Albern and Lily
The Ideas of Childhood

Lily ended her phone call without waiting for a response from Darrel. He understood the typical young man. Darrel would never say so when asked for help, as if he didn't care. But the young man would show up later to help. The soul of his helper could not be dimmed despite trying not to heed the other person's request for help against him. And right now Lily is very confident that Darrel is preparing to come to see him.

Lily immediately got up from her bed, then looked around for something in the wardrobe. Shortly after, what Lily was looking for he found.a set of all-black clothes complete with a face cover that only shows the eyes only.

The girl smiled wryly as she took the clothes from the closet. The costume was worn before Darrel arrived.

"Good thing it still fits." Lily muttered while looking at her reflection through the mirror. The all-black outfit is a costume that he used to wear with Darrel when he would run away briefly from home at night. Usually, he did it because he wanted to go somewhere, but was not given permission by his parents. The last time they even kidnapped Zivanna from the Brylee family residence in a ninja costume, then took the young lady to a new year party held downtown.

Then the idea of playing ninja-ninja himself of course comes from Darrel. The young man was indeed very obsessed with ninjas and related to it since childhood. Darrel even had a teacher who taught and trained him to master ninjutsu, martial arts and strategies used by the ninja. Even Lily also participated in learning it under the pretext of learning Japanese. And the practice of ninja science itself most often they apply when they steal mangoes whose trees grow in the yard of people's homes.

Lily smiled wryly as she remembered all of that. After a long time, he did not expect to repeat his mischief as a teenager in order to meet and talk with Albern.

Suddenly, Lily's memory is set in the moment of Zivanna's eighth birthday party, the first time she met and befriended Darrel.

The flashback

"Lily, Lily, come on. I'd like to introduce you to my friend." Zivanna who was wearing a beautiful dress and a very beautiful self immediately rushed to welcome Lily as soon as the little girl came to her birthday party. Lily hasn't even had a chance to wish Zivanna a happy birthday and give her card.

"Isn't Kak Zi's friend just me?" Lily, who was only six years old, looked unhappy to hear that Zivanna had other friends besides herself. Lily even puts down her card for Zivanna and intends to turn away.

"Hey, where are you going? I'm gonna introduce you to my friend." Zivanna held Lily's arm.

"I'm just going home. Kak Zi already has another friend, meaning Kak Zi is no longer willing to play with me anymore." Said Lily with a pouting face. It seems the little girl is sulking at Zivanna.

"It's not. You are my friend, he is also my friend. The three of us are friends and play together." Zivanna explained.

Lily was silent for a moment, looking like she was digesting what Zivanna said just now.

"Come on." Zivanna took Lily by the hand and invited the little girl to meet a boy.

Lily glanced at the little boy Zivanna wanted to introduce her to. The boy was pale white and with an expressionless flat face. He's handsome, but looks cruel and creepy to Lily.

"Lily, it's Darrel." Zivanna pushes Lily's body forward to get closer to Darrel.

"Darrel, meet Lily." Zivanna said again, this time she spoke to Darrel.

Darrel looked at Lily intensely, then extended his hand.

"Darrel." He asked Lily to meet.

Instead of welcoming Darrel's hand, Lily took a few steps back.

"Sir Zi, he must be a bad person." Lily muttered somewhat fearfully. Darrel's cold face without a smile makes Lily assume that Darrel is a bad person.

Hearing that, Darrel knitted his eyebrows together while pulling back his hand.

"Hey, just anyone. Darrel's my Mama's best friend's son, not a bad guy." Sergey Zivanna won't take it.

"But why does his face look like a blood-sucking person?" Lily asked innocently.

Replaced Zivanna who knitted her eyebrows together. Darrel's face looks like someone who sucks blood? Meaning vampires?

Zivanna turned to Darrel. She felt bad about Lily's attitude towards the boy. But unexpectedly, Darrel actually smiled at Lily's words just now. At once Zivanna gasped at Darrel's smile that she had never seen before.

"Well, then it's not like people who like to suck blood anymore. Now I want to be friends with you." Lily's voice breaks Zivanna's daydream.

"My name is Darrel." Again he introduced himself.

"I'm Lily. Mama said, My dad gave me Lily's name because I'm pretty like Lily's flower." Lily shook Darrel's hand while introducing herself at length as well.

Darrel nodded his head. Shortly after, the three boys appeared to have played together in the party atmosphere.

After being satisfied to play, they then approached their parents who were talking at the time. Their conversation turned into babbling because the children had joined in.

"Zivanna, what would it be like to be big?" Carissa asked Zivanna who was sitting spoiled on her Mama's lap.

"I want to be the Boss Mom." Answer Zivanna.

Everyone who heard him laughed. The employees of the Zaya cafe did call Aaron's wife with the call Bu Bos, a call that was originally only thrown by one employee, but then followed by other employees. And it turns out that Zivanna secretly likes the call.

"Why do you want to be the boss?" Ask Carissa again.

"Tante Kara said, The boss has a lot of money. Every day Aunt Kara always gave money to Mama." Answer Zivanna again. Kara Zivanna meant Mama Darrel, who Zaya trusted in managing her business.

Everyone laughed again at Zivanna's reply.

"Honey, why does our daughter like money?" Zaya turned to Aaron somewhat grimacingly.

"Stop that..." Aaron Mutters.

"If we have a lot of money, we can help people who are in trouble, Ma." Zivanna straightened it out.

"Oh, okay." Zaya laughed as she hugged her daughter.

"If Lily, what would she be?" This time, I asked Lily.

Lily seemed to think for a moment.

"I want to be a doctor like Papa so I can treat the sick. I also want to be a piano player so I can travel abroad like Mama. But I want to be the Boss Mom too so I have a lot of money like Mama Kak Zi." The little girl finally. From childhood, Lily has a lot of desire.

"Not going along, Lily!" Zivanna doesn't accept it because Lily wants to follow her ideals.

Once again everyone laughed at the innocent words coming out of their children's mouths.

"Then if Darrel, what would he want to be?" Zaya then asked Darrel who had just sat quietly watching the people.

Darrell looked a little surprised. Seeing all the eyes that were currently fixed on him and were waiting for an answer, the boy would inevitably have to express the noble ideals that had been buried in his heart only.

"I want to be Hokage." Loudly speaking.

Instantly the atmosphere became silent. They all don't know what to respond to.

Flashback off

Seriate...

Who does not know what hokage is, directly ask Pak Jokowi, God willing he understands🤣🤣🤣

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