
"Germist?" muttered Laras while raising his hand until the water washed him. He spread his gaze, looking for a place to shade. His attention was turned to a bus stop not far from where he was standing. Quickly, he tried to run while covering his head using a small sling bag, in order to avoid the drops of water.
"I beg you, don't rain yet" murmured Laras while bowing his head deep enough. As a result of a past accident, he became traumatized by the heavy rain. His body would shiver in fear when the sound of heavy rain sounded, what else if it was along with rumbling and lightning. All the fused sounds again torment him with memories of the terrible events he had in his accident.
"Without?" The call from someone made Laras immediately turn to the direction of the voice. He frowned when a middle-aged woman was seen approaching him with a grim face.
"It's me, Bude Amih, who loves helping out in the parlour." As if knowing the confusion of Laras, the middle-aged woman explained herself without being asked.
"Amih Jude. Geez, I'm sorry, Bude I'm pangling." Laras immediately stood up and then greeted the middle-aged woman with a face of sumringah. He wished he could get information about the orphanage that had suddenly disappeared.
"Bude barely knows you, too, Ras. Geez, long time no see. Where you go, Ras. Why disappear without news?" bude Amih asked while hugging Laras.
"There's something I can't go back to for some time, Bude. Bude, how are you?" ask Laras. Both of them sat in the bus stop.
"Bude well, Race. But, the parlors aren't all right, Ras. You can see for yourself now, the building is no more." Bude Amih turned his attention to the former orphanage building that had been flattened by the ground. His look was sad and full of wounds.
"Bude can tell me, what exactly happened to the parlors and now where are they all going?" ask Laras sumringah. His fear of rain was distracted by curiosity about the story of the disappearing parlors.
"The son-in-law of the man who had already given up the land to build the parlour suddenly came and took over the parlour. They also expelled Sri's mother and children by force" Bude Amih replied.
"Not he who declares the land is the owner of Electronic RK? As I recall, Ms. Sri even got her grant letter. But, why are they still able to take over?" ask Laras. His hands clenched tightly considering who must have come and expelled Sri's mother and her younger siblings.
Obviously, Laras saw the grant letter when he helped Ervin take care of the company. Why can it be taken back now?
Tega you, Vin. Even you also drove out and destroyed the orphanage, where I was the body and my only family. Though you know, how important the orphanage for me, Inner Laras, again get disappointed.
"Bude doesn't know how it is. Yang Bude know, they have forced Bu Sri to immediately leave the former home. They don't even want to commit violence against children. Ms Sri is helpless, she chose to give up and immediately brought the children with a state of deprivation" Bude Amih said.
"Now, ma'am Sri and the others are where, Bude? May I know the address?" ask Laras with eyes that have been reddened by crying. Hearing the tragic story that befell all the members of the orphanage made Laras could no longer hold back his emotions.
Bude Amih was seen taking a piece of paper in his bag and writing something there. "This is address. They're now contracting a house in the suburbs."
Baras accepted it and read it for a while. He turned his gaze to Bude Amih then said. "There's a lot of ya, Bude."
Along with that, a car is seen stopping in front of the stop. Baras smiled and stood up and said goodbye. He knows who the vehicle belongs to.
"Thank you for everything, Bude. Now I have to go home soon" said Laras before finally going to the car in front of him.
"Who is that?" dion asked so Laras sat beside him.
"Do I have to say hello?" dion asked while looking at Bude Amih who was still sitting at the stop.
"No, she doesn't know you either. Mending us home now, I'm afraid it's raining" Laras replied as he spread his gaze outside the car showing a drizzle getting busier.
"All right, we're going home now" nods Dion. He breathed a sigh of relief feeling grateful because it was not too late to pick up Laras because the drizzle was elongated, even though heavy rain never fell.
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"Where did you manage to meet Ervin?" dion asked after they got home and Laras finished giving breast milk to his two children.
Laras.
"Why? Did he reject you? I told you what, he's a jerk, you better forget him, Ras," annoyed Dion who even provoked emotions.
"I still want to try again, Yon. Do you have a way for me to meet him without having to have an appointment with him first?" ask Laras. Hearing about the parlour, she increasingly wants to see Ervin and ask for an explanation for everything that happens as long as he is not around.
"For what else, Race? He obviously rejected you. He's just benefiting you from taking care of his company while he's still blind, now he can see, so he's forgotten you." Dion still seems to dislike Ervin. It seems, there will never be a word of getting along between the two men.
"I want to ask him for an explanation. You know, if I can't calm down before I get clarity," said Laras.
"Why not just go to his office? Maybe there you can meet the jerk, " replied Dion cynically, turning his gaze in any direction. Dion sulking.
"I can't come to the company, Yon. You know there's Roland. He is too dangerous for my children" Laras replied in a lethargic tone of voice.
Dion remained silent. Because he was too carried away by emotions, Dion forgot that Laras had to avoid the office, considering it was too dangerous to meet Roland.
"Actually next week, I have an invitation to attend a party. I doubt he'll come there, but-" Dion seemed to blush while stroking his chin as if he was thinking hard.
"I'm coming!" The barrel instantly cut off Dion's unfinished speech.
"OK, but you have to be different, so that people don't know you too well. You came as my secretary" replied Dion, who was immediately approved by Laras.
That night, they spent planning to meet Dion and get him to talk without anyone suspecting or knowing about the people around him.
After coming to Indonesia again, Dion back to find out about Ervin and his wife, now he already knows if almost everyone around Ervin mangalami replacement, until Laras was sure if something was wrong. Right now, Laras did not even know which one was in Ervin's favor and which one was a traitor.
You have to explain all this, Ervin. At least to convince my heart, so that there is no regret for having ever trusted you, inner Laras.