I Don'T Want To Be Cinderella #1
70. The After 20 years

The After 20 years

I don't know how long Kirana and Anggi hugged while crying. Want them to tell each other in place of lost time, but now is not the right time and place. Not at the police station where they were seen in a case.

“I really didn't follow their plan.”

Anggi began to tell the chronology.

“After I had a dream about Sister Nana, I told her that I had gone out of their plans so that I would never see them again. And yesterday Ferdi sent me a message that it was his day, but I realized too late about brother .. I'm sorry.”

Kirana clasped her cold hand.

“It's okay, sister is fine. There's Oka and Caraka helping sister.”

Kirana hasn't told me about Bu Mega's circumstances, because she knows Anggi would definitely feel very guilty knowing their mother was hurt. At this time the shock received by Anggi was enough, Kirana did not know what would happen to Anggi if she knew their mother was injured because of the actions of Ferdi and his friends.

“Bi, you tell all you know to the police officers, no exception ... We leave everything to them and also your lawyer, understand?”

Anggi nodded in understanding along with the door that was knocked and showed a policeman entering with a laptop, behind him following Birendra with his serious face. Kirana knew that it was time for her to go outside, before going outside she hugged Anggi again to give her support.

Outside Caraka has been waiting for him with an anxious face and an information that makes him return must prepare the heart to face the real problem. Father Kirana. I made an appointment to meet them.

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Andi Santoso out of his car entered a house that was converted into a very comfortable restaurant. A beautiful and beautiful garden, ornate and vintage-style interior that feels homie. Some people are seen enjoying tea in clay pots with rock sugar that adds flavor.

A waiter with a pink kebaya welcomed his arrival, he drove Andi Santoso directly back to the outside of the front room and now walks in a hallway with a village-style garden that feels thick. The rice field is deliberately made with a small river that flows and empties into a pond with natural stones, bamboo showers whose water falls on the bamboo wheel until it sounds soothing water rustling.

On the edge of the rice field there are several gazebos made of straw-roofed bamboo, inside it looks comfortable with colorful pillows as a lesehan seating base. They continued walking until the waiter stopped in front of the gazebo where two laughing people had been talking before finally falling silent and standing up to greet him.

“Sorry, I came late.”

“It's okay we also just got up.” Caraka said as she greeted Andi Santoso who had just joined her as well as Kirana who was only silent with a racing heart received a helping hand of a man who seemed to be watching her who was none other than her father's.

At first they will meet at the police station, but Kirana refuses because after all the police station is not the right place to meet and talk to someone she has been waiting for so long. Although this was not like the family reunion he had imagined, but at least they needed a comfortable place to talk. Understanding that eventually Caraka made an appointment at one of the restaurants that felt comfortable to talk to in person.

During this time Kirana always imagined various scenarios when she met her father, from the blue meeting because it had not met for a long time, to the blatant rejection. But never once in her wildest mind would her father apologize to her not for leaving her for 20 years, but for a case involving Kirana and her sister.

“On behalf of Anggi as well as his parents, I'm sorry.” Andi started the conversation. “This was all due to my mistakes and inability in educating my daughter.”

Kirana can only be silent to hear Andi Santoso's words, never imagined in his life a father would do anything for his son including bowing his head apologizing as his father currently does.

“I will be responsible for all medical expenses, also replace all damages.”

“No need,” Kirana said as she stirred her tea after adding the sugar cubes, her eyes now staring at Andi Santoso sharply. “The innocent. He was only asked for evidence as a witness. So ... you do not need to be responsible by paying for medical expenses ... we.”

Andi Santoso was speechless, his eyes staring at the sharp bead of Kirana's eyes staring at him. The young woman who caught his attention when he first saw her had a bruise that was now turning blue, but did not diminish her beauty, her clear and sharp eyes showed her intelligence and independence. But what caught his attention was how he looked at her. .. There was pain, anger, and longing that made Andi Santoso's heart feel melos, reminiscent of his eldest daughter's gaze the day she left him.

