Pride of Love
Special Region of Yogyakarta
The beautiful evening changed night, the group of street musicians consisting of 5 handsome young men had finished the show. They gathered in a food stall while resting enjoying dinner. One of them seemed to be busy counting pennies and several pieces of banknotes of various fractions.
"Our results are good and we can eat well today" said the man named Dimas with a smile and distributed the money to his friends.
"If Jovan comes along we certainly get a lot, right Jovan is the idol of visitors, especially mother ama ciwi ciwi ciwi it hehe..." kekeh another person named Aldi while patting the shoulder of his friend who was cool enjoying a glass of iced tea as a cover for his dinner.
"That bill...!!" the cheers of Dimas, Aldi, Dewa and Yusuf were almost at the same time as they looked at their familiar friend called Jovan.
"Ah... y'all can, not me is emang because all of you are good at playing music I just sing doang!" Jovan chimed in with a smile.
"Tomorrow morning we play in Alun Alun, there happens to be an event there, you can come with me right?" Dimas turned to look at Jovan. "Tomorrow morning I can be up to 12 noon because tomorrow I have extra English classes at school"
"If Van sampaan must come along, let our results be quite like tonight" God urged Jovan to hope that his best friend will come along with his very thick Japanese accent.
"Ok I try" Jovan closed the conversation between them.
Jovan rode his motorbike slowly towards a boarding house in an alley not far from the campus of a very famous state university in Yogyakarta. Jovan went into his boarding room on the second floor of the boarding house. After removing the guitar from his carrier, Jovan sat leaning on the bed, his hand reaching for a map from the table next to his bed. Slowly opening the map, a certificate of graduation with the name JOVANDRA MAHESA HADIWIGUNA bearing the title of magister listed there.
Jovan let out a long sigh while holding onto the sheet of paper. It has been almost 3 years that he left his birthplace capital to earn his master's degree in this Special Region. While in college Jovan filled his time by busking with his friends just for the cost of eating a day during his stay in the region. As for the tuition and rent costs he got from the results to become an honorary English teacher in a private SD that is quite famous in the city.
His good looks and friendliness and his skills attract the attention of children make him nicknamed Mr Handsom by his protege.
Such was Jovan's life for the last 3 years since he decided to leave Jakarta and pursue his S2 title in Special Region
Jovan continued to look at the map in his hand.
"How are you? .... Andra misses dad... Andra had graduated and wanted to go home to Jakarta Well, but it looks like Dad is still mad at me" he murmured with teary eyes.
Andra, that's her nickname since she was a kid. During his time in Jogja everyone used to call him Jovan and he just let it cover his identity which is the sole heir to the large expedition company in this country, HW Logistic. Although born in a very wealthy family as a wealthy businessman, but his parents are accustomed to educating him to live a simple life and not poya like generally the son of wealthy businessmen in the Capital City. This is also what makes Andra able to live a simple life while in Jogja even from the results of his own hard work he can pay tuition fees that are not small while there.
