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...Part 40's...

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...40...

It only takes showing a self-identity card and filling out a visit book to gain access to this nursing home.

Nolan recklessly drove alone to this home to realize his desire to meet an old grandfather who made him curious and covered in many question marks. Especially seeing the old man's picture on his papa desk last night.

A nurse guides Nolan's steps to meet the person she wants. Until his feet stopped in a room that looked tightly closed.

“Namely Mr. Yudha, he really likes to paint. At first there was someone who sent him here. But it has been a long time can not be contacted, we lost contact because his guardian deleted the trace on purpose.”

“The time is .. female or male, if I may know.” asked Nolan to start scraping information.

“Female. And that's his only daughter Yudha sir.”

Nolan nodded in understanding, and the nurse resigned to retreat.

“If need something, please just call us.”

Once again Nolan nodded, this time with a friendly smile on his lips. Then, he entered the room of the grandfather he had just known his name.

The man who was still busy painting turned his head when he heard the sound of his bedroom door being opened and the sound of someone walking towards him.

“Lho, you came again, son?” the brief reply then refocused attention to the canvas which two days ago is still not so clear picture. And now, Nolan no longer had to guess who the painting was, he knew that the woman was the daughter of this grandfather. The woman who made it all messy.

Nolan silently clenched his palm. His heart that felt hot tried to be dim, and the emotions that wanted to stick out he kept holding.

“Iya, cake. I am curious about the results of the painting grandfather.”

The man smiled until the frown on his face became clearer.

“By the way, who is the grandfather drawing it?” ask Nolan.

“This, my daughter. His name is Tiana.” Yudha answered briefly and clearly until Nolan did not need to repeat his question. “If the one I stick on that wall, my grandson.”

Nolan turned to look at Yudha and pointed to where a painting was on the wall, where the picture of a smiling child was clearly displayed.

“Name Leo. I don't know what his face is now. That was his face when I last saw him.”

Nolan thought, if now the little boy became the jerk who destroyed the Nolan family.

“Then, grandpa's daughter?”

Yudha silence. The question was like a blow that brought thousands of spiky nails of disappointment in Yudha's life. I don't know why his daughter left him alone after all her wishes were fulfilled.

“Entahlah. Maybe he's happy now.”

Nolan guessed, it was probably because his papa already cared about the woman and Leo. It was for this reason that the woman no longer needed her father and sent him to a nursing home.

“Before this, where did grandfather live?”

“We stay in bandung.”

It was the birthplace of his father. So the story he had heard was true.

“Now still live there?”

Yudha. “Say Tiana, she got a job in town. Maybe now she and my granddaughter live there. In the city.”

Nolan tightened his fist. Leo's been in the same town and school as him since four years ago. Does that mean this grandpa was left here that long?

“Then,” with a little hesitation, Nolan ventured to ask once again about Yudha's grandfather's life and that woman named Tiana. “—what is the grandfather's daughter not coming with her husband?”

The movement to brush on the canvas that Yudha did stopped at that moment. He stared intently at the painting in front of him, but changed in an instant with a very obvious fondness.

“Dia, have no husband.”

So true, Leo is only his papa son who is present without the bond of marriage.

Nolan was silent, not daring to ask any further because Yudha's grandfather looked disappointed. But a pair of netra Nolan again noticed the man when his old voice again sounded in the air filled the room.

“She's a stubborn woman and always wants to get what she wants.”

Nolan was silent. He hoped that Yudha would continue the story until all of Nolan's disappointment with his papa had a clear reason. Or, it will all be ruined for some other reason.

“Leo, is one of the many things he wants with his very high ego.”

“What does grandpa mean?”

“My daughter, framed her ex-boyfriend to sleep with her until Leo is present without the man she framed.”

Nolan's heart seemed to stop for a moment after hearing what this old geezer said. So all this time, she was too selfish for not listening to her papa? So, all this time he just misunderstood because of the words of the woman who came to his house almost four years ago?

“The man is already married. Having a wife and a child.” continued Yudha still do not know knowing, if what he was talking to, is the object he was talking about. “I couldn't do anything back then for loving my daughter too much and not wanting her to be disappointed in me.”

Nolan held his breath. His body seemed to have no bones. There was a myriad of regret after hearing the reality he had just learned from this old geezer.

“I left the house because she asked me to leave, and the next day, when I returned home, I saw the handsome man I once knew as the lover of my daughter, hurry to leave without saying goodbye to me.”

Damnit damnit!!

Nolan swears inwardly knowing Tiana's cunning traps her papa.

“I don't know what happened, Until a few months later, Tiana told me she was pregnant. And the father of the child in his womb, was the married man who passed me that morning.”

Nolan looked down regretfully. So all this time his hatred for the papa, just because of the selfishness of someone who wants to get what should not belong to him.

Nolan shook his head unwilling to hear the name of his father who would be targeted.

“He's a nice guy who still wants to care about us. He often comes to visit me after returning from work out of town, and I also hear from him that my grandson is now growing up and becoming a handsome young man, just like you.”

