
I was still standing vigilantly in front of Aldebaran.
Aldebaran was holding a bouquet of sunflowers that Josh Rainer gave me this morning.
With the greeting card that is now in his hand.
“You came at a time when the stingy was dim and almost dead,” Aldebaran began to read the contents of the greeting card by mimicking the voice of Josh Rainer.
He even mimicked Josh Rainer's rigid body language when conveying the content of the message.
“Stop,” I said asking him to stop.
“Are you the one who turned it back on and made me whole again?” Aldebaran ignored my request.
“I said stop!” my yelling.
“Matahari.”
Now I have walked ahead of him.
Can't stand telling that mouth to stop.
PLAAAKS.
I slapped him.
I don't understand the reason myself.
Perhaps, I just want those words to remain sacred and spoken directly by Josh Rainer.
Not by Aldebaran's annoying mouth.
Aldebaran himself seemed shocked by my slap.
Now he is standing in front of me.
Very close to my face.
"I'm not too late to take you away, am I?" he said he came back like crazy.
Still holding her sore cheek after I slapped.
“I waited years to see you again. But the reply.You slapped me instead,” he said starting again his boasting.
“I no longer want to listen to this nonsense!” my peek.
I ran, trying to reach the door. But Aldebaran's rapid movements stopped me.
Even nimbly he had closed the exit.
Now he had locked the door and retrieved the key from the knob.
Then with a flash of movement, he dashed towards the window balcony.
After that, I didn't think he threw the key all the way to the lake behind this house.
Aldebaran is crazy!
“Hey?!” my hardik. “We'll be trapped can't get out of here!”
Aldebaran doesn't want to hear me.
“Josh is alone with his fiancee. You're alone with me here, break even, right?” said relax.
Missing my chance to escape from this house.
In the meantime, I obviously couldn't have escaped from this house on the balcony like I did at Josh Rainer's house.
Josh's grandmother's house is very magnificent like a palace. The distance of the balcony of this room to the ground floor I estimate reaches 20 meters.
Not to mention, the base surface of this balcony is not land, but a cliff directly adjacent to the lake opposite it.
The only way, I have to call Margaretha. And whining to him to save me from this madman in front of me.
But I also need to forget that idea.
Somehow, Aldebaran is now holding my phone that I put in the bag.
It's moving so fast. Like magicians.
“How can you block me anyway?” he said astonished and then fiddled with my phone. It looks like he is reopening his blocked number.
“Restore to me now!” I said in a high tone that it felt like only a dog could hear it.
“I'll give it back to you later, my Queen,” he said as he tried to rub my head.
I then parried his hand. He seemed annoyed at my refusal.
“Selena, you who are now very difficult to manage,” he said with a sigh. “When you were very sweet and obedient,” he said again.
Oh no, again bullshit.
“Stop pretending to be crazy! I don't care anymore about everything that's going on in this family. I want to be free,” I said to the point.
He seemed to be listening to me carefully.
“So stop your nonsense and hallucinations against me. I don't care what motives and plans you're making, but these jokes are all so disgusting,” I said frankly.
And for real, my words just now were able to make Aldebaran speechless.
“Truly pathetic,” he said slowly.
Now, he even showed a disappointed look.
What I've never seen on his face.
“It turns out I never meant anything to you at all huh?” he said now while massaging his forehead with his two hands.
He looks very sad.
The face that I thought was always excited, narcissistic, and so happy to seduce I thought it would never look depressed like this.
"Please listen to me just this once," he said almost pleading.
I was stuck where I saw her change.
“When I was 10 years old, I ran away from the orphanage that raised me," she began telling stories while looking straight at me.
Did Aldebaran live in an orphanage?
So he wasn't raised by Celine?
“I took a bus from my orphanage in Banten. Ride some public transport to get to the only lead I have. The paper contained the address that was gagged in my pendulum when I was left in the parlour. I'm sure it's my parents' home address,” he said still gently staring at my face.
