
Niken looks so excited when Rudy has arrived at his house and brings news about Lana's instructions. He immediately got into the car and sat down next to Rudy who was driving his car. Meanwhile Raka sat in the back with Wira.
From the beginning Raka asked Wira not to come, given his health condition Raka did not want something bad to happen to Wira. But in fact, Raka was never able to refute the wishes of Wira. This trait is what comes down to Raka.
In Niken's hand he kept holding a picture of a smiling little Lana in his lap. At that time Niken promised to take Lana for a walk on her birthday. It was the end of his happiness with the spoiled girl.
After traveling for almost 2 hours, Rudy stopped his car in a small house made of wood and looked worn out.
“What lana stay here?” Niken's eyes were wide in disbelief.
“Not the mistress, this is the residence of the late man who sold the ring belonging to non lana. He has cancer. The money from the sale of the ring he used for treatment. But after 2 years of treatment, he returned to his creator.” Rudy paused his sentence with a deep breath.
“In this house, there is only his wife and a daughter. Unfortunately, the wife of the deceased had been depressed since the death of her husband. He never talked to anyone and just fell silent. When I tried to speak, not a word came out of his mouth. But there was no other way but to meet him because the princess who cared for him did not know anything.” Light Rudy almost made the Adiyaksa family give up.
But not for Niken. With all his determination, he got down first from his car. Whatever he's going to face later he's going to have to try to get the woman talking.
Rudy knocked on the plywood door slowly. A young lady opened the door and looked dumbfounded when she saw a familiar face to her. Rudy has come several times and of course Rudy's face is familiar to him.
“Everything you want? I can turn the ring around, my mother also gag wants to talk. Please don't bother us anymore, our life is already heavy enough.” Said the girl, sobbing.
“Please give me another chance to meet mom. And this, the mother of the child whose owner of the ring wants to talk to your mother.” Rudy brightly lit up with a wise smile that was still on his face.
Niken nodded with great determination. Slowly the door opened wide.
Niken and her family went into the house that was not actually liveable. Just a small room full of stuff. There was no partition between one room and another other than the room where the woman named Irma was in brackets.
“My mother is in her room.” The girl opened the curtain for Niken and let her in.
There was a woman sitting on the bed with a blank look out the window. The appearance is very dirty with long hair that is not taken care of. His face looked sad and never changed expression. In her hand she held a picture of her husband when she was young.
Niken sat next to Irma who did not care about her existence. He took a deep breath and gathered all his resolve to ask.
“Bu Irma, introduce me to niken from jakarta.” Say Niken while touching the hands of Irma who only lives skin and bone.
Irma did not respond to anything, just a blink of an eye that kept looking out the window.
“Bu Irma, does bu Irma know this girl?” Niken showed me a photo she was trying to keep in Irma's hand.
Niken's attention turned to the photo of the man in Irma's hand. His thumb kept moving gently rubbing the photo.
“What is this photo of aaron sir?” Niken also looked at the photo held by Irma. Irma gulped her saliva when she heard her late husband's name mentioned. “This is a photo of my daughter.” Continue Niken with a vibrating voice. “Bu Irma, we both lost our loved ones. I feel the truth that Irma's mother feels. Even to this day I still cannot forget his smile, his voice, the way he walks, the way he talks and when he eats voraciously.” Up to this point, Niken really could not hold back her tears.
“But until now too, I have not been able to find my daughter. Either he's alive or he's gone. If he's alive I'm certainly a very lucky man, but if he's dead, at least I want to see where his body is buried. I am just a mother, who is so unprepared to lose her daughter as is bu irma who must have lost her beloved husband very much.”
Niken sniffled on Irma's shoulder. He could no longer cover his sadness. For a dozen years he tried to give up something that he could never really let go of. For a dozen years he was tormented with longing and guilt that seemed to continue to judge him.
Out there, Raka and Wira can only lean his body on a pot that is only composed of bricks that still look real. Their minds drifted somewhere. His heart screamed at Niken's voice and cries.
Irma's gaze shifted to the photo that was now in her grasp. Although he was in a state of severe depression, he was still a human who had a heart. The feeling expressed by Niken, he felt it too.
Her lips began to shake with her hands that gently rubbed the picture of her husband. The tears melted back on her cheeks. A cry without a sobbing that felt so heartbreaking.
“We're both in pain aren't we?” lirih Irma suddenly.
Niken flinched, never expecting the hoarse and heavy voice to belong to the woman beside him. Niken stared at the woman who was staring at him.
“But we are never the same. We both lose but our feelings are never the same. Mother's daughter may be fine but my husband is already united with the land back to belong to the creator.” Continue Irma with a loud voice.
Niken was crying. He never thought Irma would talk to him.
Raka and Wira who also heard Irma's voice, couldn't help but feel a whip in her chest. His shoulders moved up and down in the rhythm of his cries. Wira's memory is back rolling when they used to look for it even involving police da detective, there is not the slightest hint. At the scene, nothing was found but a charred car burning at the bottom of the ravine. A search was conducted at the bottom of the ravine but nil, they did not find any clues.
“He's a good boy, a beautiful boy. His face was scarred and very frightened. He threw all his belongings including a ring that coiled around his little finger. “Go, don't get close!” He kicked us out like that then ran as fast as possible so we couldn't catch up.” I remembered Irma who then returned stunned. It was still clear to him that the frightened eyes were never timid.
“Bu Irma really saw my daughter? Where is she ma'am, where?” Niken could not help his curiosity and surprise.
“He ran towards a house when it rained, exactly like today.” Irah took out her hand out the window and felt the drops of water coming down upon the earth. “Then he fell unconscious in front of the parlor. We'll be leaving soon. We don't want to be accused of injuring the boy. But we took the ring. I feel very guilty. If only my husband had not stolen his ring, even if he had died, I would not have been this sorry.” Irma sobbed in her tears. Her biggest regret was giving her husband treatment with the money from the sale of the Ring he stole, she said.
For a moment he sobbed in his deep cries. While Niken could only fall silent, in his heart he wished he could still see the face of Lana that he so longed for.
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