
"Yes, Son. He's 24, your age" Grandpa Vinno said.
"Merry's 21, Om." Rey has been beating it.
"Oh, really? I thought your daughter was 24." Grandpa Vinno chuckled with his distinctive voice. To make Merry feel annoyed at him.
"What is true? This grandpa thinks I'm old?!" merry grumbled in his heart.
***
Merry was confused as to what to do. The look on his face was so tired of hearing the conversation of the two old men. Rey, who saw the change in the look of her son's face, immediately told Merry to sit waiting for him in the Front Office. Merry obeyed his Papa's orders. He said goodbye to Grandpa Vinno and immediately went down waiting in front of the Front Office desk. To get rid of her boredom, the woman read the book she had bought at the bookstore earlier.
Meanwhile, Rey and Grandpa Vinno are still talking about business matters. However, occasionally they slip personal questions on the sidelines of his conversation.
"Your son is very pretty, polite and seems very pandau. Does he have a girlfriend, Rey?" ask Grandpa Vinno.
"Not yet, Om. he's very difficult to adapt especially with the opposite sex." Rey sighed in surprise at the sight of her daughter
"How about Merry getting married to a granddaughter, just Rey?" grandpa Vinno's proposal with a little hesitation.
"Stupid?" Rey nodded at hearing that word. Grandpa Vinno nodded his head without making a sound.
"Rey can't decide, Om. Later, Rey will try to talk to Kikan."
"Don't be in a hurry, Rey. It's not forcing. Om just wants to marry granddaughter Om. Yes, maybe by getting married he can have a new family and eliminate the sadness that he has been feeling," said Grandpa Vinno
"Yes, Om. Rey knows... Rey heard too, Om Vinno's grandson is young, but already a businessman just like Richard." Rey's voice praised so proudly.
"Yes Rey, his talent is declining from Richard. Her father." Grandpa Vinno looked so sad. In fact, he lifted his glasses and rubbed his two eyes that looked suddenly wet.
"Sorry, Om. Rey didn't mean to make Om Vinno sad" Rey said.
"It's okay, Rey."
"Oh, yes, Om. How about tomorrow Om Vinno and Om's grandson. Invite Rey to dinner at home? Can it?" ask Rey.
"Well, Om very much have fun. That's a good idea, you know, Om can," Grandpa Vinno said excitedly as if he had won the lottery.
"Alright, Om. We will wait for Om's arrival tomorrow" Rey said with a smile to Grandpa Vinno.
After talking, Grandpa Vinno said goodbye and Rey approached Merry who was waiting for him at the front office. He teaches and shows all the company's archives to his daughter, Merry is a child who is considered very intelligent so Rey does not find it difficult when explaining and teaching him about a little business. But still, learning business was boring for Merry, he felt better reading dozens of books than having to learn to do business.
**
In the afternoon, at the office. Rey immediately invited Merry to return home. Upon arrival at home, the two of them are greeted by Kikan and Also Mama Lilis in front of the yard, so soothing when returning home from work greeted by two women whom he loved very much. Not two, but three. Rey loves the three women who are currently gathered in front of her.
"Granny." That's what Merry calls to his Grandma who is none other than Mama Lilis. He grabbed the old woman's body.
"How, sweetheart. Does work really fun?" ask Kikan.
"that's boring! Merry is more comfortable lying down while reading dozens of books in the room than having to meet face-to-face and talk to strangers" Merry exclaimed by turning his eyes.
"Later you'll get used to it, son." Rey chimed in while rubbing his daughter's head.
Kikan immediately invited the daughter and her husband to come in. Kikan helped Lilis walk slowly, because, due to the erosion of her leg bones, Lilis was forced to walk with a cane and sometimes using a wheelchair. Kikan treated his in-laws as well as he could, considering that he had no parents in the world anymore.
**
In the room, Kikan helps Rey to help take off the suit and tie that is still attached to her husband's body.
Rey, looking at Kikan, still composed the exact words for the matter of the matchmaking offer between Grandpa Vinno's granddaughter and Merry.
“Sayang..” Rey call stops Kikan activity. The woman immediately agreed.
“Ehm, that was Om Vinno to the office..” said Rey. He led Kikan to sit on the edge of the bed.
“Then?” ask Kikan.
“Ehm, Darling. What do you think, if Merry we match with his grandson Om Vinno?” Kikan was stunned to not reply to any of her husband's questions.
“How?” ask Rey back.
“I disagree, baby!” Rey could already guess at his wife's refusal.
"Why?" ask Rey.
“Darling, you know yourself being set up is bad and very depressed, I don't want Merry to feel that!" Kikan held Rey's hand hoping her husband could feel what she was currently feeling.
"Oh, so, you feel pressured being betrothed to me?" rey's question deliberately wants to tease Kikan.
Kikan chuckles. “ That was it, baby. If it is different now.” Kikan rested her head on her husband's shoulder.
"Well, that's what I mean! if we match Merry, he will be able to adapt by himself, just like we used to be!” said Rey.
"But I still disagree! Let Merry find his own life partner. After all, she was still young," Kikan said casually.
"Darling, Merry is just like you, it's hard to adapt to other people! In fact, until now we have never seen it close to any man. Age is very fast. It feels like, just yesterday Merry was born, I can still carry him. But, you see now. He's an adult." Kikan was silent, his worries made him justify what her husband had just said. Kikan took a good look at Rey's words.
"And if we match, at least we will know very well his family, especially all the family Om Vino is a very good person, even from the first he always helped our family.”.
“Darling, can't you feel what I'm feeling? after I became a parent I became concerned about the reason why our parents used to betroth us, I just wanted to give my little daughter to the right man" Rey added.
“Honey, I'm the same as you, but, I'm afraid that Merry can't accept that he'll be betrothed. You know what Merry looks like," said Kikan
"We can talk to him very well" Rey said.
"Tomorrow I invite Om Vino and his grandson here, I invite you to dinner all silahturahmi," he added
"All right," said Kikan