2019 (?!)

Alec went back to the hotel and was about to grab dinner and he saw that girl again, this time she's sitting in Starbucks with her friends and she's just taking a note on a small notebook like she's a student or detective and smoking on vape as her friends did, too. And he caught a glimpse of her handwriting, which is surprisingly quite neat, he stumbled up on 2005 and 2019 on circle!

He realized that this girl could be a regressor like him and he tried to create a little accident just to talk to her. He had his phone on his hand and he tried to accidentally tripped on her foot and dropped his phone and his phone broke.

"Oh, I'm sorry, are you okay?" She got up from her seat and helped him up while dropping her notebook.

"I'm fine just a scratch I think but my phone died," he sighed as he took her hand and caught her notebook. "Are you writing a novel?"

"Ah, this... s-s-sorry about your phone," she stuttered.

"No, it's ok, I shouldn't text while walking anyway," he sighed as he noticed her left hand fidgeting on her Vape. "But if you really want to apologize then how about accompany me for the weekend."

"Uh..." She stuttered again.

"I'm Alec, uh I'm from Jakarta actually, I'm here to buy some stuff, do you know where to buy mini hookah?" Alec said.

"She made it," her guy friend said, pointing at the girl "I sold it on Batam since it's quite troublesome to sell it here."

"Wow, you made it?" he was genuinely surprised because all along he thought that the maker is a he. But she turns out to be a quite cute but geeky girl who loves technology. And probably another regressor beside him.

She nodded and her friends grabbed a seat for him at Starbucks. Her friends elbowed her to move closer to him.

"She's Luna, I'm Daniel, and the one across from you is Tina and Leona, they're twins and we live in my apartment, so I'm the landlord," Daniel grinned as he introduced them.

"And we used to be classmates and we all come from Jakarta, too but decided to try our luck to work here." Leona said.

"Any recommendations for food since I haven't had my dinner yet?" he asked.

"Any preference on cuisine? Chinese? Japanese? Western?" Tina asked.

"Anything you recommend?" he looked at Luna.

She's peeking at her watch and notices it's 8:10pm already and sighs. "I don't know what you would prefer so I recommend you to go to the food court and have chicken rice or nasi biryani?"

"Which one do you prefer?"

"Honestly, I'm on diet right now but I would probably choose nasi biryani or popiah."

"C'mon show me the way," he said. "Do y'all mind if I took her in custody and be my hostage for two days and three nights?"

"No, go ahead, she needs it very much," Tina said happily and Luna glared at her.

They ended up having Indian cuisine and she had prata and he paid for their dinner. They talked about the mini hookah and the price of a pack of cigarettes in Singapore that was way too expensive and she would sometimes buy it from Batam but she's been busy and will probably switch for mini hookah.

And it's almost midnight before they realize it. He asked her for her number and asked her to meet him tomorrow morning since he wanted to buy a new phone and he wanted to try her mini hookah. And he joked about not letting her go home but staying with him at the hotel. But her literally jaw-dropping reaction makes him laugh.