
Dikantin school. Sisil and three friends sat down with four baso bowls and four glasses of orange juice. It was so tight that day. Ordering the same food and drink.
They enjoyed lunch while endlessly throwing questions and answers at each other. Sometimes they laugh. They seem to not care about the cynical glances of those around them who feel disturbed by their noisy voices.
"You're lucky, Sil, you meet Denis every day" Anggi chirped after his laughter was interrupted by a spoonful of baso into his mouth.
"Not just meet, but get picked up every day," Rani chimed in with a snap of her finger.
"What's special? I feel so ordinary." Sisil shrugged both of his shoulders.
"Occustomed to your word? Ohh, you are yes. A guy as cool as Denis you say normal?" Gina's turn to grieve. He really did not understand Sisil's point of view. He always disagreed with his other friends.
"She feels normal, because every day she meets Denis."
"Rubber." Sisil pointed his index finger towards Rani. He quickly snatched up his friend's words.
"Aren't you feeling the same way Denis is?" Gina asked curiously. He sipped his drink.
"Like. Really nice pake." Sisil rolled his eyes. "He was cold, but he was kind."
"If it's not good, there's no way your dad could let him stay in your house, right?" Rani chimed. Sisil nodded in agreement.
"Don't forget, he's really cool." Anggi added. The four endlessly praised Denis. Someone who is in the view of the abege is very interesting. Real cool. Denis's appearance is crammed but very cold becomes the main attraction. His reticent yet sharp eyes seemed to hypnotize everyone who faced him. Especially for abege like Sisil and his friends who are just teenagers. They are just starting to save the likes of the opposite sex.
"Eh. He picked you up later today, didn't he?" ask Anggi.
"Do not know. If he's not busy, he usually picks him up. That is if asked to be with papa. If he's not told to, he's not picking him up."
"If Denis' sister picks him up, we immediately take him for a walk," Gina floated an idea. The others nodded in agreement, except for Sisil.
"No. Papa I won't give you permission. He's working. Where can be invited to walk."
"Yes, too, how about Sunday we take him on the road. He's off on Sunday, right? Don't tell me that papa you didn't give her the day off, Sil."
"Sunday he's off."
"Sip! If so, we will have Sunday. You take him yes." Gina looks very excited. But not with Sisil. He frowned.
"Why am I talking about Denis? He is yes, it is very difficult if this kind of business. I think he'll be averse."
Of course Sisil is very pity with all the habits of Denis. Denis wouldn't want to be invited to something that's not clear. Three friends thought together. They also knew that what Sisil said was true.
"What if you say to your father, if you have any need, mmm. Keep asking your papa to tell Denis brother who nemenin you." Rani blurted out her brilliant idea that was immediately approved by all her friends. Their faces were suddenly as confident as the idea would work.
"OKAY. I'd say so with papa." A big smile on Sisil's lips followed by his three friends. They clashed with each other's palms. Indicates the outcome of the deliberation is final and approved by everyone.
"By the way, who did it fall from the bike?" Gina changed the conversation a little. He remembered the accident in front of the school gate this morning.
"If I'm not mistaken it's Monica's sister, 9F grade." Rani answered.
"Kok you know?" ask Sisil. He removed the empty bowl of meatballs from before him. Inhaled orange juice that lives half to the end.
"I've often seen those teas nganter the Monica-Monica." Said Rani, the others were beards.
"So she's okay, right?" ask Gina.
"Lacquet at his feet. I don't think it's bad. At most he was surprised," said Sisil.
Bell signs of rest time running out sound loud. The four teenagers got up from their seats and rushed towards the classroom. Along the way they are still discussing plans for the upcoming Sunday.
They're class mates. Making friends since the seventh grade made them familiar with each other. The four girls are already famous for their togetherness. Always four. Although they are actually not picky friends, but it seems their friends are reluctant to join them. After all, they feel fit and understand each other. Sometimes others just don't feel right for them.
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At the workshop, Denis had finished his job to check Fandi's car. He checked carefully. Do not want anything missed that endangers the owner later. He intended to hand over the car keys to Theo bang.
