Football: King of Penalty Area
Ch. 108 - Family Gathering

After flying for over fifteen hours from Germany to Indonesia, Raynaldi also felt a little tired. So after getting off the plane he immediately invites Leona and Irene to meet his mother, Anita who is waiting at the VIP place.

When he arrives at the VIP lounge, Raynaldi sees his mother talking to Malik who also intends to pick him up, while Lisa is running around.

Lisa who was running around in the room, immediately pounced on Raynaldi who had just entered the room. “Sister! Why did you just come home?” lisa said as she buried her head in Raynaldi's body.

“Kan, I told Lisa, that Brother Ray will work abroad for one year.” Raynaldi explained slowly.

“Lisa thought, sister will only play ball for a month like before!” Lisa said as she raised her head with a frown.

“Haha, so when you talk, Lisa is not horrified huh?” Raynaldi said with a smile.

“So, Lisa is a good boy, so it must be horrin.” Said Lisa who had taken off Raynaldi while bowed.

Raynaldi, who saw her sister, knew that she was not listening when she spoke to her before splitting up in Germany a year ago. “OK, let's meet mom.” Raynaldi said while holding his sister.

Anita who saw her son back, immediately hugged Raynaldi. Although she still keeps in touch by phone but this is the first time she has met her son in person after a year.

Seeing Raynaldi who was previously thin with bright skin turned into more muscular with wheat brown skin, made Anita feel a little sorry for her son. As a learned man, Anita knew that this kind of physical change would not be easy, Raynaldi would have trained hard for this.

“You've experienced many difficult things.” Anita said as she hugged her son.

“No problem, because I enjoy it. It's great to play football.” Raynaldi said sincerely.

“Yah..” Anita releases Raynaldi and just realizes that Leona also came with her son with a foreign girl.

“Leona, you also came?” Said Anita.

“Look at you, I've been standing here for a long time but just realized it? Brother Anita you lost your intellectual woman's face.” Leona said while joking.

“Can you be more serious? Little girl.” Anita said while hugging Leona.

“Sister Anita, can you stop calling me a little girl? I've been over 20 years now.” Leona said, but she still felt warm because this cousin of hers had not changed at all.

“Haha, who would have thought you were the little girl who always cried 12 years ago.” Anita gave a small laugh when she saw Leona's response.

“People will become adults when the time comes, isn't that what you always say Anita? Besides, your son is so much more mature than me!” Leona said chuckling.

“Hahaha..” Anita was still laughing when she heard Leona's reply, she turned her gaze to Irene who from earlier had no voice behind Leona.

“Well, who is this pretty girl?” Ask Anita.

“He's your son-in-law!” Chirps Leona with a smile.

Raynaldi almost falls tripping on his leg when he hears Leona's irresponsible remarks.

“Prospective son-in-law? Did Ray cheat little girls in Germany?” Anita smiled a little.

Their jokes are not without cause, because of the nature of Raynaldi who likes to interfere with the problems he sees. A lot of things turn into cliche scenes of heroes saving beauty like in movies.

Several times Raynaldi helped the girl who was bullied or sad in distress made the girl who began to grow up was in love. So while in Indonesia, many girls who are close to Raynaldi even repeatedly come to his house to play or spend more time with him.

Anita as a psychologist could see that the way they looked at their son was a little different from the views of normal friends. So he could guess that his son was playing crazy in school.

Raynaldi himself also still remembered his mother's view when he explained the problem, his mother's eye view at that time was like looking at an idiot. ‘Well, I must admit, at that time I was like an idiot.’ Thought Raynaldi who remembered his behavior that was like a certain romcom harem protagonist.

“OK, mom, Brother Leona, stop kidding.” Raynaldi shook his head.

“I'll talk to Malik for a minute.” Raynaldi left the chat room for the girls.

After Raynaldi went to see Malik. Anita, Leona and Irene open their chat box and start discussing girl things.

“Well, Malik, there's something I want to apologize for.” Raynaldi went straight to the heart of the matter after greeting Malik.

“What's Ray?” Malik asked a little confused.

“I forgot to promise my mother and sister to spend one day before going to training.” Raynaldi said while scratching the back of his head in embarrassment.

“Oh, about this..” Malik answered with a smile. “Not problem Ray, actually your mother said about this earlier. Besides, I'm with your mother, if your training ground and your house are less than 10km from the training ground. So you can join tomorrow before morning practice starts, for this matter I have confirmed to the coaching team.” Further.

“Thank you Malik, you were very helpful.” Raynaldi.

“No problem this is my duty.” Respond Malik casually. “Well, I won't interfere with your precious time. It's time to go back to training camp.” Malik says goodbye to Raynaldi and his family, then leaves the airport.

“Ray, let's go home. Leona and Irene will be back with us.” Anita said with an ambiguous smile.

Raynaldi could see her mother's ambiguous smile, the last time this happened when the class president at her Junior High came to visit regularly. As the class president obviously he is smart and responsible, but has flaws in EQ, so often shunned and bullied by other girls. Raynaldi who saw him several times helped him out of the bully, and eventually they became close friends.

The troublesome thing is that Raynaldi rarely has girlfriends, and his mother, who thinks Raynaldi is already starting puberty, may be interested in his class president. Because misunderstandings take a long time to get rid of, and after graduating from Junior High, they almost never get in touch again.

“By the way what's his name again? Oh, Rani Lila Pramesti.” Raynaldi.

“Mother, are you thinking bad things again?” Raynaldi asked his mother.

“What's bad?” Anita was silent with her son's question.

“Well, don't let the previous thing happen again. I really feel sorry for him.” Raynaldi who recalled the incident also shook his head, he remembered the girl crying as he said they were just friends. Because of this he did not want the same thing to happen again.

“Oke, mom knows. Previously I was just excited because I thought you finally woke up.” Anita refuted with an awkward expression.

“You never played with girls while growing up, which makes mom worry about your interest.” Anita said as she sighed and stroked her chest.

Raynaldi almost wanted to vomit blood when he heard his mother. “OK, I'll go home soon and rest.” Raynaldi.