Love (But)Need Certainty
Mate and Rejeki

Romi walked while yawning several times, his eyes seemed to invite his body back to lie on a soft mattress. But he can't come back, at least for the next two hours until the market shock this morning is over. Because he had promised his best friend Rizky, to accompany him looking for used books that are usually sold here.

"Have you all not?" romi asked while he evaporated wide again.

"Enough, but lacking," Rizky replied in a hoarse voice.

"Eh? how's it??"

"Yes like you're the same line of girls next to you, enough?"

"yes different dong," Romi said.

"it's the same, quite a lot, but it's still lacking hahaha," Rizky laughed loosely.

Romi laughed because he could not avoid the accusation.

Rizky is the same age as Romi, they have been friends since college. What is different, Rizky's career is really moncer until it has reached the level of the current manager. Romi is not that successful. But on the other hand, Rizky never once, not once, but once. While Romi arguably much more successful than Rizky in this one field.

"you know dong," asked Rizky while waiting for the message to be made.

"what?" Romi pretended not to understand.

"boiled.. Asteria.. Marni.. Cecile.. Hannah.. Kiyazha.. Lasmias.. Veos.. Anggi.. need to be executed??"

Romi who was drinking iced tea until choking heard Rizky passing. He immediately waved his hand stopping Rizky's absence.

"it's bad luck," said Romi with a face can not help but smile even with lips that were drinking iced tea water.

"eat it. ajarin.." said Rizky forced.

"that you are absent is still lacking," Romi interjected.

"shit! make me envious!" rizky said again while pinching his best friend's head.

For the two of them, this included the topic of an old chat. I don't know how many hundred times Rizky asked Romi for help about this love. And somehow hundred times the same Rizky failed to follow his advice. And not even until the advice alone, several times Romi became 'research' as well as mediator Rizky and his date. Still failed..

"Wirda's target isn't it?"

Rizky can be seen tracing the memory lane in his brain while scratching his head. Then after he remembered who Romi meant, he nodded.

"why didn't you at that time?" ask Romi again.

"just.em.."

"right!!" cut Romi off before Rizky could answer. "you're speechless can't say anything."

The incident was approximately two years earlier, when Romi prepared a date for his best friend. Dating even became bland because Rizky could not say stuff once because of groggy and awkward. Romi who sat at the table near the table they both sat trying to help via whatsapp about what to do. But Rizky only managed to become a statue in front of Wirda who seemed to have expected a lot. Sometimes Rizky smiled but even like a person who was experiencing twitches on the cheek because it was so awkward. And the result was of course a complete failure.

"gue don't dare!" Rizky.

"that's it. you are less brave to doang . if you dare to be easy." Romi.

And Romi said honestly, Rizky already has a career that is cool, even physically he is also handsome like John Mayer. If he can play guitar while singing 'your body is wonderland' in front of girls they must have fallen in love.

"how dare??" ask Rizky.

"yes I eat rice" Romi replied casually.

"uhuh??"

"yes, I eat real rice! if you eat rice often calculated how many grains of rice??"

Rizky.

"keep eating rice you don't think it's poisonous rice what's it??"

Romi shook his head again.

"continue you also think that rice is not suitable not yes dana your stomach,"

Rizky nodded.

"nah it. kayak eat rice. do not think. dare to chat. about him like what you do not think in front, anyway if it is not suitable will just look for again, anyway, from the brave first new know what fit enggak.kalu do not dare ya dreamy continue bro.kayak people looking for fortune, soul mate also fortune must be sought.."

Rizky looks silent while thinking. "that means you're fucking yeah," he concluded with a smile.

"what?" Romi.

PLOTS UP!!

This time Romi who nailed his satisfied friend laughed.

"but so you're delicious huh.."

"what else??" said Romi who was preparing to clasp Rizky's head again.

"brave and never fail to get a girl.."

"sometimes it fails" Romi said.

"proof!" challenge Rizky.

"okay!"

This kind of anti-mainstream challenge is easy to do, Romi thought. Actually, maybe there is no better time to be rejected by female acquaintances. Mumpung sunday morning walk to the market shocked Romi just wearing basketball drawer pants and shabby sweatshirts. The chance of being rejected is now close to 100 percent.

But to make sure the success of his rejection was even greater, Romi took his best friend to the car park near his campus mosque.

"why here?" Rizky was curious when they got there.

"just a sec.."

They both walked around looking at the situation. After a few tens of meters, Romi stopped and pointed right at a corner of the parking lot.

"no. Look, I must have failed.." romi said as he walked closer to two girls who were chatting on the hood of a mercedes-benz car that must have belonged to one of them.

One of them had his hair tied back and glasses.he wore a training jacket that fit his body shape. His expensive sneakers that are still clean indicate he is not here for sports. Maybe just a nice snack hunting. Romi felt the difference in their level and himself was too far away and for sure he was rejected.

Soon Romi was in front of the two girls. Because he did not really intend to get acquainted so he just chose a sentence to say hello to them.

"hello sis.."

the two of them glanced at Romi stiffly.

yes. . Romi said in his heart, the expression he expected to appear.

"want to ask.. he said here there are selling hamsters.Perhaps there are brothers who see?"

The pigtailed hair saw Romi from head to toe, while his curly-haired friend smiled faintly.

okay just say makasi, keep going.. Romi concluded his failure.

"excuse me for bothering you, excuse me.."

Romi stepped away glancing at Rizky who was watching from a distance. Romi said without a voice giving the code (g. a. g. a. l.).

"a minute!" suddenly the hair called back.

Romi looked back again, the pigtail hair was picking something up from inside his car while the curly hair asked him to come back.

Romi wondered why he was called back closer to them. And soon the pigtail hair took a small cage from his car..

"this is." he said, showing.

Turns out it was a hamster.

"oh, it's funny.." Romi tried to be polite and praise when in his heart he did not believe the careless questions he made turned into real.

"there was a tapet near the roundabout on the ramp." said the pigtail hair while pointing at the direction.

"oh.."

"like hamsters?" ask again.

"uh me? actually for him." said Romi while pointing at Rizky in the distance who now looks like a smile but mocking face.

"oh. by the way I'm Sofia.." Sofia the hair pigtail introduced herself.

"Romi," Romi replied as he held out his hands.

"Tias," Thias the curly hair became acquainted.

And finally the challenge failed, Romi forgot sometimes to acquaintance with the opposite sex just need courage. Though not long before he spoke about courage to Rizky. Not a speck of Romi suspects that getting acquainted with Sofia will bring big waves in his life.