Office Hour
My Friends

Going back to the reality of the present, it does not feel like I spent a cigarette. I dip the tip into the cigarette-only bin next to me, and I look at the wrapper. Wismilak with the addition of Diplomat. I don't know since when I like kretek cigarettes with tar levels of 35mg.

As I recall, about 3 years ago when I first worked at Garnet Bank, I was still sucking Brown Djarum. Is it because of this kretek name in my hand as well as a prayer for myself? May You Be Lucky to be a Diplomat.

Or is it because Wismilak has a longer burning duration than other cigarettes? Or because my stress level is high in the company now, so I need something soothing because coffee is not enough?

It could be all right.

I don't feel my lips smirking by themselves. Laugh at my weakness for the world.

Then I moved on, intending to walk towards the restaurant back to meet my two best friends.

**

“Honey, relax... You can!” hiss Trevor as I sat back in the chair.

Milady was observing Trevor while propping his chin to the table. And the woman's face wrinkled the sign she was seriously listening.

“Who?” ask me to Milady without a sound.

“Bram,” Milady replied, also without sound.

“Duh... Mas Trevor is busy in Jakartaaaaa,”

Then I heard from the phone speaker a man shouted: Busy Your Bundle!!

Bram was angry again.

“This busy loh, horrin curhatan Dimas,” reason Trevor.

“Gue balloons to vent, Batok!” I threw Trevor with the remaining pieces of chickpeas.

“Since when do you want to deal with people?! Usually even you who vent more! Ayumi like this - Ayumi is! Lambe!!” I'm calling Bram again. The screams were clear from across the phone.

“Hais!! Don't get angry baby, there drink Kiranti first, who knows you PMS.. already yes, Mas Trevor want to continue working,” and Trevor also hang up the phone, then grin while rubbing his neck. “Si Bram if you already ngomel serem...” murmured while grinning.

I opened the menu book while looking through the super expensive line of fried rice. Oyster fried rice 120k. His oyster from the Mariana Trench is a yak, specially fished with an unmanned submarine. Crazy expensive bet dah, my mom's spending money a week.

Then I switched to Kobe Fried Rice with a gold sheet topping.450k. Is there a golden topping, huh?

“Trev, payin eat me yak,” hisisku while calling waitress.

“What? It's good..” murmured Trevor.

“I'll pay, Mas..” Milady said.

“Don't you, I don't have the heart,” waitress came and I pointed to the 450k fried rice, “Pesen is 2, But take away yes,”

“Hah? Take away Sir?” ask Waitress confused. Never seen a fine dining ditake away like him.

“Yes, wrapped want me to take it home. It's Indonesian,”

“Em... yes I know sir meaning take away, well sir, but-“

“The arrangement is up to the chef only, okay Mas?” I stood up and headed towards Trevor. Trevor looked at me frowning, he even raised his knee to protect himself.

I looked down and reached into the wallet that was in the back pocket of his pants.

“Hyahaha! What do you want kacrooot!! Abused by severe abuse lo Dim!! Kyaha!!” he was in a pang of pangs when I grabbed his wallet.

I took a black card in the pocket of his wallet and I gave it to waitress.

Pay for my jealousy. Super expensive fried rice 2 packs.

I like Milady, I admit. I have loved her since the first time I saw her. She was Trevor's secretary, and I still work in my old office. But I used to go to the Garnet Building because Mas Bram worked here.

Especially in the Garnet Building there are many good places to eat, and I am often treated to Mas Bram. So I also met Milady and Trevor a lot.

But I don't dare say this because she's so beautiful in my eyes. I don't think I'm his level.

It could be that he likes other people, because I often see him pensively staring at the screen of his phone. At that time there were only pictures, apparently screenshots of e-banking transactions. And he pointed his screen at the bottom of the note. Tgl March 23, 10.00 Wib, 500 units.

But somehow I felt a gentle gaze when I looked at the screen of his phone that was like a very longing for something, but also a sadness like he regretted an incident.

Either way, that's what kept me from getting close to Milady.

I am now quite content to be friends with him.

uh, not really. Obviously there is still hope in my heart he will accept me to be more than just a friend.

