Solar Throne
Blind Dating Ballad

"Miss, tonight you must meet with Mrs Marina."

"Yes." Yeah." Gina replied beside him while staring at her ipad screen checking the reports sent to her.

"I'll take you there right away, Miss."

"Yes." Yeah." Gina's eyes were still focused on her work.

Hanna had gotten used to Gina's behavior lately. Since becoming the Chairman of R-Company, Gina has been really serious about working. He is so total in doing all his duties.

"Hanna, I'd better go by myself. You can go home after this."

"But Miss, don't you also have to change clothes first?"

"No need." Gina put the phone in her bag.

"Who told you to meet outside. Wouldn't meeting at home be possible too." Gina muttered while thinking maybe her mother wanted to talk about something that her father could not know.

Be now Gina drives her car to a restaurant requested by her Mama. Gina knows the restaurant serves Italian food. After arriving, Gina put her car in the restaurant parking area. After parking her car, Gina walked into the entrance.

"Miss Gina?" Ask a receptionist.

"true." Gina stopped her steps.

"Let me take it." Gina knitted both eyebrows at the receptionist's words.

Gina decided that today there was a special event so just for dinner only her mother had to make a reservation first for them. But even so, Gina complied and followed the receptionist to a table. Then Gina sat down at the table shown by the receptionist who drove her. After Gina ordered her favorite menu, zuppa toscana, every time she came to this restaurant, she opened her phone. Just about to call her Mama for making her wait, someone came to her desk.

"Good Night, Gina." Greet the well-dressed man in front of her. Gina undoes the intention to call her Mama because someone like her knows her but otherwise she does not know who the man is.

"Yes?" Gina stood up shaking the hand of the gray-tinted man in front of her.

"Freds." He introduced his name.

"So..."

"I've known you. Your posters are scattered everywhere as R-Company brand ambassadors. I really salute you not only as the owner of R-Company but also as an icon of a company of that size. And also, after meeting in person it turns out you are prettier than in the billboards I met." Cerocos the man without giving Gina a chance to ask him who and how he could know her.

"I hope we can continue this meeting at the next banquet. Papa and Ms. Marina have known each other for a long time and they wish we could be closer to each other." At that point and seeing that her mother had not yet come to see her, Gina began to feel that something was wrong. So, before the man in front of her spoke longer and wider, Gina asked for permission to go to the toilet.

Gina pulled out her phone and contacted her Mama to hold her accountable.

"Cumbers, Mama..."

"Hi, Gina..." The voice of Bu Marina's mobile phone rang with the conversation of the people there.

"Hows it? He's a handsome guy, isn't he?" Bu Marina immediately knew what Gina was calling her for.

"Mama set me up?" Gina's voice was rising.

"No. I didn't set you up. I'm just giving you a little surprise." My mother heard me laughing.

"He's an established man leading his own company now. Although his father was quite rich, but he chose to establish his own company in the field of interest. A self-sufficient young man..." It was enough to get there that Gina heard, she could not stand all the words of her mother and hung up the phone.

"Mama could have set me up with a guy and set up a blind date like this. She thinks I'm a lonely woman?" Gina was so angry to know all that. He felt he had to make a calculation with his mother later.

While Bu Marina can already smell the anger of Gina in her place gathered with her friends at this time. But he's not so dizzy. If Gina's blind date this time doesn't end as she hoped, he can still arrange another blind date with stock of men he has collected who on average they are established men from well-respected families.

Gina went back to her desk and saw the dish she ordered had already come. Ferdi smiled in greeting him.

"Sorry, Ferdi. I gotta go. I have another show now."

"But, don't you just have a show with me tonight?" Ferdi looked at Gina with a gawk.

"No, I have another show so I have to go." Gina put on her bag and walked off the table.

"You haven't even eaten your food yet."

"No need, I'm in a hurry." Gina is really gone now. He knows Fredi may be disappointed to have to have dinner alone now but Gina doesn't care. Gina just wanted to quickly meet her Mama. Although he knew his mother might not be home, but he wanted to wait until he got home and asked for an explanation for the 'surprise' he gave.

