Solar Throne
Gaji

Ayu's house looks lonely even though the door is open. Gina called Ayu's name but there was no reply at all. Then Gina repeated it and appeared a girl in short pants came out while hugging the bolts.

"Oh, you Ma'am. Come inside." Ayu half shouted from inside her house.

Gina enters Ayu's house which is also about the same size as Surya's house.

"What's up, Ma'am?" Now Ayu sat on one of the chairs in her living room. Gina's coming too.

"There's nothing. I just want to go to your house." Gina looked around.

"Oohh..." It was the only thing that came out of Ayu's lips while looking inside her phone.

"Yu, are you sure Dinda's just his friend?"

"Whose friend, ma'am?" Ayu changed her gaze to Gina.

"Sury's friends?" Ayu confirmed what Gina meant. Gina nodded.

"Bak Gina is jealous?" Ayu Goda.

"Not at all..." Gina hastily refuted Ayu's accusations.

"If not jealous, then what? Gina was very interested in Dinda."

"It's not. It's just that they seem very close."

"Surya never told you about Dinda's sister?"

Tell me about Dinda? Why did he tell me? Come to think of it, Surya has no interest in telling you about Dinda. Gina answered, but only in her heart. But to Ayu Gina just shook her head.

"Well, that could mean two things, ma'am."

"What's that?"

"First, Mas Surya considers the meeting with Mbak Dinda is not important so it does not need to be told to you. Or second, Madam Dinda was once an important person for Mas Surya so she had to keep it a secret from you so you don't think about them anymore."

"Is it really like that?" Gina seemed to think.

"At Pakde's house it looks like it's crowded, why are you even here?" Ayu asked while looking at the side window of her living room.

"Yes, there's Dinda there."

"Well, so you're burning jealous and running away, Mommy?" Ayu approached Gina.

"Let me fan. Or do I want to go ice water?" Ayu giggles.

"What the fuck are you." While pushing Ayu away from him. Ayu even laughed as if she saw Gina pouting. Ayu's easy-to-familiar nature makes her not reluctant to tease Gina.

Actually Gina really wants to find out more about Dinda but surely Ayu will be more and more intense teasing him. So he just endured his wish.

"You alone?" Gina diverted the conversation.

"Yes, Mom and Dad haven't come home yet."

Ayu's house is quiet at this hour. She is an only child and both her parents are grocery store owners in the market. So Ayu got used to being alone. Almost like himself. But Ayu's parents still come home every afternoon and continue to accompany Ayu like the other children.

"Is the market far from here?"

"2 kilometers from here, Ma'am"

"Let's go to the market.

"Now?" Gina nodded.

"It's closing this hour, ma'am."

"Oh so." Gina's face seemed to dim.

"Why go to the market?"

"Isn't there a lot of food vendors in the market? Soto the javanese chicken."

"Yes. There's Mbak. In the market there is soto ayam jawa which tastes very good."

"Oh yeah? Is it that good?" Ayu nodded steadily.

"Recomended anyway."

"Tomorrow let's try."

"Can." Gina smiled happily hearing Ayu support her.

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Late that night, Gina came out of the bathroom after washing her face. A simple bathroom consisting only of a bathtub and a dipper makes it unable to linger in it. It is different when you are in your own home. He could spend hours in his 'ritual' bath in a bathroom filled with therapeutic scent candles. After all this was a shared bathroom, so it was highly unlikely that Gina would spend hours there.

Opening her room, Gina does not find Surya. Then he opened his suitcase and took a bag containing his facial care equipment. Gina smeared a serum on her face and patted it slowly in front of the mirror in Surya's room. Just then the door of the room was knocked before it opened even without Gina's consent. This is different from at home, so a knock from Surya is a sign that he will enter so that Gina can be prepared if he is in a state that is 'not possible'.

"Miss, I'll sleep downstairs." Surya took a pillow over the bed and spread out a small mat. Gina looked at the mat described by Surya on the cold floor. Then Surya lay on the mat with a sheath covering his body. Gina had not yet moved and just looked at Surya.

"Miss, you're not sleeping?" Gina still looked at Surya.

"I'm sorry Miss. My house is so small. It's a lot different than Miss' comfortable house." Surya got up from where he was lying.

"I'll book you a ticket for your flight tomorrow morning." Surya grabbed his phone and opened an online airline ticketing app.

"You really want me to go home?" Gina said calmly. Surya looked at Gina, stopping her fingers from touching the phone screen and figuring out what Gina was really thinking.

"I don't want to trouble you anymore, Miss. I'll tell you and Mom that Miss should replace me in the company as long as I'm not around." Obviously Surya. Gina still looked at him straight.

"Of course it's just an excuse. Miss won't really replace me."

"Why? You're afraid you've really been replaced by me this fast?" Gina squinted her eyes cynically.

