HAPPIER
CHAPTER 9

Bery's..

I couldn't help but smile all the way home to Sky's parents. Although at first I was frustrated with his attitude that was stiff, cold and very irritable to talk. Actually I am also not a type of chatty woman, I usually only talk as necessary, stale as necessary and greet more people around me with a smile and a nod of the head.

While at Sky's parents' house, all this time I had never spoken to him because he always avoided or let's say he was too busy with his own business. I also felt no interest in inviting him to chat seeing his attitude that always keeps a distance to anyone who comes to visit his house. I never had a problem with it. I don't need to feel that he is disrespectful, how else, everyone who knows him already understands his nature, with his trauma, so a lot of publicity for him. The problem was if it was a new person, of course they would consider Sky impolite and arrogant. Yet it seemed that Sky had never been bothered with the judgement of those around him. He really was a really stupid moment, I don't know how he faced the college world and the people in it.

Honestly, I was quite amused and sometimes moved by his attitude on the project site. I remember Nindi, she treated me like her sister Nindi. He kept following me, keeping me at a distance with my opposite sex. I enjoyed the treatment, it was nice, only this time there was a man who was possessive of me. Maybe Anzi will also be like Sky treating me if we were close.

And what did he say when I threatened?

"Good dong, my life will be safe from the girls who like to chase me all this time."

He is challenging me apparently. Funny too. Turns out he can say a lot. Kirain the answer is a maximum of only 5 words, it can be more. I don't understand why I could be that chatty with him. But I really felt like I had a different experience from him.

My life for the last 10 years has only been spent studying while working, only Nindi and Umi Aida can make me a normal human being in general. But I'm not as bad as Sky, I still have a good social life. I hang out, sometimes I also spend time with college friends or office friends. I only limit myself from complicated relationships, such as friendship that seems to require me to always be there and do everything that must be with him. Dating moreover. This is a relationship I've been avoiding. I've ruined my life because of someone who called me my girlfriend, and I'm not gonna let myself get ruined again for the same thing.

Many are chasing me, some are asking me out, some are taking me directly to be his wife. I'm really not interested in the idea of living a relationship of closeness with the opposite sex whatever the form of the name. I have a fear of my own, I fear that someday there will be men who demean me after knowing my past. Or even if the man accepts all my past, who guarantees his heart will not be disturbed when he touches me and he is not willing because there are other men who touch me first. I myself felt disgusted at imagining it, how would anyone else?

All this time I had completely closed myself off and did not want to think or imagine myself getting married and living happily with my husband and children. I will be happy, but not by having a family, I will get my happiness in another way of course.

It's been 1 month since my meeting with dad. There was no development whatsoever of what father's hope was. If it were exchangeable, I would be ready to give my life instead of getting married.

Not getting married doesn't mean I want to spend the rest of my life in solitude. Because to me, standing alone doesn't mean being completely alone but I just feel that I'm strong enough to rely on myself. In my old age, maybe I will visit Nindi or Anzi's house often, visiting their children and maybe their grandchildren. And if I'm so old, maybe I'll take myself to a nursing home. I've thought about it and even started to prepare funds for it, anyway there I will meet people my age and also maybe with people who have the same perspective as me.

I just feel disturbed by the intention of some people who get married just to get offspring so that later in the future they can calmly face their old age because it depends on their children, it was as if the child was a pension fund.

As a child, of course, I am well aware that filial piety to both parents is an absolute obligation. Being able to be given the opportunity of filial piety to parents is part of a priceless sustenance with anything in this world. Do not even be a burden for them, remember parents only when they have problems. It's just that, if it's time for me to be positioned as a parent, I really don't want to be a burden to my children. The point is, the parent is not an emergency fund and the child is not a pension fund.

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I immediately rushed to the kitchen after carrying out mandatory activities in the morning. Usually Umi Aida is already struggling in the kitchen after dawn prayers. The smell of cooking immediately pierced my sense of smell, it was very appetizing especially for me who last night missed dinner.

Last night I chose to stay at Sky's parents' house, in this house there is already one room devoted to me, so I can sleep here whenever I want. However, I rarely stay here. Other than because of my busyness, I also feel bad for too much trouble for this family.

"Loh, Bery.. Are you home? When's arrival? How do you not know?" He was shocked to see my presence this morning.

"Last night Umi, with Sky directly from the project site. Sampe abi's house said Umi had slept because he was no longer feeling well. Are you feeling better yet?"

Umi Aida then nodded, glanced at me with a warm smile and continued her cooking.

"Alhamdulillah, it's better, umi just catch a cold, it looks like the flu, this is umi for chicken soup, let's eat fresh-fresh this morning."

"Segernyaaa. I can't wait for the umi cuisine to finish, I've missed the same umi cuisine. Yesterday look at Sky's breakfast I was drooling, I swear!" I said without shame while grinning.

"Yes, you'll also be ready if you want."

"You dong umi, sustenance should not be denied. He he he.." I said grimly. "What do I need to help you with?"

"This is the soup you brought to the dinner table." Umi Aida shifted the vegetable bowl towards me. White smoke billowing over the container increasingly appetizing to make the worms in my stomach protesting for rations.

After all Umi Aida's cooking is done and has been neatly arranged on the dining table, I help her to do some kitchen first. I plan to be late to the office today, so I can have more time to chat with him. Rarely have I come here, it feels bad if not satisfied to mingle with Umi Aida and go straight home.

At home they do not use art services, the house is not too big but 2 floors, before Nindi married, Nindi's job is to clean the house every morning, while Sky is in charge of cleaning the yard also disposing of garbage. Usually Sky will bring his garbage when going to the dawn prayer in the mosque. Just cleaned the home page. He should be in the kitchen soon. That is his habit, of course I have memorized, not just Sky, I memorized all the habits of the inhabitants of this house in the morning.

Well, long life. It also just crossed his mind that his person had come to take a place at the dining table. Don't expect a good morning from him. I used to call it a broken TV, there were pictures but no sound.

"Morning, Sky!" Sapaku.

He raised his face to look at me cengo for a few seconds, nodded once, then without reply he continued his activities on the dining table.

Sky really tested my patience. It was still morning that made me go broke. I think she has started to change after a day of running around with her, apparently today she is back in early fashion, silent fashion!

Oooo☆ ~ ☆oooO

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