Chapter 11: Dating (2)

Both of them chuckled at Eza's words.

"After this class, are you free?" asked Eza.

Zia shook her head. "Nothing, It's the last."

"Oh, okay. Do you wanna go to see sunset with me today?" Eza offered which Zia immediately nodded.

"Okay!" Zia hurriedly replied, made Eza laugh and back to ruffling Zia's hair anxiously.

Two person who had just confessed their feelings to each other were now dissolved in the silence of nature with their thoughts on the thin grass, sitting down a thin distance.

"Zi ... stay with me, please?" said Eza.

Zia looked seriously at Eza. Instantly when Zia turned around, the two pairs of eyes collided with each other. "Why did Eza ask that?"

"I just afraid ... to be alone."

As if there was a heavy weight hovering over the man, the cheerful radiance on his face slowly faded as the sun rays slowly drowned himself in the water line Zia could not see its boundary.

The face that had always looked happy, now looked so weak, like a dark cloud slowly covering the splendor of the sun.

Zia immediately took Eza's hands. "Eza, don't think like that. You are not alone, I am sure. Because here I am, besides you. "

"Thank you, Zia." Eza suddenly erodes the distance between them and hugs Zia affectionately. “Thank you for accepted me with all of unperfect me. Thank you, Zi."

Zia smiled when Eza's talked to her. "There's no one perfectly in this world. I love you just the way you are, not as a perfect boyfriend in the world. No, I don't need that," said her. "Moreover, I like you since you helped me in front of our seniors, I like you as you, Eza. I don't think to see anybody here." She chuckled after said that.

"Hopefully we can get through tomorrow like today yes, Zi."

"Sure."

Two people beings who don't remember the time, now enjoyed the time that seems to be moving slowly, enjoyed every second of the new togetherness between the two of them, delivering warmth amidst the increasingly cooling temperature through a hug.

"

It's getting late, we go home now, okay?"

Eza, who now realizes that the sun has passed away, now invites Zia to move away from there.

"Come on!" Without any burden or anything, Zia immediately replied.

Zia got into the passenger seat. She almost tripped when Eza suddenly pulled her hand.

"Hold on, I don't want to see you fall," he said while guiding Zia's hand to curl it around his stomach.

Zia did not refuse, letting the man lead her before the motorbike that Eza was riding in started to run and slowly cut through the city streets.

Enjoy the beauty of the city night with sparkling lights that seem to try to replace the charm of the sun during the day and become a night star whose population is gradually decreasing in the urban sky.

"Beautiful," muttered Zia slowly.

Today is a day that Zia can not predict. Happiness continues to pump in his chest.

Twenty-four OOctober,two thousand and eighteen.

In front of the lake and the sun that slowly sank, the feelings of the two seemed to be more pronounced. In the midst of the euphoria that was so fast approaching Zia, he hoped that nothing bad would happen in the future.

Zia just wants to be happy, and continues to feel this feeling for a long time. Zia hopes that God will listen to Zia's little prayer.

... -toxic- ...

"Bye!" Zia throws her hands in the air, forming a “goodbye” gesture after Eza drives her home. Her feelings continued to burst with happiness, and according to Eza's previous promise, the man treated her first before escorting her home.

After Eza's silhouette was no longer visible, Zia turned around and slowly turned the doorknob.

Sreeg.

Slowly, she closded the door again.

"Where did you come from?" Naya asked when Zia entered the door of their rented house. Her hands clasped to her chest while her eyes stared straight at the lit television screen.

Zia sighed as soon as she realized that it was Naya sitting on the sofa. "I thought you were a ghost, Nay," she said while stroking his chest, which was shocked when she heard Naya's voice echo.

Naya turned around in a slow motion, then looked closely at Zia's face. "Where did you come from?" Naya repeated her question.

Instead of answering, Zia smiled shyly at the doorway, then ran and hit Naya's body with one hug.

“Naay! I did it! I did it!" She screamed while she hugged Naya's body tightly.

"Huh?" Naya stared, not understanding what Zia had just said. "You ... are date?"

Zia straightened her head, still hadn't released her embrace and nodded her head loudly. "Yeeep! I'm dating with him!"

"Seriously? With whom?" Naya broke the hug between the two, and started the interrogation session. "How could he dates you? When did you guys go out?"

“Double serious! I am dating now with Eza! Well ... since entering college. Em ... earlier. "

“Finaaaally! Oh God, thank you for removing the curse of this single friend of mine!" Naya suddenly cheered after listening to Zia's answer. "I can guess, you and your white horse prince like each other, am I riight?!"

"What the heck," she exclaimed even though Zia herself couldn't cover her happy face.

"Why are you guys so noisy?" Gwen, who had just arrived, stared in amazement at the two of them. "Don't tell me that you're crazy like hell."

Naya and Zia laughed for a moment at Gwen's taunt, before finally Naya shouted immediately, “Gweeeen! Don't cook today! Zia will buy as food tonight! Because she just went out! ”

"It's uncommon for Zia to buy us aㅡwait ... what did you say, Nay?" Gwe walked quickly to the sofa, while Zia hastily covered Naya's mouth so as not to continue her story, but it was too late.

Naya first escaped herself and ran towards Gwen. "Zia went out with her prince on white horse!"

“Crazy! Are you sure?!" Gwen's pupils widened at Naya's words.

Naya nodded, "Yes!"

Gwen then walked towards Zia. "Oh, my God! Finally Zia goin' out from single zone after for seventeen years, Oh my God! Thank you!"

And just like what Naya had previously done to Zia, Gwen also prayed as if Zia had always lived single for thousands of years and was pathetic.

"What the heck, I think I'm so crazy," complained Zia.

"It's really cool!" Naya and Gwen answered at the same time and then stuck their tongues at Zia. They clearly remembered how Zia had been acting.

"Zi, you remember when we went to the mall and you saw people walking together?" Naya suddenly asked them to play back the memory.

Zia's forehead frowned for a moment, while her brain worked to find pieces of memory regarding the thing mentioned by Naya. 

"Remember, why?" he asked in amazement.

"That means you also remember all your things to people who are dating at the mall!" shoot Naya.

Zia fell silent, then let out her signature grin. "Hahahaahh ... it's because they are overreacting, Nay. It's normal for netizens to comment."

"Heeeeeh!" Gwen and Naya shook their heads at Zia's glint.

Suddenly, Zia's phone notification rang. The woman immediately sat down and opened her cellphone notification.

Behind her, the two friends inched closer to him, both of them were annoyed by the notification Zia received.

One message from E Z A.

E Z A: Thank you for today ^^ don't forget to sleep, babe!

Zia Anastasya: Ok! Good sleep for

Zia stopped moving her fingers, turned to the left, then turned to the right. "What are you doing, anyway?"

Caught peeking, Naya and Gwen laughed awkwardly.

-To be Continue-