Pledge of Love Rumi
meet Papa

Switch to Bandung...

Rumi had just walked out of the meeting room with a few other people. They joked while laughing, where only Rumi responded more with a faint smile. Because their language is something that is not understood by the youngest man in the division.

"Today we're eating yuk" someone asked.

"Where to eat, Kang?" Ask someone else.

"Where is it, there's a nice saung in area X. We went there rame-rame. Karaokean too."

Hearing the word karaoke, Rumi fell silent.

"Rumi, come along too. You're the new guy here." Invite a tall man, with a fairly full body, while embracing Rumi's shoulders. Rumi smiled kindly.

"I'm sorry, kang. I can't go with you."

"Loh why? We rarely get together in one of these divisions. Again, it is complete."

Rumi smiled faintly. "Nuhun, next time."

"Not cool of you, Mah. Mumpung is still young, if you want to hire women can also loh... Once only for the karaoke nemenin."

"Astagfirullah al'azim." Rumi muttered without a sound. He knew that not all of his friends could understand him. And not many also know that Rumi is a descendant of kyai, as well as the son of a fairly famous ustadz in Jakarta. So he just kept quiet, and tried to politely decline it.

Until shortly a phone call from an unnamed number was heard. He could avoid his friends for a moment.

"Sorry, I picked up the phone first. If I all want to go first. Mangos..."

"Ckckckl... Very passive." anyway." Sneaking a few of them. Then leave from there leaving Rumi, who just smiles and receives his phone call.

"Hallo assalamualaikum, who's sorry?" Sapa Rumi, where the one in sebrang is just silent. "Call..."

"Rumi, it's me Mr. John." The heavy sound in the air made Rumi slightly speechless. Didn't know Debby's dad called her.

"Oh... Oh my Papa? sorry Pa, Rumi who thought. Good day Pa."

"Piang. I want to meet. Someplace... When can you come to Bandung."

The deg...! Rumi gulped, a little tense.and wondered, what does Debby's father want to say?

"I happen to be in Bandung, Pa."

"Well, can you meet today?"

"Could... It could be Pa."

"What time is it usually? Is it possible now?"

"Can Pa.... It just so happens that Rumi's job is done."

"Alright, you know area X right? Precisely at the Padang restaurant which is at the end of the red light intersection."

Rumi thought for a moment, "it looks like Rumi knows the place, Pa."

"Then meet me there yeah, I wait."

"Yes Pa, Rumi's on the road now."

"Emmm..." After that, the phone disconnected. Rumi lowered her phone that was stuck to her ear again, then sighed.

***

The Padang restaurant.

After a trip of approximately thirty-five minutes, Rumi arrived. He just went in because his father-in-law had sent a chat message, if he was already at the Padang restaurant.

Justjust right... He was already there, with some food on the table.

"Good day, Pa. Sorry yeah... Rumi is late."

"No papa, I just arrived too." The answer is flat, "sit down."

Rumi, who was allowed to sit down, pulled her chair out and landed her ass there.

"Have you had lunch?"

"It just so happens, not yet." answered Rumi honestly, because it's true that he hasn't had time for lunch.

"Yes, eat." he said without looking at Rumi's face.

"I... Thank you, Pa." He awkwardly waited for his father-in-law to take his side dish first, with both hands on his lap, sitting politely.

Realizing that Rumi had not yet picked up the side dish, Mr. John raised his head.

"You don't like Padang rice?"

"Sus... Like Pa," replied Rumi.

"If you like, why not eat?"

"Papa took it."

"Why should I go first? You can also take it first, right?"

"That's because?"

"What's? You think I poisoned you?"

"Oh my goodness..." Rumi nodded quickly. "It's not so Pa."

"Then, quickly grab the side dish. If you want another side dish, I've ordered all the side dishes. Except for the gulai gulai gulai gus cow stuffed eggs. Because I don't like."

"I... That's enough for Pa." Rumi immediately grabbed the side dish closest to him, then the sauce as well.

"That's... You don't like it?" Mr. Yohan Pointing rendang.

"This is enough, Pa."

"You're worried I can't pay ya, if you take a lot of side dishes?"

"Eh... Oh my God, no, Pa. I don't usually eat a lot."

"Take it..." Declare him. Which immediately made Rumi reach for a small plate containing two pieces of rendang meat and take one.

Both of them ate food on their plates in a quiet atmosphere. More tense for Rumi, who did not raise her head at all. Unlike Debby's father who occasionally glanced, then refocused on the food. He decided to postpone the conversation, after the two had finished eating only. How thought.

Seriate....