After Aini arrived at the campus, he went straight to the library. Actually, he was confused about where he was going to the library. Perhaps, he felt that what he had done was right, but there were still doubts because he was not a child who used to argue. It's just that he thinks that it's time for him to act on all his family's misdeeds towards him. But, is it still appropriate for them to be called family after what they did to her? The answer is, no!
However, it was like how it was when his father also contributed to his suffering. And no matter how his father treated him, he was still his father. He hoped that in the future, his father would begin to realize that all along he was also his son, his flesh, and blood. Without having to distinguish between him and Nia. Because he didn't know where he was going, he ended up trapped in this deserted library.
"Arghh, where am I going?" asked Aini quietly to herself. He would rather not trouble Salsa or Lia, finally after spending more than two hours in the library he left aimlessly.
The café is a great choice to calm the mind with a glass of cold chocolate, he thought.
"Cold chocolate, yes, Mbak, table 8," Aini said to the waitress. After the waitress nodded, he also passed to table 8 and sat there.
***
It can be seen at the entrance that someone is stepping towards table 8 without him knowing that there is already Aini there. When he arrived at table 8, he was surprised that there was a woman.
"Excuse me, Ma'am?" said Dave cautiously.
"Yes?" Aini frowned at the person in front of her like she had met but couldn't remember where.
"I have ordered table number 8, and it is common here. But why would anyone occupy yes?" asked Dave in surprise.
"Sorry, sir, I don't know. After all, all the tables here are the same," Aini replied.
Dave chuckled at Aini's answer. Usually when he sees the woman he is chatting with, he will blush with shame, or try to flirt with him but not with Aini who in fact is the person he helped a few days ago. Yes, she's that woman, Dave thought, even though at first glance she remembered Aini's pale face and eyes obviously.
Aini, who was astonished by Dave's frown, frowned confused because she felt that there was nothing funny at all. Before he wanted to ask, someone familiar greeted the man.
"Have you been waiting for a long time, Dave?" asked Arjuna, yes he was Arjuna the lecturer of Aini's killer.
Feeling cared for, Arjuna turned his head and greeted Aini. "Hi, Aini, we'll see you here. It seems like a coincidence. But I don't know if the next meeting is fate," he said with a faint smile, which was not seen by Aini except Dave, who understood his friend's how.
"Yes, sir. It just happens to be possible," Ain said quietly, nodding.
The waiter came over and gave Ain's order.
"Since you know him, we'd better just sit down with you, June, he's here anyway," Dave said with a chuckle.
Arjun, who saw how Dave's anxiety came out, freely turned to look at Ain, and Ain, whom June saw intensely, immediately turned her head and then stirred back to enjoy her cold chocolate that she no longer enjoyed.
"Stupid, if you know earlier that he is a friend of Mr. June, I'd better just go," he said.
"Can we sit here, Ain?" asked June interrupting Ain's reverie.
A confused Ain finally replied, "Yes, sir, bo-may." Then nodded because when he was rejected, he was not good, but if he said yes, he was very awkward. But best he answered 'yes' only to be safe.
"Sure, it appears to me that he owes me too," Dave added, glancing at Ain briefly and then smiling faintly at June.
Arjun looked at Ain and Dave in turn, then sat down after pulling out the chairs. The bewildered Ain also frowned even more, indicating that she was confused by Dave's remarks just now.
"Ah, I haven't told anyone yet, yes, yesterday's events even Sean too. I'll tell you both about it later," Dave said with a small grin.
Arjun, who understood, nodded. "Aini, how is your internship place? Have you started the internship?" asked June pleasantly, opening the conversation?
"Uh, hmm, not yet, sir. Because it was only two days ago that I delivered it and there was no call yet, sir," Ain replied.
June nodded. "You'll also know who your boss will be when you're an intern," June continued, turning to Dave, who was confused by his friend's reaction.
"Oh yes, what about the person you recommended to me, Jun?" asked Dave curiously.
"Ah, yes. I think tomorrow you will be called for an internship and also Dave you will soon know who the person is," June said.
"Okay," Dave replied shortly.
"Oh, hi! You are the one I helped yesterday, aren't you?" Dave shot Ain with a question.
The surprised Ain looked at Dave and frowned. '"You're the one who help me yesterday?" he asked immediately, still with a sense of bewilderment. Dave, who heard that, immediately laughed loudly and then nodded.
So surprised for the umpteenth time, Ain reflexively bulged her small eyes to the point of being big, but instead made Dave chuckle even more. June, who was puzzled, asked, "You know each other?"
"Yes," Dave replied. But simultaneously anyway, Ain replied no.
Arjun understands when Ain says no, and Dave says yes, can already guess who is lying.
"Ah, my heart hurts so much. Even though I'm helping people, Jun," she said, starting to play with June snorting at her friend's words.
"I'm sorry, sir, it's not that I'm disrespectful to your friend, but I really don't remember when he helped me. But I'm sorry, we don't know each other," Ain said steadily.
Dave, who heard that, started acting again, until someone called his name and Ain.
"Dave."
"Aini," they said in unison.
The three of them turned their heads, and June just fell silent. Who are they?