"Lo deliver it directly to his house, Den. Fandi says he didn't get to take it because his business hasn't gone too far. Here's the address." Bang Theo handed a piece of paper into Denis's hand, which contained Fandi's home address. Denis read it at a glance and then put it in his pocket. Without saying much he got into Fandi's car and ran it out of the workshop.
"Is he ready, brother?" Alex asks when Denis has disappeared from his sight.
"Who?" At that time bang Theo was checking the list of goods newly sent by the supplier.
"Dennis."
"Someone I've considered a sodara" replied Bang Theo with eyes still focused on the list of items.
"Did he not like me?"
"Why indeed?"
"He doesn't talk to me at all."
Bang Theo laughs.
"He is so. Silent guy. But when he's in action, he's like this." Bang Theo gave his thumb. "Gue just likes her. He was if people say sono anyway, less talk do more. That's haha.."
Alex smiled in response to Bang Theo's remark.
Since morning he accompanied bang Theo in his room. Actually bang Theo told him to rest at home, but Alex wouldn't. By reason of fear bang Theo will think negatively towards him.
He realized that he was a stranger to bang Theo and his family at this time. He didn't want bang Theo to have any prejudice against him if he stayed home. Although at home there is bi Nani and mang Jana, but he does not want to scare the two maids with his existence.
That's why he insisted on joining Theo's bang to the workshop even though he hasn't felt fully recovered. He paid no heed to bang Theo's suggestion for him to rest at home.
"Are you not afraid that I will do evil to you?" ask her on bang Theo when bang Theo keukeuh told her to stay at home.
"Gue believes in you."
"Bring too good on people."
"Gue did good for myself. And I believe, if you do evil then the evil will return to you alone."
"Abang is truly noble heart."
"Especially not. I just think why this life should be made complicated. We make it simple. Something's hard, we'll help. Someone comes, we accept. If the man wants to leave, let's let him. Bad people do not need to be punished with evil. But good people, we must repay with kindness," said Bang Theo at length. Alex nodded his head repeatedly. He was amazed by the principle held by the man who had helped him.
"And you know? Nothing happens by chance in this world. Everything happens by the will of the Above." he continued. "Kayak lo kemaren. I got a call from my friend whose car broke down on the road. If I don't go there for my nolongin temen, I won't be able to nolongin lo from inside the abyss, right. There's something that's been arranged."
"The gate that lifted me up from the abyss?"
"Denis kayaknya the most trouble lift lo..hehe.gue just pull from above."
"O." Oo."
"Lo didn't call your family?" bang Theo asked a moment later. Alex fell silent. She rubbed her hair from front to back.
"Yet. It will be later."
Bang Theo did not ask anymore. He focused on his work. Alex breaks himself into the couch in the room.
Elsewhere, Denis had just arrived at a house at the address given by bang Theo. He pressed the doorbell twice and waited. Someone opened the door after a long time he was there.
The figure of a girl poking out from behind the door. Denis was surprised to see the girl. So too with the girl. His eyes widened slightly to see Denis.
"Mister Fandi's house?" Denis precedes the girl to open her voice.
"Yes. I'm his daughter." The girl replied.
"What do you need?" Ask later. His eyes turned toward his father's car parked in the yard.
"Taking the car." Denis handed the car keys to the girl.
Denis nodded his head. Wiggling the key that is still in his hands and unkempt is taken by the girl.
The girl smiled.
"I'll call Dad first. You wait a minute." The girl went into his house without waiting for a response from Denis. Denis scratched his nape which was not itchy at all. He thought getting there he just needed to give me the car keys and get back to the garage as soon as possible. The car owner was not at home. He even met the girl who had fallen in front of the school gate this morning Sisil. It turns out he's Mr. Fandi's son.
Denis turned his head quickly towards the door of the house when the girl reappeared.
"Dad said the payment would be transferred directly."
Isha! Who is waiting for service payment! Denis grumbled in his heart. He just needed to hand over the car keys. He knows who Fandi is. The man's a regular subscription to Bang Theo's workshop. He's a close friend of Bang Theo, after all.
"I'm sorry." Denis turned his body around to leave the place immediately after the girl took the car keys from his hand.
"Can you please see my bike for a second?" the girl stopped her steps." I don't feel so good that he took it."
Denis thought for a moment. There's no harm in checking the girl's bike for a second. He was the one who made the girl fall. So it's only natural that he's in charge.
