
Reymon watches Willy who has just returned home from the garden with his father. The man was dumbstruck, seeing Willy who looked very dirty by the mud stuck to the snow and his shorts.
Do not ask the white paint shoes, it has changed color to blackish brown. The skin of his face, feet and hands is also red - dampened by the blazing sun today.
There was a feeling of unease in his heart, how not? The woman he had been chasing with all his heart, would be taken by another man, and that man was Willy, the one who had once promised to keep Hanaria as his future sister-in-law.
Reymon still could not accept, when both parents a few days ago, said the purpose of Willy's arrival was to approach Hanaria's parents in order to get the heart of her daughter, Willy, the woman he dreamed of becoming his wife.
These few days, his mind is so distracted by it, he tries to keep himself busy and tries to avoid Willy.
Willy went straight to the side yard to transport water from an artificial well using a water bucket, then brought it into the bathroom behind the teacher's office house, Mr. Arta. The activity he did repeatedly to fill the water barrel in the bathroom. He did not realize his activities were noticed by Reymon since earlier, from the window of his room.
After a long time cleaning himself in the bathroom, Willy finally finished too. He went into the room to change clothes, and saw Reymon was busy at his desk, struggling with sheets in front of him.
For a few days at Arta's house, Willy slept in a room with Reymon. At the teacher's office there are only three rooms. Main room, children's room, and guest room. The rest, only the living room, kitchen, and bathroom are one with WC.
"What are you doing?" Willy asked as he approached Reymon's desk.
"Checking my student exam results today young master." Reymon said he stopped his activities, put a pen in his hand and turned his body towards Willy.
"Don't call me that here. Just call Willy. Like the people here." Willy reminded the man before him.
"But I find it difficult to call only the name of the young master." Reymon. Willy had warned him several times about it, since he arrived at the compartment, but Reymon still felt uneasy.
"Later get used to Rey......" Said Willy with a faint smile. Reymon looked at the athletic body of Willy, who was only wrapped in a towel from his waist up to his knees.
On the chest, abdomen and other closed, Willy's skin still looks clean white, unlike the skin on the hands, feet, neck, and face that is not covered with clothes, everything still looks red, flushed, because of the hot sun, even though it has been cleaned in the bathroom.
"What did the young master do with the father in the garden? As far as I know, the father's garden land has no swamps, there are plains and hills. But I just saw the young master seem to go into the mud." Reymon was still staring at Willy's smiling face at his question.
"So I learned how to grow rice in the rice field, follow her parents Miss Hana." Said Willy as he turned around, his smile adorning his reddish face, while picking up the shirt in his suitcase and immediately wearing it.
Reymon's facial features instantly changed, but Willy did not see it, because he was busy wearing his clothes while turning his back to Reymon.
"Tomorrow...... I'll go back to planting rice. Yes, until they finish planting seedlings - rice seeds are mas." Said Willy again as he turned around as he finished putting on all his clothes.
"Is the young master really serious about getting Hanaria this way?" Reymon asked, looking at the face of Willy who was now sitting at the edge of his bed.
"I... only carry out the mission that mommy and daddy told me Rey......" Willy hesitated a little. He knew how Reymon felt about Hanaria.
"I'll probably let it go, even if it's very difficult. But if the young master gets Hanaria just quibbling because of a mission from the master and mistress, I ask to stop her right now. I can't see the woman I love being married to a man who doesn't really love her."
"Regardless of what the young master had done to him, I had no problem with it. But if the young master still remains on the original young master's stance, just because of the mission. I am very unwilling. Hanaria deserves to be loved, and she deserves to be happy."
"I am even willing to accept that woman though." Reymon deliberately made an emphasis on his tone, his face looking at Willy before him with a cold gaze.
Willy was still stuck in his place, he knew, Reymon tried to hold his anger on him, because he had been very brave to touch the woman he had kept his honor all this time.
Even though Reymon hit him like Jonly, Hanaria's older brother, did, he was determined not to retaliate. He thought it was a punishment he deserved.
"Unfortunately...... He doesn't love me...... We've been together since we were kids, we've known each other. And she, just thinks of me like her brother." Reymon smiled bitterly, looking straight at the window that had begun to look dark out there.
Willy continued to listen, not one bit he averted his eyes, so he could see the face of sadness on Reymon's face when he said all that.
"Mas Rey's...... So moving into town?" Ask Willy heart-heart. Reymon turned his eyes to Willy.
"It doesn't seem to be. From the service has prepared me to be the principal of this village, after the new principal, who will replace my father to complete his duties here for a period." Reymon.
"What are you two discussing? Seriously so......" Arta's mother suddenly pushed open the door, without knocking first.
"Mother......."
"Aunt......."
Reymon and Willy both turned to the open door. Arta's mother showed off her simple smile to the two young men who were several years apart that age.
"It's a good thing that Reymon is with young master ma'am, try if fitting with his wife Reymon how? It could be dangerous for me to enter Reymon's room without knocking on the door." Reymon chuckled, trying to joke around, hoping that his mother would not listen to Willy.
"It's just that I know you're with Willy, so I dare to open the door without knocking." Arta's mother chuckled, while Willy smiled at the conversation between the mother and the child.
He imagined if the wife Reymon meant was Hanaria. His heart came - suddenly rippled. Even if only in the shadow, why does he feel uncomfortable thinking about it, but not necessarily the words of Reymon that lead to Hanaria.
"Let's have dinner first, mom's cooking a lot, then it's cold." Take Arta's mother to Reymon and Willy as she passes.
"Yes mom....."
"Yes bi....."
Reymon and Willy immediately stood up from their respective seats, trailing Arta's mother who first came out of the room and headed to the kitchen.
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