The Sweetest Feeling's

Ballad Bule And Child Junior High

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Daryl's face frowned as soon as he got out of his car. They were in the largest parent market in Jakarta at almost dawn.

Cold, drowsiness and dizziness dominated him. If it wasn't for his promise to Nania last night, that he would have taken the girl shopping to the market, then Daryl would have gone home by now.

"I thought I was going to the supermarket?" The man muttered.

"Where is the supermarket open at three in the morning? Do you like to hang out?"

"No, the supermarket is open 24 hours?" The man asked.

"Know I don't exist. I know the market."

Daryl snorted loudly.

"Why? Don't want to nganter? I told you it wasn't necessary, bobo at the store. Ardi was going to be here."

"Huh? Eee ... no! I'm just cold. Huuffthh .. I don't know Jakarta that this dawn is cold, right? Haha." Daryl shifted the subject while rubbing his palms together.

"Hmm .. Yeah, just wait here, I won't take long. Two hours at most."

"What's? Two hours?"

"Yes." Yeah."

"What do you want to buy?"

"lots. Vegetables, meat, fruits. All sorts of seasonings .. old when it's cleared."

"Why not just order from a direct supplier? It's easy to just send a note, keep the goods delivered to our place. No need to be tired like this?" daryl protest.

"Sister Ara does not believe in the same suplyer, believe me who is shopping. He said that his own shopping can choose goods that are really good."

"In the suplyer is also super quality. You just choose a material that is grade A, it must be good."

"But it's expensive, it's not like shopping alone. Can you save on spending?"

"Ah, expensive is also not how much, but the quality is good."

"The bottom line, there is a satisfaction if we shop to the market." Nania continued to answer.

"Say you want to shop, why even mention its own satisfaction?"

"Printa Pak."

"Just the same, shopping together."

"Lah different. Shopping to the market. Buy the necessities, and what we wear."

"If shopping?"

"Shopping to the mall. Buy clothes, eat, same eye wash. Haha …. Uh, really not? Don't know ah, I've never been to a shopping mall."

"Times?"

"Yes. Enter the mall if my boss goes for a walk." 

"Why is that?"

"Well, I'll take the boss's son, so if they go for a walk I'll come."

"Baby sitter?"

"Yes. Ngasuh boy." Nania laughs.

"You were a nanny, too?"

"Earlier. Caregiver, keep shop, waiter kayak in store, cleaning service, selling on the street, call it."

Daryl's stunned.

"Udah ah, I'm in? You just wait here." The girl breezed to the entrance of the market.

"Eh, wait!! I'm coming with."

"Don't you get dizzy!"

"I want to feel how your version of shopping is" he said, clasping his hand.

"Duh? Nikolai's son enters the market." Nania mutters.

They passed through the hallways of a crowded store when it was still around three in the morning. But the market has been squirming even since midnight.

Nania went into several places where people were selling the materials she needed, and without hesitation asked, looking at the goods then bargained with the merchant.

Meat, some types of fish, vegetables, and even fruits of good quality he can easily there. And the other ingredients that I don't know, Daryl doesn't know his name, and he never even knew before if the name of such a material existed in the world.

"Are we done yet? (are we done?)." Several times the man said so during the shopping activity.

"No, Sir. There's a lot of." Nania answered in the same sentence.

"How much more? My legs are tired." The man whines.

"And my hand …." He raised both his hands carrying several bags of groceries containing several types of goods.

Nania chuckles.

"Why did you buy this much anyway?" protest the man.

"And for the purposes of Mr. Darren's party the day after tomorrow?"

"So much from now on?"

"Let's relax and everything has to be processed starting tomorrow."

"Hm …."

"If so get out, go back to the car?" nania. 

He knew people like Daryl wouldn't stand this kind of activity. But it's ridiculous that he forced his way in.

"I don't know the way. What if I get lost?" The man whispered.

"Follow that road, straight keep turning right. There will be some sort of left-hand side-junction. Straight again, turn left again. I'll be at the front door." Nania pointed at the passageway she had passed.

Daryl frowned.

"Can?" The girl asked.

"No." But Daryl shook his head.

"Geez!"

"I'll get lost, will you take responsibility? Moreover, meeting unknown people, I could have been kidnapped! The look? A lot of people are watching us?" Daryl looked around.

"Yes God! Clearly they saw us the Father ranting from earlier? He thought, why are there stray bule here and keep babbling?"

"Hey, I'm not a bule! I was born in Jakarta, and I live here too. Since when did I become a bule?"

"Whatever!" Nania put the groceries in her hand.

"Here you go, wait here. Take care of all our groceries, I want to buy another one, while carrying the meat I ordered. I'll be here again when it's over and we go home."

"Keep me?" Daryl pointed at his own face.

"Udah I said wait here. He said tired?"

"Waith! I'm just here?"

"Yes." Yeah."

"Is it going to be long?" Then he asked.

"Ngga, just buy ingredients for seasonings just as other additions. Just a little."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes. Just wait here. Don't go anywhere, don't talk to strangers, don't trust anyone. Be a bitch, remember?

"What are you talking about?"

"This is what I said! The Father will be kidnapped!!"

"I'm an adult? Abducted time?"

"So right I told you to come out you said you were afraid of being kidnapped? How the hell?"

"Umm...really?"

"Yes, just now."

"Hm …."

"OKAY? What clear?" ask Nania.

"okay."

"I'm sending you to the crackers, huh?"

"Huh? What's?"

