NOT JUST FRIENDS
THE NEW CHAPTER OF LIFE HAS BEGUN 51

DESTINY AND REALITY

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“Halo Kajolitah Esperansah de la Costa. My brother blaem – blaem. How do you du yu duh?.”

Prita's voice was connected to Fania's phone when Kajol called her.

“Sok beut iye lu, Priwitan.” Sahut Fania while chuckling answered Prita's greeting. His sister also chuckled. “Where is New York?.”

“Summer, Babe” Sahut Prita. “Kenape, no new material definitely lo call me.”

“Hahahaha.. tau aje hordeng.” Fania chuckles.

“Siake.” Prita Sahut. “What's up?.”

“Try guess”

“Males.”

“Again what lu?.” Fania asked because she heard a little grusuk grasak sound from her cell phone.

“Read More – ready to train for gymnastic competition in three weeks, trus to studio. Practice making dance videos with the Jo”

“Busy beut romance ade cave.” Fania.

“That's.” Prita Sahut. “What's the news anyway?. Brother Jeff have met his son?.”

“I'm going to Bandung. Create mastiin” Say Fania.

“Trus what dong?.”

“Si Michelle wants to marry.”

“Blurfff..” Prita sounded spout something from her mouth. “Thuk, uhuk. Huh?!.” Shrugged.

“Yapc. Shocked, are you?.”

“Soath, bang. When's her date? Tau – tau udeh to marry aje. Kaga I've seen a photo post yayang it's my feeling.”

“Emang kaga no boyfriend that boy all this time. Cake elu.”

“Dih, kenape bring – take me try lo Kak?. I am busy with my activities. Kaga no time to find girlfriend”

“Good bye. Kaga need to think very much about mah.” Fania. “But you have no taste pan ama si bule koplak?.”

“Kenape so discuss me anyway?. That Michelle wants to marry ama sapah?.”

“Oh iye.” Sahut Fania's. “Try you guess?.”

“No ideas. (No know ). Gue”

“Lo certainly would not have thought the same who Michelle wanted to marry.”

“Marketing me original” Timpal si Priwitan.

“Saw God.”

“HAH?!!!!. How can?!. Back street them all this time?.” Prita sounded super shocked.

“ Accident” Celtap Fania.

“Accident?. That MBA?.” Prita sounded enthusiastic so curious.

“Kaga MBA” Sahut Fania. “Instead of preventing before the MBA occurs, so Kak Dewa hunu – rush to marry Michelle” Welcome.

“OMG .. crazy not to think yak.” Prita.

“Stupid. Want to dicate ape?.”

“Iya also sih”

“But don't take ye Prita. Defend the virgin until marriage later. Which bae-bae lo take, which ugly don't. Well you can go back home?.”

“Iye. When did they marry?” Ask Prita again.

“Late month. They want to marry next month.”

“Hah?”

“Hah hoh hah aje lo. Can you go home?.” Tymphal Fania's.

“Ih crazy brother. At the beginning of next month, my competition. My time so far has been competition. Sia – sia dong training me to win.” Prita.

“Yah it's fixed so. That's why I asked you. Kira – kira lo can come ga?”

“Gue really wants to come, of course. But how dong, the beginning of the month really fitting the date of my competition, Kak.”

“Iya anyway, dear if you sacrifice.”

“Say Sister, the same Michelle and Kak Dewa. Backtrack the next month again, cake. Let me come to comeg”

“Ya ntar try me say deh.” Sahut Fania's. “Ya udeh yes, I just want to say that doang. I will have more info. I asked first, it's about his marriage die people if you can be pushed back so you can come.”

“Iya okay”

“Ya udeh ye's. Bae – bae lo there. Don't macem – macem. Take care of self-esteem. Bandel please, cheap do not.” Straight mode si Kajol again on.

“Iye Kajool ... yes udeh ye Brother. Byeeeee ..”

“Byeee”

**Bandung, Java – Barat, Indonesia

“Truely this is Jol's address?.”

Jeff asked Fania, when he, Kajol, Andrew and John arrived at a simple but beautiful house in the Bandung area.

“Iye bener”

“If from the same given address Sam yes this is indeed his home.”

“Yes let's go down. Better make sure to just go straight, right?”

