Diamond Luster
Chapter 31. Trying to melt the hearts of stars
"Why are you so hard?. Can't you use a little bit of your conscience to feel the suffering of the people there if the eviction is done?"
"What about my grandparents?. What about the fate of hundreds of cheats..."
"The problem your grandparents and I've been thinking about. I'm going to buy a housing that they can permanently occupy. You have nothing to lose in this eviction problem." cut the Star.
Diamonds pulled her hair back a sign she was beginning to run out of sense to melt the rigors of her husband's stand.
"It is not one or two people who are adversely affected by the eviction. But, tens to hundreds of people."
"You've gone too far into my work" said Bintang in a rising tone.
"We're home" The star pulled his wife's hand.
"Bin, before we go home, I want us to stop somewhere" Diamond asked.
"I don't have time to wander here and there without a clear purpose" Bintang said.
"You're in. We're going home, now"
The star first got into the car and opened the car door for his wife.
"Star, I just need your time for 20 minutes, nothing more. I just wanted to show you something" pressed Berlian who was still standing outside and not yet riding in her husband's car.
"I said come in.." Bintang's orders did not warrant his wife's request.
"just 20 minutes. Please...." Diamonds in front of her husband.
Seeing the Diamonds glimmering with a look of hope, the feeling of the Star suddenly felt like it could not bear to ignore his request.
"I only have 15 minutes, after which we go home" Star relented but remained on his arrogant side.
"Nothing. Yuukk.." said Diamond sparkling and excitedly riding the silver car.
"You've lost 1 minute of your time, you only have 14 minutes left" said Bintang as his wife sat sweetly next to him.
"Oh my God, the Star. You're such a calculating man, huh?" sumpul Berlian exasperated at the arrogance of her husband.
The star glanced thinly at his side. Her lips poked at the stifled smile so aware of how cute Diamond would be if irritated like that.
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The place where the diamond was shown was not far from the health center where he was treating the wound on his forehead earlier. The place was only about 500 meters away and it did not take long for Bintang to drive his car to a place. Actually, an elementary school.
"You see them?" tanya Berlian got down from the car and looked straight ahead, towards the flag ceremony field.
The star followed his wife's point of view. On the ceremonial field belonging to the elementary school which is filled with shady green trees, children in red white uniforms are fun to spend their rest hours playing.
Among them there are those who play jumping rope for some groups of female students on the class terrace and play ball by using a makeshift field for male students. There are also busy playing chases and there are also busy discussing under the shade tree.
All played cheerfully, excitedly in a joking laugh full of joy without burden. The star itself doesn't know what the diamond meant to bring him here.
"You've spent half your time just reminiscing unimportantly like this" said the Star.
Diamond took a deep breath and looked at the man who was leaning casually on the hood of his car with his arms crossed over his chest. His cold face with a sharp, directional look kept a fog of mystery that was difficult to digest by Diamond himself.
"This school will be one of the parts that will be displaced if you do not want to change your decision. Hundreds of students who attend school here studying for their future will also be affected by your disputes with their parents."
"They are the real victims who will bear the worst risk of your eviction."
"Those kids didn't just lose their place to take shelter. But, they will also lose their place to gain knowledge to explore the ideals for their better future."
"They even lost their smiles, jokes and laughter that you hear today just because of a monopolistic act of people ruling over themselves"
"One thing you should know!. What the citizens did to you was not at the instigation of their personal desires. They do so solely for the sake of saving what is rightfully theirs for their future successors."
"They persevere and struggle only to keep their baby in possession of what they really struggle with through the drops of sweat specifically for their children, not for the benefit of business or whatever kind of group you do. I hope your heart can be touched to save the future of those innocent children."
The diamond then stands still after giving a clear picture of the eviction that will be done by the star.
Now all decisions are in the hands of the stars. Is he going to stick to the view he thinks is right or does he have the same view as Diamond?.
No one knows what the stars think about the image described by Diamonds at length. The brown-eyed man did not give any response. He was just silent, preoccupied with his own problems seeing cheerful disciples playing together that no one could read plainly, including Diamond himself.
"Your time is up. We go home" said Bintang flat-spoken as he passed his wife into the car.
Diamond could only sigh in disappointment because his efforts to melt the hearts of the Stars seemed to be in vain.
"When are you standing there?" reprimand Stars.
"Snap, come in" he ordered.
"Yes.."Sahut Diamond is not spirit.
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The star drove his car through a lake surrounded by pine trees. That place is a place that holds many sweet memories for Diamond with Rangga. Passing through the lake, Diamond caught a shadow that stood firmly on the edge of the lake.
"Rangga.."he muttered.
"Who did you call it?" tanya Bintang was less clear to hear what his wife had just said.
"Eng...Notwithstanding. I didn't mention anyone's name yet" Diamond was forced to lie and quickly cast a shadow of Rangga from his memory. Although suspicious, Bintang did not want to ask a lot and chose to focus on driving his car.
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"LIAN..." shouted Rangga as hard as they could at the edge of their love well.
"Lian, I still love you. You must return to be mine. Got to...!!" yelling Rangga again broke the silence of the lake.