
Arista kicked a pebble with the tip of his flat shoe. He seemed to think hard.
"3 years they've been dating but the girl's been betrayed for 2 years? Whoa crazy!" arista spoke to himself.
She recalled a few hours ago when Arya took her hand off her head when Raya and Kelvin had already gone away with the car they were riding in.
"Hahaahhh? Ahahahaha," Arista laughed thinking Arya was joking "you're now an affair detective?" ask him while holding his stomach is so funny.
Nguntitin actors? Wkwkwk what satanic boy? He's lacking a job or what? Haduuhh, thought Arista amused.
But, Arista was embarrassed by himself. Arya's face looked flat not responding to her piquancy.
The atmosphere looks awkward. Arista observed Arya's face. "Are you serious?"
"Heemh," Arya replied nodding.
"Serious nguntitin actor?"
"Yes." Yeah."
"Really?"
Arya nodded.
"Whoa! Why?"
"It's none of your business."
Idiho. Jutek very, there is no real change to be a person. Thought Arista.
"So now you're again nguntitin girls who ride the same guy car earlier?" ask Arista curiously.
"It's mulu. I want to go home" said Arya coldly.
Arista's arms stretched, forbidding Arya from getting into his car. "We haven't seen you in a long time. Are you sure you want to go like this?" ask Arista.
"Actually, I'm in a bad situation. So this meeting is not fitting to be a reunion moment or something. I gotta go home. There are things that I have to sort out," said Arya again but Arista still kekeh did not let Arya off just like that.
"But I want us to talk. After a long time, we finally meet again. If you leave, we don't know when we'll see you again" Arista said.
Arya takes her phone and gives it to Arista. "Enter your number on my phone. I'll call."
Arista pushed Arya's hand. "I refuse."
"Hardheaded. It never changes" Arya said.
"Indeed. And another one that hasn't changed. I'm still a fucking human being."
Arya looked at Arista tiredly.
"So, let's have coffee together. I want you to tell me," Arista asked as she blinked her eyes.
"For what?"
"Ga for nothing. I'm a kepo," said Arista still pretending to seduce.
"Ga. It has nothing to do with you either."
"Well, you don't want to be a person. Yaudah if you do not want a story.must keep the story donggg," please Arista again.
Arya glanced at Arista coldly.
"Do I want to tell you a history about the origin of eucalyptus?" arista asked while sticking a thumb and forefinger on his chin.
Arya.
"How about this offer Arya the white wood boy?" ask Arista again.
Instead of answering Arya even fished Arista's ear. "You said don't call me that again!"
"Adaw adaw adaw." cried Arista in pain.
"Apaan the heck you play a jewer jewer aja very familiar," said Arista when Arya took off his jewelry. "is this how God intended this accidental meeting just so that I could be hired by this inhumane guy? Is it after the full moon, this is all you want to do when we meet? You fucking guy!" arista stroked his ears.
Arya glanced at Arista expressionlessly.
"Okay, I know what you're gonna say. You want to apologize, right? Okay, you don't have to give me any medical money for this nonviolence.."
Haah... What the hell is this guy, what kind of violence? Inner Aryan.
".. so in compensation please treat me coffee at the cafe.." point Arista at the cafe that Arya entered earlier. "..while telling about the stalking you are doing," said Arista acting formally.
Arya squinted her eyes. "Are you going crazy since you got home from Singapore?" search Arya.
Arista nodded quickly as if saying 'I am indeed happy and really enjoying this madness' then pulled Arya's arm without consent to enter the cafe.
Not without reason Arista stubborn and shameless forced Arya to sit together and tell stories.
Arista does not mean to be a hero as well, but it feels like he will feel guilty if he let Arya go with feelings of disrespect.
As she chases Arya to return her change, Arya seems to be in a hurry, she almost gets hit by a car of one of the cafe visitors. When the driver shouted, Arya did not even ignore him. As if you were deaf and blind to the situation around you.
At first Arista thought maybe Arya seemed to be in a hurry for her work. But after seeing the behavior and words of Arya. He's getting convinced not to take Arya off just like that. If Arya goes and drives a car with an uncontrollable emotional state, I don't know what will happen later.
