
The guy drove me home after making a deal. I finally know what the guy's name is. His name is Refald, a difficult name for me.
It's true my guess. He's from abroad. He didn't say which country he was from and I wasn't interested in it either.
The first goal here is just a vacation. But he decided to change schools because he didn't want to trouble anyone else because of me. It's too dramatic actually, he could have asked for compensation and returned to his country, but he didn't want to. He wanted to stay here and ask me to take care of him until he recovered.
I don't know what she's thinking. Leaving his country just to make a calculation with me. He's really weird.
It doesn't feel like it's getting late afternoon. Volvo cars driven by Refald drove quickly. On the way home, I didn't talk to him much. We both kept quiet. I just hope that one day he changes schools again as soon as he recovers and his hands go back to how they were. So that he no longer troubles me and interferes with my life.
Sitting together with him in one car like this makes me feel awkward. This is the first time I've spent time with a stranger I've just met, let alone a stranger who's a man. From now on, I have to get used to it.
Finally, we arrived in front of my house. I got out of the car and opened the gate. Refald went inside too.
"Wait here!" I told him to stop following me as we entered the living room.
"You live alone?" tanyakanya.
"There is Mr. Kadin and his wife."
"I'm sorry if I'm presumptuous, where are your parents?" Refald looked around the living room whose walls were empty without any decoration. Besides chairs and tables, I did not fill anything in this house. "Your house is so quiet!" his comment.
"In addition to my three friends, you're the first person to ask them after seven years. My mother died and my father worked in a foreign company. He never came here. I'm the only one who lives here."
"For seven years you've never met your father? You lived alone that long?" he looks very surprised.
"I don't want to talk about this right now. I'll pack up!"
Refald nodded, he sat in one of my living room chairs while I headed straight to my room on the second floor.
While crying I prepared the things I needed, clothes, textbooks, school uniforms, not forgetting diary books and photos of my mother. Those two things are important parts that I have to carry everywhere.
After I finished packing, I went down and met Refald. I said goodbye to my housekeeper, after which we both went to my grandmother's village. The same village as where Refald lives now.
For the time being, Refald lived in the Villa of Light. It was the villa he had just bought. He was really the Sultan's son. Not only can he afford to buy a villa, but the Volvo Silver is also his.
"What are you thinking? You've been quiet ever since. You mad?" refald asked to break the silence.
"Focus just drive. I don't want to talk to you."
"You can still tease me. You're not who I imagined you to be. I thought you'd be fascinated by me!"
"Don't get me wrong .. All this just because I want to make amends. I don't even like you. You're not my type!" i honestly.
"What's? Me? Not your type? Huh ... I can't believe this .. You're the first person who doesn't like me. All the girls are fascinated by me. Even they are crazy about me. You could see earlier at school .. they greeted me with great fanfare."
"They're just stupid girls. You're not that cool."
"What?" the guy choked and looked at me furiously.
"LUCKY !" My yelling. Refald braked the car instantly. We almost jumped into the abyss. "What are you doing? You want us dead? I told you to focus on driving! Get out!" angry bentakku.
I opened the car door and walked over to Refald's side. He opened the car door and then got out. He seems surprised too. I replaced his position and switched to taking control of the steering wheel. We exchanged seats.
In such a situation this person could still speak. Basic sucks.
I didn't want to answer the question and started to focus on driving quietly. A few minutes later, we arrived at Refald's light villa. I went out and slammed the car door. Open the trunk, pick up my things and close them again. Then just go to my grandmother's house which is 500 meters from here. Without saying a word.
Thankfully, it was not too late. Because if it is night, the streets become quiet and dark because the street lights are also still rare. It would be scary to walk in a place like this alone. Especially here are overgrown with shady trees and feel scary.
"I'll drive you home!" I can't believe Refald was after me.
"No need. I can go home by myself!" nadaku.
"Alright, I won't force it. Get ready because I'll pick you up tonight. Bribe me to dinner."
He got back in his car and put it in the garage. I continued my steps to my grandmother's house with a half-dead annoyance.
Before coming here I told grandma to stay in this house for a while for about a month. My grandmother was so happy. The situation is better now than it was the week before. My grandmother had wanted us to live together for a long time, but I didn't want to. Just because Refald was forced to live with my grandmother.
Memories of the past make me a loner and do not like to be accompanied by anyone. That's why I've chosen to live alone.
I went into the room that my grandmother seemed to have prepared for me. That room was my mother's room when she was living with my grandmother. It's on the second floor right next to the balcony.
Memories of my mother's past while she was alive began to come to my mind. I slowly laid myself on my mother's bed. The room is still the same as when you were a child. Not much has changed. Everything was exactly the same as what my mother had described in her Diary that I always carried. It seems like grandma has no intention of changing this room. Maybe he wanted this room to be a memory for him.
My tears are starting to fall. I miss my mother very much. I don't know why I miss him so much. In order to accept his death, I'm willing to come here. Alone, when I was 10. I don't really want to remember that time, because it was the darkest time of my life.
Now I'm trying to get back up, and it's not easy. For seven years, I fought alone. I finally succeeded, although right now the problem is approaching me, I also have to get through it. So that I can return to my home country and face my true self.
Just like Refald. I am also not a native Indonesian citizen. I was born abroad and spent my childhood there. My mother is from here. It was in this house that he was born.
I left my country and came all the way here to take away my sorrow for his swift sacrifice so that I could accept it with sincerity. I've been so devastated ever since my mother left me for good that by accident, I found her diary.
It was this book that made me want to know more about what my life was like in the past. I decided to come here alone hoping that the days I spent here could make my memories a part of my life. I want to spend my childhood the same as my mother did when she was alive.
Without feeling like I've been living alone for seven years without anyone knowing my true identity. But now, thanks to someone I have to live in a house with someone I hate. That person was the mother of my mother as well as my grandmother.
Besides my grandmother and my grandmother's family. Not much is known about who I really am, and why I stayed here even though the only bond that brought me here was gone. I remain a foreigner despite my seven years in the country.
I did close myself. Never left home other than going to school and playing with my three friends. To me, they are my family. I don't even know what my mother's brother's face looks like.
Only Rio I know, because he's the only one who lives with my grandmother in this house. His father and mother also died several years ago due to illness. He's just like me. Even so, we were also not very familiar, as we rarely met.
Rio is different from me. He prefers to go out of the house and look for firewood for heating. After he finished looking for firewood, he cleaned himself and then came out again out of nowhere. He just came home after midnight. Maybe it is something that he can do to fill his free time in order to erase his sadness because of the loss of both parents. Unlike me who prefers to close myself and live alone in an empty house owned by my father.
My grandmother and I were not very familiar, although I was immediately anxious to hear that she was sick. There are things that make me still not able to accept my grandmother even though I tried to brush her off. To be honest .. I hate it. I still can't forgive my grandmother completely. Especially after I found out that my grandmother was also one of the causes of my mother's death. Although not directly.
For years I struggled to live up to what my late mother expected. But it's not all that easy. I have trouble even breathing if I cannot, if I remember how my mother struggled to survive even though fate said otherwise.
To this day, I still cannot accept that fate. Destiny that ruined the happiness of my entire family. A fate that must force me to leave my family and choose to come here to live out the days to pursue the memories of my mother that he once lived through.
What am I looking for? I still can't find him. Coupled with the arrival of Refald who again forced me to choose to stay with my grandmother even though I actually did not want to do it. I'd go crazy if it continued like this ....
"What did that guy plan?" mummify slowly.
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