“When I was at the bus terminal Kalideres, it was night. I ran into a group of hungry thugs. Meanwhile, I was carrying a large bag of clothes, bread and money. They are waiting for their prey to feed them. At that time, I was lucky not to be beaten by them, but my whole bag was taken by them,” he said.
“Included, the only necklace that became my identity with my family. Yes, the necklace containing the address was also taken them,” he said perih.
Up here, I think I remembered something.
Yeah, I remember I've heard this story. But where?
“Luntang-lantung in Jakarta city with all the missing clues is a blow to me. Not only did I lose hope of meeting my parents, but I also had to face the cruel world at a very young age alone."
"At that time, I slept everywhere. In the head of the Mosque, in the culverts, under the overpass,” he still explained with eyes looking at me.
I'm sure I've heard this poignant story. I'm still trying to remember.
“To survive, I ate from the leftovers of people I met in the trash. I busked and got money to buy water and bread. My face is dirty with Jakarta pollution because I have to scavenge food and bushy under the hot sun,” he said again.
Did Aldebaran ever meet me when I was a kid?
Because I'm sure I've heard this story. However, I don't remember much.
Does that mean he never boasted?
“Then after weeks of experiencing that, I finally got tired. I ended up looking for a shortcut to get back to my orphanage. I started stealing passenger bags when I was busking,” he said, now his eyes are getting sharper on me.
Oh naw.
Is.. is he?
“That was my first experience of stealing, a thing that was always forbidden in my every lesson in the parlour first. However, I needed money to go home because I realized that living outside was cruel. I began to recite never meeting my parents, the important thing is that I have a home to take refuge in. I just want to feel safe,”.
Now my breath has gone up and down to hear his confession.
“And it turns out, my victim at that time was a good person that God sent for me. I knew stealing was wrong, but I was grateful. Grateful for trying to steal back then, I was able to be met by people who accepted and loved me for who I was" he explained.
No. gabe. Don't tell him..
"He wasn't angry at my stealing. He took me home and took care of me like his own son,” he said he was now fixed on looking at me.
…
“And it was your mother, Selena,” she said softly.
I look at him like I see a ghost.
“Ale..” my esophagus choked
“Yes, I, Ale. If you hadn't paralyzed me with your carat at the time, I would have still wandered out there as a master thief in the bus terminal,”.
I now clenched my hand to my mouth, unable to speak anything at this moment.
All this time, it turned out that he wasn't bragging at all.
He was Ale, the boy I had kicked to the point of trying to snatch my mother's bag at the Kalideres terminal in West Jakarta.
I was only 8 years old at the time but already had a yellow karate belt.
At that time, he had a sprain from my kick, and then my mother felt sorry for him. She didn't report it to the police and took it home.
And somehow, we accepted it being part of our family from then on.
He became my older brother.
For days, he convinced me that he wasn't a bad guy. He was forced to do so to return to the orphanage because there was no longer any way to survive.
I always tried and never believed in him. Until finally, when I got home from school, I couldn't go home because of the storm and I didn't bring an umbrella.
Ale himself at that time continued home-schooling. You see, all of Ale's identity papers were left in the orphanage, so he couldn't continue elementary school and it was my mother who taught him directly at home.
It was almost maghrib. My father was still teaching while my mother was going around teaching bimbels.
Wanting to cry from not being able to go home, suddenly a small man came to my school holding an umbrella.
It was Ale.
He was worried that I wouldn't come home from noon.
And by breaking through the storm, he picked me up with his two cold feet.
Then gave me the little umbrella, while he was raining because it did not fit in one umbrella.
She had a fever for days, which made me feel bad and tried to take care of her.
At that moment, I was devastated and began to accept him as a new member of my family.
We spent time together as close friends who lived in one house.
However, it lasted not long.
Only three months, until finally Ale was picked up by the orphanage people who had been tracing him for so long.
Because her parents were looking for her back then.
Ale finally found his purpose.
And we finally split up.
After that, I heard nothing more about him.
But now, fate has reunited me with Ale.
And I have no reason not to embrace her at this moment.
Close-fitting.
With a sumringah laugh, she returned my embrace and whispered to me.
“I'm back, Selena.”