The Fake Couple
Comfort she desperately needed.

As usual, Amber could only keep quiet if Mila had already started babbling about things. It's wrong, if it's far from his mother he misses, but if it's close this upset also heard his mother blabbering continuously. Moreover, the ramblings of the Mama this time related to his past with Daffin, the former. The rant was disturbing, although in fact Amber had long moved on, after she decided on Daffin unilaterally ahead of his departure to America first.

Daffin clasped Amber's hand tightly.

"Amber, come on. Please! I don't mind you going to college to any end of the world, as long as we can still communicate. I'm ready LDR an, kok," refused Daffin while shaking firmly when Amber said the word break up on the grounds that will continue the study post-graduate to America for a long time.

That time Amber shook her head firmly, which meant breaking up.

"Sorrys. I can't, Daffin."

Amber removed her hand from Daffin's grasp, but Daffin clutched her tightly.

"You can, Amber. As long as you still have feelings for me, you can have me at any time, because my love is only for you, for you, Amber ...," whisper Daffin before kissing Amber's lips and kissing her deeply.

And then Amber tiptoed, reciprocating and balancing Daffin's kiss that was unexpectedly able to make his whole body feel warm and increasingly heated, burning his unexpected pent-up desire. It was their first and last hot kiss after several years of dating. Ironical.

And after Amber cried, she began to feel if Daffin's love for her never messed around. But Amber had to end it because of her insistence.

"If you're desperate to continue with your girlfriend, don't regret that we removed you from the inheritance list" Mila said.

"What's the matter, the whole thing?" amber protest, deeming it an empty threat.

"Unbelieving? Just try going out there and getting married to her."

Amber looked down as soon as she met Mila's eyes that shone a light of seriousness.

Yep. Mila hasn't really liked Daffin since High School. Even Amber got hit by the jewel all because of being caught going home watching alone with Daffin in a Mall. Apparently Mila had prepared Amber for Ikram, Mila and Indra, Papa Ikram, had already mentioned about the matchmaking of their sons, and both turned on the green light.

"But do not make it obvious, usually the children if they hear the word 'match' must have been antipathy first and consider us kolot. We should condition them so that their closeness occurs naturally. It just so happens that they're one school and once were a class, right?" indra's words were approved by Mila and Papa Amber. That's why Indra likes to invite Ikram to stop by Mila's house, and Mila conditioned that Amber accompany Ikram chatting on the porch of the house. Indra, Mila, and Papa Amber also smiled at each other because they heard the familiar laughter of their sons there. Unbeknownst to them if the two teenagers were laughing because they were sharing info about their respective scuffles at school. Amber told me a lot about Kinanti, and Ikram said a few things about Daffin.

"Mama told you to go to school, not date! Especially dating a guy is not clear like that. No putting up? If not.., Mama take your phone and car keys, there is also no pocket money until you break him," said Mila while hiring Amber.

Amber complies with Mila and decides on Daffin. Sooner or later he wants to decide on Daffin. But apparently it's not that easy as Daffin let go.

The guy's like a piece of gum on a shoe, sticking out wherever Amber steps. Until Amber had no choice but to accept Daffin back, because Daffin's purity gave him a lot of profit. And Daffin is like a driver and his personal ATM, pretty good.Amber pocket money so intact because there is no need to buy gasoline and pay snacks. Daffin is like his superman, so fast to come if Amber calls and needs help.

"But, we're backstreet, yeah. You see, I can't date 'bo-nyok', bokap-nyokap."

"Ah, it sucks to be 'bo-neck' you., like they're never young."

"Certainly? What would you like?" amber's cross.

Daffin grumbled, forced to nod in agreement to accept the annoying condition. They also dated until college. And officially broke up forever ahead of Amber's departure to America to continue her post-graduate study.

After Amber's departure to America, Daffin contacted Ikram.

"Cream, I'll take Amber, okay? I heard Amber went to the same college as you, right?" daffin said when calling Ikram via interlocal connection, after Amber flew to America.

"Well, the existence of Kinanti is now a mystery, Ikram."

"What wife, Daffin?"

"Nobody knows now, he's missing like he's swallowed by the earth. His social accounts no one knows either. Or maybe not even have? He's been an introvert since High School."

Choked cream. Yeah, God. Why does Kinanti feel even further away from her reach?

"Baby, I brought you something, are you ready tonight?" A female voice suddenly sounded from inside the Ikram speaker.

"Who's that, Daffin?" Ikram guessed, could Daffin already have a new girlfriend but still want Amber?

"Eh, it's nobody, really." Daffin's voice sounded nervous.

"Hey. What are you saying, baby? I'm a nobody to you? I'm yours,.. right?" The voice of Nadia who was still Daffin's girlfriend was heard more clearly in the ears of Ikram who was dumbfoundedly holding his cellphone. Then Ikram the head bobbles when hearing the sound of lips like they are peeping at each other from inside the speaker of his phone.

"Who's Kinanti? Your affair, huh?" nadia's voice sounded like a sulking person in the speaker of an Ikram phone.

"Eh. Ikram, .. ntar we connect again, yes." Daffin hastily disconnected the phone with a raucous voice.

Ikram.

"What are you going to do, Daffin? Waw. You're a really brash man." Then the head-scalks.

Suddenly he felt sorry for Amber if Daffin was such a jerk. Amber's a good girl. Although sometimes pretentious and fun to play to the night club to hangout relieve stress, but the girl still knows the limits and always ask Ikram to accompany her. Without the Scramble, Amber wouldn't dare to chant alone. And Ikram like burdened with the responsibility to keep Amber, so that he did not hesitate to fuss even to a fight with a foreign man who touched Amber's body arbitrarily there. Ikram always makes sure Amber comes home safe with him. Like a brother who looks after his sister.

"You still like Daffin, Amber?" fishing tackle one day, as the streets fill a weekend getaway with Amber in a park located in the heart of New York.

Amber was silent for a long time, meaning 'yes', but Amber was too proud to say it.

"I think he's got a girlfriend now, Amber."

As quickly as lightning, Amber turned her head and looked at the Ikram, which was stretching out her hands, inhaling the spring air and enjoying the beautiful natural setting in the 340-acre park located in the middle of the island of Manhattan.

Feeling stared at, Ikram turned back and met face to face with a pair of teary Amber eyes.

"If you want to cry, cry, Amber. No one's seen it."

Only then did Ikram shut his mouth, Amber's cry had broken. Ikram hurriedly turned around without a word, lending his back as Amber's place to cry. At once Ikram's heart was also hammering, as if he was re-feeling a Kinanti who had also cried on his back like this. Then Ikram flipped over, and hugged Amber tightly.

'Ah, yes.., I should have held you like this, Kinanti, ' I regretted the Kram in my heart. If time could be pulled back, he wanted to hug Kinanti this tightly and warmly.

And at that very second, a million butterflies seemed to fly from within Amber's stomach, the effect of the Ikram hug that felt so protective and enveloped her feelings with the comfort she so desperately needed.