So In Love
EP. 5. See You Again

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In the afternoon, the sky was getting ready to go home with his briefcase. He leaned his body against the elevator wall and yawned occasionally, his work today completely draining his energy.

The sky re-enforced its body as soon as the elevator door opened. He was stunned when he saw the girl who was now standing before him. The girl appears semi-formal by blending pink blazzers and t-shirts, trousers and mule shoes of matching color. Shien.

The sky opened his eyes. The girl he saw this afternoon appeared eccentric now changed again. Right, the sky is not wrong. The face of this girl did not change, but why did her appearance change?

“Dia why? Worms?” Shien wondered in his heart seeing the strange demeanor of Heaven. Not caring much about it, Shien then casually walked into the elevator.

The sky looked at him in astonishment, his gaze constantly moving watching Shien who was now standing right beside him. Shien felt that gaze, but as much as possible ignored it. The girl leaned her back against the elevator wall with a straight look at the slowly closing elevator door, and then moved down towards the bottom floor of this hospital.

“She's the same person or not?” The sky murmured in my heart. His eyes squinted, highlighting Shien's appearance from head to toe. It was cleared in his mind to pull the girl's hair, but this was inside the elevator. The sky does not want his silly actions recorded by CCTV.

Shien who sensed the Sky continued to pay attention to him gradually became uneasy. A shadow of a girl being raped in an elevator that she had seen on several news channels flashed across her head. Shien shuddered in horror given that.

Shaking his head, Shien immediately shook off his bad thoughts. He tried to make himself as calm as possible even though now his heart began to beat fast, not because of a heart attack, but he was a little afraid of the man standing next to him. It was not wrong that Shien was prejudiced badly if Sky continued to highlight him as if he was being stripped naked.

Then with a trembling body, Shien straightened his body. He decides to get off even though the elevator hasn't brought Shien to his destination floor.

Shien's index finger stretched out to press the open tomol, but had not had time to touch the button, the elevator suddenly shook to make his body stagger backward, lucky he could still maintain his balance.

Shien panicked when the lights in the elevator flickered, turning on for a few minutes and the elevator stopped moving. A few seconds later, the lights came back on.

The sky also panicked and rushed to push the emergency button to call the elevator operator. He then spoke and said that two people were trapped in the elevator and asked rescue teams to help them immediately.

“You what?” Sky asked as he saw Shien holding a shoe next to his hand about to hit the elevator door. Clearly, Shien wanted to get out of the elevator immediately, he did not want to be stuck with this perverted man beside him. Whatever he will do is important the elevator door is open, including breaking it if he is able.

“Please, the rescue team at this hospital is very responsive.” Continue The sky calmed down, as if knowing what Shien was going to do.

For a moment Shien fell silent, looking deeply into the eyes of Heaven to investigate whether this man was actually calming him or was there any ill intent. But if seen from his face, Shien suspects that this man will do evil to him.

“Are you sure?” Shien asked doubtfully. “Emm. I am a doctor at this hospital, I know all the facilities and staff here are the best.” Reply to Heaven proudly as he held up his thumb.

“Well, I hope so.” Shien murmured completely uninterested in Sky's talk about this hospital, he then returned to wearing next to his shoes that he had taken off earlier.

The sky snorted because Shien was so flat on her. Very different from his attitude last afternoon that looks more friendly although strange.

Slightly shaking his head, feeling that his current situation was not right to think about that, he chose to ignore it. It's up to the girl next to him to have a double personality or not, which obviously he wants to get out of this elevator immediately.

Grabbing a cell phone from his briefcase, he then searched the hospital emergency number and contacted him so that rescuers would help them immediately.

The elevator operator said that the lift that Sky and Shien were riding on was damaged and stopped between the middle of two floors. They asked Sky and Shien to remain calm and waited for the technician to fix the elevator for about one to two hours.

“They ask us to make one to two hours wait.” Sky told Shien shortly after he hung up his phone.

Not hearing Sky's words, Shien breathed a rough breath and leaned back against the elevator wall followed by Heaven doing the same.

There was no conversation between them. Sky and Shien try to kill time by playing games on their respective phones. It continued like that, until thirty minutes passed. Shien who felt aching at his feet chose to sit down, as did the Sky that followed him.

“Uhm . ., we've met before, right?” The sky tried to melt the susana after a while and felt frozen.

