The Rituals

Meeting after the wait

It took two days for Cindy to recover from her fever.

And during those two days none of Glen, Alvaro, Ardhan or Sinta were visited by a ghost like what Arina had warned before.

Perhaps it was because the four were already acting cautiously at night, and they would never want to be alone at night.

Like what Sinta often does for example, she will go and stay at Mika's house when her sister works overtime and goes to sleep when the clock still shows eight o'clock or nine o'clock.

Today was Sunday, the day Arina asked them all to meet her at one of the cafes near the big mall in their town.

The cafe is quite crowded that makes them have to book a place first. I don't know what reason Arina took them there, but they still agreed.

Mika was the first to arrive, she immediately ordered a drink for herself and waited for her other friends. Mika repeatedly opened her phone and looked through her Facebook homepage.

"For a long time anyway..Where are they?" Mika who realized the length of time she was waiting also raised her head to look outwards, if one of her best friends had just come.

And sure enough the alleged woman, Alvaro and Cindy look new up to the bike that Alvaro drives.

Then Mika also saw a car that stopped in front of the cafe, the car that Mika knew belonged to Sinta's sister.

Mika sees Sinta getting out of the car, chatting and waving at the car that finally drove back.

Mika was still in her place when Sinta and Cindy hugged each other in the parking lot, while Alvaro was removing and keeping his helmet and Cindy on his bike.

Then the three men went into the cafe, looking for a place that belonged to those they had ordered.

Mika raised her hand to wave at her three best friends, telling them that this was where they were.

Cindy who saw Mika's hand wave, smiled and told Alvaro also Sinta.

They then walked over to the place where Mika was sitting with her cup of drink.

"Mik…." Cindy who they had not seen back hugged Mika tightly, while Sinta immediately sat on one of the chairs at the table.

Alvaro did not sit there, he looked at the booking counter and offered the two women who came with him.

"You want what pesen?" tanyakanya. Cindy who had released Mika's embrace, glanced at the menu board in front of her, then she looked at Sinta who was also looking at the board.

"Melon milkshakes." Sinta finally decided what drink she wanted to order.

Alvaro nodded, then he glanced at Cindy who was still standing and was now staring at her.

"Lo what do you want, Cin?" alvaro asked his best friend, Cindy shook her head and chose to sit next to Mika.

"Gue mesen later!" the answer. Alvaro just nodded getting that answer, he would not force the woman to order a drink right now.

But Alvaro will still order a drink for Cindy, because she knows the drink that women always order when they visit the cafe.

While Alvaro was ordering drinks for them, Ardhan and Glen came along simultaneously indicating that Ardhan must have asked the vice chairman of OSIS for a ride.

"Hi all!" Sapa Ardhan who has arrived at their spelling. When the man saw Cindy's whereabouts, he looked like a surprised person.

"Eh.. There's Cindy! How are you doing, Cin?" ask her that looks like a joke.

Cindy smiled and replied that she was fine at the moment. Ardhan nodded his head, then glanced to find out where the man who should have been here was because he saw the bike ahead.

"Where's alvaro?" ask Ardhan. Sinta pointed towards the counter, making the man turn his body to look at Alvaro who was standing there.

"okay!" Ardhan walked away from them to approach Alvaro there, when he passed Glen, the two were seen chatting then Ardhan nodded as Glen said something.

Glen walked up to their table and sat down on one of the empty seats. He kept his jacket on the backrest of the key and kept his cell phone on the table.

His eyes stopped when he saw Cindy who was beside Mika, playing the woman's mobile phone.

"Is she healthy, huh?" ask Glen. Cindy, who heard the question, immediately stopped her activities playing Mika's mobile phone, and looked at Glen who was currently smiling at her, waiting for an answer from what she asked earlier.

"W-what's Len? Sorry was not horrified! Hehe." Cindy asked, asking Glen to repeat the question because she did not really hear what Glen said earlier.

Glen shook his head slowly, then repeated what he asked Cindy earlier.

"Lo's healthy?" Cindy nodded and grinned at the question.

Glen pulled both of his lips together and heard Cindy laugh, and patted Cindy's head slowly three times.

Mika and Sinta who indeed have one table with them also glanced at each other confusedly. Since when did the two look so close?

That's what's on both of them. Cindy was indeed a person who was close to many men, but being close to Glen was a questionable matter.

The vice-chairman of OSIS is a very difficult man to be close to women, even though it is among them.

Glen wasn't as close as Alvaro and Cindy were to anyone, he would just answer questions, ask questions, and help if any of them were in trouble.

So when Sinta and Mika saw the thing that Glen had just done to Cindy, both of them felt strange and confused.

"Oh yes... Where is Arina?" Sinta who felt awkward because of Glen's attitude towards Cindy immediately asked Arina's whereabouts to Mika, even though Cindy and Glen felt nothing wrong with their attitude.

"So he said it's a little late." It wasn't Mika who answered the question Sinta asked that.

It was Cindy who was next to Mika who answered her by folding both hands on the table with a sweet smile.

"E-uh?" Sinta who heard that answer could only stare awkwardly at Cindy.

Alvaro and Ardhan came with a few drinks on the tray that Alvaro brought, while Ardhan only brought a glass of drinks that could be ascertained it was his drink.

Alvaro takes his place next to Cindy, who automatically mediates between the women with Glen's chair.

While Ardhan chose to sit next to Sinta who was sitting next to Glen.

"It's your, Ta!" Alvaro gives Sinta's milkshake, and gives Glen's order cappuccino.

Then he gave Cindy a chocolate latte that didn't actually order anything, and took her own Americano.

"Gue's not cool, Al.." said Cindy, but she kept stirring the chocolate and tasted it through the old straw stirring earlier.

Alvaro could only smile proudly while shaking his head at Cindy.

"Why not lick it?" tanyakanya. Cindy just smiled showing all her neat teeth and then shifted the chocolate closer to her and Mika.

They drank their drinks and waited.

"Arina hasn't come yet?" alvaro asked all of them, the same question Sinta had previously asked.

"That's Him!" Ardhan who found Arina's arrival immediately pointed to the woman who is currently wearing a light purple t-shirt, jeans and a black bag.

A suit they had never seen before, as usually the woman wore a black jacket every time they played together.