The Beginning of the Marriage
Chapter 14

Zio was seen just coming out of his room at 12:00. He closed the door, then walked towards the elevator that would take him to the second floor, where the office canteen was located. He was not usually brought bekel lunch, because he thought eating out is much more fun to avoid a moment of the hustle and bustle of the office is quite boring. 

“Zio!” call a voice. 

Zio who had just stopped right in front of the elevator door looked back and saw a man in a dark blue shirt, walking towards him firmly while developing his wide smile. “Where are you going?” tanyakanya. “Do you want to go to the restaurant yesterday again?” he added, his gaze seemed probing. 

Zio shook his head. “No, I'll just go to the canteen today,” the answer. 

The man snorted disappointed. “Ah come on, Zio, instead of the food in the restaurant is much more delicious than the office cafeteria? If you eat there, I can spend two servings in one meal, but don't you know that the menu in the cafeteria here is just that? Really boring,” said Mada while raising his protest gaze. 

Zio clucked slowly. “If you want to go to a restaurant please go, but I don't want to go there,” replied Zio. 

Though Zio deliberately did not eat there so that Mada also followed him to eat in the cafeteria. The three of them—with Alex as well, more often spent lunch together from the beginning, rarely they had lunch alone. According to him, it is more exciting than spending bekel without friends to chat about topics that are exciting. Either about what happened in America, or about the news of a recession that will happen soon. 

“You really don't want to see your friend?” ask Mada again. 

“No, I can meet him outside of his working hours. I told you that I didn't want to interfere with his work. So, even if I eat there, my goal is just to eat not to invite him to chat outside,” Zio said. 

“Hey, you guys want to go to the restaurant yesterday?” Someone suddenly shouted. 

Zio and Mada looked back and saw Alex who was seen just coming out of his room. “I'm coming. Hungry,” he said after standing in front of them. 

“Well, come on Zio. Don't be like a stiff om-om.” As soon as the elevator door opened, Mada pushed Zio's shoulder in and was immediately followed by Alex, before the elevator door closed again to take them to the ground floor. 

“Sial, even though I do not want to go to the resto “ Zio mumbling with a half annoyed face. 

“Casual, Bro. Eating there is just as full,” entertain Mada. 

After exiting and facing the parking lot, the three of them went straight into Mada's black car, and began to leave the office to their restaurant. Mada looked the most excited this time. Zio who was sitting in the back heard Mada blabbering about the female chef to Alex whom she met yesterday. He talks about how Zia behaves, the first impression he gets when chatting with Zia, or even about Zia's appearance which is said to be very simple. 

“I've never seen a woman like her. Wasn't she very beautiful despite looking so simple? Her aura was completely different to many of the women I had met. He carries a positive vibes that I cannot tell you in detail,” Mada explained in a voice that sounded excited. 

Zio who was sitting in the passenger seat just playing his phone tried to shift the focus from Mada to social meda. He did not want to hear the praise coming out of the man's mouth in front of him, but Mada's voice filling the car completely derailed Zio's expectations. Mada's praise of Zia was clearly heard. 

“Tumben you are excited to talk about women,” Alex chirps. 

“Excessive,” comments Zio with a clean slit. 

“Wah, not of course. You can't judge, or you can't appreciate your friend's own cooking?” kana Mada's. 

“Not both,” says Zio. Mood's changed. He was so lazy to discuss Zia in front of his friends, he hated Zia being the main topic in their chat. But unfortunately Zio can not say it directly or they will suspect if Zia is his wife. 

They do know that Zio is married, but since the two are not invited by Zio, they do not know the woman Zio is marrying. Therefore Zio has a chance to lie to both cover up about who Zio's wife really is. Zio also did not know why he had to go so far, he just felt that it was not time they knew about his relationship with Zia. 

Arriving at the restaurant, the three of them immediately took a seat in the middle that was still empty. Mada immediately raised his hand to call the waiter, before they finally ordered the mainstay food today which is tuna-rica. 

“I want to deliver the chef himself,” pinta Mada to the waiter who just finished recording his order. 

“Good, Sir. We will ask our chef to deliver him here,” he replied gently. 

“But if your chef is busy there is no need to ask him to come here, let him work with focus. What else is lunch hour so solid, so—”

“So still ask the chef to bring his food here,” sela Mada stopped Zio's speech. 

The waiter in front of him nodded kindly, then immediately left their table. Zio clucking. At the age of thirty-six years, he had to face Mada who was younger both emotionally and mentally. Zio had tried to hold Mada back from doing something like this, but Mada was still hard to beat because this restaurant belonged to his uncle. The man has the power to do anything as long as it does not harm the restaurant and according to Zio it sucks. On the basis of that power Mada became arbitrarily. 

“Hei Mada, but what Zio said is true that you can't do this constantly,” Alex said as he waited for their meal. 

“Already Alex, I told you that I want him to rest,”. There was always a reason he made to justify his mistake. 

Up to fifteen minutes later, he saw Zia who had just come out of the kitchen carrying a tray of three plates of tuna-rica and approached their table with a smile that looked so friendly. “Please enjoy,” he said as he moved the plate from the tray to the table. 

“Hei Zia, you can sit here first if you are tired of your work,” Mada said. 

“Sorry, Sir, can't. I asked the manager to go back to the kitchen because today more orders came in. I'm sorry,” reject it gently. 

Zio exhaled a sigh of relief. Thankfully, Zia was finally freed from Mada's appeal today.