FOR HER SAKE
Extra Part 1

How long has Tiara not set foot again in the city where she grew up as a toddler. He himself had forgotten. Which means he hasn't been there for a long time.

As a child, when Reina and Raka had been in school in childhood. Mommy would often take them to New York if Mommy Shevi had a job at the place where she would pursue her career.

But after Tiara stepped on the junior high bench, she preferred to stay at her nenna house rather than join her working mommy.

It'sit's nothing. He was tired of waiting for the busy mommy Shevi, while he and his sisters just stayed in the apartment. They'll just go for a walk when all mommy's work there is done. And more often at Uncle Ray's friend instead.

Aah yes. Tiara recalled, she had last been to this city when the uncle who was already like his own father was married. Probably more than ten years ago.

Now at the age of his 10th marriage, Alvaro invites him and the children to vacation in his childhood city first. Plans that have been delayed for years because of other and many things.

Now he is officially a pediatrician and already has his own clinic even though it is not big. The husband's startup has also become a large company. Hard work that is not in vain. His son was indeed a great warrior who was not in doubt.

The kids?

Aahs.. They have now grown up to be little eight-year-old men. The age is figuring out which is good and which is wrong.

His children now prefer to play with his friends. Sometimes Tiara miss the screams and laughter of children in the house as they were when they were little.

Uncle Ray was waiting at the airport when he set foot in the city full of memories that he could not remember anymore.

The smell of spring that he always greeted enthusiastically began to smell as he exited the plane to the arrival terminal where his adoptive father was waiting.

"How many days are we here, mah?" ask Vindra while turning on her smartphone that was previously turned off. The child is still the same as when the baby was. More quiet than his brother.

"Not more than a week. Do you remember, Om Dika getting married?" both of his sons nodded simultaneously.

Such a similar face was getting bigger the more like a man who was now holding his hand. Nothing has changed from her husband. The more days he looked to love her.

Alvaro occasionally kisses the back of his hand when the children are not looking. Also pecking on the forehead or cheeks.

He even saw her head. People who see them think they are newlyweds.

"Too pah.." whispered Tiara when her husband came back to kiss her cheek.

"Who's the same? they don't know us." her husband's indifferent answer again made Tiara cluck.

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Tiara hugged the body of the middle-aged man who greeted her at the airport. He never came to New York. Not that they never met.

Their relationship is still well established because Uncle Ray often comes to Jakarta when his children are on vacation.

Uncle Ray has two children. The first boy, two years older than his twins. Her second daughter was born only a few months after the twins.

The three little men were already good friends. Even Vindra and Fari are already planning to stay at Alex's house - Uncle Ray's son - during their stay in New York.

"Did you remember the way home, little?" goda uncle Ray after his embrace came off.

Don't ask their little guy. Because they've been to the car with Alex.

"Do you take good care of my little princess, young man?" uncle Ray swapped Alvaro on the shoulder.

"Nobody's as good as me at looking after him." as well as Alvaro who was greeted by Uncle Ray.

"It has. We better get home, before my little princess bends her face. I could be scolded by July."

Juli is Ray's wife who has also considered Tiara like her own child.

Tiara and Alvaro will be staying at Shevi's mommy's apartment. But Juli asks them to stop by first and eat there. The woman will cook the most delicious food she has ever made, he said.

Of course Tiara could not bear to refuse the request of her adoptive mother. He never came to visit again.

"Ooh baby.. Why did you just visit your mommy, hum?"

"Sorry mom.. You know for yourself I have time now." said Tiara in a warm embrace that belongs to Juli.

"Yes. Yep. You're the busiest young woman I know." July quipped with a face made to pretend to sulk.

"Ooh mom's.. You can come to visit Jakarta again, if you miss." woo Tiara who hugged and leaned her head on the shoulder of a woman who was her mother's age.

"Look, Ray. Is our daughter polite, telling us parents to visit while this young lady never remembers us?"

Uncle Ray who was chatting with Alvaro in the family room accompanied by coffee and biscuits just chuckled and shook his head.

"Gosh mom. Your words hurt me." protested Tiara who immediately took off her embrace. "I always remember you and Uncle. Otherwise, maybe I'll never give you news like this all along" Tiara denied.

"I believe it, baby.. We better get ready for lunch before the men scream out of hunger."

Tiara chuckled and followed Juli's steps towards the kitchen. Serving food that was previously July cooked to the table.

There is a creamy soup containing shells with red sauce that is often called the calm chowder of Manhattan. Usually the cream soup is white. Only in Manhattan is the creamy soup red.

And there is also rice with chicken general tso. Chicken made with soy sauce and concentrated sauce in addition to sprinkling chili. Maybe because Juli knows Indonesians like not to eat if they do not meet rice.

Not to miss his favorite tuna and turkey sandwich as a child. Where she's just a little girl without a father who has to keep cheerful for her mommy.

There is also pasta that my kids love. Don't forget cheesecake as dessert.

Tiara is grateful to always be surrounded by good people. Like Uncle Ray's family who are like his own family.

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