The mask.

64.

Saturday and Sunday passed quickly, not feeling Monday was present again. Rama is busy again, while for Andi, Jo, and Kiara, the three must return to dealing with lessons and stacks of tasks that make the head dizzy.

"Buy cold drinks, dong. Please," pinta Kiara who just finished one class with a crumpled look.

"Why? The material's hard, huh?" andi looked at pity. His friend looks very weak and runs out of energy even to move again unable to.

Kiara nodded slowly. "Sa .. ngat," he said.

"Wait a minute, I bought you some cold coffee," Andi replied before she left her friend to buy her a drink. Well, who knows cold coffee can help his friend get excited even though not much.

"Ahh, it feels like I'm back alive," sighed Kiara as soon as she drank the drink that Andi bought just now. "Thank you, yes," continued the girl.

"No problem" Andi said. "I'm staying, yeah. Class I retreated again," he continued, glancing at the clock on his wrist.

Kiara nodded in return. Andi stood up from her seat and prepared to go to class. "Thank you one more time, An!" kiara said it looked brighter than before.

"Yo'i," Andi replied before actually leaving. Kiara was left at the table alone, the girl took her phone to fill the time before the next class arrived.

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Rama is currently in an orphanage, instead of playing, the young man is at work right now. Tell me this orphanage land has become his company's property, so he's looking for a new place for the kids who are here. Blame it on his employees who could not persuade the home to be willing to leave, so he had to intervene. Rama's arrival was not warmly welcomed by the orphanage, they stared openly hostile to Rama. Unfortunately Rama was too immune to such a gaze, so he was not too pushy at all.

"I stick to my verdict, we can't move from here. How's kids? They won't have a place if the home is evicted" the head of the home said as they deliberated for the last time.

"But this is my company's land. I'll also look elsewhere, so I hope you can reconsider your decision, head of the parlour!" reply Rama firmly.

"You can't" said the head of the parlour, shaking his head slowly. "Many of the memories we lived in this parlour, can you adapt in a new place?" continued the head of the parlor with a sad look.

"Memories can be remade, but this place will disappear forever. Like it or not, that's what happens! If you don't change your decision, we'll meet in court. At that time, let alone memories, you won't even have a place to take care of the kids here?!" Rama looked straight at the head of the parlour, stating that he meant what he had just said.

The head of the orphanage squeezed his hands, he realized that the orphanage he managed was standing on land owned by people. "Give me a little more time, I can't make my own decisions" the head of the parlour asked with a pleading gaze.

"Three days! I will wait for the next three days. If your decision is still the same, then we will meet in court!" Rama immediately left as soon as he saw the head of the parlour nodding in return. Of course he was ready before he left.

"Ahh, I feel like a villain threatening a good man," Rama sighed as soon as he got into the car.

Rama stared at the parlor he had been to, in a few months there will be a new building in this area. And that would be one of his properties. "I have to find a better location, close to public facilities and other things. Well, at least so that I don't become a complete bad person in the eyes of those children" Rama said before driving off, leaving the location of the home.

"Find the right location with the best environment for the construction of the home! Soon?!" rama said after he got to his room. He spoke to his trusted assistant, of course the performance of his assistant was beyond doubt.

"Good, sir. But sorry, can I ask you a question?" said the polite assistant.

"Say!" rama reply briefly while taking care of the documents that have been piled up on his desk, but the table was very clean and now the task is back piling up.

"Actually you don't have to find a new location for the parlour, but why do you keep doing that, sir?" the assistant confirmed the location of his glasses.

"Just say I don't want to be remembered as a bad person" Rama smiled faintly.

"I understand, sir. The task of you I will do as soon as I can" replied the assistant, after which the man looked down politely before leaving Rama's room.

"Alright, let's finish this before going home" muttered Rama burying himself in the pile of documents he had to work on.

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"I came home" said Rama as soon as he got home.

"Welcome, young master," said the servant's aunt to welcome her master.

"Auntie's back? Andi has not told me yet," said Rama looking at the aunt with a faint smile.

"I just miss cleaning up this house, young master. That's why aunt came back sooner," I the aunt smiled warmly.

"Finally, we can both eat auntie's cooking again" Andi said, fresh off the stairs.

"Oh, so you're forced to eat my cooking, huh?" ketus Rama pretends to be angry.

"Oh, of course not. Rama's cuisine is the best of the best?!" reply Andi quickly while grinning the horse, do not forget his two thumbs that point high towards his best friend.

"Ho-ho, aunty wants to taste the young master's cooking" she joked with her two employers.

"Have Rama cook, bi. I've just arrived, so I'm definitely still tired from the long and long journey!" chirp Andi suddenly.

"Ahh, that's not true, second young master. I don't dare to, "the aunt quickly refused. "I have prepared a simple dinner for my two young masters, after all" the aunt confessed.

"Ram, shower gih. I wait at the dinner table," Andi said excitedly.

Rama nodded then went up to his room. "I took a bath" said Rama before leaving.

After the shower, Rama went down. He saw his friend sitting sweetly waiting for his arrival. The two also enjoyed a dinner prepared by the servant's aunt.

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"Nge-game yuk, Ram?" take Andi after they finish up to dessert.

"Don't today, I'm tired" Rama said in a low tone, obviously he was exhausted.

"I'm not that tired, okay. I'm just lazy and don't want to play games. Let's watch, how? I will not be able to sleep this fast either" I looked at his friend Rama.

"Okay, I'll have a snack in the kitchen. You choose the movie," Andi said, jumping away before hearing the approval of his friend. Rama shook his head helplessly, his friend was really something. Very excited and hyperactive.

