
"Just as beautiful as you are" Farel said after a while observing Niki's face. But the praise did not necessarily make Niki happy, because Farel mentioned it flatly without any taste, "What is necessary, Niki? I'm a little bothered this afternoon." Farel returned to his laptop and paper screen on his desk.
"Mas Farel ate?" Farel immediately turned his head when he heard the call addressed to him.
"Here I am your lecturer, Niki. Get in the habit of calling me right," prores Farel.
"Sorry, have you eaten?" errata Niki.
"No, I eat out" Farel said.
Niki shivered her lower lip holding back not to ask about her husband's lunch plan with his first wife that he had stolen earlier. Disappointment and sadness began to perch in his heart, because the husband did not even ask if he had eaten, wanted to eat or wanted to eat something like he offered his first wife.
"There again?" Farel asked as if to throw Niki out of his room.
"Ga exists. Excuse me." Niki nodded politely and then walked out of the room.
He walked a little fast towards the ladies' room. The tightness in the chest makes it a little difficult to breathe. He tried to keep the tears that had been at the end of the eye did not fall into the cheek.
Niki went into one of the toilet rooms. He immediately sat on the closet and turned on the tap water so that the sound of crying was not heard from outside.
Was I wrong to love .. but I was wrong because she was married, and I knew it. Marriage is not as beautiful as people say. Is it too late to back off?
Niki began to regret her actions that only knew she wanted to have. But the truth is that he now has, but does not have. Farel even further and gave distance after they officially became husband and wife. Between the shame in front of her friends and disappointment with her marriage raging in her heart.
After being satisfied crying and letting go of all her emotions, Niki wiped her tears and washed her face. He tried to remove a trace of sadness from his face.
While crossing the campus parking lot, he saw Farel walking quickly towards his car. Suddenly he remembered Farel's conversation with his wife as he was about to enter the room.
"Will Mr. Farel eat soto on the Revolutionary road with his wife?" Niki's curiosity with the face of his lecturer's first wife took him to the location he thought Farel's destination was having lunch with Marisa.
Niki immediately ordered an online motorcycle taxi to the famous soto depot on the road of Revolution. Until there, she had not seen the whereabouts of her husband's car.
The aroma of meat soto sauce from an open pot, making Niki who was hungry ordered a portion and chose to sit in the corner alone.
A few moments later Farel's black car docked in front of the depot. Niki sharpened his vision on the side of the passenger bench. A very beautiful and graceful adult woman got out of the car.
Instantly a sense of inferiority attacked Niki. The woman Farel's wife allegedly looks like a model who came out of a fashion magazine.
Very beautiful, it is fitting that Mr. Farel is not interested in me.
The woman walked and sat down gracefully. Many times Niki saw, her husband seemed to be trying to talk and smile but the woman looked indifferent and answered accordingly.
Farel's friendly and warm gaze aimed at the woman, made Niki's sense of belonging appear.
'Father lied. Mba Marisa is much prettier.'
Niki ventured to send a message to Farel. He was curious about her husband's reaction when he found out that his two wives were in one room. True to Niki's guess, her husband looks panicked. His head and eyes began to search for Niki's whereabouts.
When Farel's eyes found Niki among the other visitors, Farel gave his little wife a warning look.
The man began to look agitated and his sitting was not calm. Marisa who saw her husband nervous began to feel disturbed.
"Why are you?" cetus Marisa's.
"Ga anything. We eat somewhere else. It's crowded here, "persuade Farel.
"Ga ah, you eat somewhere else. I wanted to eat here from the beginning."
"Yes," said Farel. He tried to smile to cover his panic.
'Father, have no intention of knowing me with Mba Marisa?' Niki sent me a message again.
'Don't try to disturb my wife, Niki, ' Farel's threatening reply, disturbs Niki's pride. She felt as the accused would harm her husband's favorite woman.
"empty, Mba?" Three young men stood in front of him holding a bowl. Niki spread his gaze around the crowded depot and there were almost no empty benches left.
"empty. Please, Mas."
Two people sat in front of him and another sat by his side. At first he felt uncomfortable and awkward because sitting at a table with strangers slowly began to disappear. The three men sitting at one table with him were quite polite and humorous. They were unceasingly joking with each other making Niki laugh when she heard it.
"Where's the lecture?" ask one of the men.
"Blue Campus. Working at PT. Surya Shines huh?" Niki pointed at the name badge hanging on their necks.
"Yes, if you have passed the application input to our place. I happen to be part personnel" said one of the men.
"Well, can you. Getting in there is notoriously hard because the salary is big, right?"
Niki's conversation with the three men caught Farel's attention. The cheerful laughter of the four people sitting in the corner of the depot really disturbed his concentration.
While Farel and Marisa are still enjoying their meal, Niki and her three new friends are done and walk to the cashier's table.
"Udah, I'm the one who signed it as a thank you for sharing the place with us." One of the men lowers Niki's hand which will put money on the cashier's table.
"Totally? I know how much college money is not. Thank you, yeah." Niki giggled happily at being able to sniff out lunch this time.
"Either. Here's my business card, if you want to enter a job application later I help." The man gave Niki a business card.
"Yes, who knows, the next soul mate continues to get to the guarantee," teased two friends who had just quietly observed.
"Amiiin," said the man who gave the business card while laughing.
Niki, who had forgotten that Farel was in the same depot, laughed in shame at their jokes. He only realized when Marisa walked gracefully followed Farel behind her past the four of them who were still standing in the doorway. Niki still had time to catch Farel's sharp glances directed at the young man who gave him a business card.
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