CONSEQUENCES
Their Lives

Mr. Farzin was still in the same tension, not knowing what he could do to prevent his family's conversation with Dina from continuing. But all he could do was close his eyes so that he would not get more tense.

"If your friend Jhana was here now, it would be exciting, because in the end this family will know two women named Jhana," said Isa.

"Do you know your friend Jhana's full name?" ask Flowers to Dina.

"Of course, her name is just one word, Rinjhana," replied Dina.

"Rinjhana? The full name is the same" said Mrs. Zemira.

"Sorry, if you may know, why did you give so many responses when I mentioned Jhana's name? Does Jhana in your life have an important role?" ask Dina.

"Jhana in our lives plays a very important role. But, that's not important anymore now" answered Isa.

"Why?"

"Because since ten years ago he has not played an important role anymore."

"Darling, who is Jhana you mean?" ask Kevlar about the flowers.

"I told you about it before we got married, because you were busy, no wonder you forgot my story about it" Bunga replied.

"Wait, that Jhana, not the child ..."

"Yes," interrupted the flower.

"Kids? Whose son? What boy?" Dina became curious.

"I'll tell you everything later, it's not good to talk about brother Jhana here, in front of mom and dad," Isa told Dina.

"You call him brother? But Kevlar's brother said he was a child."

"He was once a child" joked Isa.

"Deehhh! I asked seriously!" Dina looked annoyed until she pinched Isa.

"Ouch! It hurts! Ahahaha, sorry, sorry, next time I answer seriously."

Mr. Farzin was relieved at the end of their conversation like this, though Isa would tell Dina about Jhana, but at least no one would be pumping and luring Dina to think that the Jhana they were referring to was the same person.

"Mother, can I have this dessert?" shirina asked the Flower.

"Please, baby, come on, it's time to eat dessert" said Bunga.

The dessert served this time is brownies, 1 person gets a portion that is quite a lot, so the brownies must be cut first before eating. Isa is still feeding Mr. Farzin had to be fed, and everyone was enjoying their brownies with a knife they held in their right hand and a fork they held in their left.

Yeah, everybody, except the Jhana kids. They were confused to use forks and knives simultaneously, so they only saw the others eating.

"Why don't you eat the brownies?" dina asked the children of Jhana.

"I am still full" replied Mona.

"I was waiting for him to get cold" Fina replied.

"I am still full, too" replied Zhani.

"It's okay if you're still full, just wait a few more moments and you definitely can't bear to continue inhabiting your brownies" said Bunga.

"Yes, aunt," said Mona.

"Oh yeah, what's your name? We haven't known it until now."

"I'm Mona, this is Fina and this is Zhani."

"Mona, Fina and Zhani, they're all good names."

"Thank you still, auntie's very good."

"Ah, thank you little girl."

After that, the flowers ate their brownies again.

"Dina?" call Flowers.

"Yes?" sahut Dina's.

"There's one thing I want to ask you."

"Yes, no problem, just ask."

"What's your job?"

"I? I'm a cashier at a diner."

"House to eat? You mean your dad's restaurant? But, isn't your dad just opening restaurants in five countries and five continents?"

"Yes, honestly my father is working on a plan to open a branch of his restaurant in Indonesia, but the plan is still in place."

"So? What restaurant do you work at? Uh! Why didn't I think about it! You definitely work at a five-star restaurant! You're really an independent girl who wants to start a business like your father."

"Hewmhew. No sister Bunga, I work in a restaurant, not a restaurant."

"Not restaurant? Eating house? What do you mean, middle-class folk restaurants downstairs? Not a high-end folk restaurant like us?"

"Yes. But the diner I work in also gets a lot of high-class customers."

"Euh, why do you want to work in a low-class place? It's a despicable job for a rich man like us."

"Sister, why are you talking like that? Wouldn't it be nice if Dina worked alone from the bottom? After all, there are no restaurants for the lower middle class people, all the same, restaurants or restaurants are open to the public, you cannot say that, she is an independent girl, it's the best thing a girl has ever done that I've ever known, even though her college was still funded by her parents, but that's why I chose her to be my wife" Isa said.

