
"Ho .. ney....?" I repeat the words Mr. Ken said. Did my ears hear wrong? She called me Honey? I looked into Mr. Ken's eyes.
"What did you call me?"
"Yes, I call you Honey. Why don't you like it?" ask Mr. Ken.
"Ehm .. no. I like it ..." I said while bowed.
"Good, if you like, Honey." Mr. Ken kissed my right hand. I'm still awkward to return his treatment.
"Oh yeah, what major did you take? Where's your script?" ask Mr. Ken.
"I'm majoring in Accounting, Hubby. My script has reached the stage of making the questionnaire. It's been to chapter 3 ...."
"Good, get it done. So you can be free to accompany me away."
"Go?" I stared at Mr. Ken sharply. "Where to?"
"Why are you so innocent? Have you ever read a romance story about a married couple? Where do you think we're going?"
"Of course, business may be ..." I said.
"Ck! No!" sahut Mr. Ken.
"Visiting your distant family?"
"No!"
"Go to visit your family project?"
"No! We're going to honeymoon!"
"Huh? Honeymoon?!" my yelling.
I got my mouth straight away. Going honeymoon? Mr Ken and me? Why do I feel awkward when I imagine it?
"Don't worry. It's a long time, Honey. Finish your script first after that we go have fun. I'll make sure that trip you never forget for the rest of your life!" whispered Mr. Ken. Duh, Mr. Ken, you're getting my hallucinations everywhere.
"So many things have changed!" said Mr. Ken while staring at the car window. "There have been many apartments and high-rise buildings built in this city. Gery, what is an apartment tower that ...." Mr. Ken pointed to a light blue apartment tower.
"Yes, Sir. It was the apartment tower of Mr. The tenant has reached 75%, the possibility of this year will be full" said Mr. Gery.
Holy hooch! Turns out that those fancy apartment towers near my campus belong to Mr Ken? I can't believe this.
"It's my prediction. The apartment will be a new lifestyle in this city. Although it's not out in a long way but I can still see the world through the internet."
"Second tower is under construction, sir. The Great Lord had time to praise this plan of yours."
"God! I'm just using Grandpa's gift. Oh yeah, Gery. Take two of the nicest units and replace the furniture with a more luxurious one. I want to give it to my wife." Mr. Ken kissed my right hand again.
Uh! Mr. Ken, why the hell, you're making me more baper. My heart is getting dag dig dug.
"Good, Sir. Sir, we have entered the campus area where Miss Vio studied" said Mr. Gery.
The car enters the shady campus area. The beige-colored building is visible from the car window. Seen twelve level fountain that became an icon of XXY University. Dancing water showers surround the level of the fountain. Behind him was a cream-coloured seventh-level building. It's the rectorate building.
"So this is your campus area, Honey. Quite magnificent building too. Where's your faculty?"
"My faculty is in the middle of this campus area, Hubby. We can park the car there."
Mr. Gery and Mr. Driver are nodding. I just realized that there were two cars driving the car I was riding in the back. It must be a car with Mr. Ken's bodyguard.
"It's over, sir." said the driver. Mr. Gery has opened the car door for Mr. Ken. I don't know why Mr. Ken seems hesitant to get out of the car. The car door next to me was also open from the outside.
"Go, Vio. I'll just wait in the car!" Mr. Ken looks down.
"Why? Are you feeling bad?" I asked while looking at him.
"No, I'm fine. You get down quickly . I'll wait for you in the car."
"Ken, look at me!" I hold gently Mr. Ken's chin. "Why? Didn't you say you'd be with me?" Mr. Ken did not answer. He threw my hand.
"I'll just embarrass you, Vio. You're here for guidance. I don't want you to be distracted by the weird looks and sneers of the people who see me. I'm paralyzed, Vio. It would definitely invite scorn from many people."
"Here you go, let's go down, Hubby!"
I pushed Mr. Ken's wheelchair out of the car. Mr. Gery deftly lowered a kind of sloping field on the car door so that the wheelchair could go down to ground level. The car door was also stretched by Mr. Gery so that it could be wide open.
"What are you doing, Vio?! Stopit! I'm not going down!" shouted Mr. Ken.
Ken, you have to face your own fears. The world is not as cruel as it was in your old memories. Let me show you that there is still hospitality in this world for you.
"You promised me, Hubby. You promised to accompany me! Promise can't be taken back."
I pushed Mr. Ken's wheelchair. Mr. Ken looks pouted. He wasn't looking at me at all. If she sulks like this her face is funny too. Just like a child. He's handsome and babyface, I admit his charms I can't avoid.
"Come, sir," I'm a lecturer.
"He's a lecturer?" Mr. Ken looked at me. His eyes looked wide. I'm just nodding.
"Yes, he's one of my lecturers."
"But, he's paralyzed like me and in a wheelchair too!"
"Why indeed? My college has been included. So everyone can teach and learn here."
"Inclusion?" Mr. Ken seems to think. I pushed his wheelchair up the sloping field in the faculty loby. Near the lobby is a bathroom. "The bathroom has three? For women, men and wheelchair users like me?" Mr. Ken noticed three blue marks on the bathroom doorstep. "God! Are they your friends?" Mr. Ken looked at the two students in wheelchairs and crutches. Both of them just got out of the elevator.
"Hay, Sister Ella!" greet both. I also returned the greeting with a smile. I think it answered Mr. Ken's question.
"They're my level, Ken!" I pushed Mr. Ken's wheelchair into the elevator. I pushed the button to the third floor.
"Vio, your college is different. I feel calm and comfortable. No one looked at me with a strange look."
"Hubby, the world is vast. There may be some time you meet people who are not so friendly. But not all places and people are like that. Never mind, you're my husband. I accept everything in you" I kiss Mr. Ken's right cheek.
I don't know where this courage comes from. But after doing it still I feel dag dig dug. Elevator door opens. It looks like an elongated hallway. This is the lecturer's office hallway. This is where scripter fighters struggle to wait for his guidance counselor.
"ELLA!" a voice called to me.
It looks like three people are already sitting in the front seat of the lecturer's door. I'm digging all three. They're my friends, Dwi, Astri and Danny. Waitaminute! Danny is back? Didn't he go on a student exchange abroad?
"Girla!" Danny ran towards me. I don't know what he's doing but he hugged me tightly right in front of Mr. Ken. "Ella! Worry not! I already know everything! I'm ready to marry you!"
WHATS? Dann! What are you talking about? 😨