Magic Lantern

Spy

Ratih's new task of spying on Tania really made him feel guilty and uncomfortable. Especially when Tania expressed her feelings.

"I'm glad you're sincerely friends with me. You know being a vice pak Pras as well as being in charge of the finance of the company makes it a bit difficult to make close friends. I'm afraid they're using me and if I'm not careful. I'm gonna get in trouble."

Nyeeess. The heart is like cold water. Or get stabbed in the snow. The cold reaches the bone.

"You don't think negatively. Not everyone is friends with you because there's a certain intent."

Uh! You're a master liar. What are you spying on Tania for?

A pinch of guilt rippled in the heart and chest of Ratih. 

"Frankly, I can't be too friends. You know how that accounting course is? If I'm not serious about studying? I also have to add other skills besides work and study. I also took a series of courses. Equip yourself with management courses and English. Where else would it be time to be friends. Not if I'm not careful. My job is to invite people to abuse my closeness to them."

I am grateful to have a simple job and not make people take advantage of my work. For their benefit.

"I envy you and your friends. You guys are like brothers. No sense of competing with or utilizing."

"All there is less. You want to join us?"

Tania shook her head, "I don't want to get too close to Diah. She hates me so much."

"All there is less. You get a big pay but have trouble finding a friend who is really sincere with you. While our salary is not as big as you but our friendship relationship is more sincere. Shoulder to shoulder. Diah doesn't hate you. You took his job. The income is reduced because of you."

"I didn't mean to take his job. Especially against him."

"I knew. But that makes Diah feel upset with you. Because you took his position. The income also decreases."

"I sometimes feel like what I have makes other people feel intimidated."

"You're also very bossy. Mirna and the others don't like you. Because you're superior."

"I was chased by deadlines and targets. What am I supposed to do? All your friends don't like me?"

"They're your subordinates. How do you want them?"

"Why are you different from the others? I push you often, too?"

"I'm used to working under pressure with Kreshna."

"Pras is more or less the same. Especially against me. He pushed me harder than the others. I have no choice but to press the others."

"Pras has great hopes for you. Kreshna entrusted the company branch to you both."

"Yeah."

"Easy! Don't think much. Nothing life is perfect. You should be more grateful."

"Thinking. You're my only friend. Tintan often tells about you. He seems very impressed with you."

"Good kid cumin. You're lucky to have a sister as good as her."

"You're not her brother. Of course he's nice to you."

"really?" Follow me while laughing.

"We often fight over anything. Even if there are chicken bones and fish. We're fighting too."

Trained chuckles.

"Mockingly. Interrupting each other. But there are times when we talk to each other and talk from heart to heart."

"Hmm, so sweet." Sahut Ratih's.

"I feel like he's closer to you. I like you more."

"Because I'm not his real brother."

Break Tania's laughter, "If we're both dying or drowning. Where will he help?"

"Sure me!" Practice spontaneous.

"See?" 

"You didn't ask why."

"What's the reason?"

"He doesn't have to share his legacy with you."

The laughter exploded.

"Yeah! We don't need to fight over inheritance and elbow each other."

"She knows what's going to cause her trouble and not."

They laugh back.

"I don't think anyone's gonna blame him, do you? The situation made him have to choose."

"He chose to lighten the burden of his life."

Their laughter exploded again.

"You're a very pleasant friend."

"Don't go too far. You'll be disappointed." What if Tania finds out that she is Pras' spy?

"I'd like to stay at your contract once in a while."

"But not with your friends, huh? I'm not a favoritist. I don't want to feel intimidated."

"alright. When do you want to stay at my rented house?"

"How about Saturday tomorrow?"

"OK!"

Tania kept her words. Come to Ratih's house and stay at his rented house.

"I'm sorry I can't help you cook and do the dishes. Especially cleaning the house." Tania.

"It's okay. But it looks like if you get together with my other friends they'll really mind if you stick around."

"I can't cook, do the dishes or clean the house." Tania's face flushed.

"Are you busy studying and working?"

Tania nodded her head, "Let me try to get you a drink. It seems easy."

Tania headed for the kitchen and opened the tea leaf jar. Pouring sugar and water.

"What are you doing?" Ask Ratih.

"Make tea of course."

"Can't you make tea?"

"Either wrong?"

"Indeed, have you ever had a tea full of tea pulp like that?"

"Oh yes!" Tania sifted through the waste. He gave to Ratih.

"No. Thank ye. Let's see how I make it."

Ratih took out a stemmed pot. Fill it with tea leaves and water and heat it on the stove to boil.

Take a glass and fill it with sugar. Pour the tea that is still hot by filtering it. Stirring him. Pouring room temperature water into the glass.

"This is for you." Ratih offered the tea he made to Tania.

"Snake and fragrant. Seems easy. Let me make it for you." Tania took the glass. Fill it with sugar. Pouring tea with a strainer. Stirring him.

"This is for you." His mouth is holding a tea glass.

Ratih drank it and squinted his face, "Too sweet. It's sweet tea candy."

Both chuckle.

"Sweet tea chocolate. Look at the color's almost black."

"Mess! You're pouring it too thick."

"It's easy to make tea. But it's really hard." Tania breathed her breath towards her hair.

"Easy! We can't do everything well. You're good at taking care of the company's finances and not everyone can do it. You can't make sweet tea and other homework. But not everyone can do your job either."

"Yeah! Gracias! You're a good friend."

Guilt again hit Ratih. If only Tania knew. Does Tania want to be friends with him?

"Do you still suspect I'm a lesbian. I wish I had asked you about your personal life?"

"Why do you want to know my personal life?"

"Friendly friends we should be open to each other. Get to know each other better."

"But it's kind of weird that girlfriends can't talk about our private lives."

"You can ask anything about me. Hows it? Get even, right?"

"I don't want to know anything about you."

"What?"

"What's the point of me knowing your personal life?"

"To get to know?"

"I already know you."

"All right! You don't want to know anything about me. I'm the one who wants to know about you."

"I don't have a personal life. My life is just studying and working." Tukas Tania's.

"Everybody has a personal life."

"I honestly don't like discussing life or interfering with other people's privacy."

"If we gather together. We used to tell each other about our lives and privacy. There is no secret between us all. And it made us all close to each other."

"All of you are not lesbians. Aren't you?"

"What's? Ofcourse!"