After getting certainty about the existence of the woman whose full name is Jihan Shaquita , women love one night with Jeff who is allegedly pregnant and gave birth to their child in a bed accident to raise the child and cover it from Jeff. Until finally John saw a child who felt very very similar to Jeff in his childhood. And it turns out that Fania knows that woman named Jihan.

***

The flashback

“This is Jihan.”

“Lo... know, Jol?...” Jeff asked half stuttered.

Fania nodded. “Know deket sengga. He's Sam's ex-boyfriend who is the same vocalist as me. And I quite often gig together with him if there is an event.”

“So she's a singer?.”

“Iyap.”

“Means you know where she lives?.”

“Tau if first, snekos with his ex Sam. But you don't know now. How many years I haven't seen him. I moved out of it once. Especially having a child.”

“Kost - what is in Cilandak area?.”

“Iye bener.”

“Ga I have checked.”

“And I told you, definitely moved.”

“Alamat apartment in the records of employees also I have checked. He's not there either.”

“Bentertime. I think I know who to ask.”

Flashback off

**

Fania helps find Jihan's whereabouts because she knows some people who feel close to her.

“Ya is come.”

“Gue. Ntar is considered a debt collector, if the dateng hordes like this. Fania said to Jeff who looked impatient.

“Ck!. Thou shalt. Where there is a handsome debt collector – handsome as I am a person! Yes ga Bro?!” Knock Jeff.

Fania rolled her eyes lazily hearing Jeff's words just now. “Dah step aside let me knock on the door.”

Gts .. Gts ..

Fania knocked slowly on the door of the beautiful house.

“Assalamu’alaikum”

Fania said a greeting and soon sounded authentic from within.

The door then opened. A woman appeared in the house with a face that showed surprise.

“You .... Fania, right?”

“Hai.. how are you Jihan?”

“Ba – good .... You also how are you?”

“Good dong. Alhamdulillah”

“You... How do I know I live here?”

Jihan looked nervous, heard from the tone of her voice and the look on her face.

“Tau dong!”

“Eh sorry, yuk in. Who are you?”

Jihan finally allowed Fania to enter while glancing at Andrew and John who were staring at her.

“Oh, it's me with my husband. Recognize, Andrew” Fania pulled the arms of Andrew who looked lazy – lazy to

shake. But Fania half glared at Andrew who finally reached out her hand to Jihan.

“Andrew.”

Andrew said briefly and immediately withdrew his hand from Jihan.

“Ji – Jihan. Hp .. Mr Andrew Smith?”

“Yes, that's right. This is Andrew Smith, my husband. And this is my brother, John” Sahut Fania and Jihan getting astonished and nervous.

“Jihan” Jihan said to John who seems more friendly than Andrew.

“John”

“Em, the three of you, are on vacation in Bandung?. Enter yuk” Said Jihan while opening her door wide – wide. A little covering up his nervousness and awkwardness.

“Mmmm, foursome actually” Sahut Fania. While glancing at Jeff who then emerged from hiding.

“How are you, Jihan?. Do you still remember me?”

Jihan's face turned pale when Jeff appeared in front of her.

**

“Ka – you ...?.”

Jihan looked very surprised, nervous and her face immediately began to turn pale when she saw Jeff who was standing before her now.

It seems clear that the woman named Jihan still remembers Jeff very well.

Jeff showed his smile to Jihan.

“Ka – you how.. why you.. can be here?...” Jihan seemed very nervous asking and looking at Jeff and the other three people who were silent. “Fania... Jeff know each other?” Jihan asked slightly stammered at Fania who then nodded.

“She is also my sister”

“It turns out you know my name?”

“I – it.. because ..”

“Because you worked at my family's company back then. And you know me, don't you?”

“Iya ..”

Jihan answered slowly and lowered her head.

His attitude did not escape the attention of Jeff and three people who are near him now.

“Why do you look so nervous when you see me, hem?. Is it because of the shock of meeting the – men who have been involved in love one night with you, or is there something else you have hidden from me all this time, Jihan Shaquita?”

Jihan looked at Jeff who was speaking without a trace of stale and saw Jihan gulping down his saliva.

“A boy – boy for example?”

Jihan looks squeezed the end of her shirt. At the same time a middle-aged woman appeared from inside the house with a child in her cradle. Fania smiled at the middle-aged woman while tilting her head looking at the good – boy – boy who was in the middle-aged woman's arms that Fania said was Jihan's mother.

“Loh no guests?”

The woman then approached.

