Loving Friends
4. Standby

Today the work of the Star is very time-consuming, until the lunch hour was ignored. Deadline gets her drunk with a sketch that will soon be transformed into an elegant luxury dress design by Aura Maheswari.

The boutique is preparing for a fashion show that will be held next week, and is planned to be held in Bali. While the production for Aura boutique must still run when he leaves later.

A box of food landed on the Star's desk. Making the Star that had been focusing on sketching books shifted his eyes to the food box.

"Every busy you always forget about lunch" someone who had put the food box was now walking towards the sofa in the Bintang workspace.

"The work continues later, now you eat first" Rifky patted the empty sofa beside him so that the Star sat next to him.

"Thank you for bringing me lunch, mas" said Bintang finally when he was sitting next to Rifky.

Rifky gently rubbed the top of the Star's head.

"If we were married later, I wouldn't let you work like this. Just like yourself, you don't care how it will be with me and our children?"

The star was almost choked by his food. Hearing Rifky's words earlier why it seems easy for the man to them to be a couple. Whereas in the shadow of the Star itself being married to Rifky feels very far away.

"So you don't like it when I work?"

"Not that I don't like you working, baby. I don't like it when you neglect your own health. I don't want you to get sick"

"I'm fine with you"

"Thank God you're okay, but please don't worry me anymore. What if it's the same today I didn't come here to bring you lunch. You're definitely not going to eat"

"Yes... Sorry"

Rifky trusts him so much that he says he's okay. If the current one who was here was Angga, surely he would not be this easy to believe in him.

The goose?

Why did the Star suddenly compare Rifky to Angga? Nah! Not comparing! At this time he is not okay, because of his meeting with Nada was in the hospital. Therefore his busyness this time he used to divert his sadness. Yes like that.

"How was your job yesterday in Bandung, mas? Smoothly?"

"Thank God everything was smooth, surely because you always doain me" Rifky poked the nose of the Star that made him anxious.

"Thanks to your hard work too dong mas"

"Well, we'd better be like that, we complement each other. I work and you pray enough for me"

"What the hell are you..."

Rifky is a man who has been there for him for two years. His presence is like a helper angel.

Precisely after five years ago when Widya picked up Bintang from the house of Vishnu, and invited him to live together in Jakarta. And in the first year Widya's boutique suffered a fire disaster as well as losses that were not small.

At that time Widya decided to temporarily sell clothes bazar with the rest of the collection of boutiques that can be saved. And there Widya knows Rifky who works as an architect.

Rifky represents his company which he says provides assistance to entrepreneurs who do not yet have a place for his business.

Eventually, Rifky meets the Star. Rifky who approached the Star and expressed his love for the Star. Although it did not immediately get a response from the girl, but Rifky did not give up.

Much more kindness Rifky did to his family until Bintang felt bad to continue rejecting the man. It took two years for Rifky to really fight for the hearts of the Stars.

He's a good person, Star thinks that reason is enough for him to receive love from Rifky.

But lately the Star feels a futility from its relationship with Rifky. At the beginning of their relationship happened to be both parents Rifky was in Jakarta and Rifky invited Bintang to meet with his parents.

The first meeting went well and there was no intimidation or bad judgment from both Rifky's parents. But somehow Rifky's parents can find out about the status of the Star, until both parents Rifky told his son to immediately break his relationship with the Star.

But Rifky is stubborn, under the pretext that love and love already need the struggle he invites the Stars to fight for their relationship. Two years running but everything is still the same, until the stars feel tired.

Unlike the Stars, Rifky still has faith in the blessing that will certainly be obtained from both parents.

What should the stars do?

...***...

Star out of the minimarket by carrying a white plastic bag with the logo of the name minimarket.

The star-clouded while humming a little enjoyed the drizzle and he noticed the cloudy cloud closing the star tonight. It's okay, don't have to look at the stars because he also wants to show their favorite spot on Angga.

"Star!"

Nadia ran to the middle of the road and pushed the Star's body full of energy which made the Star's body thrown up to the shoulder of the road.

The view of the Star is blurred, but he can still see many people approaching, not towards him. Except in the middle of the road, and there was one person who approached him. Then the Star consciousness disappeared.

"Your mother...!" The Star cried in her sobs with both eyes still closed.

Widya opened the door of her daughter's room because she heard a scream from inside. And the middle star is having a nightmare again. The same dream since her mother died in an accident.

"Star, wake up baby..." Widya woke up the Star by gently rubbing the girl's head.

Widya did not until the heart saw the sweat that soaked her daughter's forehead, it was often the stars had nightmares like this, the same dream about the night of the fateful accident.

The star opened both of his eyes, and he could see a shady look full of worry from his Mama's eyes. The falling Star Tears ended his nightmare.

Widya immediately took the drinking water that was in the bed beside the Bintang bed.

"Drink first, baby"

The star wakes up and sits down at the end of his bed. He tried to regulate his breathing and then drank water given by Widya.

"I'm sorry Mama so wake up you son"

"No pa-pa Ma, it's morning too"

Widya nodded and immediately hugged her daughter's pale body.

"I miss Mother, Ma" Finally the Star cried again, he could not hide his longing for the Mother.

Although Nadia is not the mother who gave birth to her, but Nadia is a mother who has raised her with sincere love like a mother to her own biological children. That's how the stars feel.

"Sorry Mama yes dear" said Widya not to be heard by the Star.

For Widya it feels like apologizing is not enough. She is not a good mother, but what happens if she did not give the baby Star to her sister-Nadia.

It is possible that the life of the Star will be much more fortunate if it is with him or vice versa. Isn't there anything better than living with your own parents? But at that time Widya was pregnant without marriage, while Papa Bintang was already betrothed by her parents.

It is a regret that he will never be able to atone for the mistakes of his past. The sadness of the Star today started from Widya's own mistakes.

And now Widya has actually married Papa Bintang. Love defeats everything.

The star took off his mother's embrace. Then get out of bed.

"I want to get ready to go to the boutique, Ma"

"Aren't you in the hospital?"

Stars shake.

"There's a tone there"

"He can't you look at Vishnu's father?"

"May you Ma. I'm not going to the hospital because I have to prepare for a fashion show in a few days"

Widya approached the star who was about to enter the bathroom in her room.

"You don't lie to Mama, Star. Mama knows very well how Nada's attitude is with you since Mother Nadia died. He always blames you"

Suppose his mother knew that Nada also blamed himself for the accident that befell Vishnu. That day, Vishnu had an accident after delivering the Star to the Boutique. Had the Star not accepted Vishnu's offer, his father would have been fine.

"Ma, yes... Don't talk about it anymore"

Widya finally nodded.