Being My Own Son's Nanny
Aura Kencana

Julian had just walked into the hotel room where he was staying. The man instantly charged his already depleted Handponenya from three hours ago. After that, he went straight into the bathroom to clean his body. After finishing the bath, he immediately laid his body, because he was very tired this daily one, coupled with his mind that was in a state of turmoil.

"Why do I feel so sure that I really saw Ayara huh? I feel like I'm not hallucinating. I have to postpone my return to Jakarta. Tomorrow morning I'll go there again" Julian closed his eyes.

The man tried to sleep, but he could not at all, but when seen with his fatigue today, he should quickly fall asleep.

"Why can't I sleep at all? why does my heart feel bad. What's going on?" Julian tilted his body to the right and not for a minute, he had already turned again to the left. And it happens repeatedly. The man really looked agitated.

"Ahhh, it can't be like this! if this continues I will not be able to sleep until morning," Julian's mind as he moved to his suitcase and pulled out a bottle containing sleeping pills that he often consumed lately since Ayara's departure.

After that, he went back to bed again and lay down. After waiting for about 10 minutes, the man finally fell asleep.

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The clock shows at 11 p.m. Reynaldi suddenly woke up feeling thirsty. The man grabbed a bottle of mineral water that he had placed on the nightstand, and gulped it down.

The man wanted to continue his sleep, but suddenly his drowsiness disappeared somewhere. The man sat back down and pulled the charger that was plugged into his phone. Then the man started to turn on his phone.

The bluish light from the man's cell phone directly hit Reynaldi's face.

The man scrunched his forehead when he saw there was a notification of incoming calls from Gilang's number.

"Why did he call me so many times? is something going on?" batin Reynaldi who directly dialed back Gilang number. However, the answer was the voice of the operator who said that his best friend number was inactive.

After that, he also noticed that an unknown number had contacted him many times.

"Whose number is this? why did you call me so many times?" inner Reynaldi.

"Ahh, most prankster numbers," Reynaldi almost put his phone back on the nightstand. But he saw some messages coming in.

"Hmm, the sender of the unknown number just now," Reynaldi thoughtlessly pressed down on the green feature and started reading.

"Good night, sir. Sorry bothering you. My name is Aura, and I'm Ayara's friend. I tried to call you but your number wasn't active" Reynaldi's eyes suddenly grew up reading the message. Then, the man went back to reading another message.

"So, I heard that you and Julian Ayara's ex-husband came to look for her, but you failed, because in fact you've been lied to. And that was all the work of a doctor named Farell. He liked Ayara and wanted to get her, "Reynaldi stopped reading the next message and he immediately decided to contact the woman who claimed to be Ayara's friend. Because he wanted to hear the explanation directly.

The call was connected long enough, but it received no response at all. Reynaldi suddenly looked at the clock on the wall which turned out to have shown almost at half 12. "It's almost midnight. Maybe he's asleep, "inner Reynaldi. The man had just intended to re-read the next message he had not read. Suddenly, the woman called him back.

"Hello" said Reynaldi.

"Hello, Mister. Well, thank God, you called me back," a sigh of relief came from the woman across there.

"I'm sorry, my phone was out of power this afternoon, and I forgot to bring the power bank. How do you know my number?"asked Reynaldi who was still putting on a vigilant attitude, afraid that the woman on the other end was a con artist who claimed to be his friend Ayara. And he just wanted to blackmail, asking for some money as if he knew where Ayara was.

"From Mr. Slamet, sir," said Aura.

"From Mr Slamet? you knew her?"

Reynaldi nodded his head, able to accept the woman's reason.

"Now can you explain what your message means?" said Reynaldi, be careful without reducing his caution

Finally from across there, Aura began to tell everything in detail what had happened without reducing and adding in the slightest.

"Suckers! you fucking doctor!" say Reynaldi and clench his hands.

"But what you said was true, right? you're not lying, are you?" call Reynaldi again.

"What am I lying to, sir? swear by anything, I'm not lying at all," the voice of the woman named Aura was firm and very convincing.

"All right, thanks for your information! julian and I will be there soon!" Reynaldi.

The man did not close his phone. Likewise with the woman on the other end who immediately put her phone in her pocket, feeling sure that Reynaldi had decided the call.

Reynaldi deliberately wanted to hear if the woman was with anyone else, and indeed planned to cheat.

"Finally, I can calm down a little now. Hopefully, Ayara's marriage and that jerk doctor fail. Now I'd better go back home." Reynaldi smiled and now felt sure that the woman was not lying.

He was just about to turn off his phone, suddenly he paused his intention because he again heard the woman's curse.

"But how is this? my gas runs out, where I can get gas. Can't I push my bike to the village? where it was dark again, O Lord," there was the sound of Aura complaining at the other end.

"Miss Aura, Miss Aura!" call Reynaldi, but there is no answer because the phone has been put in a pocket.

Reynaldi then turned off his phone first, and then contacted Aura back.

"Yes, Sir?" the woman's voice came from the other end.

"Where are you now? I didn't turn off the call because I wanted you to end it on your own and I just heard that you ran out of gas. Don't tell me you ....". Reynaldi hung up his words.

"Yes, sir, I was determined to meet you and Mr. Julian straight to the hotel where you were staying, because I couldn't call your number. But, so hurriedly I did not see that my gasoline ran out," Aura said from the other end very carefully.

"Gosh, you're so desperate. You are a woman! what if someone wants to do evil to you on the street? where are you now? I'll be there!"

Aura then called out the place where she was now.

"Oh, it's not too far from the hotel. You wait there and don't go anywhere!" concluded Reynaldi while running out.

Reynaldi wanted to knock on Julian's door, but he paused.

"I'd better meet that woman first. Anyway I'm sure as hard as I can knock on the door, he won't open it because he must be taking the sleeping pills again" Reynaldi again continued his steps with a little run. For now, the safety of the woman on the other end seems more urgent, because she knows that Ayara and Farell's wedding is still tomorrow morning.

tbc