Agreement With My Two Friends
Episode 12's
Tomohon City, a beautiful city located in North Sulawesi. This morning in the city of Tomohon, when the new sun rises and the clean cold air is still blowing. But the people in this city began to spread and do their own activities.
In a lake with a beautiful view, warm sunlight radiates and passes through the trees around the lake, leaving a mark of light on the water surface.
On this Sunday many young people and even adults do their activities at Lonow Lake, just to walk to see the scenery around, exercise and even joke with relatives.
Edo with his two best friends just sat in a long chair, a chair that was right on the edge of the lake. There was no burden visible from their faces, they seemed to be detached from the tiredness of the school situation.
Smiles and reprimands greet the residents, being one more value in the city of Tomohon, hospitality without hypocrisy emanates markedly from every face of its citizens. The flowers bloom beautifully in January, the fragrance is bubbly and soothing.
The beautiful city of Tomohon, with a very fitting nickname as the City of a Thousand Flowers, makes Edo grateful to be born in this city.
“Edo, don't you want to follow your father to America?” ask Hengkie at that time.
“No, I like it here” replied Edo while throwing small pebbles into the lake.
“If your father forces?” connect Devi.
“Stay I don't want” replied Edo who was still throwing small pebbles into the lake.
A Land Rover car stopped at a black-fenced house, out of the car came a pair of cool married couples maximum. 😎
They are Santoni and his aunt Stefani.
“Bebs, wait here aja well, just a moment kok” said aunt Stefani who brought a lot of packages.
“Ok bebs, fast well, I'm tired of taking a break” said om Santoni with his left hand leaning on the car cup.
“Sippp...” replied aunt Stefani who walked into Edo's home page.
The locked door of the house makes Aunt Stefani have to take out a duplicate key, in the house aunt Stefani pay attention to every room, the room that looks clean, not the same as the last she saw.
While Santoni was waiting for his wife in the car, he saw Edo speaking in front of the fence and entered immediately, Santoni scrunched his forehead, he immediately opened the car door to catch up with Edo who had entered the yard.
“Edo...” call om Santoni with sunglasses attached to his face.
“Eh Om... has it been a long time? Where's aunt?” ask Edo.
“Tante is inside, bring souvenirs for you” replied om Santoni.
“Wahhh should be om and auntie don't bother” Edo said with a shy smile.
“Ahhh... it's okay, om and aunty are confused about where to spend money, so buy a lot of souvenirs for nephew om beloved” explained om Santoni with his cool style.
Edo who heard the words om Santoni laughed, om Santoni always made him laugh every time he met, whether it was his words or his behavior, he said, it does not feel funny about Santoni so the most awaited Edo if they meet.
“Oh yeah, by the way who were you talking to?” ask Santoni while taking off his sunglasses.
“With friend Om” answer Edo lightly.
Om Santoni looked surprised, he was surprised by the answer of his nephew, he had not had time to speak, a voice sounded from behind Edo.
“Eh uh uh... aunt's nephew, from where?” ask aunt Stefani who immediately approached Edo and kissed him.
“From lake aunt, just finished sports” replied Edo whose cheek was sambar by the cheek of aunt Stefani.
“Oh... it's aunty bring some snacks” said aunt Stefani with her sweet smile.
“Ahh yes” replied om Santoni with an unusual face.
On the way, Santoni was still thinking about what he saw and what he heard from his nephew, sometimes he saw his wife's face, he knew very well his wife was so dear to Edo, he said, he didn't want his wife to think about him or Edo. There was nothing he could talk about at that moment, until they arrived home and slept to rest.
The sound of a vehicle was heard in front of Edo's house, a black motor matic on the lawn.
Edo's schedule today goes to Manado, there is a book exhibition there, this time he is alone without Hengkie and Devi. Once every month, there is an exhibition in the city of Manado capital of North Sulawesi, the exhibition is held in a mall close to the beach.
The exhibition is held every month, not just books, but varies, from laptops, mobile phones, building tools and much more.
The mall is crowded by a lot of people, from shopping, looking around or even just sitting and standing around the mall.
The entrance of the mall opened automatically, from the beginning of the entrance, Edo was amazed by the books that lined up neatly on the left shelf, some writing plastered on the shelves, ranging from Literature, Physics, and other materials, Story and so on.
Edo quickly approached the shelf to the left, his eyes were so sharp that he watched every book followed by his lips that continued to tremble.
“Apei... Apey... Apei..” a word came out from Edo's mouth that kept looking towards the book.
“Apei... Apei... hmmm... why is there no well, is there possible?” muttered Edo who turned to look at the shelf on the right.
“Hmmm... but the shelf is a shelf of cooking books, it could not be there” Edo still muttered.
At that time Edo was silent, he was filled with questions that continued to scare his heart, “how if the book does not exist, what if the book is up, free to come here all the way and so forth”. Those were all questions that bothered Edo back then.
A man with thick glasses, with a lifespan of about 30 years continued to notice Edo from the right shelf. Because Edo had stayed too long, the man immediately approached Edo and asked.
“Siang Ka, Kaka again search book well?” ask the man.
“Ah Yes Ka, is here a book Apeirogon by Colum McCann?” ask Edo who eloquently mentioned the name of the book.
“Ahhh Apei book that tells about friendship?” ask the man again.
“Iya right, is there?” Edo asked back.
“Of course, wait a minute” the man said with a flash running towards the back of the shelf.
Not long after, the man returned with a gray book with a swallow-like pattern. Edo's eyes were immediately fixated on what the man had brought, painted bliss from Edo's face,
“Nah... here he” murmured in his heart by continuing to pay attention to the book that was held by the man in front of him.
“This Apeirogon Colum McCann” said the man who immediately gave the book he held to Edo.
“This is really his book, thank you very much Ka” said Edo who has received the book he was looking for.
“Well wrong, if Novel is behind, this is a Story rack and not Novel” the man tried to explain.
“Sorry, I don't know Ka, so what's the price of the book?” edo asked as he pulled out the wallet inside his backpack.
“The price is Rp#*%@ Ka” replied the man.
Edo immediately paid for the book he had bought, a long trip made his throat feel dry, his anxiety just in case the book would quickly run out made him not drink the slightest water.
The usual resting place he goes to every month is upstairs, a place that serves small dishes and a variety of juices, Edo sat in the corner of the room and ordered a glass of carrot juice and a plate of french fries.
From the direction of the entrance came a girl with her friends, the girl was sitting at a table close to the entrance, she was sitting on her back to Edo at that time. So many bracelet accessories, adorn the girl's wrist. The girl who met Edo in front of the library, the girl who competed with Linggar High School a few days ago.