Then the girl spoke to a mother in a store with so many crackers. He pointed towards Daryl who was standing not far from them with his groceries.

"I'm leaving. Remember what I said, okay?" Nania returned with a chair for the man.

"okay."

The girl stayed away.

"You sure you can do it yourself?"

"Yes." Yeah."

"I really don't have to go?"

"No need to."

"Are you sure?"

Nania lifted her thumb up.

"Okay, Then ..." muttered Daryl who then sat on the plastic chair that the girl gave him.

While Nania rushed to sneak into one passageway and peeked for a while.

He then laughed as he looked at Daryl sitting quietly in his plastic chair, and he did as he said. Shut up and take care of their so many groceries.

"Anything ... Is it bule?" Nania shook her head, then she continued her shopping activities.

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"Mr isn't going anywhere?" The girl came back after an hour of shopping. Followed by a man who carried a large bag of various vegetables on his shoulders.

"Yes, didn't you say that? Is it done?"

"Udah." Nania with a laugh.

"Okay, can we go home now? I'm hungry." The man was holding his stomach which was already rumbling. He forgot that he did not eat before going to bed because he had to calm himself.

"Yes, after this is done." Nania nodded her head.

Then they cleaned up the groceries and immediately headed for the car in the parking lot.

"Thank you, sir, for help!!" Nania gave a piece of fifty thousand money to the man who helped them carry the items he bought.

A few large plastic sacks containing a stock of vegetables, potatoes and meat were placed on the back of the car. Then several large crackle bags containing fruits and various spices and other ingredients are placed in the middle. And Daryl stared at the stuff in silence.

"Haha, a lot right?" Nania chuckles.

"My rubicon turned into a vegetable car?" The man muttered.

"I'm sorry, wrong yourself said you want to deliver?" nania said with a laugh.

"Let's help you wash, don't go to the car wash."

Daryl turned his head while squinting.

"Seriously."

"Certainly yes?"

"Hmm .. if you go to the laundry, love the money." The girl covered her mouth with her hands.

"Eh, wasn't she hungry? Let's go get some snacks?" He then pulled Daryl to a corner where the food merchant was.

"The same merchants who shop usually snack here." They sat on a wooden chair with a tent as the roof.

"There is also a stall there, but the food is not as good here. Trust me." Nanis pointed at a permanent stall across.

"What do you want to eat?"

Daryl was still staring at his unusual surroundings. Wooden tables, bottles of drinks lined on them, cutlery and large jars filled with objects he recognized as crackers.

"Sir?" The girl patted him on the shoulder.

"Yes?"

"What do you want to eat? There's yellow rice, nasi uduk, chicken porridge, lontong …."

"What do you think is good?" But he asked.

"For me, everything is delicious, so often snack here when shopping kayak earlier."

"Do you often shop like that?"

"Lumayan."

"alone?"

"Sometimes it's the same Ardi."

"Deehhh!" He growled in annoyance.

"Why?"

"Umm .. no."

"So what do you want to eat?"

"Anything can."

"I choose?"

"Hm …." The man nodded his head.

Shortly after, their orders arrived. One serving of nasi uduk for Daryl and the other portion is yellow rice complete with side dishes for Nania.

"Why is the color different from mine?"  Daryl stared at his and Nania's food in turn.

"It's yellow rice sir."

"There is a type of rice that is yellow? All I know is black and red?"

"Diwarnain, sir."

"Oh yeah? Wearing what?"

"Snake."

"The kunyit is some kind of vegetable? Or fruits?"

"Spice."

"Like garlick?"

"Yes, that's how it is."

"Taste good?"

"Hmm... Would you like to try?" Nania held out her plate.

"Can?"

"Can." 

Then he scooped up the yellow rice complete with oreg tempeh and the egg slices.

"Mm .. delicious! Almost the same as this, but the smell is stronger huh?"

Nania nodded.

"How many types of food? I can't remember it if I don't see the shape."

"Not to remember, eat if you have one."

"Hmm... Do you want mine?" Daryl thrust out his plate which was almost finished.

"No need, Father."

"okay."

"You want to add more?" Nania gulped down the hot tea she had poured herself.

"Mmm .. I still want to but …." The man stared out who was already brightly lit. Then he saw his watch that was showing at six in the morning.

"It's noon, huh?" Nania chuckles.

"Yes." Yeah."

"So we'll come back here sometime. Now I have to go back to the store."

"You're right. But wait!" Daryl stood up while reaching into his pants pocket.

"What?" 

"My wallet's left in the car."

"It's okay, I pay." Nania then took out a sheet of fifty thousand and gave it to the merchant.

"Udah, let's go home?" The girl pulled him out.

"Is that okay?" They walked to the parking lot where the car was.

"What?"

"You're paying for my food?"

"Nothing, once in a while."

"I've never been that before."

"It's just the rice, sir. I'm still capable."

"Next time I change."

"No need to."

"How much was that?"

"Ten thousand." Nania chuckles.

"What?"

"Not to be surprised, hahaha." Then he laughed. "Maybe you're the only Nikolai family member to enter the market. The shadow if everyone knows, it could be a scene!!"

"Ahahaha, you're overreacting!"

"No. That's serious!"

"It's a new things for me."

"Either."

"Didn't you go to the market often?" They stopped right near the car.

"Yes. But this is the first time I've been to the market with "Nania laughing again and then getting in the car after Daryl opened the door for her.

"Hey, I'm not a bule!"

"Hu'um, whatever." Then they left the place.

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Only Nania took her son Nikolai to the dawn market.😜😜

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