-CHAPTER. 01-
I took a deep breath as I entered an online taxi that I had successfully ordered and arrived exactly one second before the rain fell to wet the ground I was standing on now.
After giving the address of the apartment building in the Sudirman area, I switched to sliding the screen of my cellphone, opening the chat application of millions of people who might have an important message coming in, because after lunch I didn't touch my cellphone at all again.
The office atmosphere today was so hectic for some reason, even though we were only visited by the son of the office owner who would replace the big boss for the next few months.
But all of us from each division had to provide the latest report today without missing a single second of the office closing time. I and the finance division staff who had to collect the most reports worked like people possessed. Our focus was only on the computer screen, nothing else.
Even though the finance division which is usually known to be the noisiest, today the atmosphere was so quiet mixed with tension, no one was chatting or eating snacks like they usually do.
When I arrived in front of the apartment building that I had always visited for the past three years. I immediately got out of the online taxi with careful steps, considering that the streets were now filled with puddles after the rain.
"Hey Des, come here quickly!"
I quickened my pace when I saw Gina in the apartment lobby still wearing her work clothes and carrying a plastic bag in her right hand.
"Sorry it took so long, it was really hectic at the office." I said when I was right in front of Gina. "Relax. It's just the two of us." I nodded in response to her words. We walked into the elevator that would take us to the fifteenth floor where Gina's apartment was located.
"What else is missing for the boutique opening?" I asked when Gina had returned with a tray filled with hot tea and some cookies. "Vera said the progress is ninety-five percent. It's just missing the small things, like clothes hangers and some mannequins."
I nodded my head briefly because I had never directly monitored the conditions and decorations inside the boutique that we built together and would officially open at the end of this month, about two weeks from now on our ninth anniversary.
"I still can't believe that we can finally realize the fourth list of our future plans." Gina said, which I confirmed in my heart.
Gina was right, I also didn't believe that the four of us could finally realize the fourth list of our future plans that we made nine years ago in the school cafeteria. "I didn't believe it either Gin hehehe."
I frowned in surprise when Gina suddenly looked at me while narrowing her eyes. "Soon you can express your pent-up feelings hahaha."
Taking a deep breath, I tried to neutralize the pounding in my heart, remembering that the moment I had been waiting for would soon arrive.
But..
"I'm actually hope that before all of our future plans are realized, this feeling will lessen a little, or even disappear if necessary." I said, staring at the cup of warm tea with a dazed look, thinking about the possibilities that would happen if I expressed these feelings.
"Oh, you can't do that, Des. You have to express your feelings so that he knows. Don't be the only one who suffers because of those feelings."
I agreed with Gina's words, but on the one hand I was afraid of the impact that would occur if I expressed these feelings. "The feelings that I feel until now are wrong, Gin. They shouldn't exist and grow in here. I'm afraid everything will be chaotic and end badly."
"Des, trust me. Express your feelings right on the day the last list of our future plans comes true okay? If I had known back then that you already had feelings for him, I wouldn't have agreed to Vera's suggestion!"
Yes, this is all just a my assumption. If only I hadn't easily had feelings for the opposite gender. If only I hadn't met him. If only I had strongly rejected Vera's suggestion. If only these feelings hadn't grown and developed. I wouldn't have felt the tightness I feel now for nine years. All of this is just a my assumption that is too late to regret.