
Three weeks passed without any chance for Bimba to think about anything other than the work in front of his desk.
Cringe cring
"Yes hello"
"..."
"Yes Ma."
"..."
"Today?"
"..."
"Oh ok Ma's. 7 O'clock tonight?"
Bimba nodded his head and ended the call
******
Ting tong ting keg
The door bell of the Yulia family home rang.
"Open that door Yourle" their mother asked.
Yourle rushes to open the door and invites the dinner guests inside.
"Mi why is it so hard to bring this?"
"Don't you embarrass Jura?"
"Yes, it's store it first in an ice chest. Then liquid ice cream it. Yourle please keep this, son."
*******
The two families gathered in Quan's living room after they finished dinner together.
"Finally finished also washing everything's dishes, haha." Jura's laughter accompanied Mimi came up with a few cups of ice cream.
"Let's eat ice cream. Let's be happy it's the stomach," Mimi's swaggers adore ice cream to all.
"Cheers. cheers for Lia." Suddenly Yusve raised his cup calling Yulia.
"Oh yes forget it too, it should be deserted this house. Your daughter's mans Jura. Not home?'
"Oh him..."
Uhuk uhuk..
Yude coughed coughing while waving at his mother. The lambasting was like a certain condition to his mother.
"I'm sorry, maybe the request was for me to eat a lot of ice cream again, haha" Yude rubbed her own neck.
"Yulia's been almost three weeks not at home. He lives in his dorm. He continued studying. Maybe he'll be home for semester." Terang Jura sheltered.
"So the pool mermaid keeps learning? Haha interesting? I will disturb him in his place hahaha wait for me mermaid.hahaha" Inner Bimba listened to the conversation of the two middle-aged women.
"Where's Lia's school?" ask Gigi to know.
"We have to finish our ice cream before it melts. There's a lot more in the ice box, isn't there Ma?" Yusve switched the topic of conversation. Jura just nodded affirming his son Yusve's question.
"Oh yeah tonight there's a football game. Manchester United vs Liverpool. Anyone want to know who won?" about Yourle excited
There was a football debate in the room. It's ridiculous that they defend each other's ideas.
For both families, football is their sport of madness. Coincidentally some of them were supporters of these English giant football teams.
When everyone is arguing about the football team they like, The jungle stood at a table with several pictures of the Quan family on the table and some were hung on the back wall of the table.
Bimba pulled out his phone and started shooting some pictures of Yulia.
"Oh that girl was the head of the football team? Great." Inner Bimba amazed.
"Hihi whose work is from his three brothers huh? Hihi.." muttered Bimba chuckled at the sight of a picture frame containing a picture of Yulia crying with a clown face.
Perhaps at that time, Julie was 20 years old. She's in make up resembling a clown.
But somehow she cried when the picture was taken by someone. The picture was probably taken last year.
"Why did your sister cry then?"
"long story. Because she wanted to look different from her usual days for a classmate's event on campus, she asked a friend to make over. But she's in prank with that make up."
"Worse is that friend. Continues to?"
"Here he is outside where they held the party. He called me saying the show was over. Coincidentally when we arrived, Yusve continued to take many photos, because at that time he had just bought a DSLR camera. We found Yulia crying."
"Oh..."
"When he was at the party he did not see the results of his make over. Well when he was standing outside the party, someone gave him a piece of money for thinking he was a clown. We arrived at that time was surprised to see his face so 🤡 hahahaha.. but quite the money he got, hahaha."
Long length Yude tells the atmosphere at that time to Bimba.
Mala they had seen more clown photos on other albums that Yude released.
When the Bayu family went home, Bimba asked for Yude's permission to take a picture of Yulia's clown.
*******
"Bim you ok? Why have you been smiling lately?"
Already several times Jaja asked the same question but did not answer from Bimba.
This forced Jaja to seek his own answers so that one day he saw a picture frame on Bimba's desk outlining the problem.
"In the dance so still beautiful. Attractively. Let the neem smile lengthen. Where is he actually now, huh? Let's not say Bimba has a plan to prank this girl again."
Jaja then left the office of Bimba after putting some files to be signed by the boss.
"Ja, go inside." Bimba's orders just came out of the elevator.
"I just put the file you asked me to put on the table" said Jaja sitting in his place.
"Come in now" said Bimba firmly.
"Hmmm yes sir," he followed his master back into the office.
"Please find information on Yulia's whereabouts immediately."
"Ehhh wasn't he at his house after each of us went home that day? Will it stop?"
"I haven't let him stop. The contract is not finished."
"But Bim, Yulia's contract is done when we get home from the hospital. Don't tell me you forgot the deal between you and his brother who came to the hospital sending Yulia needs at that time."
The bimba let go of its coarse breath in light of the consent they had already made.
"But keep finding out where he is. I need to know Yulia's whereabouts."
"Hmmm interesting.." muttered Jaja casually.
"Hey hey what's on your mind?"
"Liet down, sir. Will I find out later in mans where he is?" jaja glanced at the picture frame on the Bimba table.
"That eye don't like to just glance, ok. ee mmm no there will be no answer to any of your questions. Sorry, buddy." Bimba shook his hand and asked Jaja to come out.
"Emm just say you miss your servant. Just say you've fallen in love with him" Jaja blackmailed his friend and quickly passed away.
"Where might I fall in love with that strange servant. Have the pool mermaid become a servant again haha.."
Bimba leaned on his great chair tapping his finger at the dreamy table.
Lately he has been feeling lonely and bored. Every time he saw the photo of Yulia like that clown, his heart was always filled with joy.
But every time he saw the frame of Yulia's image, he would daydream and imagine how the girl was chased down here to do a lot of unnecessary work.
For example, Yulia would be asked to wipe the pen she used for a few minutes to sign the document. Sometimes he would have the girl clean the toilet whenever the toilet was used in his office.
But what was most annoying to her was when Yulia placed the pepper on the roasted fish and the roasted chicken wings she asked for at the time.
Indeed, his request asked for pepper sambal, but it does not mean that the pepper was sprayed on all the fish and wings of the roasted chicken.
He then scatters back at his house. Fate is not in the house of the Yulia family. Otherwise, it's more embarrassing.
"I'll find you a pool mermaid wherever you are. Reply must be answered. Wait till I see you again."
As soon as Bimba's promise remembered Yulia.