UNINTENTIONALLY

Episode 41

"You!" Steve gave a shocked expression. "What are you doing here?" Steve asked in wonder.

"Me!" Niko repeated Steve's words as her hand pointed to herself.

"I..... Of course I'm guarding the shop. What's wrong? Have we met before?" Niko asked curiously.

Niko who was guarding the cashier table was a little clueless as the man, Steve spoke in a slightly bewildering tone as if they had met.

"Well.... Just a day without seeing her, she's forgotten me?" Steve was confused by this story.

"Don't you know me?"

"Know brother?" Niko repeated the words Steve said.

"Is he me? Don't you know me?" steve said seriously.

"Hmmm..... Maybe the brother was wrong. I don't think we know each other. I'm sorry if I speak the truth!"

Steve was a little confused when Niko didn't recognize his face. Why was he forgotten by the child who he clearly recognized for the past few days.

"Did he have amnesia...... Could it be so that he forgot my face!" Steve was confused.

"You're Miko, right?" Steve asked to make sure.

"I...." Again Niko with her innocent and flexible face repeated Steve's words while pointing at herself like a fool. It looks like confusion, like a person who is lost in a place that is out of nowhere where the waves are.

"Yes you. You're Miko, right?"

"So, you might misunderstand. My name is Niko, and I'm not Miko." Katah Niko is honest.

"Niko?"

"Yes I'm Niko!"

Steve looked more confused at this incident, and he began to feel like following along like an insane moron.

"Then, the one I met at the office a while ago wasn't you?"

"Oh.... Maybe I think you met my twin, Miko?" Niko began to understand Steve's intentions.

"So you mean twins?" Steve spoke to make sure with his face so confused.

Niko nodded confirming Steve's words. "We are identical twins, so many people have difficulty recognizing our faces. Big brother is not the only one who misunderstands us, maybe big brother is the thousandth person in this fallacy."

"Maybe big brother wants to meet her, I'll call Miko's sister if there's a need for her." Niko understood the situation.

Steve just fell silent and couldn't say anything. His mouth was like glue tightly, his brain was thinking somewhere to imagine the two twin faces.

Steve's age, maybe this time he met twins. Because twins are prevalent in his encounters on television or in comics printed into books. It was usually ugly twins when he saw it on social networks, not as handsome as he saw it.

Niko starts screaming calling Miko who is tidying up the books on some shelves. "Sister Miko...." Shouted Niko in a loud voice.

"Sir Miko no one wants to meet with big brother!" Niko exclaimed from the cashier table located near the entrance.

"Sister can wait for Miko's sister for a moment. He's tidying up the book. All of you can look through the books in our shop." Niko spoke a little warmly to Steve standing in front of her.

Steve put on a confused expression while massaging his chin as if he had a beard.

Miko who was tidying up the book, heard her sister's scream. A little surprised because usually no one is looking for him early in the morning like this, except for his best friends who he considers no use friendly, unless he really wants to make friends.

"Who wants to see me this early." Chirps Miko while guessing.

Sapus......

"AW.." YEAH....." Miko screamed in pain as her head hit the bookshelf above her as she wanted to stand up normally.

"Fuckin' sake" said Miko while replying and hitting a shelf that he considered as being ungodly on his head.

He stroked his head, hurt, maybe bruised or at least turned blue but he could not see because his eyes were less reaching the head area. It felt grim but he scratched it because it was a bit itchy around the head that hit the bookshelf made of the board.

He heads to the source of his sister's voice, Niko. He wondered who would want to see him this early. While his face was muddled irritated withstanding the pain.

"Who wants to see me." Ask Miko jutek.

"That brother is looking for Miko's sister." Niko replied as her mouth pointed towards the man who turned his back on them.

"Face brother why? How does it look so sad?" Niko was curious to see her brother coming in with an annoyed face.

His hand held his head from then on.

At least Niko paid a little attention to her brother's face.

"It's okay!" Miko's limbs are short.

