
Laerry watched Mayang from a distance.
Swollen eyes and redness.
Bluish bruised cheeks.
With a twist, Laerry tightened his grasp. His mind is only one.
Who is the one who put Mayang in such a state?
"Hoi. Don't put on a rowdy expression. Samperin. Ask the person directly. You look so horrified."
Tony patted Laerry's still-silent shoulder, intending to resuscitate his friend who seemed to be holding back his emotions.
His other friends said the same thing. With a soft look, Laerry did not turn his gaze away from Mayang.
"Please try here for a minute." Said Mira who had sat back next to Mayang.
Mira pulled out the salp she was carrying and then applied it to the bruise on Mayang's cheeks.
"U.hh.h sick Mira. Be ill. Slow down dong." Rintih Mayang's.
"That's right. Gini blue cheeks are said to be nothing. People who see also immediately know if this feels really sick."
Mira started to moan. While rubbing the salp in the bruised part. Mayang smiled faintly. He was happy to be cared for by his friend. And feeling sad at the same time while remembering his feelings was much more painful than what his body felt.
"Yeah. The pain is just now." Mayang held her painful cheek.
Mira sighed and watched the friend anxiously on her face.
"It may be a wound on the face due to a fall or nyungsep gituh time?" Ask Mira.
"Haha. Well it can't be." Mayang laughed a bit at Mira's question.
"Then surely the cause is people!"
Mira starts to bend the sleeves of her long shirt and pulls the Mayang Sleeve.
"Today we missed work!! Anyone!! girl or boy. I'll kick it!!"
Mira raised her voice. Mayang felt bad because their noise caused a commotion in their office room.
When Mira pulls Mayang's arm out of the office with her, she nudges Laerry who is already in front of her.
"Darling. Temenin breakfast bentar yuk." Laerry showed a forced smile.
Clumsy, Mira let go of Mayang's hand.
"Say Laerry tuh. Have breakfast first..."
"But I have breakfast."
"Temenin's father."
Mira shifted Mayang's body slowly to get closer to Laerry. Mayang tidied his bangs a bit messy.
The call of Laerry made Mayang start to wonder.
Why did Laerry ask him to accompany breakfast? While Laerry had friends who could accompany him while he himself had breakfast at home.
Confused, Mayang followed Laerry out of his room.
Laerry looks quiet from her usual self. It made Mayang even more awkward to ask.
"More."
"Thanks." -."
Laerry brought a cup of Mayang's favorite milk coffee. Mayang who had followed him confusedly laughed softly because they did not realize that they had reached the cafeteria.
Mayang watched Laerry sitting in front of him. Only coffee taken by Laerry.
"***, is the breakfast just coffee?" Ask Mayang.
Laerry panicked when he saw Mayang watching him.
"Ah. Iyeah. You said you had breakfast. It's not delicious. If I eat while I don't."
"Hm. Well, what is it. I can ask for it later."
Mayang saw Laerry who was a bit panicked. In fact, he knew that Laerry might also be worried about his condition today.
"Witness is clearly her bruise?"
Mayang asked while pointing at his cheeks. Laerry became serious when he looked back at Mayang's cheeks that had been given a thin salp by Mira earlier.
"Why can bruises be rowdy?" Laerry looked at Mayang with a curious look.
"Eh this. Just fighting with people." Mayang tried to show Laerry that the wound was not as painful as it seemed.
"How much do you think? Who else? Couldn't anyone suddenly hit it blue?"
Suddenly Laerry became an emotion that made Mayang surprised because Laerry's guess made Mayang remember Bima again.
Laerry looked at me seriously. The question sounds pressing. Mayang tried not to understand the flow of the conversation.
"meaning? There really isn't anything to worry about, ***."
Laerry clenched his hand again.
"You're wondering if you're telling me honestly what happened?"
Mayang took a long breath. And tell the chronology of yesterday's events.
Laerry was silent again. And an unusual cold expression from him.
"It does. It must be him."
"Dad. But it's all over. So, don't be extended anymore."
Mayang casually sipped his coffee. While Laery who is still difficult to accept Mayang's explanation still displays his cold expression.
"Gue saw his Mayang."
Mayang looked towards Laerry.
"See it?"
"Yeah.the last 6 months. When he mutusin you.."
Recollecting the things that Mayang wanted to forget, made his heart ache again felt.
"Click don't talk about that. There's nothing to discuss about that either. All of her about him is just the past."
Mayang who was upset every time he remembered Bima, the man who had been in his life records, immediately spent his coffee.
"Laerry's. Today you are usually. What was? If you want to discuss my past, he wants me to go."
Mayang is leaving. Laerry held Mayang's hand for a moment.
"I asked you one thing I really wanted to ask you first."
Laerry's voice sounded serious. Mayang looked towards Laerry.
"You know how I feel, right?"
Mayang thought for a moment. He didn't expect Laerry to ask that.
Seeing Laerry's gaze fixed on him, Mayang turned his face.
"What kind of feeling?" Ask Mayang honestly.
Laerry immediately pulled Mayang to approach.
"From the beginning I always looked at you. Even though I know you have a fiancee. But, my feelings are getting harder and harder to resist."
Mayang was somewhat jolted because of their position that was too close and tried to dodge the situation now.
"I saw him make you cry at that time, I was angry because he was nyia-nyia in you. But I also like, because with a rowdy I still have a chance to fill his place in your heart."
Laerry's words sounded soft.
"It may seem trivial, but squirming my blue face and puffy eyes can already guess what happened."
Laerry forehead leaned Mayang, briefly Mayang silent and patted slowly Laerry shoulder which turned out to be quite large.
"Thanks Laerry's. I've been distracted because of your attention all along. When my heart and faith are hurting, you all are there to make my days boring."
Mayang then pushed slowly Laerry's body away.
"But, ***. My feelings to you ain't more than my feelings to a friend."
Laerry was quite understanding of his feelings clapping one hand.
But, since all these years he had been holding it back enough, he felt he had to say it immediately or his feelings would explode from damming it for too long.
"Gue. But, if I ask for one chance, can you give me that chance?" Ask Laerry seriously.
Mayang.
"Sorry Laerry. I don't think I can do that."
Laerry stared softly at the rejection he had just felt for the first time.
"Okay Mayang."
With a short speech, Laerry immediately walked away. And bring Mayang back.
"Get me back to work." Take Laerry.
Mayang nodded and smiled.
While Laerry who walked in front of the mayang, went in silence.