Dear Om Rey
Chapter 28: Gossip One Force

Due to our busy lecture schedule that day, Fina invited me to lunch at the faculty cafeteria only. Whereas usually we will go to the wider University cafeteria there are also more food options.

After the course before lunch hour was over, we immediately slid to the first floor where the canteen was located. As long as I walked out of the lecture hall, people kept staring at me.

My forehead is wrinkled feeling weird. "People see me, or just my feelings do, Fin?" I asked Fina who was walking beside me.

"Conscious lo, speaking lo, and julidin lo." Tukas Fina's.

I look at my best friend. "Why?!"

"Lo never saw what kind of group?"

Immediately I reached into my bag and grabbed my phone. "What group? I like to open it, really." I started to open the green messaging app.

"Group of our forces."

"Microgroup? I never open it. Abis likes to say things that are not clear."

When I saw the group, there were already thousands of chats I hadn't read. I rarely open it because after the orientation is over, all that is talked about in the group are things that are not important to me. Many are chatting unclear, or the promotion of merchandise, SME promotion, and so on, which to me is irrelevant.

This time out of curiosity I opened it. My mouth was wide open. "This is what?!"

Fina sat in a chair in the faculty cafeteria, and I sat in front of her with attention still on my phone screen.

"So this morning someone saw you coming out of the apartment with Om Rey. Photographed and distributed in the group."

My blood boiled for a moment. I scroll through the group and the contents are comments about the photo. I finally got to the photo I was talking about. The photo shows me and Om Rey just getting out of the apartment I live in right now holding hands. A message accompanied the photo:

Does anyone know you? I think I know his face. But I forgot his name. This is the girl who from the beginning of orientation was said to be the same Vito medical boy, right?

Then comments popped up in response to the post.

Danisa isn't it? Nursing child? I often see him as Om-om. Several times I saw him pick up his om-om.

Such comments continue to fill the chat room. Some people agree that I am often seen with Om Rey around campus. Those comments really make me uncomfortable because the average leads to a negative thing. And there was one post that really got me on board.

OMG, It's so hot. The apartment was also very bad. Luckily, D^ddy is so royal.

I got up from the chair. "D^DDY?!" My yelling. "Gue is supposed to be sug^r b^by?!"

The people in the cafeteria immediately looked at me and whispered. I can't hold back my emotions. "What are you whispering? Speaking of me lo?! Here I want to know what you are saying!!"

Some of the kids I know are my age, but I don't know what majors, immediately leave the cafeteria when I hear my wrath.

"Nis, you calm down dong! People are so concerned about us." Fina grabbed both of my shoulders and forced me to sit down.

"My emotions, Fin! I thought it was the same time as Om Rey?! They say OM REY D^DDY GUE?!" I still did not accept, finally yelling I had to accept Fina.

"Now I'm asking, Om Rey it's D^ddy lo isn't it?" Ask Fina.

"Yes not! I love Om Rey and I love each other! He even fucked me yesterday, look!" I extended my hand to Fina.

Fina grabbed my hand and saw a ring with a small diamond on my ring finger. "Wow, Om Rey gercep! Congratulations bestie. I'm going with the cocks!"

Gaining congratulations from Fina, made my emotions somewhat subside. "Thanks, Fin. Do you believe me, am I not like that?"

Fina's words really slapped me. Fina was right, why would I respond to those rumors? Let someone else say what, why should I care about such unimportant things? What effect do they have on my relationship with Om Rey?

They don't know anything.

My phone suddenly rang. Om Rey called. He wanted to remind me that I would visit my future mother-in-law later this afternoon at his residence. There's a birthday party for the youngest son of fourth brother Om Rey. Everyone gathers there. And it's been a great time for me to get acquainted with Om Rey's extended family.

"Okay deh, Om will pick up in front of the faculty. Om parked Om's car at the main gate of the campus, continue Om walk to my campus, I wait in front of my faculty."

"Tumbens? Om is usually told to pick up in front of the campus gate. Now Om's getting told to walk first?"

"It's okay, Om. Let Om be healthy there is a way first to my faculty building. Some days it's rarely a sport."

Fina looked at me meaningfully. He held back his laughter seeing what I said to Om Rey. It seems he knows what I mean. Then my phone calls and my Om Rey turned off. "What the hell? How smiling?"

"Lo want to show off the intimacy later when Om Rey picks you up?"

"Lo is a big pinter." My praise. "Look at the people talking about me. I'll add ingredients for them to my julidin!"

After lunch, Fina and I returned to the 4th floor of the faculty building, to attend the last course of the day. At exactly two in the afternoon, we walked towards the faculty lobby. When I was in front, Fina accompanied me until Om Rey came. We also sat in one of the chairs in the lobby outside the faculty.

"So you've quit your job?" Ask Fina.

"Yes. Ever since Om Rey, every day he's been making sure I go. So yes, I resigned. Anyway Om Rey always made me take money from him."

"It's really like sug^r b^by lo, Nis."

I glared at Fina. "My relationship with Rey isn't like that, Fin!"

"Yes. Ja. Lo really emotional. But pity Vito dong. Broken heart mulu. Moreover, soon you marry the same Om lo."

I was silent for a moment. "Gue from the beginning will never give me the same gap he made deket same me. When we replaced Om Tanoe's employee at the Plaza Mall, too, I cuekin him. He just changed it for a few days after that he stopped. Basic no responsibility. I was always overwhelmed because he didn't exist. But you know what, Fin. I saw him come several times around 8-9 pm to the Mall. Just came when people actually went home because the Mall 'will already close that hour."

Fina seemed to think. "She's going to the hotel kali, finding her 'aunty."

"Then anyway? Is that rumor really?"

"Before there was news of the same Om Rey, Vito was also once the target of gossip one generation. Someone's seen him walk with aunty."

"Seriously? How do I not know? How can you not tell?"

"I also talked about him. I guess you already know there is a group. Now if you meet me, you must be talking about Om Rey mulu." Insinuations.

I chuckle. "Yes too. But I'm curious too. Do you still have pictures?"

Fina reached into her pocket and started looking for the photo she meant. "This is there."

"I'll see." I grabbed Fina's phone and looked at the photo.

The photo shows Vito walking with a brown-haired woman with her hands on Vito's arms. The photo only shows their backs because it was photographed from behind. It was clearly Vito because he was looking towards the woman, while the woman was looking towards the front.

"At first people thought it wasn't aunty, but you saw the clothes. Not like a student. He used minidress and high heels to play to the mall doang. It's definitely not our age, it's older. That's why many suspect it's Vito's 'aunty."

My attention was on that woman. If I look closely, I seem to have seen it. I'm sure I've seen that woman. But where is it?