ALDEBY
|53.| Doubts

"Mas! Mas! Up, Mas!" Fahri woke up when he heard that voice. "Kok, did the mas sleep in the toilet?"

Instead of answering, Fahri set his sights on the clock wrapped around his left wrist, 02.47. Unmindful of the middle-aged man in the security guard uniform who had just woken him, Fahri ran towards the rooftop.

The man gasped as he looked at Beby who was sitting on the chair with both arms folded and head lowered. The wind blows ferociously up here, while Beby does not wear thick clothes at all. Then, where is Aldef?

"By?" call Fahri while touching Beby's shoulder.

The girl looked up. His eyes that had been holding back the sleepiness looked soft, his lips turning blue from the cold air. "Al—eh, I thought Aldef was coming." Beby's voice sounded hoarse.

Beby's sentence suddenly made Fahri glare. "Aldef didn't come? Meanin? I don't know—ah! We go down first, yeah. You must be cold here."

Fahri intends to hold Beby and help the girl stand up, but Beby refuses. "Wait a minute, Ri. What if Aldef comes? I think he still has more surprises. Ribet. It's old."

Fahri was increasingly astonished. He picked up his phone left there, then called Aldef. But, no matter how many times Fahri tried, Aldef's phone died.

What the hell is going on? All this, it feels really awkward.

"Aldef should be here. He should be waiting for you. No more surprises. Everything was arranged together. You guys just eat here. Hitherto. There's nothing else to be prepared for."

"But ...."

"By, come. It's really cold in here. Where's your shirt thin."

Beby turned to the right and left, as well as all corners of the rooftop, making sure there was no Aldef. The girl let out a sigh of resignation, then left the rooftop with Fahri.

Arriving at the door of Beby's apartment unit, the girl stopped stepping. His eyeballs stared fixedly at Fahri. "Ri, can I ask you a favor?"

"What?"

"Lo just went home, yeah. Don't meet my sister. Don't make anything clear. And this incident, just keep between us. I don't want Aldef to be around my brother."

"No, dong, By ...."

"Ri, please. This time it was. Go straight home, huh?"

Fahri breathed a heavy sigh. True indeed, Beby was a stubborn girl. "OKAY. But promise, yes, if there's anything just call me. If you see Aldef, let me know. Wonder me the same, tuh, son."

Beby smiled slightly. "Yes. Thanks, yeah."

After Fahri left, Beby opened the door of his apartment slowly. Initially, Beby thought that Miko and Rama were in the room of the brother. Because Miko said, Rama will stay there tonight.

But, Miko's figure confronted Beby as soon as he entered.

"Hi, Brother," said Beby, commenting on his smile as sweetly as possible.

Miko stared at every detail of the face of the younger sister. The flat expression that framed his face actually made Beby's hair bristle.

"Your face why gini shoots?"

"Hhhmmm .. that ...."

"Why long above? Does eating take up to three hours?"

"Ng ... that ... because ...."

The back of Miko's hand suddenly touched Beby's forehead. "Lo fever," Miko said casually. "Lock room. Sleeps. If you need anything, call me. I'll bring the food to your room later. Today I will be home all day. There are no excuses. Stay in the room, sleep. Do not try to leave the room if you still have a fever. Especially out of the house."

Beby gawked at the barrage of sentences coming out of Miko's mouth. The reason is, the way Miko said those words like a person who was memorizing a sentence.

"Wait for what else? Go into the room."

"O-okay."

Beby looked at Miko doubtfully. While Miko returned Beby's gaze by glancing towards the room, asking the girl to go there immediately.

"Oh, one more." Hearing Miko's voice, Beby turned to face her sister. "There's no Aldef today. Wanna?"

Brother Miko .. know?

***

"The aldef? Why diem, anyway? Please turn on the lights."

Celine repeated the same sentence, but Aldef replied, "A little while."

Be honest. Aldef's distraught. Very confused. How could Celine be blind? Didn't the doctor say that the girl was okay?

Poppy returned with a middle-aged man in a white suit who had been handling Celine. Because Poppy had previously explained, the doctor then examined Celine's condition.

"Catient family can come with me? I have something to explain."

"Well, Doc," said Poppy.

"You want to be won?" Aldef asked Poppy.

"What's this really about, anyway? These too. Why did the light die? Hospital days can be power-dead?"

Seeing Celine's condition, Poppy said to Aldef, "No need. Brother please take care of sister Celine, yes."

***

The farther this step explores, the more blurry the shadow I get. Universe, what this time, again am I misguided?

B.S.A

'Squealing!'

The door of Beby's room opened, making his writing activity stop. Miko's figure in a black T-shirt and blue boxer pants dongker entered with a tray containing dishes and a glass of mineral water.

"Why so?" miko asked as Beby moved from the study table to the bed.

"Kepo," ketus Beby.

Miko, who had finished putting the tray on the nightstand, looked straight at Beby. His sister still looked upset. "Why, anyway?"

"It's okay."

"Breakfast first, tuh. I pesenin fried seafood rice earlier."

"No laper."

"Babys. Please, deh. It's not my fault that I know everything that happened in the rooftop. I just want to check on you. That's it."

"Ngapain scuffed everything, anyway? I'm so good, brother! I'm not a kid you should watch twenty-four hours!"

Miko who was originally standing, took a sitting position on the mattress right side Beby. "Yes. I know you are big. But, my role is here to replace papa. Lo papa's only daughter. You think, how would you feel if you knew you were treated badly with your girlfriend?"

Beby quiet. Imagining when Miko secretly saw him on the rooftop earlier made Beby feel less free. If this is the case, how do you protect Aldef from Miko's rampage?

Miko's palm landed on Beby's shoulder. "Look, I'm not gonna make Aldef die. At least battered." The sentence then made Beby look sharply right into Miko's eyeball. "Yes-yes. I'm not going to do anything about Aldef. But, I want to know the reason he suddenly left and made a mess of surprise that we've prepared."

"Nr ...." The sewot tone and sharp gaze that Beby had shown, now changed with a faint and hesitant voice. His eyes also seemed to be glazed. "Gue didn't choose wrong again, did he, Brother? Aldef wouldn't be like Arka, would he?"

"Why do you ask that?"

Beby shook his shoulders, a sign he did not know where the question came from.

"If your real Aldef turns out to be the same as your ex, I kill him."

"Sok-okan! Look at the blood."

"That was, yeah!"

Beby laughed satisfied looking at the sister's annoyed expression. Remembering Miko's childhood must have been crying at the sight of blood, making Beby's stomach feel like something was tickling.

"Bye, ah! Eat, tuh. I want nugas. Bhai!"

***

A woman in a black hat pulled out a brown envelope from the pocket of the jacket wrapped around her body.

"It's the Father's payment."

Without a doubt, the middle-aged man in a security guard uniform before him took over the brown envelope. His hand moved shrewdly opening the contents of the envelope. His smile broke when he saw dozens of pieces of red money inside.

"Other times, if there's another assignment, let me know, yes, Neng."

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