
"Fer, there was a phone call! He asked for help, girl's voice, just as I picked up and asked who, it was cut off!" said Ajeng gave the phone after Ferdian prayers dzuhur that afternoon.
"Solicit please?" asked Ferdian astonished.
"Yes! 'Brother Ferdian help me now, brother where?' he said that," said Ajeng raised a voice on the phone earlier.
Ferdian squinted his eyes and noticed the number on his phone screen that he was unfamiliar with.
"Hmm..people prank times ah! Most of my fans don't have a job!" said the man leisurely while glaring again at his room.
Ajeng shook his head just to see the attitude of the sickly husband.
"Come on!" exclaim Ferdian pulled Ajeng's arm into the room.
"What?" tanya plain ajeng.
Ferdian just rolled his one eye and pulled the woman's body in his arms, then the two closed the room door.
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That night, Andre was already in the apartment he rented. He had just cleaned up his room and clothes. Her stuff hasn't been completely sorted out. There are still two boxes of his collection of books that have not been tidied up. He intends to clean it up tomorrow.
Andre opened his laptop and connected it to the internet. He opened his old email. Somehow every time he saw Ajeng, he became more and more reminded of his old friend. Indeed Ajeng has a face that is very similar to his High School friend. He had not communicated with his girlfriend for a long time. They used to send emails to tell each other their stories. But since Andre took part-time work as an additional teacher, he rarely replied to emails from his friend. Until finally, when he replied to an email, the letter was never sent.
The brown-haired old man noticed the contents of the email and the reply from his friend. They are friends who often quarrel, noisily, and rarely get along. Andre more often harassed his friends and made him become upset and angry. But it also made them feel for each other. But unfortunately, because of the long distance and difficult communication, make their relationship without status was ended.
Andre smiled to himself reading the letters he had sent to his friend. Today or even for a long time, he always misses her. Is the friend still living in Bandung or has moved? He never knew the news. He even forgot his full name, stupid.
The man laid his body on the bed, his mind drifting to 7 years ago. His eyes were closed, and he fell asleep from exhaustion.
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The new semester has begun. The fresh air was smelled with a new spirit. The students filled the lecture buildings. Ajeng and Ferdian came to the campus with a new, more passionate spirit. A radiant face was attached to both.
They walked along the corridor of building B where the students passed by while astonished at them. But there are still those who remain loyal to greet their beautiful lecturer.
“Good Morning, Miss Ajeng!” greet some of the students, when Ajeng and Ferdian share a pair with them.
“Good Morning!” sapa Ajeng is friendly, while the man in
beside him, it was just smiling.
Gossip closeness between Ajeng and Ferdian still continues to blow for those who do not know them closely. But of course the gossip will disappear along with the many people who know exactly the relationship between the two.
“I go to class first huh, Honey?” pamit Ferdian, who first found his class on the second floor. Ajeng will teach on the 3rd floor.
“Iya, Honey! The spirit?!” adjeng sumringah.
“Of course!” said Ferdian ruffling his wife's hair.
“H you!” grunts Ajeng while tidying his hair.
Ferdian just giggle. He rolled one eye before his wife climbed the stairs.
Ferdian entered his class with a beaming face. All of a sudden, his other friends cheered him.
“Tuh newlyweds enter college, definitely passion huh?!” exclaim Danu,
“Keep calling a newlywed, even though it has passed 8 months too,” replied Ferdian.
“Let's let it heat up, haha!” said Danu.
Ferdian chuckled.
“Eh who is teaching now a new lecturer huh?” ask Ghani suddenly.
“Yes!” suddenly, Sally sat beside Ferdian's chair.
“What's his name anyway? Forgot me!” ask Syaiful.
“Mr. Andre!” answer Sally.
“Tau really, Sal!”
Sally just fanned her face with a proud smile.
“He mah if the handsome person must have memorized correctly, different from the same person who is cramped, where to memorize? Your name has never been memorized, right?” shaiful looked at Danu.
“How come, look at me, let my face crumble?” danu protest.
“Emang lo, have you seen his face, Sal?” ask Danu again.
“Belom anyway, but from its name aja handsome, surely his face is also handsome!” answer Sally without burden.
“Cih, ashem bye!”
“Ye...morning storm! Disperse there!” timpal Ghani's.
Danu snorted in annoyance at Syaiful and Sally. Ferdian who watched his comrades was silent.
