Carmen's Love Trap
The Noise is Lost

Zaky

"Huh? You want to go to Jogja? How-how long? Same who?" I asked when Carmen asked for permission to go to Jogja when we had dinner together.

Baby is busy with his job. No longer bothering me and forcing me to sleep in my room. In fact, I sometimes hear the sound of rock music marker he was busy working and surely the next day woke up late.

Ever since Abi asked Carmen to hold the cafe business to help Wira, the boy had seen less and less. If it's not bad, he'll make breakfast. Dinner is also prepared but not cooking as before but messages in the online application.

I feel a little weird anyway. The boy was no longer as cheerful as he had been. Sometimes even busier than I am the leader of a large company.

I want to protest but she does her job as a wife properly. The house is always clean. His clothes are always ready. I rarely talk to him anymore. We are like two strangers living under one roof.

If I am bored, there is no more spoiled attitude and babbling that makes my boredom disappear. She misses him and asks him to come visit. But he was always busy.

As if all was not enough, he even asked permission to go to Jogja to take care of business there, "Indeed Wira can not handle it?" my protest.

"Abang wants to go on a honeymoon with Sister Dewi" he replied as he was busy chewing his food.

"Honeymoon?" news that surprised me. Will they improve and return to harmony again? Could lose my chance.

"Yes. Mommy was not given permission to go with Abi. If Abi, replace Abang duty hold the showroom for a while. I had to handle the Jogja branch."

"How long have you been there?"

Carmen shrugged her shoulders, "Either. Look at the icon first."

I can't ban it. Carmen went to work. Not for fun.

"alright. Let me. You should be able to take care of yourself in a city of people!" I'm sure Carmen will smile cheerfully when I give her permission and embrace me spoiled as usual, but she won't. He just wants to eat.

"Thank you, Mommy." she answered briefly.

Wow ... What's the matter? Is Baby a grown girl now? Where's the attitude going all this time? How did it disappear suddenly?!

Carmen cleaned up our food and washed all the dishes and tidied the table. I waited for him to finish because I wanted to take him on the road.

"Baby, you want to go for a walk? Fresh air?! Come home stop by Mama's house." take me.

"Not yet, my. I have to pack clothes."

How am I being rejected? Packing? When will the boy leave?

"Packings? When did you go to Jogja?" many wonder.

"Tomorrow. I'll take the plane by noon."

"Tomorrow?! How come it's so sudden?" I was so surprised to hear that.

"so. It's actually not sudden, Mas. I asked Mommy from a long time ago, I'm the only one who can agree now. Moreover, there was a new branch opening there. Not the moment?"

Carmen left me and went into her room. Without me noticing, I stood at the door of his room and watched what he was doing. He put a lot of clothes in his suitcase. Like moving house.

"I don't know yet, Mom. The opening of a cafe usually requires preparation. From before the cafe opens until after it opens I have to monitor and I have to know what the shortcomings are. I couldn't have been there two days."

A long time? How-how long? Then what about me? Am I alone in this house?

"Can't it be faster?" I unconsciously asked like that.

"I don't know, Mom. Why would you want me to go home sooner? Is there something I should do?!" ask Baby innocently.

"Ah no. If you don't want to go for a walk, I'll play a game. You sleep in this room? Not in my room?" again I asked something strange. Like I told her to sleep in my room. What the hell is with me?!

"Yes. I slept in this room." Carmen pointed to a stack of documents on top of her desk. "There's still a lot I have to check."

"Oh that way, don't sleep too late" I said before leaving her room.

The next day Carmen had prepared breakfast for me. His homemade fried rice that I think tastes like it's opium on my tongue. If he's gone tomorrow, who made me breakfast?

Carmen ate while playing her phone. Sometimes he smiles to himself. I became suspicious. What he did.

I extended my neck and saw him opening the chat app. Who was she talking to until she smiled like that?

"Spend your meal first just play HP!" my reproach.

"Oh yeah, Mas." He put his phone down and went back to eating his breakfast. Again, there was no conversation between us. Carmen was more quiet than before. So it's colder.

I then decided to go to work. He drove me as usual. There was nothing strange, only that he was no longer as cheerful as ever. He was no longer the carefree and blabbering that made my ears noisy.

Bizarrely.

It was even stranger when I came home. The house looks dark and cold. Carmen has prepared a side dish that I can heat. The house is also neat, but quiet.

I remembered that he used to greet me with a carefree smile while saying, "Have you come home yet? Want to eat first or take a shower first? I've cooked for Mas loh! It's delicious, I'd love it!"

I feel a little dizzy when he starts to take. But this quiet situation even makes me miss his virginity. It's so weird of me.

I turn on the lights so that the house looks brighter and not too quiet but still this house seems to lose its soul. Although it has only been a few months apparently Carmen has become the soul of this house.

I went into the room and found the change of clothes Carmen had prepared. Tomorrow morning there will be no more work shirts on the bed, complete with matching colored ties

Not a day and I've been feeling lonely there's no presence of that spoiled child. I asked him how he was doing. Has he arrived or hasn't he? Where stay?

I sent her a message, but my message was unread even after I finished taking a shower. I saw his social media and my forehead wrinkled at his latest status update.

A photo of him under the Jl sign. Malioboro with a fluffy smile. My question is, who took a picture of him? Not just one tablet, many photos that he took in style. Is it okay for Carmen to go with someone else? Wh who?

I called Carmen back, but she never picked up my phone. Nevermind! Why do I keep thinking about him!

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