Should Taste Be Buried (?)
Chapter 5

"What is true love ... eleven by twelve with a parent's own love story?"

"Masa, anyway? I can't think clearly about this. How can and how is it possible (?) .. huh!" Alifah exhaled slowly. He also laid his body on his bed.

He still did not understand what his mother meant. Logically, it could be that past events are repeated to the present day. But ... Isn't that too dramatic? Thinking over and over again makes his head dizzy.

Alifah decided to take the phone on the side table of his mattress, he also opened the WhatsApp application. She accidentally sees Eza's contact, her brother. He pressed his profile picture and it was his own brother.

With a standing position, leaning on the campus pillars (?) Wearing glasses, on his right shoulder there is his backpack, then his palm is placed in the pocket of jeans.

He noticed his brother's pose and brought his pupils closer to the photo, he smiled as he said, "my brother's bull," he chuckled.

Suddenly just ...

Drt. Drt. Drt.

"Eh, bushel? Brother immediately called dong," excited. He picked it up and said, "hello?"

^^^[Assalamu'alaikum warahmatulli wabarakatuh, Adek?]^^^

"Wa'alaikummusallam warahmatullahi wabarakatuh, yes, Brother?"

^^^[Dek .. ] heard his breathing slowly. Alifah smiled, surely his brother is not doing well at the moment.^^^

"Why, hm? There's a problem, huh?" guess chuckles.

^^^[Called problem, no. His brother who does not think, why always think about it.} Alifah heard it, so smiled faintly.^^^

"Oh, it's okay. There's still flavor, that's why. Try it Abang does not have the same taste Kak Rena. You can't possibly be like this, right?"

Eza breathed a heavy sigh. He could not eliminate the taste at all, even if he tried, meaning he completely forgot his promise to Rena. But sometimes, he just wanted to be able to see Rena directly.

Well ... can be said, she was missing him (?)

^^^[Next week, I'm going there, Dek. Same mom, how? Healthy? You alone, Deck? You're not in school?]^^^

"Oh, huh?! Whoa! I'm gonna be happy, huh. Thank God, brother, we are all healthy. How is brother too? Alifah doesn't go to school, Bang, because it's a holiday."

^^^[Kok, holiday? On what agenda, so the school is closed there, Dek?]^^^

Alifah laughs amusedly at the words of his brother.

"Diagulau. Our upperclassman had immunizations," she said.

^^^[Huh? Since when are you getting your kayak immunizations, Dek?]^^^

Alifah shook his head quickly, "ish! That means ... what cake, anyway, his name? Alifah forgot, Bang," he said dramatizing.

A long breath he heard from across there. Alifah, name. He easily forgets anything. However, he did not easily forget about who hurt him.

Long enough silent, Alifah blows slowly, "branch? Two days ago, Alifah with Mother, met Kak Rena," he said.

There was no reply, it seemed like his brother asked him to continue his conversation.

"After that, we greeted each other and asked for news. Does Brother know? Sis Rena is now very beautiful and graceful, you know, Bang. Before if not wrong, yes, Bang. Alifah there saw one customer who seemed close to Kak Rena, Bang."

^^[Cowok?]^^^

Alifah chuckled amusedly at the sound of his brother directly grabbing like a starving koi fish in his pond.

"Ha'ah, Bang, dude. Alifah can't see very closely, anyway. Because of Alifah's position .. across here. Kak Rena's shop is across the street."

"Yep!"

^^[Wah! One of his dreams came true, yes]

There was the voice of Eza who began to be enthusiastic, when he heard that Rena had her own shop. It seemed, her brother really loved her very much, even very sincerely, she thought.

Then even random conversations began to be conducted by them. Alifah fell asleep without disconnecting his phone. While Eza, can already guess that his sister was sleeping in a calm state.

***

The afternoon. Rena decided to stay at her parents' house. She missed her little house, her room. Is the design of the room still the same as before? Are the things in her room still the way they used to be?

Ah, he really can't wait to see it. Because he wants to add air pollution without a mixture of smoke from the exhaust of motorbikes and other cars.

Then he uses a bicycle, count on him to exercise. It had been two months, he did not exercise, just because his work piled up.

Certainly ... not a job in the store, but his mind, has now piled up one name, namely Ananda Fahreza Leon.

He doesn't know what to do. To be able to forget it easily, and eliminate the longing that is so deep. Until sometimes .. his chest sipped, because his crying was so slashing the recesses of his heart.

Drt. Drt. Drt.

^^[Hello, Ali?]^^^

"Assalamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh, what, Aa?"

^^^[Wa'alaikummusallam warahmatulli wabarakatuh. Aa's going home. Pinta Alif don't go anywhere, yeah.]^^^

"okay, A. Be careful on the road, yeah."

^^^[Ready!]^^^

Tut's. Tut's. Tut's.

After calling him, he started riding his bike. Really draining his energy. Because he's been almost two months not cycling.

"What's wrong. This body should be taught a lesson, let him remember that it needs sweat" his monologue mixed with rarity.

***

It didn't take long, Rena arrived at her modest home and the inconspicuous color of the walls. The house was not large, medium-sized that fit for five family members, it seemed like it was.

Rena put her bicycle next to her house. Then, he walked towards the house. Before that, he knocked on the door of the house, and opened the door of the house wide, with the two brothers greeted.

Rena saw him smile. Only his two brothers greeted him. What about his parents? Do they welcome his presence? Of course, no, the answer is.

But Rena does not mind it, because she is used to the behavior of her parents who are different from other parents. Rena is their biological child, the eldest of the others.

However, see? He was treated like a stepson who did not need his presence. Alif and Ali asked him to come in. So Rena entered her house, and Alif closed the door. As for Ali, she walked into the kitchen to prepare cold food and drinks for her brother.

Rena sits on the sofa she bought last year. It was the result of his own sweat, with all his effort he put all his energy just to boast of his parents and his sisters.

But .. he didn't get it. He only got it from his two brothers. And his own parents? It's not at all obtained.

"Just remember the house, huh?" The door of the room near the kitchen was wide open revealing a middle-aged woman who displayed a flat face.

Rena saw it move from the sofa and approached her. He took his mother's arm to please her, but was soon brushed aside by her.

"**C**ih! The child does not know himself." Her mother also went to the kitchen. Rena smiled bitterly.