The End of Hope
63 Eps. This is Land of Dispute!
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Naya ignored the voice of the call on her phone even though it was so loud that it screamed repeatedly. He still hugs Yoni and calms him down that he should be a good boy and obey his papa. He tried to find a solution for the little boy.
"Yoni.. Be a good boy and now follow me. Yoni can play back here sometime"
"Grandma's word, Yoni must go to school," sshut Yoni spoke disconnectedly, but the child's sentence indicated a desire or message that he often heard from others, so he would remember.
"Yes, Yoni has to go to school because he's grown up. Now come with me." said Ares. He saw the watch in his hand as lunch was running out.
Naya doesn't want to offer to babysit Yoni like she used to. Because he wanted to avoid it, avoid being reunited with Ares. He still keeps his distance so that he no longer interacts much with anything connected with Ares. Including Yoni.
He also can't babysit Yoni for now because he's been off work a lot. He was worried that it would be a problem with fellow employees or with Ms. Nha.
"Here, count your fingers. Later memorize with papa in the office, yes. Then if Yoni meets aunty again, Yoni must have been able to count it.." said Naya sambi grabbed Yoni's hand.
The voice of the cell phone continues to ring. He was busy counting Yoni's fingers one by one. This is the basic way to introduce math to children, count their fingers one by one, or count the stairs in the house, the number of windows or anything around children that is more than one.
Hearing Naya's words, Ares knitted his brows, then watched what Naya did so he could follow her. He thought that this would be a little inconvenient for him in the office, but he also did not want to bother Naya to take care of her child, except on her own accord. Yes, if Naya offers to take care of Yoni then she will be happy to let him. But it turns out Naya did not offer any help, so she could not do anything. He felt that he had often troubled Naya.
"Thank you phone. Who knows the phone is important" Ares said after Naya finished showing how to count Yoni's fingers.
'Why is he the one who's curious?'
"That, Yoyo...can?" naya said to Yoni, ignoring Ares. Yoni nodded and Naya smiled, rubbing Yoni's head, then picked up her phone which she had stored in the pocket of a restaurant apron. He looked at the screen of his phone and knitted his eyebrows to see the name of the person who contacted him.
"Dad." muttered Naya. Keep the phone on.
"Yoni, let's say goodbye to auntie and say thank you," said Ares while holding Yoni's hand about to step up. Hearing Ares' speech, Naya first shines Yoni's hand and teaches him to say hello.
"Dadaahs...Yoni, be careful, yeah." said Naya. Naya's words were indirectly addressed to Ares. Both father and son left in their cars.
Naya immediately received the phone call that she had ignored earlier, with a bad feeling.
"Sorry dad, just picked up the phone, dad how are you?" naya said after saying her regards.
"Dad, okay. Everything here is good too. You're busy, aren't you?" budiman's voice was heard from behind the cell phone.
"No. Just now I'm still talking about other people."
"Here, there's news from your mother's village. I called you remember, you remember your grandfather's house, in Stone Town?"
"Remember, dong, yeah. Time to forget, huh? What's with grandpa's house?"
"The house is for sale."
"Continue?"
"Your mother is one of his heirs, if you want, you can occupy it or sell it," said Budiman calmly, for some reason this news is like a cool breeze for Naya.
Her birth mother is only two brothers both equally female, so far the house relics of Naya's grandfather are occupied by her aunt, and now the house will be sold, of course if one day the house is sold, if one day, while his mother is dead, he will get his share of the inheritance, including his older brother who is on Borneo Island or his younger brother who is currently with his grandmother. Naya's younger sister has been with her father's grandmother since her mother died.
"Why is it going to be sold, Dad?" ask Naya.
"Your aunt called yesterday, she said she wanted to move in with her husband, so now the house is empty, so she said if she agreed, it would be for sale. Your aunt just gave me that kind of information."
"Oh, so. When's aunt gonna move, dad?"
"Next month. Your aunt said that maybe among the children there are mothers who want to live there. If there is none, who wants to occupy it will be sold and the result will probably be divided into two."
"Do you want me to move there?"
"It's up to you, because instead of you there, work is just being a waiter. I just think about your future. Let's not see your ex-husband again."
"If I go there, will that guarantee my future? not necessarily, dad..."
"The house is in a strategic area, you can start your business there."
"What business, it also needs capital."
"What only. Your aunt used to sell household items, "Hearing Budiman's words, Naya smiled.
"Okay dad, I'll think about it" Naya said.
"Who knows you can be a soul mate again there."
Naya laughed when she heard her father speak, because the solution Budiman gave was still unclear. But this news opens Naya's mind and heart to some choices in her life.
"Dad, just pray for the best for me, okay?" naya said before ending the phone call.
'What I have to do, the rent goes up, too, but if I move there it's not clear. Finding another job is difficult too. Want to find another boarding place besides there, nothing cheaper'
Perhaps many humans experience as Naya experienced, life is full of choices and not like that life, always filled with various choices until then only one of those choices that ultimately truly become a destiny.
Naya had just hung up her phone, when it again showed the notifications of an incoming message. Naya then re-opened her phone screen and saw the incoming message was from Ares. Feeling bad if something happened to Yoni, he immediately read the message and it turned out to be even more unpleasant.
"say your friend, don't send me strange messages often. Tell me I'm busy, have to work and also babysit, especially if the message sent is a useless message"
Naya furrowed her brows and thought for a moment then she sent a reply to Ares' message,
"what do you mean, my friend?"
