Painting Images With Light
The Part 14
Karenina kept her promise to help find a job as a model for Bagio.
After about two weeks Karenina returned to the city, and Bagio who left a message to Yanto, if Bagio wants to become a professional model, last night, Yanto met Bagio at his home.
"Abang tomorrow don't go anywhere, huh?! There is an agency coming here. Merely, I was not told the exact hour when they would arrive."
As Yanto said to Bagio, forwarding the message said by Karenina by phone.
Be it today, Bagio did not do any work outside the home, and was just waiting for the arrival of the person who would hire him as a model.
It was almost three o'clock in the afternoon, Bagio's patience began to change with anxiety.
But the confidence of Bagio immediately returned, when Yanto who walked from the rice fields, was seen coming to his house, with a big smile.
And not too long later, following a private vehicle coming from the opposite direction.
Yanto did not immediately meet Bagio, but seemed to talk briefly with the person who had just got out of the car.
"That's an agency envoy. Do you want to talk to yourself or do I want to be with you?"
Yanto immediately told who was the passenger in the car with a deep black glass, the inside of which was not visible from the outside, shortly after he set foot on the porch of Bagio's house.
"Sorry troublesome. Looks like you were from the rice field, huh?!" bagio.
"Yes. Doesn't matter. There's nothing more I can do there. My friends are also coming home soon." Yanto then sat on one of the empty patio chairs, which Bagio shifted closer to him.
"Good afternoon!" The person who had been walking behind Yanto immediately greeted Bagio, extending his right hand. "Yuri. Model agency, SM Management."
The fragrant scent of the man who introduced himself by the name of Yuri, who was the envoy of a model agency, could still be clearly smelled even though they were in the open room.
Yuri, a man who looks very fashionable, even looks on his face also wears a little makeup, so that Bagio can not judge, how old are the men shaking hands with Bagio now.
Although Yuri looks cool and classy, but she does not look uncomfortable at all, when looking at the current appearance of Bagio, who only wears shorts and a worn t-shirt.
"Baggio." Shaking hands, Bagio introduced himself. "Please sit! Let me make you a drink first!"
"Oh, thank you. But you don't have to bother. I've had too much to drink" said Yuri, then sat on the porch of the house of Bagio, next to Yanto.
"Are you ready?" yuri asked, looking at Bagio who had just sat there.
"Eh! Meanin?" Bagio confusion.
"I'm sorry. I'm in the habit of talking to the point, and not used to making small talk, because time is precious to my work....
... So we just go straight. Are you ready to come with me now?" Yuri repeated her question along with her explanation.
"I'm sorry. But there seems to be a little misunderstanding. I think we'll just talk here. So, I haven't done any preparation, to travel immediately" replied Bagio.
Yuri turned to her side and looked at Yanto.
"Eh! I also did not know that you will go immediately to bring a bang Bagio," said Yanto, as if he could read Yuri's mind.
"How long until you can be ready to go with me?" ask Yuri who's back to see Bagio.
"Are we going to travel for a long time?" Bagio asked back.
"The plan is so. If you do not agree with the contract, then you can be transferred back here, at the latest in the next three days....
... But if you want to work under our agency, of course you no longer need to come back here" Yuri explained.
Yuri seemed to be unable to wait that long, it was obvious on her face that she wanted to rush out of the village immediately.
"You can take a walk with me first. It will not feel like a long wait, if you look around this beautiful village," asked Yanto, so that Yuri gave a chance to Bagio to get ready.
"Hm ... Okay! Please do not get delayed again," said Yuri while staring at the bagio, then come to stand with Yanto who had stood first.
Along with Yanto and Yuri who left his house, Bagio also immediately packed the change of clothes he needed when he joined Yuri later.
It did not take long for Bagio to prepare his clothes, because he only packed a few pieces of clothing, which became the gift of Karenina at that time.
Bagio then went to see Kartono, who was as knowledgeable as Bagio, his male friend was working on a rice field owned by one of their neighbors.
Incidentally, when Bagio arrived at the paddy field where Kartono was working, Kartono and several other workers, were seen to have finished doing their work, and were just sitting around resting in a rice field hut.
Bagio then invited Kartono to come to his house, while explaining about his plan that would be to join the messenger from the modeling agency.
"Say, if I agree with the contract they proposed, then I will stay there immediately" said Bagio.
"Continue! About how later?" ask Kartono.
"Maybe I'll sign that contract. Because I think that if Karenina were to get me in touch with the people from the agency, it's likely that the agency was quite good at her assessment" Bagio replied.
In their current talks, Bagio also asked for help from Kartono to manage his rice fields, if he signed a contract, and did not return to the village for a while.
And apparently, Kartono did not mind Bagio's request at all.
Kartono even agreed, that the results of the Bagio rice fields that would be managed by Kartono later, would be divided equally for the two of them.
Actually, Bagio had offered to make Kartono get 70 percent of the rice field, but Kartono insisted that half of the total yield was more than enough for him.
Kartono even volunteered to help Bagio take care of his home, as long as Bagio was not in the village.
It seems that all the plans can run smoothly, but not with a debt deposit that becomes a burden on the mind for Bagio.
The money given by Karenina, coupled with a little money from Bagio's savings, can indeed pay a one-time bill.
Then, how's it going? While the bill that must be paid, still three more times.
Is it possible starting next month, Bagio can get paid immediately? Of course, that's not certain.
However, again Kartono gives hope and enthusiasm, that even if Bagio has not been able to send money, then Kartono will bail out Bagio's debt bill, using Kartono's savings.
"You don't have to think about what's in this village. I'll take good care of all your late grandfather's relics....
... So is the money issue, you don't have to worry. When the harvest later, the results can be to cover your debt....
... You remember my message. Try hard, so you can succeed, and I can also be proud of you" Kartono told Bagio.
Bagio and Kartono were still talking, but Yanto and Yuri, already seen walking back into the courtyard of Bagio's house.
Before Bagio got into the car with Yuri who would take him away to a new world, Bagio still had time to express his gratitude to Kartono and Yanto so many times.
"See you later, bang!" yanto said half-shouting, while waving his hand.
"Now! ... Thank you!" said Bagio, who waved his hand at Yanto and Kartono, who were still standing in the courtyard of Bagio's house.
