Diamond Luster
Chapter 79. Papa kartika is angry
It took about 30 minutes for the star to drive its vehicle to its destination. The place where he first came to with Berlian is still a wilderness, now far transformed into a large open land and ready to be managed into a tea plantation in accordance with the initial plan.
"mama, what's wrong?. Why did Mom suddenly tell me to come here?. Didn't you say that for a while I couldn't be disturbed and handed over all the office and plantation business to my mom?" The star immediately expressed his objection because because because of his mother's request, the event of the streets with Diamond so failed.
Things are different precisely shown by Diamond which time comes directly to greet and kiss the hands of his mother-in-law, who, then argue hello to ask each other's news and let each other miss like a mother and biological child who had not met for a long time.
"If indeed on this plantation there is a problem, mama can ask Rangga or others to solve it" said Bintang continued his protest.
"Star..." Diamond shook her head to warn her husband not to continue his protest. Diamond tried to hold a reprimand sentence out of his mouth so that Bintang can control emotions also appreciate the efforts of his mother because of situations and conditions that are not possible, he said, considering there was his mother-in-law with a confidant as well as some workers who were busy cleaning the pile of grass that was still scattered.
"Sorry ma, I don't mean to blame you. I was a little carried away by emotions" said Bintang realized its error thanks to Diamond.
Diamond smiled in relief, The star quickly understood the purpose of his warning without having to make a sound and argue. Diamond also did not hesitate to hold tightly the hand of the man who 5 months is decorating his life in a sacred bond.
"mama knows, son, I don't know how else to explain to Flora about our plantation expansion project. Flora remains determined to open new plantation land on the land of the former residents. As an investor, Flora has the right to object to the decision we have agreed to move the location of the new plantation land that we will open." explained mama Farida in a desperate tone.
"What does that mean, mama and the stars will change their minds and want to displace the residents' settlements?" ask the diamond with worry.
"Lian, you don't be so bad to think about it" Star said. From his eyes, the Star could read the fear within the diamond.
"I promise you, the settlement will never be riled up at any time. I'll talk to Flora and reinforce my decision not to debate the settlement matter" Star solemnly promised.
"I can't possibly seize and destroy anything valuable in your life, including the settlement where you were born and grew up with the memories of the life you went through" he continued.
"I trust you" Diamond smiled again and was relieved to hear her husband's promise.
The stars smile and feel a complete happiness can make Diamond smile like that.
"Bin, you should meet Flora who is debating with Rangga. Mama is worried that Rangga can not suppress the arrogance of the woman" asked mama Farida to the star.
"He's here?" ask Stars.
"Yes, he and Rangga were going around looking at this plantation as a whole. At least they are not far from here" said Farida's mother.
"Lian, I want to catch up with Flora, you wait for me here with mom" said Bintang.
"i'll just wait for you in that river, okay?. You see, I was curious to see the beauty of the river" Diamond pointed in front of him. Approximately 300 meters stretches a river that is usually used as a source of irrigation for some residents for plantation or agricultural purposes.
"the river?" The star looks towards the diamond. The river, which had been covered with trees and weeds, now stretched wide after the land was opened and the trees there joined in the slash.
"you may" forbid the stars without thinking.
"You can't go anywhere. You accompany mama here" he added.
"Why?. There's no harm in me going to the river?"
"Don't argue my ban!!" sela Bintang with a high tone, making Diamond speechless and confused why Bintang so firmly forbid him to play into the river that invites curiosity since they passed a long journey to the plantation.
"Lian, you just sort out what your husband says" Farida said.
"ma, I'm picking lian. Don't let him get near or near the river" the Star told his mother.
"I'm going to catch up with Flora first. You remember my message well" said Bintang after leaving a message to his mother, then the Star peeped Diamond forehead.then he walked in accompanied by his mother's confidant.
"Ma why did the Bintang really insist on forbidding lian to play in the river?. Is there something wrong with the river?" Diamond asked after her husband was already far from her sight.
"Just know, Lian!. Your husband was once washed up in the river as a child and he was traumatized by the name of the river. So until now he could not swim because the trauma did not go away" replied mama Farida.
"Washing in the river?. How can?" asked Diamond curiously to know what causes the Star to drift.
"That's it, Star right." mama Farida quickly regained consciousness and was silent. He almost slipped into telling the true story of Diamond's fear of anger and leaving the Stars if he knew the story behind his mother's true death.
"The star was his son could not be silent, did not want to be told. He insisted on playing in the river until he slipped and drifted away. Luckily, his father was quick to see and help. If not, mama can not imagine how his fate" the middle-aged woman was forced to lie for the integrity of her son's household.
