Waiting Room

Chapter 6 #2

I \= April

This morning a video call from Janu woke me up. I quickly lifted it up. And of course, my face is still very chaotic because I just woke up.

"What's wrong?" My toot. Then suddenly he took a screenshot. "Ih janu's....~"

"Hehe. You're awake too. Fast breakfast!"

"Later. Uh but, you're not sleeping? It's early morning!"

"Forgot."

"Now I know someone forgot to sleep."

"I also just found out that there are beautiful people who just woke up."

"Yes. Yes.your seduction never ends."

"April." Mom screamed from the dining room.

"Mother call. It was yes. Don't forget to sleep! Yes ma'am... Janu's drug!"

I ran quickly to the dining room. Mom and Dad were there sitting together and chatting.

"Dad's home yet?" I swiped the chair and sat on it.

"It has. It was two in the morning."

"Hmm." I nodded. The three of us ate and talked about a lot of things. But one question came from my mother. Which makes me a little surprised.

"April, who was this guy?" Okay. I'm shocked. I collect my life first before I speak.

"Eh. It's Okta, ma'am's friend." I answered the sigh out of fear that mother would think something that didn't.

"Oh friend. I hope you don't get too close to him. Don't let janu down..."

"Yes ma'am."

"Yes loh. Mentang janu not exist, do not look for opportunities to be close to other men. Haha." Obviously, I'm getting stuck laughing.

"Eh where there is. Your son is very loyal. So just calm down tena.ng." I said as I moved my hand forward which made mom and dad laugh.

Amidst the chatter, there was a horn sound heard from outside. The three of us stared outwards simultaneously.

"Noah. Now someone wants to pick up. Maybe if April's campus has been contacted for signature, ma'am." Said father quipping.

"Ih no yes." I put on a slightly pouty face.

"Ah you guys. It's been. Dad too. Look April so cranky like that. Haha. You're out, look who that is." Mom raised her face forward.

By the time I got out, it was predictable that it was Okta. She is why, huh? There is no shame in my attitude. I've said no a lot, but he still comes to my house.

"Let's go to college."

"I haven't had a shower. Just go ahead. My class is still an hour away, anyway."

"I'll wait."

"He's up to you."

Hhh. Head hard. Uh I mean he's stubborn. I'm sure he'll really wait. I'll take a shower soon. As she walked in, she asked a question.

"Who is april?"

"Friends mom. That was yesterday."

"Not told to come in?"

I paused for a moment and turned my face towards my mother and father "No. He said he'd wait outside. He wants to see our fence. The design is good, he said." I walked away to get a towel and then to the bathroom.

"There's just one." I heard Dad's voice quietly from a distance.

***

"Well, haven't left for work yet?"

"Now father's on leave. Yesterday was just out of town. So it's time for a break."

"Jas. April departs. Assalamualaikum." I said while kissing my father's hand. Okta did the same. I hurriedly pulled Okta's hand to leave immediately. We both immediately went to the campus and of course I will ask a lot of questions while on the road. Haha.

"Why go home?"

"To pick you up, still to ask."

"Yes. Why pick me up?"

"We're friends. Forgot it? Yesterday you said loh."

Ah I'm sorry I said yesterday that Okta and I were friends. It ended up like this, right.

"OKAY. Let's forget about that. What was it you were talking about with my dad?"

"Talking about you."

"Huh?"

"Yes. Talking about you who if you wake up like bad luck, sometimes lazy shower, smart cooking, chatty and much more. Haha."

"Yes. Ja. Already yes, you don't take me anymore."

"don't want. We're already friends. So let me take you every day."

"But I don't want to make my girlfriend jealous."

"Let me ask her permission. You take it easy."

In the campus parking lot, Okta asked for my phone to borrow, I frowned in surprise.

"It has. Just give it a minute." The forced. Then I gave him my phone and he immediately contacted someone via video call. Contact janu exactly.

"It can't be lifted. If it's half ten here, it's still dawn." My speech. He opened the camera and took a picture of himself. Then he sent a message to Janu. Out of curiosity, I saw him typing while putting his foot on it because he was too tall.

"It's April, get permission to pick her up every day. Don't be mad at me, I want to. This is my picture, if you want to beat up just look for this guy. Relax, I just want to keep April as a friend, I make sure April won't be scratched one bit." Said the ordered. He casually gave me the phone he was using.

In a rather long time, Janu replied to the message. He said "Yes. Please take good care of him. Don't make him feel lonely and accompany him if he wants to eat ice cream." When you say that, maybe you trust me completely that I will guard the heart. And I'm gonna do it.

***

After that day, the next day Okta started to pick me up every time I went to college, sometimes even if she didn't have class, she would still take me. Sometimes he also invites me to watch. He also started to know my favorite food. All about me he knows. Oh yeah, something surprising. At that time he delivered me a broadcast, after arriving at the radio station, it turned out that everyone there knew him. And I just found out that he's one of the producers there. Jeez April, where have you been?

"Kok we never met?"

"Yes it's impossible. You broadcast monday to friday. I'm a producer only on Saturdays and Sundays."

"Why never tell me?"

"If I tell you, you'll be angry and won't broadcast here. Haha."

"Ih. Now it's a different story. If so..."

"If first?"

"I hate you!!"

"If now what?"

"Still hate. But it's reduced a little."

Okta was like my second janu, Janu who drove me to the campus, Janu who accompanied me to eat, Janu who often irritated me, it seemed like everything in Janu was also on him. The only difference between him and Janu is what he is in my life. That's all and I just think of Okta as a regular friend. Substitute janu, not a complete replacement of janu.

But I did not immediately accept it, every time he took wherever I always refused him first. If he still insisted on waiting, I would accept it out of pity. It's nothing, I just want to think of him as a friend that only I know nothing more. Anyway, I still want to keep my heart clean. I don't want to get too close to any guy.