Arista sees a woman riding in a car with a man and Arya is wary of it making Arista even more sure if she has a thorny problem related to romance.
A servant approached them, apparently the same person who served Arya earlier. He looked astonished to see Arya leave her drink untouched in the slightest. And now back to order again.
"Because you are the one who treat me so I am free to eat anything," said Arista cheerful.
"Hmmh," replied Arya lazily.
"Loh ko free? Just ask for a coffee treat!" arya protest when awakened.
"Ssstt..have you just sit there, let brother choose food for you," said Arista annoying but make Arya smile when he heard his words.
With the spirit of Arista flipping through the menu book.
"When did you get back from Singapore?" tanya Arya opened the conversation while Arista was still busy choosing food.
"A week ago," replied Arista. His eyes were still busy looking for which food he would choose.
"Have you finished your lecture?"
Arista flinched, then looked at Arya, hesitatingly he replied. "E. yes. So come home here, I hope when I come home to find peace and even meet you," he said ngaco.
Arya looked at Arista sharply. "What if I see you? Meeting me is the same as destroying your peace?" arya asked seriously and then responded to Arista's loud laughter, almost all pairs of eyes in the cafe saw him.
"You're still taking something seriously, yeah. Hence the mulu singles." ledek Arista, while diving drinking water, he deliberately provoked Arya to tell a story with his plunge.
Arya Bete then looked thoughtful and turned sad.
Am I a very serious person until Raya doesn't feel at home with me? Thought Arya was frustrated.
But Arista's lure did not reach Arya. Instead of telling the story he was busy with his daydream.
"So what were you doing?" just ask Arista to the point after finishing ordering the food.
Arya was still silent, as if she was lazy to answer.
"I'm not considered. You just said what actor nguntitin, dong's story," asked Arista involuntarily his tight voice made some people glance at him as if the actor's word was a very sensitive word to hear.
"You don't need to know, this problem has nothing to do with you" said Arya.
"Yes, but surely you can feel a little relieved if you want to share my same story if you feel good, if later.."
"I'm wrong, what is it? Why is he the same with me. What less for him?" suddenly Arya cut off Arista's talk and began to tell stories to pour out her heart to make Arista surprised. Though previously he himself was reluctant to tell a story because it was not Arista's business.
When the food arrived without feeling Arya was still comfortable telling stories even he was able to eat until it ran out calmly and exchanged responses with Arista. Finally he could eat well because lately he could not even eat at all.
Arya's face looked thin and tired. His eyes also seemed to be accommodating a deep disappointment.
Unfortunately this child, Arista inner after hearing the whole story of Arya.
"I'm done with the story. Now replace the story you. Why did you choose to go home and not find work in Singapore?"
Arya's question made Arista choke. The orange juice in his mouth almost spewed out.
"Uhukk.."
"Just relax Arista, if you are still lacking you can order again. There is no need to rush to choke like that," said Arya while giving tissue to Arista.
Arista wiped his mouth. "I think I have orange seeds. Maybe it's not smooth to make it," Arista pretext.
"Ah time? But my orange juice has no seeds at all" said Arya broke Arista's reasoning.
"It probably fit right into my glass right, who knows?" arista said he did not want to lose.
Arya was astonished but no longer wanted to argue with Arista. Because he knows there will be no end if you have to argue with this one girl.
"Maybe it's a doom yes, from the one that only asked for a coffee treat to a big gini meal" said Arista cengengesan. Arya laughed at Arista's chatter.
"You haven't answered my question. Why don't you work in Singapore?" arya asked, reminding.
"Mmmm..It's nothing, dong. Do you have to study in Singapore and work there?" ask Arista while tidying up her food marks so that later it will be easily cleaned by the waiter. Arya looked at the woman carefully.
"It's nothing, anyway. Just curious. I still remember that you used to be very upset to want to go abroad because in your own country you feel like a stranger. Always feeling belittled and ostracized by your surroundings."
Indeed very cheating, he forced Arya to tell him about herself and her problems but she herself wanted to close the meeting of her life.
"Gue Kangen is the same atmosphere here. Kangeen you too, hihihi, "god Arista ngasal.
