He's The Unaffordable
Chapter 30 - Replace Loss

*dira*

I don't know my dream I had last night. The two people I had avoided were in the same place. First, that stupid Colin who did not keep his promise to keep his distance with Big Brother as long as I was with him. Seeing that Big Brother was here, could he not guess who would sit with him in this cafe?

The second is Reese “Annoxifying” Foster who suddenly is always there wherever I am. Forgiver. I took a break to avoid this drama. Why does the queen of the drama come to me? This place should not include the place that became the vatkrongnya.

“No. Sitting.” Brother Hadi held my shoulder so I wouldn't stand up. “This is a public place and I don't want your name to be ruined because of that girl. Let the cafe employees and security personnel handle him. Don't you see the visitors are ready with their cameras? Put on your hat and glasses again.”

I followed and sat back down. Brother's right. The average visitor points their camera at Reese. Today it will go viral and Mr. Sam as his boss will spend a lot of money to delete all posts on social media later. The poor guy.

“What can I help you so you look for Wendy?” ask the woman standing behind the cashier politely.

“Send him out. We have unfinished business,” orders Reese in an impatient tone.

“Are you friends of Wendy? You can wait until the sifnya is finished for—” said the woman again.

“Do you not know who I am? How dare you tell me to wait. Call him now! I won't leave until he meets me!” Reese hit the counter in annoyance.

“Please excuse me, Miss. It's still working hours, so he can't leave his post. If you would like to place an order, please state your order. If not, please, give way to others who have lined up.” The woman pointed in the direction behind Reese. I smiled looking at her calm and unperturbed attitude towards the girl.

“As I recall, guest is still king, ‘kan? What attitude are you showing this? Very disrespectful. Call your manager! You should be fired for being so presumptuous!” reese tuding.

“You are presumptuous. Get out of here if you don't want to order. We've been waiting since. It's good to play serobot,” said one of the guests queuing behind him.

“Yes, nih. Not very polite. Where's Bule going?” the other grumble. I smiled and heard it.

“Speed, dong. Already accomplished, nih, stand still!” complained of the other guests.

For a moment, things turned around. Reese cannot now dwell on him because the people are driving him away. His opponent was no longer a single person, hence my rival was sane enough to not continue arguing with the crowd. He's outnumbered.

Damn, as he turned around, he looked towards the table where I and Brother Hadi were. Even though I was wearing sunglasses and my hat and hair color changed, she easily recognized me. Because there's Brother Hadi next to me.

“You are the friend of that lowly servant.” Reese put the bag she was carrying roughly onto the table. The mugs contained spilled coffee so that my brother and I rushed to stand so as not to be hit by coffee, while the plate containing croisan was hit by the bag. “Pay restitution of my dress and bag!”

I looked at him in disbelief. Is this still about the hotel a few days ago? Where's the boss? Didn't he say he'd help her take care of this? When he broke a promise. It was only fitting that night that Reese demanded the man to promise first. It turned out that he was not a man to trust his words.

“Give the name card of the shop. And get out of here soon,” said Kak Hadi. Reese, who was looking at me with fiery eyes, turned to look at my sister.

He looked at Brother for a moment. “No. I'll give it back. You just give me the money to replace the loss,” said Reese disagreed. I widened my eyes to hear the phrase do not know the shame of it.

“So they think the money is yours? After you accuse people as you please, you want to get praise also for your attitude of responsibility? Embarrassing. Give me the button business card or use your own money to pay for the compensation,” said Brother budging.

Reese closed her lips. He looked at me sharply, then immediately took the shopping bag back and went towards the exit. The plate under the bag fell to the floor along with the pieces of croc that I had eaten. Everyone cheered at her who left without making up for the losses she had caused.

“Serious sister will pay for her expensive clothes and bags?” I asked after we changed seats at the request of one of the cafe employees.

“You prefer to hear his screams all day?” The sister asked back. “He's got so much money. This business period, he asked for compensation? Embarrassing.”

“He is famous stingy. So, you need not be surprised. I'm sure the boutique where she rented the two items didn't take issue with the coffee stains on her dress and bag. He just wanted to get mad at Wendy because she was already embarrassed. Like he does every time he meets me.” I shook my head slowly. “How about the plate he broke it?”

“Adi must have asked that his compensation be put on our bill,” said Big Brother who saw Adi walking towards us carrying a tray in his hand.

“They do not want to receive compensation and money to pay for Brother's order again, but I force.” Adi put three mugs in front of each of us as per our order.

“Good. Because I know Wendy will bear the loss if we don't pay her. The poor girl. He was in the wrong place and time that night.” Sipping his coffee. “By the way, where is he? Why doesn't he seem to be serving guests?”

“Her work associate deliberately kept him in the back as soon as he heard the girl mention his name. He'll be out soon. What's the matter until Sister Wendy deals with that wicked woman?” adi asked confusedly. I told you briefly what happened at the hotel a few days ago.

We then told Brother what we bought at the mall and who passed us. She only smiled faintly as I mentioned one of them was a mother shopping with her daughter. Her husband is Papa's co-worker, and has long tried to get Big Brother closer to their daughter.

Brother shared his conversation with Papa while at home. I, who was not very concerned about the work accident I had, was now interested because of the same man who was always in the photoshoots that I followed.

“Why does Papa blame himself? Not everything that happens to us has anything to do with Papa or Mama.” I sighed softly. “I also have many people who envy me who might be able to do evil to get rid of me.”

“Wah, your mind is finally open as well. All this time you have always been naive that everyone near you is a good person,” said Big Brother sneering.

I thought and pondered a lot after a pretty painful conversation on our way home from the hotel. For me, I have no enemies. But Brother was right. The Colin I loved and trusted since we were kids betrayed me. Who else can I trust in this world but my family? There aren't.

Wendy had a high chance of betraying me because we hadn't met for twenty-four hours. I don't know who he met out there who might have had malicious intentions for me. And so is Vikal. Who wants to hurt me? Andwhy?