4

"So ... tell me about Makassar." Gina started the chat when they were already in the car. Ghina sat in the passenger seat, while Ica sat in the car seat behind Tera who was driving, while Adi sat beside Ica resentfully because he wasn't sitting in the seat that Ghina was occupying now.

Tera, who heard Ghina's question, suddenly frowned in surprise. "Yeah, just like the last time you were there."

"That was a long time ago," Ghina tried to remember the last time she visited Makassar. She again searched the tote bag Tera had given her which contained Makassar souvenirs. "Oh!" Gina's voice floated. "Typical Bugis woven fabric!"

Tera glanced at the enthusiastic-looking Ghina, while she drove back with a smile that also grew. For some reason, every time she saw Gina, who was happy to get gifts from her, she always managed to make her heart hurt instantly.

Tera remembers, when she was in college at the end of the semester she should have graduated on time but failed because of financial problems that happened to her family. The activities and promises that she had planned to the fullest were suddenly messy and out of control. The promise she made to her friends seemed to have been blown away by the wind, making her a very cowardly person because she had been hiding in a black hole for so long. The promise she had given to Ghina continued to be broken by Tera's slump. Painful and tiring. It was like running on and on without being able to stop. Congested, stuffy and restless.

"How about your work in Makassar?" Gina had put her things back.

Tera just shrugged. "Not yet. The league hasn't even started yet, what the heck is it done."

"What work?" Adi asks from the back seat.

"Next year, my office will be the main sponsor of the Pro League volleyball. It's a kind of celebration because the year has changed. Now, for next year, I will be given the trust to hold the event. Because my office also wants to join to celebrate the event, I have to find players. It's best to be able to celebrate the Pro League. Incidentally this year, the best Indonesian player again doesn't have any events. I went to Makassar to recruit him to join my team."

"What's the name of the player?"

"Yasin Gionanjar Túmer." Tera answered even though she was confused why Adi asked the name of the player.

Adi, in his seat secretly searching on google via his cell phone. He was a little curious. "Why him, Ter?"

"He is the only Indonesian volleyball player who was recruited by the Turkish team to play in the Turkish league last spring and this year, where the contents of the Turkish league are all world National Team players. I was nervous about recruiting him, there are many competitors. too heavy."

Yasin Gionanjar Timer. The first Indonesian volleyball player recruited by the Turkish team was too young, 30 years old. Having a native Turkish mother and a Surabaya father, the face of a volleyball player is perfect, the combination of his parents fits perfectly on his handsome face. With a height of 195, the Libra Zodiac has one older sister and a younger brother who are 35 and 25 years old, respectively, five years apart. Birthday on October 1, 1993.

Gio, as he was nicknamed, studied in Turkey until he was in junior high school, then Gio moved to Indonesia at the beginning of the final secondary school year. He attended the British International School which is located in Jakarta. Then he continued his studies with a major in business management at the University of Indonesia and started a brilliant career at Bank Indonesia which was accompanied by becoming a proud athlete of Indonesia. Gio started his hobby of playing volleyball when he was 6 years old, his father supported his son's hobby by enrolling his son in a volleyball club in Turkey and continuing it in Indonesia. As a result, Gio managed to get into the Indonesian National Volleyball Team at the age of 17 and was successfully recruited by the Turkish team at the age of 25 until now. What a brilliant young man's life.

"Have you managed to recruit him?" Ghina asked Tera. "What was his name earlier? Originally from Indonesia?"

"Gio, of Turkish-Indo mulatto. Still working on it. There are a few things that need to be re-checked. However, it has to be successful. It could be a huge stepping stone if my team manages to bring him in." Tera turned the steering wheel to the left.

"How about a stepping stone?" asked Gina.

"You know that my office is having problems due to the simultaneous power outage the other day. The loss is huge. If I were to succeed in recruiting him, it wasn't only the government or the Minister who looked at it. But, almost the whole world. Indonesia. Power Gio is that great."

Adi and Ghina nodded in understanding. It makes sense why Tera is so proud of the player. Because the benefits that Tera will get are not only for himself, but for one Indonesia will have an impact on his success.

Stock politics is interesting.

"Eh, Ica sleeps, huh?" Tera asked when she had not heard the sound of a child in her car. Gina looked at Ica who was sleeping. "I haven't heard her voice since."

