Pursuing the Love of Mr. Ling
220. Indonesia
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The location of the grandfather's house from the airport is not far away, it only takes about twenty minutes then Ailee and her parents have arrived there. Ailee stared longingly at this all-white and gold building in front of her. This building is the place to go home. The tiredness that he had felt all this time was evaporating just like that when he came to this house. The house he used to be very comfortable in. There was once a grandma. But now Grandma already has another house. Unfortunately when the grandma left, Ailee was no one beside him.
Until now, sometimes Ailee always blamed herself. Blaming her true self is not really good at taking care of the grandmother. But never mind, everything has passed too.
"Welcome back home" said Atma. The middle-aged man was embracing the shoulders of his favorite grandson. Ailee smiled at her grandfather. Comfortably his head rested on the grandfather's chest. Although he is no longer young, his grandfather's good looks can be pitted against Kalingga.
By the way Kalingga, the man had not contacted him until this point. Maybe he's still on his way. If so, I hope everyone is safe until the destination.
Ailee and Atma walked into the house together. Leave Alex and Cya who just arrived. Alex's gaze has not been separated from his son who is very close to his father. Honestly, he was envious, all this time he never even embraced his son and vice versa. Alex wants to spend time with his son. Even if it's only one day. He wants to make up for all the mistakes he made. But to this day, he still hasn't determined it. He was only worried, afraid that Ailee would reject him.
"Mas," called Cya as Alex remained silent and looked up at her son who had entered the house.
"Why you?" Ask Cya.
"No papa ma, come on in," Alex asked. Cya and Alex got out of the car and walked into the house. Ailee and Atmajaya.
Ailee smiled as she returned to meet the maids who worked at her grandfather's house. Most of the maids are people who used to always take care of Ailee and nurture Ailee when she was just two years old.
"Miss, welcome," said one of them.
"Why greetings? No hug? Come on, I miss you all" said Ailee. The maids chuckled and immediately hugged Ailee. Ailee's position is in the middle of them all. There are about five maids working in this house. All of those maids have been working for a very long time. Even when there was a grandmother.
"My news is good. How are you all doing? It feels like a long time I haven't seen you all" Ailee said.
"Our news is very good. Right, you stayed in Boston too long until you forgot to come back here. But it's okay, what matters is that you're healthy and now look, you really grew up to be a pretty girl" she said.
"Of course I should. Because my lover is handsome" said Ailee, smiling as she walked towards the dining table. His stomach was hungry and fragrant cuisine at this table really tempting his faith. He could not bear to eat immediately.
"Who is your lover? What's the handsome boy from Natapraja's family?" Ask Atma.
"Rights. He's my boyfriend" Ailee said proudly.
Obviously proud. You know for yourself how hard it is to get Kalingga. So after getting the man, Ailee naturally had to be proud of herself.
"really? Grand thought you were just hallucinating to get it. The meaning of your speech can be held as well," said Atma.
"Should. Brixy couldn't have betrayed Brixy's own grand remark" Ailee said.
"Okay, we've talked enough. It's time to eat. Alex, Cya, let's eat together" said Atmajaya.
The two men joined Ailee as well as Atmajaya. At the dinner table, there are so many Indonesian specialties. Ailee was really dark in the eyes, she even took out almost all the side dishes there. The rice took only a little. Atmajaya just chuckled softly to see it, let the child flutter. What matters is that Ailee eats. The child is indeed right will always be confused with typical Indonesian food. Especially snacks. Look at it later, either it will run out how many tens of sheets of money.
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After eating together, Alex and Cya decide to go to bed. They seem exhausted. Naturally, while on the plane Ailee's parents did not stop staring at laptops and iPads. The two talked to each other, talked about business. Ailee just watched him. He had no interest in joining let alone asking about the business. He wants to enjoy his journey.
Since arriving in Indonesia, Ailee still has not received news from Kalingga. But an hour ago Briella told him they were late because Aunty Ashel vomited. I don't know why, so they decided to change the flight schedule. Waiting for Ashel to subside from his nausea.
Kalingga did not return the message at all. I don't know what the reason is. Is it possible that the man is still angry because Ailee doesn't want to go with him? Please, it's just a trivial matter. Their goal is the same country. Kalingga should not be angry.
Ailee was sitting alone in the living room. In front of him was a big tv. But Ailee didn't turn it on. He prefers silence. For it is from this silence that he finds tranquility.
Not far from the tv, lots of photos. Most of them are photos of him when he was a baby until this big was there. The photo was packaged in a small frame attached to the wall. Almost half of this wall was covered by that frame of the photo.
Ailee smiled as she looked at a large photo. It was a picture of his grandparents. And there he was when he was a baby. He's about eight months old. At that time he was very intensely taken care of by his grandmother. He was the one who took care of Ailee from childhood until she was five years old.
Unfortunately, as she was about to enter kindergarten, she had to leave Indonesia as well as her grandparents. He was taken care of by Magi.
"Why bengong?" Ask Atma. The man took a seat next to his grandson.
"Brixy kangen grandma" said Ailee bowed.
Atma smiled and stroked his granddaughter's head slowly, "Are you still blaming yourself for the death of the grandma?"
Ailee nodded her head.
"It wasn't your fault. Grandma's condition at that time was indeed dropping. Stop blaming yourself dear, grandma let alone grandpa do not like" said Atma.
Ailee fell silent, not answering her grandfather's words. The girl chose to hug her grandfather. Closing his already heated eyes and in a moment it seemed like it was going to shed tears.
...KALINGGA...
Tbc.
Rwamein👺