Arya grimacing. "Seriously miss me? Didn't you just think I was a destroyer of peace because I met you?" insinuations.
Arista. "Still remember the looks of it. So vindictive are you, young man" joked Arista.
Suddenly Arya's phone rings. He left Arista to pick up the phone.
"So soon, I'll pick it up."
Arista saw Arya's sturdy and gallant back walking to the corner of the room.
Why is there a girl who has the heart of a guy like Arya. Although his personality is stiff and introverted, but actually he is kind and funny. He is also the kind of guy who is attentive. Cute yes, cool yes. Thought Arista.
After hanging up the phone, Arya hurriedly approached Arista. His face looks pale.
"We end our meeting today, is it okay?" arya asked, from her tone she looked panicked.
It seems like he has some very important business.
Arista nodded while tidying up his things. "Ga anything. Looks like you should leave soon?"
"Yes, there is a sudden business" replied Arya.
"The crazy woman is causing trouble again" whispered Arya.
"Yes?"
"Religious. It's nothing" said Arya. Unlike before, Arya now pays through a bill from the waiter.
Without long the waiter came with the amount he had to pay. What is still the same is that he did not wait for his change and immediately rushed away after convincing Arista to finish tidying up his goods.
"You're okay going home by yourself? I'm sorry I couldn't get you, '" Arya said as she was about to get in her car.
This time Arista could not spread his hand anymore. But he also felt Arya was already better than before, her eyes were already not as empty as before.
"Ga anything. I can take a taxi. You just go, be careful on the road and remember not to think too much," Arista's message was a little worried and asserted by Arya.
Then he rushed into his car.
Arista stared at the back of Arya's car that was getting away from her, and like nostalgia, Arya saw Arista in the rearview mirror reminding her of Raya.
After feeling Arya's car had disappeared from his view, he turned around, walking to find an angkot to go home while kicking small pebbles with his flat shoes. While still thinking about the plight of Arya's fate.
"If I were him, I might have killed myself" he said slowly picturing himself in Arya's gloomy position.
Arista felt sorry for Arya.
But that feeling of compassion for others quickly changed into a feeling of compassion for himself.
Arista patted his eel.
"God. I forgot to. My goal here is to apply for a jobaaaaaaaa!!" maki Arista on herself while banging her head.
He quickly turned around again. With a little run towards the cafe that he entered earlier.
Before entering, he wanted to make sure of something. Paper leaflets job vacancies for night watch are still plastered on the cafe's translucent glass.
Arista smiled happily. Still standing in the same place he tidied his hair and clothes. Confidently he took the folded brown envelope in his small bag and entered with passion and confidence.
All the cafe waiters were glued, they thought Arista would come again to order as a strange person like Arya earlier or maybe he wanted to file a complaint because when he came he immediately looked for the manager of the cafe.
But the tension was not long. When Arista said he wanted to apply for a job. Be a cafe waitress who is on guard at night.
This cafe is open 24 hours, although at night this place is not as crowded as day, but still there are still people who are looking for a place like this, like this, especially for students here who are looking for a free wifi place to do the task.
Therefore this cafe is still short of employees and opens vacancies for night workers.
Arista felt tense when entering the staff room to be interviewed by the cafe manager. AC in the room was very cold, his hands until it felt frozen but strange sweat instead splashed on his forehead.
After conducting the interview Arista left the room. When he opened the staff room door some cafe employees stole a question to him.
"Where? Received no?" ask one of them.
Arista spoiled even though he did not know. Then he nodded slowly and smiled happily.
The person who asked shook his hand. "Congratulations, my name is Maya."
"I'm Rika" said another man who was none other than the servant who had served her and Arya.
"I'm-I'm Arista," she said nervously.
"Okay, congratulations again, Arista. Glad to have a new friend. We live to work first yes, later on the shift we will often meet," said Maya followed by a nod Rika. They smiled at Arista.
Arista nodded and smiled happily.
I don't know what blessing this is. Arista thought he was very lucky, to be able to get a job and new friends at the same time.
He walked out the door of the cafe with a sparkling face.
For the second time he passed the same road, looking for an angkot to his house.
Arista was so happy to be there that he forgot he had just met his old friend.
