DRIVING ME CRAZY (ENGLISH)

CHAPTER 11 : A Little Happiness

Darren was doing some paper work on his laptop, he chose to do it in the apartment rather than having to work overtime in his office as usual. As bright as the shadow of Mikaela's tears kept rolling in his brain, he felt both angry and sorry for the girl. The girl who was once became the closest person. The girl who made his relationship with Daffa more stretched. A girl who had broken a part of his heart.

Darren must repeatedly closed his eyes to forget those bad memories. If he hadn't come to Leo's office, he would had completely forgotten about Mikaela and his grudges because he now had Caroline. But God wills another by reuniting them, as if to give him a chance, after he had tried his best to find her and only now he found her. He had to make her really down like him.

The door to his apartment was opened by someone, without even looking that he already knew that Caroline was coming, Caroline had called earlier to come to cook for him, and who else knew the entry code into his apartment besides his future wife and his trusted aide?

Caroline walked in with some of her groceries, then put it on the table and scrambled around Darren's neck from behind. Darren, who was sitting in his office chair, was still typing something on his laptop.

"Do you know what happened today?" Caroline tightened her arms, whether Darren was disturbed or not.

"Hm? What's wrong?"

"I almost got robbed."

Darren's hand stopped, he looked back, staring at Caroline with anxious face.

"Are you okay?"

"I am fine."

"How could it happened?" Darren stood holding Caroline's hand and led her to sit on a single soft sofa in front of his super large television.

"I was waiting for Alex to pick me up, and suddenly a man pulled my wallet from behind."

"It doesn't matter to me, if he takes your wallet, all I ask is you."

Caroline supported her chin, looking at her fiance with a happy look because he was worried about her. "You see I'm okay? But ..."

"But what?"

"I feel sorry for your secretary, Mikaela."

Darren frowned.

"She helped me earlier, she chased the pickpocket, and you know? The pickpocket pushed her so hard that she dislocated his hand."

"That girl?"

"She has a name, honey. Mi-ka-e-la."

"Yes, she is."

"Her hands are swollen, his lips hurt as well. She didn't know that it was me, but she still helped me. She's a good girl."

Darren cleared her arms crossed in front of his chest. " Don’t conclude that she's a good girl yet because she helps you just once and then. We don't know what's on her mind."

"I think she's a good person, Rendy is always with her. You know? I think they're dating."

"What do you mean?"

"I accidentally met her because she helped me when she was having an appointment with Rendy. I'm very sure they have a relationship because Rendy is very attentive to Mikaela. His gaze can't lie."

Darren's hand was clenched into a fist. It was undeniable that they did have a special relationship, maybe they had always been in a relationship, Mikaela easily turned to him from Daffa.

Darren felt because of his stupidity and Daffa’s that they did not know Mikaela was only pretending to be an innocent girl.

"His taste is very low huh."

"Who do you mean?"

"Rendy."

"Rendy? I think Mikaela is a beautiful and kind girl, it's only natural that Rendy falls in love with her."

Darren did not respond anymore to what Caroline said, he knew long ago that Rendy did have special feelings for Mikaela but he did not think that Mikaela might have the same feelings. Darren got up to get his glass glass and poured champagne into the glass, with one gulp he finished the alcoholic drink then returned to sit next to Caroline.

"Slowly, honey." Caroline stroked Darren's chin, which was covered with thin beards, which made her even more handsome. "You're very tired, aren't you?"

"Yes, a little, I have to finish this work because tomorrow I will go to Indonesia."

"What for?"

"There's something I have to take care of there."

"Will you be there for a long time?"

"Maybe about a week."

"What do you need, I'll pack it for you."

Darren grabbed Caroline's shoulder and laid her head on Darren's lap. "I don't need to bring anything to go home to my house."

Caroline chuckled. "Maybe you need to take me."

"When we get married later." Darren stroked Caroline's hair gently.

"Oh, yeah, you shouldn't be too fierce with Mikaela, I’m sorry for her sprained hands, don't give her too much work."

Darren's mood disappeared instantly since Caroline discussed Mikaela again. Darren raised Caroline's head and pushed her body away.

"I want to take a bath." he said briefly leaving Caroline who only shrugged her shoulders and carried her groceries into the kitchen.

***

"I can't stop by, because I have something to do." said Rendy as soon as the car stopped in the lobby of Mikaela's apartment.

"It's okay, after all that I need is a massage for my hands." Mikaela moved her wrist.

Seeing Mikaela getting ready to get off, Rendy got out of the car and opened the door for Mikaela. He knew that the girl had difficulty opening the door.

"Thank you." said Mikaela as soon as she got out of the car.

"Do you want me to pick you up tomorrow?" said Rendy.

"It's okay, I'll take the bus."

Rendy sighed, he was able to guess what Mikaela's answer. "Alright princess, I will go first. Give my regards to Aunt Salma."

A nod, a smile, and a wave of Mikaela's hand showed that the girl was fine. Rendy immediately got back in his car and sped up at medium speed, watching Mikaela in the rearview mirror. The girl had entered her apartment building.

