The Lives of Five Hundred Thousand
The arrival of the forced man

Next day.

When I was struggling I made crackers with a Supri bang, I heard someone knocking on the door.

"Bang, please open the door as if there are guests. I'm again nanggung nih," I said to bang Supri because I myself was stirring the dough crackers.

"Yes Nur." Then bang Supri got up and walked towards the entrance of my house.

Shortly afterwards faintly I heard a male voice talking to the Supri bang. Even though my ears heard the conversation of two people out there but my hands were busy making dough crackers.

Silent

Duarr....

"Astaghfiruallah piety," While holding my chest I stood in shock.

I stared in annoyance at the man who had been out of sight for a few weeks. He smiled at me and scratched his neck. I was very upset because because he mix crackers that textured liquid into random random flutter where to my face.

Andre crouched down and with his regretful face he was about to wipe my face that was hit by cracker dough but I immediately parried it slowly.

"No need," I refused.

"Nuri, I'm sorry. I didn't accidentally I. I thought you were doing what." Andre looks very guilty.

I paid no heed to his chatter but to wipe my face with a tissue. After that I got up and went to the bathroom to clean my face first.

After feeling that my face was clean from the crackers, I went back outside but just opened the door and walked one step while rubbing my face to dry accidentally I hit someone's body and almost fell if not held back by a figure that body.

In a position of restraining my body the instant our gaze met. With a very close distance andre looked at me closely as well as me.

A few seconds we looked at each other until I realized and immediately released from Andre's embrace.

"Why are you standing at the door anyway, Dre?" I asked in annoyance as I turned my gaze in the other direction because I did not want to look into the look in his eyes. In my opinion, the look in Andre's eyes is like having a magnetic attraction so that when staring at the net his eyes as if they were drawn into it.

Andre did not answer it but smiled smirked and scratched his nape.

I snorted in annoyance then moved on and returned to the cracker-making place. It looks like Bang Supri is busy on her own. I approached her but she forbade me.

"You just accompany the guest Nuri, let Brother who makes his crackers.Not good time there are guests in let."

I turned towards Andre who was standing while holding his chest and looked towards us. I followed the orders of the Supri bang then walked past Andre just like that towards the living room. Andre smiled and followed behind me.

Arriving in the living room I invited Andre to sit down. After he sat down, I offered him a drink and Andre asked to make him his favorite orange juice. I'll get up and make him the drink he wants.

It seems that Andre does not like coffee or tea too much, because, if he was visiting my house he more often asked me to make his drink from fruits instead of tea or coffee. Likewise with Raihan, he never drank coffee but only drank tea. Raihan also does not like to smoke, therefore, his thin lips look pink and seductive in contrast to Andre's lips look a little blackish because he is a smoker.

When in the kitchen I saw the Supri bang was busy on its own. He looks really excited and I'm happy to see him. Since there was a Supri bang and helped me I was not too tired even though the strength was not maximal. I myself do not let him work too tired considering his condition that has not healed completely.

Bang Supri turned her head towards me who was about to take the blender."Did the guest come home, Nur?"

"Not bang yet, here I want to make orange juice."

"Oh, who the hell is Nur?"

"Friend bang," I replied briefly, peeling off the orange peel.

"Your friends are all handsome and rich rich, Nur, what's more Raihan, handsome, rich, kind and generous again. But if your friend's brother doesn't know his character yet."

I smiled at the bang Supri praising my friend."Bang, don't you remember my friend's face?"I asked trying to remind you.

"Remember how the hell Nur, meeting him is also new this time."

"Did you remember when I was in elementary school and went home from school often to be escorted by boys on bicycles?"

Bang Supri stopped the movement of her hands, her gaze glared upwards like she was recalling and not long after she exclaimed.

"Oh yes, brother just remember, the little boy who looks like a bule child is not it, who often berganterin and play here? what happened to that little boy?"

"Kayak bule how the hell bang, people he's native Minang people."

