Paper Layangan

Initial Step

After coming home from school Al just cringe in his room. He hoped that all this would be just a dream. He slowly got up from his bed to head towards the door of his room which had just been knocked from the outside.

"Al, take a walk out yuk. The kids are waiting downstairs." Irfan appeared with a funny smile. He noticed the condition of Al who looked tangled and the face of his pillow.

"Why the hell, rich people are frustrated."

"Did I look like that?"

Irfan looked at Al and held his forehead with his palm, like checking his body temperature.

"Hemm right, you're again rejected girl." Irfan was overwhelmed with his laughter. He walked into Al's room and sat on the sofa in the corner.

While Al looked annoyed, he hit Irfan with a pillow in his hand.

"Damn it! am I that? There are so many girls waiting to be my girlfriend. Even many of them profess their love." Al is proud of himself.

"Narcissus!!!" Irfan sneered long. "But have any of them escape, you are unattractive according to the sight of his eyes."

"Who?"

"Alis, that strange girl of yours." Irfan who slipped shut his own mouth and looked at Al with his guilt. The picture clearly changes the look of Al's face after Irfan brought up the name Alis.

"Again what? Why long? We're waiting downstairs. He said it's only 5 minutes but it's 15." Andra poked a long way towards Irfan who was sitting casually in Al's room.

It was Irfan who glared at him and gave the code for Andra to shut his mouth.

"Ember." Irfan sneering.

"umbrella." Reply Andra who also sneered.

While Al immediately passed towards his bed and he laid down his lackluster body. He came back and ruffled his hair until it was a mess.

Aldo who was waiting downstairs rushed to Al's room to approach them. He looked at Al who was lying down. And heedless of the dispute between Irfan and Andra.

"Al, you got a problem? Since school I've seen a lot of changes. Is this about Eyebrows again?" Aldo stared and hoped that Al would open his mouth.

Al exhaled in a ruffled breath, he looked at Aldo wistfully.

Irfan and Andra who was originally a storm suddenly silent hear Al who spoke, they glanced at each other and joined Al and also Aldo.

"It turns out to be true, that Eyebrows and Riyan are related." Al answered in a doldrums.

"Where do you know?" Irfan who is basically always curious, continues to dig information.

Aldo scrunched his forehead, he felt unfamiliar with the name. "Wait, who is that Riyan? it seems like his name is foreign to my ear."

"I heard it from the conversation between Angga and Alis in the back yard of the school." Al recounted the incident he saved when caught by his best friend earlier. He looked at Aldo.

"I don't know who Riyan was, which I obviously met him at a cafe with Eyebrows. Even I had heard that Alis had been betrothed to someone. Of course I'm sure that the young man in question is Riyan."

"You sure?" Irfan stared concernedly at the tragic fate of Al who was not as good as his handsome face.

Al nodded his head. "The man who was photographed and with her this morning was Riyan."

Andra and Irfan seemed to gawk at Al's explanation.

"Are you sure Al is with all that conjecture? That is not a fact you only gather from your hearing and vision. I can tell that it's not like that. There's something else I mean. Try to ask directly to the source Al, do not despair like this let alone you behave like this." Aldo explained at length, he convinced Al for all that.

"All will be well, trust us Al. We're always there for you." Andra said wisely while patting Al on the back.

"What does all this mean?" Irfan again changed the atmosphere that originally looked blurry to bright again with his singing style.

"Oh, what a hell, just spoils the mood." Andra looked in annoyance at Irfan.

"That means Al is in love." Irfan seemed to be cheering happily, in contrast to the three, they were staring at each other with their respective minds.

"Is that so Al?" Andra.

"I just like it, nothing more." Al maintained his facial expression to look normal.

"Righten my guess that Al likes Eyebrows, we're gonna help you out anyway, take it easy." Irfan patted Al's shoulder proudly.

"Make us go, hang out in the usual place." Andra remembered their original purpose of coming to Al for her house.

"So, I'm getting ready first." Al seemed to get excited again after getting a little booster shot from his friends. He smiled back thinly to dispel his pleasure.

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This time Harwinda and Arya are having a business meeting with a client of her company at Alis's cafe. They're in a private room on the 2nd floor. Since the beginning of entry until now Harwinda was so amazed to observe the design of cafe wall decorations that each room is always different. "Truly a great design." He was amazed.

