THE BEFORE WE DONE
Stepbrother of Regan

So your goal is to become a doctor?" Aryo asks Regan at dinner together at Aryo's house.

"Yes Om, pray yes Om, well I can get a scholarship, so it's not too burdensome for Dad for the cost."

"Hm.. Good that's Re, if later you don't get a scholarship, Om yamg will be your foster parents and help your tuition, just like Ayla."

"Don't Om, I don't want Om." Regan's down.

"Why?" Ask Aryo.

"Yes, why don't you want Re?" Nanda Sahut.

"Sorry before Om, but I just don't want people to judge me, use my friendship with Nanda." Regan said carefully.

Aryo laughed, "You're talking about Re, Om would have said, if Om already thought you and Ayla were like Om's own children, you have to love each other and take care of each other.

"Best father, Nanda dear Papa.." Nanda said spoiled as she stood up and hugged Aryo from behind who was still sitting at the dining table.

"Papa just wants the best love for Nanda, if Nanda is happy to be friends with Ayla and Regan, Papa will also be happy." Aryo answered while rubbing Nanda's arm that was still coiled around Aryo's neck.

Nanda sat back down.

"By the way, later want to be a specialist what Re" asked Aryo continued his conversation.

Nanda and Ayla who were sitting opposite each other and then laughed, it made Aryo become confused, while Regan stared cynically at his two best friends.

"Why are you laughing?" Ask Aryo.

"How can you guess, Regan wants to be a doctor?" Nanda who was still laughing.

Aryo seemed to think. "Surgeon." Guess Aryo.

Nanda and Ayla were still laughing.

"Not Om." Ayla.

"Heart doctor, ophthalmologist, pediatrician maybe?" guess Aryo again.

"No Pa's.. Papa's guess is all wrong." Nanda said and laughed more.

"God, you guys are making me down know not." Upset Regan.

"What do you want to be a specialist doctor?" Ask Aryo.

"The obstetrician Pa.." It was not Regan who answered, it was Nanda.

"Obgyn?" Aryo asked reassuringly again while looking at Regan.

"Yes, um." replied Regan.

"Well, then why are you laughing?" Ask Aryo.

"Ishh Papa, later Regan help mothers give birth, she can look around dong Pa.." Nanda.

"Oh my goodness, Nanda.. A doctor was later sworn in, it is impossible to think of all sorts, which prioritizes patient safety."

"But still uncomfortable Pa, if for example Nanda pregnant later must be a male doctor." Nanda shuddered in horror at the thought.

"Isshh you're Nan. He thought macem-macem anyway." Regan.

And that night, Aryo's house became warm with laughter and jokes from Nanda's friends.

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Ayla accompanies Regan at Haris and Rini's wedding. Regan, who used to live alone with her father, now has to share her affection and shelter with a stranger whom Haris marries.

"You're okay Re." Ayla said shortly after Haris finished saying kabul ijab.

"I'm okay Ay, besides Dad also deserves to be happy, and I'm glad there's finally someone who's going to take care of Dad."

"Is your relationship with your stepbrother good?" Ayla asked a little worriedly.

Regan shakes her shoulders. "Until now I don't know what my half-sister looks like and what her name is, if she's the daughter sitting next to my stepmother, she's Olivia, my youngest stepmother's daughter, I met him once." Answer Regan.

Ayla simply responded by nodding.

"You're about to come, aren't you, Ay?" Regan asked, holding a glass of syrup and one hand in her pants pocket.

"If I wasn't there, you'd find me, too, not Re?" Ayla instead of answering Regan asked back.

Regan embraces Ayla's shoulder which is only limited to Regan's chin. "Obviously Ay, you and Nanda are like my right foot and my left foot, because you finally know where I'm going, without you one, I'm like limping."

"Ishh gombal's. Where did you learn that phrase?" ayla Ledek.

"Oh my goodness, I rarely speak as sincerely as I know."

On the other hand, Olivia noticed the togetherness of Ayla and Regan. In this town, Olivia has no friends, and hopes to be close to Regan, since they are only two years old.

By late afternoon, some of the guests were already on their way home, while Ayla was still accompanying Regan.

"Who are you?" Olivia asked arrogantly when she saw Nanda waltzing freely into Regan's house.

"Oh sorry, I'm Nanda Regan's friend. You who? I just saw you here."

"You should excuse yourself if you want to go into someone's house." Olivia said it was as if Regan's house was her home.

"I'm sorry, but I'm used to this house a lot and Regan and Om Haris never blame it either." Answer Nanda accordingly. "Where's Regan?" Ask Nanda later.

"In the room, being with his girlfriend." Olivia answered still in a carefree tone.

"Daughter?" Nanda scrunched his forehead.

"Sirland.." Call Haris who happens to be walking towards the terrace because he takes his friend who will say goodbye home.

"Om Haris." Nanda kissed the back of Haris hand and Haris hugged her.

"Sorry Om, Nanda is late yes, Nanda nemenin Papa pilgrimage kemakam Mama first."

"Well, Nanda, thank you Nanda for coming." Haris rubbed Nanda's head. "Where's your Papa?"

"Papa went straight home Om, there was a guest who had been waiting for Papa at home, and Papa nitip greetings to Om. Congratulations to you, Om."

"Thank you Nanda, say hello to your Papa." Haris said softly and quietly Olivia noticed him.

"Sheel.." Call Regan who's approaching Nanda with Ayla.

"The cirain didn't come Nan." Ayla hugged Nanda.

"I'll tell you, want to try to come, afraid the angry doctor sir can berabe later." Nanda laughed as she let go of Ayla's embrace.

"I'm here for you three days until Nan doesn't come." Regan replies, who then embraces the shoulders of Nanda and Ayla together, because Regan's position is now in the middle of Nanda and Ayla.

Again Olivia noticed Regan's interaction with her two best friends, then Olivia entered the house after Nanda had glanced at her, while Haris had returned to the house earlier.

"Who was Re's daughter?" Ask Nanda.

"He's Dad's Wife's son."

"The son of your stepmother. Your step-sister dong." Nanda Ledek.

Regan just grinned while scratching her nape.

"Which stepbrother is Re?" Ask Nanda again.

"He did not come, he said that he was still in school, most later he graduated from school and went to college here, just stayed here."

Nanda just nodded.

"Let's eat Nan first, baby, eat a lot of food, and you're Ay, let's eat again." Take Regan to her two best friends.

"All right, let's eat." Said Nanda while clenching one hand up.

"Lets Go's.." Sahut Ayla's.

"Ay, you're watching Regan's half-sister not really, from there concerned about us continue, what just a feeling yes time." Whisper Nanda while eating and sitting next to Ayla.

"Yes Nan, I think it's my feeling, it turns out you think too." Ayla replied in a whisper as well.

"So on the floor, he's my negur Ay, he said if you want to go to the house of the people excuse me first."

"Geez Nan, if Regan knows how to get mad at him."

"Regan don't know Ay, I'm not good with Om Haris. You know, Ay, I just wanted me to kiss Regan's half-brother's mouth." Nanda cuek.

Ayla laughed, "Yes rijak dicabein Nan."

"It's not Rujak, it's Regan's half-brother's mouth."

Ayla was still laughing, indeed Nanda, despite being kind-hearted and pampered by everyone closest to her, but Nanda was also the type of person who likes to take revenge, if her mood was not happy because of someone, but she was also the type of person who likes to take revenge, she will do anything including the incident the other day, when Regan sends a photo of herself with Ayla drinking iced young coconut and not taking Nanda along, immediately Nanda pranked them with pranks as if Nanda was crying for something.

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