My Old Star
#19 Old Man
Mentari turned to his mother, waiting for what she would say to him.
"Sit down!" order of Kartika.
Mentari sat facing his mother, "Did you still play around with the old man?"
"He's not an old man, ma'am, just ripe!" Mentari defends Arfan who is considered an old man by his mother.
"Whatever you say, it's obvious that the man's mother doesn't deserve you, she's too mature. Your age is too far away, in the future it will be harder than you currently imagine, you will never understand each other!" cecar Bu Kartika at length.
"Mom I just started, so don't know what's going to happen in the future yet. Please ma'am don't stop us,"
"From now on you have to leave him, it's not appropriate for a young girl like you to love an old man, you'd better be with Ilyas, I think you're a good fit."
"My happiness, am I not the one who determines it?"
"But it's Mother's duty to direct you to get the best,"
Mentari's father approached the two, "Mom is not good to force the will on the child let alone to scold him excessively like that!"
"You're always pampering her," Ms. Kartika crossed her arms and turned her face away from her husband, this time she was really upset at what her husband said that he did not support his decision at all.
"So that you go into your room, take a rest, don't you have to go to college tomorrow?"
"Good Dad,"
Mentari entered his room, his heart was completely broken when he felt happy with Arfan, his mother did not approve.
Mentari checked his phone, there was a missed call from Arfan. Mentari decided to call back Arfan but for the umpteenth time there was no answer from Arfan. Mentari looked gloomy, she was no longer eager to do anything because at times like this she was eager to hear the voice of the man who had stolen her heart from the beginning.
Mentari finally fell asleep, while Arfan he was already at the club, he had just finished reading the files Tomi gave him as well as checking the children who had arrived at the club.
Arfan seemed surprised to read some of the passages Tomi marked, "Is the club in Spain really not okay Tom?"
"Yes Fan, according to the management report there like that. There is a shock that leads to the club that will soon go into bankruptcy if not taken seriously as soon as possible!"
Arfan seemed to think by stroking his beard and exhaling roughly many times, "You yourself have to intervene by coming there directly Fan, if you can't get worse!"
"I also think the same thing Tom,"
"You arrange my departure there, let me set my schedule here!"
Tomi leaves Arfan in their meeting room, Arfan looks a little tired. He frowned his temple while closing his eyes, from the moment he arrived in Z city he had not rested at all plus there was a problem that he himself had to intervene to solve immediately.
The next morning Arfan had prepared to go to campus as usual, he would immediately arrange his work here before he left the next few days, he was reminded of Mentari who went home last night to his parents. Arfan took the initiative to surprise the girl by inviting her to go to campus together as well as say goodbye to her if they had to separate for a few days.
Arfan arrives in front of Mentari's house, after parking his car Arfan knocks on the door of the house and appears a middle-aged woman who is not known by Arfan.
"Good morning, I'm sorry if I could meet Mentari?" say polite Arfan to the woman.
"Yes...Who are you young?"
"I'm his friend," arfan answered and the woman looked at Arfan from the tip of the foot to the tip of the head as if she could not believe that the adult man in front of her was a friend of the owner's daughter who she was riding in now.
"Well wait a minute" said Ilyas' mother at last.
The mother of Ilyas went inside and conveyed that there was a guest for Mentari. Bu Kartika rushed out to ascertain who came this early in the morning looking for his daughter.
"Son Arfan apparently, let's go in son." Bu Kartika let Arfan into the living room.
"Sit down" ordered Mrs Kartika.
Arfan then sat down followed by Bu Kartika, "Tante wants to talk to you for a moment!"
"Auntie please don't approach your aunt's daughter again, you know your age difference is too far, it will be very difficult if you have to understand each other!"
Ms. Kartika paused her remark, "Looking around doesn't suit you, she's better suited to a younger man than you, Auntie hope you understand Auntie's intentions."
Arfan understood that a mother's concern for her daughter, there would be no mother in this world who would let her daughter be unhappy, the concern of Madam Mentari may not be without reason because Arfan is suitable to be called uncle by Mentari, maybe in the future there will be many differences of opinion that will arise between them. Mentari deserves better than him.
"Good aunt, I understand. Then excuse me!" Arfan decided to resign to Bu Kartika. Though Mentari who knew if Arfan came to his house was very enthusiastic and accelerated his preparations to go to campus. How disappointed Mentari when he saw Arfan was no longer in the living room of his house.
"Mom what's going on, where's Brother Arfan?"
"He's gone!" answer me briefly, Kartika.
"Go?" Bu Kartika just nodded, not knowing how to explain to his daughter who looks very disappointed, but this is better than Mentari to be disappointed later on.
"Why go not wait for me, you have the heart, brother!" murmured Mentari softly while kicking the air.
Mentari again felt uninspired and returned to the room to pick up his bag then lazily went to campus.
In front, Arfan who had come out of the Mentari home page saw Ilyas out of the taxi and into the yard of the house that had just passed by him earlier. Mentari who was about to go to campus met with Ilyas at the door of the house. They seemed to talk with a smile that expands when in fact just greet each other to mince words, Arfan saw the scene. At this time his heart seemed to have been formless, cracked into pieces stuck in an indiscriminate manner.
Arfan finally thinks that seems to justify Bu Kartika's remark to him that he is not worthy of Mentari. Arfan is worried that Mentari will not be happy if he continues to be with him.
Arfan drove his car to campus, he put his serious face back on. Finished teaching, Arfan checked his cell phone which he had silent from morning. There are so many calls from his little Mentari, Arfan has absolutely no intention to call back Mentari. Arfan actually replaced his phone sim card with a backup sim card that he used to use.
Arfan tonight decided to leave for Spain after all the preparations are done. Mentari is still trying to contact Arfan but still can not connect, tonight Mentari returned home because of a request from his mother, who is not connected, Arfan himself is currently flying to Spain to settle his club's troubled affairs.
Mentari went into the house with his face bent, it turns out there was a Star with his mother coming to visit. Mentari drew Bintang's hand to follow him to the room, while in the living room it appeared that the Mentari family was talking to the mother of Ilyas, the atmosphere is increasingly boisterous because the presence of Bu Rima who used to add flavoring spices in every word.
"Miss, do you know your son's relationship with Mentari?" ask Bu Rima to Ilyas' mother.
"I only know if they're friends,"
"Oh really?"
"The lady must continue to live here so that the man who should be engaged to my daughter will not come here again to disturb Mentari,"
"Rima please take care of your words, failing to get engaged to the Moon doesn't mean the Mentari you have to keep blaming!" Bu Kartika seemed annoyed by the statement of his brother who still seems to consider the failure of his daughter because of the work of Mentari.
"What does it mean that this morning's young man came here?"
"Has he come again?"
"There is no need to discuss it anymore, we should just talk about the schedule of the examination of Madam yes, so there is no need to be burdened with the words of my sister just now Madam. Children's problems let them alone solve it," said Mentari's father tried to break up so that the conversation did not get longer.
In the room Mentari was asking for the opinion of the related Star suddenly Arfan no news at all.
"Are you sure you're not fighting?"
"We're fine Bin, even the night before we had dinner together, uh but wait a minute." Mentari stopped her speech.
"Bin this morning Brother Arfan came here, but without waiting for me he just left."
"Your mother met him?"
"I think so, Mom just said she left!"
"Is that all?"
Mentari nodded, "There must have been a misunderstanding here!"
"Mother..," said Mentari and Bintang simultaneously.