Love Stories Overseas

Chapter 14

After Intan came out of his room, Dila immediately took a change of clothes and toiletries, Dila rushed to the bathroom to clean herself.

This afternoon the weather was quite sunny, but not in the mood of Dila who was upset considering Intan's offer to accept or refuse to work as a baby sitter.

Because the weather was sunny Dila chose to wash her dirty clothes and sunbathe to the roof of the building, again Dila sat on the roof while daydreaming, like Dejavu Evan who also just finished bathing and washing clothes, and he did not want to do anything, he was about to hang his clothes on the roof of the building.

" Would sitting here make you calmer, Dil?, a hobby of sitting on the edge of the roof".

Evan's voice made Dila shocked.

" You really why the hell Dil?, since yesterday-yesterday I noticed, you often daydream, like again nyimpen something".

" Try the same story me, take it easy, I won't tell anyone, we're friends, right?".

Dila looked at Evan confused, considering the story or not to Evan.

" What does this have to do with the arrival of the girl who lived next door to your room?". Evan was immediately negative because for almost 7 months Evan lived there, not even though the woman that night greeted the rented neighbor, but suddenly he came out of Dila's room, he said, that made Evan very worried.

" You don't judge people from outside Van, he was just the same job as me" replied Dila.

" Nawarin job?, why did he nawarin you job?, I met Asri below, he said he had been delivered to PT where he will be placed Monday tomorrow. Aren't you also from PT which will be where you work Dil?. Why women that night nawarin you job, lest the job not real", guess Evan.

Dila breathed a long breath. " That's why you heard me Van's explanation".

" Actually I did pass the selection until taking part in job training at LPK to this day, but my age is not old enough to enter and work at PT or a large factory, he said, I still have to wait until I'm 18".

" So you are not 18 years old?, how can you go to wander when the age is not enough" said Evan, cutting Dila's explanation.

" I don't know, not told by the BKK who channeled me here" said Dila.

" How many months is Dil for 18 years?, so you want to find another job before you are channeled to PT, right?".

" Why does the woman next door to your room know that you're looking for a job?, and I don't know anything". Evan felt disappointed because he felt he knew nothing about Dila.

" Van's long story, accidentally Kak Intan knows that I'm working again".

" It was thought to want to go home, I have not been able to work, here anything expensive, while the allowance of my parents is getting thin, but I've been saying the same to all the neighbors, but I've been saying, if it's only been a week I'm here to keep coming home, what people say later, I'm ashamed Van".

Evan understood Dila's feelings, "Later I will ask my acquaintances, who knows if anyone needs labor, how many months until you turn 18 Dil?".

" It's still another year Van, because tomorrow I'm 17 years old".

Dila's answer made Evan gawk.

" You're serious Dil?, only 17 years old tomorrow?, so you don't have a ID yet?"

Dila nodded in agreement.

" This is you really have to find work if you have to wait a year to be placed in PT".

" If you may know, what kind of work are you offered to do with your room neighbors?", asked Evan curiously.

" So baby sitter, take care of 3-year-olds, said brother Intan his salary of 5 million Van a month, how do you think?, accepted what was rejected?, I said want to give you an answer tomorrow".

" What's 5 million Dil?", Dila and Evan are shocked to see Kunto is already behind them.

" You guys, I've been looking for it, it's here. Again chatting what the hell, salary 5 million, a lot of dong, like our salary if we are overtime weekend, is Van" said Kunto.

" Yes, that's too big a salary for a baby sitter, don't you suspect why a baby sitter's salary is that big, don't you just take care of one Dil kid" Evan guessed.

" Who wants to be a baby sitter?, you Dil?, who nawarin the job?", Kunto who came late so left out of information.

" Kat Intan who nawarin, just now she suddenly entered my room, she said with the cry of us Mas, continue to nawarin me as a baby sitter in East Jakarta, she said, if the house is exactly where it does not know" said Dila.

" Do you accept that offer?".

" No, I said to think first, and tomorrow I'll give you an answer. How do you think?, what do I accept?", Dila asked the opinion of the two young men who are now his neighbors.

" Actually I'm not sure the hell with the job, yes time so baby sitter salary of 5 million a month, more than our salary of PT employees here".

Kunto suspects that there is a possibility that Dila was tricked by the woman that night. What if Dila was sold in a brothel, Dila was still a virgin and too innocent, Kunto actually did not believe the offer given to Dila.

" Well, do I refuse?, I have never been to Jakarta. I'm actually afraid that Brother Intan isn't being honest. But I also need a job as soon as possible, my money has begun to thin, it is not possible to continue to live so unemployed" said Dila.