Niko scrunched her forehead as she replied with a short speech. "Damor....." Niko snorted her breath

Miko approached the man she meant by Niko earlier. At first he approached the bodies of men who were almost the same height.

The man was dressed casually but looked neat and cool.

"Sorry! Is brother looking for me." Tanya Miko started talking.

Steve turned his back when he heard Miko speak.

"I'm not looking for you! But your brother is the one who's fussing!" Reply Steve with firm language.

Miko's eyes widened and her mouth opened wide. He was shocked to meet Steve that morning. He didn't think this would happen.

"Sir Steve! A - A - what are you doing here?"

Miko expressed surprised, her speech was nervous as if she met a demon on a sunny day like this.

Steve raised his two thick eyebrows, his face showing a puzzled expression. Confused at the strange and ambiguous question from Miko earlier. "What am I doing?" Steve repeated Miko's words in his mind.

"I'm looking for a new Unintentional novel. And looking for another novel as a reference read in my spare time." Steve berkilah's.

Steve saw the faces of the identical twins. The expression he showed was unmitigated. Incredible expressions of amazement at the visuals of Niko and Miko.

Niko and Miko whispered to each other in front of Steve. "Did you know him?" Bisik Miko slowly.

"Yes. She owns the company where sister was a model." Miko replied to her sister's whisper.

"Oooooo..... So if she's here looking for sister," Niko whispered back quietly, maybe only they and the ants know the subject.

"Eitherway. I think so." Tukas Miko shrugged her shoulders.

"Ehm.." Steve slightly mendeham pretentiously covered himself who was a little pensive to see two very similar-looking children who were whispering quietly in front of him.

Dinda, who was in another room, also heard Niko's screams. Niko's shout calls her brother Miko, making the dinda interested to know. He cut the conversation.

"Who's looking for Miko's sister?" Asked Dinda who approached the three of them in a hurry. He came from behind his sister Miko.

The first thing he saw was not his two younger brothers but Steve who was in front of him.

"Sir Steve!" Call Dinda with a shocked expression.

Steve was confused to see this. "You guys!" Steve said to the three as his finger pointed towards Dinda.

"So you three sister?" Steve continued speaking.

Niko and Dinda nodded, but Miko with a wry smile wanted to throw her face away right then and there. He doesn't know if this is going to happen.

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As they stand, Steve tells Dinda that Miko is a model for his company. Long, wide and detailed he told me everything.

Dinda was amazed at Steve's story, but he was fierce at the time.

So dinda with behavior like an Intel, trying to introgate this lie.

Right inside the library they call it, next to the bookstore but in one room and this room is specifically for customers to take their time and learn. At the round table blackish brown, but large in size with a chair totaling ten pieces, Dinda asked the two to sit down to explain all that.

All the lies they've done. Dinda sat with her hands crossed on her chest and right next to Dinda. Steve sat sweetly leaning on the shoulder of the chair.

While Miko and Niko are sitting right in front of them. Both are obedient and do not argue.

"Try to explain to you the meaning of this lie." Said Dinda while throwing a file wrapped by a map of a kind of transparent bag-shaped plastic.

Miko fell silent and said nothing when she saw the paper. He understood the paper that his brother had thrown on the table. Paper self-applying as a model in Steve's company.

Now it was destroyed his lie, and there was no way for him to be an alibi.

"And also, Miko has lied to her sister by saying that she has been wearing fake BELAGIO shoes that are sold online. What does it mean you lied to brother?" Dinda demanded an explanation.

"Anu..... Brother Dinda..... Actually....."

Miko is hesitant in speaking. There was a nervous feeling to talk especially when Steve was in front of Miko, unable to speak honestly.

"It's actually Niko's idea." Niko cut the conversation.

"Niko forced Miko's sister to become a model and make fake news so we could get out of the dorm. All of these are Niko's ideas. Please forgive Niko and Niko promise after this Niko will return to the dorm."

Miko glanced at Niko and she nudged her sister's shirt for disagreeing with the confession.

"No brother!" Miko.