Rendy accelerated the speed of the car to the streets that look lonely. He pulled over, took his cellphone and tried to contact someone.

"Get information about pickpocketing that happened on the xxx road near the ancient bookshop xxx." said Rendy as soon as the telephone was picked up.

“...”

"I want to know who the culprit is."

"....."

"Put him in jail, if that isn't the only pickpocketing he does."

Rendy closed the cellphone. His eyes stared at the road in front of him. He was very angry when he found out Mikaela was injured because of the incident. Even though he had promised to protect Mikaela. As a brother. Yes, of course as a brother, because Mikaela only consideredhim as a brother.

***

The atmosphere of the office still looked quiet this morning, Mikaela had arrived a few minutes ago. She was talking to an office boy who was cleaning the office lobby while waiting for Tiwi.

Because it was still too early, so Mikaela could relax for a while before going up to the floor of her room, the floor that was like hell because there was only her, Darren and some office boys and office girls.

Mikaela saw Tiwi jogging while justifying her pants. She was amused to see Tiwi's behavior.

Tiwi smiled when she saw her best friend waiting for her.

"What happened to you? Are you okay? I heard from Rendy that your arm was dislocated because you were pursuing pickpocketing? You know that many people recorded you and you went viral on social media?"

Tiwi kept asking questions about Mikaela. But what's more important is her last words.

"What did you say? Viral?"

"Yes. You, I've seen it."

Mikaela covered her face with one hand. "Gosh that is embarrassing."

Tiwi laughed. "You're great and very reckless."

"It was just a reflex." Mikaela's face turned red. "I'm ashamed to come out now. Surely my face will be recognized by people."

Tiwi was laughing more and more. "Stay calm, luckyly your face wasn’t visible, only your back and your hair covered  your face when you fell, but I could immediately recognize that it was you." Tiwi did not stop laughing.

"Really?"

Tiwi nodded steadily.

"Thank’s God." Mikaela heaved a sigh of relief.

"So how are you feeling?"

"Yes, this is it, I'm fine, only my hands are still difficult to move, my fingers are also hard to move."

"How insolent that pickpockets, if I were there I would definitely hit repeatedly."

"You're late to say that, you didn't come even though you were the one who invited me and Rendy to meet." Mikaela rolled her eyes lazily.

"Sorry, I was suddenly called to work late by my division head." Tiwi showed his guilty face. "Speaking of which, the person you are helping is Darren's fiance, isn't she?"

"Yes, Mrs. Caroline."

"How come your life is full of coincidences like that? Hmm ... life is indeed cruel."

Mikaela didn’t want to discuss it. She looked at her watch, then patted Tiwi's shoulder.

"Time to work."

"Hey, you're so diligent, it's still morning."

Mikaela showed her swollen hands slightly in front of Tiwi's face. "I have a lot of work, if I don’t start now, it will not be finished, you see my hand? And imagine how will Darren look later if my work goes wrong?"

"You are right." Tiwi even more chuckled.

"You really are a good friend." said Mikaela sarcastically. "I'll go upstairs."

After saying goodbye to Tiwi, Mikaela immediately entered the elevator, she had to put her bag on the elevator floor to press the number keys. Then take it back, for this week maybe she would only use her right hand. Luckily her left hand was sprained instead of the right hand, otherwise she would had been very inconvenient. Now she even has been very inconvenient. She must thank God for giving her both normal hands, though now she was being tested.

Mikaela imagined how she would have to type reports and letters with one hand later. Maybe she would take overtime without paying to get her work done quickly.

Ting.

The sound of the elevator made Mikaela realized that she had reached the floor she was going to. Mikaela stepped into her room and found a woman there. The woman smiled sweetly at Mikaela. The woman Mikaela just saw.

"Was she fired? And that woman was his replacement?" Mikaela thought.

"Hey, are you Mikaela?"

Mikaela nodded.

"I'm Anna." The woman kindly reached out, introduced herself.

"Mikaela." Repled Mikaela no less friendly.

"I'll help you here until your hands heal."

Mikaela still digested the woman's words until she understood.

"How do you know?"

"Mr. Darren told me to help you as long as your hand still hurts."

Still a little distrusted, Mikaela asked again. "Is it true?"

"Yups, he called me last night, and ordered me to help you."

"Oh, I see, that's right, I sprained my hand so it was very difficult for me to do a lot of work. Please help me." said Mikaela finally.

"With pleasure." Anna smiled broadly. "This morning Mr. Darren flew to Indonesia for the next Sunday. So he asked you to cancel and rearrange his schedule."

There was relief in Mikaela's heart when she found out, she did not have to meet Darren in the near future. Because of the incident at that time, she felt really did not want to meet with Darren.

"Don't worry, you just have to set it up. I'll type it for you." Anna continued.

"Thank you Anna, you really helped me." Mikaela smiled sincerely.

She believed this was all because of Caroline. Her hand hurted from helping Caroline, the fiance whom Darren loved so much, so Darren sent someone to help her, not because he was worried about her. Mikaela must not feel happy because of this, but the heart is still the heart, could not be fooled, there was a glimmer of happiness in Mikaela’s heart knowing that Darren still had one good for her.