Kiss Me
Alya

"Gue pick up later in the afternoon, say if you've already lost the job."

The message Arkana sent to Anwa.

Arkana is currently busy examining the financial and operational reports of its restaurants. One of them is in Lombok, the reduction of employees in the Lombok branch makes it even more dizzy. He should not do it, because he thinks deciding someone's windfall will make his feelings bad, but for the sake of restaurant operations it still has to be done.

In addition to providing a final salary for former employees, Arkana also compensates as much as their salary for a full month. Reduction of employees must be done considering the decline in the number of foreign tourists who come to the area due to the issue of the virus that has been viral in recent times.

Meeting in virtual mode with some of his confidants in the branch that he did this morning also had time to make his emotions provoked. Many have escaped his surveillance in recent months.

When Ria entered to provide financial data in the form of a hard copy a little make him lift his face.

"What kind of report did you bring from our branch?"

"Bali sir" replied Ria.

"Something stuck after you checked?"

"So far normal sir, just maybe we need an additional chef again, because according to chef Putu's report, our restaurant is overwhelmed in serving new menus that we had promoted yesterday."

"Try you set it up with chef Putu and Pak Wira, if we should add one more chef it does not reduce income or provide significant profits."

"Good, sir." Ria got up from her seat, "excuse me sir," he said again.

"Oh, Ria...."

"Yes, Sir?"

"Once all your work is done, try not to overtime" Arkana said.

"Good, sir."

After a few minutes after Ria came out of his room, a knock on the door was heard again.

"Come in" Arkana said from inside the room.

A beautiful woman, pure white, with her hair draped to her shoulder, wearing a white blazer, a knee-length span skirt, and matching high heels entered the man's room.

Walk gracefully, and throw a sweet smile at Arkana. The smile that disappeared after almost two years was never seen.

"Alya," Arkana said surprised to find the girl who once filled his heart in a very long time.

Standing up from her work chair, Arkana walked towards Alya who had already reached out to her.

"How are you?" alya is friendly.

"I? well.. well," received the girl's hand.

It feels awkward, it's very awkward. Alya is Arkana's first love. They met in a library while still studying at State University in Jakarta. At that time they were still sitting in the fourth semester of college.

Alya is one of the medical students, famous for being serious or rather one of the smartest students on campus. Impressed stiff, and not much to say, but her beautiful face covered all that. The daughter of a famous surgeon in Indonesia, while Arkana students majoring in communication.

The meeting at the university library led them to a more intense relationship. Three years of dating, Arkana has never seen the slightest flaw in their relationship.

Until at one time, Alya continued his education at Oxford University. Feeling that this relationship will feel futile, Alya decides to end their relationship. With reason Alya should be more focused to take his specialist degree.

And now the perfect girl stood face to face with him, carrying millions of memories, which were almost sealed shut.

"When to go back to Indo?" ask Arkana, then allow Alya to sit on the sofa.

"One week ago," he positioned his seat to be comfortable.

"Your business is growing Ar" he said again.

Arkana was still looking at the girl. "What message do you want? you haven't eaten, have you?"

"You know, as always... Remember?"

"Never replace... " Alya laughed.

Yes Arkana still remembers everything, food, drinks, books to the color of clothes that Alya likes.

"I told the kids first, and then I got out of the room, and came back after he ordered food for Alya.

Today Arkana wears a black slim fit shirt, chinos pants in matching colors.

"You're more cool Ar," said Alya observing the man she once loved so much.

"You too, are getting ripe." Arkana sits next to Alya.

"When are you planning to return to the UK? or maybe it's finished?" ask again.

"Next month back to the UK, only six months to finish everything, I'm home because there's a job offer here, they're willing to wait until I'm done."

"Cool... can always be proud, there is no intention to open your own practice?"

"There's a problem but then, get some experience first, this is also a big hospital, so I have to study again."

The knock on the door made them pause the conversation. The food they come to enjoy together, the conversations that sometimes make them laugh and sometimes remember the past.

Time showed at half-seven p.m., when Arkana decided to drive Alya home.

Stopped at a house he used to come to.

"Greetings to Dad with Mama yes, sorry can not nganter to dalem."

"No papa, ori-ati ya Ar, next time we have to see you again before I go back to the UK."

"I will," he answered and watched the girl come down and wave.

Along the way Arkana thought, who would have thought to meet again with the first love he had so hard to forget. The one-sided separation that had made his heart ache, now came again as if to slowly open the locked heart for the woman.

Arkana grabbed her phone that had died completely and was charging on the car charger. He turned his phone back on, there were some incoming messages, the car stopped at a red light when Arkana opened the message from Anwa.

"I've run, I'm waiting in front of the office just not in the lobby yard ya."

The message that was sent at half-six this afternoon.

"Gosh, yeah" he murmured

How could he forget the promise he made himself, in his mind raging how long Anwa waited for him there, Anwa got angry at him, how would he explain this all to the girl, she shuffled her hair in frustration.

The lights turned green, not waiting for long, Arkana drove his car to the Anwa boarding house.

The three-tap on the door of the room finally opened.

"Anwa... " said Arkana, "may I come in?"

"It's almost night Ar," Anwa saw a clock on the wall of the room.

"That's why we're going out for a minute" Arkana asked.

"Tomorrow, I'm tired."

"Wa, uh,"

"Tomorrow Ar" he said again from behind the door that closed half his body.

"Please, just for a moment," his hand held the door that was about to close.

***I hope you guys are not confused yaaaah. because I do not use flashback flashback an 😂.

jejaaaaak darling 😘 tq***