Never A Stranger
A LONG DAY
Tring tring..
The house phone rang at about 9am. Who's calling the landline. Mom picked up the phone.
"Hallo Assalamualaikum" The voice from behind the phone, the voice I knew, was Aldo. Aldo called because he was looking for Riri. He called home after calling Riri's number many times but was not answered.
"Yes waalaikumsalam.why Aldo?
"Tante, Ranirih hasn't woken up yet?" aldo asked to confirm his guess.
"Yes still sleeping the child, it is usual that he if the wake-up holiday is long" said Ms. Riri explained.
"Oh yasudah tan, if Riri wakes up saying yes if Aldo calls" Aldo says hello and then turns off the phone.
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While in Riri's room, a girl is busy sleeping with various styles, who else if not Riri. He didn't even realize that his phone had fallen to the floor. Sunlight has started to shine through the walls of her room.Mommy goes into Riri's room and wakes her up, opening the window of Riri's room so that air can enter.
"Honey wake up, what time is it still sleeping" said his mother while opening the window.
Because not waking up also the mother woke riri by pulling the blanket riri, after that riri just wake up and sit for a moment.
Huaaa
The lazy girl on the holiday yawns, looks like she is still very sleepy but she has to force herself to wake up, even though this day off still she has to carry out her routine, moreover, he had to clean his room which he had not cleaned for a long time.
Mother conveys a message from Aldo who is looking for Riri, then mom comes down to prepare breakfast.
There is a question that may be from the reader, why there are no servants in Riri's house, even though they are rich? The reason is because previously they already have a maid, driver or security guard but there was a problem first with the maid made them carefully look for a maid again.
The problem is not about the maid stealing but about the maid who wants to poison their daughter, Riri, by putting drugs in her food. But unfortunately caught at that time Riri's mother was going to go kedapur and accidentally saw her maid put something into Riri's stock.
After that Riri's mother and father fired the maid because her maid also admitted that she did not like that Riri was too spoiled. She had a daughter who was the same age as Riri, but her daughter was born from a poor family, she could not even give anything to her daughter, she said, she envied seeing Riri who fared differently from her daughter.
Why were the guards and drivers fired?. The security guard or the driver was not fired, they were only given time by the Riri family to rest for several months with the aim that there were no other problems, they would return after the Riri family contacted them. So, they are not fired, only given the opportunity to not work for a while.
Amazingly and kindly Riri's family, even though the security guard and driver had not worked for several months, his father still gave them a salary, riri's family knows that if they do not work here they must be unemployed for nothing, so the family decided to keep paying them every month.
For the maid, Riri's own mother still did not want to look for her, she was determined to do all the housework herself for a while until there really was a good, evil-minded person who would become her housemaid. One reason is not to hurt his daughters. That is the love of mother.
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After daydreaming for a few minutes, Riri looked for his phone that went somewhere and found it under the floor.
Next Riri saw there were 24 missed calls, so the intention was Aldo to contact Riri, whether there was anything important he wanted to convey, thought Riri.
Riri calls Aldo back to ask his point.
Tit tit tit..
Went on, but aldo didn't pick it up. Riri called again until aldo picked up the phone until aldo picked it up.
"Yes hello why?" aldo's voice from the phone
"What's the reason? I should've called you why?" ask Riri a little emotion because Aldo instead of saying his intention was to call this morning even why riri who called.
"Hahaha" Aldo laughed at Riri's emotion.
"Kok even laugh ahh" said riri annoyed.
"have you just woken up on deck?" asked Aldo who was still holding back laughter. Riri did not answer Aldo's question, instead he threatened to turn off the phone if Aldo did not say what he meant to contact Riri early in the morning.
"Yes sorry-sorry"
"So gini deck, tonight there is an event loh in the cultural park, want to come along? there are a lot of rides there. You must have missed playing rides when you were a kid?" said Aldo invites Riri to a cultural park, or rather offers riri to join
Of course Riri misses that childhood ride so much, so many memories that he passed.
