OLEANDER'S OBSESSION
Not Butterflies, but Nerium Oleander
...“Ck! I was wrong all along. Not a butterfly, but Nerium Oleander.” - Rain...
...🌸🌸🌸...
Fourteen years later.
"Joey!" A man's voice sounded from a distance.
Almond eyes are beautiful, with natural lashes that go around looking for the source of a familiar voice called him just now. Those thick little lips formed a heart-wrenching smile when they found the figure of the man who had called out his name.
"Buruan!" joey said to the man who was running towards her while shaking his hand. The man gasped for breath as he arrived in front of Joey.
“Hah .. hah .. hah ...”
“Kok late?” joey asked with her pouting face.
“Sorry, it was jammed, babe,” clear Ace.
Ace, a handsome man with a sharp nose like Brad Pitt's, came with a red rose in his hand. Smiling, the man who was Joey's upperclassman who was now a student, he pinched Joey's sullen chubby cheeks. “Don't pout it dong.”
“Please, it's our graduation day! You guys don't indulge in intimacy first!” chirps Zea who is a friend of Joey since the 1st grade of High School, they were met while undergoing the orientation period first. The girl was upset to see Joey flaunting his affection in front of an acute singles who had never felt what a wonderful courtship was like.
“Yaudah, come on photos!” joey said as she tidied up her long black hair.
"Ready! One ... two .. three! Cheeseeee!!!" Zea gives a cue to Joey and Ace while Ace circles his hand around Joey's shoulder. The man pulls Joey's body to get closer to him.
Czechoslovakia!
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“Dahhh!” Joey waved his hand at Ace who was not out of his car. The man drove Joey to the apartment lobby.
“Dah!” sahut Ace's. “I love you.”
Joey wrapped both his hands around his mouth, then whispered, “Love you too!”
Although not very clear sound, but Ace understood that Joey reciprocated his love expression only from the motion of the girl's pink lips. After getting the reply, Ace gas his car and rushed to leave Joey who now turned his body to the elevator.
The girl moved her legs while humming towards the elevator. When the elevator door opened, he entered the elevator, attached an access card and pressed the 37 button. The elevator closed and immediately took him up to the floor he was on.
Ting!
Elevator door opens. The girl left the elevator for the 37-AA unit. For fourteen years Joey occupied Rain's apartment, but for fourteen years, Rain never returned to Indonesia. Let alone back to Indonesia, just asking the news never, even Joey did not know how the mobile number of the man who saved his life. During those fourteen years, he communicated only with Harry, who was Rain's secretary.
Upon arrival at the apartment, Joey took off his white shoes and socks and put them on a shoe rack. He stepped on his bare feet towards the living room while unbuttoning his uniform one by one. The other hand threw his bag over the sofa while singing.
...“Someone hates him...
...Somebody needs himself”...
Joey took off his uniform and threw it on the sofa. Now only a white tanktop and a gray skirt were attached to her body.
...“Someone kneels to love him...
...There is also the “th...
Joey did not continue the lyrics because he felt his throat dry. He turned his body to go to the kitchen. But his body twists as he finds the burly body of an adult man who suddenly appears without making a sound.
“AAA!!” his screeches. His body was unstable and almost fell down, but swiftly, the adult man's burly hand caught Joey's hip and grabbed the plump body wrapped in a tanktop and the gray skirt.
“O-om Rain?” joey's eyes were wide. The man he had been stalking through the sosmed, now appeared before his eyes.
Deg deg!
Rain did not budge as his eagle eyes met Joey's brown almond eyes. Somehow, Rain's fingertips touched Joey's cheeks, there was a tickling taste. An unknown emotion that he had never felt in his life filled him and seemed to be about to explode.
Joey who was aware of Rain's eyes that seemed to want to eat him, the girl covered her upper body using both hands. I was embarrassed to use only a tanktop.
“Om?” call Joey uncomfortable with the sharp gaze of the handsome grown man.
Rain flinched and released Joey's body.
Buk up!
The girl's body fell onto the fur carpet in the living room.
“Aww!” screeches again.
Again Rain did not say a word, he held his chin spontaneously. The man's reddened ears held in shame, but he did not want to show it in front of the little girl in front of him.
Joey rose from the fall and rubbed his sore buttocks with a grimacing face.
“Just a minute, Om,” Joey said as he ran to his room and changed clothes. Meanwhile, Rain headed for the kitchen, opened the refrigerator and picked up the cold drink, gulping it down like a thirsty man in the desert.
“Any, my heart keeps pounding until it can't stop,” murmured Rain. He held his chest while trying to catch his breath.
After gulping down cold water, Rain headed towards the living room and threw her body onto the sofa. He glanced at Joey's bag and white uniform. There was a smell of the woman's body that was smelled by it. The man again sighed while swallowing his saliva. “Ck! I was wrong all along. Not a butterfly, but Nerium Oleander.”
