WHEN I FELL IN LOVE

Chapter 16

Stomach is filled, Lela also looks more confident after getting her first order from the tuba store. Now comes the time to take Lela to Sumber Cake, her parents' cake shop.

Honestly, I always look forward to today. The day Lela had to ask her own father for an order, Mr. Selamet. In my eyes, Mr. Selamet is an accomplished businessman. He is someone who has a very mature calculation in making decisions, relating to his business. He is very relaxed, likes to joke with anyone. But, when you've talked about business, Mr. Selamet is a wolf. I wonder if Mr. Selamet remains like a wolf, or even a mutt, if faced with his only child, Lela.

"Bang Bento!?" Abdul Manyapaku from a distance when he saw me parked the motorbike in front of the Sumber Cake store. I wave my right hand to reply. Then he came running around to me and Lela, the red whistle he kept with both lips, looked like the referee of a football match.

"Mba Lela's at work?" ask Abdul, to Lela. Breathing gasps.

"Yes, Abdul Mas. It's my first day at work" Lela replied, taking the helmet off her head.

"Wah ... yummy dong, if it's work," said Abdul, then he looked at me. "Bang, I've bought baby powder" he said.

"Well, keep. Not strong?"

"Lumayan Bang's. The powder, the sweat," he replied. I frowned and thought, what does the powder look like after absorbing Abdul's sweat when viewed from a microscope? "But that's Bang. I have to ask for the make, let the maximum result," he added.

"Dul, don't do much" I suggested.

"Why Bang?" he asked, with a very curious face.

"Later you look like mochi." Lela and Abdul laughed when they heard my answer, I was the same. Laughing, I glanced into the shop. I saw Mr. Selamet smilingly looking at us from behind the storefront. I'm sure he's not like that because he heard our conversation. But since she was happy, seeing Lela was standing outside the store with her maroon shirt and black base pants. Yes, the only child he had raised lovingly was able to earn his own living.

"Dul, we go in first, huh?" pamitku to Abdul.

"Ready, Bang Ben!" his reply. "Mba Lela, spirit," he said later, raising his right hand to the finger he had clenched.

"Yes!" reply Lela spirit.

Then Lela and I stepped foot into the Source Cake shop. "Assalamualaikum," I said to Mr. Selamet. Shortly after me, Lela also said her regards.

"Waalaikumsalam," replied Mr. Selamet.

"Pak Selamet's. Introduce our new sales coordinator," I said, pointing at Lela from my thumb.

Mr. Selamet and Lela laughed at my words. "Ben, there's no need for you to introduce me to him" Selamet replied, pointing at Lela. "Because I gave him a name" he continued, being struck by my laughter.

After that as usual, I gave some bills to Mr. Selamet. Mr. Selamet immediately checked the notes I gave him, and walked to the cashier's table to take some money according to the bill listed on the note. While Lela, easily walked into the area in the storefront. A place where only shop owners can enter. Mr. Selamet had a joke to Lela, "Hey, new boy! You can't enter this area!" said it. Of course Lela laughed at her Father's words, so did I.

At the beginning of the month, usually large stores such as Source Cake shops, rarely give orders. Because their priority is to pay the order bill last month. That is very normal in the world of marketing, because stores with large picks, usually given extra discounts at the end of the month, by the suppliers to encourage the stores ,order more than usual. The goal is one, in order to achieve sales targets. The Cake Sourcing Shop is one of those stores that are always given extra discounts, by my company at the end of the month. As a result, Mr. Selamet usually refused to give orders in the first and second weeks of each month, because he wanted to spend the stock of more goods, which at the end of the previous month he ordered. But not today! Lela with her deathly seduction, managed to make Mr. Selamet look like an old wolf, in front of me. How not? A number of orders Lela managed to achieve (although he had a fight with Mr. Selamet), even the goods that did not sell also managed to order. Of course this is Lela's ambition, because coming home from her own family's Cake— store's Source shop— empty-handed, it will only embarrass Lela in front of Erwin. I understand, very understand.