Hearing that Kirana could only sigh heavily because after all it was true. Suasa returned to silence until finally Caraka's phone rang breaking the silence.

“Honey, I picked up the phone first.” Kirana nodded in permission. “Excuse me, Om, I pick up the phone first.” Andi Santoso nodded like Kirana just now.

After Caraka, the atmosphere in the gazebo is getting quieter. Tension and awkwardness were very strong in that silence.

“You seem to love your daughter very much,” Kirana said without looking at Andi Santoso who was now smiling at her.

“It's natural as a father, I love my daughter.”

Hearing that made Kirana's heart again melos because this 20 years of fairness that he never felt.

“I only have a mother, so I never felt what it was like to be defended, protected and loved by a father.”

Andi santoso looked at Kirana who had just been bowed to play a spoon inside a small cup made of clay.

“What is your father already ... died?” Andi Santoso asked with eyes constantly staring at Kirana full of probes.

“No, my father is still alive,” replied Kirana while looking at Andi Santoso. “Just he left me since I was a kid.”

Their eyes meet. A gaze full of questioning with a heart of great looks met with a gaze full of disappointment and hurt.

“Ke-napa .. she left you?”

Kirana was speechless still looking into Andi Santoso's eyes, with a seriously changed look she again said, “That's what I wanted to ask her. Why did he leave me? What's my fault? What quarrels and partings with my mother made me automatically become not her daughter anymore, so she never once looked for me and Oka during this?”

Silence again enveloped the gazebo, various feelings and thoughts are now mixed into one.

“Oka?” Andi Santoso asked curiously. The suspicion that had appeared had now turned into doubt when he heard Kirana mention a name that felt foreign.

“Iya .. Oka, my youngest sister. When my father left us, my mother was pregnant. Alone in the land of people, far from my relatives my mother gave birth only accompanied by her little daughter was also a kind neighbor. And more sadly when despair grew in my mother because she finally had a son who could restore the condition of our family for the better, my father instead sent her a divorce letter, and just when my sister was one year old that became her first birthday gift was her parents' divorce papers.”

Doubt that had been present now re-emerged, Andi Santoso's face looked deathly pale, his heart was beating crazily, his eyes staring at Kirana without blinking. When he first met Caraka's fiancee, there was another feeling that made his heart tremble, there was a hint of suspicion swirling in his head about who exactly the woman before him was. But his common sense refused to justify his suspicions, or rather he could not accept the fact that his suspicions became real.

However, suspicion grew when he saw how the young woman before him looked at him. Those eyes ... were exactly like the eyes of the princess he had left behind all this time.

“My mother was a great person .. alone she raised us both, she said, slamming bones tirelessly to meet the needs of his sons whose daughters should be the responsibility of our father who unfortunately seems to forget that he has a child he has left behind.”

Kirana stared at her cold tea before she looked back at Andi Santoso who was still silent.

“I can understand that my father did not look for my sister because he did not know about her, but .. did he also forget about his daughter? Is there no desire to find his daughter? Was it never in his mind how he was at the moment? When my father ate well, was there nothing in his mind could his daughter eat well? When he sleeps comfortably, does he not think where his daughter is currently sleeping? When she lives a luxurious life with her new family, does it ever occur to her how her daughter's life is today?”

Silence there was no answer from Andi Santoso, although he knew the questions were directed at him visible from the gaze of the woman in front of him who seemed to demand all the answers from him. But his surprise made his tongue suddenly twisted to be unable to answer any of the questions.

“While it was more sad, my father separated me from my sister, separated a mother from her daughter who was not even four years old, then changed all her identities. Name, date of birth, even ..” Kirana's eyes are filled with anger, visible from her hardened jaw. “Name of her birth mother.”

Andi Santoso's face turned pale, his eyes widened, for a moment his heart seemed to stop beating before finally beating crazily. His suspicions are now fully substantiated. The woman who was still looking at him with anger was her eldest daughter. Kirana Az Zahra's.

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