Love (But)Need Certainty
BUPI

The sun has just set ending its task of dividing its light. Romi also just finished doing 'duty' ushering in Karina who he thought was enchanting. Although actually for him all women are also charming. But somehow he thinks Karina is a little different. Specials....

On the way home to his boarding house, Romi stopped by for a while at a stall. Just now he turned off his motor engine, his phone felt vibrating in his shirt pocket.

He opened his phone and a new whatsapp message was waiting in line to be read.

[8 o'clock yes, BUPI] as the message sounds.

Romi patted his head in disbelief, he could forget this kind of thing. Of course yesterday I had agreed to meet Sofia at the BUPI cafe, but somehow the promise was missed he never remembered all day. If Sofia doesn't return a message reminding her, then she will definitely forget it.

Romi had never forgotten the promise of meeting someone let alone a woman like this. Perhaps this was because he actually felt so uninterested in meeting Sofia that he forgot the promise.

Romi immediately sent a whatsapp message to Rizky to remind his friend to come also in two hours. Fortunately Rizky does not seem to forget and only reply with just 'OKE'. Romi felt able to breathe a little freely with the presence of Rizky. At least it won't feel like a date. She is reluctant to date someone she does not expect to spend time with.

Two hours later, exactly at 8 Romi was already in the cafe in question. Looking at the entrance of the cafe with a simple name sign on it makes it a little nostalgic to the past. He used to hang out in this cafe to spend time while doing college assignments. Because this cafe is in accordance with the name of BUku and kOPI, provides a comfortable place to coffee while reading or doing tasks. They had two kinds of comfortable reading and coffee, one was wearing a sofa and a small table beside it, another was just a simple wooden table and chair. They even prepared hundreds of book titles to read that were neatly displayed on bookshelves along the cafe walls. And not only novels and non-fiction books, there are also comic books.

After being satisfied to breathe a deep nostalgic air, Romi stepped into the wooden cafe. As soon as he passed through the door there was a distinctive aroma of coffee and a distinctive aroma of paper infiltrating his nose.

"Hi!" someone said suddenly saying hello.

Romi didn't realize someone was calling him so he kept walking looking for a place to sit.

"Hey?! Romi!" the man said louder.

Romi glanced at the source of the voice calling out to him. And of course it's not wrong, Sofia was sitting on one of the sofas waving her hands.

Romi waved back as he approached Sofia with a smile as cordial as possible.

"So?" romi asked as he took a seat on the sofa in front of Sofia. A small round table separated them and a glass of cappucino was already sitting there. It seems Sofia has been here for a while.

"I love to read books so I want to come here anyway." Sofia said as she tapped her fingers into the book on her lap.

"Yes, I also like to read, I used to come here a lot." said Romi smiling.

In Romi's heart was beginning to worry where the existence of Rizky who had not seen the trunk of his nose.

Sofia was confused to start the conversation. He is not used to being the one who took the initiative to date someone. Usually he is the one who is always invited to meet, and he is always bothered with shot-gunshots and babbling men. But this one human just smiled kindly and seemed to pay attention to more books on the shelf than Sofia. Her father again Sofia is not too fond of reading so she does not have a conversation material. For Romi's sake alone he acted so far pretending to like to read..

Romi saw several rows of books on a shelf nearby. He tried not to look too much at Sofia. She does not want Sofia to misunderstand, women will misunderstand if we look at her too often. Although not necessarily going to misunderstand but it's good to be on guard.

Romi attempted to search for the Lord of the Ring's often first book The Fellowship of The Ring. He wanted to read it a little because his lost possession was borrowed by Rizky. His eyes traced the title line of the book nearby. It just so happens that there are a lot of fictional novels that are in the near length.

"What do you want to order?" sofia asked from across her desk with her fingers tapping on the book on her lap.

"Ep.. Tea is warm" said Romi.

Sofia called the cafe waiter and ordered some warm tea.

[Hurvings here ah!] send it to Rizky.

He re-entered his phone back into his pocket immediately after sending a message. He saw Sofia not playing gadgets while there so he did the same thing.

"What is your favorite book?" ask Romi so that the situation becomes not too stiff.

"Hm.. " Sofia thought hard, all this time she only read books as necessary, but if asked which books she was most comfortable to read. "rich dad, poor dad,"

"Robert Kiyosaki?"

Sofia nodded.

Romi is a little embarrassed because most of his favorite books are novels and comics. Sometimes he read serious books but not much. Including the book Sofia mentioned just now, she had already read it.

"If you?" ask Sofia.

"Ah. hm. Lord of the Rings series." replied Romi.

"Why do you like that?" ask Sofia again now suddenly sumringah.

"hm. I think it's cool, Tolkien can make a world that is so detailed, varied, not shallow, and heroic story. I think it's difficult to be able to create such complexity but still interesting," Romi explained with a big smile, it is rare for a date to ask like this, one other person who has asked like this is Asteria.

Sofia nodded in understanding Romi's explanation, her smile growing wider like one who just found a hundred thousand dollars on the way.

Right at this moment someone suddenly pulled out a single wooden chair and sat down beside Romi.

"Hallo," Rizky finally arrived. Romi breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the appearance of his best friend. Now Romi just think about how he can find a reason to leave the place.

"Hello," Sofia said kindly as if she had been friends with Rizky for a long time. "Awhile I go back first" he said again, standing and putting the book that had been on his lap on the table.

Romi's eyes widened as he saw the book land on the table.

"Woh!" he said he was excited but inaudible Sofia had walked away.

Romi pointed towards the book on the table.. The Fellowship of The Ring...

His lost book, more precisely the new print of his lost book. (because this one is blue while Romi's cover is pictured footage from the film).

"Lucky you, too," said Rizky.

"It's true that the book pinjemin again to someone else.severe..where the cross again," Romi snorted.

At that time Sofia had already returned from the restroom. This time the attempt to escape from the place was gone from Romi's mind. His sight and attention had already been nailed patent when he saw the book on the table. This time he was eager to borrow it from Sofia, and this time it was what he thought.....