
A renowned university...
"It's too late to go home!" Syakilla sat in her car. His teaching schedule this afternoon is over.
"What if R cafe?" He's monologuing.
"I think, no!" She shook her head. "Nothing interesting there."
"Chiara?" He smiled a little.
"I think, yes!" Syakilla immediately took her phone and contacted Chiara, a friend who was three years different from her.
"Chelle, Chi. Where again?" he asked as Chiara answered her call.
"In the hospital, Shay! What's up?" ask Chiara again.
"Lunch with yuk! Is there a time?"
"Ehm. I also have a break" replied Chiara.
Syakilla smiled widely. "OKAY. I'll pick you up, yeah!"
"Don't, Sya!" reject Chiara. "Me at Cafe X. I brought a car. The distance if you pick me up first in the hospital."
"OKAY. I'm not going there!"
Syakilla drove her car to the cafe Chiara meant. They have eaten there, several times.
Syakilla loves Chiara like her own sister. They are indeed familiar, because of the family relationship that was established from the marriage of Rion and Bintang.
"Kasian Chiara, if only Daffin really was a guy!" annoyed.
"How can I and Bang Caraka prove the rottenness of the Daffins before their engagement?"
"Did I ask Chiara to investigate the man?"
"Ehm, no! You know, he thinks I'm gonna vilify Daffin so he accepts my brother!"
Syakilla stopped at a cafe called Chiara. He went inside and found Chiara sitting at table number 6.
"Hi Chi's..." The two hug each other. "Thanks, I have free time for me who joined do not know what to do!"
Chiara laughs. "What the hell, Sya! Young lecturers can join in too?" They sit facing.
"Hahaha.can dong! What else if I meet a student who makes it cold!" Syakilla laughs.
"Well, don't-don't follow Bi's footsteps as Rion!" reply Chiara.
"Thank you, ma'am!" syakilla said to the waiter who gave the menu book. Both ordered the food and drink they wanted. Syakilla again gave the waiter a menu book.
"Where was it?" ask Syakilla. "Ah yes, Bi's footprint is the same as Rion's?" Syakilla again remembered their chat that had been cut earlier.
Chiara nodded. "Who knows, right?"
"Ck! I don't think so, Chi!" Syakilla.
"Why? It's good to be in droves!"
"If the same is flocked, I will not. If it's the same deketeers or their own families, like them, I'm okay."
Chiara laughs. "Who do you want to be with? Everyone has a partner except...."
"Haha... Mas Shaka!" Chiara laughed as she mentioned Shaka's name. "He's the only one who's single!"
Syakilla laughed softly. "My baby is also single, Chi!" syakilla miris. "Not just Shaka."
Chiara quiet. He felt wrong talking. He was afraid that Syakilla thought too far because he preferred another man over the brother of the girl.
"But if I'm honest. I'd rather be Shaka than the guy in droves, let alone the one I just met."
Chiara frowned looking at Syakilla who preferred Shaka. "Why is that?"
"Rather than me choosing another man I just met. I don't know how his family lives. I didn't know his habits before I knew me."
"I don't know the other side of him. Moreover, I'm not in the same circle of friends, same as him."
"Many more! More risk of wrong choice, I think."
Chiara fell silent. He felt that what Syakilla said had a point. He chose Daffin only because the man was so serious and gantle when expressing feelings for him, also when asking for the blessing of his papa.
Chiara felt herself blinded by Daffin saying that after marriage she was released to continue her education. But it still says. If you are married later, not necessarily the man will keep all his promises.
Syakilla said, if married to someone we know, we already know all about that person. We know the bad. Like brother Bi who already understood how bobr*oknya bang Rion first.
After all, Daffin and I are not in the same circle of friends either. Daffin never even invited me to gather or just hang out with his friends.
I don't know Daffin very well. There's a lot I don't know about that guy.
Where would he be if he wasn't working. Where he usually spends time with his friends. What if he's into nightclubs? What if he likes to drink?
Chiara felt increasingly doubtful when her engagement was only 6 days away. He regretted his decision too soon. He regretted too soon agreeing to this idea of engagement.
Suddenly Daffin was like the man in the glass cabinet he only saw outside. He did not know the inside and behind the man was anything.
She says yes immediately, just because her papi and Rion say that Daffin is a polite and hardworking man.
"Dream, Chi?" Syakills disperse his reverie.
"Eh... No! Think again. You look like you fit in with that Mas Shaka!" Chiara laughed insipidly for fear that Syakilla realized that she doubted Daffin.
Syakilla laughs. "I fought just like him, Chi!"
I know, you're starting to think that what I'm saying is true, Chi. Why are you making decisions so quickly? I know, you have doubts about Daffin. Inner Syakilla.
***
"Sometimes invite me to gather with your friend dong, Mas!" pinta Chiara on her fiance candidate by phone.
After lunch, his conversation with Syakilla was still ringing in the ear and did not even want to disappear from his mind.
He wanted to learn more about Daffin until he contacted him. Daffin is not a romantic man who sends messages of love every day.
Daffin tends to be realistic and Chiara likes such men. Men who talk as they are without being made up and let alone fight too often.
Daffin and he always discuss about work, assets and also other serious things.
Daffin also never calls or video calls until late at night like other young couples.
"Tumben you're asking me for something like this, Chi?" ask Daffin full of probes.
"Well, I'm your future wife, Mas!" Elak Chiara so that he is not suspected that his curiosity about Daffin's life is so great.
"I also need to know, who are your playmates, hangout friends and your close friends."
"I also want to know, where do you usually hang out! So if you're married later, I know where to find you if you're stuck." Chiara laughed, she tried to bring this talk to make it sound lighter.
Daffin laughed. "OK... How about tomorrow night? I'll take you to dinner with my friends."
"Can. Tomorrow night yes... Promise?"
"Yes I promise!"
"Chi, it's a long time ago baby.Papa take me to meet in his study."
Chiara frowned. Meeting with his papa at 9pm tonight? Was there no other time, that was what Chiara thought.
But he tried to believe. "Yes already. See you tomorrow night, Mas!"
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