“Ohh, yes?” Next to Shien's eyebrows raised, he then scratched the back of his non-itchy head to try to remember. There were too many people he had met lately and Shien could not possibly remember them all, especially the one he had met with just a glance.

“Emm, we met in the lobby some time ago.” Answer Heaven sure. Now he came to the conclusion that the girl he was with right now was not the lollipop hair girl, they only had a similar face.

“Coin. You returned my coin at that time.” The sky is trying to remind. But Shien still put on a confused look, he really did not remember it.

“Ahh, it's okay if you don't remember.” Said Sky then, not wanting to burden the girl sitting beside him by recalling their accidental meeting some time ago.

Shien who heard it only nodded, before then he turned his face and chose to stare straight at the elevator door that would somehow open.

“Which one you?” Sky asked shortly after he picked up two snack bars and a bottle of mineral water from his bag.

Shien who heard Sky ask, then turned his head back towards him. Silent for a moment while looking at the snack bar in the hands of the Sky, he then pointed at the mineral water.

“I want that too.” Shien pointed to the yogurt bar as Sky handed over its mineral water.

“This is for you.” The sky happily gave her yogurt bar.

The sky frowned cluelessly as Shien stretched out a hundred thousand note to her shortly after the girl received her mineral water and yogurt bar.

“I don't like anything free.” Shien said as he moved his hand as if giving instructions to the Sky to quickly take the money.

Slightly snorting in annoyance, Sky inevitably accepted the money Shien gave. Not to be outdone, Sky then took his wallet, looking for a little money there for change.

“If you want to pay, pay the correct one.” The sky grabbed Shien's palm and handed him the change.

“The mineral water is five thousand and the snack is thirty four thousand five hundred. Try to count the change again, who knows less.” The words of the sky are full of emphasis accompanied by unsettled delikkan.

Shien looked at the change with a tingly look, then he obeyed what the Sky had said. Shien counted the change.

“Where are the five ratus?” Shien raised his hand towards the Sky to charge his lacking change. The sky had said for them to make the transaction properly, right? So it would not be wrong if Shien asked for his lack of change.

“Hiish.” Grunting the sky, he could not believe this girl next to him was actually counting his money. He then opened his wallet again to find dime there, but Heaven did not find a hundred silver items.

“If you don't want this, I'll pay you money later if we get out of here.” Imbuh Sky while pulling his hand to store the coin back into the wallet, but soon Shien stopped him.

“I'll take this aja.” Sambar Shien snatches Australian coins from Sky hands. He better take the coin than have to deal again with this man after coming out later.

“OK. Transaction completed, yes?” Seru Langit ended the long sale and purchase transaction. Shien did not agree, the girl chose to immediately take a sip of mineral water to relieve her throat that began to feel dry.

The silent atmosphere again took over, only the sound of chewing from the snack bar they ate broke the silence inside the narrow room.

Every now and then the Sky glanced at Shien, the girl looking cute as her fat cheeks filled with snack bars seemed to rise and fall along with the work of her teeth chopping food.

“Cantics.” His inner with both corners of his lips was attracted forming a wide smile. The sky hurriedly turned his face as he regained his senses. Did he just praise a pretty girl? He has never praised any girl so far other than Orange.

“Eung . . , whose name are you?” Ask Sky ventured to ask the girl's name. He was tired of being quiet like this.

Shien who was still engrossed in his snack turned his head and looked at him expressionlessly. “Langit . . .” The sky stretched out its hand to get acquainted, not forgetting the sweet smile she had on Shien.

“Shien.” Shien replied flatly, not welcoming Sky's helping hand and instead turned his gaze back. A moment of Heaven looked at Shien dazedly, then pulled out his helping hand.

“OK, Shien. Hope we meet again.” The Sky murmured slowly, so slowly that Shien did not hear it clearly. However, the girl was not interested in asking.

“Huuft . . .” The sky breathed a rough breath. He's very bored. This girl beside him was really like a beautiful model, pleasing to the eye but unable to talk to. Although Sky tried to get her to speak, the girl only replied to him briefly. Really boring.

“What is your job, Shien?” The sky again tried to get Shien to speak. Ahh, he couldn't stand this bored atmosphere. Get Heaven out of this elevator right now, he won't die of boredom.

“We are not too close to sharing such a thing.” Sahut Shien, there is no intention to tell about his work on the Sky.

