Dream Is An Alternate Universe
Rangga Binary

I sighed, rolled my eyes, and shook my head.

“Zero one zero one zero one? Why would he send such strange things to me anyway?” my grunts while scratching the head that is not actually itchy.

“He thinks everyone is as smart as himself what?” continue while typing a reply message in the chat application.

Rangga, you want to play guessing with me? What exactly are the rows of zeros and ones?

I don't know, how hard I tried to read, I still couldn't understand what it meant. I tried to read again the message that Rangga sent.

0100 1001 0110 1100 0110 1001 0110 1011 0110 0101 0111 1001 0110 1111 0111 0101 0100 1001 0110 1100 0110 1111 0111 0111 0110 0110 0101 0111 1001 0111 0101

“Argh! Rangga, you're driving me crazy!” I ruffled my hair in frustration because of that row of numbers. But it has not subsided my curiosity on the row of zeros and one that, he sent me a code with a different account.

811448112125625225625

I patted my head hoping to find the answer, but it made my head even more dizzy. I'll get this one message right away.

Rangga, are you playing me? You're really.

I lay down next to my book full of scribbles to break the code that Rangga sent. Not yet I took a breath, my phone rang again delivering messages from two Rangga accounts. Well, it's not clear why he sent in two accounts even though the answer is the same.

No, I'm serious. Answer me and meet me tomorrow under a thousand-year-old tree at rest.

Curiosity prompted me to keep seeing Rangga under the thousand-year-old tree. I saw Rangga smiling foolishly by carrying his beloved laptop while waving at me. Good God, he donated a gold medal to the school. Otherwise I'd have kicked it all the way to Antarctica. However, from the opposite direction a level big brother with a sweet smile headed towards us, or just my feelings?

“Hei! How's code? Solved?” ask her while smiling.

“How, Deck Tika? Can you finish my code?” I got stuck because someone was talking behind my back.

Immediately I circulated the view, “Kak Rangga?” Yeah, I just found out the name of that sweet-smelling sister after reading her name tag. Waitaminute! So one of those codes was sent by the upperclassman?

“Aish! My carelessness!” I cursed myself for assuming the account belonged to that strange Rangga.

“I-iya, Brother,” replied Rangga while holding his laptop.

I rubbed my face in frustration then sighed, “Alright, why did you guys send the code to me?”

“Because ... when liking someone ...”

“Usually people will do this “

“Give code, so says my friend.”

“My friend also said like that.” This duo of Rangga in front of me managed to make me pat the bidat and tried to resist from taking out all the words in my sworn dictionary.

“Alright, Rangga, you guys did not conspire ‘kan?” I asked them while showing them two sheets of paper containing two different codes that I had successfully broken. They read the paper and looked at each other with confused looks.

“How can it?”

“Kak Rangga ..”

“Rangga ..”

“We like the same person?” Silent. They were both stunned. A second later, they clapped their hands and laughed.

“Kak Rangga!”

“Dek Rangga!”

“We do indeed fit like.” I just looked at the two of them laughing, embracing, and walking away in my confusion. All right, so who's weird here exactly? Me or the Rangga duo?