Only Raised Children
85. Wearied

"Bang, Mama from earlier did not want to eat. I persuaded my mother to eat."

Irfan's words that interrupted the conversation of his son and wife made Rico turn to him. Rico turned to his mother with a gentle smile.

"Mom why not eat? Want Rico a bribe?" ask Rico.

Santi nodded and immediately nodded his head. He felt better after talking to his son.

"Bang" said Santi before Rico put the porridge in his mouth.

"What's up, Ma?" ask Rico.

"Now you can do all your wishes, including with your wedding preparations. Mama won't force Mama's will again, sorry Mama yes, Bang."

Again hearing Santi's words about the wedding, made Rico put a bowl of porridge on the nightstand.

"We have agreed, Rico will obey all your wishes. So don't think about it again okay?"

Santi shook his head.

"Mama wants you to be happy with every choice you have, Bang. Weeding dream or whatever makes you and Alina happy, Mama will be happy. What matters is that you're still Mama's son."

"Rico will still be Mama and Papa's son, Ma."

Rico smiled happily at his mother's final decision. There was nothing to think about, either Santi or Rico himself had agreed to hand over all the wedding necessities to Rico and Alina. But Rico who does not want to be selfish, he wants both his parents and Alina's parents to take part in the hassles ahead of their marriage. They will split the tasks so that all can participate in the wedding of the only son Irfan Renaldi and Santi.

...**...

These days Alina is very busy in the office. It's his first week working in an office led by his own brother, Alfian. Alina served as an assistant to her own two brothers, Morgan. He was deliberately assigned there because in addition to him who wanted to start his career from a low position, also because so that Morgan could freely teach his sister a career. Alina has been busy with her studies and away from corporate affairs so she has a lot to learn from Morgan.

At first Alina did not want to be Morgan's assistant because she knew that her brother would ridicule her more often, but it was also impossible if he became Alfian's assistant because the man would be very busy with his work. The added frequent flying to meet clients outside the city makes it difficult for Alfian to manage the time to teach his sister. Moreover, soon they will not stay one more house because Alina will join live with Morgan and their parents in her new residence.

Tonight Alina chose to sleep fast because of her fatigue due to the work given by Morgan not playing games. Not only his ignorance, the seriousness of the man at work also really makes Alina overwhelmed.

Just about to fall asleep, Alina opened her eyes again when she heard her phone ringing. She complains about ignoring the ringing of the phone, but out of fear that there is an important call, Alina delays her sleep to see who is calling her.

When she saw Rena's name on her phone screen, Alina immediately sighed. He slammed his body into the bed while shutting his eyes back with the speaker mode on his phone that had been activated.

"Hello, Al?" said Rena across there.

"Em, why, Ren?" sahut Alina with no enthusiasm.

"Where are you? Tomorrow we meet yuk," said Rena.

"Where are you going?" ask Alina.

"How's mall? We shop, I hear there is shocking news from my friend this one," said Rena meaningfully.

He finds out that Alina is the son of a successful businessman who has just returned to this town from Andi. He and Andi did not attend the inauguration of Alina's company because Rena was accompanying Andi to meet important clients outside the city. Andi also just learned the news from his parents who said if Rico will marry the son of a successful businessman.

"Don't tomorrow, Ren. I was busy in the office. What is the weekend?"

Because of the voice of Alina who was not excited, Rena thought that her friend was indeed exhausted due to her work. Rena finally agreed to Alina's words.

After that there was no sound from Alina anymore, making Rena frown. He looked confused, but after that immediately turned off his call.

...**...

During the day at holiday time, Rena was already in the parking lot of the mall to meet Alina. They've already agreed to meet at one of the restaurants to lunch together. Rena grabs her phone to call Alina and informs her that she has arrived at the mall.

"Al, where are you? I'm in the parking lot." Yeah."

Rena agreed after that they immediately closed the call to meet at the restaurant that had been agreed.

Upon arriving at the restaurant, Rena was immediately treated to a menu book by the waiter there. He ordered the food first while waiting for Alina's arrival.

Rena grabs her phone to reply to Andi's message, but before that she sees Alina just getting inside the restaurant.

"Al," cried Rena while waving her hand to Alina.

Alina who saw it immediately approached Rena and sat her body in front of her friend.

"Well, you haven't seen you in a long time, it's still cool" said Rena while paying attention to Alina's appearance.

Alina's appearance is not as usual because all the clothes she used to wear are still stored in Rico's apartment, while he was wearing the clothes he had brought from London and which he had just bought with his parents when he arrived here.

"Oh yeah? It's a normal feeling" said Alina.

"Custom what. You'd normally wear roadside clothes, but now your clothes are all branded. Indeed rich people are different, yes" said Rena praised.

"What a rich person," said Alina with a small laugh. "Oh yeah, did you order some food?"

"I did, but I forgot to order a drink for you."

Alina agreed and immediately called the waiter there for her to order a drink.

While waiting for their order to come, Rena again sent various questions to her friend. He was so excited to find out if his simple friend was the son of a great businessman. She was very curious as to why Alina had been hiding her status all along.

"So how?"

Alina frowned hearing Rena's vague words.

"Where is it," he asked in wonder.

"Why have you been hiding your status, stating that you are the son of Thomas Wilson?"

Alina smiled obliquely hearing that.

"You know where it came from" asked Alina.

"Al, please yes. The news is so fast."

Rena took her breath fast.

"Okay, earlier I was sorry for not being able to attend the inauguration of your family's company. I was out of town with Andi, and we didn't know that ZW Corps had your family. If only we knew, maybe we would.." Rena suddenly stopped his words. Makes Alina raise one of her eyebrows.

"Will what? Cancel your departure?" ask Alina.

Rena grinned stiffly. "There are important clients, it is impossible to cancel that."

"But I'm still wondering, why are you pretending to be poor and covering up your status, Al?" asked Rena again in curiosity.

"Just want to live independently, as well as want to see who is really sincere friends with me," replied Alina briefly without mentioning her family problems.

Rena who heard that then fell silent in disbelief. Is Alina serious? The woman's words are like a story in a novel. Rich people pretend to be poor in order to get a sincere lover. It makes no sense, he thought.

"It's not like that only exists in novels and romantic movies, right?" said Rena.

"Sometimes novels and movies also come from real stories, Ren. Ah, why talk about that anyway. Where is our food, why not come" said Alina while staring around to see the waiter who was delivering food.

Rena initially did not believe Alina's words, but after thinking about it, it seemed that there was also a point in what Alina said. Sometimes all the stories in a novel or movie are true stories of someone they do not know. Many producers have turned the real story into a movie.