The Stairway To Love
22.

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Before Anggi answered the silly question that for some reason could come out so lightly from Cleo's mouth, the sound of a phone ringing rang out from her pants pocket. The girl reached into the bag and pulled out her cell phone and immediately saw who called her at this inopportune moment.

Gladys.

Anggi took a deep breath and glanced briefly at Cleo before finally picking up the phone. He forgot to tell his best friend today, and according to Anggi it was a bad thing and broke his promise to Gladys.

"Hello Glad?"

"Pig! Kangen!" said quickly.

Anggi smiled slightly, "Yes, same."

"Where else? Bass is still neror lo?"

"Nerror? Since when did he tell me?" asked Anggi while frowning and drifting away a little from Cleo, afraid that the cousin of the person being discussed heard.

"Lo said to himself that he was******* on your life, just calm down. At most he's clawed again." Gladys calmed his best friend.

As soon as he heard that remark, Anggi immediately shook his head. He no longer even thinks of Bass as the person who interfered with his life, even he thought Bass was pretty cool as a puzzle piece in his teenage story. Everyone knows what that means, right?

"Emang why?" ask Anggi.

"Gue," said Glad from across the street. "deliver the package to Bass' house. It contained photos of his friends again hanging out crazy at the school's decoction shop. How's it?"

Suddenly Anggi blood seemed to stop flowing, his bones suddenly not strong support his body, and as if there is a barrier blocking his breath to go in and out. He hates the situation now, knowing that Gladys is again repeating his silly behavior for Bass.

"Lo fuck!" anggi said.

"Engga! Be calm, now you won't be disturbed again."

Anggi turned to Cleo who was also looking at him in wonder. The girl recalled that she was in trouble again because of Gladys. In his mind always arises the question of why his best friend was always careless and did not think carefully to the impact that will arise if he did that?

"Watch?" call Glad from across, wake the girl from the daydream.

"I'll call again." Anggi hung up the phone and approached Cleo.

Honestly he was very disappointed mixed with anger and annoyance at Gladys. He doesn't know how Bass feels and emotions when he finds out that the mastermind of all this is Gladys, his best friend.

Anggi goosebumps suddenly.

"Why?" ask Cleo.

"That's why, I just wanted to doang."

"Oh yeah, where was it?" Cleo muttered, like a person who was thinking hard. "Oh!! Do you like Bass?"

Anggi clicked irked then intending to turn the knob of the room door. He wanted to go home and talk to Gladys to straighten out a little of this crazy problem. He hoped Cleo would not hold it in after asking,

"Where are you going?" ask Cleo.

"Back home!" answer's short.

Cleo could not hold the girl anymore and then let Anggi out of her room. Arriving in the living room, again their eyes were all fixed on Cleo and Anggi. All they could do was smile bitterly, and walk near the doorway.

"The Anggi should go home auntie om!" sungkan.

"Oh that?" Helen stood up for a moment.

"Why should I go home?" asked Bass, inviting irritation from the look on Bagas' face that seemed to have been still negating this matter.

"What's important to you?" Bagas looked down. "This is your problem! That dilapidated is you! Don't mind anything other than this!"

Bass was silent, but his eyes still hinted so that Anggi would not get out of the place where his feet stood. Whatever the reason why Anggi obeyed the gesture, it was clear Anggi did not want to leave. As if there was something he wanted to say but did not know, did not dare, and was less sure. While Bass's eyes are still and struggling on the girl who now feels the wrong serva.

"Actually Bass's a good boy, om!" he said, Difa Anggita.

Helen and Cleo turned spontaneously towards Anggi, between disbelief and wondering why Anggi could say such a heavy thing lightly as turning the palm of the hand. Unlike Bass who scored a small smile on the corner of his lips, knowing that Anggi like to understand the signal.

For the girl, the smile from Bass is a thank you that is not spoken directly. He did not care as Bagas looked at him intently, which was clearly an impulse for him to be sure of Cleo's words and help Sebastian Prananda.

Don't ask why someone could sacrifice, please!

"Why can you say that? You understand what?" ask Bagas while standing from his place.

Sarah held her husband's arm, but soon slipped off when Bagas knocked him down. "Pa! Huh!"

"I want to know why you say that!" the old man said it like a challenge.

Cleo shrieked, while Anggi turned to Bass again as if the next instruction was in the man's eye signal. Sure enough, the man raised his brow side then smiled slightly. It seems Anggi understands the point.

The girl followed Bass, starting from where she raised her eyebrows, then smiled slightly. "According to Anggi, we can value someone if we have twenty-four hours to watch someone."

"That's great!" pekik Bass fast. "What we know is who we are, is the person who is willing to change our lives every day. Not what people say."

"If so, Anggi pamit yes om. Poor Oma wait at home alone!"

As soon as Anggi got to the door, he could hear Bagas nudging himself. He could tell that Bagas was doing it on purpose. With a cry he shouted,

"That's it! You're still grateful to have rich parents papa, who educated you even though hard like this, Bass! Thankfully, my mom did not split. If you're a broken home kid, what would you be?"

Whahuh? Anggi didn't hear wrong, did he? Why did Bagas act as if he knew Anggi's life best?

Anggi fell silent before turning around and blasting a sharp gaze towards Bagas who was also challenging him. Instantly the reaction of the house became hot and everyone was confused as to what to say. It's all out of control.

The girl turned to Bass, trying to find again what signal the man would give to fight Bagas. All Bass did was clench his two palms together and bow once, then smile. All right, Anggi understands what that means.

Patience, "Thank You!" said. "Unfortunately om not Anggi's parents so om do not know if papa or mama love both Anggi or jingga."