"Oh, the original Minang to, but why is his face stupid? so why did you tell the little boy to brother?"

"Because the little boy is he."

"She..he who do you mean?"

"That's it, that little boy is the guy sitting in the living room."

Bang Supri looks surprised." Seriously you're Nuri?"

"Oala, Raihan's cousin. Eleven twelve handsome men with Raihan."

"Udah yah bang chatting I'm done here." Then I rushed to meet Andre in the living room.

Arriving in the living room Andre looks busy with his cellphone.

"Ehm..."

I muttered Andre from the screen of his phone and then he turned to me and put his phone.

"Eh, the tiger is back!" said Andre while smiling.

I scrunched my forehead." A tiger?"

"Beautiful mom he he." His temptation made me smile thinly and shake my head. Then put one glass of orange juice in the inked by him.

"Thank you tiger" said Andre and I nodded.

After saying thank you, Andre immediately gulped down the orange juice that I served until leaving half of it.

"Segarrr," he said as he put the glass back on the table.

"You thirsty Dre?"

"As you can see Nuri, the juice is half he he."

"You know I've been thirsty since I was in Jakarta?" continued later.

My forehead shriveled in my heart I asked already feeling thirsty from Jakarta why not buy drinking water on the streets instead ask for a drink at my house? it's so weird of him.

"Do you not have money to buy drinks on the streets until you hold and instead ask for a drink in my house."I mocked him and it was common.

Andre laughed out loud then denied it."My money is a lot of Nuri, the problem is there is no taste of drinks like your drinks on the streets of the food I hold up to here."

I thumped my lips listening to the chatter that I thought was not funny and could not make me laugh.

"Ri, you went anywhere a while ago I went back and forth here but there was no you."

"And I told you that I was accompanying my brother in the hospital."

"Whose brother are you? and what pain is he?"

"The one in the kitchen, the brain tumor."

"Oo," Andre mangosteen mangosteen.

An hour had been me and Andre chatting, although I was chatting with Andre but my mind was always thinking about the Supri bang and crackers. Actually I want to work on making crackers but I'm not happy if I have to tell Andre to go home what else he has come a long way.

"Did my arrival interfere with your activities Nuri" Andre asked as if he understood my anxiety. Maybe he saw my body gesture that moved a lot.

"Actually, you came at a time when the time was not right Dre, because today I was making crackers," I said honestly.

"Do I need to pay for your precious time today?"

I scrunched my forehead."Whatchu mean?'

"Oh, sorry no. I mispronounced. Yes, you just continue to make crackers I can wait for you on this sofa as well as I want to sleep."

I think after he found out I was busy today he was going home instead he was allowed to sleep in my house while waiting for me. I could not refuse it, nor could I throw him out of my house.

I left and let Andre fall on the sofa while waiting for me to finish making crackers. Because I really have to make crackers to be finished quickly and directly in the sunbathe sun is good. After all the stock of raw crackers stayed a little longer while the order demand was getting more and more. I am grateful even though without being sold online my crackers sell hard through word of mouth people know about my crackers and order them to me. so I not only sell it in my village warung but in three neighboring villages adjacent to my village. Turnover this month also rose sixty percent.

"Have your friends gone home, Nuri?" asked Bang Supri when I approached her.

"Not yet, he mah if not dragged forcibly will not want to go home bang." I'm a little nervous considering Andre is a more forced man than Raihan.

"Where does he go now?"

"Wait on the couch."

"Kok, you staying? Poor you know."

"Let it bang, he's not a kid. You know, if the arrival of the forced man and accompany him chat when finished making his crackers? because if you talk to him it takes a day to get around."

"Ehm..."

Me and bang Supri turned towards the source of the voice, it turned out that Andre was standing while holding his chest staring at us with a gaze that I could not understand. I was wrong because I was talking about it. I myself do not know since when Andre stood there and heard the chatter of me and bang Supri.