The Secret Marriage of the Teacher
Dating
“Elo apain Mister to not stop being a dumb-ass guy bacok ?” mimi whispered from the back bench.
The turn of the clock bell had just rang and Jonathan was apparently already standing in front of the classroom door. His gaze was sharp and his expression was less friendly. Already 2 weeks of XII IPA-2 classes have to face tense situations every hour of math lessons.
Gabriela did not dare to turn her head, only shrugging both of her shoulders. He realized that Jonathan's sharp gaze was often on him, even though Gabriela had moved to sit with Bimbim this week.
No matter how small Gabriela moves, Jonathan's eagle eyes always look at her, as if the math teacher had many eyes all over her body.
“Save your books and do the practice of the questions I will share !”
“For repeat value, Sir ?” ask Bimbim.
“Iya !”
Almost one class grumbled in annoyance. In these 2 weeks, such an impromptu repetition has happened more than 2 times.
No one dared to fight, including Gabriela who has been 2 weeks did not respond to Jonathan's annoyance even the impression of ignoring.
At home, Gabriela quietly went back to sleep in Jenny's room, never once waiting for Jonathan to come home for the night because he went to the company to finish teaching.
“Pak Nathan !” Gabriela caught up with her teacher when the man left the classroom after teaching.
Jonathan remained silent, waiting for Gabriela to approach him.
“Father no longer pms, right ?”
Gabriela stood in front of Jonathan, her head looking up at Jonathan who kept looking straight ahead.
“You think I'm not a real guy ?”
Gabriela shrugged both of her shoulders and looked at Jonathan with a face made as sweet as possible.
“I don't know.”
“You prove it later tonight ?” jonathan whispered right in Gabriela's ear with a voice deliberately made to sigh.
Gabriela rubbed her ear suddenly itchy due to Jonathan's breathing.
“No need, why wait until later tonight if it can be proven now.”
“You're still sane ?” jonathan's eyes immediately puffed up.
“Still, I am very sane. The question should have been directed at your own father. If indeed Mr. gentleman, why not immediately go to the cause of Mr. Nathan's annoyance and finish everything to completion, not even make our class as a place of impingement.”
Jonathan is upset that the girl in front of him pretends not to know that she is the cause of Jonathan's annoyance.
“Back there to class !”
Jonathan passed Gabriela with his leg face, but his eyes re-patterned as Gabriela's hands held him back.
“Father want to date a day with me ? May as teacher, contract husband or my future girlfriend.”
Jonathan was still silent and unmoved in place while Gabriela's hand was still holding her arm.
“You tried to seduce me ?”
Gabriela grumbled silently and clenched her hands in the air, annoyed that Jonathan was still on his back.
“No, I'm not the kind of girl who likes to seduce guys. I just want to thank you because Mr. Nathan has been very good to me even almost every day home night to help me keep the company.”
Jonathan smiled faintly, his heart suddenly like sprayed AC 1.5 PK, cold, not hot anymore.
”Sorry if my invitation even make your heart more upset.”
Gabriela let go of her hand and was about to return to class. Before his foot could step, Jonathan's hand restrained his arm.
“This Saturday, 4pm.”
“Jam 4 ? Not a part, sir ? Regular dating starts at 6 gitu.”
“Don't equate me with your ex guys.”
“I've never dated !” resolute Gabriela
“Meaning I feel a loss, only the first time I fell in love has been asked to marry but my husband said our marriage was only on paper, which expired only until I was 21 years old, but my husband said our marriage was only on paper,” grunts Gabriela.
Jonathan bit his lips to hold back his laughter seeing Gabriela's face moving left right and his lips pursed in a busy grumble.
“You are late in class almost 10 minutes, let me take you to avoid punishment.”
Gabriela sighed and obeyed Jonathan's orders to get her to the front of the class, permission for Mr. Anjas for reasons that were definitely just a lie
*****
“How can you keep smiling ? I look weird ?”
Gabriela's face blushed because since then Mama Hani looked at her with a sparkling face. At 15:45 Gabriela was waiting for Jonathan at the dinner table.
“Not strange, even beautiful. Of course Mama's happy to hear Nathan is going to ask you out.”
“Not dating, Ma, dating. In today's time the understanding is different,” said Gabriela while laughing.
“Limited means,”’sahut Mama laughs along.
The man Deheman from behind the dining room wall made the two stop laughing. Gabriela immediately got up and turned around. His body froze and his eyes were smashed.
“Waahh really handsome.”
“Kedip Nathan,” ledek Mama.
Jonathan's face blushed, ashamed of being caught staring at his wife.
“Awas ngeces it, Sir..eeehh Mas Nathan,” timpal Gabriela while giggling.
