Game Of Love
Meet the Clara Family (Bag.I)
18.30 WIB
With a flowery feeling tonight Tommy prepares to take Clara for a walk to see the new Night Market opened in their City. For school children in a small town like where Tommy came from, the night market is a place of tableau that favored teenagers at that time, in addition to because the night market there are many entertainment such as Tong Edan, and the, Ghost House, and so on, there are also many people who sell at low prices.
After the shower Tommy prepares everything he can to entice Clara tonight. Although only using a plain navy blue shirt and combined with dark colored jeans. Tommy carefully ironed the clothes. At each end and every corner of the blue shirt he ironed repeatedly to make a smooth folding angle on the shirt, making the clothes look neat.
Finished with the preparation of his first date, Tommy steps out of the house exactly fifteen minutes before 7pm tonight, borrowing his father's motorcycle and heading to Clara's house.
Upon his arrival, a two-story Shop House welcomes Tommy, the shophouse has two entrances, one in front of the store itself and another entrance next to the store.
Because it has a small alley beside the store so no wonder there is even another way that is often used by Clara and her family to enter and leave the house without disturbing their customers.
Tommy who had been notified by Clara this afternoon immediately went to the entrance next to the building, because the building of the house Clara rather strategically located so the entrance to the house was easily visible from the main road.
Welcomed by bars-shaped iron gate. Tommy immediately rang the bell at the gate, and soon a 40-year-old woman came out of the door behind the fence.
“Ya... What's wrong?” The Bule spoke Bahasa Indonesia although the dialect did sound a little strange, because it was spoken by a stranger, but Tommy could clearly understand the clear-sounding speech.
“Goodnight, is this really Clara's house?” said Tommy answered the question of the bule woman, although he already knew this place because he had escorted Clara this afternoon, he asked to convince the bule woman.
“He's right, who are you?”
“I Tommy mam, Clara schoolmate, can I meet Clara?” tommy said as he looked at Jennifer's mother, Clara's biological mother.
“Oh you're Clara's friend yes!"
"I'm Jennifer Clara's mom, let's go in, please" Jennifer opened the fence to Tommy and let the handsome young man into their house.
In Clara's house, Tommi sees a living room that is though quite small compared to the living room in Tommy's house, but slightly arranged in a westernized style. Very few knickknacks in the room are visible. So that makes the room like a little big from its original size.
Tommy immediately sat on one of the guest couches, after being invited to sit by Miss Jennifer who at that time immediately called Clara and had one of Clara's sisters make Tea for Tommy.
While waiting for Tommy to notice around, not long before Clara's younger sister came, she peeked out of the living room divider with the living room. Even though he is still in the 3rd grade of Junior High. Widya has a body like a 1st grade child or a 2nd grade High School child. The production results are also perfectly visible on the face and body shape of this teenage girl.
Widya Manna Wilhelmina is the name of Clara's sister, she has long hair decomposed and black. Widya welcomes Tommy first from the sidelines of the room dividing closet before she finally walks with a tray in her hand, heading towards the living room and greeting Tommy gently.
“Please Brother, drink his tea, said Kak Clara earlier please brother wait a while he is preparing himself,” Widya said while offering a cup of tea to Tommy.
“Ya, thank you.”
“Oh yes Know I Tommy schoolmate Clara,” Tommy glanced towards Widya and instantly gave his hand as a sign of shaking hands.
Unknowingly the exchange of information again felt Tommy, this girl is indeed not the same as Clara, the opposite nature to Clara. Tommy even smiled faintly.
He watched the teenage girl carefully from foot to head, and it turned out to make Widya embarrassed, her face turned red.
“Sorry brother, I will call brother Clara, immediately.” said Widya who immediately pulled his hand after they shook hands earlier.
“Ya thank you.” said Tommy replied to Widya's words casually.
Just turning around Widya was surprised by the arrival of the father who looked at Tommy with a sharp gaze. Because Widya knew the nature of the father, so she immediately ran away from the current situation, leaving the two men who were now face to face.
“Night om, sorry to interrupt nights like this.” said Tommy politely.