“If so, let's get closer. Let's be friends, good friends.” The cry of Heaven sparkled as if he had a crack. “I'm not interested in making friends with anyone.” Shien responded again with an expressionless face and without turning his head towards the Sky in the slightest.

The sky grunted in annoyance. Okay. The sky gave up on taking this ice statue next to him to speak.

Turned his face away, then the Sky took the earphones from inside the briefcase. At least, listening to music is better and fun.

There was really no conversation between them after that. Shien was engrossed in silence, while Heaven dissolved in the music he heard, nodding and unconsciously falling on Shien's shoulders.

“Aiish, he could have slept in a situation like gini.” Shien grumbled inwardly looking at the head of Heaven leaning on his shoulder. He intended to get rid of the head of Heaven, but was undone because he could not bear to hear the man's regular breathing.

Shien was confused himself, since when did he become an unbearable human being? He even had the heart to wake Fina up in the middle of the night to ask her to buy something.

Don't want to think too much about it. Shien kept Sky resting his head on his shoulders, while he raised his head to watch the elevator sign as he prayed for it to work again.

“Jingga . . .” Shien lowered his gaze towards the Sky when he heard the man delirious.

“Wahh . .” Shien's mouth was gaping, he stared at the Sky in astonishment. In a trapped situation like this, he could have fallen asleep to delirium. Shien was sure, had this elevator plunged free to the ground floor, the sky would not have noticed. Perhaps consciousness is already in the grave.

“Jingga . . .” The sky kept muttering the name of Orange in his sleep. Shien frowned as soon as he saw the look on the face of Heaven turning sad.

The man's forehead is wrinkled. As for the push from where, Shien's hand suddenly stretched out and touched the forehead with his index finger. “Don’t be sad.” Lirih Shien moved her index finger horizontally on the forehead of the Sky.

“Jingga . . .” Hearing the delirious Sky mention someone's name, Shien was intrigued to answer. “Here i am.” Whisper Shien in the ears of Heaven while releasing his earphone next to it, then put it in the palm of the man's hand. Oath to anything, for twenty-five years of his life, Shien has never been ignorant of people. Ahh, maybe it's a bored effect because he's been stuck in an elevator for more than an hour and a half.

“Do not go . . .” The Sky then. The look on his face was sad, his breathing seemed heavy, and it disturbed the feeling of Shien looking at him.

“Ohh . . .” Shien returned.

Baby mine, don’t you cry

Baby mine, dry your eyes

Rest your head, close to my heart

Never to part, baby of mine

Shien unwittingly patted the side of Sky's head as he chanted a piece of Baby Mine, a lullaby he had always heard chanted by his mother as a child. But obviously her mother did not sing the song for her, Shien heard it from the next room. More precisely than Shanna's room or Shawn's room.

Shien smiled wryly recalling that, his heart instantly throbbing pain. Shien also wanted his mother to sing a lullaby for him, hug him, then pat him on the back to sleep. Her mother could always do that for her two brothers, but why not with Shien? Ahh, Shien was still wondering about it even though he was currently growing up. Why are his parents so unfair? Is it because he is sick? If that was the reason, Shien had never asked to be born in this state either.

Sighing deeply, Shien turned his attention back to the now calmer Sky. The man was also no longer delirious. The corner of Shien's lips was involuntarily interested in forming a thin smile. A smile that he has not given anyone in the past sixteen years except to Aunt Hilda.

Soon enough, the elevator signs start to come to life and the elevator moves again. Shien immediately tried to wake the Sky. “Hey, wake.” Shien patted Sky's cheeks repeatedly.

Feeling someone pat her on the cheek, the sky woke up. Seizing his eyes, then moving his head away from Shien's shoulders as he regained consciousness.

“Ahh, sorry.” Speak the sky is not happy while releasing the earphones that are still attached to the side of his ear. Shien only responded with a small nod. The girl then moved and patted her pants a little dirty because she was sitting down.

The elevator stopped in the hospital lobby. Several technicians and two doctors greeted them as soon as the elevator doors opened. The technicians and doctors inquired about Sky and Shien, before then they dispersed as Sky and Shien said that things were fine.

“Shien . . .” Call the Heavens to stop Shien from leaving. The girl turned towards the sky with her eyebrows linked.

“See you again. Thank you for the shoulder.” The sky smiled widely. However, Shien again did not respond, the girl turned around, then rushed away to get out of the hospital building.

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To be continued . . . .