Andi came back, bringing snacks and carbonated water. Friends are obligated when watching he said and must be there. The two watched together, deliberately Andi turned off the lights to feel more watching he said.

"Ram, I was told by an intern to know more about the business world" Andi said without looking at her best friend, she stayed focused on watching the movie.

"Certainly? You find the right place?" ask Rama. "Do you want to be where I am?" hail the young man.

"Let me dance first, huh. If you can't ask for it, he-he," the young man stared at Rama at a glance.

"Entertainment and success!" timpal Rama flat cheered his friend.

"Sip, thanks!" andi said.

After the film ends, Rama and Andi choose to enter their respective rooms. The night was hard enough late, even their two eyes desperately wanted to be closed. Both of them also rest so they can live tomorrow with full energy.

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A week passed, Andi interned at one of the companies that became Rama's working partner. Andi did not say anything, when asked, the young man only said that he had got a job. After all he just worked to fill out his assignment book and make a final thesis.

Rama did not understand why the law child was given the task of apprenticeship, whether to get deeper knowledge or other uses. Andi himself does not understand, but the name of the task must be done as hard as it is.

Andi is given a trivial job, such as making drinks, photocopying, or sometimes asked to buy something that is not even important. He said all the new kids get that kind of treatment. Andi accepted everything, she worked without complaining. Fatigued, but complaining won't make the job any easier either. That's what Andi understood during her college days.

Whether by chance or fate, Rama who indeed had to visit saw his friend work like that was a little upset. Because his friends look like they are being played, considered as entertainment in the midst of their work difficulties. Imagine his friend going back and forth more than three times just to get the right temperature from the drink one of the senior employees asked for there. On the one hand Rama is proud because his friend has a very high stock of patience, but on the other hand it feels like he wants to tear the person who bullies his friend.

"What's up, sir?" ask the owner of the company to look at the wonder of his coworkers who are usually not interested in anything. What his co-worker was looking at, was there anything that interested him. If yes, what is it. What could he use to tie their cooperation, to get closer and make a lot of profit for himself.

"No, just looking at something that's hurting your eyes!" rama said flatly without emotion.

Following the views of his co-workers, the company leader finally knew what he was seeing. "Ahh, that's one of the interns. It might seem a little outrageous, but actually my employees are just messing around. It is possible to unsaturate them during the face of an endless pile of work, ha-ha," explained the owner of the company with a crisp laugh.

"Hulfulness? I see, do you?" timpal Rama pulled his lips up.

"Let's go this way, sir!" the leader said politely, smiling happily at how much investment he would make this time.

Instead of following the fat man earlier, Rama stepped closer to his friend. "Rame?" call Andi with a surprised look. "Gapain come here, he-he," continued the young man changing his facial expression quickly.

"I'm not polite! It could have acted like that to Mr Rama!" hardik the leader rebuked loudly Andi. Even his index finger pointed at the young man's chest.

"Ahh, I'm sorry. It's just that he's my acquaintance, boss sir," Andi replied looking down politely.

"Geez, how is it possible!" timpal the leader called the boss just can't believe it. If indeed the young man in front of him was familiar with his business partner, there was no way he would want to work in his small company. Not even complaining or complaining when treated arbitrarily.

Andi scratched her cheek confused. He was honest, but his words were not trusted. "What time is it to go home?" rama asked with a long breath. Not hounding the co-workers next to him gaped in disbelief.

"Sir, sir, anu, her, that ...?" said the confused boss had to ask what, his eyes staring worriedly at Rama.

"He's my brother, we live in the same house and grew up under the care of the same people - our grandmother and grandfather!" said Rama flat. Like being struck by thunder, lightning, lightning, and so forth. The boss stood stiffly on the spot, staring fearfully at Rama and Andi in turn.

"Anu, that, this, sir, sir, your majesty, as I said earlier, this is just playful, ha-ha-ha-ha," said the boss laughing stiffly. "You've been working well, you can go home early today!" said the boss patting Andi on the back.

Andi stared confusedly at the change in attitude of his boss. "Yes? But, is my job still a lot?" refute Andi.

The boss waved his hand into the air. "Not a problem, not a problem. There are still many who do your work," the boss hid his decision, the investment he almost got could be threatened to fail.

"Let's go home, you took a taxi, right?" take Rama not care about the fears of his coworkers.

Andi nodded quickly. "It's weird that interns, college kids, bring a cool car, Ram!" he said to his friend.

"We buy an ordinary car, somehow it's a regular car according to you," Rama replied lightly as if he was inviting you to buy candy.

"No, I don't need. Also my apprenticeship was only a short while," Andi said in response.

"Do as you please, but if you're still being played like this, don't forget to tell your best friend this. Just use my name once, An," Rama replied in a calm tone, inversely proportional to the piercing gaze of his eyes staring at those who annoyed his friends one by one.

"OK, he-he," Andi's grin obediently.

"Come back!" take Rama again. Andi nodded, went back to the dressing room and picked up her things.

"Master, sir? What about our business?" ask the boss to hesitate.

"We'll talk when my mood improves!" balas Rama flat.

Ahh, extinct already. When the mood of a Rama can improve. Though stay a little more and everything is confused because the habits of employees disturb apprentices. The boss finally punished all his subordinates, venting anger that he could not channel elsewhere. I want to protest, but mistakes are on his side. How did he know that the person who looked like a commoner was actually brothers with his business partner. What a census officer he is, who can know the data of all the families.

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