MUSE
LENNA
MUSE
EPISODE 16
LENNA
\~So I'm starting to like Lenna. Not as a sister but as a woman?\~
I didn't think my jokes would hurt her. I saw Lenna's skin flushed red from the sunburn. I should have picked him up in the car.
“Sorry, yes,” I said softly.
“Nothing kok.” Lenna pulled his hand.
We only talked a little about the contract work and the edited photos that will be posted in billboards and advertising posters.
“Why don't you become a professional model?”
“Can?”
“Pasti can.” I was just giving input, but unexpectedly it turned out that he responded with such a happy expression.
“Well I'll try.”
I liked her expression so much, this innocent girl made me continue to want to protect her. Makes me want to help him get his lead.
“You want me to help?”
“Can?
“Of course.”
Our conversation stopped when Darren arrived.
“This is the lotion, Mr.”
“Thank you.”
“Come with me.”
“I can do it myself, Brother.”
“Oke.” I gave the green bottle to Lenna.
“Trims.”
“Silver, yes?” I'm curious.
“Not too.”
I observed Lenna applying lotion all over the flushed skin. Seen on his wrist were some scars.
“What's that wound, Len?”
Lenna was silent for a moment, she closed her wrist.
“If you don't want a story, it's okay.”
I can already guess it, it's like an incision scar. Has Lenna ever attempted suicide?
“Sorry I shouldn't ask.” I got up and left Lenna.
His expression turned grim as I brought up the scar.
Why would a good girl want to kill herself?
—MUSE—
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1 month later
“Sales response is good, Sir.” Yoan gave a report. This month's sales charts are experiencing a lot of progress.
“Good.” I smiled with satisfaction.
“Muse that you choose is good.”
“Your work is also good.” I returned the report to Yoan and told her to leave my room.
I got up and stood by the window, because my office space was quite high I could see the beautiful face of Lenna plastered in the baliho of the next building.
“You're done training? Where is it now?” I called Lenna to ask her how she was doing.
“You met at the cafe near your campus?”
“OK I'm there now.” I closed the phone, rushed down and went to see Lenna.
These few days I really miss Lenna, yearning to take pictures of her. I don't know since when I really liked her figure as a photo model.
I parked my car in the front parking area of the cafe and walked in. Ordering a glass of cold americano. I told the waiter to serve it in the tumbler I brought. While waiting for my order to turn my eyes around looking for Lenna's figure, it didn't take long for me to find her because she was indeed too flashy.
“He's chatting with whom?” I saw Lenna chatting with a cafe waiter.
“Wait like I've seen it.” I feel like I've met this guy before, but where is it?
“Oh yes I remember, Lenna's college friend. Alex isn't his name?” I try to remember his name.
Why could Lenna smile and laugh like that in front of Alex? Does Lenna like it?
“Please order, Brother.”
“Tr thank you.”
I walked over to Lenna. Lenna who was beginning to realize my whereabouts waved her hand at me.
“Kak, here.”
I replied with a wave and walked faster.
“Hallo, long wait?” let me start a stale base.
“No way, anyways Alex accompanied me chat.” Lenna looked at Alex with sparkling eyes.
“Halo.” Alex put out his hand and asked me to shake hands.
“Halo, Julius, we've met before.”
“Iya I remember.”
“You're Lenna's college friend?”
“Betul. Please enjoy the coffee, I will go back to work.” Alex smiled at Lenna and left us.
“Ih so cute anyway.” Lenna mumbled softly, but I could still hear her.
“Apaan? Who's cute?”
“Yang definitely not you.”
“Basic, if so this month is not payday.”
“Wa. mercy.”
“You love money so much?!” I pinched Lenna's nose.
“Adudu.”.
“How's the exercise? You enjoying it?”
“Nothing instant Lenna. Enjoy the struggle and you will taste the sweetness of the result.”
“Why are you so wise? Is it because it is old?” Lenna. He laughed out loud.
“Basic brat!” I pinched the eyebrow at him.
“Sory, Brother, kidding.”
I'm still throwing my face away, pretending to sulk. I don't know why with Lenna I can be a child like this.
“Oh yes, why would you meet me today?” Lenna sipped a slow hot latte in front of her.
“I miss you!” I said honestly.
“What?” lenna's face flushed red, I was so amused to see it.
“Hahahaha..”
“You're kidding?”
“But really, I miss you. Kangen photographed you but.”
“Basic Om Maniac!”
“Hey don't call me Om!”
“Om Om perverted.”
“Hei!”
“Om Om ganjen.”
“One more time you call me om, your salary I hold 6 months.”
“O...m..sorry, yes, Brother.” Lenna immediately smiled stiffly.
“Basic eyes duitan.”
“You like that guy, huh?” I pointed at Alex.
“Ba.. how can you know????”
“Bener, yes?”
“Huum.” Lenna is ashamed.
“You broke my heart.”
“Do not joke!” Lenna sounds bad.
“I'm not kidding.”
“Kak??”
“Hahahaha. ketipu deh.”
“Iihhh..”
Lenna pouted, I laughed. I don't have any feelings for Lenna, for me she's like a sister. But somehow when I saw him smile at Alex there was something rustling in my heart. An unpleasant feeling suddenly appeared, and it felt so annoying because I couldn't control it.
—MUSE—
I set the lighting before starting the photo session with Lenna. Today she appeared graceful and what it is, without makeup, without fancy dresses, without any accessories. Just a long dress model of a white tank top.
“Preserve your position Lenna, smile just a little.Good.”
“You made me want to laugh instead, Brother!” Lenna giggles.
“Basic, she says she wants to be a professional model?”
“Ih bavel.”
“Ayuk makanin.”
“Ok.”
After about 2 hours we stopped the photo session and looked at the results. Lenna looks so enthusiastic.
“Wah..my face looks freckle, yes?” Lenna looked at the picture.
“Malah gives a nice accent.”
“Kok can?”
“I think so.” I zoom in on Lenna's face.
“I'm very tired, it turns out being a model is not something easy.” Lenna's laying on the couch.
“No easy job,”.
“Benev also sih.”
“How does your Papa think?”
“Well that's how it is, at first he was very angry and opposed.”
“Then?”
“Oldly allow too. Maybe because I saw me struggling in earnest.”
“So, yes?”
“Yup.”
“Wear clothes there, later catch wind!” I told Lenna to wear the outside.
Lenna lazily picked up her shirt and rushed over.
—MUSE—
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The rain woke me from sleep. My neck felt so sore, I don't know how long I slept in front of the laptop. I stretched my body and pulled the muscles of my arm so as not to feel stiff. I'm still yawning, like I was too excited to edit Lenna's photos last night.
I glanced at the wall clock, I saw the numbers 3 and 10, still at 3 in the morning.
“Lenna,” I somehow whispered that name.
Seeing her big picture filled my laptop screen made my chest tight.
Why do I feel like this?
Her shadow still filled my mind. The way he laughs, smiles, and the way he frowns makes me happy.
Without realizing it, I smiled at myself remembering it.
Did I really start to like Lenna, not as a sister but as a woman?
—MUSE—
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