Chapter 64 - The Magic Card II

"Haah.. Why do I have to marry a messy girl like you! Put your hair up, tidy it up first!"

The perfectionist CEO couldn't bear to look at Aruna. Her hair was dishevelled since chasing him earlier, including offhandedly sleeping on Hendra's back earlier.

"Who told you to accept me? You are the only grandson of your grandfather. Just run away with Ms Tania, who is beautiful and smells neat. I'm sure your grandfather will melt." Aruna grumbled while selecting dolls.

"My life is not as easy as you think."

"Or maybe you're jealous of her?" Hendra teased.

"Tch, in your dream!!" Aruna replied.

"I don't even like you." She added.

"What are you saying?"

"Repeat it one more time." Hendra threatened.

"I DON'T LIKE YOU!!" Aruna blatantly exclaimed.

"Oh, how dare you say that in front of your future husband with that innocent face without sin!" Hendra was annoyed.

The man raised his hand and looked into a fist as if about to hit Aruna.

Aruna closed her scared eyes. 

In fact, the blue-eyed man just angrily pinched Aruna's cheeks.

"Ouch... It hurts.. Get away from me!"

"Do we need to help that Miss?" A photographer looked worried.

"Nope, just let it!" Surya replied.

Aruna struggled to grab Hendra's hair and pulled him.

"Ouch... You!!" Hendra's head was pulled, spontaneously removed his pinch. 

Of course, Aruna immediately ran away.

"Are they really a future husband and wife??" Now the photographer next to Surya was felt queer, questioning.

"Shut up."

"I don't know what to say." Surya blindly replied.

Hendra didn't accept it. He walked with vast strides, following Aruna was full of threats.

The girl was picking items while half-running from hall to hallway.

"Go.. Go away.. Don't follow me!!" Aruna straightened up. Her hands reflexively gave a warning sign. 

However, she lost her guts again when Hendra approached. She then would run into another hallway with her shopping trolley.

"They look like Tom Jerry rather than a getting married couple."

"Shut up!" Surya hit the tip of the photographer's hat near him.

"Zip your mouth!!" Surya objected to what the photographer was saying about his boss.

Now, the little girl who acted a lot was confused. The trolley was full. It was ready to be paid. 

But, the running-bank had not revealed his face, even though he had been following Aruna while scaring her.

'Ah, where is he?' Aruna left the trolley near the cashier, looking for Hendra.

The man deliberately hid in the quietest hallway. He knew his luck always carried a magnet of its own. 

There would be another mischievous idea. 

The hallway was in the corner of the toys market. No one could see it.

Finally, what he was waiting for came. The man smiled with satisfaction in the real mischief. 

The crazy idea got back into his mind.

"Emmm .. Hendra, I'm done." Aruna hesitated.

"Then?" He started acting again.

"Come on, Master.. swipe your card..." Aruna seduced him.

"Come here..." The man was playing the card.

"You need this, right ??" Hendra asked, squinting. 

It looked like he was going to mess Aruna up.

"What else now?!" Aruna complained, capturing Hendra's expression.

"Yes... a little punishment for a girl who dares to disturb my company's valuable assets." 

What Hendra meant that Aruna hurt his brain. (-_- ')

"What do you want now??" Aruna asked.

"Hehehe."

"A little compensation." The blue-eyed man was leaning casually on the tall shelf while tapping his fingers on his cheeks.

"You, what a perverted man!!"

Hendra wanted Aruna to kiss his cheek.

"Eits... you have lots of groceries. It's not free though..."

"Wait.. but my card is very powerful.. So it doesn't matter."

"The problem is she asked for my money.. after persecuting me..."

"Tsk tsk tsk .. What a thankless girl." Hendra teased while talking to himself, annoyed Aruna.

"Persecute??"

"I just grabbed you." Aruna objected.

"You also pinched my cheeks." She was annoyed.

"Yes.. Now it's up to you.. Whether to pay or not." Hendra played his skill.

'Geez... the children must be happy to get that many toys'

'The toys they can't even dream of.' 

This girl was always too kind. She sometimes forgot herself.

Aruna slowly walked toward Hendra, tip-toeing, and trying to reach the Wenceslas Group's CEO's cheek.

Hendra closed his eyes, enjoying.