“What do you need with Clara?” ask Mr. Deddy Clara's father who immediately sat near Tommy, with a little intimidating style of course Tommy. This young man was silent for a moment.
Mr. Deddy's age is not young anymore, he is in his late 40s, but his charisma and presence can make Tommy's guts whistle, maybe whatever the age of the person and the adult mind of the person, if faced with the parents of a girl who wants him to invite out, let alone the first time he met, if faced with the parents of a girl who wants to take him out, surely every man's guts will be shrunk or lack of confidence.
Although Tommy did not like Clara as much as he liked Icha, but because of the spirit that day had been instilled by Clara in the heart of this innocent young man, his heart was a little greedy now and began to want to turn to Clara.
Who does not feel that, Clara is the perfect figure for everyone, besides being beautiful and smart this girl turns out to have other traits that are unknown to others. So for a moment Tommy forgot his goal now.
“I want to take Clara out tonight om, it happens that the night market just opened yesterday, so I want to take her there.” Tommy said, directly answered in a cold tone by Mr. Deddy.
“My child is not used to going out at night, if you want to take him on the road, preferably in the afternoon and should not be alone.”
The words made Tommy could not do anything, the guts became more and more shriveled. But he tried to convince Mr. Deddy to let him take Clara out, because he was preparing for tonight.
“But this afternoon we made an appointment om, “ Tommy's speech was immediately stopped again by Clara's father.
“You didn't even introduce your name from earlier, how can I give you permission to bring my daughter?”
"If there's anything with Clara, who do I have to take responsibility for?"
"Huh young man, if you think visiting here is polite enough to take my daughter out on the road with you, you're wrong!"
“Indeed this kind of courtesy is necessary, but even I have to visit my wife a few times before dare to invite her out.”
“You can't give an example we asians don't have ethics and responsibilities yes!”
This time a punch was uttered again from Mr. Deddy's mouth hitting Tommy right up to his heart and mind.
Indeed, the words are like a blow that can not be avenged by Tommy, because since the time met with Mr. Deddy earlier, since, Tommy was misbehaved and felt pressured to forget the public manners that must be done when visiting other people's homes, namely introducing themselves to the owner of the house.
“Ah, Sorry in advance,”
“My name is Tommy om, I am from SMA 1 IC Class and I am a friend of Clara in school.”
“Before I have also introduced myself to mama Clara, but I forgot to introduce myself to Om.”
"Please forgive me" and Tommy tried to find an excuse.
“That's with her mama, with her papa hasn't?”
“Basic youth today usually just looking for an excuse.” Mr. Deddy looks a little upset at Tommy's answer. Suddenly a voice came from the family room.
“Papah his event wants to start, papah come watch ngak?” said Widya who called Mr. Deddy.
A call from inside the Family room broke the conversation between the two men of different ages, the call made Mr. Deddy immediately stand up from the living room.
“You come with me, anyway I won't let you two out tonight.” Mr. Deddy, who was getting upset, took Tommy to their living room.
He just wanted to be polite like a gentleman, who was invited to ask for permission, but this inexperienced young man, did not even know what he could face in the future. Tommy had thought taking Clara out secretly was a good idea rather than something like this.
Inside the living room was a long Sofa facing a 20” tube television, there Widya and Clara's younger brother who is now in 6th grade SD smile at Tommy who looks to follow their father like he is following a hen to perch on the sofa of the family room.
Tommy's head kept bowing. His hands he crossed in front of the stomach while continuing to nod because of the small words that Mr. Deddy made to him.
“Are your grades good in school?” said Mr. Deddy again asked Tommy.
"Yes, pretty good."
"Is it as Smart as Clara?"
“You can say like that om,” said Tommy slowly and decently as possible.
“No way, Clara from small always get the best value from the best.” Mr. Deddy glanced at Tommy.
He saw this young man was a little handsome than most Men who tried to approach Clara first, Mr. Deddy only snorted because he did not believe this young man's words.
“If you are smart to prove your words” he said again.
“You know this show, right?" said Mr. Deddy while pointing towards the Television.