"your friend is the one with you"
'Oh, that's Nia. Why don't you just tell me the same guy?'
Naya was silent for a moment, she did not reply to Ares' message again and closed her phone.
'O Allah I am ashamed to meet Mr. Ares because of the many problems he knows about me, now coupled with the problem of Nia, the child makes me even more embarrassed. What did he say?'
Naya immediately approached Nia who seemed to be sitting relaxing in the kitchen Naya sat beside her and said,
"Come, who are you chatting with? is it the same Mr Ares?" lured Nia to speak honestly.
"ok you know what?" niia said, then she showed all the messages she sent to Ares.
Naya widened her eyes, all the messages sent by Nia none of which Ares replied to even though the man read them. According to Naya, the messages were too excessive like saying, was the food good? it was me who cooked it, then the contents of the message asked about some things that had nothing to do with the two of them according to the rise yes this is very laughable.
Then Naya said to Nia,
"Nia, you don't deserve to send such messages because Mr. ares is an adult boy who already has a teenager, not a big new kid who just graduated from school, he said, who has to talk about the lessons he likes. That doesn't matter."
Nia looks silent as if thinking justifies Naya's words and she hurriedly sends a message back to apologize for bothering her.
Then Naya said, "Well so dong. If a message like that bothers people, he's busy. Moreover, he must ngasuh child while working. Later if you disturb him he just doesn't like you."
"Nay, why does she like to take her child, she doesn't have a babysitter?" ask Nia
Then Naya replied, "her son can't be with just anyone because he has a phobia and he can only be with certain people."
" Thanks to you, how can you be close to the child if he has a phobia?" Nia curious.
Naya replied, "i don't know either," while sniffing her shoulders.
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When he changed, he never waited, let alone the sun, he never stopped to shine his light while spinning. That morning Naya had just finished cleaning herself up and she was about to get ready to go to the restaurant.
The day after the time to pay the rent, without feeling Naya had been in that place for a month. Last night Naya had calculated how much money she would need to pay for her life for a month, if she persisted with her current condition and her job as a waitress.
Naya calculated that with the amount of rent he had to pay for now, coupled with the savings he had, he could only last for two or three months. Next then he must be very frugal and may have to fast more to reduce his spending.
Today was payday time until he left to work for the restaurant with more passion.
But when he just got outside and just finished locking the door he saw his boarding mother running towards his boarding place and then some people chased after him crying, the boarding house mom crying, kneel down and plead for the immediate execution of the land to be postponed. Naya asked, though,
"What is this mom?!" and not only was Naya curious about what she saw, everyone who occupied the boarding house scattering out to see what was happening.
Some plainclothes people and also some policemen were at the place and explained that the land where their boarding was located was actually a land of dispute and currently the land of dispute was still in court. Who has the right to own the land, has not been omitted.
Hall like this is often the case among people. Where they do not have clarity or the correct ground letter. Although the land they occupied all this time, they have had for many years. Likewise the case with the boarding place that Naya occupies now. Who would have thought that it turned out that the land that had been owned for a long time and stood a building on it, was a land of dispute.
Then the police explained that everyone there had to leave the place because it was still in the trial period. As the rule, if the land is in a state of dispute, it must be left until waiting for the clarity of the court decision, until it is clear who is entitled to the land.
One unexpected thing, right? Naya thought for a moment, if she had to move, then where would she have to move? everyone in this place has the same thoughts. The police gave them less than a week to clean up their belongings. Then leave that place. If the decision of the court is final who is the owner, then the place can they re-occupy and pay the rent to the entitled person.
Naya took some of her savings. Some of the hundreds of thousands of dollars, he handed it to the boarding mother who was still crying in front of everyone. Naya grabbed Mom's hand and then took her in front of her room while saying,
"Mom, I transacted renting this place with Mom, so I gave this money to mom. I had enough for a month to stay here. I say thank you and maybe tomorrow I'll go."
The boarding mother stopped her crying, she accepted the money from Naya happily, she smiled with gratitude.
After saying thank you, Naya then went to work. Some people there complained about many things, because they had lived there long enough and became familiar with the place, let alone they had a lot of stuff that they had to clean up. Naya only brought her personal clothes and equipment. While the bed table and nightstand are already available in that place. So Naya did not need to bother thinking about and cleaning up all her things.
With a gontai move Naya finally arrived at the restaurant. Once he met Nia, he reported what he had experienced to Nia, because Nia had brought him to that place.
"really?" Nia was surprised, until she opened her mouth.
"right, if you can't believe just ask the people there?" answer Naya.
"Where do you want your husband to live?" ask Nia.
"don't know. Let my husband find another place later" replied Naya while cleaning the restaurant table.
"Where to stay in my house. There's an empty room in my sister's room that was married a month ago, how about it?"
"What about paying the rent?"
"Later, I told my mom I was, okay. You can pay the same price as your current boarding room rental price" said Nia sincerely.
"Well, that's good," Naya looks happy but she goes back to thinking, if the Nia family finally found out she was a widow, what would happen?
"Is there any other man in your house besides your father?"
"There, my brother and sister." said Nia.
"Oh. Maybe not. Thank you for your kindness. Maybe I'll go to my old hometown, or..." Naya hesitates.
"Or what? if you leave here, you don't work here anymore?"