
Apparently, the man sitting in front of Shanum's room was unaware of the three women's presence.
"Rio's? Why is he in front of my room?" shanum muttered in wonder.
"Sha, what's wrong with you?" rima asked, she was astonished to look at Shanum who was still speechless.
The hostess nudged Rima's arm, pointing towards Shanum's boarding room with a glance at her eyes. Rima followed her mother's direction, then she understood why Shanum sculpted.
"Sha, who's that guy?" rima asked in a whisper, occasionally glancing towards Rio who was focusing on his phone.
"He's my friend, Rim. But, for now I don't want to see him" Shanum replied. She turned to look at her hostess who was also paying attention to Rio. "Mom, can I stay at your house? For tonight only. I. ... really really don't want to meet that guy," Shanum pleaded.
Mother Kost immediately smiled while nodding assented. Incidentally, now they are in the house of the boarding house. The middle-aged woman quickly opened the door for Shanum as well as Arsenio.
"Rima, I go in first, yeah. .... If he asks about me, can you lie?" Shanum showed a hopeful look.
"of course. Come in, before he realizes our presence here" said Rima.
Shanum assented with a small nod. With a sagging step, Shanum went into the house of the hostess and put Arsenio to bed.
"Make sure your shoulder hurts, Sha," Mother Kost guessed, giving her a bottle of oil she used to massage her achy body parts.
"Lumayan, Ma. He's big, he's heavy." Shanum took the oil and applied it on his shoulders.
Rima walked into her dorm room which happened to be next to Shanum's room. Rima's presence stole Rio's attention. Rio approached Rima, intending for Shanum's whereabouts.
"Sorry, Miss, do you know Shanum?" rio asked, showing a photo of Shanum smiling. Honestly, Rima was surprised, thinking hard why Shanum's photo could be on the man in front of her.
'Is this guy a stalker? Don't you think he's got some bad intentions for Shanum and Arsen?' batin Rima, began to build vigilance due to his bad prejudices.
"Sorry, sir, whose photo is this? I don't know this woman. Never saw it either," lied Rima, not forgetting she smiled to add confidence.
"really? But, he said he lived in this Kost-an, in this room. When you didn't recognize him?" Rio was in disbelief, feeling that Rima was just covering everything up.
"I really don't know him, sir. Maybe the information you got was wrong. Instead, find the right info first," said Rima gave advice.
"So have you tried calling yet? Look, the room lights are off, right? To my knowledge, the room had been empty for a long time. There was no such thing as Shanum at the boarding house here," Rima explained, adding doubts in Rio's heart as to the accuracy of the info he had.
"Times, anyway?" Rio frowned. He repeatedly looks at his phone, boarding name, and Shanum's room number. The man seemed to be confirming all his info again. "Everything is right. But, why isn't the guy here, huh?" muttered Rio wondering.
"It's late, I want to go in first, rest," said Rima. He did not want to linger in conversing with Rio, building up a lie. Fear, later Rima let go of talking and revealed everything.
"good. Thank you, sorry to interrupt" Rio said.
***
The morning greeted again, the sunlight that was still timidly showing itself in the eastern horizon. Dews that slowly drip into the leaves and grass make the atmosphere still cool. The sound of chicken coke woke up everyone who wanted to move, including Shanum and Arsenio.
"Mommy, let's get up! Don't make Arsen late for school!" Arsen shook Shanum's still-deep body, diving into the world of his beautiful dreams that made Shanum very sound and lazy to wake up.
"Mommy!" Arsen raised his voice intonation. Not because of her Mommy snarl. Just to make his voice clear and to wake Shanum up.
"Yes, honey, Mommy's up." Shanum wriggled, last night he was late to sleep because accompanying Grandma his boarding story first.
"Let's go home. Don't be noisy, yeah. Grandma wakes up" Shanum whispered to her son.
Arsenio nodded, despite the myriad questions in her heart, she chose to obey what her Mommy said. Arriving at his boarding room, then Arsen asked something that had stuck in his heart.
"Mommy, last night why are we sleeping in Grandma's house?" arsen asked, looking at his mother's silent face for a moment. Shanum knew, he would not be able to lie about anything from his little son.
Shanum knelt down to equalize his position with the son. Later, Shanum gave an explanation to his son.
"Arsen still remembers Uncle who didn't this afternoon?" shanum asked, tidying up his son's messy hair.
Arsenio nodded her head. "Still, Mom," replied Arsen.
"Well! Last night he came here, Mommy didn't know what his purpose was. To be sure, we should avoid as Arsen would, right? Hence, Mommy brought Arsen to stay at Grandma's house" Shanum explained.
"That's it...." Arsen rounded his mouth. "Now Arsen understands, Mom." Arsen mangosteen while chuckling softly.
"Now Arsen is taking a bath, yes. Fear it's late. Mommy has to come to the office faster" Shanum said, making breakfast while providing Arsen.
Shanum makes Arsen's favorite egg bread, while preparing all his work needs. Early in the morning, Shanum was always busy.
After everything was done, Shanum delivered Arsen to Day Care. Forgetting to put his drink into his son's bag, Shanum pulled his motorcycle over at a small shop and bought mineral water.
While Shanum was paying, there was someone who nudged his arm.
"Ouch! How the hell are you i-" the guy's words hanging when he saw Shanum's face.
As Shanum's bead sat with that person, Shanum reflexively hid Arsen directly behind his body.
"Shanum, is this you? Really you?" screech someone, looking at Shanum from top to bottom.
*****
Hello, author would like to give you a little info. Sorry before. Authors always expect comments from you, the readers. But, if you can comment a little long. You see, if only "Continue" or "Next" it will be considered spam and removed the system. There have been many comments that the system removed because it was considered spam. Author already direct to his admin🙏🙏
And that makes the author really sad. Hopefully you understand, and this does not make you lazy to leave comments that build and encourage author 🙏
Thank you for reading up to this chapter🥰🥰🥰🥰