
Half forcefully I pulled my hand which was still held by the man who claimed to be named Aditya Perdana.
"I'm sorry, it looks like this is the first time we met" I said with a slight trenchant.
"Your face looks familiar. We must have met before" he said sure.
I didn't respond to his words.
"There's trouble?" my many.
"none. Except for a strange old man who often comes here with a waistline beside his car. But don't do anything"
I raised my eyebrows.
"The weird old man?" askaku.
Adit just nodded. I don't have a picture of the strange old man in question.
"Where's the progress, sir?"
"Call it, Mas. I'm not that old. Besides it seems like our age is not far away" the man asked.
"I'm not polite, sir" my dear.
"It is not polite to call a man whose age is not far adrift with the name 'pak'. I'm 33 years old, you must be no more than 25" he explained.
"29 years old" freak. I shouldn't have mentioned my age to her.
"Hhmmm" he just muttered.
"Alright if that's your wish. Mas Aditya, how far has the progress gone?" ask me to return to the topic.
"Addit. Just Adit"
"As you can see, we are undercutting this 3-hectare former rice field. Only a quarter way because we just started working ten days ago" Mas Adit explained.
I just nodded at his explanation.
"If I start working later, where is my office?" my many. I don't see any buildings other than this 4x5m building.
There are only two tables and two chairs lined with each other with a distance of 50 cm between one table with another table.
"That's your desk" he pointed at the table above which there is only a set of printers and still looks neat. Compared upside down with the table next to it that looks a lot of paper scattered on it.
"There's no other room?" I just feel bad.
"Nothing" he answered briefly.
"Do you want to make your own room?" bargained for.
"That's it, no need. I just feel a lack of privacy if I don't have my own room" Somehow without me realizing I'm contracting her 'me-you' style of speech'.
"That's your desk?" I looked horrified at the messy table.
Mas Adit nodded.
"This is how I am when I am at work. But after that I will neaten myself" he said indifferently.
"And never touch or try to clean my desk. I'd be confused if there were things I didn't have in the place where I used to put them" Mas Adit started to give the rules of the game to work with him.
I just obeyed.
"Sorry, would you like some coffee or tea?" he hugged me after a long conversation.
I snorted softly.
"No, thank you. I just wanted to stop by" I turned down his offer.
"What time will the workers go home?"
"We work every Monday to Saturday from eight in the morning to four in the afternoon. But I used to overtime until night." replied Mas Adit.
"good. Then excuse me now. It's late afternoon" said I.
I headed to my car with Mas Adit tailing to take me away.
"The strange old man came again. I know the car very well" he said, pointing at a car with a red hatchback model with his chin.
I have no idea who the owner of the car is. I don't want to take a headache, and I'm pressing my car's remote key right away.
"I'm sorry, Mas. Tomorrow I'm working here" I said as I opened my car door.
I was driving casually towards home. Before going around town looking for dinner.
Some time observing the house from outside the fence, the man did not intend to enter or stop by. Just about to turn around, the voice of a small child shocked him.
"Om who?" ask Sky to the man standing in front of the fence. The sky had descended from his blue BMX bike.
"Om the friend who owns this house" the man replied with a sarcastic smile.
"Friends Mother?" ask the Sky
"Whose mother?" the man asked back.
"The Mother of Heaven is called Wulan" replied the Sky.
Smiles grew on the handsome man's face.
"Go in, Om. Mother is gone" said Heaven politely.
"Maybe next time" the man replied.
"Greetings to your mother, yes" the man said, shuffling Sky's hair for a moment.
The sky seemed to dislike and brushed the hand of the unknown man from his head. The man laughed at the rejection of Heaven.
"You are exactly your mother" said the man with a grin that made the forehead of Heaven frown.
"But who is it?" ask the sky back. Want to know the identity of the man who claimed to be his mother's friend.
"This is a whisper" the man who had lowered his head, was about to bring his face closer to the ears of Heaven.
Sky according. A moment later, the forehead of Heaven frowned even more because it did not understand. Did not understand the meaning of the words of the man whispered in his ear.
The man groaned away leaving the sky that was still frowning. Leaving the Sky with a myriad of questions. The sky finally came in and promised to send greetings from the man to his mother.
It was almost maghrib when I parked my car in the yard. The door of the house opened, and the sky seemed engrossed enjoying a plate of fried bananas while watching TV in the living room.
I took off my shoes and put them on the shelf.
"Where's that?" ask the sky and kiss the top of my son's head.
"In the kitchen. Again fried bananas" Sky replied as he chewed the fried banana and placed the back of my hand on his forehead
"Hayo, mouth full can't talk" I warned.
"I'm sorry, ma'am" he said, grinning after swallowing food in his mouth.
"What did you bring?" tanyanya looked at the package I brought.
"Duck fetch, make dinner" I replied as I passed and headed for the kitchen.
The smell of vanilla smelled as I approached the kitchen. I approached Bune who was putting flour and banana dough into the pan.
"Bune" I grabbed her hand and regretted it.
"Eh, are you home, Nduk?"
I plucked a piece of fried banana from a plate next to the stove.
"Wulan take a shower, Bune. Keep having dinner"
At seven, the three of us sat down at the dinner table. I was shredding a piece of duck meat when the Sky said.
"Mom, there was a friend of my mother to send greetings"
"Mother's friend?" many wonder. Can't guess who that guy is.
"Om-om that" said Sky.
"So she said who is she?" my many.
Sky shakes.
Bizarrely.
"Keep the salutation?"
"Kangen salam. From the first man to know what a Wulan feels like. That's what he said"
"He also said that Heaven should know who om-om was" Sky replied innocently, unaware of the Mother's expression.
While Wulan, her body began to tremble and her face paled. That fucking guy! How dare he come here and approach his son.