Part 10: Dating!

Zia stopped doing her calculus homework which is still stay in front of her, and she replaced it with the screen of her phone that she was currently using.

One new message from Eza.

E Z A: Zi, are you busy?

Zia Anastasya: No, why?

E Z A: I'm goin to video call with you, may I?

Zia seemed think for a moment after read Eza's offer.

"Um ... yes or not? Just video call no problem, Zi!"

Zia Anastasya: Ok!

After twenty seconds that Zia passed by holding her breath deeply, the man finally contacted Zia—which Zia immediately picked up by slided the switch to the green character right from the screen.

"Zi ...," called Eza from her lhone screen.

Zia smiled at her phone camera. "Yes I am, what happened?" asked Zia.

"Nothing happened. Uhm ... I just miss you right now. Tomorrow, after class, are you busy?"

"Nothing, why?"

"Want to go out together? I'll buy meatballs for you tomorrow."

"Erm ..." Zia didn't reply, she then thought about her schedule for tomorrow. "I think I'm free. Where do you want to go?"

Eza looked excited when Zia agreed to his offer. "Yeeess! You dont need to know first, it will not surprising later if you know that."

“Hmm ... You will not kidnap me, right? I am too young,” Zia instead let out a sneer.

"Yeep, tomorrow I'll kidnaps and keeps selling you, hahahah!" Eza instead turned around to mock her.

That's night, Zia spent her time chatting with Eza via video call.

That night, Zia no longer guesses even though she is still curious. Of course, there is still tomorrow.

She can still ask Eza for answers tomorrow.

... -toxic- ...

Who would have thought that today would be this awkward?

After the class over, Eza took her to go—even though Zia hadn't actually said goodbye to Naya if Zia wouldn't eat with her today.

"Where we gonna go?" asked Zia as soon as Eza pulled her hand. Zia could feel the warmth of the man's palms when Eza pulled them.

"You will also know later. Come up!" Eza did not give the slightest clue where they were going.

Zia raised an eyebrow in surprise, but a moment later she immediately climbed into Eza's motorcycle seat. Slowly, the big motorbike started to break down the city streets.

Sreek!

"Hold me, so you will not fall," Eza exclaimed as he pulled Zia's hand, asking the owner to wrap her hand around Eza's waist.

Although feeling awkward, Zia finally did it. 

"Where we gonna go?" asked Zia who was still amazed.

"What? I can't hear it!"

"Where are we going?!" Zia repeated loudly.

"I already answered it before, it's secret!"

Zia just silent and she didn't replied to Eza's words. Her heart felt irritated because the man kept throwing secret words at her, but she couldn't do anything about it herself.

Not long after their chit-chat over, Eza's motorbike finally stopped at a lake that Zia had never seen before.

Understandably, Zia migrants from other areas who try to knit hope in this beautiful city.

"Whoaaa, amazing!" Zia was amazed by the view that was presented. "How can you know a place as cool as this, anyway?" asked Zia in disbelief.

"I am Eza and I already know anything, you know?" Eza prided himself. "But this isn't all I want to show you, I ... actually ...."

Zia looked at Eza with a frown. "Why are you so nervous? Just relax again," he interrupted with an awkward laugh. Actually, Zia, herself was feeling a little nervous. Her heart seemed to be pumping blood faster. Zia was not a woman who is insensitive, she just doesn't want to prejudice too much beyond her expectations.

Because if it's too high, it hurts too.

"I actually like you." Eza spoke in one breath while closing his eyes. He felt very nervous, because expressing his feelings was not an easy thing to do.

"Huh? What?" Zia tries to confirm what she just heard from Eza.

Instead of being shy or anything, Zia seemed to be coding for him to repeat what he had said before. Gradually Eza became annoyed with Zia's slow side.

"I already said ..." Eza took another breath before speaking in a tone one step higher, "I likes you, Zia Anastasya."

"Eza ... like me?" repeated Zia who was responding to the information that just left Eza's lips, accompanied by a nod of Eza's head when he heard Zia repeat his words.

Realizing that she was being shot, Zia hurriedly lowered her head. Her cheeks suddenly flushed red as her heart pumped blood much faster than before.

“Sorry if my feelings made you feel burdened. I ... just want to say it. Sorry, Zi .... "

"No, I am not!" Zia cut quickly, didn't eant the moment in front of her to be too fast. "I-I also likes you, Eza."

Zia nodded again after expressing her feelings. Eza laughed dryly at Zia's confession.

"So ... we're dating, now?" he asked Zia.

"Hmm ... What do you think about us now? It's according to you." Zia looked at Eza who was taller than him, without raising her head and saw Eza's silhouette through the bangs on her forehead.

Eza did not immediately reply to Zia's words. He was still laughing and ruffled the top of Zia's head anxiously.

"Accorded by me ... yes. So, now Zia is Eza's girlfriend!"

Eza stopped his activities, and saw Zia who was still stealing glances at him hurriedly averted his eyes. Eza held Zia's cheeks, asking her to look at him.

"Don't be embarrassed, seeing Eza."

Zia, who had been trying to avoid Eza's eyes, now looked at the man closely. Reflexively her forefinger touched the base of Eza's sharp nose, and followed the shape of his nose bone.

"How come Eza is more sharp than Zia?" she asked innocently, the first question after Eza announced that he and Eza were dating, it's really ridiculous because Zia doesn't know what to do.

"So that later Zia can fix her offspring and her children won't be snubby like Zia, hahah." Eza brought his nose to Zia's hair, then rubbed his nose there.

"Ezaaa, it's so dirty! Later the your dried snoot will fall into Zia's hair, how could you dared it?!" Zia shook her head quickly, hoping Eza would feel uncomfortable and stop putting her nose there.

"No one will know that it's a dried snoot. Most other people think that it's Zia's hair dandruff." Eza chuckled at Zia's words, but he couldn't keep teasing her, so he immediately took his nose away from Zia's hair.

"It's pretty different of a dried snoot and dandruff," said Zia. "Tidy up Zia's hair, please! You made my hair like a messy lion!"

Eza was still chuckling while his hand moved to fix Zia's hair according to the girl's order. "Oh dear, Zia. Eza, I'm sorry, hahahah. "

"Yes, I'll accept the apology," said Zia.

"Well, if Zia keeps sulking, we'll cancel dating, then?" Eza dramatizes his current condition.

"Is that means we break up, now?" Zia even confirmed his current condition, making Eza really couldn't help but laugh at Zia's innocence.

"No, we just started, why does we break up?"

-To be Continue-