Chapter 38: Chapter 38: Love is Like a River that Carries the Heart of the Ocean
Lintang made the decision to visit the field herself, where preparations for the construction of the golf center had begun.The city was noisy and decorated before Christmas when many tourists came down to celebrate the winter holidays in a warm atmosphere and mild temperatures that are more pleasant than the cold winter and snow in the metropolises of New York and Paris, even many Europeans came to live permanently on Bali Island, the diving rescue team also employed a diver from Trieste whom Lintang met during the filming of film scenes where the diver was active in casting scenes at sea.Passing the car along the coast, she stopped and watched the divers who were diving and exploring the coast every day, of course, as long as there was no danger for tourists to dive.Lintang felt sorry because looking at them one would think they are fish people because they spend more time underwater than outside. Lintang also noticed an expensive yacht anchored nearby."Oh no, I don't have the strength to meet him today", she thought to herself, but it was as if fate was against her because Rinota had just come ashore holding the hand of his newest girlfriend."Who do I see?Lintang, how are you still here, hasn't your company started building the golf center?You know I'm looking forward to it, because I like to play golf on my days off.""Yes, I know we started preparations, I just started to the field, so I stopped here to catch the fresh air from the seacoast."Now she regretted that she started building the golf center, which she started because she knew that Rinota was passionate about golf and hoped that their love for golf would bring them even closer, but now that he has a new girlfriend, he doesn't want to be near Lintang anymore."I'd rather go to Diamond City to find a cure for falling in love with the wrong person", she thought to herself and headed back to the car.At that moment, one of the divers approached her, waving her arms to stop."Lintang, look I found a real pearl shell, this pearl is beautiful", he said to her and put the pearl in her palm."Oh, it's really strangely beautiful in multiple colors of glitter so it looks like a precious stone," she said.Even Rinota turned to hear them talking enthusiastically."Who is that, it looks like that guy is not from Bali", his new girlfriend asked him."One casting actor," responded coldly, seeing him as competition."It's like he became jealous of that actor just because he's talking to Lintang,"thought his girlfriend looking at him with distrust from now on. "All of Bali knows that Rinota changes girls too often, which would mean either that he is too picky or that he is lying to himself and is only looking for a replacement for a girl that is out of his reach, such as actress Lintang.""And this actor is his real rival in terms of appearance and figure", she thought further, holding his hand tighter."Where are you going today?" ask the diver. With blue eyes and long hair, and with a tanned complexion from diving all day, he looked like the main actor from the movie "Sandokan", that's why all the girls in Bali knew a foreigner from Trieste named Mario."We are opening a golf center nearby, but I would also like to open a chess room or a special salon where only chess is played, there is even a possibility to open a new international chess competition, which is played by everyone from children to the elderly, while golf is reserved for the wealthy elite, because golf equipment and clothes are expensive, as well as participation in tournaments.""Yes, chess is more interesting than video games once you start playing it every day, and now it is really understood more professionally by the sports community than before, but chess requires free time, so even here in Europe, chess is considered a sport for the elite, even though we learn it in school like other sports, but golf is not yet in schools, so you need to go to a golf center and invite golf instructors to train other golfers.""Excellent idea!", replied Lintang, completely forgetting the actor Rinota that day.It wasn't until they saw that Rinota had moved away with the girl from their sight, then Lintang said:"Thank you, you played this very well, in the next movie you deserve to be promoted to the main actor.""Thank you, boss, you know that I didn't do this for promotion, everyone from the casting team knows how badly the actor Rinota treats you, and you are still madly in love with him.""Karma, who knows why he's like that, as if someone stole his heart, so he's dating other women", Lintang said."Do you really know any golf instructors in Europe, I would like to create an international team of golf instructors?""Yes", he said, "actually my current girlfriend used to play professional golf, but she gave up the competition with others, so she gives golf instruction at a nearby golf center.""Excellent, Mario, please invite her to work here with you, in addition to her job as a golf instructor, our company will sponsor her competitions in tournaments around the world!""I also have one more request, you see I am looking for one sculptor in classical Italian style, I want to put one statue in front of golf center, do you know somebody, it doesn't need to be very famous artist but I only want strong statue from stone like in ancient Italy and Greece, not a modern style?""I see. You are just standing in front of a classical Italian sculptor, I graduated from a famous art academy, but as an artist in classical style it is difficult to find many customers to work for, so I have a job as a diver, and during my days off I do my art projects in my studio here.Here are photos of my previous finished works," he said and showed Lintang photos from his mobile phone.