Love, Life, and Jennifer
Grannies...

It's 08:15 at the moment, and I haven't slept yet. It's only natural when you're having jetlag.

According to my experience every time I return to Indonesia, I usually fall asleep around 13:00, and it will happen over the next few days, until finally everything returns to normal.

Other than jetlag, there are many things that make me unable to close my eyes, one of which is, I feel a little hungry right now.

I decided to go to the kitchen, hoping that Minah would prepare something for me to eat.

And when I opened my door, I faintly heard papa and Sam's conversation from the dining room.

I continued my steps, and sure enough, papa and om Sam were enjoying their breakfast, as well as mama and aunt Vera who looked busy in the kitchen which was right behind the dining room.

"Jen, you're awake, here's breakfast first." Say hello to Sam

"Yes, I want to drink first." My words then passed towards the kitchen, and approached my aunt and also my mother.

Aunt Vera who noticed my presence, immediately hugged me tightly.

"Jennys... Oh my dear... Beautiful aunt's niece is awake..." Aunty then outlined her embrace. "How are you, baby?" Now both of Aunt Vera's hands touch both of my cheeks.

"I'm fine ko' tan... How's auntie? The more beautiful the rich." Candaku to aunt Vera

"Iissshhh... Bisssaaaa to you, yes!" Aunt Vera pinched my cheek gently, then realized something. "Before, aunty lift fried first." Aunt Vera passed, then I opened the refrigerator door to take a bottle of drinking water, then poured the contents into the glass, and gulped it down.

"Where's clara, auntie?" Much

"Clara again in the apartment, he said he wanted to find what the letters were, aunt did not understand, deh." Said aunty while putting the cuisine on the plate

"Who's grandmother, ma?" I asked my mother who was preparing the food.

"Grandmother Mbok Minah, so we have breakfast first, we are ready to go to the hospital."

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 "grandmother..." I hugged my grandmother's weak body tightly. "Jenny misses grandma..." I then outlined my embrace.

"Grandmother was also very upset with Jenny..." Grandma smiled very sweetly, even though her face was pale

"Grandma's eating is hard, Jen!" Ketus aunty Vera, I squinted at the grandmother who now looked a little upset. Papa approached us

"Mommy how to heal if you don't want to eat, mi..." Papa's complaint

"You are, Ver! Very lemes!" Ketus grandma

"I'm talking about reality, mi! Ask Minah or Clara!" Cynical aunt Vera.

"You don't think I'm going home, if grandma is rich' gini." Whiney.

Grandma did not answer, she smiled

"You're gonna have to come home." Grandma then polished my nose with her fingertips. I could hear Grandma's words, as well as the people who were in this room

"Grandmother said what the hell..." Pilu

"Mommy if you like the origin, you know!" Aunt Vera's voice sounded vibrating

"Mommy don't say nothing, mi... " Papa, with a sad look.

"Hehehee... Mommy was just kidding... Mommy will stay healthy! Kan mommy wants to see Jen and Young Joon get married, first..."

Instantly the room became quiet, after the grandmother said so.

"Jen, Young Joon came here yesterday, he took care of grandma! He looks more and more like the oppa-oppa whose movie we watched at that time..." Grandma looked very excited.

I looked at Grandma's face.

"Jen, if you can, this month Jenny said the pledge in front of the altar yes, dear... Let grandma calm down..." Grandmother's words this time, really pierced into the recesses of my heart.

"Mii... We can talk about this later..." Papa's soft mouth.

Grandma smilingly stared at me, as if ignoring papa's words.

"Jen, Young Joon is a good man..."

"Mom, I'm gonna go out for a second, yeah..." I interrupted my grandmother's words, and she was a little disappointed

"Jen promise, briefly doank. Jen wants to call Jen's lecturer, yeah..." I'm making sure. Then grandma nodded. I also left the grandmother's room.

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I sat on the bench of a small garden not too far from the room where Grandma was in.

I was busy fiddling with my phone, trying to contact someone.

I called Clara, yup! Wrap on!

"Ra, where are you? I'm in the hospital, right!" My broom is across here

"Oooiii, Jen! You're in the hospital? Sorry I haven't found you yet! I'm looking for my car papers again, the tax is dead! Geez! I'll see you later in the afternoon, yeah! Later that afternoon you're still in the hospital, right?" Clara was complaining across the street.