Dina just smiled as she looked at Bunga, she did not expect that this was the true nature of her future sister-in-law.

"How much is your salary?" ask Flowers to Dina.

"One million seven hundred thousand rupiahs" replied Dinah.

"How many hours do you work?"

"Fourteen hours with two hours of rest, so I work only for twelve hours."

"Huh? Twelve hours?! Ou no, no, no, does your body not crumble to work that long every day with only four days off in a month?"

"The human body will not crumble just because it works as a cashier for twelve hours, unless the working one is a hundred years old and above" concluded Dina.

"But your salary is only one million seven hundred thousand in a month. Even my limited edition toothbrush cost more than your salary."

"What I'm looking for is not the money, but the experience, I want to know what it's like to work a bone slam from scratch, to live a rough life without luxury items. I try not to be arrogant, in that way, at least I can know how a process works, and I can know how everyone should appreciate a process."

Flowers fell silent with Dina's reply just now.

"So the three of them are poor?" Flowers re-open the sound, this time he asked about the children of Jhana.

Dinah was surprised by the question of the Flower, she did not understand how one can humiliate others openly in the presence of the person she despised herself.

Because he did not get an answer from Dina, Bunga also called the name of his future sister-in-law "Dina?".

"Y-yes?" sahut Dina's.

"Are these poor people?"

Dina was surprised when she. Zemira even let Flowers ask like that, all of them were just busy eating brownies.

"Sister, why did you ask like that?" Finally, Isa opened his voice.

"I don't want our things to be touched by the poor" replied Bunga.

"But brother offends other people."

"It's better than we've contracted a poor virus."

"I-I won't give an answer about it" Dina said.

"So, they turned out to be poor people, worthy of not knowing how to hold a knife and fork simultaneously. The reason for waiting cold and still full, but do not know how to eat the style of a rich person," snorted Flowers.

Jhana's children just bowed.

Arka then came down from her chair and approached the 3 brothers. First he approached Zhani who was a year older than him. Arka held onto both of Zhani's wrists.

"Arka what are you doing?!" tanya Raya's.

"They don't know how to use knives and forks at the same time, Tantri said helping is every man's duty and it's an act God likes, so I want to help," answer Arka.

"The right hand holds the fork, the left hand holds the knife," Arka continued while directing Zhani's hand.

Seeing this, Mr. Farzin also smiled proudly, because at least there are still members of his family who are humble. 'Son, your soul, is still alive in his inner Ark.

Raya did not remain silent, he then approached Arka and Zhani, Raya then released the hand of his son from Zhani.

"Don't come into contact with people like them!" raya Kata.

"But they just don't know how to use a fork and a knife at the same time, I just want to help" Arka said.

"You fight?! Want to be a bad boy?!"

"Mother, I just want to do good."

"Nobody forbids you from doing good, but look who you're going to do good to."

"Can't we discriminate against others? What else would you do for good?"

"Argh! Come with mom!" Raya pulls Arka's hand, but Arka releases her.

"I didn't do anything wrong, mother."

"Mother just doesn't want you to get the virus of poor people's poverty."

"There's no such thing as a poverty virus, is there Isa's uncle?"

"Yes, of course nothing, sister Raya, brother and sister Bunga are too paranoid, nothing will change if Arka helps them" said Isa.

"Just as you guys." Raya then returned to her seat.

"You must force it even more" whispered Bunga to Raya who was sitting to her left.

"If I act any further, I'll just be dizzy" Raya said.

"Well, the fork in the left hand and the knife in the right hand" Arka told Fina and Mona.

"Oooh, this is how it works" Mona said, smiling Arka.

"Thank you for teaching us" Fina said.

"Sama-sama," answered Arka who returned to her seat next to Shirina.

"Curl! Don't sit next to me! I don't want to catch the poverty virus that goes into your body!" shirina Protest.

But Arka did not press him and chose to remain seated.

"You have no ears?!" Shirina started to get emotional.

"I have the right to sit here." Arka defended herself. Mr. Farzin smiled at his first grandchild's reply.

