The Lives of Five Hundred Thousand
About painting

After eating the boiled noodles I immediately cleaned everything. I don't want the hajj mom's kitchen to get dirty because of my old clothes. While I was washing the dirty bowl in the sink Raihan stood beside me watching me wash.

"Mfa...!"

I stopped the movement of my hand and looked towards Raihan's face."What's up?"

"Why Nuri's face? did you cry?"

I directly lowered. How could I forget about my face after crying. I didn't see the mirror myself first.

"Does it look like that?" ask me while looking down.

"Hm, if mba Nuri doesn't mind mba can tell me. Yeah, let's just say I'm a friend mba or if mba doesn't want to consider me a friend mba may think of me as a sister mba Nuri."

I looked up my face again and smiled amusedly at the request of Raihan who wanted to be considered by my sister.

"How can I consider you Rai's older brother, while my age is much older than yours. You're just big physically Rai but you're still a kid."

"Ishh, mba teased me, little little gini I can already make a child you know mba..!"

"Huh?"

"Eh, I mean even though I'm twenty-one years old but I can take care of the kids for example take care of Zain."

"hm, so!"

"After all, twenty-one years of marriage is not prohibited mba? I'd love to marry young he he."

I frowned upon hearing Raihan's wish which I thought was strange. At twenty-one years old, she wants to get married. Even though actually getting married is better than dating.

I washed my hands and wiped them and sat in the dining chair and Raihan followed and sat down in the dining chair

dealing with.

"Marriage is beautiful if it is in the shadow of a person who has never been married. Without them knowing that running a marriage is very difficult. You are Rai's man and very young. After marriage, the burden of your life will increase. The costs incurred are already in sure to be many times over. When you have married someone's daughter, the girl has become your responsibility completely.The problem is are you able to provide material and spiritual support? because marriage should not be made a try event, you know? If I could suggest a little better you just focus on your college. So successful people used to be.mbu Haji proud to have a son like you."

"So you don't agree that I'm married at this age?"

"Ha..Rai, I am not who you are, I have no right to say agree or not. If you feel you are capable of everything, please go ahead. I wonder who is the lover of a resplendent Raihan? is that woman in your painting room Rai?

"Huh, Oh.i it's actually her.she's.from the owner of my heart mba, she's the woman I've wanted to be from a long time ago but unfortunately she's already owned by another man."

"Oo, so the woman in the painting is married?"

Raihan nodded lethargicly.

"But why are you still displaying the painting? isn't it just gonna make you sadder because you keep remembering it when you see it?"

"Because I still love him and will always love him until whenever mba."

"Although he already has a family and has lived happily with his family?

Raihan looked seriously at me. I was being misbehaved at such a sight by Raihan.

"What do you think, the marriage is happy?"

"Yes, I don't know Rai, I don't know him and have never met him. Uh, I want to see Zain." I stood up from my seat but Raihan immediately held my hand. I was shocked and then looked at his face. Rai immediately let go of my hand.

"Ma.sorry mba, we're together in her room."

I nodded then walked towards Raihan's room to see Zain. Arriving in Zain's room looks still soundly sleeping on Raihan's soft mattress.

"The rain has not subsided, just fall asleep with Zain later if the rain has subsided I wake up mba."

I sat on the edge of the bed and I saw Raihan turn on his laptop at the study table. My gaze did not turn away from the painting that was plastered in front of me. I remembered Raihan saying that he loved the girl in this painting very much.

The rain had not yet subsided and the lightning was still burning. If only I hadn't brought Zain, I might have gone home through the rain. One thing that makes me feel uneasy is the night at people's homes. I lyrics Raihan is busy typing. Let it be that he may be doing his college work and I don't want to bother him.

While waiting for the rain to subside I fell asleep next to Zain and I don't know how long I slept in Raihan's bed until I woke up and found my body was wrapped in a thick blanket owned by Raihan. My gaze circled around the room looking for the whereabouts of the Room Owner but nothing. I got up from the bed and walked to the window and opened a little curtain outside, no rain.

I smiled seeing that the rain had subsided and when I turned around accidentally I hit the chest of Raihan's field. I almost fell if Raihan didn't hold me. Raihan hugged me tightly and I let Raihan hug me maybe Raihan was missing his two brothers I thought.

"Rai.I can't breathe!"

I deliberately pura pura asphyxiate when in fact I just want to resuscitate Raihan and Raihan immediately release his embrace.

"Owh, sorry mba, sorry. I got carried away with the mood he..he!"

"Are you missing your two brothers Rai?"

"Yes..it can be said like that!" raihan replied and scratched his nape.

"Wheels...!"

"Yes mba...!"

"I want to go home now, it's not raining outside anymore."

Raihan was heard exhaling heavily upon hearing my request.

"Don't you just sleep here? it's two o'clock!"

"Hah, seriously you Rai. How fast!"

"Why mba?"

"I'm just afraid my husband is waiting at home."

"His husband? your husband is home?"

I nodded small.

"Owh, Zain's father must have been waiting for Zain from earlier," Raihan said in a slow but still audible tone.

"Not really. Whether or not there is Zain will never be for my husband."

"What..what do you mean?"

I immediately shut my mouth and talked about my husband's attitude towards Zain.

"Eh, I mean.that Zain must have been waiting with his papa at home. Yaudah then I want to go home now, thank you Rai for taking care of Zain from this afternoon until now."

Raihan did not respond to my words he instead walked towards the wardrobe and took something out of his closet.

"Wear this jacket mba, it's cold outside." Raihan thrust a jacket at me and I grabbed it.

"Thank you Rai...!"

"Let me drive you home and let me carry Zain home."

"Did I not trouble you Rai?"

"Do you think I would let you go home in this dark state? Yes, let me carry Zain."

Raihan held Zain and put his big jacket on Zain's body so that my son would not feel cold outside. Raihan looks very deft to treat my son ranging from how to carry to pair a jacket to Zain's body.

Raihan and I walked down the dark, slippery streets and the cold after the rain. The distance to my house with Raihan's house is fifteen minutes is quite far if you walk. Because the road is slippery and dark I almost fell if not held by Raihan.

"Be careful..!"without further excuse Raihan clasped my hand tightly. I let it go because I was still in shock because I almost fell down.