The End of Hope
81 Eps. So, He Is

Naya and Dinda looked at each other, as they both heard a noise on the ground floor. The two of them decided, to see what was happening, from their bedroom door. As they looked down, there were some people talking near the dining table.

Dinda turned to Naya and patted her shoulder softly.

"Oh that's my brother, wait a minute here, huh?" Dinda said as she left Naya, stepping over to her family.

Deg. Naya's heart was pounding faster. Looked in disbelief at what was caught in his eyes.

He was glued to the door for a moment, and looked very surprised by what he saw, with a slow step he returned to the bed and sat by his side. His body feels weak. He let out a few deep breaths and patted his chest slowly, trying to calm his heartbeat.

'Oh Allah..so what Dinda meant, her brother is Mr. Ares...? So it's true that Aunt Rasti was the woman I met at Bu Nha's restaurant back then...? And all this time they were family? So, Dinda's sister who's trying to be betrothed is she? oh Allah...:

Naya calmed her mind and heart by closing her eyes, which were now filled with crystal crystals flowing on her cheeks, she shook her head while saying, "no, this is impossible."

Naya truly acknowledges the helplessness of His Omnipotence, which reveals a reality that he must know today. As a dha'if man like himself, it is impossible to question the Sovereign of His will. Everything he faced was now out of his control. What else can he do besides just living it. Next, leave it to Him again.

Resurrection is one of the answers to God's many destinies. Because, how he had been trying to avoid, but once again the hand of fate made them reunited. Even in this way, a way he never expected.

When he first met Dinda's mother, after all this time, Naya once thought the woman was similar to the woman Ares introduced as her mother, maybe the similarity of faces was just a coincidence, and it turned out her guess was right. Naya, a person who sometimes has trouble remembering people's names, until she forgets the name of Dinda's mother.

Surprisingly, during his stay at the house, Naya was not interested in seeing some photos on display. In some of their family photos, Ares looks different, and is still with his wife, Raya is small and Yoni is still a baby. Of course Naya didn't really recognize him.

The soldier's downstairs.

"Ares! Is it good to lie about what?" said Rasti He still hugs Raya, while Yoni is now sitting near his grandfather, tasting some right. Grandfather served his grandson painstakingly.

"Papa fierce!" said Raya again, wiping away the tears.

Ares sat down at the dining table while glancing at Raya a glance, then said, "Papa is ashamed of you like that. Don't repeat it, trouble others. Who is aunt Naya? He's not who we are!"

"May? Who's Naya, you mean brother?!" said Dinda who suddenly appeared from the direction of the stairs. He overheard their conversation accidentally.

"Yes. Try stories. Ares!" said Rasti.

"Mama.." said Ares, "Raya had been staying at a roma, but she said she was staying at her friend's house to work with the group."

"I'm not lying, papa. Aunt Naya is my friend." said Raya. Now he sits on the couch. He was tired of his father always blaming him.

"Why don't you tell me you're being honest about staying at Aunt Naya's house?" Ares said.

"Fear Papa is angry" said Raya from the direction of the sofa.

"So. Just if you know you want to go there, papa wants to take you to his house!" tukas Ares while standing and approaching Raya.

"Good..Now Grandma understands what you mean. Well, Raya do not repeat the conversation like this. And you should know from now on that honestly, whatever the risk, it's still better. Does Raya understand?"

"Yes, grandma." replied Raya lazily. He was busy with his cell phone.

"Here," Ares said as he took Raya's phone by force. "From now on, your phone is papa sita, for a month. That's punishment!"

"Father!!" raya said, she came back crying.

The teenage girl looked at Ares with annoyance, she stomped her feet on the floor, then ran to the second floor where she used to sleep with Dinda. He wanted to shed his frustration by crying there.

"Ares. Now let Raya calm down. Don't be too hard on a kid his age. According to Mama, it's a lie that can still be forgiven."

"Later custom, ma. I don't like him to bother others. That's all." said Ares calmly.

"Whose people? what's her name you said earlier?" ask Rasti.

"Naya, my mom has also met him, but it's been a long time" said Ares.

"May? Oh, it might just happen to be the same name." murmured Rasti lirih.

'What do they mean, the same Naya?' Dinda.

"Naya, who is that, brother? Brother's friend?" said Dinda while glancing towards her room on the second floor, she was still curious, because she had not received an answer.

