
~ Don't be crazy, Ve! (Zaid)~
When he finally arrived in Denpasar and was in a car moving towards his hotel, Zaid turned on his phone. Several successive notifications were immediately heard. For a moment Zaid let it go without checking and simply put the phone in his jacket pocket, while he checked the meeting agenda once again. Beside him was Aam who was preparing some additional files. They started to discuss a few things.
After he finished giving instructions again to Aam, Zaid took his phone and started checking the incoming notifications.
That's when Zaid read Ave's message. Not an ordinary message. But a poem that made Zaid's thin smile appear at the corner of his lips. The man stared at the message. Read it over and over again.
Aam, who is currently serving as Hazmi's assistant, looks at Zaid, who is still drowning, on the screen of his phone. Seeing that there was a smile that lately was difficult to appear on his boss's face, Aam could guess who the sender of the message was. It must be Avelia, Zaid's cute girlfriend.
"Ave yes, sir?" guess Aam smiled as he put the papers in the map.
Zaid looked over, his face slightly changed. Not answering anything. Only the smile that had appeared earlier instantly disappeared before the man reinserted his phone. After that, Zaid looked stiffly through the car window, towards the street.
Seeing Zaid's reaction, Aam felt the temperature in the car suddenly drop to the lowest degree. He had wanted to eliminate the stiff atmosphere he felt since from Jakarta. I don't think he added it.
Only this time Aam was in charge of accompanying his boss, who was famous for always being cold to everyone. But since going out with Ave, Zaid has been warmer and more talkative. Therefore, Aam thought he was lucky to accompany the cold boss to feel the most famous tourist areas in Indonesia with a better boss-employee relationship. It was just that he did not know that accompanying someone with an icy blood flow like Zaid was not as easy as his shadow. Could it be because it wasn't Ave who was with him?
Maybe it's better for Aam to ask Ave for help. Nervously, Aam sent a message to Ave.
[Aam: Ve, boss again less sajen nih! What are you, anyway?]
[Avelia: Oh, Mas who went with Pak Zaid to Bali?]
[Aam: Yes, I was elo, the boss was quiet. Awkward is. What do I do, Ve?]
[Avelia: Let alone Mas Aam, Ave was again dicuekinnih. Help Ave get better with Mr. Zaid dong, Mas!]
[Aam: Isn't it wrong to ask me to help you, Ve? I'm going to ask you for help]
[Avelia: Don't know why the boss. Same with Ave, too.]
[Avelia: So guess what to Mr. Zaid, Mas!]
[Aam: Well, isn't it wrong to guess? How the hell, Ve? It's Mr. Boss loh. THE.O.S.S!]
[Avelia: Ave knows, Mas. But usually Mr. Zaid laughs if Ave gives you a funny guess. He also asked for it]
[Aam: What is it? I tried it!]
[Avelia: There's a horse on the street that's full of dirt aka eek. Will there be four legs, keep fit seen by the horse owner turns out there are only three feet affected by dirt, the other is not hit even though the road is really full of eek? Come why?]
[Aam: 3 What's wrong? How can?]
[Avelia: The other horse's leg is sticking out his nose. It stinks, Mom!]
Kontan Aam chuckled as he read Ave's answer. His shoulders shook as he laughed amusedly, making Zaid turn his head and ask, "What's so funny?"
Aam looked at Zaid. "Ave, sir. Usual. Send a funny message. "but he swallowed his other words when he saw the change in Zaid's face.
Instead of happy, Zaid's face was even more dark. Zaid's mouth formed a thin straight line with an unfriendly look in his eyes. Aam gulped his saliva, not so throwing jokes for Zaid and chose to duck. Aam rushes his phone, exits his chat room with Ave and saves his phone. The assistant mode is busy as well. Pretend to read the file.
The rest of the day Aam lived like an inmate. Zaid didn't let him be idle for a few minutes. Relay from one meeting to another, with endless document preparation and contact some staff in Jakarta for a tele-conference. Since this was Aam's first experience, he made a lot of mistakes. And Zaid always used cold low intonation when reprimanding him.
"That's all you've ever understood about work?"
"Are you sure you were chosen for your abilities, Am?"
"Just to find that, I have to wait?"
Aam said nothing. He also could not stop his trembling hand while preparing the documents. Moreover, to respond to the sentence from the cold and stiff face in front of him. Aam no longer cared about being called a coward or a coward. His job is too risky to be at stake right now.
How can Hazmi survive being the assistant of the man dubbed the Snowy Devil by her own lover?
Suddenly Aam felt he had to be more respectful towards Hazmi. Hazmi's incredible efficiency is not without reason. Surely Hazmi experienced more than Aam could have imagined.
"What are you doing there? This is not the time to daydream! We have to finish tonight!"
Rushing Aam stood up, trying to step into Zaid's wide stride with his knees starting to shake. This day, since dawn he had had a rough breakfast, skipped lunch and now that night was coming, only two cups of coffee went into his poor stomach all day.
Zaid was the same. Even throughout the day, Aam saw Zaid just a bottle of mineral water. Is this the secret of this man to maintain his good looks and body shape that became the adoration of the girls in the office? By holding on to hunger?
Aam preferred his stocky body with this bountiful meat if he had to go hungry like now.
The rich are weird. Why would they make money if not for food? Can seeing an account be filling? Aam doesn't understand that. But due to hunger, his concentration power also reduced drastically. Boro-boro thinks of the stomach problems of the rich man or his boss, he can only pray in his heart so that his stomach does not protest too loudly when he is in the meeting room.
While in front of him, Zaid glanced at his watch once more. If Zaid can finish this last meeting, then he can catch a plane to KL. Tonight he wants to meet Zahra. There was something he had to talk about with his brother. Otherwise, it will continue like this.
His relationship with Ave cannot continue like this. He couldn't find a way out. Zaid had tried to avoid and hoped his feelings were not as deep as he thought. But nothing, the plan failed.
Zaid also tries to contact Natasha, to understand her best friend's purpose and get Ave to work for her company. But the girl was working in Japan, completing a film project there and doing several photoshoots for the next few weeks.
Zaid thought that by leaving Ave temporarily, he could think clearly. But seeing the amused laughter on Aam's face reading Ave's funny message, his heart instantly boiled. That girl's...
How can he send a strange message to Zaid but send a funny message to a man who is nothing?
In front of the meeting room door, Zaid's feet stopped stepping. Aam hurriedly came to a stop, looking at her confusedly but not daring to ask anything.
Then Zaid took his phone, opened the message he received from Ave this morning. Read again before typing a reply message. After a whole day of thinking, he found the right answer.
There was a small grin appearing on Zaid's face as he finished sending out the message. The grin that made Aam breathe a sigh of relief. At last...
Nun deep in Jakarta, in her room, at a table filled with drafts of storyboards and a still-lit laptop, Avelia glanced at the flashing phone screen at a glance. There's an incoming message.
The girl took her phone and read the message.
[Zaid: Don't go crazy, Ve. I'm the one who's crazy about you.]
A wide smile appeared on Ave's face, before he hugged the phone in his chest and he gave a cheerful shriek, "Yessss!!"
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