"Where else are you going, gw!" My leg's a little bit upset

"Ah, okay-okay... I'll cuss right there, if it's all right, yes!"

"Yaudah, I'm waiting!" I immediately closed the call, and went back to fiddling with my phone.

My attention was shifted, when I realized, someone was watching me.

I turned to him at a glance, and the figure looked a little misbehaved, m.

Then I went back to fiddling with my phone, until finally, the figure greeted me.

"Pulse... W-are you visiting someone?" Sweep friendly. I looked at him, and he looked increasingly wrong

"I'm sorry?" Snide

"Pulse... Um... That's..." He looks increasingly wrong

"Have we known each other before?" I said, still with a cynical tone to him.

I don't know! Is this because of my bad mood, or do I really dislike the attitude of this familiar foreign man, to make me behave so cold, so, against this really handsome guy?

"Aahs... That's... I'm visiting my grandmother here, and seeing you..."

"What's the deal with me?" I interrupted her words, then went back to fiddling with my phone

I realized, the man was still looking at me

"Is there something wrong with me, that you look at me like that?" I stared intently at him, making the man even more misbehaving

"Oh... That's... That's..." I quickly got up, and left the man.

What's with that familiar so' man earlier! How dare he greet me, as if we were good friends! We even met for the first time! He thought he was so handsome that he could say hello to a girl he didn't know at all! But... Isn't that not the wrong thing? I don't know! Maybe my mood is not good.

I opened the door to Grandma's room, there was my mom there having a warm conversation with grandma.

"Where else is it, ma?" I asked who was now walking towards them, then sat down right next to grandma.

"Papa again to the doctor's room, aunt Vera same om Sam to his apartment Clara, trus mbok Minah, home." Mama explained, and I nodded faintly.

"Mommy wants what?" Answer mama softly

"Mommy wants to eat fruit, huh. Kaya'nya seger that, gini lunch eat fruit..."

"Grandmother wants to eat what fruit, let me walk." I interrupted, then got up from my seat, but Grandma held me back

"Grandmother wants to be won by Jenny..." Grandma's voice sounded soft, while looking at me softly.

Mom immediately took the initiative

"Yaudah, I samperin Joseph first yes, mi... Mommy wants to eat what fruit?" Mom's gaze was so gentle to grandma.

"What, what's important seger, but not asem." Pinta grandma.

"Yaudah, I'm walking now yes, mi..." Mama said, then took her small bag that she put on the table located not far from the grandmother's stool.

"Jen, granny, yeah..." Mama said before passing by, my grandmother and I turned to look at Mama.

"Mommy sure, Jen can take care of mommy." Grandma said, then mom passed.

A little story about my grandmother and mother. You could say, mama is the luckiest daughter-in-law in the world. Grandma loved mom very much, she did not discriminate her attitude towards mama and also aunt Vera. My mother once said to me,

"Mama got a surrogate mother figure, yes from your grandmother that's."

As I told you at the beginning of my story, my mother's grandmother died long before I was born, when my mother was not even 15.

During our stay in Indonesia, my grandmother never allowed us to separate from her.

"This is your home, mommy's just hitchhiking here! Than you guys who moved, mending mommy who came out of this house!"

I can clearly remember, Grandma was crying in the living room of the house, when papa conveyed his intention to buy a house that we would occupy. I was 13 years old, at the time.

"Inne, what's mommy's outrageous attitude toward you, until you want to get out of here?" Grandma clasped her hand tightly, so that she could not hold her cry, and immediately hugged grandma.

"No, mi... Not at all... Mommy's too good with Inne... Very good, mi..."

Mama cried bitterly, then deciphered her embrace

"Mi, there are no in-laws as good as mommy in this world... No in-law treats a daughter-in-law like her own child, as mommy did to Inne..."

Yes... I saw for myself how much Grandma loved my mother. Grandma never let mom hold the housework.

"Well! Why are you holding that bell!" Grandma rebuked mama who was cleaning dust in the antique storage cabinet owned by grandma.