Shirina then got off her chair and climbed onto Kevlar's lap. "Dad, let me sit on dad's lap, it's better than me contracting the poverty virus."

Kevlar was silent.

Dina was surprised because Kevlar also did not say anything, because all he knew was Kevlar was a person who was peace-loving and kind-hearted also not arrogant. He was not surprised what if Isa spoke up earlier, because Isa was a good person, Dina understood that Isa did not act because he had to feed Mr. Farzin, but what he did not expect was the attitude of Mrs. Zemira and Kevlar who chose silence, he began to think that they were the same as Flowers, Raya and Shirina.

"Darling! Ayang!" pangil Bunga, not long after that Ayang came.

"Yes, Madam?" sahut Ayang's.

"Do you see those three kids?" ask Flowers

"Yes, Madam, I see" replied Ayang.

"The chairs, spoons, forks, plates, and glasses they use here, you tell Jaya to throw them away later, I don't want anything if there are items in this house that are touched by commoners. And with this tablecloth, they touched it."

"Okay, Madam."

'Oh my God, this woman is crazy, all that stuff was bought with money, not leaves, it's just nice that she told her workers to throw those things away, you arrogant bastard,' the inner Ayang directly went from the backyard.

Dina and Isa then glanced at each other. The two of them were both unexpected for what Bunga had said just now, even this new Isa saw Bunga acting so arrogant, he said, and he also did not expect that his mother had not spoken anything about the things that had just happened.

The children of Jhana then bowed to the orders of Bunga on Ayang, they became uncomfortable to be in the Dhananjaya mansion because it continues to be denigrated.

"Let's continue eating, don't worry, the things you touch here will be thrown away later. Take it easy, we have the money to replace those things, keep you poor, don't be surprised either" Bunga told the Jhana children.

Raya chuckled, then said, "Flowers, of course they were surprised, they knew that even the price of a spoon here was very expensive, and they don't even have the money to buy a spoon in this house, so they're surprised."

"Ah, right too," said Bunga.

After the dinner was over, Bunga called and approached Isa who was walking towards his room.

"What's wrong?" ask Isa.

"The thing this family missed when your betrothed and Dina was asking about Dina's work, so why didn't you ever say anything about Dina's work?"

"Is that important?"

"If I had known that Dina was a cashier at a lower middle class restaurant, I wouldn't have allowed her to bring her coworkers or her co-workers' children."

"Sister, don't talk about it anymore, you don't talk about it."

"Mom didn't talk about it because she expected me to talk about it."

"Then tell mom, the matter doesn't need to be discussed anymore."

Isa then went down to the 1st floor and did not go into the room because Bunga would definitely make him waste time by arguing with his brother about things that he thought were not important.

Meanwhile, Dina, who was agitated because Jhana did not return to the mansion, grew more agitated because she could not find Jhana's children in the entire room of the mansion.

"Dina?" call Isa who just came down from the 2nd floor, the man walked over to his fiancee.

"What's wrong with you? Why are you so nervous?" continued.

"There are two things that make me nervous" Dina replied.

"Hm? Anything?"

"First why hasn't Brother Jhana arrived and not told me? And the second one where are the children? Where are Mona, Fina and Zhani? Why did they suddenly disappear?"

"You've been looking for them all over the room?"

"It."

"Then let's look outside" asked Isa.

"Yes, that's a good idea." Dina then walked towards the door, followed by Isa.

When they opened the door, they were shocked to see the children outside shivering with cold.

Same with Dina, Mommy. Zemira also looked agitated. Because of this apparent uneasiness, Indira approached him.

"Mrs, what's wrong? Is there anything I can help you with?" ask Indira.

"Why hasn't Arvin come home yet? Where is he now?"

"Mr Arvin's been home since dessert was served, madam."

"Huh? Is he home yet? Where is he now? Why didn't he tell me he was home?"

"Mr Arvin's in his room, ma'am. That's all I know."

"Alright, you can go to your room."

"Okay, ma'am, I'm sorry."

After getting information from Indira, Mrs. Zemira who was in the dining room immediately went up to the 2nd floor to visit Arvin's room.