Love Story of Poor Men & Rich Girls

Stage fright

I also approached Tegar who was talking with Mr. Doctor.

"Gar Brother go first." I said to the boy.

"Where are you going, today you're going to sleep with me again?" Ask Hard.

"Yes later after work Brother will accompany you, now Brother has got a job." I said.

"Yes, brother, I'm waiting." The boy said smile at me.

I say goodbye to Mr. Doctor and Tegar who continued their conversation, when I arrived at the cafe Sinta seemed there had been crowded by visitors, I saw around most of the visitors were young girls, young girls, and, I passed by them and headed backstage the little one there was.

"Are you ready Dit?" Ask Sinta who approached me.

"Hopefully Sin." I said I didn't seem sure.

I went up on that stage, as the audience looked cynically at me.

"Who is that? Why he's the one who's riding isn't Rey." Said a girl.

"Where's Rey, we want Rey...We want Rey." The other word.

They cheered me on that night, it seemed like they were all loyal viewers of that guy named Rey and they must have been disappointed to see me take his place.

My sweat dripped after my eyes looked at the audience, especially after hearing the cheers of all of them who didn't seem to expect my presence.

"You know, I seem to have stage fright." I said muttering.

Sinta seemed to be watching me from the side of the stage, I turned to her and she nodded at me and signaled that I could conquer the stage.

My sweat was still dripping, I could not believe the atmosphere on stage was so different from the atmosphere when I sang peddling my voice while busking.

"Hi se's..All, per..Introduce na..My name is Adit." I said stammering in tension.

They cheered me more and more because they looked nervous.

"Descending...How about singing, stammering." Said one of the spectators.

"Just we want Rey, if there's no Rey we'll just go home." The other word.

"Yes, after all who this guy is, isn't convincing, handsome anyway, but that alone isn't enough to replace Rey." Another word again.

"Huuuuuuu....!!!!" Said them all.

Seeing that I tried to calm myself down, I took a deep breath, for a moment I closed my eyes and imagined Riri's face.

"Get me tonight, baby." I said in my heart.

I strummed my guitar, I played a song imagining Riri standing next to me, they were still cheering me on, until the first verse of the song came, I opened my mouth and prepared to sing, their cheers were so high that I finally started singing, and the cafe was silent because of my voice, they looked at me inside, they didn't make a sound as long as I was singing.

Until I finally finished the song, I looked at the audience, they were glued to see me, until finally there was a clap from one of them and made everyone there to applaud me, I smiled at them until I turned to look next to me, there I imagined Riri returning my smile and the shadow disappeared.

"Cool...Cool." Said one of the spectators.

"Again.we want more." The other word.

No more unconvinced cheers for me, all changed into applause every single song I finished playing, they alternated forward one by one every time I finished the song, he said, put a banknote on a box that had been provided under my feet.

Until finally the cafe clock was about to close and I finished my last song, it looked like some girls were approaching me.

"Hi Kak Adit, you are cool, from now on we are your fans who will come every day to watch your show." Said a girl.

"Cool...Just the first day we had fans." Sinta said that approached me.

"Hehe...I wasn't sure Sin at first." My answer.

"Then every night you perform here yes, the salary is not big but still mending if in comparison you have to be hot every day to busking." Sinta said again.

"Hmmm...Yes, I want to, then I'll go home." I said get out of there.

"Adith...Wait, you didn't bring your money." Sinta.

"What money?"

"That's the money that the audience gave in the box earlier, it's all 100% is the right of the viewer without being cut in the slightest by the cafe, it's your bonus outside of salary." Sinta explained.

"Are you serious Sin?" I said look happy.

Sinta took the money from the box and gave it to me.

"There is also a lot of your income on this first day, how about every day." Sinta said give the money to me.

Sure enough said Sinta, after I counted 1 million collected, what money I never got all this time by busking for one day, not only money there are even some people who tuck their mobile number there.

"Your future is bright here Dit." Sinta said laughing.

"You could be Sin, maybe it just happened to be crowded because they were waiting for a person named Rey, if tomorrow is not necessarily, after they know that Rey has been replaced by me."

"Oh yes Dit, can I have your phone number? because after I quit my job from Mr. Suryo's company soon I was pickled and my phone was gone."

"I should have tried to call you first I can't, sorry Sin, now I don't hold my phone because I gave it back to Riri."

"Oh so, yeah, if it's like that every night you come here at 7, remember don't be late." Sinta.

"Ok, if that's what I say." I left the cafe too.

After arriving at the Hospital, Tegar was lying on his bed with his eyes not closed.

"You haven't slept Gar?" I said.

"Not Brother, I'm waiting for Brother to come home." The answer.

"Yes, my brother has come home and you are asleep." I said while rubbing his head.

I accompanied Tegar until he finally fell asleep, day after day passed so quickly that I did not feel like I had been in the Hospital for a week, but the Doctor said he had not yet received a donor for Tiwi.

That day I woke up in the morning, every night I was still a performer at the Sinta cafe, it turned out that the more days the cafe was getting crowded because there was one of the visitors who recorded my appearance and put it on social media.

That night when I was preparing to leave for work, Tegar suddenly called me from his bed.

"Sister." Said Tegar looking at my face.

"Yes Gar." My answer.

"So, I can hug you before you leave." Said again.

"Well, you asked for a hug."

I hugged him, Tegar thanked him because all this time I always accompanied him, after that I went to my workplace.