Joy: A Hope's
Chapter 10: A Little Surprise for Bang Ari

After traveling for approximately 7 hours, Joy and Eros finally arrived at their destination. The car stopped at a two-story house with room doors almost filling each side of the building.

Darkness had enveloped the earth once they set foot on foreign land, especially for Joy. The dim light from the boarding house has attracted Joy's attention since getting out of the car. His eyeballs were relentlessly tracing all corners of the long house building. The building will be his home for three years in the city.

“Come, help the driver transport goods from the car.”

Eros' words startled Joy disperse the teenager's daydream. Joy looked up and nodded stiffly. Furthermore, he walked into the trunk of the car to help the driver lower their luggage which was quite a lot and draining. They were the last passengers that the driver was carrying at the time.

As soon as he finished, Joy and the driver approached Eros. As sensitized, Eros reached into the pocket of the back pants. Take the wallet out of there and take out some red money sheets.

“Still, yes, sir! Later if you want to go back, do not contact you again, yes,” said Eros friendly while handing the money to the driver.

The driver's head nodded. His hand took over the money. “Good, back love,” sahutnya short.

After saying goodbye, he rushed into the car and passed from the yard of the house.

Until the car was no longer visible in their view, Eros and Joy walked up to a boarding room on the first floor that was very close to the connecting stairs to the second floor.

Their goods were transported one by one in front of the room. Eros knocked on the door a few times. However, I did not get a response from within. A fretful look began to appear on the adult man's face.

While Joy's forehead shriveled. He brought his head closer to one point. Then he looked back at the father who had not given up knocking on the door while calling the name of the eldest brother.

“Pak, I don't think Bang Ari is inside. The door is padlocked,” Joy said as she showed a large padlock hanging from the door locking on Eros.

Eros followed the direction of his youngest son. Damnit damnit! He cursed in the heart. So from then on, he was wasting his time knocking on the door.

Now, Joy and Eros take a look around. Hopefully there are other room dwellers who come out and they can ask about the whereabouts of Ari.

And maybe because of the noise they created just a moment ago, a teenage girl came out of a room next to Ari's boarding room. The teenage girl's face was shady. She looks a little older than Joy. Joy's taxi girl's brother was two years from her.

The girl's short steps approached Joy and Eros. A warm, thin smile was present on the girl's face.

“Good night, Sir. Who else to find, huh?” the girl said hello.

Joy who was standing beside Eros was transfixed hearing the tone of the voice of such a gentle girl. The girl's stature at the first meeting managed to make Joy moved to be impressed.

Joy looked down embarrassed as soon as her eyeballs accidentally met the girl's brown netra.

A faint smile was also present on Eros' face. The usual face displayed that cold look.

“About the occupants of this room where, yes?” Eros asked back with his hands pointing at room number 3.

“Oh, I'm looking for bang Ari, yes?” The girl guessed in her heart maybe the family of her boarding neighbors who were from the village.

The nod he got from Eros made the girl continue her words. “Maybe his Bang Ari hasn't come home from work, sir. Usually he comes home at seven and above,” said the girl told me.

Eros. “Still, yes,” he said reciprocated a nod by the girl.

“Yes, if so I go in first, yes, sir. Come!” he said goodbye and then darted away in front of Eros and Joy.

Joy was only able to hold her head back after making sure the girl had really left before her. The teenager secretly glanced at the clock plastered on his phone screen.

At 18:15, her mind.

The teenager clucked. Continue his gaze he swept around the boarding house. On the left side, there was a large tree underneath complete with a lesehan place made of wood. Then, on his right there are some mango trees, also guava trees.

The environment here is pretty beautiful. Maybe the cost owner is a little fierce so the yard is so clean. There's no plastic garbage and stuff. Only the old leaves that fall from the trees fill the yard of the house which is quite spacious.

“Joy, sit down first. Maybe your brother is a little long home,” said Eros who had secretly noticed the movements of the youngest son.

Joy turned her head, finding the father who had been sitting on a wooden bench next to where they were standing earlier. The man with a wrinkled face was patting the empty long bench next to him.

That simple thing managed to bring a smile on Joy's lips. See, Eros is so concerned about it that sometimes the man is reluctant to show it blatantly.

Joy approached the long bench and sat herself beside Eros. A long sigh rang out from him to the point that Eros immediately looked at him in confusion.

“Why you?” ask Eros.

Joy looked back at me. A bitter smile this time decorated the lips. “Capek little, Sir,” answered honestly.

The tired look began to be shown without hesitation by Joy. Not tired because of the long journey, but tired in a broad definition.

Eros looked at him. The man was silent for a long time. A moment was filled with the words of his youngest son. There was no lie in Joy's words. The boy's eyeballs explained everything.

As if aware of what he was thinking, Eros immediately changed the look of his face back flat. He looked at Joy expressionlessly.

“Not to complain about your life. Even the life of your father at your age is much heavier. But my father never complained. You're a boy. So, you have to be strong.”

After that, silence struck both of them. Joy who was slapped with Eros speech chose to silence and did not want to complain further. Joy who thought would get words of motivation from the Father turned out to be just imagination. The impossible happens.

Dealing with Eros must be armed with patience. If your patience is only as thin as a tissue that is halved then immediately move away. Don't look for things!

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“Joy. Mr.”

The voice distracts Joy and Eros who have somehow been trapped in their respective daydreams.

“Bang Ari,” says Joy moved from her seat, followed by Eros.

The silence that was created broke once Ari revealed the trunk of his nose in front of the two men of different ages. Inevitably a surprised look filled Ari's face despite being dominated by happiness.

Regardless of his current chaotic appearance, sweat poured down the entire body. Ari immediately rushed into the arms of the father and the sister. Channeling her pent-up sense of longing for these few weeks. Finally the awaited day arrived.

“Ari kangen,” great-grandson Ari in the arms of Eros. His tone sounded so spoiled that it made Joy shrivel dislike.

Eros secretly backs up a smile. “Then same body,” satirical ketus.

Ari scowls. The young man smashed his lips. Joy shuddered in horror at seeing it.

“Bang Ari lebay,” sneer Joy snorted.

Ari immediately looked at him cynically. “Syrics to lo!”

Joy just chuckles. Finally, he was able to clash directly with his brother after being separated by the distance and time of several weeks.

“Surprise make birthday Bang Ari!” exclaiming Joy suddenly and immediately scattered into Ari's embrace.

Ari was silent for a moment before her lips twitched in a faint smile. He hugged his sister and said, “Makasih.”

Eros smiled at the interaction of his two sons. It was calm to see the two of them getting along like that.

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