I'LL ALWAYS LOVE YOU
101. Dijbak
"When are you taking pictures of me? I didn't even notice it" asked Joel, revealing Ariel's phone with a wallpaper of Joel's photo.
The photo Ariel managed to steal while they were on the beach when Joel brought a surfboard with one hand, and one free hand was combing his hair.
As if he had just realized that, Ariel's face began to meet red and tried to take his phone back. However, Joel kept the phone away from him.
"Give me back my phone" asked Ariel to tiptoe to reach for her phone.
"Jawab first," pinta Joel smiled amusedly.
"Ukh,, your high body is sometimes annoying," Ariel's murmur could not reach the phone in Joel's raised hand.
Joel just raised his hand with his phone. Even though Ariel had tiptoed, still could not reach the mobile phone held by Joel.
"Don't blame my height, don't you feel that you're the one who's less tall here?" goda Joel chuckled softly.
"Joel, give, give,!" pinta Ariel keeps trying to reach for her phone.
"Jawab first, when did you pick it up?" pinta Joel's.
"If you can steal my picture, why can't I?" answer Ariel.
Ariel jumps up to grab her phone, but her balance falters when she lands and bumps into Joel. While Joel who was not ready with it staggered back and fell with Ariel on it.
'BRRUUKKKK,,,,!!!'
"Auuhh,," erang Joel held his head.
Ariel who was above Joel also held his forehead, until their eyes met.
"Are you hurt?" ask Joel.
Ariel nodded slowly, a moment later they laughed. Ariel immediately stepped away from Joel's body.
"Still sloppy, still" Joel replied as he woke up.
"Hey, you started it yourself" said Ariel.
"But I didn't ask you to jump," Joel replied.
"Ukh, that's it, right," Ariel failed to continue her sentence, making Joel laugh.
"So, what?" ask Joel.
"What?" Ariel asked.
"Well, that means you don't want your phone back" Joel replied, putting Ariel's phone in her pants pocket.
"When do you think I'll take pictures of you other than when we're on vacation?" answer Ariel.
"I know," replied Joel with a mischievous smile.
"I'm just teasing you," he added.
'Just look, I'll reply later, ' Ariel's inner self.
"Let's go home, I'll take you," Joel took to his feet.
"I brought my own car, Joel," replied Ariel welcoming Joel's hand.
"I'm fine to go home by myself" he added.
"Then I'll pick you up tomorrow after work, and we can go to David's place" Joel said.
Ariel nodded in agreement. The two of them came out of the training room with Joel holding Ariel's hand. Unaware when they stepped outside, Bram stood behind the door, watching them from the moment Joel came inside.
Bram just smiled bitterly as their relationship progressed. Envy infiltrated his heart when he saw how easily Joel changed the face of Ariel who initially looked depressed changed with a sweet smile on his face.
'I know I lost, and will forever lose to him. I felt a tightness in my heart when I saw you with her, but my heart became even more painful when I saw your sad face, Ariel,'
Bram took a long breath. Smile to himself, then leave.
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The next day, at night.
Nighclub is a place that will always be filled by people who want pleasure or just forget the problems they are facing.
At the bar table, the same man who came almost every night and sat in the same place sipped a drink in his hand.
He again filled his empty glass with a bottle of drink next to the glass, then sipped it until it was finished in one gulp. The one who was none other than Bram rubbed his head, then smiled wryly.
Returning from the office, without changing his clothes, he sat on a nightclub still with a shirt and tie around his neck.
"Excuse me,"
The soft voice of the woman behind him made Bram turn towards the source of the voice, but could not recognize who the woman who had greeted him was.
"Yes?" welcome Bram to raise his eyebrows.
"Is the seat beside you empty?" tanyakanya.
"Yes, go ahead if you want to sit down" Bram replied.
he had trouble recognizing anyone who greeted him because he was drunk enough. But in his heart he knew who she was. His voice felt familiar to him, but still Bram failed to remember who the woman who was now sitting next to him.
"Thank you" he said softly.
Bram chose to ignore the woman. He sipped another drink in front of him as his mind recalled Ariel.
"It looks like you're having a problem" said the woman, opening her voice.
"And that's not something you should know," Bram greeted flatly.
Bram pressed his temple, once again feeling that he had heard the voice of the woman sitting next to him, but again failed to remember it.
"I know, but telling something that makes your heart tight to others will make the tightness in your heart decrease" replied the woman.
In the dim light, Bram was still trying to recognize who the woman next to him was. However, the drunkenness made him only see something that looked blurry.
