Love In Longing
Ct. 72 (Look, She's Sleeping on Sofa )

Since becoming the wife of Kenzo Adhitama, surely not once did Mommy Cal leave Indonesia. Repeatedly, until countless by the fingers. Almost every school holiday their children will definitely go on vacation abroad.

So that when the princess is known to be in New York, Mommy Cal is not surprised and not worried about what Cla is like on the trip. Because it wasn't just once that Cla went abroad twice. It's just always with the family.

Not Mommy Cal forbids the princess from going abroad, just as the mother of a 21-year-old girl, not all can be confident and believe in letting go of their daughter being abroad alone. Alongside with a culture that is much different from that in the country.

And that's what Mommy Cal went through. It is not about the security of a country that he fears. What is feared by him is free association in the country.

It's only fitting that Mommy Cal wants to pick up her only daughter. Moreover, it is clear that the girl is visiting her long-time lover mingling with free life in New York.

"If you and Mas Zio refuse to pick up Cla, let me pick him up myself, Mas!" concluded Mommy Calina is tired of holding back disappointment at the decision of the husband.

"Don't be rash, honey... Jakarta - New York is not Jakarta - Depok" replied Daddy Ken.

"What if not Jakarta - Depok, Mas? One day and one night I got there! I can't be patient anymore to imagine my daughter abroad with her lover." panted the Mommy.

"You know Cla never dated. Once he was in a relationship with a man who was used to living abroad, he had a lot of influence! One sentence Arsen will certainly be strongly believed by Cla."

"Mama also thinks so, Kenzo.:" said Eyang Shinta.

Daddy Kenzo took a deep breath before speaking and briefed his wife and mother-in-law to pick up Clarice.

"You look at me, honey." Daddy Ken's asking seriously. "I have Australian blood, I have lived abroad for many years... I never had a love affair in Aussie. And it was also experienced by Arsen."

"You certainly haven't forgotten. Once I met you, almost every day we were together, I even stayed at your apartment to look after you and Cla even before Cla was born and before Mama Shinta came."

Daddy Ken stared fixedly at his wife. "Tell me what I've done to you all that time, honey?" ask Daddy Ken.

For a moment the room felt as if it was uninhabited.

"Nothing is excessive, is it?" dad asked Ken after seeing his wife just shut up without saying a word.

"If I want to, I can do what I want. We can do without anyone's interference. Because one apartment building thinks we're a married couple because you're pregnant and I'm the only guy you're with!"

"That's because I wanted to take care of you, I promised myself!" dad Ken is serious. "Not everyone who lives abroad will be carried away by the free culture that is there. And I'm sure Arsen is one of them."

"But I was an adult by then, Mom... Different from Cla who is still very unstable and new to love." replied Mommy Cal.

Daddy Ken repeatedly took a deep breath and exhaled him as if feeling restless.

"Arsen has promised to keep Cla, and I'm sure he'll keep his word. I believe that!"

"Although I know he's an installment, but I'm sure he's a good young man. He's well-educated. Wouldn't dare to break his parents' trust."

"I've also contacted Jonathan and Rania, asking them to look after Arsen to take good care of Cla."

"We and his parents are good friends, there's no way he'd dare to just destroy it, right?"

"What's the guarantee?" mommy asked Calina still holding a bang in the chest, even though what Daddy Ken said he thought was a little true.

"There's no real guarantee, honey. I'm just sure Arsen and Cla still have clear minds."

"Only with trust?" mommy asked Calina half-pouthed.

"We video call Arsen, so we know what they are doing" concluded Daddy Ken who was tired of explaining to his wife. "You can ask him directly."

"Why not contact Cla directly?" ask Grandma Nurita.

"Cla's phone is still dead today, Ma" replied Daddy Ken. "I think he turned off his phone on purpose."

After that Daddy Ken immediately took the phone and pressed the video call button on Arsen's mobile number. Little wonder indeed, the number of messages sent since morning, only in reply...

[ Ready, Uncle! Don't worry about Cla, I'll take good care of her. We're having dinner. ]

After that the young man disappeared and did not reply to any more messages since three hours ago. Maybe it's sleeping Daddy Ken thought. Remembering in America is still night.

The sound of a connected call, making the entire room silent waiting for the young man to pick up a video call from Daddy Ken.

While Mommy Cal held her breath for a moment while glancing at the screen of her husband's phone that displayed a picture of Arsen's profile photo. Where this time there is a photo of both of the original, alias is no longer a painting like a few hours ago.

"For so long!" his gerrick.

***

While in New York, the young man who was waiting to answer a video call was asleep in a cold night's sleep on the living room couch. The main light has been extinguished. Even the lights standing in the corner of the room near the window were turned off. Arsenes prefer to sleep in the dark.

The phone he put on the table shook, because of the night, so the vibration sounded quite loud in the ears of the young man snag. He had to touch the table and take it. Staring at the screen with eyes that hold lazy to wake up.

Then squinted his tired eyes to find the green button and swiped it without seeing who contacted him in the middle of the night New York time. All he saw through those narrow eyes was a green circle with a camera image.

"Hmm?" arsen replied sounding very hoarse and very lazy because it is still very sleepy in addition to tired that is not helped.

His eyes that had just woken up from sleep certainly felt glare by the light of the ponsle screen. So that he only opened his eyes a little, the material looks still very sleepy.

"You see." said Daddy Ken to his wife. "She slept on the couch" he continued when an image of Arsen lying on the couch was seen on Daddy Ken's phone screen, albeit faintly.

The Mommy was still silent, as if she could not believe a hundred percent yet.

"Arsen?" call Daddy Ken.

Hearing a very familiar voice, Arsen woke up with a slight jump in shock.

"Uncle!"

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