Nolan took a sip of his saliva that felt so painful. His guess all along that thought his papa was still playing back, was wrong.

“From him too, I heard that my daughter is no longer living in Jakarta. He was busy with his own life and abandoned leo.”

Nolan nodded at the information. So, Leo is living a long time now? The boy he hated so much, lived alone and his papa cared because he felt pity, so it should not be? So the woman came home four years ago, just gave Leo to her papa, and then just left?

“I hope Leo becomes a good young man like you, son. I also hope to see it, before I return to the lap of the creator.”

***

Two dates in different years, the school has started to be active again. Teaching and learning activities have started today. And Nolan, could not be at ease as he waited for his papa's arrival. He wanted to talk to that man a lot. Then, apologize.

As the shadow invaded his mind, Nolan saw Caca by the side of the canteen door. Nolan's smile expands perfectly to see Caca is fine after the unfortunate events of the new year's night two days ago.

For some reason, Nolan felt Caca's presence was very influential for him. Since knowing Caca, the eyes of his heart seemed to open again for the papa. Caca is like an angel who is present at the right time.

Nolan's smile grew wider as Caca waved at him. The girl did not care despite being the center of attention, and it managed to make Nolan shake his head, too amazed at the figure.

Arriving at the canteen entrance, Caca pulled enthusiastically on her wrist while blabbing as usual. Like the Caca he knew.

“Today it's sweet sour shrimp, Zero. I can't wait to eat. You are so long!” his regret forced Nolan to inevitably have to walk as fast as Caca's steps.

“Why don't you eat first instead of waiting for me?”

“I want to eat with you.”

Nolan's face warmed. Caca really managed to make him feel like a gentleman who is always needed by a woman.

“Ya. Cepetan, hunting in.”

Caca headed for the tray 'place, then took two, one for him and one for Nolan. Then the two followed the snake waiting for their turn to take a lunch ration, which of course did not escape the spotlight of the spy wanted to know the students.

After filling the tray with the menu provided, Caca and Nolan sat at one of the tables blending in with other friends that Nolan never did at all. Some students like to see Caca's closeness with Nolan, because now Nolan looks normal like the others. Not to forget Caca greeted the students who sat on the right and left, then began a delicious lunch ritual in front of the eyes until his saliva almost dripped.

“Nol,”

“Hem,”

Unbeknownst to both, the person sitting around them held back a laugh at their adorable interaction. Zero? Hem's? that alone had made them want to prance around hugging Nolan who was in such an adorable fashion. Why is it that only Caca can make Nolan? Questions like that have been circulating in school forums lately.

“I want to talk to you after lunch is over.”

“Eumm.” replied Nolan briefly. If in the past he was always indifferent to the noise of Caca, now he always responded to what the lips peach girl named Clarita was.

After finishing lunch, as planned, Caca and Nolan were about to speak. Ah, Errata. Caca asked him to talk.

They sit in Nolan's secret place unknown to anyone but Caca. They were already sitting in one corner of the room that Nolan used to occupy.

“You said what?” nolan asked, starting to start smoking.

“Don't make my uniform smell of your cigarette smoke, Zero.”

“Three isep.”

Caca did not want to argue again after Nolan said so. Because that means, Nolan will completely turn off the cigarette after the third suction.

“It doesn't make sense, anyway. But I just want to know what your opinion and answer are.”

“Ya. Cepetan.”

Caca breathed in a breath that was already polluted by Nolan's cigarette smoke. It doesn't matter because he's used to what his father used to do. But this is at school, and he doesn't want to get into a case just because his uniform smells like a cigarette.

“If only, the person you love betrayed you. What are you selling?”

Nolan puffed his cigarette, then turned off the embers on the floor before throwing them into another corner of the room.

“Indeed why are you asking that? I don't have a boyfriend.”

“Jawab aja.” annoyed Caca resisting embarrassment. The question is too absurd.

“You are extreme, or your usual one?!” asked Nolan again to position his body leaning relaxed on the wall.

“If there are two versions, yes already call one-one.”

Nolan glanced at Caca, then smiled cynically.

“You ask me this, I'm not trying to make my feelings real to you, right?”

Caca blinked quickly. Who wants to give a love statement? Nolan was too confident.

“Ngak. Yes, I replied.”

Nolan stared at the ceiling of the room. “Last, which I sold after that break up, race.”

“Balapan? Like that time?”

Nolan nods to justify Caca's assumption of the night they first met.

“Why race? That's a danger?!” ketus Caca did not want Nolan to do that extreme again. “You can harm yourself and others, Zero.”

“Because I love racing. With racing, I can forget all my troubles, without having to consume alcohol or drugs.”

Caca couldn't dodge a bit. But the race still does harm.

“But, that's what I did when I broke up from the guy who was chasing me.” Caca turned his head violently, waiting for the next sentence Nolan was about to say, who was now also staring at him. “But I don't know if I broke up with the person I was after, and I loved from the bottom of my own heart.”

Now Caca's holding her breath. The sentence was so sincere, and Nolan's eyes stared deeply at him. “Maybe I will take a stupid decision that is much more dangerous than the race.” []

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