"Yup," Ghina and Adi answered at the same time.

"Anyway ... why did you two get together earlier?" Tera asked suddenly when she stopped her car because the traffic jam hit.

Ghina who heard Tera's sudden question then chuckled. "Do you know why I suddenly called when you were in Makassar?"

Tera looked thoughtful. "I think it's because we haven't communicated in almost a month."

"He insists he wants to meet you." Ghina pointed at Adi who was still busy with his cellphone.

"Why do you want to meet me?" Tera turned to Adi, and glanced at him through the rearview mirror. "Do you want to do business with me? Or want to borrow money?"

It's usually like that, right? Everyone, if forced to want to meet old friends, if not borrow money or do not invite business.

Gina then laughed. Tera heard sarcasm and mockery.

"I just wanted to ask, where have you been all this time?" Adi chose not to respond to Tera's taunts and Ghina's annoying laugh. "You disappeared for almost how many months did it take you to reach the final trial? After that, you disappeared until this second I only met you. Almost 7 years."

"Why do you want to know where I am?" Tera asked, confused. As if understanding, Tera suddenly tapped her forehead. "I forgot you're a gossip person. Are you still continuing?"

Gina looks satisfied in her chair. How many times has Tera asked what caused her to die of lice? Who knows. What is certain is that Adi has to endure shame in front of Ghina and Tera. From the past until now, Tera has always asked to change her answer.

Tera looked at Adi from the rearview mirror, she saw Adi just laughed without a sense of humor, sounded awkward, and grimaced. Tera was so bad.

"How long have you been in Jakarta?" Tera asks Adi, changing the topic. Besides being uncomfortable because she embarrassed Adi, she also didn't want to answer Adi's questions.

Adi cleared his throat, to cover the awkwardness. "A week, I think. Why? Want to take me for a walk?"

"No," Tera shook her head. "Just ask. What kind of work do you have to do to attend a seminar? What is it about? Clean water? Sounds pretty boring."

"Guess what. You must be surprised."

Tera looked thoughtful. Adi once said that he wanted to be an officer because he really liked politics. The man even implemented the word politics properly and correctly. Was the man really an officer?

"Have a political parties?" Tera glanced jokingly. It sounds somewhere between impossible and not impossible. Tera believes that the man can have his own party, his strong determination and ambition has always been a major success for Adi.

"That's still the plan," Adi answered straightforwardly and sounded arrogant in Ghina's ears.

Tera then chuckled. "What is it? I'm too lazy to think."

Adi chuckles while laughing. "You've always been lazy to think, but just keep being smart." Adi shook his head. "I'm the sub-district head."

"Woah..." Tera's voice floated. Amazed and in disbelief. "You did it."

"Yup. I did it." Adi replied arrogantly.

Tera and the others had arrived at the Safari Park area, very crowded and full. Seeing her, Tera suddenly felt lazy and nauseous. If not for Ica, she would have turned the wheel and gone home. She loved all kinds of animals, but watching them on television was enough to satisfy her. Instead of having to mess around in traffic, she can just enjoy it on the screen. After all, the result is the same, on television and at the Safari Park, the animals cannot be touched. Her cat-keys had already brought her happiness, and she was satisfied with that.

"I should have taken the other car. Manual cars have never been the best choice for climbing."

Tera regretted having brought her Jeep. She should have brought her beloved automatic Ford Everest, maybe she wouldn't feel numb from having to step on her ears and play with her teeth to hold it up the incline. She has no problem with manuals, she is quite shrewd and skilled because manual cars are the first cars that Tera learns to be able to drive. However, if she has to go through an uphill road, let alone traffic jams, it doesn't feel right if she has to use a manual car.

"Want a change?" Gina volunteered. She felt sorry for Tera who had trouble stepping on the pedals of her car. Ghina is sure, Tera's leg must be relapsing.

Tera glanced at her briefly, then shook her head. "You take it home."

Gina just nodded. She already understood Tera's pattern. If Tera brought it when she first left, then Ghina brought it back. Vice versa. It's always been like that since she'd known Tera.

"Let's take turns," Adi says from the back seat.

Tera didn't like it when she started, but she wasn't the one who ended it. Whatever the situation. So she shook her head without replying with words.