
Tomi is still busy at the kitchen table of Asti's house, while Asti sees her from a distance and Tomi is unaware of it. After seeing Tomi busy in the kitchen Asti also approached him.
“Then, I will look for something for a drinking friend!” he said after taking the ice from the fridge and handing it to Tomi.
“Now times my Mom still has a cake or something nice to eat.”
“Do not bother, Bu.”
“No.” Asti replied with a thought that said otherwise. For him, troubling himself was so much more fun than keeping quiet.
Because with silence, the existence of Tomi who feels familiar in the kitchen of his house feels disturbing feelings.
In the food cabinet, Asti found no cake. It must have been her aunt's guests who spent the most, because her aunt often brought her friends home. But there is still a pack of unopened pea skin.
“Skinnails want?” tanyakanya.
“What's there, Mom. Don't make it up.”
In his heart Tomi spoke regretfully that he forgot to buy or bring the parcels to come here, because he was too excited when he left earlier.
"No trouble kog.
"
Asti answered Tomi's words by unwrapping the leather beans he said earlier with both hands.
But because the plastic bag was very clay and he himself was in a state of unease, the peanut wrap that was finally torn by his hand suddenly caused the contents to scatter out.
Some fell on the table, some to the floor.
Seeing that Tomi was picking up some ice boxes and putting them in and turning her head.
‘Wah, the floor wants to eat beans.!" He said while laughing.
The man deliberately said so to melt the tense atmosphere.
As a psychology student who next year completes her studies and begins to compose a thesis, she can capture what the girl is about to experience.
Asti is indeed clever and brilliant in the field of knowledge that he digelutu, but she is a girl who has not much experience with a man.
It was clearly felt by him and he was willing to bet that the loss of calm that the girl was experiencing, came from him. Especially since the link grasped his hand earlier.
Tomi sure, if the person who does such an act is not himself, not necessarily Asti will be silent even though in a not so long time like that.
Because throughout his introduction to the girl who became his lecturer, Tomi knew that the girl was trying really hard to appear as a good lecturer, who was able to maintain a distance between herself and her students.
Tomi also knows very well how firm his attitude and the rigors of the rules applied to his students if it is deemed necessary.
In short, Asti will not misbehave and make small mistakes such as spilling syrup and scattering nuts if he feels stable as if he was in front of his students.
And why is that so, the answer is because the girl is disturbed her inner calm by him!”
Feeling sorry for the guilt towards Asti, Tomi rushed to where Asti was standing and was collecting nuts scattered on the kitchen table.
“Let me help, Mom...” he said in a soft voice.
Asti did not answer.
He was upset with himself. He also felt ashamed that as a lecturer, he had lost self-control and allowed his troubled feelings to overwhelm his composure.
After collecting the nuts, Tomi took the empty jar that was visible to her eyes and immediately placed the remaining beans in the wrapper to that place.
Then the nuts that scattered and he had collected from the kitchen table were added to the jar.
“How about the beans scattered on the floor, Bu Asti?” he asked while looking at the floor where it was still scattered nuts that fell scattered earlier.
“Need also collected!”
“Let the helper take care of it,” Asti said. “Before it's home. Let him help you out later.
Thanks to Brother
Tomi" who has helped me gather the scattered nuts Asti said with a shady look at her eyes.
Asti turned his head and looked Tomi in the eyes with the courage he had achieved.
And he had missteps, because with such eyes, especially with such a close distance, his blood flowed back.
”Why do you ask like that?” with great difficulty, Asti finally managed to get out his voice even though in his heart there were inner turmoil.
“I know Mom pretty well!” tomi continued to shine.
“So far I know Asti as someone who has strong self-control and is able to be assertive.
But this afternoon, I saw another Asti Mother. Namely Mother Asti who is nervous to the point of spilling syrup and scattering nuts everywhere!” tomi Sahut.
“Is it because of my presence, Mom?
“Maybe!” Asti is looking for the most rational reason according to his assumption. “True reason this afternoon I want to relax and enjoy my solitude.
But it turns out, Brother came.”
Tomi turned her originally soft eyes into sharp eyes and contained a search.
“Is it just because of that, Madam Asti?” he asked in an urgent voice.
“Or is there anything else?”
“Other what? Asti threw her eyes elsewhere, not daring to return Tomi's gaze.
Tomi's watchful eyes immediately caught the evasion symptoms. But he was determined to immediately reveal what was behind Asti's attitude that was different from his attitude when he was among his students.
For he wanted to know whether the premonition that says that somehow a little girl was affected by him in that particular influence, was true.
If true, He wants to know the extent of that specificity. In short, as long as his premonition still inhabits his mind, as long as it will also fight to seize Asti from Pak Eko.
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“Yah Bu Asti..” he said later. “Another thing I mean is, Mom was nervous and confused because my hand had been holding Mom's hand!”
“Maybe..” Asti is still trying to stay rational even though it is already at an irrational limit even though it is already at an inconclusive limit anymore.
“Causes…. You shouldn't do that!”
“Mom doesn't like that to happen?”
“Obviously!”
“Honestly did Mom say that?”
“Of course..” Once again Asti escaped looking at her eyes. This time, his head turned to another place.
“Then I should have slapped my cheek!” tomi said with a deep voice.
“For Mother has the right to do so. And instead of letting it be like that!”
“I've never slapped anyone!” Asti cheeks reddish to hear the words Tomi.
“But in fact it is not necessarily that Brother do!”
“Because I am just a student who happens to be a student of Mom?”
“That's one of several other reasons!” sahut Asti in a soft voice.
“Brothers should appreciate my standing as a lecturer!”
“Here there is no one else and we are not on campus, Bu Asti!” remind Tomi.
“Mom is too thick to wear the role mask that I have to play so it is difficult to let go.
And I let the obsession of Mother who is so worried is needed by students properly, just because then the age of Mother.
That kind of thing I have to scrape. Moreover, Mother is a psychology scholar who certainly knows that the circumstances as Mother experienced it can cause the mechanisms of defense of the soul wrong!”
Tomi unconsciously spoke what she was thinking about Asti frankly.
He felt Asti was too against his own mind, such an attitude would not be good for Asti himself.