"Don't remember anymore, mama. Lian understood how my mother felt at that time because she had also felt the same way when my late mother was washed away and died" said diamond smiling bitterly reminiscing about the hardest time in her life.
"You don't continue to be sad. Even if your mother has died. There is a mother here, son. mama already considers you like her own biological child" entertain farida's name sincerely.
Diamond smiled when she heard her mother-in-law's words. He hugged the woman too.
"Lian, I don't think mama can stay here long. Mama's head from earlier was dizzy thinking about the problem on this plantation" complained mama Farida while holding her left head.
"No need, my mother came home to accompany the asep mang. You wait for your husband. Later he can be angry if he just stay" refused mama Farida subtle remind Diamond.
"Then let Lian accompany mama to the car"
Diamond embraced and helped her mother-in-law walk towards the car.
"Son, you are the same star do not stay in the villa. Mama is lonely, there is no friend at home" said mama Farida as soon as he entered the car in black.
"we'll be home soon, ma" said Berlian with a reassuring smile.
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For the third time Arya went back and forth in the same place. The place he had helped Kartika from the copet.
"Where is that letter actually missing anyway?. Already 3 times I went back and forth to this road, but still the letter did not meet" said Arya back and forth indeterminate while looking here and there looking for the object she meant. Though he was very sure, the letter was scattered on that road not anywhere else.
"Damn.." said the man kicked the pissed off the mineral bottle that was on the side of the road.
"The letter was Bella's last gift and I haven't had time to read it" Arya muttered bitterly recalling the letter that the goddess's mother handed over at Bella's funeral a few days ago.
"Foolish..why didn't I read the letter from the first time the aunt dewi handed it to me" he cursed his own carelessness.
"I have to find the letter. I have to know what Bella said in the letter to me" Arya's determination was strong and did not want to break the charcoal to find a last break for her.
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The noise from the house that is usually calm and peaceful makes Kartika rush in and find out what happened in her house. From the voice he heard, Kartika could immediately make sure the noise came from his parents who were at odds.
"Papa... Papa's home?" exclaimed Kartika was excited to see the figure of a strapping man who he missed standing in front of him.
Without many words and asked what was going on, Kartika hugged her papa tightly.
"Pa..papa when will he come home?. Why don't papa say first if you want to go home, if you can pick up papa" Kartika's pussy tikas.
"When, papa came home suddenly and did not have time to tell papa's return" said the middle-aged man who looks fresh.
"if you go into the room. Mama still wants to talk to your papa" tell her mother Kartika to her biological daughter.
"You just stay here. Papa also wants to talk to you" said papa kartika holding his daughter.
"What do mom and dad really want to talk about?." Kartika sniffed the wrong thing in the middle of her family.
"When you answer your question honestly. Is it true that Bintang is married to another woman ?. And that woman is none other than your own best friend?"
Kartika was shocked and did not know what to answer. His attempt to hide the Star wedding from his papa is gone. He could only glance at asking for help from his mother because he did not dare to argue or lie to his father because he knew very well the character of his hard papa.
"Papa's question, is it true that the Star is married to the Diamond?" papa kartika .
"True pa" answered Kartika softly and bowed down in fear of avoiding the flash of her papa anger.
"Excess!!" the snapping of hitting the table in front of him gave off an unbearable emotion, leaving his wife and son shocked at the same time.
"Farida has dared to play tricks on our family. He should have betrothed the stars to you, not your friend who didn't know himself" he growled.
"Pa, it's donk!. Stop matching me with him. He already has a life of his own. Let Star live happily with her new family with Diamond. Diamonds are no one else to me. We are legitimate and she is a good woman and deserves to be a companion to the Star" said Kartika trying to calm and give understanding to her parents who had been so eager to match her with the Star.
"Can't" his father denied.
"The woman who deserves to be the companion of the Star is only you. The diamond is just a poor girl who is always a prick in other people's lives. Papa has forbidden you from mingling with him because papa knows how the character of a poor girl like her. And papa's guess didn't miss, he accidentally stabbed you in the back and snatched the Star from you"
"Pa, Iian not like that" Kartika.
"You don't have to defend that poor girl!" between the men with the misty hair did not want to be denied.
"Papa will meet Farida and make calculations with her"
"Pa..no!" prevent his wife from just now can only be silent.
"You don't interfere!. This is papa's business, let papa solve this problem himself" said papa kartika did not recede with his intentions.
kartika and her mother can only stay quiet and let Mr. Erwin go to meet Farida's mother.