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It’s Ike, short from my real name Mikael, or what my teachers call me Michael. It never really feels good to be called with a lot of name, but if you ask around about ‘Ike’ they probably know, especially if it’s around people who golf in KGS or Sarawak Golf Club (KGS is in Malay, you get that right?). Anyway, I’m a university student in UNIMAS, taking the business course. But because of the high living cost that my parents have to pay, I am forced to work part time. It was a pain finding part time job, especially when you don’t have that many experiences. But my father managed to pull a few strings with the club and made me one of their caddies.

The paying is good, since I haven’t starved since I started working there, and most of the staff that works there knows me personally, so in any case it was a good job. The only downside is, whenever I work with one of those successful single women or those rich trophy wives, they always flirt around with me. And because of that I asked some of my caddies’ friend to take my shift whenever they come around. It gets really annoying whenever they flirt around with you, because it’s like they are treating me like some gigolos. Like whenever I reached the balls in the hole, they would make sex puns, or whenever I reached for the golf stick they did the same.

So after a month working there, I started to caddy for dudes only, and not because I was into dudes because I seriously know I’m straight, but they always give some extra money for my good work, which involves looking away when they move the golf ball, or look for their golf balls in the water, which I know sounds really gay when you talk about it really slowly. Anyway there was this big tipper called Datuk Ra... Maybe I shouldn’t use his real name, so I’ll just call him Datuk R. he was this avid golfer, he’d go golfing every week. So I would always caddy for him, since I’m his usual guy. He tips really big, like RM 30 big for each game. He was one of my favourite golfers.

So this one particular day, he brought someone with him, I thought it was his wife at first, but when both of them came out, it was actually his daughter. At first glance it was like I saw an angel, so everyone was so into her. I caddy for her old man like always, and I tried to strike a conversation with her but she kinda just ignored or she didn’t hear me because my voice was trembling. So after the day ended, they left, and I felt like an idiot. So then the next week they came again, but this time I didn’t caddy for Datuk R, instead he asked me specifically to watch her daughter, with of course payment for the each hour. I hesitated at first but he increased the payment, so I accepted.

We were just sitting in the library, me sitting in front of her, going over some of my lecture notes, while she was reading some magazines while texting. I didn’t make any move this time because I didn’t want to look like an idiot. After awhile reading my notes, she said something.

“What are you reading there?”

“Some notes for my business class.”

“Oh so you’re a college student?”

“University actually, UNIMAS.”
“Ow same thing. Why are you working here then? Shouldn’t you be like going around campus doing college students stuff?”

“I’m a second year, and I didn’t get to stay in campus I stay at my friend’s house. And as to why I’m working here, I have to somehow survive, by working.”

“That was a mouthful of answers. So um… what was your name again?”

“Ike… and I didn’t catch your name...”

“Ow it’s Suzy Datuk R.”

We talked for hours about ourselves, and I got even to know her birthday, home address, her phone number and I found out she was the same age as me, 19. This makes her a real catch, beautiful, rich, friendly and other stuff. We hung out every week each time her dad came golfing. It turns out her old man brought her with him because she was caught drunk a few weeks ago, in mid day. So as punishment, she was forced to watch him play golf, which to her is like pure torture, but since she distracted him, I was told to babysit her. To which she reply is less torture than watching golf. But anyway we became so close that we even played snooker, and swam together in the swimming pool. It was at that moment that I’ve realized that this was too perfect; nothing was this perfect in this world. I started having doubt, but that day I spent with her in the swimming pool brought us closer, we had this unbreakable bond.

Anyway this one day she stopped coming here, and I caddy for her father like before. But the next week, it was something different, Datuk R came with someone, another car behind him, and when he came out of the car, the dude was beside him the whole time. Suzy was there too. And she seemed very intimate with that dude beside Datuk R. I was called to caddy for them again. So while the two dudes were busy golfing off, I talked with Suzy. And the truth that struck me was very shocking. It seemed that the dude that was with her was her boyfriend. He was 25, and worked as an import-export marketer. And according to her, about three hours later, some useless information, but it was kinda like a warning, since she said that the dude was a black belt in Tae Kwon Doe, meaning a dangerous killing machine. That day turn out even worst than I expected, while I was parking the buggy, I saw the two of them kissing in front of the fountain. It hurt my feelings. Doesn’t she know that I like her in a way that a friend shouldn’t like a friend; I wanted more from her, not just friendship. but obviously, she’s out of my league, I’m wasting my time cause she’ll never be mine, and I know I’ll never be good enough for her. It all ended. I decided to stop working there, with the excuse that I wanted to focus on my studies.

Convincingly enough, it was my finals for semester three, so there was no question asked to me when I stopped working. After finishing my finals, I enjoyed quite a bit, so a few weeks later I started working as a waiter at some restaurant. My caddy friends sometimes hang out with me, like watching movie or just go out for a drink. So during one of those time, they said that Datuk R was looking for me, always asking for me, but they told me I stopped working. Suzy also asked around for me there. I know she was looking for me, I receive like a dozen miss calls from her, and some text messages to me. I changed my number so she couldn’t get a hold of me anymore. I started working hard and studying really hard, so I could get some high paying job somewhere and settle down with a really hot trophy wife.

FIVE YEARS LATER….

I just came back from Milan to close the deal with some company there. The business world is a really how should I say it, a dog eat dog world. Really rough, and if you’re not tough enough, you’ll end up losing that big contract. I’m one of the executive marketing directors in my friends company. Work my way up from a normal marketing officer for two years. At least one of my dreams came through. Because of the ruthless working hours, I had no time for my personal life. I haven’t had a relationship in like 13 month.

Anyway, I was supposed to close down the deal with a local company, and I was supposed to meet them in like 15 minutes. I was in a rush; I drove really fast and parked my car. Thankfully I arrive just in time. It was at this hotel, at Hilton. They were waiting there, two old dudes and a woman. I was alone, which means that the deal will close down today. One of the old dudes turned his head called the waiter to ask for something. I realized that I recognize him; it was Datuk R, so called out to him. He looked at me and recognizes me and kept calling me the caddy. He asked me what I was doing there and so I told him, I was scheduled to meet him there. He was shocked to know that he was going to be my client. And so he insisted me to sit down.

The woman that was beside Datuk R, she was quite familiar. Then she removed her glasses, and said, “Well if it isn’t Ike. How are you?”

It was her, Suzy. As it turns out she worked for her father now. After sealing the deal, I asked Suzy out. And starting from there, my dreams slowly started to come true. What happened to her was, after I stopped contacting her, she started to drop by the university and looked for me there, but I wasn’t always there, so she just hung out there everyday. She liked the atmosphere, and so a few months later her dad let her continue her studies overseas. So while she was overseas, that 25 year old dude that was her boyfriend broke up with her. And now after graduating, Datuk R gave her a position in his company. And from today, after I sealed the deal, I will start working with her. When we were out that night, she told me that I wasn’t dreaming when I wanted to be with her, and she wasn’t out of my league. She stared at me, and from that moment on, I know that we were meant to be together, and it’s obvious.