Ares did not reply, he just nodded, looking and checking the contents of the Kingdom's phone, which was in his hand. He was still sitting on the sofa.

Seeing Ares's indifferent behavior, Dinda sighed, then decided to return to her room. Before he went up the stairs, he glanced at Yoni who was eating with his grandfather, Resti again sat beside Yoni and fed him.

Inside the canal of Dinda.

Raya walked in hasty steps, while wiping away her tears. Meanwhile, Naya was wiping away her tears, she had managed to calm down a little and relieve her heartbeat. As soon as Raya entered the room where the door had opened, her eyes fell on Naya who was also looking at her.

"Tante Naya? Uma!" pekik Raya while scattering herself into Naya's embrace.

"Your king is here?" Suddenly, the dried tears were erased, and spilling over again filled his cheeks. He also returned the embrace of Raya.

The two grey hooded women hugged each other and cried. After a while, Naya relaxed her embrace, and both of her hands held the head of Raya, saying, saying,

"You why cry? You miss Auntie? Sorry yeah..Aunty rarely sends messages to you, because aunt is busy."

Hearing Naya's words, Raya shook her head, then said,

"I'm not what aunt. Aunt herself why cry?"

"Tante cry it, miss you. That person if you haven't seen someone they love for a long time, likes namgis when you meet," said Naya, while poking Raya's nose slowly.

After that, they both laughed. After their laughter subsided, Raya furrowed her brows and asked,

"Tanta's kok, uh. Uma, can it be here? Do you know Aunt Dinda? When did you know him, it was a long time ago? But how come I've never seen Uma with Aunt Dinda?"

Hearing my question Naya nodded, and took Raya's hand, to sit side by side on the bed. "A habit yes, if the nanya can't be one-on-one right, uma confused answer. He, Uma has long known aunt Dinda, tonight want to sleep here, we sleep together later."

"Haha. Yes, let's just bob it now, umma hugged Raya.." said Raya whining spoiled like a child.

Without them noticing there was a pair of eyes that looked at their familiarity from behind the door. Dinda repeatedly sniffed her shoulders and raised her eyebrows, looking at the Interaction that took place between Raya and Naya.

'So what Naya meant by them was my wife Naya?'

He showed a sullen face showing cruel action. Naya and Raya immediately turned their heads and smiled at Dinda's behavior. Naya moved to sit down and said,

"Don't be angry with my husband. Let's sleep together here now, assume Raya is our son. Ok?"

Raya laughed at the words of the two of them, she thought that the two tantamount people were very funny. She even called Naya to her husband.

Dinda followed to the bed, until the three of them sat close together. Dinda begins to discuss what really happened between Raya and Naya, why they got so close that Raya lied to her Papa.

Naya tells the beginning of the story of their meeting, while in the Rain City. The conversation between the three of them was simple about their meeting. However, Naya does not tell some parts of the story that she does not need to be told, which is about meeting with Ares whenever she gets sad.

After the three of them chatted with each other for quite a while, Naya only realized about Yoni, she then stood up while asking, Naya,

"Oh yeah, where's Yoni, he's here too right?"

Dinda stood up and then closed the door to her room, saying, "don't think Yoni, the boy can't be close to a new person. I'm the only one who's tantenya alone, can't get near him."

Dinda told me what happened to Yoni and his illness He had a bad experience, when he wanted to pinch or hold the little boy every time, but he was always helpless. He was very anxious and wanted to kiss her, but Yoni could not touch her! Dinda told me that even though Yoni was sleeping, when he tried to kiss her, Yoni would wake up and react to tantrums as usual.

"Tante Dinda can't believe it, Uma told you that, right? Yoni wouldn't have been together with Umma," said Raya as she spread herself.

"Try calling him here, if aunt wants to know" said Raya again.

Hearing Raya's words, Dinda tilted her head, thinking, she re-digested, the story Naya and Raya had told since they met in the city, where Ares used to work. Then he nodded.

Dinda stepped to the door and said, "Okay if so, I'll call Yoni now huh?"

Naya hurriedly held Dinda's hand, looking at her, saying, "please don't tell me that I'm here right now. Tell Yoni you have a surprise here!"

"Ck, why is it?"

"Just don't tell me I'm here now..."

Dinda thinks that Naya does not want to meet her papa, so she asks to keep her whereabouts a secret.

