JANUARY AND MAHENDRA

16. Don't ChatTime.

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After distributing foam containing grilled chicken that has been bundled with rice which is now a lunch menu, the young men then chose to take a short break in the school garden.

Intentions had wanted to rest in the cafe only all lunch but Tiyan said that he had left the chicken foam to burn for 7 people and asked Mahendra to store it first in the trunk automaker.

It turns out that Mahendra can do his job as a consunion section very well he actually uses consumption money to buy decent food. Gantari had not trusted Mahendra, because yes how well the girl had already been Neting on the man.

At least even though only grilled chicken and tempeh know cucumber as neglaban this is more than enough, they eat it greedily and only leave the bones alone. Yes although the ultimate word that if again bucin can eat shampoo to the bones but in fact they are not cats that willingly gnaw chicken bones that no meat.

The clock shows exactly at 2 pm, in the middle of the breeze and clouds that look more shady even though sometimes the sun's heat comes stinging. Under the catapult tree is enough to set 7 students who are enjoying their lunch.

"Nih" said Mahen while moving all the meat he had sorted on Gantari.

"Ihh, keep eating what?" Gantari asked Mahendra who was moving his meat.

"There is the same skin tempe know" then Mahen showed one tempe and then ate it. The man also said to take the sambal owned by Gantari.

Gantari who felt bad then changed the skin of the fish and bones that still had a little meat on the foam belonging to Mahen.

"Well?" Gotak Mahendra as Gantari moves his food.

"Tukeran, pity you only eat tofu tempe doang"

Mahendra nodded, bringing his foam closer to make it easier for Gantari to move the meat. Then he moved the tahu lalaban and tempe on Gantari foam.

Actually, Gantari also does not like processed meat, except that the geprek was just the chest that much meat, too, lately, Gantari has rarely eaten geprek because his stomach is often recurred so Mahendra forbids him to eat it. But if again not in the mood to eat, he could not be at all interested in processed foods that are a favorite of everyone.

"Gantari, you will make the paper yes. Nathan is documenting it. If the material let me same Damar aja who make, if I've run later I send to your email" in between moving the meat on foam Mahen, if I've run it, Tiyan opened his voice after the roast chicken ran out and left only the sauce that he set aside.

"Oh, okay" responded Gantari.

"Nathan, later you can also help Gantari time to make a paper. That's if you have free time" Tiyan continued.

"Eh, nothing!!!" Sergey Mahen fast.

Everyone who was enjoying their lunch stared at Mahen.

"Let me help you later" continued Mahen with his gaze that could not be separated from the girl in front of him.

"Lo is a major in business economics, there is nothing to do with this project" said Damar after sipping his mineral drink.

"He's not from your department either, is he?" Momentarily Mahen's voice sounded nyolot. He asked Damar with his serious eyes. "So there's no harm if I help Gantari make his paper"

"Nathan will make Mahen's documentation, so let's be more pinched together" Tiyan relay when seeing Mahendra who somehow became sensitive.

"Why the hell, great to help Gantari. How can he mulu from yesterday, his father lo?" Ask Damar with julid does not want to be inferior to the gaze of Mahen who impressed nyalang.

"His girlfriend's cave!!!" Press Mahen who for some reason he said it so loudly. "Lo's content!"

Hearing clearly Mahen said that in front of his friends made Gantari managed to round his eyes with a full mouth.

Gantari was obviously surprised, from yesterday Mahen was indeed very strange. Teasing Gantari has indeed become her daily food to make this girl upset and will definitely end with tonyoran on her forehead. This girl had been eager to throw Mahendra's head off right now, but somehow she became stiffened almost she choked on her own food.

Mahen is crazy!!!.

The girl was agitated at the attention of all her friends who were now staring at Gantari, "She was joking, hehe she was stressed out. Yes stress" response Gantari grinning as if answering the gaze full of questions from his friends flutter when all eyes were fixed on Gantari and Mahen who looked at the girl in front of him with a smooth look.

Mahendra was silent looking at the girl in front of him who was agitated and stuck Mahendra so that the man stopped to make jokes that made a misunderstanding.

Though Mahendra is now being serious, his speech and gaze are very rare.

Gantari gave an awkward grin to all her friends. Really Mahen does not have the right timing to joke.

But behind it all, Nathan looked at the two of them differently. The ripping on Mahen's lips is clear that he hates Nathan so much that he is close to Gantari. Nathan also felt that Mahendra's expression was considered joking by everyone, but he himself considered that it was Mahendra's most serious expression.