" How about if for example we ask for the address of the residence of your prospective employer, we see the truth, tomorrow Saturday will I have the same Kunto holiday, so we can nemenin you there, how Dil?". Evan is actually also less sure about the unnatural paying job offered to Dila.

" I agree anyway, let's just say tomorrow we go for a walk while celebrating your 17th birthday. Pity you Dil, sweet seveenten instead of getting gifts and surprises from family and closest people, but even more dizzy nyari job".

And sure enough, after Maghrib all gathered in front of the room, at that time Joko who just came home from work, joined after bathing.

Asri is most shocked when he heard the story of Dila, repeatedly Asri does not believe in Dila's explanation, but finally believes also when Dila showed his SMK diploma. There is written the place of Dila's birth date which is indeed only 17 years tomorrow.

" I guess I'm the same old you are Dil, not because of his face, but his behavior, and the way you behave is much more mature than me".

" But it turns out that you are a year younger than me, I can hardly believe what I see, especially tomorrow you are only 17 years old, when I have been 18 years and more a month" Asri said.

" So first tomorrow I say I want to receive a job offer from brother Intan, keep asking for the full address of my prospective employer, keep you guys me there yes, yes, because I've never been to Jakarta, we're checking with the truth".

Asri nodded in agreement.

" Can I join you too?", asked Joko .

" Of course you can, the more friends, the better" Dila said.

" Okay, what time are we there?. Your neighbors come home usually until the morning, meaning we go there a bit unfortunate yes".

Dila agrees with Joko's proposal.

" How if tonight we go for a walk, not far from here there will be a mall big enough, we play to the time zone in the mall yuk".

Dila and Asri stared at each other, not that they both did not want to play at the mall, but they were both saving on expenses.

" Let's relax, the three of us who buy coins, you two just play" said Evan.

Dila and Asri agreed, and the five of them finally went out together that night towards the nearest mall. Just by taking an angkot for 10 minutes, the five of them reached the mall.

Evan guides them to go to the 2nd floor where the time zone is located. Various kinds of games they play, Dila and Evan try the game to put basketball into bed, Kunto and Joko try the race game, while Asri chose to play mouse-punching. From the initial game, they moved to try a different game. After almost an hour of tinkering, and almost all of the games they tried.

Finally Evan invites others into the photo box. Although narrow, but the five of them entered the photo box and took pictures together there. The photos are split one-on-one to be saved.

Out of the mole, the five of them walked towards the market located not far from the mall, and remained open until night.

" Dil, what fruit do you want?", Evan tried to offer Dila to choose fruit, when passing through fruit sellers who sell a variety of very complete fruit.

" No ah, we just go back, if the heat is really good to eat watermelon, but now at night, do not need to buy fruit" replied Dila.

" Nanya do not go to Dila doang dong Van, ask me also, later I will tell you what, this is. if you want to buy mangoes this is Van, it seems very sweet", he said", asri said while holding a mango and smelling a sweet mango aroma.

" Stay take As, continue not to forget to pay for yourself" said Evan while choosing a watermelon to weigh.

Evan's attitude makes it even clearer if he is so attentive to Dila. Kunto and Joko chose to walk and wait in front of the market while smoking.

Dila also follows Kunto and Joko walking out of the market. Leaving Evan and Asri in the fruit stand.

" Did Evan already say like you Dil?, it is clear that he likes you" Joko immediately asked Dila without further ado.

" No, anyways we are all friends, you are even that", denied Dila .

" It's just my observation as a fellow guy, you agree Kun?", asked Joko while smoking her cigarette." Seeing the way he behaves with you, the way he looks at you, and the attention given to you, it clearly seems to wear the heart".

Silence and no longer answer.

But suddenly Kunto explained.

" Dila already has one in the village, so don't dare to answer. Alright, do not interfere with the feelings of others, if Evan is gentle and not cowardly, he will definitely like you, soon, just look at the date of the game", kunto said as he threw away the cigarette butt and stepped on it.

Evan and Asri who were walking out of the market approached them.

" Nih Dil, I buy watermelon, we can eat it hot tomorrow, I bring it to the contract, because it's heavy" said Evan.

" Now, bring me mangoes too", Asri held out a plastic bag containing mangoes that she bought.

" Here let me bring it", Joko took a plastic bag from Asri's hand, Asri just grinned the horse.

" Thank you Van, sorry ngrepotin, but do not need to buy also papa" said Dila.

" No papa, tomorrow we will also eat together in rented".

Kunto immediately stopped the passing angkot and entered the angkot followed by the others.

Maybe a walk together tonight will be an unforgettable memory by the five of them.

In the angkot, only the voice of Asri was heard, because Asri continued to tell how he had managed to bid mango which originally cost 24 thousand perkilo, successfully bid up to 18 thousand perkilo.