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Early in the morning Surya was already in the rice field to see rice plants that began to grow green. Dew still hangs on every leaf. The fog still enveloped almost the entire expanse of rice fields. Surya inhaled the morning air deeply until it touched every part of his lungs. Then there felt something vibrating from his pants pocket a sign of a notification coming in.

Is this what long distance relationships are like? Message from Siska.

They have indeed become a long-range warrior couple since Surya returned to his hometown. While Siska, after resigning from R-Company, because her resume is quite good especially after becoming a secretary at a company as big as R-Company, he was immediately accepted into an electronics company with the same position. His skill in that position is beyond doubt. Even Gina admitted it. If Siska wasn't the girlfriend of the person she liked, it would have been as long as Gina could have kept her in her company.

Siska: When are you coming? I've missed you

This time Surya looked at the contents of Siska's message with clinging. He did not know when he would return to the city. He is still comfortable in his hometown and works in the rice fields.

Actually when he returned to the village, Siska really wanted to come along and introduce himself to both parents Surya as his girlfriend but Surya forbid. Not because it was intended to keep Siska's whereabouts a secret, but Surya felt it still took time to bring the girl home. The environment in the village is still very sensitive. The sense of kinship between citizens makes life there still very vulnerable to gossip if encountering things that feel unnatural.

After all, all this time the people in his village only knew Surya's wife was Gina. So if suddenly Surya comes home with another woman again then there will be a lot of speculation. Maybe the people in his village will think of Surya as a man who likes to change women. Or even people would accuse Siska of being the woman who snatched away people's husbands. And Surya does not want the negative opinions of his village community to make his family's good name tarnished by him.

Surya: Just wait, when I come I will give you news

Surya then put the phone back in his pocket. He felt it was not easy for him to return to the city in the near future. He had promised Gina that she would never appear before him again. He felt so guilty that he hurt Gina's feelings. Rejecting her love is a crime Surya considers very great. So disappearing from her was the best way to get Gina to quickly fix her heart. Forgetting her feelings and being able to go back to living life as before when she married him. Therefore Surya becomes a dilemma if you have to return to the city. Between there is someone who always waits for him but on the other hand there are also people who he should avoid.

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Gina came down the stairs in a hurry. He could not wait to see his mother. Last night Gina was determined to make a calculation with Bu Marina. After waiting almost midnight, Bu Marina did not return home. So Gina decides to go to bed because she has to work the next morning and will delay meeting her Mama.

"Mama..." Call Gina after entering the dining room. Bu Marina who was cutting her bread immediately turned her eyes to Gina. Mr. Rangga who was there also turned his head.

"So, what did you mean last night?" Tanya Gina who took a seat right next to him.

"Oh yeah how?" Bu Marina asked back with an enthusiastic face.

"What's? Mama could ask me that."

"So, what's wrong with asking?" Bu Marina responded to Gina casually.

"If I ask your permission, will you agree?"

"Of course not."

"That's why I made a 'trap' for you."

"Why are you? After Papa then Mama. What's wrong with being single? I'm fine even if I don't have a partner." Gina fiery.

"All right... We just want to do what's best for you. But if you mind, we're sorry." Finally, Mr. Rangga.

"And I'll make sure your mama won't do that again." Mr. Rangga glanced at Bu Marina, giving her a code to apologize to Gina as well.

"I'm sorry..." Said Bu Marina while pouting the sign of being forced to apologize for what she thought was right. But because Mr. Rangga wanted him to apologize, then he had to do it.

"But give me one more chance. This time you will love it. Just look at the photos." While Bu Marina took out a brown envelope containing pictures of men.

"Yes God... Mama did all this?" Gina was shocked by what her mother did. There are dozens of photos of men on the table.

"I'm so worried about you. I don't want you to get too late in grief so I'll make you find a replacement for Surya."

"But not in this way. It makes me look like a woman who doesn't sell."

"Hey, everyone knows you're so valuable that when I just told you I was looking for a new son-in-law, they were already flocking to send me pictures of their son."

"Who did Mama say it to?"

"At the company of the wives of businessmen."

"Oh my God..." Gina patted her head because she did not think her mother humiliated her like that.

"You know, you're very popular. Just look, many want to match you up with their son."

"of course. My future is bright. I'm the sole owner of R-Company, definitely just a crazy person who doesn't want me."

