
Ryan took his three children to lunch together that day. No Amanda, no Intan or Nadine. There are only four of them.
"Arka, you can't stay at daddy's apartment tonight. Same Ansel, Nino too." Ryan said, when the meal was almost finished and left only a few more mouthfuls.
Arka looked at her father.
"Well, we're family. You are the one who has never lived with us. Daddy wants you to be close to each other as a family, sometimes you have to hang out with your siblings. So one day when daddy's gone, daddy's quiet leaving you."
Arka was silent and thoughtful, while Nino and Ansel were compactly staring at her. Awaiting approval.
"If you want to say Amanda, just say it first." Ryan said later, Arka nodded.
Shortly after eating, he called Amanda.
"Why, Ka?" amanda asked, when she finally received a call from her husband.
"Man, daddy told me to stay here tonight. Can't you?"
"Yes, dong. Nginep, he's your parents too. Nino and Ansel are your brothers."
"Are you really okay I'm staying?"
"It's okay, your daddy apartment people are still in Jakarta. Not in Wakanda."
"Hehe, yes, thank you. You still in the office?"
"So, aren't you in the office?"
"No, I'm on duty outside the mulu. I'm like sales, here and there. Mr. Son, please look out for this, to me."
"Oh yeah, have you had your lunch?"
"Udah, it's the same daddy, Nino, same Ansel."
"Oh, are you the same?"
"Yes, daddy took lunch together. Did you eat yourself?"
"Udah dong, eat rice with shrimp sambel made by his mother Satya."
"Nake?"
"Enak dong, his mother has a restaurant."
"Yes, be patient later. I want to talk again first with daddy and the two creatures." said Arka later.
Amanda laughs.
"Yes there."
"Bye, Amanda."
"Bye, Arka."
Arka ends the phone and goes back to Ryan and his two brothers.
***
"Ti, get mom's cell phone."
Arka's mother told Rianti to take her phone on the dining table. Rianti swiftly took and gave the device to the aunt.
"Here, ma'am." said Rianti.
"Thank you, yeah."
"Yes, ma'am."
Rianti went back inside, Arka's mother tried to contact her son. Arka who was still talking with his father and brother was stunned, when the call notification appeared on the screen.
"Who, Arka?" ask Ryan.
"Mm, mother." said Arka later. The young man then moved away from Ryan and answered his mother's call.
"Yes, mom. Why, mom?"
"Ka, you work?" ask her mother across the street.
"I, yes ma'am. Arka work." said Arka while glancing at his father and brother.
"Why, ma'am." she asked again.
"No, I just want some news. I don't know why I suddenly have a bad feeling. You be careful, son, yeah."
"Yes, mom. Arka is fine koq." said Arka later.
"Yes, I hung up the phone. Let me know if there's anything."
"Yes, mom. Sure."
Arka's mother stopped the phone, Arka then returned to Ryan, Nino and Ansel.
"Why is your mother?" ryan asked the boy.
"Mm, it's okay. It's just it."
"Yes, I still have a mother." Ansel said after spending the water in the glass.
As soon as his face turned sad, Nino sighed and patted his brother on the shoulder.
"Your mother?" arka asked as she looked at her two brothers.
"He died 6 years ago" Ansel replied.
"Oh, sorry." said Arka later. He didn't know it was like that.
"Daddy why not marry Arka's mother?"
"Ansel."
Ryan tried to get Ansel to not ask that question. While Arka was stunned to hear the statement.
"Let's have a mother. Yes, Nin?"
"Ansel." again Ryan said.
"The mother Arka had a husband, Ansel." Nino said as if he was about to pin the head of his brother.
Nino widened her lips to her ears, while Arka just laughed a little.
"Where would Arka's mother, would've left daddy, first."
"Why not?" ask Ansel again.
"Where do I know, I'm a fish" said Nino annoyed.
"Aren't you human?"
Nino sighed.
"Think, Bambang. Suppose you get pregnant with Intan, keep you going. One day you suddenly come back and want to marry her. Does he want to?" Nino said while holding back emotions.
