A Sugar Baby
Perception (Extra Part)
Since returning from attending Hanif's wedding reception, Richard has become more reserved than usual. Not infrequently he looks more mused.
For example, right now. He invites Daniel, Lea, Ellio, and Marsha to lunch. This is the weekend and everyone has no plans.
They all came, and were enjoying the food at the table. But Richard sat on the living room couch holding Darriel. He stared at the glass curtain.
"Bro, some of the spirits of your in-laws in the Dementor sucker times." Ellio.
Of course Daniel, Lea, and Marsha are now almost choking because of holding back laughter. Even Lea to drink because of the spicy taste of sambal now moved to his ears.
"Because the day after I came for Darriel's nitipin, Dad was also like tau mas." said Lea.
"Is he having a problem?" ask her later.
Daniel and Ellio were silent and thought.
"Aren't ya, bro?"
Daniel and Ello put out the same words and were heard asking each other questions.
"Yes." replied Ellio.
"Richard if there is a problem it must be a story, never once had he not been honest with the two of us" he continued.
"Yes really." Daniel chimed.
"Hehee."
Suddenly Darriel in Richard's lap laughed. He seemed to raise his hand as if to be welcomed. The mood turned into horror.
Lea and Marsha return to their mystical perceptions. Darriel looked outside, and there was one of the housekeepers standing far away in the courtyard and waving at her.
"Didn't Mr. Richard be the devil at Hanif's wedding the other day?" ask Marsha.
"Maybe, Hanif's behavior is like a demon. It must have been Satan gathering, thinking Hanif was part of them." - Limpal Lea.
Daniel and Ellio laughed.
"Nothing is so" Daniel said.
"You two, it's become mystical." Ellio.
"Hehee." Once again Darriel laughed, while Richard remained silent.
"It's true that part of Mr. Richard's spirit was kidnapped. It's in another realm." Marsha said.
Daniel and Ellio laughed.
"The spirit is a martabak, it can be half-and-half." said Ellio.
"Oh the father mah, mending take the evil first." said Marsha.
"Yes, who knows what the local devil is."
"No, more thoughts that time" said Daniel.
"But said mas, father if there are more problems must be a story. This isn't it?"
Daniel was silent, actually it was true. He doesn't know what happened to Richard now.
"Is Richard newly diagnosed with a serious illness and won't talk to us?"
Suddenly, Ellio made everyone at the dinner table suddenly speechless. This makes more sense than the mystical perception that was expressed by Lea and Marsha.
The health problems of a person no one ever knows. Looks healthy, but suddenly diagnosed with a certain disease. And usually sufferers will tend to keep it a secret, if it is severe.
The reason, of course, does not want to bother around. Especially big families and friends.
"Take me talk, mom, um. He's closer to you" Lea said.
"Don't let the disease is severe, we just know." he continued later.
Daniel held his wife's hand tightly. The atmosphere of the dining table that had been exciting, now turned into a sad.
Perception can always change the atmosphere and circumstances in an instant. For that do not like to conclude something that is not clear.
Richard moved, he stepped towards the dining table. This time he had a smile and awareness on his face.
The dining table residents who thought Richard was sick also sat with each other. It was as if he was making a pact to be ordinary in front of Richard.
"Enak." answered them all with laughter, but it felt awkward.
"Why not eat?" ask Ellio.
"This was crying." Richard reminded.
She wanted to eat, but Darriel went on a rampage and did not want to be held by any household assistant.
In Lea and Daniel's arms and Ellio and Marsha's rampage continues. Finally after the grandfather intervened, he suddenly remained silent.
Now Richard took a glass and tried to pour cold water into it. But suddenly he returned dumbfounded and the water spilled onto the table. Marsha who is closest to the reflex helps justify.
"Sorry, sorry." said Richard as if regaining consciousness.
"Ngeblank again me." he said then drank.
He took a tissue and wiped it all away.
"Here Delil is the same papa, Papa Rich wants to eat it."
Daniel took Darriel. At first Darriel frowned wanting to cry. But fortunately not so, because now Daniel invites him out of the house.
"Father eat yes." said Lea.
Richard nodded, and Lea served his father. Marsha and Ellio remained in place to accompany Richard. Richard who actually does not hurt anything is now eating.
He was thinking about Nadya. This time he fell in love again so much. But it became difficult because of the high walls that blocked it.
It's easier to fall in love with someone's girlfriend. It can still be easily cut. But this is the wife of a legitimate man. There are laws that bind their marriage.
Richard had tried to shake off all that by remembering many other women. The prettier one, the more everything than Nadya. But back again Nadya's face that haunts his mind.
***
"Bro, I don't want to lose any of you yet."
Ellio said with a sobbing tone, and a gaze that was thrown far forward. Right in the line of trees that grow near the fence.
He and Daniel are sitting by the pool and deliberately moving away to talk about Richard.
"Outside me, bro. I wouldn't be strong without either of you" Daniel said.
"We have to help Richard, we have to force him to be honest with us" Ellio said.
Daniel nodded, with a mixed heart.
"Let's talk to him in one eye" the man said.
"We're going to face all of this together" he continued.
"Why should Richard, try it?"
Ellio asked a regretful question. Perception had completely mastered the minds of the two.
"Gue was sure his family didn't know either" Daniel said.
This time it was Ellio who nodded. Suddenly Richard appears and immediately picks up Daniel's cigarette.
"Bro!"
Daniel and Ellio are like prohibiting.
"Lo take care of your health, don't smoke.!" said Daniel.
"Tau lo, it's a danger know not." Ellio.
Richard looked at the two friends and felt strange.
"What the hell are you?" ask her later.
He continued burning cigarettes. Daniel and Ellio now open their lips. It was a surprise that Richard was still doing this.