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Nino and Rain Memories

For a moment Amanda and Arka forget, if they are a contract marriage partner who is bound by an agreement. That night they passed by with laughter.

"Arka, I want you to hold the snake."

Amanda declares a request that makes Arka dumbfounded as well as shudder in horror. Because the woman asked him to hold a python that was being carried by someone. On the right side of the main entrance of Fatahilah museum.

"No need ah, amused." said Arka with a panicked face and frowning.

"Come, Ka. You want your son to be angry?" Amanda rubbed her stomach while looking at Arka expectantly.

"You're saying the others can't?. I'm afraid of snakes, amused to know."

"Come on, Arka." Amanda is still hopeful.

"Come on mas, from his son Ileran loh. Once held only 15 thousand aja, do not use taxes and VAT" said the owner of the snake.

"It's not about the money, ma'am. I am tickled as a snake." said Arka still shuddering in horror.

"Come on Arka, I want you to put the snake around your neck."

Amanda pushes Arka towards the snake owner by force. While the driven ones still tried to resist hard.

"No."

"Come, Ka!"

"No, this is nothing to fight about. You want to snack is also okay." said Arka.

"Yetoooo." Amanda crying.

"Ok, okay." Arka also agreed.

It turned out that Amanda's hooked cries were more sinister than those snakes. Because all eyes are now on Arka.

Instead of being gossiped about as a stingy husband, Arka is better faced with a snake. He stood up with anxious expectation. When the two owners of the snake draped the animal to his neck. Arka was very scared and trembling.

"Well, that's dong." said Amanda happily.

"Don't be long" said Arka while avoiding the head of the snake that crawled on his body.

"Ntar first, photo first." said Amanda.

The woman then took a cellphone and took a selfie against the background of Arka who was tormented.

"Buruan, Man!"

"Ntar first, that ugly picture of her."

"Snap."

"Snap."

"Snap."

"Man, this is the snake gawking at me. Maaaan."

Time passed, and the snake drama was over. Arka could finally breathe a sigh of relief. Amanda and Arka go back around the old town. They have eaten twice since. And Amanda was still hungry.

"Ka, grilled sausage tuh" he said as he glanced at the grilled sausage trader.

"Tomorrow." take Arka.

They also bought grilled sausages. Arka ordered the one without filling. He doesn't like mozarela very much. While Amanda ordered her mozzarella.

"Now, mas."

The seller gives to Arka first. Amanda's order is not yet mature.

"Huh, huh." Arka blew the grilled sausage, then ate it.

"Don't you have one?" ask Amanda.

Arka was silent and then smiled a little.

"You know I'm good, it's just you."

"Ih, not that one." Amanda pinched Arka, Arka laughed a little.

"That's obviously delicious, here's the proof." Amanda pointed at her stomach.

Arka then feeds the sausage in her hand to Amanda, still laughing.

"Cobain, do you think it's good."

Amanda bit the sausage.

"Huh, vanaz."

"Blow up first."

"Udah. Huh." Amanda laughed while trying to chew the sausage.

"But it's good." he said later.

"Observe you." again.

The sausage merchant laughed, to hear Amanda's dirty jokes.

"You know, his mouth." said Arka glanced at him with a laugh.

Amanda was just messing around, turning her face the other way. Before long, Amanda's sausage was so. They ate in front of the seller and ordered again. When I finished paying, it suddenly rained. Everyone panicked, including them.

"Nino, rain."

Amanda and Arka were glued in silence with eyes on each other. Amanda just mentioned a name.

"Mmm, I mean, Arka."

"Duh, Haha. It rained so hard, Nin." Amanda and Arka meet again.

"Mmm, I mean by that."

Amanda closed her eyes for a moment.

"I'm sorry, Ka." she said again.

Arka did not answer, she still silently looked at Amanda. When the rain has gone. He and Amanda walked slowly and sat on a chair on the terrace of an old building.

"You don't want to go home yet?" ask Amanda. He glanced at his watch which turned out to be late.

"After a while. If I get to that house, my mind goes straight to work. I want to relax a little bit."

Arka nodded, then stroked Amanda's hair.

"I'm afraid you have the flu. Your clothes are pretty wet." she said later.

"Just be calm, get home from here taking vitamins. Let it not hurt."

Arka still stroking Amanda's hair.

"Man."

"Hmm?" Amanda looked at Arka.

"Nino, who?"

Amanda was silent, presumably Arka realized the mistake earlier. When he accidentally calls Arka by name, Nino.

"Nino that's."

Amanda lowered her gaze and threw it far ahead.

"He was my first love."

This time it was Arka who was staring at Amanda. But Amanda still faithfully cast off her sight.

"We met here a dozen years ago."

Amanda started to remember the events back.

"I was second grade Junior High. After school, I am the same friends I come here often. Because there are many people here, many snacks. Once we were rained and we ran to find shelter. Fight with others who also want to take shelter. I ran to where we were shelter."

Amanda looked at Arka and Arka silently listened.

"My friend pushed me, and I collided with one of the other Junior High School kids. At that time we were both silent, he looked at me and I also saw him."

Amanda looked down for a moment and smiled. His memory is still very clear about the event.

"Our friends are taunting us. Until the rain subsides, we still steal each other's eyes. Even if we have to separate in different directions."

"Nino, manhunt!"

"Amanda, come!"

Friends from both sides called. But Amanda finally finds out if the child is named Nino. And Nino also found out that the girl he saw was Amanda. They split up that day.

Day after day passed, Amanda never saw the boy named Nino again. But one day, they were found by the rain. When they were in the same place.

"I guess it's gonna rain first, let's see you."

Amanda said first, Nino was surprised. And so with their friends.

"Cieee, cieee." said their friends at the time. Eventually they met and exchanged stories.

"Keep, you guys dating?" ask Arka later. Amanda shakes.

"There was never a word of courtship between us. But we know each other's feelings. We met here often, even when we both went to high school."

"Continue?"

"Nino, he's a mysterious boy. I never knew where his house was. He never talked much about his personal life. Until one day, Nino found me with a bruised blue face like a punch mark. He's just being honest, if he has abusive parents. His father was a drunk and his mother a night woman. Nino was often beaten when her father was drunk. Nino said she wanted to have foster parents. Or get out of the house and live on the street. He was no longer able to face his parents. Every time he saw his parents, Nino said he wanted to kill them."

Amanda breathed, then continued to tell her story.

"One morning I woke up, saw the news there was a fire house. It was Nino's house. All of the inhabitants died except Nino. Since then, I have never seen him again. His friends said a pair of strangers offered to become foster parents for Nino. But they don't know where the stranger came from and where he lives."

Amanda closed her eyes for a moment. Arka then embraced and stroked her head.

"If Nino had come and looked for you, would you have come back with her?"

"Even if she's alive, she's probably married by now."

Amanda lifted her head and looked at Arka. There was a smile on his lips now.

"Who knows if he hasn't been married and he's been looking for you all along."

"I'm pregnant with gini." Amanda looked at him and rubbed his stomach.

"Even if she's single, she wants to be with me again."

This time they both laughed.

***

Far away at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, a plane door opened. There is a step now heard from a man who was busy calling.

"Nino, take care of yourself there."

"Yes dad, Nino will take care of herself. Nino comes home when Nino has met what Nino was looking for."

The man smiled, looking at the photo of the past now in his hands. A picture of him set in the old town. With a girl who was smiling. Behind the photo is a name, written,

"Amanda"