The girl again continued her path by still hearing what insinuations came out again from Bagas' mouth. But he will not hear it again, because as soon as possible he took his bicycle and immediately drove on the main road.

Gladys once said that his parents loved Anggi, and that it would happen at any time. Indeed Anggi was not sure if what Glad said was true, but he did not accept everything that came out of Bagas' mouth.

Who is he? Does he know the origin of how Anggi can be here? The girl was in the village solely not because she was abandoned, but instead.

Anggi stopped in the middle of the road. His eyes were facing right front left back, not crowded. Honestly she wanted to cry but did not want to make Oma worry and be sad. He promised to be a strong man and now he reneged on that word. She wants to cry.

As soon as he turned his bike around, he re-introduced the main street and passed through Bass' house. Turning on the small road that would lead him to the lake, he was sure it was deserted. He had to reveal his heart to the wind, in order to make the heart can be a little calmer.

About five minutes, he reached a place in question. The sound of water droplets from the rocks was clearly heard creating small waves in the water that reflected the moss green.

Anggi parked his bicycle on grassy ground, then walked towards the chair by the lake. Quiescent. But his tears were rushing down his cheeks, as if this misfortune was his fault. Anggi wanted to curse his fate of being born to be unfortunate, but he remembered as he had to stay strong.

"Gue thought you were strong!" suddenly, someone's voice shocked him.

Anggi turned his head spontaneously towards the source of the sound, and saw Bass standing holding his bicycle right next to the girl's bicycle. Slowly Bass approached, and as much as possible the girl wiped her tears.

"Why are you here?" ask Anggi.

"I should be the one, princess!"

Anggi frowned, "Gue likes the same place."

"If I'm the same, I'm here because I like the place." Bass replied a little silly.

"Lo again in the same trial bokap lo?" Anggi sat back as Bass sat down next to him.

"I'm used to going when he talks again, males! I saw you passing by, you know I was following you." he replied.

Anggi nodded slightly, "Oh!"

"Sorry, he likes to talk long. He also often despises me anyway." said Bass, turning to the girl for a moment.

"Gue understand, honestly from the first time I met I was not good with him." Anggi breathed heavily. "Gue remembered the time he slapped you after receiving the letter I gave to your parents."

"Lo see?" Bass slightly nodded.

The girl nodded again, "Sorry! But that's because I'm the same way you are."

"That means I should apologize. I'm sorry, Anggi!" said Bass.

Anggi suddenly remembered the photo shot that Glad sent accidentally to the Bass address. It made him feel guilty again because it was for him that Glad had gone too far in this matter. Because Anggi can believe Cleo's words about Bass, if in fact the man who is now nearby is fine.

Just look at the gaze of his eyes that led blankly to that lake! From there Anggi can see that he is not the kind of brutal who deserves to be treated badly by his own father. So it seemed so sincere to receive all the untrue chatter from Bagas earlier.

More and more attention, much more stunning than just the face of the man. Her eyes are very beautiful, her eyelashes are flattened, until her jaw is firm. He's pretty charming for Anggi.

"Did you see me?"

Anggi flinched as Bass's voice woke him from a daydream. He only realized that Bass' beautiful eyes were pointing towards him and there was a frown on his forehead. How handsome the man looked even though he was in such a state of confused fools.

"Eh, there was a mosquito on your cheek! Want to hit but notar misunderstand." said Anggi lying.

"So the mosquito's gone because you saw it?"

"Huh?" Anggi nervous, confused to answer what else.

"Engga! Lupain." he said as he looked back at the lake and the leaves that occasionally fell from the trees around the edges.

"Lo ain't scolded by bokap lo? I mean, you went here all of a sudden when your problems were really big." Anggi mendelik, ventured to reconnect their conversation.

"Ga needs to be discussed, because he brings fake news!" said Bass. "It's crazy to believe the same thing people say. I'm not a junkie, I'm seventeen."

"If it were eighteen?" Anggi links his own fingers from one hand to the other.

"Ga too!"

"Nineteen?"

"Not necessarily!" Bass replied in a witty voice. "It depends!"

"Despite?" Anggi shrugs.

"Depends lo. If you want to go as far as me and make me stress, there is no guarantee I will not mabok rich people in soap opera!"

Anggi chuckles slowly to hear a joke from Bass which is even though only as close as joking, but enough to make him curl his lips. While Bass laughed a little, he realized his natural ability to fight his way out at a bad time like this, without Dio's help.

"Lo can you tell this village isn't the same as me? What is this remote village really?" Bass looked left-right, as if hinting that the village was indeed small.

"Engga. Lo said that because of the trip lo from the city to here menggelewatin rice fields mountain rice fields doang. If you go to the next village, you will not say that this is a remote village. Let's just say we're in a small town, a growing town."

"Oh yeah?" Bass mutters. "So what is the distance from here to the far city?"

"Far with the deket. Maybe I said deket because tomorrow I have school there. Return home as rich as Cleo." Anggi replied lightly.

"One school is Cleo?" ask Bass.

"Yes. The nearest good high school is just there. The quality can still be thumbs up!"

"Foothead?" Bass grinned slowly.

"What the hell?" Anggi laughed softly.

A cool wind still blew as Anggi turned once more to the man's face. All right, now's the time to be honest and realize he's interested.

The warmth of the air behind the thick clouds and the sun is very cheerful make the girl happy. It was as if happiness was contracted from the sun, but because of the new figure at his side, which again made him laugh, smile, blush, and hope. As long as he could look at her, he did not want to blink for a few seconds.

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