Game Of Love
The Tiger's Nest
“Tommy why is your shirt wet?”
“Quick washed today, tomorrow can smell”
“Tommy... Answer mama”
The Mother's cry was not heard in Tommy's ear. The first thing he did after locking the room was to remove the smelly, wet clothes. Luckily Viktor brought her home today. So he didn't have to walk far in wet clothes.
“How is this, think-think Tom, maybe this is the cause of the disappearance of the people in the story it”
“I can't disappear like those people”
This kind of feeling that he had never felt in a lifetime. Not in a previous life. The guilt and disgrace that now comes to haunt her makes her unable to calm down. An hour or so he wrote on a piece of paper, an apology to Icha.
All of that is for nothing, just being a meaningless lump of paper. Clumping like a mountain in a plastic waste basket in the corner of the room. Because there was nothing he could explain. He did see all that. That was why he felt so guilty at this moment.
Thinking about something that doesn't exist has a way out. Tommy now carries a dirty uniform to the laundry. Look at the washing machine that rotates clockwise. Even the washing machine is now denouncing. Stop turning and releasing one of the bolts, like going on strike because it was being watched by someone like him.
“Sial, what a pesky today”
“How all this can happen in just a day”
There was nothing he could do anymore now, immediately removing the cable that connected the electricity to the washing machine. He tried to dismantle the washing machine and fix it.
"It is only appropriate that in addition to bolts, there is a broken cable, fortunately nothing leaked, if hit by water can be shorted earlier," he muttered in his heart.
It takes time to repair the old washing machine. But he who understands electricity and some of the techniques of the machine easily fix the washing machine that has come to reproach.
Suddenly a crazy thought came. Tommy immediately tidied up the entire outfit before it was sunburned. Complete all activities that add to the burden of the mind.
Entering the room this time he remembered. There was a time when he sent some Gift to Icha first in Junior High. Even that which always worked turned out to be rejected by the girl.
Sweet mistakes even women love. And not all seduction can melt them. But not yet finished writing some of those thoughts, his mother called.
“Tommy, no phone, fast!”
“Iya mah”
“Who called mah?”
“Name him Icha, quickly answered later later pay the phone so expensive”
The guilty feeling he experienced made the scene upon entering the wartel this time reoccur, The trembling hands and body he could not hide anymore. Sweat that poured out profusely.
It is better if what he feels now is like when he first speaks on the phone, because such feelings begin to control him. But now Tommy feels like a witness who was called by the police for questioning.
“Halo..”
“Oh so you dare also pick up phone”
“Where do you know my home phone number?”
“Easy, from Junior High School to High School who does not know the name of your papah in our school, so just need me to match your address in the phone book aja”
"Our city isn't too big so don't bother looking for your phone number"
“Do you want to ask me about the problem earlier?”
“Haha it's nice to be clearly guilty, your status is obviously a suspect not a witness, who wants to question mu”
“Sorry Cha I'm innocent”
“Not guilty how?, I clearly saw your face earlier, If only Kak Erla did not appear we will not be able to reply to you”
“Kak Erla? what does Cha mean?”
“If ngak doused by brother Erla earlier you ngak will remove from under kolong”
“Oke-ok doesn't have to be long Cha, I was there earlier, I just wanted to take my pen that fell down, then accidentally saw”
“Awas you dare to remember, not many more reasons clearly you even dare to prick with tongi earlier until Melisa was scared"
"I called you just to say, This afternoon at 4 I was waiting for you at your usual meatballs and Viktor often came to show off your face it”
Icha's speech even made Tommy speech silent for a while. Before he finally asked quietly.
“What bu Yulia already know?”
“If you don't come! tonight I'll tell you mama”
The voice of the phone being shut down suddenly was once again heard by Tommy. That voice was starting to sound bad in the ears now. Start discordant, start to raise emotions in the Heart. But what can a suspect like him do now.