"You don't want my brother to know that you're here?" said Dinda smiling cunningly her eyes flickered.

'What, has something happened between them?'

Naya did not think badly, so she simply nodded and sat back down with a smile. While Dinda opened the door, she did not come down, and she shouted to Yoni from there.

He placed both hands near his mouth while shouting, "Yoyo...! you know Aunt Naya, don't you? if you want to meet Aunt Naya, you're here!"

Dinda's shout shocked both parents, Rasti also shouted, too,

"Minda! Why are you yelling, impolite child!"

At that time Rasti and her husband were sitting on the sofa, with Ares and Yoni talking and playing. The little boy can only be close to his father and his grandmother. Her grandfather can be close to her, as long as it does not touch her directly, like Raya and also Dinda, They can interact with Yoni as long as it does not touch her directly.

"Ma. Who said Dinda. The naya? I didn't hear wrong, did I?" ares asked Rasti, standing up and holding Yoni's hand.

"Oh that," said Rasti while leaning her body, propped up by the sofa. "Yes.ada Naya, she met Dinda when she was a child, they have not seen each other for a long time. He's gonna catch up tonight. Yes, take Yoni there." said Rasti again

Hearing his mother's words, Ares furrowed his brows and held Yoni's hand up the stairs, leading him to Dinda's room. From the second floor, Dinda looked at the two of them with a funny smile. During the walk, Yoni continued to chatter in the typical style of a small child, until he reached the door of Dinda's room.

Dinda opened the room door wide so that what was inside could be seen clearly from the outside.

Yoni entered, while standing at the door of the room he saw was his elder brother Kingdom, then a soft voice sounded that averted his eyes.

"Yoyo.." call Naya. And, Yoni was like surprised to see who called him. At that moment he was standing by the door.

"Goddessa..." Yoni let out his cry while scattering himself in Naya's embrace.

Naya stretched out her arms and embraced back warmly, affectionately. After all, Naya is the first and only foreigner who doesn't make her fhobi relapse. Naya's tears came crying, because the boy was also crying, and kept hugging him, until Yoni let go of his own embrace.

All those who were there staring in wonder, usually people who loved each other and longed for a long time, would react like this. Does that mean that Yoni has missed naya all this time? Though their closeness meeting was, not during the time when they were separated by fate.

Naya relaxed her embrace as Yoni's cry had already subsided. He carried Yoni in his lap sitting at the bedside. He wiped away the tears on Yoni's cheek with his palm.

"How are you, good boy? Is it school now?" asked Naya while tidying up her disheveled hair because it was not tied up. Yoni's hair was rather short as it had just been cut. He looks more adorable.

"He's not in school. You spoiled child!" said Raya who sat beside him. Yoni immediately turned to Raya and stuck his hand up preparing to hit her.

"Hit, here hit. You are sick yourself!" said Raya while sticking out her tongue.

"Good boy, our hands are not made to hit, yes." said Naya while holding the tiny hand, soft.

"Uma, want to sleep here, you sleep as fierce as you are!" word Raya.

"Raya.." reply Naya gently.

"Wouldn't! Don't want! Yoyo wants to sleep with aunty.!" yoni said as he hugged Naya tightly.

Yoni wrapped his tiny hand around Naya's neck, as if unwilling to be released from her embrace. Naya assented Yoni's wish while smirking the whole innocent face with an anxious expression. Put the little body to sleep without taking off her arms, and lie down next to her. Then the three of them were like a small family who really liked to chatter around.

While outside, by the side of the room door, Dinda witnessed everything that happened between her niece and her best friend. He who initially could not believe, now stared in amazement.

And also, there was a man standing there, looking at something, which he had not expected before. He did not realize that he had shed tears, but he immediately removed them. The tears may be triggered by a warm, moved feeling that comes on suddenly. His heart and mind seemed to be carried away by a conscious state, that fate had sucked him into a vortex that would be more difficult for him to release

Rasti leaned back by holding onto her chest which suddenly thumped even tighter. He smiled with satisfaction, his eyes showing relief, unraveling the tangled threads in his confused brain looking for a mate for his son.

"Ares. Was Naya the one who made Raya lie, and stayed at this woman's house?" ask Rasti.

Ares nodded.

"What is this woman who used to meet my mother?"

Ares nodded.

"Do you like it?"