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Chapter 13: First Meeting

On a sunny Sunday afternoon, Tyshia seemed very bored with the food her domestic assistant was cooking, from now on she just turned the spoon in the soup bowl in front of her.

"Oh yes.." suddenly he remembered the best ramen recommendation from his mother whose location was not far from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Tyshia rushed to get her bag and asked the driver to deliver the Japanese restaurant.

It only took forty-five minutes finally Tyshia arrived at the Japanese restaurant "Oh this is the place" Tyshia did not look around the outside of the restaurant which is thick with Japanese nuances, with curiosity and impatient want to try ramen in the restaurant he also stepped foot into the restaurant.

Just as Tyshia walks into a restaurant, a waiter accidentally bumps into her and spills a glass of orange juice onto Tyshia's clothes.

"Sorrys. That was an accident" immediately the waiters face turned to panic seeing the clothes of his customers wet and dirty.

"Never mind, where's the toilet?" tyshia asked with a friendly smile to the waiters.

"come with me" Waiters took Tyshia to the toilet, as soon as she reached the toilet, the waiters asked Tyshia to wait for her for a while.

"Wait here for minutes" the waiters ran to his locker and took a change of clothes, then he gave it to Tyshia.

Tyshia hesitantly accepted it, then she went inside the toilet to change her clothes. After he finished changing his clothes Tyshia came out of the toilet, he saw the waiters were still waiting for him.

"Alinea" Tyshia extended her hand.

"Rangga, you're Indonesian, right? use Indonesian only."

"Okay" Tyshia said as she nodded her head

"Yes, I'm back at work. Once again I'm sorry" Rangga left Tyshia.

Tyshia returned to the scene looking for an empty table for herself to eat.

"In the corner there was empty" suddenly Rangga was behind Tyshia and pointed at the empty table for her, Rangga followed Tyshia from behind until Tyshia sat in her chair.

"What message do you want?" ask Rangga.

"Short Rib Ramen and mineral water" Tyshia said, pointing to a menu he had chosen.

"Ok, wait a minute yeah" Rangga left.

While waiting for his order to come, he opened his phone. Twenty messages and twenty-five missed calls from his father, not wanting to get a scolding from his father, Tyshia also langsunga contact his father.

"Where have you been sweet?" rio asked in panic.

"So I came from the toilet" Tyshia replied.

"Where are you now? why so many?" rio asked hearing a bustling voice while talking to his daughter.

Huft.. Tyshia exhaled, sure enough her guess was that her father would nag her.

"Dad. Why don't you just call Mr. Joe to ask me where I am?" tyshia said in annoyance.

In the middle of his chat with his father, Rangga came with Tyshia's ordered ramen, Tyshia immediately paused his chat with his father.

"Thank you Rangga" said Tyshia.

"Good meal" Rangga invited Tyshia to enjoy her meal, then she went to serve other visitors.

After Rangga left, Tyshia returned to her phone "Dad I want to eat first, bye Father Mmuah...." Tyshia hung up on him, then enjoyed her order ramen.

'Mmm. Mother's recommendation never fails' murmured Tyshia while enjoying her first sedok, with a short time she spent the ramen, then she called Rangga.

"Ka Rangga can I have my bill?" tyshia Pinta.

"Let me pay as my apology" Rangga said

"No Kak Rangga, let me keep paying for it" Tyshia took out a few dollars from inside her wallet.

"Please, don't refuse my apology request yes" Rangga prevented Tyshia from spending her money, Tyshia relented from the debate.

"Thanks Brother Rangga. Tomorrow I'm here again, I want to return your t-shirt."

*Thank you Rangga. Tomorrow I will be here again, I want to return your shirt.

"Okay, I'm waiting for ya" Rangga said with a smile.

"Thank you for the ramen treat" said Tyshia, then she stepped out of the restaurant and returned to her apartment.

Arriving at the apartment Tyshia immediately asked her domestic assistant to wash her clothes and also wash clothes belonging to Rangga.

Tyshia lay down her body on the mattress, a glimpse of the shadow of a sweet smile on Rangga's face appeared in her mind.

'Why I think about him, and why my heart's beating up when near him?' Tyshia.

*Why am I thinking about him and why was my heart beating so fast when I was nearby?

Tyshia did not want to think about her feelings, she forced herself to close her eyes, long to the length she fell asleep soundly.