"No, Miss doesn't know everything in R-Company yet so I'm worried you'll be troubled."

"Yes, Miss." Answer Surya.

"You should go to bed soon. It's already night time. You should go home tomorrow."

"Who agrees to go home tomorrow? I still want to be here. Don't order me a ticket." Gina moved and walked to the bed.

"Are you the only one who wants to go on vacation? I want to." too." Gina patted her pillow that was not as plump as a pillow in her house that contained goose feathers. The pillow may only contain dacrons so that the degree of tenderness is different.

"Just son, you brought me here and just took me home after you didn't need me anymore."

"All right, Miss." Surya smiled and put the phone back next to his pillow. Surya woke up to turn off the lights and replaced it with a dim sleep lamp and then went back to sleep.

"Surya..." Call Gina.

"Yes Miss."

"You must be so happy to be home." Gina pulled the blanket.

"Of course, Miss."

"Because of your busy work serving Papa, you must rarely go home."

"True Miss."

"When do you usually come home?" Ask Gina again. They talked to each other from the top of the bed and on the floor.

"No doubt, Miss. Depends on when I want to go home. Like other employees I also have an annual leave. So I usually take that leave to go home."

"Well, Papa can even be stingy to you who are very loyal." Surya's little laugh came after Gina said that.

"Father, just be fair, miss."

"Just how? You serve him with all your soul and body, but he treats you like any other employee. Then how is it different from them? Though you were there all the time for Papa and also had a big hand in the development of R-Company."

"That's not important, miss. Papa paid me very well."

"Ahh yes, I finally know why you are so loyal. It turns out it's worth your salary." Gina woke up from her sleep and looked at Surya who was sleeping below.

"How much did Papa pay you?"

"Many, Miss."

"I know, but how much?"

"A lot. To me that's a lot."

"Yes, how much is that?" Gina began to get angry at Surya who was not also frank with her. Surya turned his gaze to Gina after all this time just looking at the ceiling of her room. Surya looked at Gina with a smile that Gina didn't realize she was starting to like seeing. His heart warms up to be looked at by Surya like that.

"The salary that even made me never think of corruption company money."

"You're so annoying." Gina throws Surya with a pillow in her arms. The pillow was right about Surya's chest.

"If you get that much, Papa should give me more than you."

"But now the boss is me, Miss." Hearing Surya's words, Gina widened her eyes.

"So I'm the one who has the right to give you the amount of salary."

"Woww, you really are. ahh, I don't know what to say. How arrogant are you now." Gina got out of bed and beat Surya with a bolster.

"Feel this."

"Aww, my lady." Surya Shouts.

"No. I'll beat you up mercilessly."

"Already Miss. It's..." Solar fends off Gina's punches.

"No, I'm not satisfied. I'll do it until I'm satisfied." Gina won't stop.

Meanwhile outside the room Mother Surya giggled to hear the sound of Surya and Gina that sounded very clear. They forget that they are in the restroom, not in Gina's spacious room so that any sound will not reach the outside.

"What's wrong, Mom?" The voice of Mr. Surya suddenly. Mother Surya was shocked.

"Oh, this is a surprise." Surya's mother patted her husband's arm. But Mr. Surya even sharpened his hearing.

"Come sir, let them."

"Hopefully we'll have a grandchild soon, ma'am." Mr. Surya is hopeful.

"Yes Sir. I can't wait to hold my grandchild." Surya's mother was very excited. Then they left Surya's room door.

"Already Miss... Forgive me." Surya's stomach hurt from laughing while holding the blow of the bolster from Gina in a row. Gina was as breathless as Surya. He rubbed the sweat on the temple that soaked his front hair.

"That's nothing. If I had really used my fists, you would have become a Rempeyek." Gina now sat on the mat in front of where Surya was sitting. Surya had also gotten up from lying down before Gina attacked him again.

"Don't Miss, I definitely won't be able to beat you."

"Good you know that. So, don't act in front of me or I'll finish you off." Gina clenched her hands in front of Surya's face.

"None Miss. I'm giving up." Surya lowered Gina's fist.

"You are very tough in martial arts. I will definitely KO before the first round starts."

"Hey, what the fuck. You're not even trying to fight me?"

"Where can I hurt a woman as beautiful as you... Miss." Surya added the call 'Miss' behind him after sighing heavily. And hearing Surya's praise, Gina's heart was like a tingling sensation.

"Let's go to sleep." Gina turned her eyes away by moving to stand up. But unconsciously since then his hand was in the hands of Surya.

"Oh, sorry Miss." Surya immediately took off his hand. The misbehaved Gina immediately climbed onto the bed and placed her head on the pillow.

His heart beat irregularly and as it touched his face, he felt his cheeks warm up. Gina slowly took a deep breath hoping that her heart could return to normal without Surya knowing. And subconsciously her smile expanded.