“Basic doer always makes trouble,” said Tommy speaking in a heart that is now holding back emotions. But now...
Obviously not he who is hunting, the hunter is being chased by a tiger now. A pointed bamboo in the hand will not be able to injure a female tiger.
A crazy idea to threaten to spread gossip about the color of the beauty he saw. Maybe it will make him more pursued by this female Tiger.
Escape is impossible, run a tiger faster than a hunter like him. Surrender, don't expect to live, he'll die in a chopped by this tigress. Tommy clearly knows Icha's grumpy and easily seduced character.
Hoping to seek help, this time he opened a yellow phone book that was next to his home phone. He's looking for Melisa's home phone number.
“Pak Subroto road A. Yani, Oh this is it..”.
Hitting the phone number this time he felt a bit of a burden on Dada. Because she knows Melisa's a victim of Viktor's pranks, but she knows the loli girl's weakness after she touched the girl a few days ago.
As the phone call continued to buzz in his ears, Tommy waited patiently.
“Halo, this is Mr Subroto's residence, from whom?”
“Halo Te, Melisa is there?”
“Oh Melisa is there, this is from Who huh?”
“I Tommy Te schoolmate Melisa, there's something I want to talk to Melisa”
“Oh a minute yes, Auntie call him again face home, chat with Icha”
“Hah, right Te her again equal Icha?”
“Iya really, what's the matter?”
“Then I will not be Te, tomorrow I will talk at school, rather than bothering them both”
"Loh, I don't want you to call Aunty for a minute"
“Thank you yes Te, sorry to interrupt, Good afternoon Te”
“Ya, Cell..”
Quickly ending that disrespectful talk, he immediately hung up the phone this time. There is no hope of survival. Everyone now even gathered together chasing and cornered.
I felt this was a way out to avoid. But the habits in life first begin to warn. How bad the weather is whether it's raining, snowy, scorching hot. In America, people always value time and promise.
Even the one who is now is returned time. We have to respect time itself. He was afraid of regretting wasting time.
Even before the drizzle turned out he was really ready to go. Now he took the butut Forest Coat with a little tear of his father's for him to use.
He's not shy about wearing a torn raincoat. With a butut bike he went there to drizzle, because Tommy had made a decision in his heart. Even if he's gonna be embarrassed today. He will receive with a chest.
Obviously Icha's goal this time wants to make him shy, because bring meet at the place he and Viktor usually hang out. At least that's what's on Tommy's mind now pedaling a bike.
Because like the water that flushed and soaked him earlier in school. There was no reason for him to avoid the drizzling rain now.
When drizzling people can not get out of the Bakso Warung, the atmosphere crowded with teenage children makes him think backwards. But the feet even stepped there because the eyes that have seen Icha.
Love can indeed make people stupid, the chemicals produced by the body excessively now defeat the mature logic that he has. If only he had experienced romance first. It will be easier for him to deal with.
But what could he do with this innocent soul, he instead stepped into the tiger cage.
“Eh Tom, you really came," said Icha who smiled, while...
“I think you will reason because of the rain, good,” Melisa said
Tommy had a moment of silence looking at Icha and Melisa who were sitting there, even the torn raincoat he was wearing did not have time to let go, making everyone there glance at him who looked pitiful.
“Although made unilaterally and forcibly, Promise is promise, now tell me what I should do to keep you and Melisa calm”
“Hey, it's nice that you're not polite, at least sit down first and take off your butut raincoat,” said Melisa who looks upset.
Clearly he was upset that Viktor's mischievous behavior had crossed the line.
Tommy quickly took off the raincoat he was wearing and pulled the plastic chair there slowly, before finally sitting facing the two of them.
Tommy's eyes were straight ahead, looking at Icha right in the girl's eyes. Carrying that looks calm but he is trying hard to suppress all the chemical reactions in the body.
While the Icha he looked at gave a slightly cynical look. They now looked like they were talking in their hearts, one was apologizing while the other was angry.
