Only Raised Children
76. Reasons to London l

While both Rico and Alina's parents had a meeting, their two children also went to lunch with their friends, Andi and Rena. Rico and Alina were in the restaurant first. They wait for the arrival of their two friends while eating snacks that have been ordered. They deliberately have not ordered heavy food because Rena asked them to wait for their arrival.

It had been almost half an hour sitting there, but the two friends had not yet seen the trunk of his nose. Alina who has not eaten anything since at home is now starting to feel hungry.

"Geez why they've been so long. I'm hungry already" said Alina as she waved her lips.

"If you're hungry, we'll order first. Let them follow" said Rico.

Alina seemed to think of hearing Rico's words. She was already very hungry because she had eaten her last meal at breakfast this morning, but they had promised to wait for her two friends. But thinking about whether the two men arrived, making Alina forced to agree with Rico's words.

Rico called the waiter there to order food, but the waiter had not yet arrived at his desk, and Andi and Rena entered the restaurant.

"That's them" said Alina who first noticed the presence of two friends in front of the entrance.

Rico stared at the direction Alina was looking at, then he let his friend in and approached them.

"Hi, Al," said Rena as she arrived at Alina and Rico's table. Then they sat his body in front of his two friends.

"You guys why for so long, I've been really hungry" said Alina with a little bit of regret.

Those who were there looked astonished by Alina who responded to Rena's friendly greeting by the opposite. Although what Alina did was not wrong because she was upset by the delay of her friend, but what made them feel strange about the woman's attitude was that Alina had never been like that. Alina has been famous for never being angry and always friendly to everyone, even the woman was able to be patient in the surrounding moments doing a foolishness. But today Alina looks very different, she looks not okay in the mood.

"What's wrong with you, Al?" asked Rena in surprise.

"Yes, are you coming to the moon? That's exactly how it is."

Now Andi also responded to the unusual reaction of his friend.

"Aah?" Alina confused herself with the questions of her two friends. He who is not aware of himself who has been acting jutek then very confused. "Why me?"

"Have no more discussion, let's order the food. Alina has been densified since you waited a long time," said Rico who tried to divert. Moreover, back then the servant he had summoned had been beside their table.

Alina who was still confused by the words of Rena and Andi, then looked towards Rico.

"What do Rena and Andi mean, Co? why me?"

"Honey, eat first, then speak again" said Rico.

Then Alina looked towards Rena and Andi, she saw the two friends twisting their shoulders as if saying they did not know. Although very curious about Rena and Andi's intentions about her strange self, but Alina chose to ignore it. As Rico said, it is better to eat first because his stomach is very hungry now.

In one of the VIP room restaurants, both parents Alina and Rico seem to eat their lunch while reminiscing while they were in school. When they are unmarried and a problem arises, Thomas and Zara travel to London.

Speaking of London, Santi again wondered why his adoptive brother had to move abroad without saying goodbye to him first. They were like brothers even though Thomas was married. Santi tried to ask and hopefully the question this time did not make his friend and foster brother sad like their previous meeting.

"Sister Thomas, can I ask you a question?" santi asked permission first.

"Do you want to ask where Aura is?" ask Thomas to guess.

Although Santi was also very curious about his brother's first child, but Santi wanted to know in advance the reason for his brother's move from this country.

"I also wanted to ask that, but before I was very curious why you guys left here tampa say goodbye to us again" said Santi. 

"I'm sorry we didn't get to tell you. We moved to London for a reason."

"What's that?" santi asked impatiently 

Before telling the reason for their move to London, Thomas looked to his wife first for permission before recounting their bitter experience. As Zara nodded her head, Thomas smiled and stared at Santi and Irfan. 

When deciding to reunite with Santi and Irfan, Thomas and Santi had already prepared themselves to bring back the very painful problems for their families. As advice given by her eldest son, Zara tries to come to terms with the past by trying to accept everything that has happened. Although it is difficult for her not to grieve when she remembers the events of several decades ago, Zara tries to follow her son's words. If he still looks available to his past, then he will never be able to look forward and face new things that may be more bitter than before. 

"We decided to leave here because of Aura's death caused by Zaki."

Thomas stopped his words in the first sentence. He wanted to see Irfan and Santi's reaction to the sentence being spoken. And as expected of the two men, Santi and Irfan looked very surprised to hear his short words. 

"Zaki's? What's wrong with Zaki, brother?" santi asked very curiously.

Zaki is Santi's distant brother. He has loved Zara for a long time. While at school, Zaki can only keep his feelings for Zara in silence because it is inappropriate to compete with Thomas who is the grandson of the school foundation and become a proud student of the teachers there. As she and Zara entered college, she became more insecure with Thomas who became her senior brother as an idol on campus. At first he who looks relieved because Thomas first out of school, now Zaki again does not dare to approach Zara because Thomas who is always close to him.

The more time on campus, the more often Zaki meets Zara there and Zaki's feelings increase. It felt like he really wanted to reveal his feelings to Zara, but at that time he still did not dare because there was still Thomas as his girlfriend and also now there is Irfan and his brother Santi who became friends with the woman. 

For a long time the man harbored his feelings without anyone knowing and when Thomas graduated from college before them, Zaki also began to dare to approach Zara. He thought it was time he approached the woman because Thomas was not there every day.

He approached Zara quietly so that no one would know of her actions. He did that because there was still a bad taste to his brother Santi who became Zara's friend. Zara who never responded to all the men who approached her made Zaki look riled up because he did not get any response from Zara.

Because he approached Zara through a text message, he thought Zara didn't see the message she was sending or was afraid that Thomas might be caught chatting with another man, finally the man decided to call the woman at a special hour like eight o'clock at night and above. He knew that at that time Zara was no longer with Thomas, aka already in his house. 

Several times Zaki contacted Zara, but her call was always on another call. He thought Zara was on the phone with Thomas and he wouldn't give up. The next day he called Zara when Zara answered his phone which made Zaki feel very happy. Her feelings that have been flowering when she saw the woman on campus, are now more and more excited when she heard the melodious sound of Zara through the speaker of her phone.