Dollar Girl

Chapter 29 Vacation Plan

"This is your last day of the exam, but even so for a week you should still go in to see if you have a ramedial or not" the general supervisor.

"Good ma'am!" answer the students simultaneously.

Ratna picked up the problem sheet and the answer, staring at the name column for quite a while. All students are looking forward to this holiday, after passing the exam there are many vacation spots that are references. But he himself has not been able to face this holiday because after the exam is finished he must express his feelings.

Worrying about knowing Amus' true heart and fear of rejection makes him unable to concentrate.

"It's Mita's fault, I've calmed down with my old condition why am I so upset now?" muttered.

Hhhhhhh

"You know, however, I have to finish the exam first" he said, starting to write the name in the column that has been provided.

There was no problem in the final exam, the cheers from the students marked the holiday that would finally arrive even though they still had to enter first for a week.

"How was your test?" ask Mita who met when she was coming home.

"I managed to handle it"

"Good, are you gonna stay in for a week? actually truant is also not a problem because we only come to see ramedial or not"

"Actually I'm lazy, I better do something else" Ratna admitted.

"Then you're truant let me come in your place, if you get ramedial I'll call you on a cell phone"

"You want to do it?" ratna asked in shock.

"Why not? you've helped me a lot"

"Owh.you are my best friend" Ratna said hugging her best friend.

"Here you go, I'll go home first and see you!"

"Bye bye!" ratna waved her hand.

He continued his journey home, thinking about how to express love. Whether going by letter or speaking directly, in the mind that never ceases to think he is shocked by the emergence of Amus who came out of his house.

"Oh. You just got home" she said.

"Ah.. um, have you been there since?" ask Ratna clumsy.

"Yes, my dad's going to go home and stay until the rapids break up so I have to sort out"

"That's it. You need help?" tanya Ratna offered herself.

"Um.. doesn't seem to exist, but tonight comes father says he wants to eat with you"

"Oh well, " replied Ratna who immediately forgot the statement of love when she heard the word eat.

As Ratna promised to go to Amus' house to attend dinner together, Ardi and Jimy were there as well.

"Ratna, uncle there is something for you" said Wijaya, who is none other than Amus' father.

"really?" ask Ratna enthusiastically.

Wijaya immediately issued a paperback and handed it to Ratna, when he saw it was a beautiful pink kebaya.

"It's a gift from Amus' mother to you, she wants to see you wear it at the school's farewell party. Actually he wanted to hand it over later during the graduation exam but he couldn't help himself"

"Auntie is very nice to me, though.my mother is no more but with this aunt's attention even I feel mother never left. Uncle, please say my thanks" Ratna said.

"You have been considered as our own child, from now on do not hesitate anymore" replied Wijaya.

"Well enjoy your food, uncle will go to Ratna's house and have a chat with her father" he continued.

"Well, thank you uncle" they answered.

Ratna immediately saves the gift and starts fighting over food with Ardi, joking while enjoying the air of the upcoming holiday.

"Ah...my stomach is full" Jimy said leaning against the wall.

"It's so much fun, I want to eat like this every day" Ratna said.

"When you split the rapots, where are you going on vacation?" ask Jimy.

"I intend to work in a place" replied Ardi.

"Where?" ask Ratna curiously.

"My father's friend had a fruit shop, right next to him he also opened a shop that sold juice and various foods made from fruits. He needs people to help him keep the shop, I volunteered to work during the holidays and he agreed"

"How much is his salary?"

"Not much, just twenty thousand a day"

"Twenty thousand a day if at times one week can reach as low as forty thousand, it is quite profitable as well. Can I come to work too?" ask Ratna enthusiastically.

"You interested in work?" ask Jimy.

"Why not? I don't know where to go on vacation, I don't have any money anyway so it's better if I work, right?"

"You're right, my parents also asked me to help them at the restaurant during the holidays. What about you Amus?"

"Huh? I don't know I don't have any plans" replied Amus.

"Ah...it seems like you are the most delicious, you can do whatever you want even go anywhere during the holidays" said Jimy envious.

Amus only responded with a smile to cover up the bitterness of his heart, although they had been friends since childhood but no one ever knew the loneliness in the heart of Amus.

As before he will only fill the holiday time with laziness even though he actually wants to go on vacation with his family, sometimes he also wants to fill the time with work like his friends do but he cannot just leave grandma.

"Ratna if you're interested tomorrow come with me to see my father's friend, ask him for the job so he's impressed" Ardi said.

"Alright" replied Ratna.

It was the first time for Ratna to work at someone else and on the paycheck, there was a bit of nervousness but she knew she had to be calm and polite. With neat clothes in the morning he met Ardi to collect an appointment, Ardi excitedly invited him to go to see his father's friend.

"Good morning uncle" said Ardi as they arrived.

"Oh Ardi, you're finally here"

"This is my friend Ratna I told you on the phone last night" Ardi said.

"Good morning, my name is Ratna" she introduced herself.

"In the morning, call Uncle Hamdani"

"Good uncle"

"Ratna is smart when it comes to counting money, I'm sure uncle will be helped by it" said Ardi.

"really?"

"N-not really, Ardi is just exaggerating but I promise if uncle lets me work here I will definitely work hard" Ratna replied nervously.

"Alright I trust you, uncle will explain how the work is here and if you want you can start working now"

"really? thank you. " replied Ratna girang.

Hamdani began to explain about their work, because their beginners are newly given the task of cleaning the place and sorting out good fruits for display and who have been cooked to make juice or other foods.

