DIORAMAS
28. Lovy Dovy
And after getting a hint and direction from Evan as if I was an apprentice student, I finally nodded as well and agreed to meet him at 11 p.m. Trying to get rid of thoughts about ‘how about there I met Jendra?’ and kept sighing as the beautiful woman in her light blue shirt and knee-length skirt led me to the third floor where Evan Adiatma's room was.
“Please ask Sena who is at the secretary's desk, mbak. I do not know if Mr. Evan has returned to his room or not.”
“Thank you.”
My voice that tends to cry increasingly sounds chaotic if juxtaposed with the voice of the receptionist woman. That's why I just thanked her quietly while nodding before stepping closer to a woman sitting at the secretary's desk like the receptionist said.
‘The secretary is Evan?’ ask in my heart before venturing out to say hello. Thinking that the job Evan had in this office was indeed really important and much so that the man needed a secretary to help him.
“I'm Alia, mbak. Mas Evan, I mean Mr. Evan asked me to meet with him today.” I think I would like to put my face in my sling bag because of shame on this woman named Sena. Really, I really accidentally called Evan ‘mas’ in front of this woman.
“Oh, mbak Alia yes. Let me take you to his room, Mr. Evan.” Without any question or suspicion, this woman named Sena quickly led me into a glass-walled room not far from her desk. “I Sena, mbak. Secretary, mr. Evan. Last morning Mr. Evan said that mbak Alia would come.”
“Thank you, mbak.”
“Maybe sir Evan will return after praying jum’at mbak. If there's anything else Mbak Alia can call me.”
In my heart I started to guess the age of this woman named Sena and I thought her age was not much different from mine. And that kind and pleasant nature made me feel welcome even though this was my first meeting with that woman named Sena.
“Is it okay for me to wait for Mr Evan here alone?” I was hesitant because as far as I know, not just anyone can enter a manager's room.
“It's okay, mbak. After all, Alia has already made an appointment with Mr. Evan, so it does not matter.”
Appointments. It felt strange when I remembered that usually Evan and I only need to be notified by phone or short message to meet, and now I even have to make an appointment and go through the middle of a secretary to get to meet that guy.
“Well, at least if you wait here, the chances of you meeting Jendra will be less, Al.”
And it is undeniable that ever since I stepped into the parking lot to go up to the third floor, I was always worried about the possibility that I would meet Rajendra or at least cross paths with him.
It's true that after Jendra's marriage to Hesti a few months ago, I always avoided the possibility of meeting Jendra and I deliberately removed everything about Jendra from my life. But still it doesn't necessarily make me forget the fact that Evan and Jendra work in the same place and if I decide to go to this place the possibility of meeting Jendra will always be there.
Because there are too many memories and pain that Jendra gave me so I feel reluctant to cross paths with him even though. I want to think of Jendra as my friend, just that every time that desire arises, the fact that Rajendra Yudhistira is the person I once loved and had hurt me also took part.
In fact, thinking of Rajendra as a friend is not a young thing I can do in this short time.
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I was just about to put a watch on my left wrist and leave my sash bag lying next to me as a young woman approached me.
“Excuse me,” started with a timid tone and made me look all over the musolah to find out if there were other people in this place or not. Yes, because it was too bored waiting for Evan for an hour more, finally I chose to get out of Evan's room and ask Sena where the prayer is. And I have to be grateful that I did not have to go down to the ground floor to pray and after praying I was able to return to Evan's room.
“Ya?” replying to me in my own inverted tone also sounds strange. He looked at the young woman who was sitting near me and smiled sweetly at me.
“I have never seen mbak before, new employee ya mbak?” ask without further ado.
“Oh no, I have an appointment with someone.”
“Oh, I think this is a new employee.” Tukas this young woman in a disappointed tone. And if I may guess, maybe this woman is only 20 years old. “I Vienna.” The young woman continued, extending her right hand towards me, and unruffled to make me smile and welcome her hand. It was like finding a friend after a long time I was confined in a cave, I also felt so excited when I mentioned my name and we both started the introduction.
“Alia,”
Alia and Vienna, and I don't know when exactly I was so easy to get along with people I just met like we were old friends back together. As far as I can remember, I am not someone who easily gets along with new people even tend to be typical of quiet people.
“You apprentice student huh?” I asked after a few minutes to pay attention to the appearance of Vienna and somehow suddenly remembered when Evan said that he needed to prepare training materials for students who were apprentices in his office.
“Seeing as clear as that huh mbak?”
“Iya, it appears that you are still five-semester students who are interning.” My candle was met with laughter by Vienna. Laughter that can always make two people who are new to each other become familiar.
“How does it feel to intern at a gameloft-class company?”
“Exciting, mbak. Tense is certain, and sometimes feel at a trivial because I'm just an intern.”
I smiled and touched the arm of Vienna wrapped in a loose red shirt. Trying to recall the first semester of my fifth semester who was also an intern at the government office and became a foreign human being and not infrequently underestimated, as what Vienna felt.
“It's okay, all will forge your mentality to become more patient and immune. But by the way the clerk here sucks huh?” my pancake turned to the outside of the mosque and looked at the door that connected the corridor of Evan's room and this musholah.
“No, mbak. It's fun, especially the planning division where I interned. It's just that there is one employee who sometimes sucks once every time I cross paths with.” Viennese complained as if this child had just met his older sister and complained about how annoying the school was because of the many tasks.
“Oh yes? Maybe you made a mistake that you were not aware of.”
“Interact directly only never mbak. He's in the HRD division, and I'm in the planning division. What problems have I tried.” Vienna even breathed an annoyed breath at the end of his sentence and made his kaliamt sound so dramatic. “But it's nothing mbak, sorry it's even so kebablasan story.”
