LIEGE
HE'S SO DIFFERENT

"How was the movie?" ask Daffa after they sit across from each other at a small but comfortable restaurant

"Lumayan. Even a few times I almost screamed in shock." Daffa laughed at Erina's reply.

"I thought you were brave. I thought a tomboy chick like you weren't easily surprised."

"I'm still an ordinary girl and not every time I'm tough."

"Oh yeah? Since High School used to be in my eyes you were a tough woman. That's why I don't dare to get close to you."

"Well, how could you possibly want to get near me. You have a girlfriend. Moreover, one school also knows how my history and Ardian first met." Daffa laughed at this.

"I remember that incident. Until we graduate, it becomes one of the epic stories in our school. Even at the reunion yesterday they were still discussing it."

"Brutal huh?"

"Brutal yet interesting." Daffa stared into Erina's eyes for a few moments, making Erina misbehave.

"Ah, where there is brutal and interesting. People must have been afraid to see my brutality back then." Daffa just smiled.

"Rin, why do you want to date me?"

"Elo knows why."

"That's all?" Erina looks doubtful.

"Elo is different."

"Different how?"

"Already ah, why the hell discuss it continues. For sure I want to marry you, Elo" replied Erina straightforwardly. "What about elo? Why would you want to date me?"

"Curious." Erina raised her eyebrows next to Daffa's reply.

"Curious how?"

"Eitherway. When you 'applied to me' yesterday, I was curious. I want to know who you really are. Are you really tough or is there a soft figure behind your tomboyish appearance."

"I am who I am." Erina called the waiter to order.

"Well, what's the best wine?"

"Rin, can you not drink tonight?" ask Daffa quietly. The waiter standing beside their table looked puzzled.

"Why? You belong to the ranks of guys who do not want to walk with a drinking girl?" asked Erina sharply.

"Mas, I ordered this food, this and this. Drink cola and orange juice. Thank you." Thank you."

"If an elo like that means my initial judgment is wrong," Mood Erina began to change.

"Rin, I don't care if a woman drinks alcohol, even if I don't consume it myself. But I want us to talk in a conscious state not under the influence of alcohol" Daffa replied cautiously. Little did Daffa get any information from Ardian and Erina's parents about the nature of the beautiful girl sitting in front of her.

"Drinking a glass of wine won't make me drunk."

"i know's. But I don't want my future wife to get sick from consuming too much alcohol. You're not going to stop drinking anyway?"

"What did elo say? Wife-to-be? Funny ELO. Obviously you haven't accepted my proposal. How easy it is to call me a future wife."

Daffa chuckled at Erina's words. They had only met twice again, but somehow there was something about this girl that caught his attention.

"This date is a good start for us. From this date I also want to get to know you further. Not just based on what is seen from the outside. I'm sure behind your tomboyish and brutal look, there must be a girl with a kind and gentle heart."

"Do you want to change yourself?" erina asked suspiciously. Something he really doesn't like.

"No, I won't change you if you don't want to change. But if you have a little will to change for the better, I'll be ready to help you."

Oh my god, he's so different from others, inner Erina. During this time the men close to him only demanded he had to change better without being willing to accompany him through the process.

"Gue wondered why Britt chose to break up. And I'm sure you'll be a good husband and family leader."

"Our beliefs are different. And I don't want him to change his beliefs because I'm not out of his own will."

"Hey, what's your own smile? I admire my thoughts, right? Or again ask God why not from the beginning we are met."

"How do you know? I didn't say anything."

"Your facial expression says it all, Rin."

"Really's? My ex's always saying I'm incomprehensible, selfish, brutal."

"That's because they're not trying to get to know you well. They only want a beautiful and obedient lover who is ready to accompany. Not as a life partner."

"Wow, just a few hours we were with elo always managed to make me speechless with your thoughts," said Erina.

"Don't praise me excessively because if reality doesn't match the compliment it will only lead to disappointment. I just said what came to my mind and I don't think it went against the norm of living I believed in."

He is so amazing. Maybe it was God's plan for me, Erina thought.

"That means my choice is not wrong. I think elo is the right person," Erina said as she sipped the mineral water in front of her.

"You're seriously marrying me?" ask Daffa. "Even if we don't love each other?"

"Love? I don't dare to hope for love now. Because the people I love always leave me. Even I doubt they really love me."

"Then what makes you dare to ask me to marry you?"

"Eitherway. Maybe at that time I was impulsive just because there was one thing that made you different. But after talking a lot, I kind of realized that maybe the right guy to accompany my life."

"What if after a few dates, but I haven't been able to open my heart yet?"

"Yes, we have a marriage without love. We do not have to force ourselves to love each other. The important thing is to find comfort. I think it's easier to make someone else feel comfortable than to make that person love us."

"Is it so in the wounds they have inflicted on your heart that you can no longer love?"

"Gue didn't say I won't love anymore, but I'm tired of trying to get other people to love me." This time Daffa's feelings were mixed between admiration and pity.

"Not to pity me. There is no guarantee that we will not love each other in the end. Could have come home from here me or elo just realized the feeling of love. Or it could be after years of being with love that never appeared but instead a sense of comfort and mutual need that will be stronger dwelling in our hearts."

"I didn't expect Erina Aurelia Smith to have such a great idea. While other girls may be be begging to be loved by their partners," Daffa said.

"Gue is not as good as Daf thought. I'm just an ordinary woman with many flaws" Erina said with a faint smile.

"I'm getting curious, what great things I'll know on our next date."

"Don't put your hopes up too high, otherwise you'll be in pain when you fall."

"I don't expect much or rather don't want to put hope in our next date."

"Thanks Daf, I want to be a good listener. All this time the guy friend who often becomes the only place to confide in Ardian."

"Rin, is there something between you?" ask Daffa carefully.

"Gue and Ardian? There was no splash of chemistry or body attraction between us" Erina replied. "Elo's worried?"

"I need to ask this because I don't want to be mistaken for someone else's lover."

"How thoughtful of you. I and Ardian are just friends. Maybe he just thinks I'm a little sister."

"Thanks for your compliment. Honestly, tonight I feel very happy to know you more. I could only look at you from a distance. Now ....." Suddenly an announcement was heard through speakers who were in the restaurant so that Daffa could not continue his speech.

"Does this mean I can introduce you as a future husband to eyang Fatma?"

"If it can make the burden of your mind lighter, I would be very happy to help you. Of course on condition."

"What conditions?" erina asked confusedly. "Elo won't ask for a kiss from me right? I did get married first, but I'm also not a cute girl who wants to be kissed by a guy on a first date."

"That's not the condition, Rin. Although I won't refuse if you really want to be kissed." Daffa chuckled at Erina's puzzled look on the face. "The condition is, next weekend you come with me on vacation to the villa. How's it?"

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