Chapter 2 - Tio

"Hello?!" His voice sounded heavy, big and also firm. Almost the same as April's father's voice only sounded younger, April couldn't open her lips to just ask the man's purpose in contacting her. Because she was nervous and the man kept talking to himself by saying 'hello', April finally ended the call. Putting her cellphone on the study table with a pounding heart, April tried to ignore it and turned to her study books. But not long after that, the sound of an incoming message was heard on April's cellphone and managed to surprise the woman. Ting! April hurriedly took her cellphone and looked at the screen, there was a short message which turned out to be from the number she had just called. "Who is it?" The message sounded. Immediately April wrote her nickname and replied to the message without thinking first. "April!" Sent. She put her cellphone back on the table while waiting for a reply to the message, and sure enough the message was replied quickly. April immediately read it, instantly the girl frowned reading the message. "April who?" "Huh?!" April scratched her head that didn't feel itchy, realizing that she was too stupid because the man contacted her first. But why did April mention her name and the man had no intention at all to contact her. "Sigh!" April chose to ignore it, not interested in pranksters who liked to play tricks on others. Besides, she had a task to complete. In the morning, as usual April started her morning by cleaning herself. Having breakfast, then getting ready to wear school shoes. Sitting in the back seat, this time her mother took April to school. On the way to school, April had an argument with the man in the red shirt she saw yesterday afternoon. Suddenly her eyes opened wide when she passed the man who was also riding his motorbike. April just realized that the man was already working, as evidenced by the work uniform he was wearing. Looking neater than just wearing a red shirt and knee-length pants that April often saw in the afternoon, April could see that the man glanced at April when they had an argument. As if the world was turning slowly until their gazes met again, making April blush when she looked at the two eyes that were glancing at her very sharply. In fact, until April arrived at school, she kept thinking about the incident that only lasted a few seconds. "Let's play volleyball again in the afternoon! For additional sports credits." April's friend said when she was at school. Actually, April had started to be lazy to go to the volleyball court since yesterday waiting alone without any friends. Especially after April was caught by the man looking at her from a distance, of course it made April feel embarrassed. But, if she didn't come. Maybe April wouldn't get additional credits considering she was too lazy to study. Until finally, in the afternoon April returned to the volleyball court with her friends. The tall men seemed to have not arrived because usually April and her friends always came before them, the game started as usual. April was still focused on the game even though she was sure she would lose her focus soon because of the man's arrival. And sure enough! April's guess was always right, they all came while talking and laughing. But one of the men who attracted April seemed to rarely talk let alone laugh, April immediately looked away, worried that the man would catch her red-handed staring at him intensely. April could only see the man's muscular back wrapped in a shirt that was white today, April let out a long sigh. The man was like a handsome actor with a muscular and hot body, making April's mood also heated seeing him for the umpteenth time. The game started again, it turned out that April could still focus even though the man was not far from her. At least her friend's head was no longer hit by the ball like yesterday because April kept watching the man. "Psstt! Pril!" Exclaimed one of April's friends whose head was hit by a volleyball yesterday, after the game was over and it was getting dusk. April approached the girl named Nita while carrying a bag in one hand. "Why 'Nit?" April said. "Come here, I'll whisper." April who was curious then approached the girl, it seemed like something important and secret that the girl didn't want her other friends to know. Nita started to approach April's ear while covering her lips that were whispering there. "Earlier, Uncle Tio asked for your number!" Nita exclaimed, suddenly April was surprised and hit Nita lightly. "What are you doing, Uncle-Om who? Don't mess around!" April snapped, her voice almost heard by her friends. But April immediately acted normal after realizing her friends' reactions. "Eh, really! He asked, is there a friend of mine named April? So I just answered, there is Uncle! Like that.." Nita replied. "Uncle Tio who?" April asked who was still curious and began to realize that it might have something to do with the number on April's phone last night. "That one, the one wearing a white shirt!" Nita replied while pointing at the man wearing a white shirt. April turned around to look at the man Nita pointed at, then she glanced right and left when the game of the men there was also over and they were seen packing up their things. Making sure there was a man wearing a white shirt other than the man April had admired, April's eyes almost widened when she realized there was no other man wearing a white shirt other than that man. "Uncle is that?" April pointed in a low voice, which was nodded by Nita. "Then what else did he say?" April asked who was starting to be interested in this. "Nothing, he just asked that!" Nita replied, April let out a rough breath. But even though that was all April knew, somehow her feelings became happy. A coincidence that made her a little embarrassed and wondered how the man could get April's cell phone number and instead acted as if he didn't know. Strange! "Be careful, Pril. With the uncles!" Nita said as she nudged April's arm and left the girl, and for some reason since Nita spoke like that. April had her own attraction to older men. After April found out that the number on her cell phone was his number, for some reason the man began to notice her from a distance and began to make April feel nervous. April immediately ran out of the field to the side of the road to wait for her pick-up, hoping the man wouldn't follow her from behind.