NOT Second Lead
Dividing a little bit of burden

"Tomorrow shall I pick you up?" alexander asked before Rihana closed the high fence of his boarding house.

"Maybe Puspa will pick you up," replied Rihana hesitatingly.

Alexander can catch him.

"Okay, I'll keep picking you up. If your friend doesn't pick you up, come with me" Alexander broke up gently.

Rihana nodded. His chest rippled warmly as Alexander's hand rubbed his cheek, his former tears drying up.

"Make up is really good. Just a little damaged," comments Alexander amazed. Though the girl had been sobbing for quite a long time in his chest.

Hearing the word just broken a little makes Rihana instantly feel insecure.

What she was most afraid of was that her mascara would ruin her makeup. And it would be terrible.

Unknowingly Rihana looked at Alexander's shirt, where she was leaning earlier.

Looks like it's kept clean. Rihana started to calm down a bit. It is not the tin cans that dress it and Winta.

"Zira...," called Alexander while holding back the gate that Rihana was about to close.

"Tonight you are so beautiful" praised Alexander with a pounding heart.

Rihana looks wrong.

"I'm home, yeah. Go sleep. Don't cry anymore" said Alexander softly.

He waved his hand before leaving.

Rihana had not even closed the fence, she continued to stare at the handsome man's back.

But he was shocked when Alexander turned his head and gave a sobbing that he immediately closed the fence with a look of his eyes and gestures.

Rihana smiled and did so in Alexander's vision.

But he did not go straight into his room, but instead leaned his back on the fence to relieve his heartbeats that were still not ripe.

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This morning with her heart pounding fast she walked into the mouth of the alley.

Last night Puspa apologized for not taking them home. And apologized again could not pick her up and drive her and Winta as usual to the company where they worked.

Rihana hasn't told Alexander. He wanted to prove Alexander's point, if the man really picked him up.

"Haw...." Rihana exhaled in annoyance, for not seeing Alexander in saa. He also wants to step foot into the mini market that is close enough, to order a taxi online

But the sound of the horn restrained his steps. Rihana was also astonished by the two-door luxury car that walked very slowly and was beside him.

As he was about to scold her, Alexander's nosy and seductive smile made his anger melt away.

"Come in" Alexander said as he opened the door of a luxury car that had only two front doors on the left and right, and two seats. One driver, the other for passengers.

Shamefully and embarrassed, Rihana immediately sat down. Alexander also put the seat belt to make Rihana hold his breath.

They were too close, until the distance between the two was no more.

"Your friend didn't pick you up?" alexander asked while keeping his body away from Rihana.

"Relgan."

"Why don't you tell? Do you suspect that I lied about my arrival?" todong Alexander was on target.

Rihana gave a small laugh as if to say that Alexander's words were not wrong.

"Basic. You are very hard to believe me, anyway," said Alexander.

Rihana instead hardened her laughing voice. Alexander's face looks cute and adorable according to him.

"But it turns out I'm not lying, right," Alexander said, focusing on the front.

"Yes" he interrupted his laughter which began to subside.

His heart rumbled, realizing that he was now sitting next to Alexander, the man whose heart had fallen. From the past until now.

DEG

Rihana stared fixedly at Alexander who had returned his focus in front of him.

Is this a sign that Alex is very serious about their relationship.?

Remember the time Alex proposed to her in the backyard of the cafe.

Is it wrong that he is too hopeful?

"Mama wants to know you," continued Alexander again making the heart of Aninda ketar ketir.

She was afraid that Alexander's mama would ask about her papa. Also his life during the orphanage made him not calm.

"Why, why, just shut up?" alex asked began to be sensitive to see Rihana seemed reluctant to meet his mother.

Rihan stared at Alex at a glance then turned his gaze the other way.

"You don't want to see Mama?" Alex's voice sounded a bit disappointed.

"It's not so."

"Want to?"

Rihana took a long breath.

"I heard rumors in the company that you will be betrothed to the daughter of the owner of the company," he said slowly. His tongue felt heavy to name the owner of the company and his daughter.

Especially since the fact that he knows that his paper still exists and lives very well without thinking about the difficulties faced by his mother. And the papa owns this big company. He became his worker. Cruel.

"It's just a rumor. Do not you want to be angry," argued Alexander quickly. He couldn't possibly say that he had rejected Aurora for her sake. Rihana doesn't need to know. Can add to his mind.

Remembering yesterday the girl crying so bitterly in his chest made Alexander sure that Rihana was bearing a very heavy burden alone.

Even the girl did not want to share with him, even though he had offered.

"My status will hurt your big family, Alex," said Rihana slowly.

"I told you that you live in a home. Your mother was the caretaker of her life" Alex said, glancing at Rihana's face. But the girl turned him the other way.

"My parents don't mind" Alexander continued trying to convince Rihana.

Rihana still did not want to look. And still quiet.

Alexander finally pulled his car over to the page of a mini market.

He grabbed Rihana's chin and looked at her.

Alexander caught sight of the girl wiping her spilled tears.

"Why do you cry so often? I hurt you?"

Rihana shook her head slowly.

"I want to tell you before you mess up."

"I would never regret it if it was about you. But let's be relieved, tell me, I'll hear it."

Rihana breathed out slowly. He stared fixedly at Alexander's pair of eagle eyes

"I just lived with my mom until we finally met Mama Laras. He's taking us to live with him."

Alexander was still silent, being a good listener. And again he was also curious about Rihana's life story.

"When I was five, we were here. Our taxi stopped in front of a very nice house. I could see in my eyes there was a million hopes. But.." Rihana's words were cut off as her tears started to spill again.

Alexander clasped his hand as if to strengthen it. He wiped the tears of Rihana that flowed on both of his cheeks.

"A man got out of the car holding a young daughter. I'm a few years older. Mom crying. I didn't understand it at the time."

Rihana's chest crumbled again if he remembered it. But he was determined to tell it to the end to Alexander. This was the first time he had opened up a secret about himself.

"But now I know the meaning of my mother's cry at that time. That guy betrayed my mom and me." The cry of Rihana broke.

Alexander pulled her in his arms. Then let the girl cry as much as she could on the chest of her field. Like last night.