**

Because I did not manage to confide in my two best friends, I turned to another friend. I know, these two guys are super busy, but they love to eat. So I extended my foot to another building not far from the restaurant.

Just get in touch with what's wrong.

The two of them, the people I wanted to meet, were arguably my friends during college. They were a few years older than me, they did enter the campus not to study but to find a title. Because they are prepared to occupy certain positions in the company.

Their lives in the past were hard. What I caught from the chat, they were once kingpins of Narkobeng who ran away from his gang. Then saved by the owner of a large company and now trusted to take care of his company.

You could say they were very lucky.

The building where they worked was not far from the luxurious restaurant that was. The Trevor section is just around, my hull is a warteg level, treated to fine dining. He finally ate too. I was just copying from earlier. That too fancy for my taste, I'm more comfortable Sarif's coffee.

Not that I'm not grateful.

It's a matter of taste.

Understood it?

No?

Yes.ha.

Three of my best friends are in office here. One of them even greeted me in front of the lobby.

A tall woman, with a scrawny body but a big chest. The skin is very very white until it feels transparat if he is standing in front of the wall, because the color is so beautiful. Her face is beautiful, but judes. Types of mafia girls in modern kung fu movies who like secret agents.

He's wearing a Beaufort Company uniform. Black-black with a dressy skirt that cuts to the thighs.

Her hair was pulled up. Showing her neck that looks so sweet when it's

I was imagining.

On his thin lips was draped in a cigarette that had been half smoked. He looked at me cynically but gently. Make no mistake, that is his trademark. Look at the people hereiis very like everyone is just a dangerous slave. Yes it is the look of being born so it seems.

Gahar girl.

“Tumben lo play here? Usually we meet in the futsal field,” greet Bianca Damar. Yes, that's his name. Bianca. His name is cute, right?

“Gue again bete,” muttered me while welcoming his embrace.

Feel the bamboo so thin ni girly. But right in the chest there is a cushion.

“Boss you again? I told you that you work in Beaufort, do not enter Garnet everything,”

“Gue does not want to be Alex's men, I look like Leon. Crimped,” mumbled.

Bianca just chuckled in response to me. It seems he agrees. “At least the ones here temen-temen lo all, Dimas. One Almamater anyway. Honestly Alex, if you also melt him,” said Bianca while holding me to the elevator.

“Who said?”

“Say I dong,”

“He is the same elo, not me,” my error.

“Yes if that's a must. Watch out if he comes to me. I don't give you,”

Slowly my ears feel a disturbing sentence, “What love, do you mean looooo?” hisisku.

Bianca smiled knot.

This is a girl. The game ‘kasih-kasian’.

He was smoking in the elevator, under the sign of no smoking. Elevator Directors anyway.

“Mbak Six,” call me. “Lo is already the Director's girlfriend, still you wear the Secretary uniform,”

“Sampe meet my replacement, I think I'll be here,”

“Who can replace lo,”

“No candidate can serve Alex besides me,”

“But it's double job,”

“Iya, so her secretary in the office as well as her secretary in bed,” Bianca glanced at me.

I'm goosebumps.

Having friends I knew from college was uncomfortable when I saw them start dating each other.

In the elevator we did not speak. As I gazed out the window, I noticed the exposed street in front of us. There's an artificial forest in the middle of the Beaufort Building. Which I think it is necessary to build a green-green considering the owner of this company, the Alex who daritadi mentioned, the person is quite temperamental.

So the green area can make these eyes fresh and oxygen intake enough after facing Alex's nagging. I'm a worker when I'm a friend, so I asked Garnet for a job.

From the glittering reflection of the elevator walls I could see that Bianca Daritadi was watching me.

I try to be indifferent, I have long realized that Bianca's gaze on me is different. From the beginning.

When he saw me, he felt like he wanted to devour me alive.

It's not that I didn't realize the meaning of her gaze, because almost all the women close to me, looked at me like Bianca.

Except for Ms. Meilinda, of course.

The difference with other women, Bianca only ‘enjoying’, but not trying to have.

Thankfully, I don't know how to deal with a woman like Bianca.