RR (RaffaRea) So Long Is It Love?
CHAPTER 17: The Rea of Longing

Sunday as usual is the day that Christians will go to church. Rea came down from his father's bonnet using an old motorcycle that had accompanied the father and son for a long time. They had just returned from worship after a little afternoon because there was a family visit that they followed after worship.

Bagas turned off the engine and then led the old motor into the house. Her daughter was left behind sitting on the terrace taking off her bright red heels.

The girl's goal turned to look at the second floor of her neighbor's house, Raffa's family home and the floor where the man's room was located.

Just as the girl got up about to enter her house, a sweet whistling sound rang out in her hearing as if calling out to her. Reflex, Rea turned to the direction where the whistling sound came from. Finding the culprit was a handsome man on the second floor who was none other than Raffa, Rea developed a smile that he immediately endured as much as possible.

The man waved his hand with a smile so wide he looked at himself. Rea had no idea what made her cheeks and her feelings warmed up instantly. Especially in the scenery today, Raffa looks so handsome with blue checkered shirts and cream colored jeans. Obviously the man had not changed his clothes after worship. The reason, Raffa is not typical of people who like to wear pants let alone tight especially if combined with shirt clothes. That was likely the reason that made the man look so handsome if he was already wearing such formal clothes at the moment.

The man's hair looks disheveled but actually adds to the level of charm.

"You've been home a long time. I'll fall asleep waiting for you to go home" said the man, who sounded like a child-like protest.

"Yes, there was a visit" Rea replied with a smile. It's so strange why he suddenly became this shy.

Raffa smiled again watching the innocent girl tuck her hair child next to her ear in a very adorable way.

"You're beautiful, Re." Raffa spoke to himself in a low tone that could only be heard by himself.

Catching the strange-looking man, Rea automatically frowned.

"Why, Raff? You said something?"

Instead of answering, Raffa actually walked over to the balcony fence while cupping his face with one hand looking at Rea with a look that made the girl nervous and felt a tightening gurgle inside.

"Amerika per sempre" said Raffa with a serious face while commenting on his dazzling smile.

Rea could feel the deep meaning behind those foreign words by looking at Raffa's eyes that seemed to pierce through him and gripped him whole. Without being able to command, the heat began to run through the two cheeks of the girl. Thousands of butterflies even seemed to flap and fly in his stomach.

Rea sculpting. What feelings made him this helpless?

Fortunately, Bagas - the father - resuscitated the girl at just the right moment before she died unconscious from Raffa's shady gaze.

"Come, Re. It was getting dark," Bagas suddenly appeared from behind the door leaf with his distinctive calm yet authoritative tone.

"Sore, om" said Raffa greeting the middle-aged man with his friendly and polite warm smile. Rea just realized, Raffa really has turned into a gentle adult man and knows how to talk to different people.

Instead of welcoming as usual, Bagas just answered with a short deheman who seemed flat and indifferent. Rea was surprised to see it. And even more strangely, Raffa seemed to have no objection to it at all.

Like a buffalo whipped his nose, Rea according to enter following his father. He did not know what else to say to the figure of a man who did not even take his eyes off him. Before disappearing, the girl only had time to look at him who was developing a smile to find Rea staring at him.

Rea rushed to his room, closed the door and leaned behind it holding his chest that was beating incoherently. For nothing, she desperately wanted to scream venting out her unbearably mixed feelings. As a result, the girl just screamed stifled while smothering her mouth.

That day, Rea knew the feeling the man was going through now was not the same feeling he used to be. Not that the feelings that once disappeared, but there are changes that make the level of these feelings increase and increase. It's hard to explain. Yang Rea knew, Raffa's feelings for him were now deepening and getting to a pretty serious stage. And somehow, there was a sizable space where Rea no longer had the intention to deny the man's feelings towards her.

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Rea jigsaw on the bed. Feeling annoyed, bored, angry, empty and anything similar to all that sort of thing. These feelings seemed urgent and confused the heart immediately with his mind.

For more than a week he was not allowed his father to go out of the house carelessly for no good reason, especially if he said he wanted to see Raffa, his girlfriend.

Rea hit his head slowly while holding back a laugh. For a long time he could go crazy if this continues. What's the matter with him exactly?

Nah! More precisely, what was with his father exactly? Bagas started to be so protective of her. Take her from school or from anywhere at the appointed time. In fact, usually his father just let him go along with Raffa. Bagas even forbade the man to visit and play with Rea again many times every day. I don't know what Raffa's fault was?

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Rea lazily leaned her head against the table staring at the window of her class.

In school, he rarely met Raffa. It was just exchanging greetings when accidentally met or if more just a glance if the man had free time. The guy always seems to have a lot of activity. What shit! It was as if everything was conspiring to keep her away from the man who had messed up her heart.

Class XII children are busy preparing for their national exams. Raffa the school delinquent no longer wanders around, let alone Jordan the model student.

Rea breathed a heavy breath. He turned to staring at his classmates who were all busy with themselves or their pleasure groups. Lately he has felt alone. Leni, Cici and Sheila can no longer even hope for the relationship that they once had. Leni did occasionally want to talk to him, but that was only when S heila or Cici were not among them.

Feeling bored, Rea moves away from her class to her favorite place, the back garden of the school. There was no mood to do his hobby, he decided to do his new hobby lately when his heart was chaotic. Sleeps.

"Hey!" a voice rang out teasing Rea, calling out to her from the dark that felt like it had only instantly enveloped her.

"Wake, Re!" the voice called out to him while shaking Rea's body.

Rea opened her eyes rather lazily. She found the face of a man in front of her.

Raffa.

Rea immediately woke up rubbing his eyes that might still be hallucinating imagining the figure of a young man constantly filling his mind. Instead of disappearing, the figure remained even more real. Rea touched the tip of the man's nose with his index finger. Dissatisfied both hands cupped the face of the man did not believe as well as happy which was greeted with amused ruckus by the owner.

That figure is Raffa.

Aware of his behavior that could be said to be strange and new this time, Rea immediately tried to find an escape by rubbing the young man's face rough.

"Your face is very ugly," he immediately changed his expression as if annoyed Raffa had disturbed his peaceful sleep.

Raffa grunts not like. "Let's say miss," he shot on target. The tall man then moved to sit next to the girl who was suddenly stiff.

Rea cleared her throat throwing off her nervousness while staring in the other direction hiding her heated cheeks.

"Are you truant?"

Raffa was heard laughing at the girl's question. Rea frowned, is there something wrong with the question?

"You slept very well apparently," said the man, chuckling amusedly.

Rea glared at the man while pursing her lips. Why is she so cute in front of that guy?

Unexpectedly, Raffa actually reached out to shake the arms of the heads of friends from his childhood. Goddamnit! Rea hates being as dumb as he is today. But, the warm feeling that arises because of it actually makes Rea want to stay longer with the man.

"Let's go home," Raffa asked to stand up with a sweet smile that was always attached to his handsome face.

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