'Ah what's up?? Did she change his mind??' But Aruna's kiss didn't come right away.

"Come down a little!"

"You're too tall." Even with tip-toeing Aruna couldn't reach it.

"Oh." The man bent and aligned his body with Aruna's head.

"Geez." Aruna sighed, right before putting her lips on Hendra's cheek.

Hendra's ears turned red, right after getting something he desperately wanted.

"Thank you." He even had time to thank her.

"Pay it quickly!!"

Hendra was so happy, throwing his platinum card up to the air and quickly caught it again.

"This magic card gives me good luck!" He exclaimed while rubbing the unlimited card.

***

The teenagers' screams were faintly heard, attracting so much attention.

Aruna descended the escalator and stopped for a moment as a group of young girls ran around. 

Unconsciously, one of them hit Aruna's shoulder, causing the shopping bag she was carrying to fall to the floor.

"Hey.. be careful."

"Use your eyes!" Hendra cursed the teenager before helping Aruna to tidy up the scattered toys.

"Sorry, Sorry..." The high school-age youngster seemed to pause for a moment, apologized, and ran back as if there was no time to make amends for her mistake by helping tidy up the items she dropped.

"Are you okay, Aruna?" Hendra asked, not letting Aruna carry more shopping bags. 

Wiryo's grandson's hands were full of shopping bags, but he was still trying to bring those bags between his fingers. 

His bodyguard spontaneously approached, asking Hendra to give his belongings to them..

Aruna was on the 2nd floor when several crowded people around the floor guardrail that could be used to observe the stage down there. The 1st-floor stage of the shopping centre.

"Aaaa..." The girls noisy voices incessantly screamed, indicating the star had come.

"Aaa... Danu... Danu.."

"Danu Umar look at me..." The teenagers shouted someone's name.

'Danu Umar?' Aruna was curious too. 

She then moved closer to the crowd.

A familiar name in her ears came out from the people's mouths down there. This girl walked faster and looked for the best spot to infiltrate the 2nd-floor audience.

She forgot everything else, too focused on finding justification. 

Was it true that the star who came was Danu Umar a.k.a Damar, a friend and a man who carried many questions in her heart?

The star walked up the stage. He was tall, cladded in a blue outer and jeans.

He then seemed to lower his face because too many camera flashlights rained down on him.

A moment later, the MC asked for fans' understanding.

Finally, he waved his hand, greeting everyone, including the 2nd-floor audience. 

Aruna finally found what she was looking for.

'Oh, it's true. He is Damar.' 

Aruna had never seen Damar's performance. She only glimpsed him at Yout*be. She even deliberately avoided the young man's song lyrics.

Every time she heard it, it was as if she was brought back to that night. A long night over the city of Bandung, suffocating her.

A feeling that was clearly reflected in the eccentric young man's face.

And now, the feeling of tightness slowly creeped upon her.

"Good afternoon." The star greeted.

"Afternoon… Aaaa…." The audience's replies mixed with the girls' screams down there.

"Sorry, I came late. I will try to give the best performance for all of you."

The crowd screams slowly faded in Aruna's ears, replaced with the young man's attention-stealing loud voice down there.

"It's time to come back." Hendra asked after finding Aruna in the crowd.

Aruna slowly let go of her handrail, which was connected to the stainless railing curved around the edge of the 2nd-floor.

"This time's song for her which I call 'Reddish hue'." The crowd cheered, knowing the poet would sing his best song.

Aruna paused for a moment and returned to where she was before. 

Damar's voice answered the audience. They participated in singing the verses of a song composed 'for her, which is called reddish hue'. 

Aruna realized it was the meaning of her name.

The girl's eyes didn't want to escape from the figure below. 

Hendra carefully observed her.

He realized that he was the third person among two young people. 

In the past, he never cared about other people's feelings. He intended to focus more on the profitable end goal.

It seemed that the girl started opening her heart's door, together with the wound that was slowly stucked. 

One by one, the stubborn man's cold and deadly heart began to crack.

Aruna seemed to have received another call from the earth. 

Damar's voice transformed into electromagnetic waves that penetrated the boundaries of the Earth's atmosphere hovering in a vacuum.

It infiltrated and greeted her who was being hostage by an alien.