Dear Om Rey
Chapter 8: Really Pick Up

"Please." I gave one cup of ice americano to a customer.

I looked at the wall clock at the Bittersweet cafe where I work. The clock shows five o'clock. I finished my shift on the first day. I took off my apron and approached Om Tanoe who was sitting at one of the tables.

"Om, my shift is done." I said while slinging my bag.

"Okay. Good job for today, Nis. Om likes your cooperation neat, deft, friendly." Praise Om Tanoe flatters me. I thanked him with gratitude.

"Yes there, you guys have been waiting for it." Om Tanoe moved his chin towards the window.

"Cowok me?" I asked as I looked out the window. I saw Vito was there, sitting on his motorbike.

"The vito? He's not my guy, Om. New acquaintances also fitting early orientation."

"Oh belom sohan. Good luck with your success."

I don't think about Om Tanoe. My time is said to be PDKT with Vito?

After a while we arrived at a restaurant that from the exterior alone had seen that the restaurant was quite classy. "So seriously we're gonna eat here?"

"Yes dong. First date has to be special." Said Vito while taking off his helmet.

I landed a punch on Vito's shoulder warning him. "Ngedate your head!"

"If not ngedate what dong?" Said Vito while grimacing in pain.

"Yes eat malem together. People if I don't have a debt of gratitude to you, I'm willing to eat with you."

"Well that's it, Nis. I'm the most wanted medical kid knows. You should feel grateful to be invited to dinner with me." His words are confident.

"Males is the most wanted man." My lips. "Let's ah my splinter laper." I pushed Vito's body to enter the restaurant immediately.

We went in and ordered food. After a while, the food was available in front of us. Soon I craved the food.

"Lo be a girl no jaim-jaimnya anyway, Nis?" Vito might be astonished because of my completely ungraceful way of eating. I am like this. And I'm just eating until my cheeks bulge like this.

"Jaim? Front you? No need, yeah." Sajarku.

Vito looked at me with anxiety. "But that's what makes you different. This is how beautiful. I like girls who don't play." Vito held his head with one hand while smiling at me.

"If it won't be eaten here the food will be for me." I reached for a Vito plate containing spaghetti carbonara.

"You've taken it, eaten a lot." Vito doesn't mind. But I expressed my intention because I did not really mean to take the food.

"Not so. That's why you eat, don't look at me." I went back to spaghetti agglio olioku.

"Lo always fierce gini in front of guys?"

"Yes. Except in front..."

I remember Om Rey. Yes Forgive. I should have cooked for him. Immediately I grabbed my phone and I saw there was chat and also a missed call from him.

"Om, sorry I forgot to tell you. I ate with Temen. I'm home from my food abis ya." I'll call him right away. Feel bad. I should've been at home and cooked as I promised.

"It's okay, Dan. You just eat it. Are you the same temen? Who?" Ask Om Rey on the phone.

"There's a campus meeting, Om. But different faculties." My word.

"Male or female?"

It's weird that Om Rey asked that.

I'll just answer. "Male, Om."

"Two?"

Not done yet I'm talking Om Rey cut. "Work? What do you do for work? How are you going to college?" His tone turned a little cold.

"I work right home from college, Om. Until 5pm. Then I will go straight home. I just came home late today."

"Om pick you up now. Sharelocs. Om Wait."

Om Rey just cut the phone.

'That's weird, anyway?' I said in my heart.

"Who the hell, Nis? Lo if it's the same I don't call each other dong." Dumel Vito's.

"It's Om me. I'm gonna pick her up."

"Huh? Why did you pick up Om lo everything? We're ngedate again. I'll be anther you later. Your food has not been cooked either. Is it time to go home again?"

"We don't want to, yeah. He's my Om. You could say he's my guardian, who replaced my Mother as my parents during my time in Jakarta." Mouth fierce. I finished my meal before Om Rey came back.

Vito clucked in annoyance.

A few moments later my food ran out. My hand was ready to grab a slice of pizza in front of me that Vito had ordered for both of us.

But right then Om Rey actually came to pick me up.

"Come, go home." Said Om Rey who was suddenly beside me.

I looked up, dumbfounded.

I mean, he just called me about 15 minutes ago. And now he's really here.

"Of." Vito immediately stood up and extended his hand. "I'm Vito, Om. It's Danis."

Om Rey did not welcome him and instead looked at Vito coldly. "I'm not your Om. You better get home soon too. Next time don't bother Danisa to come out like this again. Understood?"

Om Rey grabbed my hand, grabbed it and then took me out of the restaurant.

"Vit, thank you!" My pampit was in a hurry walking behind Om Rey. I saw Vito standing between confused and annoyed.

I was in Om Rey's car for a while. I sat next to him. I looked at Om Rey who was focused on driving. He didn't speak after pulling me out of the restaurant.

"Om, have you eaten?" Ask pleasantries.

"Yet. Not that you want to make Om. Eat with other guys."

I cringed feeling weird with Om Rey's attitude. "Sorry, Om. Vito was telling me the job info. I took him to lunch, made him a thank you, Om. But Vito wants dinner instead. It was also he who paid because Om knew the place was quite expensive. But I know myself, so I chose the cheapest menu. You see, he's a scholarship boy just like me, Om. But it's weird, too, suddenly he could treat me to such an expensive place. That was when he ate another meal that I didn't eat. I wanted to eat the pizza. But since Om's hunting me down, I'm not gonna eat the pizza." My chatter. A little sorry I couldn't eat that good-looking pizza either.

Suddenly Om Rey rubbed his face rough and sighed.

"Sorry Om yes, Dan." Sorry words.

"No, really. It's okay, Om. Seriously! Om don't apologize. I don't mean to blame Om, really." So it's not good for Om Rey to apologize like that.

"Yes Om is not good. Do you want to eat pizza? Buying it for you, right? We sat down and ate it at home. How's it?"

"Seriously, Om?"

"Yes. You just pesen now let it not be too long to wait."

My smile is also broken. "Extra cheese, Om! Same as cola float! Don't forget too!" Unconsciously I was so excited.

Om Rey's dimples reappeared when she smiled at my exaggerated request. "Yes can. Pesen as much and whatever you want. Who paid."