
Mr. Surya came to the pavilion as I swept over while humming lightly. She smiled at me despite the tension on her face. I immediately greeted him and asked him to come into the house. Turns out Mr. Surya came to see Mbok Welas. I served him a glass of warm tea and offered Mr. Surya breakfast but he refused. Arka who just finished bathing joined Pak Surya in the living room. The arrival of Mr. Surya was only to ask Mbok Welas to want to live with Aditya in the mother house.
"Papa does not know if the mas arbitrarily the same Mbok Welas. Mbok Welas is not babu pa," protest Arka did not accept
"But Mbok Welas should not be choosy, want to take care of you but refuse your mas," Mr. Surya still insisted with his opinion.
"The twelve have the right to choose people alive him, it's up to him who he wants to be," Arka refused increasingly loud
"But your mas needs Mbok Welas," Mr. Surya is still trying to convince Arka.
"Yes pa, rather than make a rebuke, today also Arka rumahin Mbok Welas to his home. He also has children and grandchildren who need him more than we do" Arka's decision seems to be final
"If joking do not delay," rejected Mr. Surya who considers Arka not serious with his words.
"Exceptively, if the delay is just a turn around," replied the original Arka and stood leaving Pak Surya.
Mbok Welas from earlier just silently listened to finally open his voice and told Pak Surya that all this time Mbok Welas was in this family just to accompany Arka. He knew the injustice they had done to Arka who always had to yield to Aditya just because they were sorry for Aditya who had lost his birth mother. But according to Mbok Welas, Aditya never lacked the affection of a mother because Bu Gendis loved Aditya even more attention to Aditya than Arka. That is the reason why Mbok Welas prefers Arka which he thinks even lack of affection from his biological mother.
Arka also frees Mbok Welas more without arranging he has to sleep where, want to do what is up to Mbok Welas. Even if Mbok Welas all day doing nothing and just watching TV all day, Arka never mind let alone to reprimand him. Arka is indeed much more independent, even if Mbok Welas does not help him for household affairs, Arka can solve it himself. Mbok Welas is really treated like a host, not like a hitchhiking. Mbok Welas also told Pak Surya how insolent Aditya asked me to be his wife.
Disappointment, emotion and shame mixed and clearly visible on the face of Mr. Surya. He thought that last night's quarrel was only because Mbok Welas forced Arka to stay in the pavilion when in fact Mbok Welas was here because of his own wishes. Mr. Surya occasionally held his head and gave a light massage at his temple. Without much said Mr. Surya left the pavilion and returned to the mother house.
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"Would you ask my mom's permission?" ask me because worry can cause problems later on.
"No need, from the door behind the koi pond to and the entire location of this pavilion has already broken the certificate on my behalf and it's been since I was 17 years old, birthday gift from mom so it's up to me to do what," said Arka with a smile.
Crazy, sweet seventeen gift Arka in the form of property, what is my power at that age only gets a KTP gift because it is old enough. I was only able to scratch my head, as if I had just realized that my social status and Arka were like heaven and earth.
"The sky and the clouds, if the sky and the earth are far away," Arka said with a smile as I spoke to her.
"The cloud was just hitchhiking in the sky, someday it will be the points of water that fall to the earth," said Mbok Welas very poetic, understood the victims of the soap opera.
"Again, it finally became like heaven and earth" I said, chuckling.
"But at least being together and being raining it means being beneficial to others, good dong yank," Arka said as she ruffled the poniku.
Why does this talk feel so deep? But strangely too, we ostracize ourselves from the occupants of the mother house when we should be able to have a close relationship because of the bonds of blood and bloodline. 'Either who's wrong I don't know' The crowd-raising song on the sosmed suddenly flashed in my ear. But to be honest, I feel more comfortable here, either because I'm used to a simple house or because I feel closer to Arka.
Arka's cell phone ring cut off our exciting conversation. Strangely enough, it was a call from Mr. Surya who asked me and Arka to go to the mother house and Arka agreed. Everyone had gathered at the dinner table when we were at the mother house. There were two girls who seemed to be running. The big ones are around seven to eight years old while the small ones are likely to be three years old. The little one cried while chasing after her brother because it seemed like they were fighting over dolls. Spontaneously I approached them with the intention to break them but what did I get? The brother hit me on the head with a doll. The rebellious little boy broke away from my hand and ran towards Bu Gendis because I was still a stranger in his eyes. Instead of helping me, Arka laughed at me. The older brother kept glaring at me and seemed to be getting ready to launch the next attack and made me stand up and walk towards the dining table and join all that was there.
Bu Gendis introduced us to Fiona, Aditya's wife. His skin was pure white and his eyes were slightly slender, his body was rather full and he looked very friendly with the style of speech that brought me to the world of Upin Ipin. The great son was named Eurica and the little one was named Edna. But out of everything in this room, Aditya's wild gaze towards me made me feel very uncomfortable. How could in front of his wife and children he act like that.
Silence filled the room as Fiona brought her two children into the room. Mr. Surya cleared his throat before starting the conversation. What important things will be discussed?