"It's actually all Miko's ideas. It was Miko who asked Niko to lie that day. And Miko did use the shoes from the wong company as a top gift of participating as a model. Please don't punish Niko, just let Miko go back to the dorm." Miko spoke up confessing her actions.

Steve who saw the behavior of the two dinta submissive sisters made him chuckle a little. While Dinda mengurutnya because confused for both explanations that he thought absurd and so long-winded.

"Sir Steve. Didn't Mr. Steve himself give me those two shoes. Please sir tell brother Dinda that he believes that I'm not lying." Miko this time pity Steve.

Dinda glanced at Steve's face with a look full of intrigue when she heard Miko's words.

It was as if those eyes wanted to say, "Is it true what Miko said?" Maybe that's what Dinda's eyes wanted to say.

But Steve? He actually swallowed saliva in fear as a result of the glare of sharp eyes. He shrugged his shoulders as if he wanted to say 'don't know.'

"That's it. Forget about your lies. Brother just wants to ask you to mention the punishment for the person who lied!" Dinda tried to speak with a cold expression.

It was as if he wanted to show Steve that he was far more powerful than he was.

Miko and Niko quickly answered Dinda's words. "If caught lying, then the punishment is to clean all parts of the house. Including cleaning the toilet, after that go to the market to buy kitchen materials and if everything is finished then stand in the corner of the house."

"It's good to remember." Seringai Dinda was a little satisfied.

"And the addition is; you must return to the dorms from next week." Dinda Sok continues to be apathetic.

"But brother!" Niko, give it up fast.

Niko glanced at her brother's face with an eye code in order to help him in lying. Miko understands.

And without warning both of them rose up from their seats and bowed down, pleading before Dinda.

"Sir Dinda, Niko please don't send us back to the dorm. Niko promised not to lie anymore. For the sake of the glowing lamp, and for the sake of the deep sea Niko and Miko's brother will not lie and will not repeat it again." Niko is dramatizing. Niko is skilled at playing the role, and she is convinced that her brother will be devastated.

"So, that's right Niko said. We promise we won't lie anymore. For the motherland. For the sake of the orange sky, for the sake of the currency of the country that has not been inflationed, for the sake of the pocket of Pak Tono's pants are broad, I beg Brother Dinda not to return us to the dilapidated dormitory." Add Miko weld.

Dinda smiled with her sneaky lips, Steve's scary smile.

"But that's not going to happen!" Said Dinda casually. He was heartless at the time.

"Sister Dinda...... Don't sis. Niko please."

"Yes brother Dinda, Miko please listen to our last request. And also Mr. Steve, please help us sir, persuade brother Dinda." Miko tried to seduce Steve.

Steve chuckles and is flattered because he is asked for help by Dinda's sisters who he thinks are the same fate with him. The fate of women tormented.

Dinda took a deep breath. Then talk facts. "You know the reason why mom moved you to school in Jakarta. You also know why you don't like camera-related work.

Having a handsome face does not mean that it can be used as a show in the media. But having a beautiful face is expected to inspire others, especially those who have shortcomings.

I ask you to go to school well and hope you can go to medical school, be a great doctor, not be a public figure.

I don't want you to be a crowd member if you become a public figure."

The twins were at least tired of hearing that. But what's more, if they don't comply it's possible that their mother who lives across the island will call and then nag online or now the cool language, 'tabok onlen.'

"And Miko. Brother knows the reason you took this job, the reason for wanting to help the family economy right?"

"Yes, brother." Miko bowed low as her brother spoke. There was no courage in her to look at her brother's face for a long time.

"Remember! Sis's salary, pensions, paternity and mother's money, and father's estate, are all enough to fund your school. So don't make this an excuse for you to choose this job. Or if you break mother and father's orders, you won't forgive. Understand with your brother's words, right?"

"Yes, sister, Miko understood. Next time I won't do it again." Reply Miko obeyed Dinda's words.

Steve was at least a silent witness to the story of the three orphans. He was a little amazed, but Steve tried to be rational by covering up Dinda's speech charm through a flat facial expression. For a moment Steve tried to learn from their story, that his third life was very happy even in simplicity.

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