The Winter Promise
Chapter 94: All the Women Are Bothering.
“Then I firstMar.”
Kichida and Natasha go to the usual place to eat the provisions.
Before going there, I intend to clear my table first and just go there. While I was putting my things into the desk drawer, I saw Akbar talking to his friends in the back of the class.
This is my chance to talk to him about yesterday. I think I'll talk to him now.
After tidying up my things, I went to the back of the class to talk to Akbar.
“Amar, once you come here at rest. Don't you eat with the others?”
Akbar greeted me kindly.
If he saw something like this, he did not look like a person who was having the slightest problem.
“Someone I want to talk to you about, can you come with me for a minute?”
“About what is it?”
Akbar became curious.
“Contact with me.”
“Good.”
We went outside the classroom and headed near the teacher's toilet, because it was a secluded place that students never visited at recess because it was far from the classroom.
“What do you want to talk about Mar?”
Akbar was still smiling in front of me.
How to start this conversation. If I speak wrongly, maybe he'll leave me.
“I heard that you have not participated in excul almost a semester.”
Akbar's face which had previously remained a smile now turned serious.
“Where did you know it was Mar?”
“I know it's from someone.”
“Do you know from Mr. Febri.”
I didn't answer and just looked at him.
“I don't want to talk about it now.”
Akbar rushed back to class.
“Are you having a problem?”
“It's none of your business.”
Akbar left me.
I thought he was having a problem. Should I ask Maul for help now or not? I guess later, I'd like to try it again. This is only my first attempt to talk to him, there are other experiments.
***
“Ar... Ar... AR!!!”
Rina waved her hand right in front of my face who was currently speechless thinking of something.
“What's up?”
“Are you thinking of something Ar?”
“No.”
“You don't lie, it's certain that you're like that there's something you're thinking about.”
“Rina is right Mar, you must be thinking of something.”
Miyuki too was now paying attention towards me.
Recall... I have to keep my distance from Miyuki so as not to cause too much misunderstanding.
“No, this is not a serious problem. I was just thinking of something for my job.”
“Oh yes Ar, did you recently compete with Kak Irfan?”
Lina asked me.
“Iya, why?”
“Today we became the talk in my class because it could compete with Kak Irfan in series, there were even some people who asked about you to me Ar.”
That could be a conversation like this. Everything I do is always a conversation.
“Why did it get so excited? I don't think there's anything special about it.”
“Of course it's something big Mar. Brother Irfan is the captain of basketball from our school and his greatness is well known among basketball children. Then suddenly he can compete in a series with a new boy, it will definitely be a talk among the students.”
Rian explained it to me.
“I was just lucky against Kak Irfan yesterday. I'm also surprised to be able to draw against him.”
“Did you never win before?”
Yoshida asked me.
“Never once have I won against Kak Irfan, just series in my opinion is very impossible.”
“Although your ability is as great as that?”
Yoshida was in disbelief.
“My physical and basketball skills are still far below Kak Irfan and what makes him strong is when he is commanding his team when competing. Charisma he issued made his teammate so feel confident in his basketball ability.”
“Hmm... So.”
“What after school will you go to the office again Ar?”
Lina turned the topic of her conversation in the other direction.
“Iya.”
“Why did you go to the office today? It's not that there's no meeting today. I just didn't get a message from Mr. Hari to come to the office.”
Maul said to me.
“Today Brother Malik asked me to accompany him to meet with the comic to discuss about his serial bookkeeping.”
“Then we can leave with Mar, it just so happens that today I'm not having any excrement?”
Natasha.
“How about your exkul Ar? Are you still following him.”
Rina closed her stock because it was over.
“Of course, I can't possibly skip the excrement that only runs thirty minutes.”
“Then its members? Have there been any additions to the member.”
“I'm still alone with Rian.”
“Temple, I have made plans to invite people to be interested in joining the rohis excul.”
Rian said that with great confidence and clenched his hands and chest.
“Hu... Then how to do?”
Maul with her wry smile asked Rian.
“I will change people's point of view if the spiritist is not just listening to lectures, but there are many fun things we can do there.”
“As?”
“Like going mountaineering, camping, exercising together, and many more.”
It turned out that Rian had thought things up to that extent, I could only support him by doing something that I could just do.
“That's great if it really happened.”
Maul continued to eat her provisions.
“I will talk about this to Riki if he has returned to Jakarta, because he is the only one I can ask for help at this time.”
“How long has Riki been in Makassar?”
“Riki was in Makassar for one month to compete there.”
Maul answered a question from Miyuki while finishing her meal.
“After a time.”
“I think he only did the match for two weeks, only he had to wait for the other sports to be completed. Hence he had to settle there for one month.”
“What Riki can champion or not ya?”
Miyuki said as she thought of something.
“Entah.”
“Ar, Did you think of anything else?”
Rina rebuked me back because from earlier I just fell silent listening to the conversation from them.
“Why do you always reprimand me when I'm silent like this Rina? Not that I used to be more silent and listen to others tell me.”
“I'm just curious about what you think Ar.”
Is my face really visible when I think? But I guess this time I didn't think much of Akbar because I already had some plans to solve his problems. It's just that right now I'm thinking about my work when I meet the comic later. Since Malik didn't mention what I should do later, he just told me to come with him. It made me wonder and think about what I would do later.
