PERIPLES
7. Pink Cafe

"So? What's?"

We who had been silent with each other's thoughts were interrupted by David's question.

I was at Annyeong Cafe. With Rena, David, and Luke. Rena brought us here. To comfort me he said.

Luke put on a look of confusion, "What the hell?"

"Ck. So what should we do?" Decak Rena, aware that half an hour wasted just to keep quiet.

"Case. Try to chat Mahen put it here." Rena's orders were directly approved by Luke.

"I told you to come here. I put the HP on the table. You read together his answer."

We nodded. Six minutes there was no reply to make Rena pry, "Busily doing the anjir to slowrespond really like the president."

"Prophey darling. Maybe he's sleeping right" Bela David patted Rena on the shoulder.

"You maghrib gini can't sleep."

"It was awaited."

Five minutes passed, and finally Luke's phone clinked. The four of us immediately saw the reply Mahen sent.

Mahen

Sorry I gabisa. Been busy.

"Tumben's a very busy boy said you're busy meeting." David Said. "Lo chat how is it?"

"Gue said gini was hen here Annyeong Cafe, there's Vella."

Just deserve. Rena immediately glanced at me and slapped Luke's head using her black bag, "Ye your moron. Where would he want it if there was Vella here."

"Well, why did I say there was Vella? If he doesn't really cheat, he's going to meet Vella."

Yes also. Mahen's attitude has been getting weird lately. There was never any news, just a short reply, never a word of affection again, and never my photo status again.

Yesterday Lukas said that the one with Mahen at the Pink Cafe was called Ica. Yes, Ica's Mahen's classmate, whom he drove home yesterday. Luke knows from Rey. Luke said, Rey was surprised when she saw Mahen coming to meet a woman other than me.

At first Rey and Fitri just want to come together. But because Mahen and the woman also came to the same place, so Rey invited them both to join.

Rey told Lukas because he's good at keeping secrets. Vella don't know, Rey said. But what can I do if I personally catch it directly? You don't want Luke to raise his voice, do you? Though the answer remains disappointing, there is at least no misunderstanding.

"Rey just tell me to come here," David proposes, taking his pencil, and sending a message to Rey.

"That's the Syifa as well as Fitri not all you take beb?"

"No need. Syifa is shopping again," said Luke.

"Judek. What matters is that I take Rey first. Fitri's equal business or not mah is up to him."

I nodded then sipped the hot matchalatte I ordered earlier.

Rena patted my arm, "Vel. That's not your bokap, is it?"

I looked straight at the entrance. As Rena thought, he was my father.

"Eh? How not the same mother?"

"Just like Ren's client," I replied, who tried positive thinking not to think that the woman in a knee-length navy was not a paternal affair.

I was grateful when the two of them picked a bench away from me. I don't want you to see me, and I'm gonna pretend I don't see you.

My sitting position is facing the place where the father and the woman are sitting. Rena was beside me. So if I wasn't smart enough to distract Rena and my own attention, it might be disappointing. My hunch says that, that woman is the one who responded with a message with a friendly with my father.

"Kok bribe?" Rena asked with round eyes and hands covering her mouth in shock.

I had guessed. I'm not surprised, it's just that I'm not ready. Why should it be here? Why do I have to be in front of my child? I'm down. I think my eyes are starting to heat up. Not here Vella. This is not the right place to cry.

"Vel, we're getting out of here, okay?" Rena said as if she understood my feelings, and immediately took action without asking why.

"Do I need labrakin?" Ask David, and then I shake. It's not appropriate for other people to interfere with my family, right?

"Udah. We moved away. I'll tell Rey that I'm moving out" Lukas said.

Their words even make me can no longer bear to stem the tears that have been in the eye since. Drop by drop started flowing down my cheeks. Rena hugged me, "No cry."

After being completely calm, the four of us went out of the cafe which traumatized me from now on.

I held Luke, and Rena hugged David. We started driving towards the Pink Cafe, where I saw Mahen with the woman yesterday, after Luke told Rey that we moved there for no reason.

The distance is not far. It only takes five minutes to get there. Exactly with Rey who also came from opposite directions, with Fitri in his arms.

We entered the cafe and ordered drinks and snacks.

"Where are we sitting?" Ask Luke in a tone like Dora.

My gaze swept across the widest Cafe in the area. Too full as it seems.

"full nih. It is not comfortable to talk if there are many gini people," said Fitri.

Rey walked ahead of us, "Jaudah behind me. Seger more."

The cafe has a large place to dine in. Some are in front of the entrance, some are inside with four air conditioners, and some are in the back with photoable outdoor themes.

The five of us followed Rey, and chose enough seats for six people. As we were walking around, I saw someone familiar.

"Mahen******," Bail David.

We were all shocked. "So it's busy?" Rena didn't accept it.

Rena walked over to Mahen and the same woman I saw yesterday. I turned around and intended to leave from there. My eyes are getting hot again. I hate this thing. I hate situations that make me cry in public.

Someone held my hand, then took me out of there. Looking for a safe place for me to cry without anyone seeing.

Luke hugged me. I cried without a sound. My tears that had come out and had been stopped now forced to drip again.

"You're stronger than I think, Vel. But if you can't stand it all, you can blow your emotions. Don't force yourself to keep everything alone."

I let go of Luke's embrace. Then sitting on a garden chair next to this shitty cafe.

"Udah Vel don't cry anymore. Your face is ugly when it cries. Ntar the lizard feels prettier than you again."

"Chicak?"

"Yes lizard. The same thing Mahen."

I chuckle, "Ica, Kas. Do not change people's names. Ntar lo asked aqiqahin again."

Luke laughed, "If I am told to notheqiqahin I cannot Vel. But if I marry you, I'm just gas."

"Nikahin Ica? Don't dong ntar Syifa how."

Luke smiled, "Gue is not the same Syifa, Vel."

I was shocked, "Don't joke about Kas. I know you want to entertain me, but this is not the concept."

"Gue seriously, Vel. We both broke up well. Still friends now. Don't tell the others, ye?"

"Since when?"

"After coming home from Rey's house at that time."

Means a lot of other things happened in Rey's house that I don't know about. I smiled, then patted Luke on the shoulder, "Judah, may this be the best for you. But we're still gangs, right?"

"Still dong. It doesn't change if it's a."

I saw Rey and Fitri walking up to us. "Are u okay?" Ask Fitri.

I shook my head, "No, I'm not. I'm sorry I took all of you. Every time I have a problem, you're always trying to help me. But every time you guys have a problem, I can't do anything."

Fitri approached me and hugged me, "Vel, that's my job as well as the other guys. We're a gang, so if one of them has other problems, it's the same thing."

"Don't think too much. Now it's still taken care of Rena with David." Said Rey later.

I am so grateful to have friends like them. Especially Rena, who is always ahead when something bothers me.

After a few minutes, I saw Rena, David, Mahen and the woman walking towards me. The four of them were like matching double date pairs.

Mahen approached me, "Vel I'm sorry."