The Beginning of the Marriage
Chapter 15

Zio who just finished finishing his meal, when he was about to take a drink immediately aborted his intention once he saw the screen of the device on the table lit up. He reached out and grabbed the flat object when he found the name of his secretary who called. 

“Halo, good afternoon,” greet Zio. 

“Halo, Mr. Zio. Sorry to interrupt your time. Parties from company D who want to work together have begun to schedule a second meeting. Do you have free time five days ahead on Monday at eight?” ask the woman's voice so firmly. 

“I don't have a meeting schedule next week, right? If there is no meeting of the office company, I can just make the schedule later I just follow,” replied Zio. Both eyes focused on the table, he did not heed Mada and Alex who were still talking about the taste of cuisine, Zia, to the endless office work. 

“Next Tuesday you have a meeting schedule with company C, the next days there is no schedule anymore,” he replied. 

“Good, I'll meet them later. Thank you in advance.” 

“Sama-sama, Sir.”

“Is there anything else?” ask Zio before turning off the connection. 

“If you finish lunch, I hope you can go directly to the office because there are two files that you must sign so that I immediately send them to the concerned party. Actually he told me the end of the signer is three days from today, but in my opinion faster is better,”. 

“Good, I will be back to the office soon after this.” 

After no other topic had to be discussed, Zio immediately turned off the connection and opened the calendar application to make a fairly tight meeting schedule in the next week. Actually, he also has another schedule to meet old friends, but it is only a plan because he does not really want to go out of the house lately. 

Zio grabbed a glass filled with avocado juice, then he drank it to the toilet. The man took a tissue and started cleaning around his mouth. Once it was completely tidy, he stood up. “I can't stay here long, I have to go back to the office. The secretary called me and asked me to go back there immediately,” saying goodbye to Zio while putting the device in my pocket. 

Alex and Mada looked up at the same time. “Ah, yes already. You want to take a taxi?” ask Alex. 

Zio nodded. “Iya, I took a taxi or vehicle online. Whatever, not far away. Thank you for forcing me to come and have lunch here. If only you guys didn't force it, maybe I wouldn't go back and forth and rush like this,” the cynicism of Mada. 

The insinuated only laugh. “Okay, sorry Mr. Zio. I'm really bored in the office and cooking in the cafeteria, so I don't want you to feel the same way. Thank me very well for freeing you from the always salty chicken noodles,” chatter Mada made a justification for his actions. 

“You're more at home here than at the office, huh?” alex asked as he chewed on his last meal. The man began to be seen pushing his plate some distance away, grabbing the tissue and starting to clean his hands with the thin object.

Mada who was playing his gawai turned his head, then he shook his head. “Not really, anyway. Who stays in the office. Although we are corporate slaves, it is only a place to make money, the rest of us must return to a place that we think is comfortable,” he replied. He sat up and put the device on the table. 

“You like Zia?” ask Alex. His gaze in looking at Mada seemed to be investigating and looking for answers from Mada's eyes. 

The man in front of him seemed to be flirting with the question that came out of Alex's mouth. Didn't know if his friend realized it quickly. “Narang, you. There's no way I like Zia. After all we only met yesterday and there was no good impression during our conversation. Do not exaggerate to judge people based only on his behavior,” Mada replied trying to avoid. 

Instead of believing, instead Alex laughed while throwing a used tissue in front of Mada. “You look like you're lying. Again you are not wrong if you like the new chef. Although your meeting is only a short time, but you know that sometimes love does come in unique ways. That means you fall in love at first sight,” explains Alex. 

The man seemed to not stop laughing at the face of Mada who was trying to protest. But Mada himself also knew that Alex was the most sensitive man he had ever known. “Submit, but not as you imagined.” Mada immediately took his device, then began to play it to avoid Alex's insistence. 

“You don't want to be honest as if you're chatting with a stranger, Bro. We have been friends for seven years. I know what you're hiding now, Mada. You better start approaching Zia, it looks like the woman is not married,” Alex suggested. 

Mada looked up again. When he was about to protest, he saw Zia who was seen just coming out of the kitchen while taking off her cook hat. From a distance, the woman looked beautiful despite just coming out of the kitchen and having faced the stove for hours. Her make-up may have worn off, though, but the aura released was so powerful that Mada did not realize that the man had focused his gaze on the woman who was walking towards the exit window. 

“Jeez, Mada! Long time you are crazy if this continues,” comments Alex while watching his friend with a look of concern. “You're being honest with me. Later I will help you occasionally if you want,”. 

Mada who just realized immediately turned his head. He exhaled while holding his head. “Sials. I don't know either, but if I like that woman, I just feel sorry for Zio who knew her from the beginning. Although they are nobody, but I feel sassy if approaching Zia,” Mada. The look on his face turned crumpled. 

Alex clucked while throwing a second tissue on Mada's face. “They have no relationship, you don't need to feel guilty.” Alex started to scrape. 

“But still I have to ask permission first if I want to get close to Zia. However older Zio is than us, then if I am helped by him the percentage of success is much higher than that helped by you.”. 

Alex laughs. “Sialang. Go ahead if Zio wants to help you,” the challenge.