The Noodle In Love
09. Threes

The fried rice that I think was very smooth through the throat and slid down to the stomach, now like stuck and very difficult to swallow.

Feeling that Rushqi was observing me in the residence, made me misbehaved and clumsy. It feels like being the most stuttering and mute girl in the world all of a sudden.

Our table was silent. But the tables around us sounded very noisy. It's just this table I picked that keeps loose. No one was interested in coming join the table with us.

"Linga, are you very hungry??" rushqi's rebuke suddenly. And I disguised my surprise.

"Eh, yes, mas. I'm sorry, I forgot I didn't offer you a meal" I replied smoothly.

"Why didn't you have breakfast and you left early in the morning?" ask Rushqi then. I quickly grabbed my drinking glass one more time before I opened my mouth again.

"Eh, yes, mas. There's a job I didn't finish yesterday. You also go early in the morning" I replied as I glanced down the highway with my face.

"Fetch Denis" he said quickly and briefly.

"I can't believe you work here, Ling" Rush said.

"I don't think you work here, either, ma'am," welcome me to try as calmly as possible, revealing my astonishment as it seems.

"But you're such a snob at me, Ling ," Rushqi complained in a stiff tone looking at me.

I looked at his face with my eyes widening. I don't know how I'm gonna work out his opinion on me. He doesn't understand how I feel.

"I'm not arrogant and purposely don't greet you. But,," I said hanging. Denis has come up with a wide tray containing two food trays and two cups of drinks.

"You know each other?" ask Denis to look at me and Rush alternately. I put my ass in the chair right in front of me.

"He's my mother's boarding boy" Rush said quickly, keeping his eyes on me. Denis looked surprised and looked straight at me.

"Ling, you're boarding at Rush's??" ask Denis as if he didn't think it out.

"Yes," I answered briefly and nodded.

The two new staff who were both charming were not the least bit to take my eyes off me. Luckily my fried rice is almost gone. If not, it will be difficult to brush it slippery.

"Have you known this for a long time?" asked Denis while sitting comfortably, still looking astonished. Rush and I looked at each other. The man moved his chin to me. He asked me to answer.

"No, bang. I don't know if Mas Rush is my boarding mom's son. We've known each other for a few days now" I told Denis exactly what he was.

"If you want, my house is also wide open for your boarding house, Ling," Denis said snatched and smiled broadly at Rush.

The person who is seen as putting his shoulders back does not care. Then grab the coffee cup and gulp it down slowly. Rush always expressed favor when sipping black coffee from a cup.

"Bang Denis, how are you friends?" I took a quick look at Rush and came back to see Denis's face. Seemed busy blowing off his spicy burger slices with cheese and egg stuffing.

"We are both alumni of UGM. Both leave parents in Batam. Both alumni from Kalimantan in coal plants. Both fill vacancies in this company. And both fly from Kalimantan to Batam, for the sake of being accepted in this noodle company. Understand, Ling?" obviously Denis with a smile, felt it was a unique and very pleasant coincidence.

And I guess so too. Having a soulmate is a beautiful thing that not everyone gets. Like me at the moment, it has no friends in line.

"The important people in this company are almost all Chinese, Ling. I explain what it is. They can understand and ask for an interview via video call. It's been a lot of fun, especially when I got the news that two vacant position wins have fallen on both of us."

Denis stabbed his burger slices with a fork after he finished telling him the facts about himself and Rush. They both begin to sink in a tangkuban jumbo spicy burger that looks tender, soft and seductive.

"Do you feel at home living alone in Batam without a brother, Ling?" ask Denis after swallowing the contents of his soft burger.

"The four are also not at home, bang. But now feel at home. At my boarding place it felt quite comfortable and made me start to feel comfortable," said I was honest with Denis.

"What makes you feel uncomfortable?" ask Rush who also listened.

"Yes, because I am alone. I think my recruit's friends will be a lot. But after I came along and passed the QC test, it turned out to be dispatched first alone here. And all my other friends are elsewhere," I complained unintentionally to them.

"Where are your fellow recruits from Blitar?" ask Rush back.

"At Panasonic's company, in Batam Center city," I told Rush. The man seemed to focus on listening with his mouth still moving chewing.

"You can come there on holiday, Ling," Denis told me.

"I almost never had a holiday, bang. My boss always asked me to come to work. He did not accept the word rejection. If I had a holiday, they wouldn't have taken a day off, either" I said, explaining my reasons to Denis.

"Yes, you are sincere, there will be a silver lining. Let's just say that Denis and I are your best friends" Rush interrupted abruptly.

"What,??! Rushqi?! Since when can you be friends with women???" Denis smiled at the man next to him. The one who got it looked chili and still chopped the burger in the tub.

"Don't believe it, Ling. Rushqi is a false promise. She's a chick allergy." Denis still turned to Rush with half a laugh.

"Hey, Rush, you don't have to be a sweet ass if you don't mean it. Do you understand the meaning of friends? Doubt you this," Denis mocked Rush.

"Some of you are old. What you need to call the future wife, not a friend. Take care of you, Rush," Denis said, as if dissatisfied with the man beside him.

Rush faintly smiled. His head turned and looked at Denis for a moment.

"You know, it's time to move on from me. So there's no need to be clean if I have a friend other than you" Rush said later.

Those starry eyes never once looked at me. Maybe Rush felt awkward about me. Which I didn't think Rush had offered himself to be a friend. And it makes me feel awkward about him, too.

"Hem, let's see, Rush. There is a girl who feels at home with you. You're a wooden kayak, stiff,,,,!" denis's fishing line will be the friend's patience.

"It will be more elastic than silicon if I find my soul mate" Rush said calmly. Denis couldn't help but laugh.

"Ha, so secretly already the stage ngarep mate, you huh Rush? Ha,,ha," welcome Denis giggling.

The little Denis laugh sounded ridiculous as he was being held back and down. The man realized that the canteen was very crowded. I still don't understand why these two compact guys can break outside the staff break. There were only three of us wearing staff uniforms.

To me, that's not surprising. QC field accustomed to break following people production. No QC zone in the area when production is operating releases the product.

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