Soon a young man entered the classroom, after confirming that it was this class that he would teach today. With a navy shirt suit and beige pants, he looked casual and handsome. All the students in the class looked at him in amazement and astonishment.
“Finally, add cogan on this campus! Hopefully single!” chirped Sally.
Ferdian deluded her with a look of wonder. Didn't she see him at his party yesterday? Does he not remember? Ask Ferdian inwardly.
“Hello, good morning class!” greet Andre.
“Good Morning, Sir!” greet students.
“Maybe you guys just saw me here huh? I'm Andre Geraldy! I'm the new teacher here. Coincidentally I just finished my S3 studies in London but I prefer to teach here,” introductions Andre.
“Why, Mister? Want to find a soul mate?” shouted Sally interrupting.
Students cheered him on.
“What the hell lo? Not very good quality!” dengus Ferdians.
“Wild, we!”
Andre just laughs, “You’re funny, excuse me, what’s your name (You are funny, sorry, what is your name)?” ask Andre to Sally.
“Sally Lunarita, Mister!”
“Good! You get minus 3 points from me, for interrupting me (Good! You can value minus 3 because it has cut my conversation)!” said Andre flat.
“What?!” Sally was wide-eyed and snorted in annoyance. Not nothing the new lecturer ruined the impression in his eyes.
Ferdian held back his laughter. Very nice action from his cousin.
“Okay, continue yes! Here I will be teaching Development English or Development English classes over time, so please focus and digest what I will cover from today. Because in the future, every meeting there will always be a quiz to ascertain the extent of the science you capture from my explanation! Got it?”
“Yes, Sir!” said students kompak.
“Good! We'll just start?”
The lecture led by Andre has been completed. Students are easy enough to understand what their new lecturer is saying. Including Ferdian, who admitted that his cousin could
by cleverly explaining how the beginning of English began. Andre's relaxed yet assertive style of teaching is also very memorable. Although Andre is his cousin, he hopes to remain a good student in his eyes. Ferdian invites Andre to have lunch in the cafeteria as well with Ajeng. Andre might have a hard time on his first day at college. Moreover, young lecturers are not too much. They promised to meet at a table near the pool in the canteen.
“Hai, what's the impression of teaching you so far, Dre?” tanya Ajeng arrived earlier than Ferdian.
“Lumayan, students here are somewhat more ‘brave’ than in the UK?” answer Andre.
“How dare it mean?”
“New also introductions, and already there are interruptions. It’s really weird for me (this is too weird for me)!”
“Oh, really?” tanya Ajeng could not believe it.
“Yes, it's time in Ferdian class!” obviously Andre.
“Who is the name of the student who interrupted you?”
“Sally yes, if not mistaken?”
“Oh Sally! Yes indeed the child is rather brave, especially for people who attract his heart,” Ajeng explained.
“Yes, he also asked, ‘You are looking for a soul mate yes Mister?’ Oh come on! Even it is very privacy to allude to!”
Ajeng chuckled amusedly hearing Andre's story.
“You should get used to it, maybe you will become popular in this faculty. I used to be so, in every street I heard them talking about me. Even after marrying Ferdian, more and more strange voices are out there,” said Ajeng recalling his experience so far.
“Kanya fun chat huh?” asked Ferdian who had just come to greet the two people who were already sitting comfortably.
“Your class is weird, Fer!” Andre.
“Oh yes want to order what food? Let me order it,” bargain Ajeng.
“I want instant noodles can yes, Darling?” pinta Ferdian.
“No! You ate this week! Replace the others!” said Ajeng firmly.
Ferdian pouted at his wife's reply. Indeed, he really likes instant noodles especially coupled with eggs and cayenne pepper. It feels so good.
Andre just laughed at the behavior of his cousin. It turned out that Ajeng was quite fierce as well for his cousin.
“I order chicken rice teriyaki sauce aja deh,” said Andre.
“Drink?”
“Air white aja,”
“Ferdian cepet choose another,” pinta Ajeng, he was worried that Ferdian eating noodles would make his stomach acid high.
“Yes already, same is rich Bang Andre!” answer's lethargic.
“Drink?”
“Avocado juice!”
“Okay!” said Ajeng then walked to the cashier table to write and pay for the order.
“Your wife is fierce too huh?” ask Andre.
“Not really, he's fierce if there are things he doesn't like aja!” lang Ferdian's.
“Good! Oh yes, your wife taught S2 students not?”
“Snow I haven't, why?” ferdian looked at his cousin.
“I was offered by S2 students because,” story Andre.