"What time do you want to go?" riri asked Aldo. Aldo did not answer Riri's question but instead asked if Riri wanted to come or not. Riri just agreed to Aldo's invitation.
"Well so we go at 8 o'clock, you get ready just to pick me up at home" said Aldo explained his plan. Riri agreed and told Aldo who asked permission from his father and mother to go out because Riri was not allowed to go out of the mall except with the house.
Aldo agreed to that and will speak to Riri's parents. I'm your brother, I'm definitely approved. That's how Aldo answered with a sniff.
"Oh yeah just the two of you?" ask Riri again who feels for sure this is not just the two.
"i forgot to say.. Not just the two of you, there will be my boyfriend too. But you are calm you will not be confused because I will bring someone, you guys" continued aldo explained.
Riri was confused by Aldo who said there was someone else also coming with them, who was it?.
"Who the hell? don't be weird huh" asked Riri in a loud tone.
"Ahh later you will also know, anyway you are ready yes later I pick up" said Aldo who then disconnected the phone. He didn't even say hello and turned off the phone.
After Aldo hung up the phone, Riri got off her bed to do morning activities. First he came down for breakfast, of course, his own breakfast because his father had left for work and his mother had breakfast first with his father.
"Mother bang aldo invited me to the cultural park tonight" said Riri gave information and asked permission first to his mother who was accompanying him breakfast.
I looked at Riri for a moment and smiled. Riri did not understand why her mother did not answer Riri's statement. Riri felt that her mother would not let Riri go.
Riri is the youngest son who is obedient, he will not leave if he does not get permission from his parents. Though he was a teenager but still he felt permission from his parents was much more important.
Riri devoured her breakfast regardless of whether she was allowed to come along or not. After Riri finished eating she sat up for a moment in her dining table chair. The plan after this he will clean his room and tidy up his clothes.
Riri began to clean the bed, study table, sweeping, mopping the floor and so on. after a few minutes later finished also his room was cleaned.
Riri lay on the bed for a moment to unwind after cleaning the room, then he saw his phone with the position of the body still on his back facing the room attic.
He remembered WhatsApp from the kebagas kemasaren that he had not responded to as well, he felt bad for not returning the message, he said, he does not want to when later think that Riri is an arrogant girl because she ignored the chat from him.
Finally after thinking long Riri decided to reply to the chat from the bagas.
"sorry bang, Riri yesterday took the written test so forgot to reply to the chat" Riri replied starting with an apology.
"Ahh he is not in read when tick two, surely he is upset because I was indifferent to him" thought riri while still looking at the postel screen waiting for an answer from the bagas.
not long after, the two ticks turned into a blue tick, it means that the bagas have seen the message from Riri.
At that time also bagas was seen typing a reply from the chat Riri earlier, Riri seemed impatient to see a reply from the bagas.
"Yes gapapa Riri, how did it go? is good?" reply the bagas at once ask about the results of the Riri test.
How happy riri when the bagas reply to Riri chat as if the bagas care on Riri, Riri became salting himself about it. Riri was silent for a moment..
"I am why? he's that's the way he is"
"No. Riri. You can't be like this, he's the past and it's going to be the past, okay?" riri said to himself for being too excited when receiving a chat from Bagas who is his ex-girlfriend.
Riri took a deep breath then replied to the chat from the bagas earlier calmly.
"Alhamdulillah riri passed bang" replied riri reply chat bagas.sada that riri still calm himself so as not to be too excited.
Bagas was so quick to read the chat from Riri, but this time he did not type a reply from the chat. Riri was still staring at her phone waiting for a reply from the bagas. But nevertheless..
treng treng pengg (phone voice)
"Gosh, why is he calling?" it turns out that the bagas even called Riri which made Riri panic, if he did not lift it then he would be considered arrogant because he was online. But if he raised it he was confused what to say even more so he had not communicated with Bagas for a long time.