"Yes, even we always enter a different room and the decor is also different." Arya co-chaired his wife's conversation.

"really? Wow, must be very clever of this owner." Harwinda returned. "He's a boy or a girl, sir?"

"I heard that she's a woman but unfortunately she can't be found in person, always represented to her manager."

Harwinda just rounded her mouth and nodded her head.

While his wife Julian, Ayudia just silently listened to their conversation.

"The food is also very delicious, anyway this cafe is very complete." Ayudia finally caught up with their conversation. It is as if promoting something to the consumer.

They seemed relaxed because they had been meeting since 15 minutes ago. Sitting around for a while to spend the dishes in front of them as well as intending to strengthen the business relationship between them with small talk outside the topic of work.

Harwinda nodded her head confirming what Ayudia had said.

Their meeting ended after the dishes available at their table ran out. Before they left the room, they shook hands as a sign of separation.

Because it was too fun to see the decoration of the cafe wall on the first floor, Harwinda forgot to pay attention to the direction of the road. He hit someone who was serving drinks at the customer's table until the drink spilled and the glass broke because of a fall.

Silent.

Harwinda looked very surprised, he looked towards a girl who seemed to be asking ma'af at the customer on the table.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean it." Harwinda also asked ma'af on 2 customers who were both teenagers. "Later I will replace all the losses."

"Yes aunty's okay." One of them answered.

"Are you okay?" Harwinda turned to look at the waiter, she was surprised after seeing the girl.

"Alice! You're Aliscan?" Harwinda looked pleased and she hugged Eyebrow tightly.

Eyebrows frowned confused to see the response of the beakbaya woman. He felt familiar but forgot where he had met.

"Later I'll compensate for all this, you guys take it easy." Harwinda again spoke towards the 2 teenagers who were the same age as the Eyebrows.

"No aunt, we're fine. Mba this is the only one that's been compensated for." One of them stared in concern towards Alis.

"Yes, thank you very much." Harwinda drew Alis' hand towards the other table that was still empty. Meanwhile, the mess had already been cleared up by the Eyebrow employees and the drinks and food the customers ordered had been replaced with new ones. Anto as a manager who must have cleaned everything up before the customer complained.

"Alis, what are you doing here? Do you work here?"

Eyebrows looked at Harwinda with a faint smile. "Yes aunty, I work here."

"You take it easy, I'll take care of everything with the manager so you don't get fired."

His eyebrows nodded his head. He stared at Anto and gave him a certain code that only he and some of his employees knew what it meant.

"Don't you forget about auntie?" Harwinda looked at Alis doubtfully. "What's wrong with you, baby?" Harwinda who just realized the bandage attached to the Eyebrow, grabbed it slowly.

"Ma'af Auntie, I seem to have somewhat forgotten about Auntie." Eyebrows grimaced, he felt uncomfortable because he had forgotten about the woman in front of him. "It's just a small wound from hitting the floor while slipping." The eyebrows go along to feel the jidat.

"It's okay, Aunt knows you." Harwinda looked chuckled. "Call Aunt Vinda, her mother Al whom you helped at that time."

Eyebrows appear to rotate his memory kekejenisan some time ago. He remembered it, Alis nodded his head.

"Yes, I remember Auntie, Auntie how are you?" Eyebrows are trying to get along with Harwinda.

"Good aunt, we happened to meet you here. Every now and then if you're off, play at Aunt's house, Auntie must be very happy."

Eyebrows nod their heads, "yes aunt, sometime."

Harwinda seemed to occasionally set her eyes around this cafe to see the whereabouts of her husband who takes care of the losses that had been caused by his wife.

"Do you want something to drink, let me get you."

"Oh, not Lis. Aunty is full because just from above, accompanying her aunt husband to meet his client. About that, the loss has been taken care of by Aunt's husband, so you take it easy."

"Yes, Aunt." His eyebrows nodded his head.

"If you're busy, please. Aunt wants to go home too." Harwinda stood up and hugged Eyebrow for a moment.

"You're always careful, baby." Harwinda again groped the injured Eyebrow.

Eyebrows smiled thinly and nodded his head.

Harwinda looked at her husband who approached her after the departure of Alis.

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