Setelah tanggal 7 April 2025 aku menjalani rutinitas ku seperti biasa, berangkat ke tempat magang bersama tara setiap hari-nya dan yang membuat berbeda adalah sekarang aku telah berpacaran dengan Cutina HEHEHHE. Setiap bertemu dengan Cutina di tempat magang aku selalu merasa seperti akward, biasanya sih aku orang yang humoris saat berada dengan orang yang dekat denganku tapi saat hari-hari pertama kali ber-pacaran dengan Cutina, entah aku harus bersikap bagaimana dengannya, apakah harus bersikap cool atau aku harus bersikap seperti biasa saja. Saat itu, aku merasa hubungan kita yang tahu hanyalah kita sendiri dan semua orang tau-nya kita masih berpacaran main-main. Hingga suatu ketika guru pamong aku, dimana dia yang aku jadikan alasan untuk menembak pacaran main-main dengan Cutina, dia bilang kepadaku "sepertinya kamu dengan Cutina tidak seperti pacaran" kemudian aku menjawab "kok bisa pak?" dan beliau menjawab "seharusnya kalo emang kalian ber-pacaran, harusn...
March 3rd, 2025
That day felt pretty normal. After my internship shift ended, I went home alone. Tara was still back in her hometown, so from the morning until that moment, I had been by myself. Somehow, going straight back to the boarding house felt a little lonely.
Instead of heading directly home, I decided to stop by a coffee shop first. Just to wait for Maghrib, hehe. Sitting alone, coffee on the table, the atmosphere was pretty calm… while thinking about meaningful things — which basically meant playing games.
In the middle of my boredom, I suddenly remembered Afi’s invitation to hang out for coffee earlier that afternoon, hehe. So I immediately texted Cutina, just to ask whether she was joining or not. But I didn’t ask casually. I explained things at length — you could say I was slightly provoking her so she would come along. Basically, just a lot of small talk 😊
Long story short, Cutina finally “gave in,” maybe because my messages were way too long and painfully stale, and she said she would join us for coffee that night. But there was one condition: someone had to pick her up because her boarding house was far away.
Without thinking too much, I immediately agreed. But after that, I started wondering… why was I willing to go through that much trouble just to pick her up?
If you calculate it, from my boarding house to Cutina’s place took 30 minutes, and from her place to the coffee shop was another 30 minutes. That’s a total of 60 minutes. Meanwhile, if I had gone straight from my place to the café, it would have only taken 10 minutes.
But yeah… for some reason, I still picked her up anyway. You could say I really wanted to see and spend time with her, but back then, I wasn’t fully aware of it myself.
Around 6:30 PM, I finally left to pick her up. When I got close to her area, I texted her to ask for the location. Even though I actually already knew where her boarding house was, because Afi had shown me before when we visited one of our internship teachers during a condolence visit. But yeah… I just wanted to make it look like I was “new” to the place, hehe.
Long story short, I finally met Cutina, and we headed straight to the coffee shop.
There, we ordered drinks and sat down while chatting because Afi and his girlfriend hadn’t arrived yet. Most of the conversation revolved around Afi and his girlfriend, since they ended up together thanks to Cutina setting them up. Like I always said, “she’s basically their matchmaker.”
Not long after, Afi arrived with his girlfriend. I introduced myself to her, and we continued talking for quite a while — from the story of how they first got together to all the complaints and struggles during our internship.
In the middle of the conversation, Afi and his girlfriend started having a small argument. Well, that’s normal in a relationship.
Cutina suddenly interrupted,
“Alright, alright, it’s my fault.”
Without thinking, I immediately replied,
“Then why don’t you just be with me instead? No need to interfere in other people’s relationship,”
while gently patting her head. Maybe it was just a reflex, since it was only the four of us there.
At that moment, Afi was probably shocked by my reaction, especially because he also knew I already had a girlfriend. Looking back now, honestly… that wasn’t exactly a good thing to do. My bad 🙏
Long story short, it was almost 11:30 PM, so we decided to head home.
During the ride, the atmosphere became awkward. Neither of us really knew what to talk about. Until eventually, I asked,
“So… when are we going on our night ride?”
Cutina replied,
“Hmm… I think Saturday night would be nice.”
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