Finally Riri decided to just lift it, he did not care what he would talk about later, he was sure Bagas would be able to start the conversation so that it would not be awkward later.
"Hallo assalamualaikum" Riiri said, starting a conversation.
"Waalaikumsalam wr.wb" Bagas answered the greeting from Riri.
"Congratulations Riri finally you graduated also on the farm, according to what you want since the first right" Bagas started his chat by congratulating Riri for graduation, right, but there is something that makes Riri confused because Bagas knows that the agricultural department is what Riri wanted since long ago even though Riri did not say anything to Bagas even they had just communicated again yesterday, then how does bagas know?
Riri chose to keep quiet about it without asking Bagas where he knew it was Riri's dream long ago.
"Yes bang thank you" Riri looked very awkward while chatting with Bagas even though it was only on the phone.
"Oh yes it's been a long time yes we did not meet ri, Riri do not want to see the same brother again?" asked Bagas, Riri felt very awkward when Bagas asked that question as if he wanted to repeat the story first.
Riri just laughed a little at Bagas' question, Bagas who knew Riri looked awkward immediately started the conversation again.
"I'm just kidding, you're quiet now or what?" ask Bagas again to melt the tense and gripping atmosphere.
"No bang, actually Riri is confused because we have not been in communication for a long time" explained Riri on Bagas.
"Yes, actually I just want to know how you are because you have not met for a long time, let alone meet new communication this time" said Bagas.
Bagas was still the same person because he could always melt the atmosphere and there was always something he could say. Unlike Riri who is quiet and awkward every time talking to people, especially if he is a man, for some reason Riri is like that.
Even though he had no sense towards that person, he still felt grori when he had to speak. But if you already know her close, Riri even became a shameless person.
With Bagas, are you familiar? it's just that Riri has just returned communication with Bagas, therefore making himself confused and shocked in disbelief.
"Riri's news is good" replied Riri who was still not comfortable with their chat.
"Riri didn't ask me how is my brother?" goda Bagas to Riri because Riri is like someone who has just met Bagas.
"Oh yes.. Bang Bagas now in college where?" ask Riri on Bagas.
"I was on leave, yesterday I went to engineering but dropped out because there was a problem" Bagas explained.
"Why problem? riri asked again, it seemed like riri had started not awkward to chat and so did Bagas who looked happy because Riri had started to comfortably talk to him.
"The problem with a classmate, a small problem really just can not be maintained" explained Bagas again convince Riri that it is not a big problem.
"Later if there is time we meet I will tell you the chronology, if told now will not be enough time, can build our household" continued Bagas while giving a joke, Bagas does not change much, he still likes to joke and make others laugh.
Riri laughs like a woman and responds to Bagas "it is bang, pray that we can meet.. Mana knows meet him at the pelaminan" Riri replied again at the temptation of the gas earlier, Riri had gotten used to it and was no longer awkward to talk to Bagas..
They both joke on each other on the phone like before, indeed Riri was famous as a comedian also in his Junior High School so they used to be known as a humorist couple because they rarely fight, because they rarely fight, always joking with ria..
Riri and Bagas were actually not one SMP just yet. However, many know Bagas at Riri school because Bagas is a typical friendly person, also including popular at the time, so many know Bagas. Moreover, Bagas courtship with Riri makes friends Riri give the nickname Riri and Bagas as a couple who are serekuenzi and humorous.
It did not feel like they had been chatting on the phone for 30 minutes, finally Riri hung up the phone and said that he wanted to help his mother for a while. Bagas assures and hopes they can keep in touch, Riri says hello and hangs up the phone.
Riri thinks if just communicating it will not make them fall in love again is not it?, after all Riri has completely forgotten Bagas, he does not want to quickly open his heart to anyone again.
Riri was relieved because he had replied to Bagas chat delayed yesterday with that Bagas would not think that this Riri is arrogant or hate Bagas, Bagas, after all, Riri does not want to have enemies in her life so there is no reason for her to hate Bagas.
Seriate..