My Old Star
#107 See Sincerity
Arfan had just finished his teaching job in the first hour of this morning, until a phone ringing interrupted his way to the lecturer's room. Arfan immediately grabbed the phone in his pants pocket and saw who called him.
"Hallo... What's the matter Sa?" Ask Arfan as soon as their call is connected.
"I'm asking Fan for help, can you come here now?"
"Had something happened Sa?"
"Stev went up to the back tree of the club and didn't want to go down before Zaki came, I tried to contact Zaki but didn't connect while Tomi wasn't at the club with the kids." Sania's voice rang out as she delivered sentence after sentence to Arfan.
"I'll be there soon Sa, calm down!"
Arfan saved his phone back, accelerated his pace to the lecturer room and hurried away from the campus.
Arfan arrived at the club with a tense face that was greeted by Ilyas' mother who also looked panicked. It's only natural that they're the only two currently in the club.
"Where is Sa?" Arfan walks into the back garden to see Steven.
"Stev let's get down!" Arfan hopes the boy obeys his words.
"I don't want to uncle, I want Papa Zaki to come here!" steven shouted from the top of the tree.
"Let's drive back to my dear Papa Zaki, now Stev down first pity Mama." Arfan continued to persuade Steven who remained tight on his stance.
"Uncle doesn't have to persuade Stev, just Stev wants Papa Zaki!"
Arfan was out of his mind to get Steven down from the tree. He recalled leaving Mentari on campus.
"Sa I have to pick up Mentari now, pity if she waits for me too long. I'll be back later!"
"I will also contact Zaki, hopefully he can come here as soon as possible." Arfan continues before disappearing in front of Sania and Ilyas' mother.
Arfan arrived at the campus to pick up his belongings, he saw his student's assignment lying on his desk because he had to leave class. Arfan brings with him their work for him to check at home.
Mentari was already waiting in front of the campus gate when Arfan came to pick him up.
"Have you waited long, dear?"
"Lumayan kak, but it's okay just a little hot."
"Let's go in!" Arfan opened the door for his wife.
"We're going to the club before we go home, you don't mind, baby?"
"I'm actually tired, brother, but I can rest at the club later."
They arrive at the club, there is more excitement because Tomi and the kids have arrived at the club. They were coaxing Steven in turn because the sky was already overcast and it seemed like it would soon rain accompanied by lightning.
Arfan has not been able to contact Zaki until now because it looks like Zaki's phone is not active. Zaki is at the beach with the Marryana family after celebrating Marryana's birthday last night.
Zaki was enjoying lunch on the beach when suddenly the black clouds rolled up the sunlight that had felt so hot. Somehow his feelings turned bad, like someone was missing him.
He remembered Steven because he had not visited Steven for a long time because of his busy work schedule.
Zaki and Marryana's family return to the hotel as the sky turns black and ready to spill the clear grains they contain.
Zaki just picked up his phone that had run out of battery since this morning, he checked a lot of incoming calls from Sania and Arfan.
Zaki was just about to dial Sania's number to call Mama Steven back, worried about something important until Sania contacted him repeatedly, along with Marryana who calls him to hurry check out of the hotel before the weather gets worse.
"Za let's hurry up we have to leave this place immediately!" Marryana called out to Zaki from the door of the man's room because they were in a separate room.
Zaki keeps his cell phone instead of rushing and intends to contact Sania later on the road when they already feel safer.
Marryana's family had already left the hotel because they were riding in a different vehicle with the two of them.
Steven was still faithful in the tree, Tomi was even tired of persuading him. He intended to cut down the tree because it had a big hand in causing chaos today.
"It's good to have Tom in a minute, we're trying to persuade Stev again." Arfan gives advice to Tomi who can not wait to face Steven.
"You see Fan, it's gonna be raining soon. I can't bear to cut down that tree anymore!"
The mentor who had just witnessed how everyone at the club was busy persuading Steven also felt unable to stand because Steven was very difficult to persuade. He headed to the back garden to see the boy.
The sun stood under the tree and looked straight up, at the same time Steven also looked towards Mentari. Their views met, Steven could not resist his longing to Mentari who had not visited him for a long time but because of his prestige he still did not want to go down.
"Stev..," Mentari began to voice out.
"So don't know you miss Papa Zaki, but did Stev ever think about Mama Sania's feelings that worried you as much as when Stev ran away from the club?"
"Papa Zaki may be busy at the moment, but I'm sure he'll come here, Stev try to see Mama standing there, Mama Stev always tried to do what Stev wanted but for some things Mama also had limitations, didn't Stev know that?"
Steven started to shed his tears, he had promised not to make his mother sad again. However, today he used his dominant ego to force his own Mama.
"You see Stev, the sky's starting to look black because it's cloudy. Your Mama's feelings are like that too, clouded with sadness. Mama certainly doesn't want anything to happen to you Stev."
"Now come down, or do you want a sister who follows you up?"
"Stev won't get off before Papa Zaki comes!" Steven remained in his stance.
"Well then you'll keep waiting for Stev down here, we'll take a rain shower together!"
The sun stays standing under the tree until the rain starts to fall, Arfan who saw that did not have the heart of his wife who was puckish did not want to take shelter because Mentari hoped Steven's heart would be open if many people loved him.
Arfan follows his wife standing under the rain, followed by Tomi and Sania who join them. Arfan's foster children did not want to lose, they gave each other support so that Steven could see their sincerity.
Zaki, who had just arrived at the club after taking Marryana to his family in the city of Z, only remembered that he had to call Sania back. He was very tired actually because he traveled far under the rain and had to be extra careful because of the slippery road plus thunderous lightning worried if there were fallen trees.
Zaki enters his room, picks up the phone in his suit pocket then presses Sania's number. Unfortunately it was not answered until the call to the number of times. Zaki was increasingly made to worry about the situation. He took his suit back and drove his car towards the Arfan club to make sure for himself that nothing had happened to them.
The rain still faithfully accompanied him along the way to the club. Zaki arrives at the club, knocking on the door a few times but no one opens the door for him. He went inside because the door was not locked, the atmosphere of the club was quiet and quiet in some corners.
Zaki headed towards the back garden as he saw the door towards the back open. Zaki was stunned to see everyone was already drenched under the tree.
Steven saw Zaki coming from above the club, "Papa Zaki!!" it was his shout that made everyone turn towards Zaki who had just come.
Steven rushed to get off the tree, but the surface of the tree trunk became slippery because of the rain, Steven slipped from the top of the tree.
"Yyyyyy....!!!!!"