"Oh my goodness... It's just like a doank..." Mom's mouth

"There is no Minah!" Umpat granny, then mbok Minah approached them, and grabbed the bell from the hands of mama.

I also remember the moment when my mom got sick.

"Why do you diet everything! I'm checking myself out, no! Come, eat!" Said grandma while feeding rice to mama who finally resigned

"You, no matter what shape you are in, you are still beautiful!" Grandma said, still feeding my mother

"You're not beautiful, you can't have a beautiful granddaughter, like Jennifer." Grandma's words, make mama smile

"As long as mommy's alive, Joseph won't dare to mess around! Want mommy to boil, she!" Grandma's words made the two of them laugh happily.

And now I, smiling, look at Grandma's pale face.

"Why are you smiling to yourself, Jen?" Grandma's words broke my daydream.

"Eh, that... Mm-mm... Grandma..." I stared softly at Grandma's face

"Why, baby?" Grandma caressed my hand

"Do'ain Jen, yes... So that you can get a mother-in-law like a grandmother, keep a good husband like papa." I then held my grandmother's hand. Grandma did not answer me immediately. He looked me in the eye, then smiled softly.

"Jen, if you marry Young Joon..."

"Mr..." I interrupted my grandmother's words, making her fade her smile. "What the hell is it, Young Joon? Why the hell, grandma always talks about him?" My protest. Again, she smiled, instead of answering my question.

"Jen, when you came home from China, didn't you always talk about Young Joon?" My grandmother reminded me of what happened almost 13 years ago. When I just got back from China, and kept telling my grandmother about Park Young Joon.

"You didn't say, if you did..."

"Mr..." I interrupted my grandmother's words again

"Jen... Granny first." This time it was my grandmother who interrupted me. "Young Joon's grandmother, that's Grandma's best friend. Grandma told you the same story, right, when grandma slumped, there were friends who helped grandma?" Grandma reassured. I remember, but nothing! My brain is not working properly.

"Grandmother once said to Grandma's friends, if we both have grandchildren, we will mate with them." Grandma paused her story.

"Jen, grandma dares to mate you with her granddaughter's friend grandma, because grandma knows exactly their nature." Grandma stopped her story

"I mean grandma?" I am a little confused to hear Grandma's words now

"Two years before you were born, my grandmother's friend told me that her first grandchild was a boy. Two years later, when your mother was born, and you know, if your grandmother's granddaughter, grandma immediately contact her friend." Grandma's eyes look teary

"Grandma immediately tell papa you about the match between you and Young Joon." Grandmother continued

"Papa's response, how?" My heart is curious

"Papa you were having doubts, but God seems to support her grandmother Joon." Grandma seemed excited to continue her story. "Your age is not even 6 years old, your father was assigned to China, although heavy, grandma finally wants to let you go, in hopes, your father agrees with grandma's plan." Grandmother continued

"I mean grandma?" I'm getting curious

"Young Joon's parents were living in China, and their house isn't far from the apartment you're going to live in in China!" Grandma's eyes are so sparkling

"Where does grandma know?"

"Grandma asked papa you, where she will be assigned, how do your school, papa you at that time said, all has been arranged the same company. And when grandma asks where you're going to live, papa you tell grandma in detail, everything." Grandma Semkin's excited

"After your grandmother and papa chat that night, she checked the address of Young Joon's family in China. Because grandma regularly gives Christmas gifts to Young Joon every year."

"Continue?" I was wondering, Grandma smiled

"Finally your ngizinin grandmother went to China, and sent a message to your papa, to meet Young Joon's family."

"About matchmaking, how does papa finally respond?" I made sure

"Young Joon's parents' relationship with your mom and dad, in fact, the better. Even they still communicate a lot until now." I was a little surprised to hear Grandma's explanation.

Why don't I know about this?

"But all back again. Papa you agree with Grandma's plan, but all the decisions, remain in your hands." Grandma smiled expectantly at me.

"Jen... Grandma will not maximize grandmother's will to you. If you are not..."

"Mr..." I looked at the face of my grandmother who was still smiling.

"I want to marry Young Joon, but after grandma recovers..." I said then shed tears. Grandma wiped my tears.

"Darling..."

"Neneeeeeeeekkkk!!!!" My grandmother and I turned to the door when they heard a familiar voice.