
"meaning?" Vira scrunched her forehead.
"Hahaha, it's funny that your face is shocked again, huh?" Ricko laughed. Vira knitted both of his eyebrows.
"Just kidding, Vira .. Even if I love you, I won't be third. Calm down." said Ricko who made Vira look at the man fixedly.
The man spoke very casually as if not talking about something important, while Vira's heart exploded like popcorn.
"That little girl has now grown into a beautiful woman, but already belongs to someone else. But I can see you again I'm so grateful" said Ricko, who folded his arms in front of his chest.
"You know what? when your papa went to the parlour without bringing the little girl who always tied her hair like a ponytail, I was very disappointed. Though I had prepared a colorful candy for the little girl, "Ricko was still looking back on the past, chuckling. Vira is still listening, he also does not know what to react to.
"I kept the two large candies in a drawer in my room, and hoped the little girl would come. But unfortunately, that day came after we were both adults, when the candy may have been fossilized,"
"Where there is, instead of being a fossil that has melted candy!" chirps Vira.
"Let's go, I left it there when I was taken by my foster father," Ricko sniffed his shoulder.
"Vira...?"
"Yes?" sahut Vira's.
"I want to give you something, wait here..." Ricko immediately moved from his seat, Vira turned her body to see Ricko's back was getting away.
Ricko opened his desk drawer and then pulled out a colorful flat round candy. Ricko sat next to Vira, giving her what was in her hand.
"Make you," said Ricko.
"Is this the fossil candy that's in the parlour?" ask Vira.
"Just try it first, if anything happens I'll call an ambulance" Ricko continued.
"It's sweet and I'm still alive!" seloroh Vira's. Ricko shuffled Vira's hair, he laughed at the innocence of his little girl. Vira looked at Ricko, she did not expect that Ricko would tell her feelings in such a relaxed manner.
"You don't have to feel bad, I told you to make my heart feel relieved, and you'll always be my little sister. Anyway, I was thinking, it's funny that a little boy can feel such a deep feeling in a girl" Ricko said.
"Sorry" said Vira.
"Why apologize? you're not wrong" Ricko said.
"Oh, huh? what if you help me in the office, itung-itung so that you are not bored at home.." continued Ricko.
"Talk to your childish boyfriend, I'll wait for your answer. Take it easy, this has nothing to do with feelings" Ricko smiled.
"All right, I'll think about it,"
The sun began to emit a tinge of orange. A woman with a distended stomach was walking around her residence. Some neighbors greeted him, because he had not seen the married woman for a long time.
"Mas, I want the guava .. in his house Mr. Dirga," he said pointing to a water guava tree belonging to his neighbor. Satya who had indeed taken off the bandage in her hand was horrified to the request of his wife.
"But I don't have to climb, do I?" ask Satya.
"If so, why?" Amartha pursed her lips.
"Now" said Satya who showed her the wound had closed.
"Yes, I told you to climb, Mas.." said Amartha. Satya stroked her chest in relief.
"Yes, we have the same permission that we have," said Satya.
Satya took his wife, they came to a simple house located right next to Amartha's parents' house.
"Waalaikumsalam," said a man accompanied by the sound of a key playing. Soon a middle-aged man appeared in black collared shorts and t-shirts.
"Sorry, Mr. Dirga ... I'm Satya and this is my wife Amartha. Coincidentally my wife was cravings for water guava," said Satya greeting the tree owner.
"God, Amartha again cravings guava, tho .. yes already take that many of you!" ask the man who knows Amartha.
"Can you climb, tho?" continued Mr. Dirga.
"Can!" satya said, but her hand had just healed.
"Mass?" great-grandson Amartha.
"If I may, I ask for a riddle, sir." said Satya.
"Well, I'll get you a minute." Dirga went into his house.
"Your hand still hurts, doesn't it? how do you keep climbing it?" ask Amartha. Just now Satya was about to answer his wife's question, Dirga sir was back with a black swipe in his hand.
"This, Mas kereseknya.." said Mr. Dirga while giving black swipe to Satya.
"You wait here" said Satya told Amartha to sit on a wooden bench under a mango tree facing a guava tree.
"So he said he didn't want to climb" muttered Amartha.
Satya bent her jeans to her knees, then she started climbing a guava tree. His feet were so agile he moved upwards, although he had to feel the pain as the dried up wound rubbed against the rough trunk of the guava tree. Satya started picking guava, which looked so tempting it was.
"Well, your husband's climbing up too, Ta?" said Mr. Dirga who stood not far from Amartha, his head looked up to see Satya put the guava into the black crackle.
"L-yes, sir.." said Amartha.
"This guava tree already exists from you unborn, before Rosa also craved this guava and Rudy who was told to climb up. Already up above, he was gnawed by ants, finally he came down and I had to replace him climb the tree," said Mr. Dirga who had long been neighbors with Rudy.
"So this tree is a very legendary yes, sir...?"
"Yes right. Because the fruit is always abundant and tastes sweet, so it's a pity if cut down.." explained Mr. Dirga.
"It looks like your husband has started to be attacked by the residents there," Dirga even chuckled to see Satya who occasionally scratched her neck on a guava tree.
Once felt enough, the man went down with a plunging monkey style. He handed the carousel to his wife. Amartha slowly moved from her seat.
"So much, right?" satya asked who was writhing because of the ants that entered her clothes.
"Yes, enough.." said Amartha.
"This is just the name of the husband on standby," said Mr. Dirga praising Satya who immediately slit his teeth.
"Thank you very much, Mr. .. Then we'll excuse you" said Satya who immediately invited Amartha home, he could not stand the bite of ants that had made his skin red and also bump around his neck and cheeks.
"The ants are uncivilized!" satya said when they had moved away from the house of Mr. Dirga.
"Don't be pinched." said Amartha.
"I can't stand it, Yank." said Satya.
"They're going nowhere," continued Satya who inevitably slowed down his path in order to match Amartha's short steps. The woman covered her mouth with the back of her hand, holding back the laughter from exploding.
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