Nathan had never seen this before, the last time he looked serious was when he recognized Nathan as his younger brother. It was a long time ago, probably when Nathan stepped foot in elementary school when Nathan was picked up by his upperclassman.

Mahendra, the man who first reached out his hand when Nathan fell off the bike, the one who first made him milk secretly while Nathan was busy with his schoolwork. People who are ready to be angry with Dad even though it is not entirely his fault.

Again, Mahendra is a serious man in every way. His telling of what he did at all times was his way of closing his wounds deep down until everyone thought that it was so much fun to live as Mahendra.

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"Mahen, want Boba" said Gantari suddenly as Mahen put a helmet on Gantari's head. With eyes that blinked a few times and lips that he canted tightly try to seduce Mahen.

"ChatTime?" Bargainly.

"Don't ChatTime, just Khamshia" said Gantari.

"Why not ChatTime?"

"Expensive, the title is equally boba. Duwit 30 thousand dapet one ChatTime. If in Khamsia it can be two then there is still change" said Gantari.

Mahen smiled wryly, this girl is indeed very different from the others. If other girls would prefer to hang out and enjoy drinks like ChatTime in Caffe but Gantari chose to buy Khamsia Boba whose shop he often saw on the side of the road, buy it and enjoy it elsewhere.

As of now, after they went to buy the original Boba which cost only 10 thousand, Gantari actually bought two and gave one to Mahen. He said as a thank you for accompanying him to buy Boba.

While enjoying the breeze behind the campus, sitting under a Java asem tree which if it is fruiting will easily fall just with the sway of the wind.

Fortunately, this is not the season, only the dried leaves are now falling to fill the green grass.

Gantari sighed with her eyes closed. He opened his eyes and sipped his bobbin.

"Lo, why didn't you come home this year?" Tanya Gantari managed to make Mahen look at her.

"I didn't want to go home, but when you said you wanted to go to Jogja, I changed my mind"

"Gue so there's a meeting" Mahendra chuckled.

"In Jogja, who do you live with?" Suddenly Gantari became kepo, his curiosity about Mahen's life which he said rarely told about his life and his family. It has been almost 2 years he knew Mahen but he never knew about Mahendra.

"My aunt"

"Mamah Papah lo? You have a brother, don't you?" Ask Gantari back.

"Why the hell? You are so scared to be a girl. Tumbenan really wants to know about me. Don't you have a crush on me?"

"What the hell lo, yes already the one who does not want to tell a story. It doesn't matter to me either"

Actually Gantari also did not question where this man came from, because he knew Mahendra was too dead-end to just be asked about his life. Although sometimes Gantari also wants to know how this man lives when away with both parents.

And the only one that Gantari wants to talk about is Mahendra who he currently sees is Mahen who is what is. There's nothing else about Mahendra that Gantari doesn't know but to be upset.

Well the intelligence and fad that every day Gantari felt turned out to create its own color for this girl. Gantari is too proud to just say thank you for Mahendra's crowd, he is just selfish of himself.

The next moment Mahen chuckled.

"Keep lo why, really want to go to jogja?" Mahen.

"Gue wants to take the Mahen train, not because of where we want to go but the journey to that destination that makes it all fun. Enjoy every thing that passes, feel a new atmosphere that we may never meet on previous trips."

"Emang lo has never been on a train?" Ask Mahen.

"Udah, it was the same time Dad. SD time possible. I want to get on the train again"

"Gue has never even been on a train. I kept riding the bike to Jogja"

"Capek sure?" Tanya Gantari stared at the late Mahen beside her.

"Not really, am I riding a motorcycle, not on foot"

"As far as you're concerned"

They were silent for a moment trying to enjoy the afternoon breeze that somehow became colder. Almost dusk, and the ice cubes on his bob had melted perfectly.

But Mahendra still did not want to take his eyes off the slightest of Gantari who was beside him. He enjoyed how the girl closed her eyes, watching the young boy move in the wind.

The man was very serious with his words earlier, he really liked this girl beside him. Like a rainstorm Mahendra now finds the rainbow. Any color that makes him very eager to have. His wound slowly became healed and deflated, he now no longer needed to find a place to hide, he had been looking for a place for his healing for too long.

Does Mahendra have to come out after this?

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"He was serious, but his jokes covered up that seriousness too much."