"She may want to."
"Yes, want to throw you use 25kg gas" said Nino sewot.
This time Arka laughed, while Ryan just shook his head. Ansel is sometimes very slow and upset the hearts of many people with his innocence. His age is mature enough to understand many things.
That night Arka stayed at Ryan's apartment, but she kept calling Amanda to ask about the woman and their children. Ryan let his three children mix in one big room. And tonight, they were seen cooking together.
"Beh, Arka pinter is cooking. Not like lo." said Nino to Ansel who was taking care of cucumbers. Nino herself was watching Arka.
"Eh, don't underestimate me huh. Here I cook." Ansel approached and tried to shift the position of Arka, who was standing in front of the stove.
"Don't, don't. Don't love me, Ka." said Nino in the way.
"Last time I got strep throat because of him. He's got chili powder mostly in fried rice."
"Oh yeah?" ask Arka while laughing.
"That's mah, Nino is weak. Eating fainting spikes, he said Indonesian."
"Emang you ate a spit, fainted?" Arka asked Nino.
"Somewhat, he's overreacting. Likes gossip, lambe turah knows him. Bule, bule lambe memble know not."
"Your lambe." said Ansel.
"Lambe mu, Paijo." reply Nino fierce.
They are now throwing cucumbers and tomatoes. While Arka dodged as much as possible while continuing to stir fried rice in the big face.
"Hmm, that's delicious. Ka." Nino praised the Arka's cooking as the three of them ate at the dinner table.
"Yes, it's good." Ansel said in support of Nino's remarks. Arka just laughed and continued eating.
"This is just the name of good fried rice." said Nino later. Ansel only glanced at his brother fiercely.
"Well, I learned from Chef Jono."
"Juna." Nino and Arka spoke at the same time. Shortly after, Ryan approached.
"Well, who's cooking?"
"Arka" said Nino, while Ansel raised his hand. Ryan is the head of Ansel.
"You cook, you're told to make instant spaghetti stick in the pot."
Arka choked as it held back laughter.
"Wrong pancake why not anti-sticky."
"Wrong water scant, Bambang." Nino told Ansel.
Ansel nodded and continued eating. Meanwhile, Ryan began to take a plate and scoop the fried rice in front of him. Slowly he started eating.
"Ow, it's good." he said later.
"It's not like Ansel's cooking" he continued.
"Dad, do not compare one child with another. Because it will only cause a break in the heart of your wounded son." Ansel said making Nino and Arka choke.
They are now chuckling, out of nowhere Ansel learned to poetry. Obviously it makes them feel so ticklish.
"Napa lo both laugh" said Ansel sewot.
After eating, Ansel was in charge of washing dishes. While Nino swept and mopped the kitchen floor, while Arka sat back because she had cooked. Now he plays Mobile Legends in the room.
"Ka, come with Ka." Ansel said later. He had just finished his task and went straight to the room.
"Ntar was ah, giggling."
"Niiiins." Ansel called Nino.
"What?"
Nino came in and closed the door.
"Arka won't stop, Nin. Don't play together."
Nino came closer and,
"Tuuu." Nino pressed the exit button which caused the game to come out just like that.
"Nino, arrrgggh." Arka was upset half dead.
Nino and Ansel grin like Patrick and Spongebob who are upset Squidward.
"It's a long time away, the entrance." said Arka later.
"AFK is for me." he continued.
"Eat him along." said Ansel and Nino both compact.
"Well, I'll do it twice AFK. Just be careful if I can't play in ranked mode."
"There are other modes" Nino said.
"You're another mode." Arka grew increasingly sewed, while Nino and Ansel could not help but laugh.
Soon they were seen playing three games. Sometimes they focus, sometimes swearing at each other with anying-tod mode and all kinds of zoos. Exactly bocil the first new play online games with a quota of tenacity.
Ryan just let the three brothers unite like another brotherhood. Sometimes they get along, sometimes like swallowing each other. As a parent, he is now relieved to be able to unite his children. He was happy to have all three of them.