A man wearing a tight white t-shirt accentuating his stocky arms, combined with black jeans and his hair still looks a bit wet, approached Alexa who looked at him awkwardly.
"Alexa... Why are you here? Where is Mrs. Siska?" he asked in surprise.
"Um, she... she has important business. That's why I decided to take another vehicle. I happen to be waiting for a bus that passes by," Alexa answered lying because she didn't want her boss's name to be tarnished and Melvin would hate her and then cut off the assignment, and she would be the result of her boss's anger.
"Is your house still far from here?" Melvin asked.
"It's very far. It took about 20 minutes to get there," Alexa replied, bending her face. she didn't know why she felt so nervous when Melvin looked at her so intensely. she became flustered and scratched her neck which didn't itch. "Eh, looks like I have to continue walking while waiting for the bus to pass."
Alexa immediately walked away from Melvin in the wrong direction because she was very nervous. That made Melvin smile faintly and called out to her. "Alexa, aren't you going home? Then why are you going back to the restaurant?"
Alexa suddenly stopped and took a deep breath. The girl slapped herself on the forehead. "Jeez, what am I doing here? Why be in the wrong direction?"
Alexa turned around until she had to go back past Melvin who was still standing on the road she had to pass. With a slight bow, she walked over and remembered that the man's smartphone was still in the suit she was wearing. The girl stopped again and looked at the man who was still standing beside the car looking at her until she became embarrassed.
"Why?" Melvin asked.
"Uh, you left your phone here," said Alexa, reaching into the tuxedo pocket to take out the smartphone and hand it to Melvin.
"Oh yeah... I just remembered that my phone is in this tuxedo. Thank you." Melvin received the phone and saw that there were several incoming messages from Joey. the man frowned when he saw the contents of the message.
___Melvin, I'm so glad you finally got a girlfriend. next time... you should introduce her to me, or bring her home and introduce her to mom and dad.___
___My problem marriage with Dante is over. I will still marry him according to the date that has been set because he allowed me to continue my career after marriage___
___You don't have to worry about my happiness anymore, ...I want to meet your girlfriend. . see you later at home___
Melvin sighed after reading all the messages, then looked ahead and realized that Alexa was gone. He looked the other way and saw the girl he had helped had already walked about 50 meters from him. The man returned to the car and immediately drove after the girl.
"Why can Joey say that I have a girlfriend? How strange..."
Melvin stopped his car again when he arrived beside Alexa, then immediately got out to meet her. "I'll take you home. Come on in!"
"Eh ... I'll just walk. Maybe soon the bus will pass." Alexa immediately refused with an uncomfortable look, then turned her face and continued walking but Melvin grabbed her hand instead.
"Earlier you said that a bus might pass, but no one passes. Now, you have to come with me. I'll take you home."
"But, sir...."
"Gosh, don't resist too much," Melvin exclaimed with a frown. "And don't call me that, I'm not your master!"
"That's a call of honor," said Alexa, glancing at Melvin who seemed to be controlling.
"This is outside of work. So, I don't need that honorific call," said Melvin then pulled Alexa to his car saying, "Now you come with me instead of walking and you will get dizzy, then faint again. Who will help you? what if it was a bad person who helped you, then you were taken to his house and… something bad might happen to you."
Alexa just stared at Melvin, who spoke as if he were a father advising his daughter. she also had time to be amazed at his handsome face with white face and a dashing body, even felt like she had met. The girl was so surprised that she didn't realize that the door had been opened.
"Hey, why don't you just come in quickly," Melvin called out.
"Eh.. yes."
Alexa immediately entered until the door was closed again by Melvin. she was amazed to see the inside of the car that seemed luxurious and very comfortable. 'how much is this car worth? It seems, Mrs. Siska also doesn't have a car like this. she must be very jealous of me if she finds out I'm in a car like this,' she thought with an amused smile.
Melvin sat in the driver's seat, glancing at Alexa who smiled to herself even though she looked tense and awkward. but he chose to remain silent and turned on the MP3 on the sports car until the sound of Forest black's song "If you love her" began to echo.
during the trip, they just kept silent occasionally glancing at each other, and would look away when their eyes accidentally met each other.
"Are you still dizzy?" Melvin asked after centuries of tired silence without a word.
"Not really," replied Alexa, realized that her dizziness had suddenly disappeared. Either because it fell into the pool or because it was side by side with that handsome man.
"Why is the direction of your house different from last night's?" Melvin asked remembering that last night he took Alexa to the apartment, not to the housing estate which was dominated by rented houses that were neatly lined up with typical Indonesian building styles.
"last night?" Alexa looked at Melvin with raised eyebrows.
"Yes. last night I took you and your friend to an apartment," Melvin explained as he stopped his car in an alley that wasn't too narrow so two cars could still pass.
Alexa suddenly fell silent and remembered Gea who said that when she was drunk, she had praised the man who had helped her and even prevented him from going home. and as it turned out, the man was now nearby to take her home again, even had time to help her when she fell into the pool.
"So... have we met before?" Alexa confirmed.
"Did you forget about last night?" Melvin asked.
Alexa just nodded and was very embarrassed at Melvin. Her face flushed like a ready-to-eat crab cake, imagining how she had looked so embarrassing in front of him last night. she doesn't seem to have the guts anymore to look at his handsome face.
"That's natural because last night you were very drunk," said Melvin with a faint smile remembering last night's events. He glanced at Alexa who now didn't dare to look at him at all. "Let's get off. We're here," he called then quickly got out of the car.
After a few seconds of searching for a way to open the sports car door, Alexa finally managed to open it. she immediately got out of the car and walked towards her rented house which was lined with other houses.
"Why is my suitcase in front?" Alexa wondered with a frown.
"Suitcase?" Melvin looked at a black suitcase in front of the main door of a rented house with plain white wall paint interspersed with silver on several sides.
when she arrived at the front porch of her rented door, Alexa immediately took the key from her bag and tried to open the door but it didn't work. "Why can't it be opened? even though this is the key I always use, even this morning I was still using it to open and lock this door?"
Alexa looked panicked, while Melvin clasped his hands watching the quiet surroundings, then glanced at Alexa's suitcase which was suddenly in front of the rented house.