"Where's your bike?" tanyakanya.
"There," the girl pointed to the garage next to her house. Denis immediately moved to the place designated by the girl.
He turned on the girl's pink matic motor while watching each corner carefully. The girl noticed it. Watching Denis. Not motor. Denis could feel the girl's gaze. His head shook slowly. His breath just spouted out of his mouth. Feeling pushy.
"Why?" the girl can see Denis's unrest. He thought there might be something wrong with the bike. Although actually, he was just looking for an excuse to be able to hold Denis longer there by having Denis check the bike.
"What no. This okay. If there's a problem, you just come to the workshop." Denis shut off the engine. "I'm sorry."
He twisted his body without waiting for the girl's reply.
"You're back in the workshop?" inevitably Denis steps back to stop.
"Yes." Yeah."
"What's okay?"
"Figures."
"I'll take ya."
"No need. Thank you." Thank you."
Back his foot stepped. Not knowing behind him the girl showed a disappointed expression. He stared at Denis' back, which was getting further away. His eyes were rounded when Denis's steps suddenly came to a halt. The one he stared at raised his face and incised the tip of his eyebrow.
The girl approached Denis.
"Why?"
Denis turned his body. Down with his hands still on his dialis.
"I forgot I didn't bring money. Can I borrow some freight?" ask without hesitation. But he actually said those words after pressing deeply into the sense of ego that he held dearly.
The beautiful girl suddenly smiled. He had already wondered to himself inwardly why the cool guy had suddenly stopped. Now he felt funny to see Denis expression that seemed helpless in front of him.
"My name is Desti." The girl stretched out her hand. Denis breathed a rough sigh. Very sad about this scene. Why could he forget to bring money. He should remember that important object when going to deliver a vehicle owned by the customer. All personal items are always left in the employee room if they are working. He was just wearing a work uniform.
Now the girl's hand was still outstretched before him. Waiting for his hand to welcome the message. He lazily returned the hand of the girl named Desti.
"Dennis."
"Dennis? Desti?" the girl snickered. "Yes, his name is yes."
What care? Screeched Denis in the heart.
"So? Can you borrow the money?" ask him impatiently.
"I'll take you. You brought the bike." And that decision seems inviolable. Desti handed the key to Denis. His smile grew on his lips. Denis grunted annoyedly. I don't want him to take the key. Desti hands over a helmet he took from inside the garage to Denis. He wears another helmet on his head.
He finally managed to sit behind Denis' body. The motor drove out of the yard to the workshop where Denis worked.
Behind Denis' body, the girl thought of a way to get Denis to talk after a long time the motor drove.
"You're a real person here?" the question is a little screaming to beat the roar of motor engines and other vehicles that cross the road.
"Not."
"Which person?"
"Away."
Silent. Only the motor sounds.
"Have you worked with Om Theo for a long time?" The girl's voice sounded again.
"Yes." Yeah."
"How long?"
"Setaun."
"Oh."
Silent again.
"Who did you go to school with? Your sister, huh?"
"Not."
"So who's sending you?"
"The son bang Theo."
"Oh."
Desti scratched his chin. His eyeballs are spinning. So too with his brain. Swirling around looking for words that could make his conversation with Denis continue.
"What grade of Om Theo is it?"
"Don't know."
"Oh. Okay." Okay."
Motor stops. Desti dyedukan felt astonished.
"Why stop?"
"That's nyampe." Denis got off the bike without waiting for the girl to get off first. His hand was still holding the handlebar of the motor and gestured for the girl to take over the wheel.
There was disappointment on the girl's face. He pushed forward to sit further to the front. Holding the motor handlebar waiting for Denis who was removing his helmet.
"Thanks," he said as he handed the helmet to the girl. Desti received the helmet with lips drawn to the side. A very forced smile.
"Together." Follow him in a soft voice. Almost inaudible.
He still wants to be with Denis. He really hoped Denis would talk to him. But that's just hope. Because in reality, now Denis has gone far from his presence. Leaving behind the beautiful girl whose mouth had not even closed perfectly after saying the word 'sama-sama'. Somewhat long ago Desti was glued to that place. Staring at Denis until he disappeared behind a car that was being serviced in the workshop.
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