“His guests were told to enter dong, Ji” said the middle-aged woman again.

“I – Yes Bu” Sahut Jihan with stamped. Fania immediately greeted the middle-aged woman that Jihan had just called Bu. “Let's go in” Fania and the three people who were with her nodded but did not move because Jihan had not moved from her place yet.

“Mamama..” The child in the middle-aged woman's sling extended his hand to Jihan. The woman immediately grabbed him and the woman called Ma immediately turned around to enter the house again.

While Jeff glued to see the boy – boy who thought – thought to be three years old. Jeff's body froze in place.

Question mark is gone. There is no doubt about the boy – boy who looks like him when he was a child. True – true replica of his little face.

Without command eyes Jeff directly glazed – glass.

“Papapa..” The child in Jihan's arms now stretched out his arms to Jeff who grabbed him.

“Nathan, not ... it's uncle ...” Jihan immediately corrects her son's call to Jeff. "It's not Papa...."

"Father...." The boy named Nathan giggled himself while touching Jeff's smiling face to him.

“Dia.” Jeff smiled at the boy – boy who is now in his carrier.

“This... my son...”.

“He you've been hiding from me all this time, hasn't he, Jihan?. You owe me an explanation, Jihan - Shaquita!”

“Ti – no”

“Do not deny any more. I know, he's my son. Aye right?!” Jeff confirmed while staring at Jihan sharply. Jihan was silent.

“Ji, Astagfirullah, his guests have not been told to enter as well?” The middle-aged woman appeared again with a tray containing several drinks on it. “Let's go in” said the woman to her guest.

“Iya Ma'am, thanks” Fania replied.

“I – Yes Bu. Mm ... please log in.”

“You're all this friend of Jihan?” Ask the woman who is Jihan's mother. “Nathan, the same grandmother” Jihan's mother was about to reach a boy – men who are now in Jeff's lap.

But the boy refused and instead embraced Jeff who then smiled with his eyes that began to water.

“Sorry yes” Jihan's mother said to Jeff because she saw her grandson who did not want to move. “But weird, usually Nathan

she likes to be scared of people she just saw.

“Inner identity, Bu” Jeff voiced. Staring at his mother Jihan with a smile. And Jihan seems to be getting nervous.

“Means Nak...”

“Jeff” Jeff said as he extended his hand. “I'm Jeff, Mom. And I'm sure that this Nathan is my son”

“A - pa?” Jihan's mother seemed surprised to be mixed in wonder.

“Did mom see any resemblance between us?” Jeff aligns his face and the face of the – boy named Nathan to his mother Jihan.

At once his mother Jihan was observing the structure of his grandson's face and the man who was holding his grandson.

“And Mom's son owes me an explanation, why he hid Nathan from me all this time”

“Ya Allah ...” Jihan's mother held her chest. “Jihan ..” He looked at Jihan who was down. “Jihan

look Mom!” Jihan said, she raised her head and her face seemed to be holding back her crying. “What is that right?. Is this man Nathan's father?” Ask her mother Jihan to the point at her daughter.

Jihan doesn't seem to be able to say – words. And finally her tears escaped as the woman nodded and began

crying out.

Fania, Andrew and John could only fall silent watching their front drama.

“Ya Allah ..” Jihan's mother looked dumbfounded and immediately arrested Andrew, then helped to sit on the side sofa

Jehan. “What's the truth that he said, if you hid Nathan's whereabouts all this time from him?!” Jihan's mother had her daughter scouted.

“Sorry, Mom ...” Jihan said softly while sobbing.

“Yes Allah, Jihan. All this time I thought that Nathan's father was a jerk who lost responsibility and left you pregnant with it” Jihan's mother is still looking for her daughter. “But it turns out that you did not intentionally tell his father about whereabouts, Nathan?”

Jihan nodded slowly.

“You're outrageous, Jihan. You're selfish to let Nathan grow up without a father. Which incidentally is not

knowing that he had a son” Jihan was increasingly downcast to hear his mother's words. “You better give an explanation to this son of Jeff, Ji!. You've disappointed me”

“Sorry, if I interfere. But better, Jeff and Jihan are talking together. Yes Brother Jeff? Jihan?.” Fania looked at Jeff and Jihan alternately.

“Iya mom agrees. You can talk in the backyard” said Jihan's mother and then Jihan and Jeff nodded.

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To be continue....