Pink pants
Choking on past memories

Alya's step was a gambit when he and Rudy and two people who are now his team from CV Persada came to the Salim group, to meet the invitation of a large company that was once the place to make a living.

In this big company also he first met with Marcel, this was his first visit after a long time, not much changed from Salim group, some employees even still there who know him, some employees even know him, some greet directly, some are just throwing smiles, not a few of them are just whispering with colleagues when Alya passed in front of him, but Alya does not care about it, his arrival this time is really for work, if only Rudy did not ask him to handle this project and hope a lot for him, he said, he also felt very lazy to move his feet again to the company led by Marcel.

Alya no longer need to ask where the hall location Sallim group, he still very memorized the location of the office rooms, the office, so that he went straight to the hall where that place would be their meeting room according to the letter of invitation.

Marcel was slightly stunned as Rudy knocked on the half-opened door and entered the room, really Marcel did not expect that Rudy would come in accompanied by Alya, either, it was completely unexpected that he had thought that Rudy would come alone, or at least with his team, and not Alya, at least, because Marcel knows himself if Alya does not master the field of projects like this.

From here Marcel has started with his bad habit of assuming with his own mind, alya's arrival this time he concluded because Alya wanted to show off how close he was with Rudy until even this important affair he had to accompany. Really in the eyes of Marcel togetherness Alya and Rudy is deliberately wanted to show off the intimacy in front of him.

"Good morning everyone, sorry if I'm a little late." Said Rudy was stale, he knew that he came in the room a quarter of an hour before the start, just considering that two other company representatives and Marcel were already in the room, he felt bad, and there was no harm if he apologized even though in this case he could be said to be innocent.

"You're not late and innocent, so there's no need to apologize, it's because I'm too excited to come early." Marcel said flatly as he invited Rudy, Alya and his other team to sit down.

Unfortunately again Alya and Marcel's sitting position is now right facing each other, so both Marcel and Alya look busy avoiding each other's gazes throughout the event.

"Thank you for giving this small company a chance to grow even more, and in the future this project will leave it entirely to Alya, he will be the team leader in the first cooperation project between Persada and Salim group, because I am still handling my project which is currently running lin, which is currently running, however, I can not take my hands off and leave it alone, Alya is already familiar with you, if there is less in terms of work, after all, he will definitely not hesitate to ask for help from you, I hope you do not mind to help him." Said Rudy plainly.

Marcel and Alya immediately coughed as if they were both choking on something, even though they were not eating or drinking anything, it seemed as if they were choking on their own shock.

"Are you okay?" Rudy turned his head towards Alya whose face immediately looked red.

"No," Alya shook his head slowly while continuing to look down, preoccupied with his own thoughts where in the future he would definitely have to meet often and interact with Marcel, now it feels so awkward like this.

"I think Alya is quite a smart woman, she is good at learning new things well, besides, frankly working with Salim group is my biggest personal dream for Persada, he said, so I will be more steady and calm if the people closest to me who handle this project, considering that I am not able to handle the project with

His own hands," Rudy said praising Alya as he rubbed Alya's shoulder as if to show how lucky he was to have Alya beside him at this time.

That of course made Marcel suddenly throw his gaze away, Rudy's sweet treatment of Alya like a razor cut in his heart tore the pain slowly but the pain felt very deep.

Without realizing it, both hands were clenched on the side of his left and right body, he said, it was like he punched Rudy in the face who continued to smile as if showing off happiness as well as breaking his hand which was slyly rubbing Alya's shoulder in front of his eyes, but what a force, what a, right now he could do nothing but only be able to hold back the anger in his chest with all his might.

"Well, tomorrow we will start everything, do not forget to come at exactly 8 am," said Marcel as he passed, it seems like he began waving a white flag feeling unable to see Rudy who was felt to continue showing affection in front of him, even though Rudy's treatment did not get any response from Alya, since then Alya just silent or occasionally smile awkwardly.

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"Are you sure you didn't miss anything else about Rudy Mahendra's information?" Marcel asked Darma who gave him a stack of papers containing everything related to Rudy's profile.

"Wouldn't you not interfere with Alya's personal matters anymore? I-this is just my personal opinion as a friend, it seems like they look happy, and yet you yourself decided to stay away from Alya first?" Said Darma who is now starting to understand why his boss was very interested in CV Persada, apparently this has something to do with Alya.

"You better keep your advice, I know what I'm doing. You better do what you're doing and what I'm assigned to you, and one more thing, shut up, don't let this be known to my father, by Mr. Haryanto and Sita, beware that until this thing leaks into their ears!" Marcel was threatening.

"S-I'm going to shut up, I'm not going to tell anyone about this" Darma said timidly.

Marcel flicked his hand while gesturing for Darma to leave his room, then he drowned again studying and reading all the things about Rudy, his heart said if there was something strange with Rudy, he said, but he could not find out what it was, or his suspicions were based only on his dislike?