The break hour had ended and all returned to their respective classes. While walking towards the classroom, I saw Mr. Febri who was in front of the class waiting for someone. I'm sure that the person he's waiting for is me.
Yep.. Maybe this sounds like I'm overconfident, but looking around from the time he went to class, he definitely wanted to talk to me about something.
“Mar! You done eating?”
Mr. Febri immediately greeted me to be near him.
“Of course, now the break bell is up.”
“True also yes, hahahahaha..”
Mr. Febri today looks very clumsy, it seems like he is thinking too much about the matter about Akbar.
“What's up?”
“Have you met Akbar and asked him something?”
Look, I've never been wrong in guessing.
“I've asked, but Akbar doesn't want to talk about it with me at all. I guess if after this I ask him again, the result must be the same.”
“So the result is the same yes.”
Mr. Febri also started thinking about something.
“Is there something you're worried about sir?”
“From yesterday I have not stopped thinking about the problems faced by Akbar, and what is on my mind right now is Akbar who is hiding something quite big and privacy issue so he does not want to talk about it to others.”
He's not wrong, I think so.
“Means that if privacy, we don't need to know it either. Maybe this is a problem that no outsider other than his family should know.”
If I don't have to investigate it anymore, it means that my work will be reduced a little.
“As a good homeroom teacher, I have to solve all the problems my students have.”
“Since when did you behave like a teacher like that?”
“From the beginning I've been like this tau.”
Hee... Indeed, when I first met Mr. Febri, I already knew that Mr. Febri was a teacher who cared enough about his students. It can be seen from the way he communicates with his students and also all the students look at Mr. Febri.
“Do you want me to find out about this through Maul's help? Coincidentally yesterday he offered his help to solve this problem if we can no longer do anything.”
“For the time being I want to resolve this matter with my own strength first. Thank you for helping me Mar, the rest let me do this alone.”
Finally the burden has reduced by one.
“Alright, if you really want to ask for help again, you can contact me.”
“About it, I can solve this problem myself.”
Mr. Febri said that with great confidence. Where did that confidence go yesterday when he asked me for help.
“How about you come to his house? I think that's the quickest way to find out what Akbar is hiding, and also there's no way Akbar will hide it when Mr. Febri asks that at home.”
“Maybe it will I do when I already have free time.”
Empty time? It is not that he is currently only teaching at school.
“What is Mr Febri's busyness at the moment?”
“As usual, working on some projects from old customers.”
“Then why should you stop for a while from his company Mr. Hari.”
Though I think working on a project that he did by working in his company Pak Hari is the same.
“I want to work that is not bound by time to focus on teaching at this school. You know for yourself Mar if I'm saving for the cost of getting married.”
It turns out it really happened. I guess it was just Mr. Hari's booing to taunt Mr. Febri in the office.
“Absolutely you already have a partner sir? I've never seen you show it to me.”
“Do I need to show my partner to you Mar?”
“No need anyway.”
“That's you know... If for the couple of course I already have it and we intend to carry out the wedding next year, therefore I am looking for additional work for my wedding expenses later.”
“Next year? That's fast once.”
Because now is early November and means two months after this has changed years.
“You said quickly because you just heard it now, if you heard it a few months ago also said that it's normal.”
“Hopefully everything is smooth until the wedding.”
“Aamiin... You also do not think like that Mar, you also have to find your companion mumpung still SMA.”
Why turn around on me? Fortunately, right now it's just me alone with Mr. Febri, if there is Riki or Maul, he must have been mocking me all out.
“I don't want to think about that. I will definitely think about it if it really needs it, if now I do not need it at all.”
“Padahat in this school a lot of beautiful students, it is unfortunate if you do not want to approach one of them.”
“Such things I can find in other friends.”
“Where does that confidence come from?”
Mr. Febri looked at me astonishedly.
“For now there are still many things I want to do and having a boyfriend might hinder me, so I don't want to do that.”
“Why don't you look for a girlfriend who can support you in doing all sorts of things Mar? Not that then you are also more eager to do that.”
“There are people like that? not all women are troublesome.”
“I wonder what makes you able to have such a view of all women.”
Mr. Febri also looked at me with great confusion compared to before.
“Nothing affects my mind, perhaps because I love myself so much that I get such a view.”
Because ever since I met Maul and Riki, I felt that I didn't really need a companion who here meant a girlfriend.
I once asked my friend in Junior High why she wanted to have a boyfriend. He replied that he was not too lonely. Then I asked how with a friend, not having a friend can also make him not lonely anymore, especially if the friend has become a friend who does everything together.
Then he said that having friends and girlfriends was very different. When I asked him what differentiated the two of them, he couldn't explain it to me at all and he just said that it was different, of course it made me very confused.
Because I didn't feel lonely at all when I met Riki and Maul. Indeed, I had felt it when I lost my childhood friend, but it was lost with the presence of Riki and Maul.
“You must immediately change your view it's Mar or you will be troubled with your own thoughts.”
“Yes... Maybe I'll do it later.”
If I could find someone who could change the way I think.
the End Chapter 94
