JODOHKU CLASSMATE

FORCED

Dana came earlier than the person she was going to meet. Maybe, because he did not know what kind of person to meet, he just thought to immediately take the menu and sit in the corner of the cafe. Just sitting near the cashier, so he knows who will be in and out of the cafe. Dana saw there were some people there. 2 Pairs in the direction of 9 needles and 2 men who may be older than him. He concluded that the man had not yet arrived.

Dana's flipping through the menu there. This morning she had not had breakfast, so Dana ordered a heavy meal and 1 large glass of mojito. The clock has shown at 11.15 WIB.

"Tell!" said monologue. Dana sighed in annoyance because the person she was waiting for never came. Dana finally decided to call mom because she had waited too long.

"Ma, which one is it? I've been here 20 minutes and he hasn't come yet. The food I ordered has arrived. Anyway, if my food's abis she hasn't come yet I'm home!" Dana looks really upset on the phone. He closed his phone in annoyance.

"Tok-tok," someone's knocking at the table. He saw a tall man wearing glasses in front of him.

"Sister Dana?" ask her with a flat face.

"Yes," Dana replied with a cold look.

"I'm a Cloud,"

"Oh, sit!" Dana answered him briefly.

"I took the laptop first, I was sitting there." The man pointed at the bench in the corner of the room. Dana's eagle eyes followed the direction where Cloud's hands pointed.

"Okay" he answered briefly. The clouds turned around and tidied up some of his belongings that were on the table.

"He's been since? when did he come in? wait, then he knows I've been sitting here since?" Dana's monologuing with herself again. He was astonished that no one came when he sat here. Dana looked outwards so she could be sure if the Clouds were there before Dana came.

"If that's true, then he's letting me wait 20 minutes here while he's sitting there?" Dana spoke in her heart. He breathed in disbelief.

The clouds sit in front of him. Dana noticed the luggage the man was carrying. A laptop and a drink quickly filled the table in front of them.

"It's been a while?" Dana asked to open the conversation.

"From 9 o'clock earlier, the project was done before the placement" Awan was still busy cleaning his things.

"When did you see me sitting here?" Dana asked him.

"Liat, just don't expect it, brother Dana aja, sorry I kind of forgot the face of my sister, just realized earlier heard the phone."

"Yes, I'm eating because you haven't had breakfast, you've eaten?" Dana tries to shake off her sense of unease with the Clouds. It's better to try to think positively than to get upset at the person he just met today.

"Here you go" he answered briefly.

Dana scoops little by little the spaghetti she ordered. There was no conversation between them for a while. He had a bad first impression of the man. The clouds only played HP regardless of him eating.

"Why did you come here?" Dana opened the conversation.

"Make it easy for Dana" he replied briefly.

"You know this is a match?" ask Dana without further ado.

"Yes." Yeah."

"Then, you still came here after you found out?" Dana asked the cloud another question.

"Yes," Dana changed her sitting position after hearing that answer. According to him, no sane person would come if betrothed to his parents like this.

"Why? I mean, you're not like someone who wants to be betrothed." Dana scrunched her forehead. His eyes squinted waiting for an answer from the Clouds.

"Sir Dana too, why would you come here?" The clouds changed their sitting position and instead looked at Dana with a sneaky look.

"I asked you first, what was your name, Awan?"

"Yes, Cloud." she answered briefly.

Dana was still looking at him with a little annoyance.

"It looks like my answer will be the same as your answer "The clouds changed their sitting position, leaning on the chair.

"Your mom?" Dana tried to guess what the Cloud meant.

"Yep!"

Dana just smiled cynically at him. The reason the clouds are not much different from him.

"So I decided to go ahead or not?" The clouds looked enthusiastic to hear the question of his upperclassman.

"No, I asked your opinion." Dana looks surprised to hear the words of the clouds.

"I'm so, come on, please" The clouds answered lightly. He changed his sitting position again to his original position.

"You're not gay, are you?" the question came out of Dana's mouth.

The clouds only laughed at the silly question from his upperclassman.

"Why gay?" The cloud asked Dana. "Aren't there a lot of gay people abroad? you should be more open-minded with things like that" he continued.

"Where do you know where I've been abroad?" Dana looks surprised to hear the words of the clouds.

"Mama told me so many stories about you, that I got tired of hearing them." The clouds were busy stirring up their drinks.

"So you're gay?" Dana confirmed the answer from the interlocutor.

"Fortunately no," Cloud's reply slightly relieved him.

"Then? it means I still don't understand. Men like you should be very easy to get girls, so why even choose to be betrothed? same with me you don't know at all, do you?" Dana asked at length.

"Sir Dana how? why would you want to be betrothed to me? brother Dana also just know me, have never met me, why would you?" The clouds showed an expression that Dana couldn't guess. Either he wants to be sure or is literate about Dana's ever-adventuring questions.

"Who said he wanted to? we're honest, I came here because I don't want to worry about mama, I can't refuse my mama's will."

"Well the same, so we deal?" The clouds seemed enthusiastic about responding. He reached out to shake hands.

"Deal for what?" Dana spontaneously brushed off his hand.

"Well contract!" Answer with certainty.

"You crazy? marriage is sacred, worship. You wanna mess with God?" Dana looked a little upset by the Cloud's response afterwards.

"Yes, so Dana's brother who refused, right?" The clouds look excited. Dana changed her sitting position. He really did not expect his arrival to that place just to talk about the absurd with the Clouds.

"It seems free to come here." Dana smiled cynically at the Clouds.

"It would be even more useless if I didn't get any answers from you" The cloud chimed in on the words of the woman sitting in front of him. Long enough until Dana responds to the words Cloud.

"Okay, tell your mama, I'm refusing this match. I don't want to be paired with someone like you. And there seems to be nothing to talk about here anymore. Excuse me!" Dana decided to stand up and leave the Cloud.

Dana's really mad at him. He knew it was a match. But he still can't play games with marriage.

Dana walks to the parking lot after paying the bill. He glanced at the Clouds who were still sitting enjoying the drinks he ordered. Dana decided to get in the car.

Dana came home angry and upset. It felt like a waste of time to meet the man. Perhaps more patanya he was upset because ternayata mama's choice men not as he heard.

"okay? family okay? religion good? huh bulshit!" Dana grumbled in the car.

"What do I expect from someone 2 years younger than me? fortunately for me, I really can't imagine that I married such a rich man" He completely condemned his own folly of agreeing to come to meet someone he had never even known before.

Arriving home, Dana breathed a heavy sigh. He finally decided to go into the house.

"Assynnya!"

"Waalaikumsalam, are you home?" mom said to him.

"Already," without further ado Dana came in and headed for her room. Mama was a little surprised by the behavior of her daughter.

"How's Cloud? right?" mama's question made Dana frown. Dana chose not to answer that question.

Honestly, he did not let the heart tell if the choice of mama is very bad. But she also did not know what to say to her mother. Does he have to tell the truth or will only say if he does not have a match with the man.

Dana saw mom coming in the back.

"What kind of answer do you want?" dana said opening the conversation.

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