“Look, I heard you were smart enough at school?” melisa said, breaking the silence.
“Then..?”
Tommy did not dare to act rashly with the words he put out in front of these two female tigers, who now looked like a Tiger that was surrounding the prey to assess the strength of the prey.
He had to act carefully to protect himself, misstepping just a little bit these two female tigers would pounce on him alive.
“I will be sent to school abroad, to my uncle's place. If I can't raise the value quickly”
“So we ask you to teach us both,” said Icha who now seriously looked at Tommy.
"If you teach me the hell I can but really Melisa invited"
"Hey, do I need to yell here, that you've been acting indecent?" Melisa expressed her frustration in a whisper, while staring intently.
"It's not so Mel I'm sorry"
Tommy could not dodge, he only apologized for fishing the female tiger accidentally, because of his interest earlier at Icha's request.
“Your mom is a math teacher why you two didn't ask to be taught to your mom,” said Tommy who was curious again.
“My mom is a math teacher but not a teacher of all subjects, anyways I said raise the grades so all subjects are mandatory not just math”
“I don't want Les where the English Teacher who is barking, continue mama also no time to teach me all the subjects, if we can not find another Les...” said Icha was silent before finishing the words.
Feeling suspicious about all of this Tommy quickly pleads with Icha and Melisa while holding both of their hands. He can't take a wrong step.
“Aduh Cha I'm sorry for the problem earlier in school, but I'm really not talented teaching, later you both disappointed”
“You will not be able to refuse, not to mention our plans to you have just begun, this is only the beginning of aja” Melisa said grunting in her heart.
Hearing that Tommy looked down lethargic, indeed the two of them did not answer the words earlier but he could hear Melisa's heart clearly.
“I guess you have no other choice, other than to agree right?” said Melisa again with a sniffle
“If you don't want to help you do nothing Tom, I understand Kok” Icha casually uttering that word.
“What's Right Cha?”
“True your head, look out for you later tonight” said Melisa again
inwardly so that made Tommy immediately stare towards this loli with a cynical look.
While Icha in his heart he hesitated so as not to speak in his heart. So there's nothing to hear.
“What do you mean look like that? do you really want to be reported? or do you want me and Icha to humiliate you here?”
“Nak Kok Mel, so how is there any other way, besides being your tutor to make up for my mistakes earlier”
“Can I give you another way out, if you really do not want to teach us both, you just pay every time I and Icha eat food anytime and anywhere for a month, how would you like?” melisa replied again.
“I will be your best Tutor, I will make sure of that, So when do you want to start learning?"
"How long do I have to teach?” said Tommy steadily.
“If you agree we can start tomorrow, we just ask you to teach us until the first quarter of course” Icha smiled at Tommy's behavior.
“OK Deal”
Tommy has no other choice now. He preferred to teach these two girls even though he already knew there would be problems later on that they would both give.
Money, even he was tortured for not being able to buy snacks for a few days to pay off the debt with Erla, obviously he did not want to feel that pain anymore.
Not to mention the two beautiful girls sitting in front of him were now asking him to pay for each of them both to eat outside.
His smart brain is even faster at thinking about numbers. The expenses he will suffer, can be even greater than the embarrassment he may later get. As long as the shame is not outrageous and does not offend self-esteem. He can accept all that.
He was even silently talking now, while looking at the two girls who were now sitting opposite him.
"The words of an unpleasant person are indeed like an attacking arrow but, those arrows were released without any power that would not even hurt us at all”
“Weirdly it is precisely we ourselves who took the arrows that fell earlier and thrust the arrows right into the Heart, so that we hurt ourselves”
"I should be able to tame these two tigers, even if I get a little wound later"
Today Tommy did not even expect these two girls to ask for such a thing, he thought that he would be humiliated in the presence of the other High School girls who were now gathered looking at the three of them enviously.
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arrows and Words, excerpted from the Korean Drama film "The Producer"
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