The next day after college Tyshia returned to the Japanese restaurant she visited yesterday, she wanted to return Rangga's t-shirt.

"The employee named Rangga is on holiday today."

*Employees named Rangga today are on holiday.

"Okay, thanks" Tyshia said with a smile.

Tyshia stepped out of the restaurant, once out of the restaurant she saw the figure of Rangga walking towards the restaurant. Rangga who saw the whereabouts of Tyshia immediately ran closer to Tyshia.

"I'm sorry I was late in my lecture hours a little while ago. You've been waiting for me, haven't you?" Asked Rangga, Tyshia nodded her head.

"This is sister's shirt" Tyshia gave a paper bag containing Rangga's clothes.

"Aren't you busy? want to accompany me shopping?" ask Rangga.

Tyshia nodded her head, then she took her phone from her bag, she sent a message to her driver to return to her apartment.

There was a debate in the chat because the driver was very afraid of Rio.

"Are you busy?" asked Rangga because from earlier I saw Tyshia seemed busy with her phone "Jia you're having an event, it's okay I'm alone"

"No, not important. What college major?" tyshia asked, starting her chat with Rangga.

"Chemical engineering, just stay this year. If the title of my script is approved next week I will compose the thesis, pray yes"

"Oh my god, a lesson that I really hate" Tyshia said, she remembered how she learned desperately just to get a minimum standard.

"really? isn't that interesting to learn. Exciting to know." said Rangga with a smile.

"My test scores are very bad in those subjects" Tyshia said with a frown, she already did not want to remember the days of her school exams.

Rangga and Tyshia broke into an exclamation while waiting for the bus at the stop, after the bus came Rangga invited Tyshia to ride first.

The atmosphere of the bus was quite crowded, Rangga looking for a seat for Tyshia, after being able to allow Tyshia to sit down, Rangga took off his jacket to cover Tyshia's knees and thighs which happened to be when Tyshia was wearing a short dress.

Arriving at the supermarket Rangga bought some fruits, vegetables, meat eggs and other necessities.

"Sister Rangga, did Kak Rangga cook himself?" tyshia asked, she saw how many groceries Rangga had.

"Yes to be more frugal, I feel that I am old enough so that I do not want to burden my parents" said Rangga with a smile.

Tyshia felt slapped hearing Rangga's words, Rangga's life with his life was very much different.

"Hey, Kok's dumb. Buy ice cream yuk what do you want to taste?" ask Rangga

"Vanilla"

Rangga bought two ice cream, then he invited Tyshia to sit in the park not far from the supermarket while enjoying the ice cream he had bought. Rangga reopened his jacket as Tyshia was about to sit down.

"Alinea, will you be my friend?" ask Rangga.

"Of course I want to" Tyshia replied.

While chatting suddenly Tyshia's phone shook, there was an incoming call from her father. Tyshia briefly related her activities today to her father, because it felt bad if linger ignoring Rangga, Tyshia ended the phone call from her father.

"Love you too dad" Tyshia turned off her phone.

"It seems your father loves you very much" said Rangga, he accidentally heard Tyshia's conversation with his father seemed very familiar.

"I love him a lot too, Dad was my first love" Tyshia said.

"Can I know if you're a Muslim?" ask Rangga carefully.

"Yes, I'm moslem"

"If you love your father why are you dressed like this?" ask Rangga.

"Sister mean?"

"sorry. I don't mean to lecture you or to lecture you, if what I'm saying makes you angry and hate me, I'm sincere."

Rangga sighed then continued his sentence.

"I was very envious of the child who was very close to his father, because since childhood my father had died. What paragraph do you know if your father will be in charge of you, until you get married?"

Tyshia did not answer Rangga's question because she did not know where Rangga was talking.

"Enlighten your father's hymns, if you can't hijab at least a more closed climb. Once again I'm really sorry, I realize I'm not who you are and have no right to say something like this. I'm sorry and I promise you this is the first and last time I'm talking about this."

Tyshia looked at the look of regret on Rangga's face, Tyshia smiled towards the rangga.

"Always remind me, we are friends" Tyshia clasped Rangga's hand.

Tyshia moved from her seat and returned Rangga's jacket.

"I went home first, Brother Rangga, bye" Tyshia left Rangga, he came home by taxi.