Mr. Teacher, I Love You
18. Go Without Pamit
“How can you know? Are you looking for him?” asked Bara without having any intention to improve his position.
“Everyone in school knows that,” Zeo replied.
“You didn't know before,” obviously Bara.
“That's not important. But ...”
“Really?”
“Iya. But ... Father's weight.”
Directly look down. He actually overpowered Zeo as it turned out. Ah, wherever Bara's mind has been until it doesn't realize it. That's really embarrassing. I also wake up. Both immediately fixed their positions. Suddenly things get awkward.
Zeo turned her gaze to the window beside her. He saw a crowded street there. Actually he did not know where he was, but he could not stay in this state of awkwardness. He also looked at Bara. “Pak, let me get off here. So please open the door,” he said.
Bara let Zeo open the car door. However, just as Zeo was about to wake up, Bara immediately grabbed Zeo's hand.
“What's up, Sir?” ask Zeo astonishment.
“It looks like there's a meatball stall there. How about we eat there first?” Bara pointed at a crowded place across the street.
“Not done, sir. I'm full,” reject Zeo.
“Ka-kaya Mr hungry, yes, until his stomach rang?” Zeo threw the charges.
I responded with a smile. “Iya. Mr. emang very hungry,” he said relented. “At home nobody is masakin, anyway. So you ask for help to make nemenin Father eat.”
Zeo was cornered by Bara. Zeo finally agreed to that. He returned his position and closed the car door. Then Bara drove his car again to cross the road to the stall.
Even though the air was better and more crowded, there was nothing Zeo and Bara talked about. They inhabit each other. Maybe because the awkwardness that happened in the car had not disappeared. Zeo was just relieved after Bara said she went to the toilet. It was as if the air binding his body was loosening at once.
Long enough Bara left to make Zeo have an idea. He also walked quickly out of the shop. Fasterly he ran away from Bara who had not returned from the toilet. After the shop disappeared from Zeo's sight, Zeo stopped an angkot and rode it to his house. Ah, no …. Zeo remembered that he had to work from this afternoon. He also exchanged his angkot several times because of the wrong angkot. Angkot which is thought to be cheaper than a taxi, apparently emptying his pocket.
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Zeo came home a little late: ten o'clock at night. If Tiwi hadn't fallen asleep, Zeo wouldn't have been able to rest right away after arriving at the boarding house. The woman will ask him questions. Zeo said nothing to the woman about work.
Zeo's estimate was wrong. It was not Tiwi that made him unable to fall asleep immediately after returning home because a man was holding a motorbike parked in front of the house. Who else if not Satria?
“Why are you here?” zeo asked with a tired face.
“What lo can still ask me after what you sell?” Satria's face was so upset.
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