The first day was quite pleasant, Hamdani told them to go home in the afternoon even though the shop was actually closed at night. This is because he does not want them to get tired quickly when starting work, slowly he will teach everything and let them go home at night.

Ratna received it well, along the way home she kept walking cheerfully. Making Ardi's eyes not want to stop staring at his smile.

"You want an escrim?" ask Ardi on the way home.

"You!" ratna answered quickly.

"Aish. eat right, you're like a child" Ardi said as he wiped the ice cream on the tip of Ratna's lips.

His hands stopped as his eyes fell on those red blushing lips, feeling soft and full as he swept with his thumb. Surprisingly, Ratna felt a sensation that she could not explain to make her heart beat unbecoming. For a while they fell silent and stared at each other until Ardi distanced his face.

"Thank you" said Ratna awkwardly.

"Let's go home" Ardi asked.

Ratna nodded, they walked back home but this time there was a clear silence between them. Until arriving in front of Ardi's house, Ratna said goodbye like a girl who was different from the usual Ratna.

At her house Ratna went straight into the room, lying on the bed and feeling the strange sensation again as her mind recalled the gentle touch on her lips.

It was quite disturbing because the image of the brother in Ardi lost instantly, replaced by a handsome teenage boy.

"Arh.. What am I thinking? why am I like this?" he was upset with himself.

"Huft... calm down Ratna, it's nothing.you can't be stupid" he murmured.

The day quickly changed, now Ratna went to work with a figure as usual. Seeing Ratna's performance was good enough to make Hamdani give more challenging tasks for him, all of which apparently makes Ratna more comfortable while working.

Three days he had worked, now Hamdani gave normal working hours. Ratna agreed because Mita told her that her value was safe so she did not have to worry, she only had to come on the day of rapot division.

That day, the first time he came home the night they accidentally met Amus in front of an alley.

"You just got home?" tanyakanya.

"Yes, from now on we will go home at night according to the closing hours of the store" replied Ardi.

"Where are you going?" ask Ratna.

"Buying batteries"

"All right, we go home first" said Ardi.

Amus only smiled as he nodded his head, staring at the departure of Ratna and Ardi.

Four days later they go to school with their parents to take a rap, Ratna is quite happy when Sapardi who is in charge of taking the rap tells that his grades are quite good.

"Rabra!" call Mita.

"Oh come home first, I want to see my friend first" Ratna said.

"Well, I'll see you at home"

"Dah." said Ratna waving her hand.

Ratna immediately approached Mita and went to a nice place to chat.

"How's your rapot worth?" ask Mita.

"My dad's happy because my grades are pretty good"

"I'm glad to hear it"

"How are you?"

"It's just normal"

"Don't do that, I'm sure your rankings will go up, right?" sergeant Ratna.

"It doesn't matter, oh yeah how?"

"What?" ratna asked confusedly.

"Pretend to forget, your statement of love" Mita replied.

Ratna was stunned to hear that, as work made her forget that she was planning to do it.

"Somethe day, I. suddenly felt doubtful" he admitted.

"Why?" ask Mita curious.

Ratna could not answer because she herself was confused about what the reason was, she was not sure but since feeling the strange sensation she stopped thinking about how to express love.

"Here it is, after all, not good women who start first. If he really loved me one day he would have said it"

"Didn't that torture you? can you live with the hope you know now?" ask Mita to worry.

"Let's know, maybe I'll be tormented but love isn't the only thing I should think about. Now that we are facing the second semester where our time will run out by studying, I have already made my choice. I want to go to High School and for that I have to have enough money."

Mita's eyes began to dim, she knew Ratna's words were true and she could not refute.

A breeze blows carrying holiday air past them, they say goodbye to each other and part ways to fill the beginning of the holiday with their respective plans.

Ratna returns home and is greeted by Sapardi with a table full of food, this is Sapardi's way to welcome the beginning of the holiday that will be spent working.

"Oh dad forgot, please give this corn to grandma. Last afternoon my grandmother asked for dried corn to make rice" said Sapardi handed me a bag full of dried corn seeds.

"Alright" replied Ratna who immediately slid.

"Grandma... I brought my grandmother's order corn!" ratna shouted as she opened the door of Amus' house.

"Ish.this is a house not a forest!" nagging Amus as he walked up to her.

"Where's grandma?"

"Ke stall" replied Amus taking the corn from Ratna's hand.

"Oh... uh how's your rapot worth?" ask Ratna.

"Nothing has changed" Amus said coldly.

"Can you talk better? I am a gentle woman to me" said Ratna Ketus.

"A woman doesn't scream at someone else's house" Amus replied.

Ratna grew even more sullen at the words.

"Do you have any vacation plans?" ratna asked in a quieter voice.

"Nothing"

"Then what are your activities during the holidays?"

"Nothing"

"Aren't you doing anything?"

"Why are you so chatty!? I told you there wasn't!" snapped Amus annoyed.

"Well, you don't have to be angry once I just ask" Ratna said in shock because despite being often angered by the snaps Amus was quite tight with a really angry tone.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to scold you" Amus said regretfully.

For a few minutes they remained silent until Amus spoke.

"I can't leave grandma to work like you, I don't have any vacation plans either. Maybe this holiday I'll just laze around."

Amus' words make him regret to have asked, he knows even though the grandmother looks fit but with an old age something can happen unexpectedly. That's why Amus never goes far unless his parents are at home.

"Amus..tomorrow is our first day off, what if tonight we gather to spend time together before we are busy with our respective activities"

"Um.. okay, there's a new DVD I want to watch" Amus replied smiling again.

"Ki