
"I'm serious and I'm not kidding!" Yonas said with a serious face that suddenly made Olivia laugh strangely.
"What's wrong? Why are you laughing like that?" Ask Yonas in wonder.
"Your jokes are so funny, Yonas! But I'm sorry, I don't plan to get married anytime soon" said Olivia, who is still trying to quell her laughter.
"I'm not joking, Olive!" Yonas still had a serious look on his face. But Olivia's laughter soon disappeared and the look on the face of the girl turned unhappy when Yonas called her Olive. Only one person can call Olivua by the call of Olive! And it's not Yonas.
"Via! Just call Via, and don't call me Olive!" Olivia warned Yonas firmly.
"Why?" Tanya Yonas was curious.
"Because I don't like being called Olive!" Olivia replied firmly.
"But Youbel calls you Olive and you don't mind!" Yonas is stubborn.
"That's an exception! And only Youbele can do it!" Sergey Olivia before the girl stepped away and left Yonas with a look of annoyance.
"But Youbel is my sister. Can't that exception apply to me?" Yonas asked still unyielding while following Olivia.
Olivia stopped her steps, then turned around while holding onto Yonas.
"Youbel was my sister and she was the one who made me know a girl named Olivia Abraham Arthur. " Yonas repeated his statement while mentioning Olivia's full name.
Olivia immediately gave a full investigation to Yonas.
"Can't you give me one chance, Via?" Yonas asked.
"You approached me just for fulfilling Youbel's last message! Then why would I give you a chance?" Sergey Olivia's getting upset.
"That's not true! I've been attracted to you since we first met, even before Youbel showed me a picture of you and told me all about you" Yonas said bluntly, reminding Olivia of an incident at GOR basketball.
"That's horrid. That's jersey number three, huh?" Ask the guy in the shirt sitting next to Olivia.
"Hehehe, it's the school team, Bang!"
"Eh, Om," Olivia corrects her call and is slightly misbehaved.
"Yonas!" The man muttered next which immediately made Olivia gaping confused
"Huh? What's?"
"Nothing! Forget it!"
Olivia stared fixedly at Yonas face once more.
"You, who was watching basketball?" Ask Olivia to make sure that even makes Yonas review a thin smile.
"Do you remember?"
"But why did you leave when Youbel came and didn't say hello?" Ask Olivia full of questions.
"You don't seem to get along with Youbel!" Olivia began to speculate.
"Of course we got along!" Kill Yonas quickly.
"We only rarely met because I was busy" Yonas said.
"Then what has Youbel told me about me?" Olivia's voice had softened a little and the girl headed to one of the chairs inside the ballroom. Yonas catches up with Olivia while bringing drinks for the two of them.
"Anything?" Ask Olivia again.
"Many!" Yonas looks bright.
"There's a whole book and everything about Olivia is there" Yonas explained.
"One book full?" Olivia frowned confused.
"It's like a diary but it's all about Olivia" Yonas explained.
"Youbel wrote it?" Ask Olivia doubtful. But Yonas nodded confidently.
"Can I see the book?" Olivia asked after the girl was silent for a while.
"I'm not taking him now. But tomorrow I'll take it to your office" promised Yonas, who only made Olivia nod.
"How did you know? Youbel also wrote it in a book?" Olivia asked curiously as she started scooping the vanilla cake in front of her. Yonas did not answer and only commented on the smile while staring with interest how elegant Olivia was when eating cake on her plate.
"One vanilla cake and one flat white as usual!" Olivia's message to a waitress who approached her.
Not once did Olivia come to this cafe twice but almost every day after the girl came home from college. Olivia will enjoy her coffee and vanilla cake sometimes while doing college assignments.
"It's been paid by the man sitting there" said waitress, as Olivia asked for a bill of payment. Olivia looked in the direction that the waitress pointed at and a man whose face was not very clear because he was wearing a hat got up from his seat, then walked quickly towards the cafe door.
It was not the first time, the foreign man had paid for Olivia's order, but rather the umpteenth time. That guy was spying on Olivia or maybe stalking Olivia?
"Hey! Wait!" Olivia half ran after the man in the hat, but unfortunately the big step made Olivia unable to chase after him. For the umpteenth time, Olivia lost track of him.
"Who is that guy?" Olivia was really curious. Olivia went back inside the cafe to clean up her belongings and rushed away, promising to investigate the man in the hat.
But every time Olivia intends to investigate, the man will not come to the cafe the next day and seems to disappear swallowed by the earth. Then after Olivia came back off guard, the man would suddenly appear again.
It's strange!
Olivia's car just drove off the cafe, too, as a man emerges from behind a bus stop and comments a faint smile at Olivia's car mingling with another iron horse, it cuts through the crowded city streets.
"Sweet girl" the man muttered, shaking his head as a voice greeted him and shocked the man.
"Yonas! What are you doing here? Get me home from work?" Sapa Zack who instantly made Yonas smile vanished.
"Yes, I happen to be passing by here and I was just about to catch up with you to the restaurant" Yonas replied with a flat facial expression.
"You're so attentive!" Zack immediately smiled happily.
"Let's go shopping for groceries! I'll cook something special for both of us tonight!" Take Zack next as he sniffs his chin towards the supermarket across the street. Yonas just nodded and followed Zack's steps to cross the road.
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Olivia flicked her finger in front of Yonas' face which had not stopped looking at her. The daydreams of Yonas about himself who for the past four years watched Olivia in silence instantly became crumbling.
"What are you staring at? Want to eat vanilla cake too?" Olivia asked looking in surprise at Yonas.
Yonas immediately laughed and was about to pick up the leftover vanilla cake that belonged to Olivia. But Olivia prevented it quickly.
"Seek the waiter yourself!" Olivia said before the girl ate the last piece of vanilla cake.
"I prefer chocolate cake over vanilla cake" Yonas said bluntly.
"Just ask for chocolate then!" Olivia's answer is still sluggish. Olivia was about to take a tissue from her bag, when she realized that Yonas' handkerchief had been accidentally put in the bag. But returning it now feels also less polite, because there is the rest of Olivia's makeup on the white handkerchief.
"Your handkerchief is dirty. Tomorrow I will return it," said Olivia, as she again stuffed Yonas' handkerchief into her bag.
"No need! I still have a lot. That one is for you, "yonas replied still with a warm smile at Olivia. Yonas and Olivia were silent for a moment.
"By the way, you seemed to have come with a man. She's your assistant?" Olivia's question broke the silence between herself and Jonas.
Yonas really did not expect, if Olivia was also watching herself when she just arrived at the event location. Jonas' heart warmed for a moment. What's the matter?
"Yes, he's my assistant" replied Jonas lying.
"I don't see her anymore" Olivia muttered again in a wail.
"She's been gone since yadi because there is business," explained Yonas who immediately made Olivia round her lips.
Olivia and Yonas continued their conversation, while from a distance, Mama Audrey and Papa Kyle were relieved to see the familiarity of Yonas and Olivia.
"They're familiar" muttered Mama Audrey as she clasped her husband's hand.
"Yes! May Yonas make Olivia forget her grief at the loss of Youbel. It's time for Olivia to get happiness," said Papa Kyle hopefully guaranteed by Mama Audrey.
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