I'M MAKING YOU SORRY
(SS 2) CHAPTER 83. MEET THAT SHITTY GUY AGAIN
Today there was a meeting with Erika's colleagues to discuss the company's cooperation. As much as possible, Erika should be professional. He left his personal problems aside. Even if his heart is not good, he must forget it for a moment. It was hard, but he had to live. He should keep smiling at people even though his heart is sad.
"Hhh ... You must be able to Erika! You can do it!" erika muttered to herself. Erika was standing on the porch waiting for her driver to come to pick her up.
"Son, here's toast for your breakfast on the way. You have to have breakfast, so you can concentrate and have enough energy to deal with a tough day" Ronald said, handing Erika the lunchbox. Ronald made breakfast for Erika. He wants his relationship with Erika to improve again like before.
"Thank you, Pa. Forgive Erika's attitude yesterday. Erika just got carried away," Erika hugged her Papa. Ronald was delighted, his Erika had returned warm to him.
"How do you feel today, is it better?" ask Ronald.
"Alhamdulillah Pa's. It's been better. A lot of busyness, made me forget about the problem. But sometimes when you are alone, like to remember again," replied Erika.
"That guy didn't call you anymore, did he? If he dares to show his nose in front of you, Papa will beat him up!"
"No Pa! I hope he's still embarrassed."
"Later tonight, Papa will take you out to dinner. You have time, right? It feels like Papa wants us to be able to have casual conversations with you and spend time together" Ronald said
"Looks like there's no agenda tonight, Pa. Okay, where are we going, Pa?"
"We're going to eat at a seafood restaurant, how about it?"
"Can!"
Ronald and Erika smiled at each other. Ronald stroked the top of Erika's head fondly. The office driver who picked Erika up came.
"I'm leaving first, Pa!" I'm saying goodbye to Erika kissing Ronald's hand. Mila's education in Erika will Indonesian manners always applied Mila even though Erika grew up in England.
"Be careful on the road, son!" Ronald's Message.
Erika waved as the car was about to leave the courtyard of her Papa's house. Ronald returned the hand of his beloved daughter.
After Erika's car left, it appeared Tika was sweeping the porch of her house. Their eyes meet. Tika lowered her head politely while smiling. Ronald also lowered his head while smiling as well. Ronald felt more and more the widow of flowers in front of his house was increasingly looking beautiful and bohay. But that ridiculous thought was hurriedly brushed aside. Ronald shook his head as he walked into his house.
'"No, no! I'm getting old. I need to focus on taking care of my son and the workshop!" muttered.
In the meeting room in his office, Erika waited for the arrival of her colleague. Astin is ready next to him with the laptop and the necessary files. The infocus screen is ready to use.
"Boss, Mr. Gery has arrived on the ground floor. Now it's taking the elevator to get here" Astin told Erika.
"OKAY. Get ready," said Erika.
Not long after, the person who was waiting came. He brought two men with him.
"Miss Erika?" greet Gery, CEO of SUMBER RAYA Tbk while shaking hands.
"Yes, I, Mr. Gery," replied Erika.
"It's nice to meet you. The daughter of an old friend of mine, Ronald Ricardo," Gery said.
"You know my Papa?" Erika frowned in wonder.
"of course. I used to work as Assistant Mr. Ronald from Mr. Ronald holding the Edkatama group until the last company that went bankrupt" said Gery. The middle-aged man smiled warmly, there was no mocking or harassing tone from his lips. His words were purely to explain who he was.
"Oh. It was great to be acquainted with Papa's confidants first," Erika lowered her head in a sign of respect for Gery.
"No wonder you are a successful person now. Because your experience is certainly very much," Erika praised Gery sincerely.
"Ah .. It's all because of your Papa. I learned a lot from him. Where is your father now?"
"He's opening a workshop now. Just a small workshop.," replied Erika humbled.
"Oh, great. Hope his efforts are progressing. I'd like to see your father sometime."
"Papa would be very happy to meet you" replied Erika.
"Oh, yes, so forget. introduce, this is my secretary, Ervan, and this is my son, Reyhan," Gery said.
They all shake hands. When Erika arrives at Gery's son ....
The deg!
Why do I have to meet this shitty guy again?
Erika still clearly remembers the face of a man who was very hated in the past when she was still in High School in London.
Flashbacks
"Erika, you know, the guy in the blue shirt is from Indonesia. He's a business major at Imperial Colllage London" said Merry, a friend of Erika's. Erika turned to look at the guy Merry showed her.