“It's okay. I'm even happy that someone asked me to talk, since 11 hours over 10 minutes I waited for someone and until now he has not come too.” this time I exhaled heavily at the end of my own sentence and glanced at the watch on my left wrist. The more upset sigh when he found the clock hand had even shown 1 more and Evan had not contacted me.
“I waited for Evan,” I answered without thinking because I was so upset, and the answer that made me regret the next two seconds. “I mean Mr. Evan Adiatma.”
“Pak Evan manager of planning division?”
“Indeed how many people named Evan in this office?” and I really wanted to know, that's why I asked Vienna. The question was answered with a light laugh by Vienna.
“Mbak Alia her boyfriend Pak Evan huh?” asked Vienna without a shady aling-aling that made me almost choke on my own saliva.
“Ehm, why ask so?”
“Because it is impossible for Alia's sister Pak Evan. Because according to information from mbak Sena, Pak Evan's younger sister is still Junior High and who has been in college is a boy.”
“You know that far about Mr Evan?” I asked without being able to help laugh. But deep inside my heart, it felt like a hand had slapped me. Evan has two younger siblings, one boy and one girl. I knew Evan had two younger siblings, only I never asked about Evan's sisters. And that thought again raised the question in my head. How many things do I not know about that man? No, I mean how little do I know about my Evan?
“Soalya I had liked on Mr. Evan.”
“Oh yes?”
“Iya, before Mbak Sena said that there are women in the HRD division who like Mr. Evan and they used to be close. Her name is mbak Clara, pretty anyway, but unfortunately judes.”
This time it was like there was a lighter that ignited and made a small part of my heart like it was burning. It's jealousy and I admit it without trying to deny it. Yes, the fact that there is a woman in this place who likes Evan so much makes me dislike and want to ask Evan about his feelings for her.
“What is so special about Mr Evan until you like him?” pancu again.
“Sir Evan is handsome, and I don't think any woman would deny that fact. And the rest of Mr. Evan is good, easy to understand every time you give directions, also never blame his subordinates directly.” It was clear Vienna as if she was being asked to define her idol. “So far it's things like that that that make me like Mr. Evan.”
I was just about to ask Vienna something else before someone shifted the door of the museum and made me turn my head quickly as well as Vienna.
“Alia,”
And he was there, the person I had been waiting for two and a half hours ago, and the person who had been the subject of the conversation between me and Vienna. A man in a white T-shirt and a black suit whose arms he rolled up to barely reach his elbows stood on the doorstep and looked at me.
“Mas,”
“Pak Evan,” sahutku and Vienna almost simultaneously. And I did not see it wrong when Vienna raised his eyebrows hearing me call ‘mas’ to Evan.
“Sorry, the meeting was actually finished since 12 hours less, but after Friday prayers there are some things to talk about. How many hours have you been here? hm?” evan asked after entering the museum and sitting next to me. Without further ado kissing my temple as if the man had forgotten that there was Vienna in that place and what he was doing could have led to all sorts of speculation in Vienna's mind.
“Oh yes, Win. You're looking for Roby. Said you guys have an appointment at 1 o'clock to discuss boot issues in the game?” connect Evan in a relaxed tone as if ‘kissing a girl’ temple is not something he deserves to worry about.
“Oh, yes. Jeez I forgot, sir.” Vienna quickly moved from its seat. Again, I did not lie when Vienna was even surprised by the stunt kiss temple Evan did. “Oh yes, Mr Evan and mbak Alia dating ya?” Vienna even had a chance to ask the unimportant thing before shifting the door of the prayer and making me grimace.
“No, Vienna.” Pursue me before Evan answers the party.
“Then, what was that?”
“We're not dating, Win. But Alia and I are getting married soon.”
“Mas,” hisisku while pulling up Evan's coat arm and looking down in shame at Vienna who was still standing in the doorway.
“Married? Oh, my goodness.” That'sallthatis. That's all Vienna said before the girl left me and Evan in the museum.
“What were you guys talking about before I came?” evan asked as he moved and took me back to his room.
“Not much. Just about Clara, a female employee from the HRD division who likes Mr. Evan, and you two were close.” I replied with a resentful tone that I didn't realize. I didn't even resist when Evan kept holding my right hand from the musolah until we entered the room.
“Clara?”
“Iya, also about Vienna who likes Pak Evan Adiatma because he is handsome, kind, and always friendly to his subordinates.” And I didn't really mean to talk about who Clara was and how Evan had been with her before. Everything about Evan in the past was enough to belong to that man. I don't want to mix it too far.
“Do all women really like handsome men?” evan asked after taking off his suit and sitting next to me on the red-hearted sofa in the corner of his room. Sighing deeply and exhaling back slowly as if the man wanted to let go of the tiredness that so made him uncomfortable.
“Yes, all women will definitely like a handsome man.”
“So,” and I do not know why I did not mind at all when Evan asked for permission to lie down and rest his head on my lap. Makes me able to reach out to his face freely even remove the glasses that seem to bother him.
“But all women will fall in love with a man who is willing to accept his shortcomings and is willing to supplement those shortcomings with his advantages, mas.” I didn't even feel awkward touching Evan's hair and resting it on my own fingers. “Like Alia who fell in love so naturally on Evan who never complained with the millions of flaws that Alia has.”
I don't know when I started to realize that I was already in love with Evan Adiatma. Because by the time I realized it, I had fallen so deeply in love with this man. I want to be the woman that Evan has completely. I want to be the woman who has Evan for myself.
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