Young Lecturer Love Cage

Chapter 17

On the same day and time, a man in a checkered shirt stood in front of a building known as the headquarters of the Indonesian trade union. The man appeared to be talking to a thin man in an ormas uniform attached to his body. The uniform looked so big that it almost drowned its thin body.

I don't know what the two men are talking about, from the face of the two who look serious indicates that their discussion is something important.

A jeep-type car came in the parking lot, the two men saw who came out of it. A woman in her late 30s is seen from an open glass window. The look on his face was no less serious than the two young men earlier.

"How's it going?" ask the woman who came out from behind the wheel of the jeep. He walked over to the two men who were looking at him seriously.

"Nil." replied the skinny man while shrugging his shoulders.

"What do you think we should do to make Riko responsible, Bima?" ask the woman to the Milky Way in front of her.

"I think the only way is to persuade the victim's family to bring the matter to justice." Bimasakti stared fixedly at the woman named Laras who was none other than the leader of labor organizations in Jakarta.

Laras seemed to nod his head, weighing the Milky Way's words that sounded realistic and full of risks.

"Wisman, you gather our members. We need to start talking about this work accident right away." Baras ruled on the thin-bodied men who were among them.

The three leaders of the labor organizations stepped into the building of Ormas which was quite large, they stepped towards their own work desks and began to carry out their respective duties.

"Suckers! After all the doom they made, they casually said 'we're sorry'." Bimasakti was furious when he checked the news site on his desk laptop.

Bimasakti and his friends are currently immersed in solving work accident cases that often occur in company workers. They are always furious with the company which is considered not serious in providing security in the field. When accidents occur, and cause casualties, the company casually just pretends that the work accident is the carelessness of the workers themselves. They seem to think that the lives of the workers are meaningless.

"That's why we have to continue dribbling public opinion to invite the court to fully investigate this case." said Laras from behind his desk. "I'm tired of the capitalist's behavior. They are busy building their kingdom under the sweat of blood on the workers." he continued.

"Wisman, have you called the members?" bimasakti asked to look at Wisman who was at the table next to him.

"It has. Tomorrow morning they'll be here." Wisman provides information on the readiness of ormas members.

"OKs. It's time to collect the data" said Laras, stretching his hand forward and starting to look seriously at the laptop containing documents he had to read.

Bimasakti and Vishman do the same. They began busy collecting company data and work accidents that often occur there.

Amid busy eyes through the document in the form of pdf in the laptop, Bimasakti took the time to look back at the phone inbox containing his conversation with Laura.

He smiled when he saw the sign of the missed call from the girl.

"Wait for me, thatch." Bimasakti muttered cheerfully in his heart.

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Laura had already entered her room on the second floor, a room that turned out to be next to a room for guests. The place where Sabiel rested.

Sabiel briefly said good-bye to Laura as she walked along with the girl after spending a lot of time chatting casually with Laura's family. Undeniably, Laura's family was really warm and unpretentious. It did not take long for Sabiel to feel accepted in the midst of their family.

Sabiel slept on his back with both hands being pads behind his head. Her eyes glowed with happiness as her mind recalled the stories that the Laura family discussed around Laura's childhood and teenage life.

Sabiel thinks it is not wrong if Laura is now increasingly favored by men, prima donna seeds were already attached to her even when Laura was a toddler. Dina, Laura's aunt told me so easily little Laura liked others. They all looked fat on Laura's beautiful and cute face back then, any outfit Laura wore would always make others feel dazzled.

The young lecturer is now increasingly aware of the presence of love that grows slowly on all sides of his heart. He can't wait for tomorrow to come. According to what Laura said, and her father allowed it. The girl will return to Bandung, continuing her education that had been interrupted because of the health condition of her father.

The night was getting late when Sabiel already felt very much at the end of his consciousness. She's sleepy. In fact, the long journey of Bandung-Jakarta plus a friendly event with the Laura family, has been pushing the energy to the maximum. Now is the time to rest, recover much drained energy.

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Tomorrow, the next day,

Jakarta sky suddenly cloudy since this morning, the rain fell quite profusely wetting all the surface of the earth. The occasional sound of lightning sounded surprising.

Laura walked down the stairs with a backpack that she sipped on the shoulder of her right arm. All his family and Sabiel had already been in the dining room. Ready to enjoy breakfast accompanied by the sound of heavy rain falling.

"You ready, baby?" rama asked his daughter as she walked closer to the table. All eyes were on Laura, they saw Laura taking her place beside Sabiel.

"As you can see" he said as he prepared to take his breakfast ration.

"We're going to miss you Laura" said Dina, looking gently at her niece.

"Bandung-Jakarta is not too far bi, whenever I can go home." he said smiling soothingly.

"Other times, also invite your friend who met yesterday at the hospital." suddenly Laura's uncle's remark made Laura stop her chewing. He smiled gently at his family in turn.

"He's activist. There is no time to gather." he answered frankly.