Not that he was not happy to meet Arya, just that the feeling of pleasure that he felt was a sense of winning a hope.
Because he managed to get a job in Indonesia after he quit his job and decided to return from Singapore.
Yes, Arista did go to Singapore but not for college. She lied back then for the sake of her teenage self-esteem.
Once upon a time, when he just graduated High School he had said to his friends he would go to college to Singapore and make those who had excommunicated him feel reluctant and regretful for ever mocking Arista while those who like it not enter any university.
Indeed, he initially planned to study there and the tuition fees would be borne by his aunt on the condition that Arista helped his tantric shop business in Singapore. But Arista was fooled. He was not really lectured but was simply enslaved by his own tant. Even his passport was hidden somewhere so that Arista could not return to Indonesia.
The first year Arista followed his tantric will to help his regional efforts on condition that he would return Arista's passport and return it even if he did not get a lecture.
But until the appointed time, the aunt even broke the promise and it made Arista fed up and then ran away as far as possible with a friend who knew how to take care of fake ID cards there and from there Arista decided to work in the factory garment was with his friend.
He has made various efforts and even reported to his parents. But her poor and clueless parents could help Arista no more than to plead with her cruel aunt.
Even Arista still remember if he misses his parents he always calls them by phone his neighbors until the neighbors are sick of also uncomfortable to the family Arista. And since then Arista has never called again, only asking to contact him immediately if there is any emergency news.
Until one day, after 6 years he got the news that his aunt was sick. His aunt, Arista's cousin, searches for the girl's whereabouts with great difficulty. When he met he said before his aunt closed the age, his aunt wanted to return Arista to her parents' house. How happy Arista is not to play. Just imagine that he could go home to the family he loved after all this time.
Even after Arista came home later, he knew there was a new life that he had to live.
Even so Arista still wanted to keep his pride. He still has to hold onto a lie if he is forced to meet people he knows. He did not want to be treated arbitrarily by others just because he had nothing.
Arista was already frightened first if there was a friend who knew he had never been to college and only became a laborer during his time in Singapore.
He went in a lie and came home with a lie. In Singapore he even likes to take pictures in front of a local university where he lives. And do not hesitate to display on his social media as if he was studying there.
Arista knows it's wrong. But he hates it if the lies about him going to college in Singapore spread. So he did another lie to cover up the previous lie.
He was just on guard because he knew when someone had entered the age of 25 and above, his friends would be busy with their personal affairs, so he's sure no one will look for him anymore. No one will question the news anymore. At most just a pleasantries if one day just happens to meet.
But because he came home without a plan, therefore upon arrival in Indonesia he sought work at night. Where people do not meet too much with him also to minimize meeting with people he knows. He thought he would only meet a college boy who was a free wifi hunter.
Arista walked while tiptoeing, his working time in Singapore was very full time, he regretted never having any courses there.
Therefore, the reason he is looking for a night job, in addition to minimizing meetings with people he knows, he also plans to take courses to become an office secretary during the day, of course a plan to support his career later. Because he knows he can't stay hidden and work at night forever.
Arista felt like he saw a bright hope in front of him. His tiptoed legs were aligned with his swinging hands. The bag that came swinging was like having fun.
He immediately stopped the questionnaire with the regional number he was about to target.
In the angkot he still smiled cheerfully, even he accidentally opened the window glass so that he could feel the wind blowing his face.
But suddenly he thought of something. Aryan!
What if he comes back to the cafe and finds out Arista works there?
But I don't think he'll know, though. I work nights. Where's a busy man like he's out at night and hanging out in a cafe? Thought Arista was calm again.
The meeting was just a coincidence and Arista did not ask for Arya's mobile number and vice versa.
Even though Arista felt a little guilty for forcing Arya to tell a story and now wants to run away as if leaving her with her problem. But still Arista wished they didn't have to see each other again.
However, it seems there is still one thing that stuck in Arista's heart.
Oh, aye! That watch!
Arya has not answered why she still wears Arista-given watches.
Ah, Arista is curious. But he also does not want to see Arya anymore.
I don't know what the shame will be if Arya knows the truth that Arista went to Singapore not for college but for work.
If with Arya, does Arista have to be honest like Arya who has been honest with him?
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