Jonathan rolled his eyes and grumbled and left the dining room.
“Udah there after your husband.” Gabriela nodded then kissed Mama's cheek.
“Dah Mama.”
Jonathan said goodbye and immediately entered the driver's seat, no event opened the door for Gabriela.
“Says dating, but I was left so alone,” grumbled Gabriela while putting on her seat belt.
“I just fulfill your request. From my head dizzy to hear your whining.”
Gabriela rolled her eyeballs and glanced at Jonathan while grunting in annoyance.
“Where are we going ? How'd it go through this toll ? Don't tell me you want to take me out of town.”
“Neither can sit still and accept me wherever I take you. One more thing, today our show is dating, so I love the dispensation to call me by a name other than father. Don't make me feel like I'm cheating on employees in the office.”
“Bapak..I mean Mas Nathan there is no intention of taking me out of Jakarta, torturing me in an empty house continues to throw me on the side of the highway right?”
“What are you not really filled with, anyway ? Student status but negative thoughts continue even to the point of imagining criminal.”
“The name is also alert. Usually, Mas Nathan cuek, the effect of hating me and always commemorate me about marriage while, besides assuming I am the third person who makes love Mas Nathan must be separated.
Now all of a sudden Mas Nathan asked me out on a date but the destination was far from where I lived. In the news many stories that love can make people do reckless actions, for example eliminating actors or pebinor.”
Jonathan just laughed softly while shaking his head.
“You know that our status is still teacher and student. It is not a problem for me if caught married to my own students, anyway I can concentrate on your company. But it will be a constraint and can destroy your future if you get caught married to a teacher, that's why I look for a dating place far away, so that the probability of meeting people we know is getting smaller.”
“‘In contrast chat with a math teacher, all problems can definitely be solved as long as you know the mathematical formula,” said Gabriela while laughing slowly.
Jonathan only smiled faintly and refocused his driving on the somewhat congested motorway.
Almost 40 minutes both just arrived at the place to eat natural nuances in the Bogor area.
“This is not Jakarta anymore, Sir,” Gabriela said.
“Call me father again in fact I alighted on the side of the toll road.”
“Sorry,” Gabriela just grinned the horse when Jonathan's eyes were so keen on her.
“What do you want to order ?” jonathan asked with a menu book as the two sat at the table.
“I like all kinds of food especially spicy ones. I only eat seafood, cows and chickens, I don't like goats. So I leave it to Mas Nathan.”
Jonathan did not ask again, dizzy with Gabriela's long answer.
“Bapak has been here often ? How do you know this place is so good ? Romantic anyway.”
“Can't ask a question or give a short, solid and clear answer ? From now on I have 1, your answer is more than 5 points. Now it's grosiran.”
“Drawns cheaper than buy units, Mas,” Gabriela said with a chuckle.
“Mas Nathan..”
“Stop !” Nathan raised his palm. “We're dating again, don't have to ask a lot like the police again interrogation thief. Can not chat casually and discuss the light-light aja ?”
“I've never had a girlfriend so never dated so don't know what to talk about on a date.”
“Forgot if all can be found out enough use this ?” Jonathan picked up his phone.
“My brain is suddenly weak because my heart is racing since Mas Nathan asked me out. It seems like the oxygen in my body is not flowing properly, ” Gabriela laughed.
Jonathan looked at the girl in front of him who was talking too much as he was, making his heart feel a strange thump as well.
Gabriela tells a lot of things as long as they enjoy food and occasionally asks about Jonathan's life, but there is not a single story about the cruel attitude of Mama Gina and Jihan.
“You sure you're full ?” jonathan asked as the two got back into the car.
“What does my look like not to look full and satisfied ?”
Jonathan just gave a faint smile as he got into the car.
“Since you did not stop babbling, so I am not sure if the food that comes in can replace the energy that comes out.”
“Indeed how many calories would come out if I told you ? Mas Nathan interrupted ?”
Jonathan just kept quiet without any expression. His eyes stared straight ahead, splitting the dark path illuminated by the light of the distant street lights.
Soon Jonathan's phone rang and Gabriela saw Maya's name on the screen. He hoped Jonathan would reject the call, but his hope was in vain because the man beside him answered him immediately.
I don't know what was said, Jonathan's face turned frantic and his foot reflexes pressed deeper into the gas pedal.
“Why ?” gabriela asked holding her seatbelt.
“We're going to the hospital now. Maya was just taken there. He tried to kill himself.”
Gabriela sighed while looking to the side. His heart pounded not because it was not because of the dating atmosphere but worried because Jonathan drove the car like an evil person and disappointed because the name Maya can still make the man panic and forget the figure of Gabriela who is there beside him.