'Good-looking anyway. Tall, athletic, fair-skinned, straight-haired, thick-browed, red lips. Oops! Look at her physicality continuously. Her brain and her morals are not necessarily as good as she looks, ' Erika said.
Jenifer's birthday event, Erika's schoolmate, is held at a cafe, attended by Jenifer's school friends and acquaintance friends. It turns out Jenifer is a very nice girl. The proof is that many of his friends are from students at several universities in London and social activists. Jenifer is a social activist who works outside of school.
"Consideration! The show is starting soon! Come closer!" The MCs called the invitations to get closer.
"Before the candle blow event, we are entertainment first!" The MC then reads the rules of the game. Once the invitees understood, the game began. Four men must advance by turn. The four men were told to dance, and when the music stopped, the one who stopped dancing late, would be told to turn the tool like clockwork. A large clock-like device was rotated in the middle of the table. In the tool there are numbers for participants who will receive a penalty. When the clock is turned and stopped at what number, then the participant will take a punishment card according to the number indicated by the tool.
Laughter colored the game session. Because sometimes there are silly things that must be obeyed related to the punishment of the punishment card.
Now it was Erika's turn and three other friends who were told to come forward to dance. Musicpun. Unfortunately, Erika stopped too late when the music suddenly stopped. So Erika had to turn the clock. When the needle stopped at the number 6, Erika took the punishment card number 6. MC brings the microphone closer so Erika reads out the punishment for him. Erika widened her eyes when she knew what punishment to do.
"Let's just go read it, honey," said the MC.
"Ciunt one of the people here who is of different sexes," Erika read out hesitantly and heart pounding. Just contact the invitations who were present to cheerfully respond to the punishment that Erika will live.
With no second thought, Erika pulled an Indonesian guy who was the only one there.
"Kiss! Kiss it! Kiss it!" the invitations provoked Erika to kiss the guy immediately.
Erika's face was already flushed red between embarrassment, tension and deg-degan. That guy also looked tense and resigned because he should not refuse. And quickly, Erika on her tiptoes then kissed the guy's cheek briefly and quickly. Done doing it Erika immediately ran to the corner of the room because of embarrassment instead of being overcast. The applause and laughter of the invitations filled the room. The guy also seemed wrong to get things that he did not expect. A beautiful girl from Indonesia had kissed him.
"What dream did you have last night, kissed a beautiful angel," said the boy's friends, patting his shoulder. The guy glanced at the girl who had kissed him who was in the corner of the room while drinking the syrup nervously.
Whether it was apes or how, Erika who was walking towards her friend, was, suddenly the waiter stumbles nearby and causes the drink the maid brought to spill all over and wet most of Erika's dress.
The Indonesian man, instead of helping or sympathizing, laughed with other male friends.
The waiter repeatedly apologized, but Erika did not understand because Erika had been hurt by laughing at the insolent boys.
Erika shy. So ashamed! He ran out of the show at the cafe to go home sobbing. The guy who recently known Erika named Rey, ran after Erika. After laughing at the girl, he felt guilty. But the girl had already gone to take a taxi. Rey fails to catch up with the unnamed girl.
On another occasion, Erika met the guy again. When Erika drove Deby ngedate, Deby's boy also invited his friend. And Deby's boyfriend turns out to be Rey. When they met, Rey pretended not to know. He smiled kindly.
"Second, this is my friend .Her name is Erika," said Deby, introducing Erika to her boyfriend and friend. Of course Deby doesn't know about the incident at Jenifer's birthday show, because Deby wasn't present. Deby had an event with his family.
"Hi, nice to meet you," said Rey, pretending to be her first acquaintance. Rey reached out her hand. With hesitation, Erika returned Rey's hand. But what Rey did made Erika hate the guy even more. When shaking hands, Rey's index finger rubbed or rubbed Erika's palm. So that Erika's hands seemed amused at the same time feeling disgusted by Rey's brazen treatment according to Erika.
Erika let go of the hand violently and left without caring for Deby who called her.
"She thinks I'm a seductive woman, a cheap woman, so she acts so brash!" erika grumbled along the way home. According to him, the movement of the finger of such a man is often done by striped nose men who are coding women, that the man is interested in the woman.
And after that Erika never met that guy again. Erika had even forgotten about it. Until he finally meets that shitty guy again now after years of not seeing him.
Flashback off
"Miss Erika? Are you okay?" the man's words scattered Erika's daydream.
'OMG! I'm not dreaming! Turns out that shitty guy was Mr. Gery's son!'
TO BE CONTINUED