“Am I beautiful now?” I smiled and asked my twin, Zeren, whose eyes almost blinked from staring at me.

I know I’m beautiful, but of course, I need the opinion of others even if I only listen to myself, excuse me? We should just be the same as my twin thinks, what.

“Always, Veron,” she smiled then straightened my long hair.

“Will he like me?” I added to her again as I looked in the mirror and stared at myself.

You can almost see my long thighs and my arms. There was only a little red cloth wrapped around my body, to make my beauty stand out even more. Even though my twins and I look alike, I need to look taller than them, as if when it is said beautiful, automatically referring at me, Veronika immediately!

“Hmm, I don’t think so. You’ve liked him for a long time, but … you know, he can’t even love you the way you love him,” she whispered then turned her back on me while adjusting the whatever things.

I know that. I’m aware of that.

But they say, you can’t get what you want all night long, maybe after a decade he still intends to love me, or maybe he’s still saving for our future, or maybe he’s ashamed. There are so many reasons and options just so I don’t get paranoid. Maybe that’s one of the reasons why we don’t have… relationship.

I just don’t want to ruin my day. I said goodbye to them and I drove myself. I’m not late yet but of course the first one is better, maybe later, he was there earlier.

For some moment, I couldn’t help but to smile because I remembered his text message to me yesterday. He wanted to meet me at a resto where it was my favorite, but I didn’t like that, maybe I said before that I wanted that resto but I don’t remember.

I never texted him back then because he might cancel in case I ask him so random question like are we going to date? But seriously, it was his first time to offer me so I put on the clothes that he would surely spit in front of me.

It’s a first date so everything should be perfect!

When I got to the very place that Zaffiro was referring to I immediately hurried down, I wanted to scream because the place is very romantic, there are many light bulbs floating in the air and there is still gentle singing, because this restaurant is located next to the lake and more the former became even more perfect, added more stars in the darkening sky.

“This is it, Zaffiro!” I whispered then walked to the venue.

I feel like a fool looking around, just to find where he is. But I immediately smiled when I saw him sitting alone while looking at the menu. I knew it! His already hungry. I was about to approach him when I saw a woman in white and unlike me she was simply wearing, only her arm was sticking out and she was tailed a ponytail. She sat across from Zaffiro then they both laughed softly.

“Who is that?” I asked.

I remained standing, I didn’t know if I would come because it was embarrassing because I didn’t even know that girl. Entrepreneurs too maybe.

But my eyes immediately widened when Zaffiro turned to me so it knit. I even managed to stare at him, I even managed to make him smile before I decided to turn my back on them. Every walk I take is accompanied by the beating of my heart. I can’t run because the heels I’m wearing are too high, I don’t want to get hurt, maybe he won’t let me like when I look ugly.

Or maybe he doesn’t really like me.

“Veron?” a deep voice came from behind me. I could not move. But there was only one thing I was sure of, I smiled as wide as I had shown him before.

“Hey, Zaf!” I happily said to the man who was very perfect especially in his white polo.

He stared at me and what I was wearing, which he quickly averted his gaze from my body.

“What are you doing here? Why are you wearing that?” he wondered as I bit my lip.

I avoided wrinkling and then secretly flicked my fingers. “Didn’t you text me already? Let’s meet up here, that’s it,” I said to him then he swallowed.

“Y-Yeah, but did you receive my text after that? I messaged you, that was a wrong sent. Did you received?” His poor question and only then did I realize.

I quickly looked at the messages and saw that it was in the inbox, Zaffiro’s reply to me.

From: Zaffiro

I’m sorry, wrong sent.

I immediately nodded because of that, I immediately turned off the cell phone and then looked at him without taking away the smile. How can I read that? I didn’t even open my cell phone yesterday when I read his previous message. Of course, this was my first time to receive the message from him sounds like he wants to date me. How can I read that if he invited me here to a beautiful place, then I even asked my twin to fix me for tonight. So I never read.

Almost perfect. Almost.

“Ah? Is that so? All right, I’m just leaving. I might catch up with our party. I’ll go ahead, bye—”

“Do you want to eat first? Come with us,” he offered me weakly then I turned to the woman waiting for Zaffiro.

“Oh, not anymore. All right, I’ll go ahead. Go back to her, sorry for the inconvenience,” I whispered then turned around.

Fortunately, I was able to turn my back on him before my tears finally flowed. I didn’t bother to look back, but because my eyes were treacherous and I was stupid, I chose to look back.

I just want to be happy, but why is that the world always against me?