“Wow, great dong, just entered already directly ngajar S2!” ferdian said enthusiastically.
“Yes, good stuff!”
Soon Ajeng returned with a shopping receipt that he put in his wallet. The habit of women always save and accumulate spending receipts to be recorded in spending.
“Jeng, you don't teach S2 students?” ask Andre.
“Unable, hehe!” answer plain ajeng. “Emang why? You must have been offered yes?” ask again.
“Yes, nih!” answer Andre.
“I was also offered before but I refused, because I felt unable to!”
“Ooh that!”
“Keep you accept the offer?”
“Not yet, I learned the syllabus first. After that I will answer their offer!”
“Good wang dong!”
Ferdian just looked at the two lecturers talking. It seems that his world is still too far away. He felt warmer when he was with his friends because he could talk about what
only what he likes or does not like with silly jokes of course. Somehow Ferdian felt there was a wall between the two lecturers, who were still his family.
Many eyes were fixed on the table filled by the three beautiful creatures. Strange sounds about the three began to be heard. Especially those who do not know clearly how the relationship between the three of them is mutual
pertains. Of course they casually make news that does not fit the facts.
“That's a new lecturer huh? A handsome huh?” ask a high school student who is sitting in a corridor overlooking the cafeteria.
“Yes, more handsome than Mr Ardi!” answer the smaller students.
“Kok can the three of them on the same table anyway?” ask a student with glasses.
“Duh the table of campus celebrities is mah, I also want to join dong nimbrung!” said the female student wearing a knee-length skirt.
“Their three menemenan deh. I don't know, Ferdian is going out with Miss Ajeng, well the new lecturer must be Miss Ajeng! They were very familiar talking,” said the long-haired student.
“Wah can-can the Ferdi stabbed! Moreover, he is still a student of the smell of kencur that!” chirps of college students with glasses.
“Can also be! Whoops dong!”
“Thank God that Ferdi is single again, haha!”
“Haha yes, why else would Ferdi choose an older girl his age, is not busy dating him?!”
“Maybe his taste is noona-noona (female brothers)! Hihi!”
“Haha, yes whereas Miss Ajeng is also more suitable with the new lecturer huh?”
“Betul bangeeet!”
“Yuk ah hunted to class, later reprimanded Miss Novi you know!”
They ran to the room where they would study, leaving the news carried by the wind to the other ears without guilt.
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That night Ajeng seemed busy preparing dinner for her and her husband. She prepared a bowl of meatball soup plus vegetables for her husband. As for him just a glass of banana strawberry smoothies.
Ferdian approached her while she was still busy stirring the meatballs in the pot. Ferdian hugged her from behind and put her chin on Ajeng's shoulder.
“Why Dear?” tanya Ajeng glanced slightly at her husband's face.
“Besok-tomorrow can not if I have lunch with friends?” ask Ferdian.
“Eat the same I make bosenin huh?”
“That's how you ask?” ferdian said he made the woman turn her body. Ferdian held his face and looked at him.
“I just want to be as cool as me! You see, after we publish our relationship, the rich me so a bit far away is the same my friends, can not?”
Ajeng sighed, “Iya can!” he answered while turning his body back to the stove.
“You angry? Don't like it?” tanya Ferdian looked at his wife who looked flat.
“Now!”
“Keep that response?”
“I'm tired again!”
“Now, not angry? If it can't be okay too,” said Ferdian who was anxious to see his wife who was a little look jutek.
“It's okay, honey! I'll be ready from home! You can eat together with your friends!” said Ajeng while turning off the stove.
“Thank you dear!” ferdian said, kissing the lightning on his wife's cheek.
Just a little smile. She knew her husband wanted to stay with his friends. Naturally, he is still a student who must be in desperate need of energy from his friends.
"Oh yeah, I'm home tomorrow night baby!" ferdian said as he sat himself in the dining chair.
"What's wrong?"
"I have a group job to do a poetry project for the theater, is that okay?"
"okay! Don't come home too late, will you?" answer the short answer.
"Ready Bu Lecturer!"
Ferdian looked at Ajeng in astonishment. Today his wife looks more tired than usual, probably because of the new effects of entering work again after almost a week more also take a vacation. Moreover, the Monday schedule is quite solid, unlike the previous semester. Not to mention Ajeng also holds thesis guidance for some final semester students also conduct research at a language institute for scientific journals.
This semester will certainly be solid for Ajeng. Ferdian was quite anxious about it.
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