"Then, you don't grieve anymore just because the mad man left you." Bu Marina's sentence made Gina look at him sharply.

"So, at least pick one of them for you on a blind date once again. Come on..." Mother begged.

"No..."

"Come on..." Kayu Mamama's.

"It's..." Point Gina at one of the photos suddenly and it makes Bu Marina sumringah because Gina has been willing.

"Alright, he's the son of the Warsono family, the owner of the largest plastic factory in the country."

"He's my ex-boyfriend. I don't want him. And so is she." Gina took another photo.

"Danis, his father was a textile entrepreneur. He's my ex-boyfriend. He is too, Farhan. His father owned an oil refinery in the middle east. And so is he, David. He owns Chinese restaurants in various cities. Even in almost all malls in this country there is a restaurant of his. The turnover is almost the same as the owner of this oil palm plantation. Penta. His name is Panca, isn't it?" Gina confirmed to her mother that she knew many of the men in the photos she showed.

"Hey, are they all your ex-girlfriends?" Ask her mother who answered with a nod.

"I've dated more than half the established men in this town, Ma."

"Good, so it's definitely not hard for you to start with them again."

"No, I can't wear what I've thrown away. Including a man, I won't reconnect with a man I've already decided on." Hearing that his mother rolled her eyeballs, lazy. Mr. Rangga held back laughter seeing what his wife and son were doing.

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Gina sat behind her desk looking at Hanna straight who had just put down a beautiful and smelling picture paper. At first glance Gina could see the writings on the paper cover.

"What joke is this?" Now Gina made sure by taking the paper. But Hanna smiled at her words.

"You're kidding me?"

"No, Miss."

"This is an engagement invitation, isn't it?" Gina wanted to make sure that the invitation printing was just wrong to print the invitation.

"No, miss, the printing team didn't do anything wrong."

"Oh my God, did you really marry me?" Gina widens her eyes in disbelief as Hanna gives her her wedding invitation to Marco.

"We agreed to get married, Miss."

"But why such a rush? Did Marco threaten you?" Gina probes.

"No Miss." Answer Hanna quickly.

"Actually it's been a long time since we've planned, it's just the right time just these close moments."

"really?" Gina was curious about something.

"I hope it doesn't become a hindrance to your plan. Not because I then you prepared this secretly because it felt bad to be happy while I was just getting divorced." Hanna blinked her eyes at Gina's almost correct words.

Hanna and Marco did plan this wedding by using the services of a wedding organizer because of their equally high busyness. They often communicate their needs and desires at their wedding through phone calls and text messages. So Hanna doesn't have to come to meet the wedding organizer. It was only during the fitting of Marco's wedding dress and suit that they came to the bridal boutique. They also choose holidays to come fittings so that their wedding preparation activities are almost invisible.

The event that they are titled is also not a big event, Hanna just wants the event to be attended by family and friends. Actually she is not a party girl who likes the crowd so Surya must submit to the will of his lover. Marco also only invited employees with high positions and relations in the city.

But, Gina was indeed one of the reasons she did not show her busyness in planning the wedding. Hanna knows very well how heartbroken Gina is after Surya rejects her love and leaves as if not wanting to see her again. Until finally almost all of Gina's days are filled with busyness and also almost no sweet smile on her face anymore, it makes Hanna feel like she has to keep her feelings. Because for Hanna, they not only have superior and subordinate relationships but also more than that, friendship.

Hanna remembers the night Surya left, Gina contacting him while crying.

"Hanna. She's gone..." Gina's voice with her very clear cry.

"He rejected me and left." He continued with sobs that made Hanna want to jump to Gina's place and embrace her.

"Am I that bad? Should have, at least he should have given me a little more chance. I didn't ask for much. Just little. Yeah, slightly. And also, why did he have to leave just like that? Does he think my heart is made of stone? He thought my heart would not be broken. He's so mean. He's evil. Why should I like bad guys, Hanna?" Hanna just listened to Gina's hoarse voice and let herself say whatever she said. Hanna's chest felt so tight listening to Gina's outpouring of heart filled with grief. Thus, Hanna asks Marco to keep their wedding preparations a secret and will start to open when the wedding day is near. Marco also agreed.