"Friends?" sabiel's question made everyone there look at him simultaneously.

"Yesterday before Laura's father came home, Laura met her boyfriend." Dina explained to Sabiel who looked curious.

"It's a long story, I'll tell you later on the journey." Laura said as Sabiel stared curiously at him.

Who's Laura's boyfriend?

How did they meet?

Suddenly an unpleasant feeling filled his heart. Knowing Laura along with her boyfriend, made her stricken with uncertain uneasiness. He had to pry the story later from Laura's mouth straight away. He would never calm down before being able to make sure that the boyfriend being talked about would not disturb his closeness to Laura.

Rain still faithfully meets the earth, after breakfast Laura and Sabiel say goodbye to immediately continue the long journey to Bandung.

"Guard of your health, don't forget the cure." Laura hugged her father, who was standing in the doorway last night, and began to escape from the wheelchair.

"You too, take care of yourself there." Rama returned his daughter's embrace with no less tight. Then Laura turned to hug her uncle and aunt, Sabiel followed what Laura did.

After the parting session was over, Laura and Sabiel walked over to enter the car that was already parked on the front porch.

"Be careful, Sabiel" said Laura's father when Sabiel started running his car. Sabiel smiled and nodded politely in response.

The sky was still cloudy when the car that Sabiel was driving was walking at a speed that was breaking the rain stubs that were so persistent hit. The streets of the capital that are usually crowded look stretchy, it seems like the rain since morning managed to make most people choose to remain silent in their respective homes.

"So?" Sabiel could not help his curiosity about the story that Laura promised.

"What?" Laura had not realized where Sabiel's question was going.

"That guy's friend." Sabiel.

"Oohhhhhhh.." Laura began to understand what Sabiel was asking. "Bimasakti" said Laura while remembering the figure of the man she met yesterday.

Sabiel squinted his eyes at the name he wanted called by Laura. His hands clenched tightly at the steering wheel, until his knuckles appeared bleached. It was fortunate that Laura was unaware of what had happened to Sabiel.

Ever since Sabiel saw Laura and Bimasakti's account replying prose on the blog site, the name Bimasakti has been included in the list of male names that Sabiel needs to be aware of its existence. Sabiel did it because the intensity of his interaction with Laura is quite frequent. But lately that interaction seems to stop for some reason. Neither Laura nor the Milky Way reciprocated prose after the last prose that Laura gave was repulsive to meet the man face to face. Sabiel was very grateful, because he did not have to feel anxious anymore with the presence of one account that made Laura continue to reply to her comments on the blog.

But now the situation has changed. They meet. Sabiel again felt the uneasiness that he had felt a while ago. The man is now not only present in cyberspace, but now the damn man is also present in the real world.

What happened at that meeting?

One big question that was tightly gerrymandering in Sabiel's mind. Sabiel tried to remain calm, he wanted to listen to the story of the encounter from Laura's lips in detail.

"Bimasakti? Who's that?" Sabiel pretended not to know.

With great pleasure, Laura finally recounted the beginning of her introduction to the Milky Way. Starting from blog comments, prose reciprocal action, then the desire to meet until finally they are both met in a situation they never thought.

Story after story, it flowed from Laura's mouth. The girl's heart was overwhelmed with excitement as she told how the awkward encounter had happened. Sabiel was silent stiff behind his wheel, his heart was hot to hear the series of stories Laura who seemed pleasant to the girl.

Laura herself, he even looks cool with a pleasant foreign feeling in his heart. He did not realize that Sabiel had clenched his molars since then to hold back the resentment and disgust that had mixed in his heart.

Sabiel's heart was torn to shreds at the perfect smile on the corner of Laura's tiny lips. It was obvious that the girl beside him was so happy about his meeting with the labor activist.

"Sabiel, is your wife still in Singapore?" ask Laura after she's done with the story.

"Yes. He's there." said Sabiel flatly. Laura glanced at Sabiel slightly, from her tone Laura knew the man was not interested in telling her about his wife.

"You don't miss your wife?" Laura was eager to hear Sabiel tell her his life. All this time the role of a storyteller, only Laura. As for Sabiel, he was a bit willing to tell a story.

Sabiel silently did not answer. His eyes focused on the asphalt road that was wet from the rain.

"We don't have to talk about that Laura" he said later. Benak Sabiel kept thinking about Laura's story about the Milky Way.

"Why? You have nothing to be ashamed of telling me your household romance. Aren't we friends?" laura's punching words hit her right in the mouth of her heart.

A fella?

Yep. The fact that Laura believed that their closeness was nothing more than a friend made Sabiel more and more agitated. How do you tell Laura that she loves that girl? Will Laura believe the words of a married man who expresses love to her?

There was a sudden pain in Sabiel's chest. Pain that he knew for himself what caused it.

"Laura, how am I in your sight?" sabiel's question made Laura scrunch her forehead. The girl stared in wonder at the Young Lecturer who was looking back at her fixedly.

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