these words. It's just that Nadin's mind is not being used to think sanely.

In addition, there is one more photo that makes Nadin curious. Mala was pictured in front of her apartment window. Sitting while looking at the night sky. He wrote the lyrics to the song in his *caption-.

‘The sun is filling up the room.

And I can hear you dreaming.

Do you feel the way I do, right now?

I wish we would just give up.

'Cause the best part is falling.

Calling anything but love.

And I will make sure to keep my distance.

Say I love you when you're not listening.

How long, can we keep this up?’

Closed with one last line. ‘I’m here, drinking your favorite earl grey’ which is not part of the lyrics of the song. Can it be called a coincidence, when Juna was very fond of earl grey tea? Thought Nadin.

The soft mattress suddenly so uncomfortable occupied. Nadin went up from there, and moved to the top of the sofa. Forced to close his eyes, even though until three o'clock, he could not fall asleep. Until I don't know when he started sleeping, and woke up by his mobile phone vibrating.

While capturing Juna's name on the screen, nadin immediately flinched. He sat down and picked up the incoming phone.

“But the night you called ya?”

“Iya. Sorry yes, you must have slept.”

“You yourself why haven't slept that hour.”

“Don't know. I can't sleep.”

Juna's breath was heard from behind the phone. It seemed like he had just woken up and was still on the bed. His voice still sounded sleepy. “Why?”

Nadin wondered to himself. Would it be okay if he told Juna the truth?

“Babe?” call Juna, because you don't get a response.

“Actually, I thought of you yesterday.”

“I? Why?”

“I wonder why you are the same Mala fought so well yesterday. I don't think you're that familiar with Mala.”

“He is indeed famous fierce. You yourself tell me right, if you feel Mala does not like just the thing you ever hit him?”

“Iya, anyway... continue, yesterday you guys why?”

“Regular, working problems,” replied Juna briefly. “Not to think about. Later you will dizziness yourself.”

Nadin was silent again. All this time he never doubted anything that Juna said. Never once did the man lie to her. But, this time the heart, or perhaps the brain, is trying to deny.

“Honestly, there's something else that got me thinking.”

“What?”

“When I went to your apartment, you said Bang Surya came there. But I saw there were two glasses in the dishwasher, and there was a lipstick mark on one... You didn't lie, did you?”

“Oh.. At that time Surya came together with his girlfriend. I must have given them a drink, right.”

“Hmm... You will often work with Mala huh?”

“We both have a project together. So, it's not strange that you'll see me the same way he's been together a lot. Did I refuse his job?”

“Neg. Not that.. You do not need to cancel work.”

“But you will continue to feel unsettled like that.”

“Perhaps the effects of soy sauce, so I think of going everywhere.”

For twenty minutes, they chatted as usual. Slowly start to change to another topic. Quite a treat for Nadin's feelings. At least for a while. Because, after the phone closed, Nadin felt his heart was still not relieved. I don't know what keeps him feeling bad. He himself did not understand because he had only felt it for the first time.

While Juna, pensively stared at the ceiling of the room. Stay in the same position for a while. I don't know what's in his head.

He tilted to the left, where a long-haired woman fell asleep. He looked at the woman with an expressionless face, before finally getting up from the bed.