"It's related to the woman, the woman you love but she doesn't love you?" said the woman in a relaxed tone.
Bram choked for a while, but again put on his flat expression.
"Pft,, Ah sorry, it seems like my guess is right," the woman let out a slow giggle.
"Aahh, sometimes love can be so cruel. I also love someone and he loves someone else, even saying that in front of my face" she said.
"I'm not interested in hearing your story" Bram said flatly.
"It's cruel. Your words have passed, sir," he greeted with a smile.
The woman placed her hand on Bram's thigh, brought her lips closer to Bram's while whispering softly with her hand moving slowly on Bram's thigh.
"I can help you if you want, get the woman you love, or if you want a runaway though, I can help you too" she whispered.
"Remove your filthy hands from me" Bram snorted in an angry voice.
The woman immediately raised her hand with a scared face. Bram's eyes turned savage, as if not allowing anyone to touch him. A gaze that exerts pressure on anyone who defies his gaze.
"I'm sorry, I just want to help you feel better" she said.
"I don't need help from you, and I won't judge anything about you either, so step aside" Bram said with emphasis.
"Alright, well, I'm no longer meddling in your affairs. But, can we at least exchange our thoughts? Just a friend for a short conversation," said the woman did not give up.
The bartender offered the glass to the woman who was greeted with a sweet smile on her face. Slowly, the woman took a sip of her drink, occasionally glancing at Bram who had not yet responded.
"He rejected you even though you had shown him the sincerity of your love, yet he chose someone else. Was my guess wrong?" ask the woman without looking at Bram.
Bram turned his head quickly and saw the woman staring at the glass in front of him, turning the glass to play the contents.
"For the reason that you are not in his heart" said the woman again, this time with a wry smile.
"It's not her fault she's behaving like that to me" Bram replied.
"You're even still defending her after she made you like this, you really love that woman, don't you?" the woman faced Bram.
"It's a pity, he rejects a handsome man like you. Is the man he chose more handsome than you?" angled.
The woman continued to say as if she was digging into anything she could get from Bram.
"Because I hurt him, broke his heart" Bram said unknowingly.
Drunk that was plaguing Bram made him unconscious with what he said.
"He loved me a lot, and I loved him a lot. The difference is, I betrayed her true love by playing with other women, "the pause just before Bram continued.
"And, well, I became a bren*sek who shouldn't even get an apology from him, but he punished me by forgiving me, accepting me as his best friend, helping me when I had problems. The only thing I can do to repay her kindness is to support her with the people she loves now" Bram said.
The woman widened her eyes after hearing Bram's honest words. He really did not expect what he heard. Whether it was just pretending to be surprised to attract attention or really surprised, only the woman knew. However, the next second the woman put on a flat face.
"It's ironic" the woman murmured.
"Are you sure that man loves the woman you love?" ask the woman again.
"So far, I can feel it" Bram replied.
"Then what if your guess is wrong?" said it.
"I'll beat him up if he hurts him" Bram said.
"Teaching him won't solve anything, even if you kill him still won't change the fact that he's scraping another wound in the heart of the woman you love,"
"What do you think will happen to your woman?" said again.
Bram was silent and seemed to be thinking hard. The woman's words were as if she had managed to provoke him. Bram doesn't realize she put something in her drink right before Bram sips it.
"I don't care if I become his puppet as long as he no longer feels the pain I've been given" Bram replied.
Bram put down an empty glass after gulping down his drink. Fill it again and gulp again until emptying the contents of the bottle.
When Bram was intending to order one more bottle of drink to the bartender, heat suddenly invaded his body.
'ugh, what is this? Why is it so hot?' inner Bram.
Bram began to move uncomfortably, loosening his neck tie, hoping to reduce the heat he felt.
The woman beside Bram smiled as soon as she saw Bram's reaction. With careful movement, he grabbed Bram's phone, then searched for a phone number to call.
His hand moved to summon the bartender while pointing at Bram,
"She was very drunk, and I didn't know her very well. Can you help me call this number?" her door.
"But_,," the bartender seemed to object.
"It's just this number that he calls the most often. That means this number is the number of either his family or his girlfriend" she said.
"That's better than you letting him mess around here and bother other visitors,"
"Alright," replied the bartender after thinking for a moment.
"Don't tell me that I asked you to call her, it's wrong that if it's her lover she'll be jealous" the woman asked.
"I understand, thank you for reminding me and helping" said the bartender.
The woman left the nightclub, while the bartender contacted someone using Bram's phone with the name ARIEL on his phone screen.
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To be Contiued