My Old Star
#28 Photo Together
"What's Sis why did you stop?" Ask the real Mentari who knows what happened to Siska.
"Take a look at it for yourself!" Siska gave the phone she was holding to Mentari.
"Is he really coming?" Continue Siska while dumbstruck.
"We just wait for Sis, let's hunt we're late again!" Mentari invites Siska to continue their steps to campus.
Actually when they had breakfast, Mentari sent a message to Arfan to tell Arman to meet Siska later after their lecture was over, Mentari knew that his best friend had idolized Arman for a long time. So he wants to help Siska to meet her idol.
Without feeling their course today has been completed. Mentari and Siska went out from the classroom.
"Tari you go to the cafeteria first, not hungry. Eat yuk before you go home!" take Siska to Mentari.
"You're Sis, I have an appointment with Brother Arfan to meet Grandma today."
"Truly do not want to, I treat this time deh mumpung me again kind." Siska grabbed the shoulder of her best friend.
"Sister Arfan is ahead, I go first yes Sis," Mentari scrunched up and left Siska who seemed to forget that today Arman will come to see him.
Siska headed to the cafeteria, she was already very hungry. Siska ordered Soto and a glass of warm Orange. He enjoyed his lunch greedily without looking left right, Siska is indeed the type of woman who is indifferent and does not want to know the assumptions of the people around him that most importantly they do not bother him, he said, that was enough for Siska.
"Can you join Miss?" Arman's voice made Siska jump in shock.
"Bo-can" replied Siska stammered, his gaze could not be separated from Arman's face.
Arman sat facing Siska, looking at Siska who looked nervous and misbehaved.
"I keep my promise, don't I?" Arman opened their conversation.
"Thank you, but why did you know my number?"
"That's not important, is it?"
"Ah yes it is not important," Siska smiled.
"How can we go now?" Asked Arman who saw Siska kept looking at her.
"Emmm... Can I have a picture of him?"
"So don't look here, in this group all contained big fans Brother. They idolized Kak Arman long ago and really hope Big Brother can return to the field!" Siska showed me her phone.
"really?" Arman smiled feeling that he really was still in the hearts of his fans. Arman continued to scroll Siska's phone down to the bottom.
Arman scrunched his forehead, "Have you just been bullied by them?"
Siska took her phone back in Arman's hands, "Who said, sister, they just don't trust me a little!" Siska quibbles because she doesn't want Arman to hate the group friends who have spoken less wearing hearts to her.
"Then let's take a photo together and share it with them to let them know if you really met me!"
Arman pulls Siska's hand closer to him, then takes a picture of the two of them with Siska's phone.
Arman took the picture in a pose as if they were already very close, they did just that a few times. Arman wants Siska not to be saddened by the taunts she made last night through a group chat. Arman wants to prove that Siska deserves to be trusted, not scorned.
"Now share it with them, I will also share it with my social media. Let's see if they still won't believe you!"
"Thank you, sister, it's not wrong that I idolized you because you turned out to be so good!" Siska is moved by Arman's treatment of her.
"There's no need to go overboard like that because I'm not as strong as Arfan, so I'm nice to anyone!" Arman smiles.
Siska smiled, "Thank you, sister!"
"Don't you think I'm not your idol?"
"Let's get out of here!" Arman invites Siska to leave the cafeteria, he has promised to follow Arfan and Mentari to Grandma Wijaya's house because Arman has not visited for a long time, ever since their team disbanded ten years ago more precisely.
Arman chose to work rather than continue his education. Not until there was an offer for the sake of an offer to enter the club he also refused for reasons that he could not reveal to anyone.
The hope is only one time he can regroup with his fellow comrades in arms. Each of them had indeed been slumped since their team broke up, the high expectations they had built up suddenly shattered when they had been at the peak of glory. Just one more step, but all in vain.
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Arfan and Mentari were already in front of Grandma Wijaya's house. Arfan took Mentari in to see her Grandma.
"Grandmother..," Mentari ran to Grandma Wijaya who was reading a book in the backyard and then hugged the old woman like her own Grandma.
"So my dear, are you coming, son? Grandma misses you so much!" Grandma Wijaya returned Mentari's embrace with joy then switched to rubbing the top of the girl's head with hands that were getting wrinkled with age.
"Grandma's most handsome granddaughter why didn't you say you wanted to come, you know so Grandma prepared a special meal for you!" Grandma Wijaya let go of Mentari's embrace and then pinched Arfan's waist hard because she felt that her grandson really could not be invited to work together.
"Aaawwww...aawww...sick Grandma!" Arfan.
"Felt!"
"Misone of the reasons why you are so stubborn!" Grandma Wijaya continues to blame her Grandmother, actually it did because so unfortunately to the two of them so as not to disappoint the two by welcoming them as best as possible.
Mentari laughed at Arfan who was bullied by his own Grandma, Arfan's face looked innocent like a child who was caught coming home late from playing outside.
"Grandma.. Let go of Grandma's hand first, sick Grandma. I beg for mercy, promise Nek next time I'll tell you first before coming here!"
"No, Grandma, let go until you take Grandma shopping with you!"
"Grandma don't remember if Grandma's waist isn't strong if she walks too long?"
"Well then how did you go?" Vijaya's grandmother had already released her pinch on Arfan's waist.
"We had been shopping for Nek, all in the car was lifted to be brought in," Mentari's remark made Grandma and the Grandson turn to look at him.
"You're brave enough to keep raving on Grandma!" Vijaya's grandmother again floated her pinch on Arfan's waist.
Mentari smiled wryly, feeling that he had spoken wrongly. He raised his middle finger and his pointer formed the letter "V" as a sign of apology to Arfan who was still bullied by his Grandmother.
The young man grinned resigned to the treatment of his Grandmother, maybe in this way he could make his Grandmother happy who had been since childhood took care of him lovingly.
"Good grandmother forgive Kak Arfan yes, later we cook together how?" Mentari tries to help Arfan who continues to be pressed by his Grandmother.
Grandma Wijaya stopped her pinch, "Ah yes that's a good idea, Grandma has long wanted to cook with Granddaughter, it's just that it's hard for this child to grant it to Grandma!" Grandma Wijaya again blamed Arfan.
"Then we lift the groceries first, Nek," Mentari stroked Grandma Wijaya's arm and then moved outside to take their groceries followed by Arfan behind her.
Vijaya's grandmother felt her life back in color, the presence of Mentari in their midst gave a new color in life that has recently dimmed by the time and anxiety that continues to hit her heart, terrified of the moment when she had to leave Arfan alone in this world, Grandma Wijaya could now breathe with relief because she could see Arfan happy.
"So, have you always been that way with Grandma?" Mentari asked as Arfan was removing groceries from the trunk of the car.
"No. We were quieter when we met!"
"But just now..," Mentari was confused.
"The light of my little Mentari that has given me warmth in this house!" Arfan pinched the Mentari nose plan then passed carrying groceries into the house.
"Let me help you!" Mentari chases Arfan into the kitchen.
"No need to Mentor me, honey, you can accompany me in this life!" Arfan's combing that makes Mentari blush.
Grandma Wijaya follows the two of them into the kitchen, preparing to cook with Mentari. Arfan left the two and went to his room, just as Arfan set foot on the first step, there was a bell being pushed from outside, Arfan rushed towards the door.
Arfan thinks Arman and Siska must have come, but Arfan is surprised to see who the uninvited guest is standing at the door of his Grandmother's house.
"How dare he come here!" arfan's wrath in the heart.