Shortly after, Joey came out of his room wearing a lilac casual T-shirt with black knee-length shorts. The girl picked up her bag and uniform on the sofa, in a hurry she ran to the room and returned to the sofa. He stood next to the sofa right next to Rain who was sitting. The man looked up at Joey who was standing next to him.
Rain's flat face is still the same as before, only now he looks more handsome and more authoritative, probably because he is clad in a three-piece black suit with a luxurious watch in his hand, thought Joey.
“Why stand?” rain's heavy voice echoed.
Joey was amazed to hear the voice, the voice he had heard fourteen years ago, now heard again. Surprisingly, now the sound made him flutter. He scratched his head that did not itch, did not know what to answer, because he himself did not understand why he stood sculpting like that.
“Sit,” order Rain.
Joey sat firmly on the sofa in front of Rain, the girl grabbed a brown sofa pillow and put it on her thighs and placed her hands on it. He felt tense facing the man who had only been able to walk because of curiosity, but now in front of his eyes.
“How are you doing?” rain asked as he looked towards Joey.
“Good. Hehe... Om how?” the girl smiled. He felt happy to see Rain, whether it was happy because he had not met for a long time or because the man was the savior of his life or there were other reasons that made him happy.
Joey nodded with glowing eyes. “Iya, Om.”
“While getting a new residence, I will be here first. Sorry if it makes you uncomfortable,” said Rain directly to the topic.
“Ke-why?”
“What do you mean?” asked Rain coldly while frowning.
“Yes, why are you talking about it? This apartment ‘kan have Om?”
Rain raised both of his shoulders while curling his lip line downwards. He was confused what to answer because he himself felt uncomfortable being in the same room with the beautiful girl. Not an unwarranted inconvenience, but he was a normal adult man, even more so when he saw the plump body of the girl before his eyes wearing the tanktop earlier, his male instinct immediately wanted to explode.
“Ma-“
“Rest, gih,” Rain cut off the girl's conversation while standing up from her seat. He loosened the tie around his neck that felt suffocating, even though it was okay before.
Rain rushes to his room leaving Joey gawking at Rain's strange behavior.
“Is. Fourteen years did not meet, once met like people do not know!” joey grumbled as she leaned her body against the sofa.
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Ting! Ting! Ting!
Joey glanced at the screen of his phone that was on the dresser. I have a message from Zea.
^^^“Joey!”^^^
^^^“Meet in any place yes!”^^^
^^^“Kata Kak Ace, lo picked him up.”^^^
The girl raised her eyebrows, then looked at the glass and saw the reflection of her body wrapped in a black dress forming a body, showing a beautiful collarbone. He twirled his body in front of the glass, occasionally he rubbed his long black hair that he deliberately stalls. Feeling less, he again smeared his lips with a maroon lipstick that reinforced his face to look mature.
“Perfect!” praise Joey for his reflection on the glass.
Feeling that nothing was lacking, he picked up his cell phone and grabbed the small black bag on the bed, then rushed out of his room. He's headed for the exit.
Drrtts. Drrrtts.
Cellphone's ringing. Ace's name appears on his phone screen. The girl raised the call.
“Hallo, Brother!”
“Yes, here I am ready, want to go down.”
“Oke, briefly yes.”
The call was interrupted, the girl rushed to hold the door algae. But he did not open that door.
“Oh yes, I have to share Om Rain. He's afraid he's coming!”
Joey headed to Rain's room and knocked on the door.
Tok Tok Tok!
“Om? I'm saying yes!”
“Where?” rain was heard saying from inside the room even though the door had not been opened.
“Prom night, Om!” joey shouted for the man to hear his voice. Then no more voices could be heard behind that door. Feeling enough, Joey twisted his body preparing to leave Rain's room.
Chequek!
Rain's bedroom door opened while Joey's footsteps came to a halt.
Rain suddenly swallowed his saliva when he saw Joey's body shape from behind. The tight black dress accentuated every dent that was on the girl's body. Instantly, Joey turned his body back to face Rain. Again, Rain swallowed his saliva forcefully looking at the girl's dazzling look. The man was speechless as he looked at the little girl who was once a machete, now growing into a shining and very charming girl.
“She has really bloomed perfectly!” inner Rain.
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Fourteen years ago.
Joey ran over looking around the luxurious apartment. The little girl never imagined that she could set foot in such a place.
“Cil,” call Rain.
“Yes, Om,” Joey rushed over to Rain, then the man squatted down in front of the little girl's body.
“Listen. For a while, there's Aunt Teti who will take care of you. Can't be naughty! If I'm naughty I told Aunt Teti anterin you to the place."
“Indeed, Om not here?” ask Joey curiously.
“Ngak. I'm going to America tonight.”
“Yah.”
“Ntar, if there is anything, you just tell Om Harry,” Rain pointed towards the tall man who was beside Aunt Teti.
“But ... Om will not be old?” ask Joey.
Rain did not answer the little girl's question. He only let out a long breath and got up from his squat. “Inget-“
“Bloom perfectly!” cut Joey with a smile. Rain's words were already stuck in his head.
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SERIATE…