“Iya om I know enough.” said Tommy replied.
“How, do you dare, After all you said you were pretty good at school?” The challenge was given Mr. Deddy with a slightly disdainful look at Tommy.
“Umm...all right, I accept,” Tommy said again.
The words had been made, Mr. Deddy thought Tommy would be silent to hear his words, but he was surprised to hear Tommy's answer.
The event referred to by Mr Deddy is “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” indeed, in the beginning of the 2000th millennium now, this event began to be known and attracted many viewers in Indonesia, including Mr. Deddy and his family who are a nerdy family. So Tommy would not want to get caught between them now.
“Did the show start?”
A handsome crossbreed man descends from the 2nd floor stairs with disheveled hair, his height is the same as Tommy, probably ranging from 180cm, his body athletic and attractive white skin.
Tommy immediately glanced at the voice, while those who were impatient in the family room just continued to look at the television that was now airing advertisements before the show began.
“Chris wash your face first,” said Miss Jennifer who brought a tray of fresh fruits from the kitchen.
“Widya get tea in the kitchen,” said Miss Jennifer back.
“Ngapain wear tea and eat fruit all? is he an important guest?” said Mr. Deddy who was still upset with Tommy, who was then treated politely by his wife.
Bule beautiful wife Mr. Deddy was just smiling thinly glancing towards the husband, while Tommy she was very happy to be treated like a close family in this House since the arrival of Miss Jennifer to the family room.
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“Goodnight brother, I am Tantowi Yahya, so happy to see you in the event..”.
“Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” the speech of the television host made everyone shut up and immediately pay attention to the television screen.
Tonight, unlike the previous weeks, there were about 15 guests present at this event, they are just welcome to answer the questions given to be able to sit in the hot seat of this event.
The selection question was given and the one that became the fastest and most precise in giving the answer he only needed 2.2 seconds to answer the question, so he was selected as the first participant to sit in the hot seat.
After the man introduced himself, the host of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire explained the rules in this event. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire has 15 questions.
Starting from the value of the smallest money of Rp.50,000 to the largest is the 15th question, which is worth 1 billion rupiah. Then the event resumed and the Hosts began to give some questions that were answered seamlessly by the guest stars tonight.
“Alright, you are now heading to the fifth question which is the first safe point, are you ready?”
“Siap Pak, let's continue,” said the participant.
“Alright, it seems that you are impatient, and for our Five Questions tonight is”
“The most famous island in Indonesia as a political prisoner shelter in Indonesia is?”
Entering the question to Lima, Mr. Deddy, who was watching the show with his family and Tommy, was seen rubbing his chin like thinking of something, but when Mr. Deddy wanted to answer, he said, his words were cut by Tommy.
“The answer is C Buru Island,” said Tommy loudly.
“Enak aja anyhow you, snobs anyway,” said Mr. Deddy cut Tommy. So that makes everyone in the family room look towards Mr. Deddy and Tommy at once.
“What you see, the answer is B, Nusa Kambangan” Island he said with confidence.
“But om, nusa kambangan island is famous for crime prisoners outside political prisoners, from the days of PKI Buru Island has become a shelter for wealthy political prisoners PKI om group.” said Tommy replied Mr. Deddy.
“Means you need to learn.” said Mr. Deddy again.
“Dad, Daddy wrong..”.
“The correct answer is Tommy's Island Buru.” Clara's voice this time once again stopped the strife of these two men.
Tommy and everyone in the family room looked up at the stairs and saw Clara coming down the stairs, this girl wearing a Vintage-style navy blue dress with a butterfly flower on her chest, his colors match the colors of the clothes Tommy is wearing now.
Tommy's feelings that seemed to be splashed into the water began to occur again. The feeling of sinking slowly to the bottom of the ocean began to be felt again. Slowly, Tommy's heart began to beat at Clara's beauty tonight.
All the Clara family were also surprised to see the girl's appearance, Clara who was often seen wearing casual clothes with a body that was often clad in t-shirts, was completely different in their eyes tonight.
"Waw, you're beautiful tonight." Tommy said unconsciously.
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