The House 1937's
19. Then, That's Who??
Bibi brought two glasses of warm tea and two small plates containing a variety of traditional wet cakes for her to take to the living room. Today my Tante, Alin is sitting in the living room and he is not alone there, there was a young man who might be her age was chatting with her and they both turned to the aunt who politely told her presence and put the warm tea cup and the cake plate politely and then beg to go back to grandma's shop again. My aunt now resumed her chatter with the young man while occasionally interspersed with the sound of a small laugh. That young man is Herman, my aunt's boyfriend. They have known each other and been close for a year and a half. Herman is a plastic shop owner and also cake ingredients in the market whose store location is opposite to papa's store. At that time, Aunty who was shopping for vegetables at the Market accidentally visited papa in his shop and papa left to my aunt one tie of oil stove to take back home and will be given to grandma. That's when Herman saw and noticed my aunt's presence in the papa store and after my aunt left the papa store, Herman immediately approached the father and asked about my aunt.
"Jun...., who was that shopping at your store?, just like you?", Herman who was not good at small talk when opening a conversation finally decided to ask him directly about Auntie. Maybe because they are both rigid and not good at small talk, they are quite familiar and often chat if the state of their store is empty of buyers.
"What was it?, it was me Man, you don't know about the sudden shopping just come here. I wick nitipin to him make Enah at home.", replied my papa sekhen.
"So that was ade lu?, you have ade sakep ga say...", Herman patted papa's shoulder a little hard and papa laughed at the words of his professional friend. He did not expect that Herman who looked stiff and quiet like himself, immediately told him about himself who seemed interested in my aunt.
"Why do you name him?, don't tell me you want it to be the same ade me.?", asked papa in doubt.
"Kalo iye emang why?", Herman a little challenging papa who he knew papa just joking at him.
"How can I tell you?", asked papa half-literate his best friend.
"Gue wants ama ade lu, not ama lu.", replied Herman who pretended to be upset and finally they laughed together.
"Ko, why did Koko go into aunt's room?", my aunt was confused to see a pale-looking Herman.
"So Koko saw you enter Lin's run", he asked in a quivering and half-in disbelief.
"Alin from earlier was in the front, still in the living room. Koko really long so Alin followed here...",
Herman paled more and more to hear the testimony of Aunt Alin. If from earlier Aunt was waiting for him in the front living room, then who had entered this room????.
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