The Stairway To Love
07.

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At two o'clock in the afternoon when Bass arrived at the village that was very beautiful, beautiful, cool, but would be the most boring place for Bass.

Bass tried to stare as far as he could see when he got out of the car. He could see the expanse of mountains that really looked close, some of the plank houses, and the rice fields that were scattered everywhere. The small road was not yet made of asphalt, only the ground was spiked with small stones. While some goats and buffalo are on a wide expanse of grass and enjoy green grass.

The fresh air, made the man take a deep breath. The man closed the car door firmly and stared strangely at the few people who were glancing at him. Bass huffed, thinking that those people had never seen a human. Though they themselves were human, Bass chuckled softly.

Bagas also came down, then stepped closer to a waist-high wooden fence. The courtyard of the house is quite spacious and overgrown with many trees, adding to the cool effect. The semi-permanent house stands alone with a small street on the left-right that separates the house from other buildings.

That house is where Aunt Helen lived. Around the house were many houses that were almost the same shape. Before entering the house, he had to climb three small steps and arrive at a very comfortable terrace decorated with hanging pots containing various kinds of colorful flowers.

Bass followed in his father's footsteps, opening the small gate. They walked through a very clean and cool courtyard, then arrived at the terrace of the beige-painted house. Bagas knocked on the door of the house several times until the sound of people saying from inside.

Moments later, Helen's aunt looked at the two with a smile. Bagas welcomed the smile, and pointed at Bass, hinting for the man to greet the woman.

"You are at last!" said aunt Helen while welcoming Bass's hand that was about to crucify.

"The village is getting more and more Helen!" bagas said in pleasantries.

"Yes Bagas! You must have been shocked because you haven't been here in a long time!"

"Disease auntie, where there's time!" Bass just slipped in.

Suddenly Bagas glanced at his son who almost exceeded his height. Bass can't hold back a little bit of his mess. Bagas almost expressed his frustration, but he realized that he was in an unusual place. Bagas did not want to embarrass his family.

Helen realizes the awkwardness that happened between the father and the child. He understood very well how his sister was educating a child, had to be hard. Soon Helen switched the conversation so that conditions improved.

"Let's go in then Bagas!" bring him.

"No need for Helen! I have to leave because there is business. And you Bass, pick up your stuff! I'm saying hello to Helen!" said.

Helen and Bass were both shocked. Bagas did not stop by just to sit down and chose to continue his journey after three hours of non-stop driving. Or maybe it's because Bagas doesn't have more time for Bass?

"Why don't you wait?" bass asked peppered in a disappointed and disbelieving tone. He can't adjust directly without his parents here.

"Papa has business!" answer Bagas while walking back to the front of the house.

Bass could only exhale resignedly, then looked at Helen blankly. "Dad is a aunt!"

Helen smiled trying to comfort her niece, "Tante made you tea! Now you bring your stuff here first!"

Bass nodded then walked towards his father. Bagas got to his car and immediately opened the luggage door. There was one big black suitcase for clothes and a school bag containing Bass books. There was also one large cardboard box containing souvenirs for Helen. Bass lowers all and puts it on the ground, then leads to Bagas.

"Don't be ashamed! Show me you're papa's son!" said firmly.

Bass didn't say anything, even when his father left and left him alone. The car was speeding and lost when it reached the end road that united the village with the highway.

Honestly, Bass is very upset, but what can I do. He floated his gaze to Helen's aunt's house, trying to inspire what his father was thinking to believe that Bass would change by living in the village. For a moment he did not flinch, but he swiftly dragged his suitcase and carried some other luggage.

Helen just got out of the house, trying to figure out where Bagas was. But he did not find the man's car, and began to understand that Bagas was gone.

"Have your father left?" ask Helen.

"Udah aunt!"

Helen glanced in front of the gate and saw Bass's bag there, "Let auntie take your bag! You just wait on the terrace while sitting waiting for your room aunt clean. Auntie has Cleo make tea!"

Bass nodded as he continued his steps. Arriving on the terrace, Bass sat on a wooden chair arranged with another chair and facing a small round table. The man leaned back and took off the handle of the trunk stalk and placed the plastic on the table.

So did Helen put Bass's bag on the other seat and went in to provide a room for Bass. While the man could only sit down resigned because his father's departure was so fast that he had to adapt himself.

Bass did not know that it was one of his father's ways to educate Bass or because it was Bagas who was too vile.

Actually there is almost no need to adapt, because Bass already knows Helen, and Bass feels that he does not need to leave the house to get a new environment. That's principle. In the room all the time while playing gadgets, sleeping, out of the room if necessary, and so on until his sentence ends.

"It's drinking!" suddenly a girl's voice came from beside him, making the man almost jump in shock.

"Cleo?" squeak Bass.

Cleo smiled slightly then put the glass on the table. He chuckled as he looked at Bass' exaggerated reaction in shock. He knows Bass well. His cousin who is very silent in front of his family, he means that according to Cleo's view because Bass does like to change for the good when it is in front of a large family.

In Bass's eyes, it now looked a very innocent girl, like a village girl. Generally wear a skirt and charming straight hair. Bass could not believe that the one before him was Cleo. They did not meet for two years and the change in the girl was drastic. That girl was never that late.

"Obviously usually look at it!" Cleo sat down while holding the tray she used to carry Bass glasses.

"Lo really Cleo?" ask Bass because he still doesn't believe.

"That's it!" decak Cleo's. "Oh, I know! You must be thinking why I can turn into a beautiful gini right?"

"That's it! When your Junior High still lives with your parents, you're a dirty, rich idiot again!" bass replied casually.

"Sok ngatain idiot, you're the only one who doesn't know that I was popular in my Junior High School long ago!"

"That's it!" elak Bass's. "Yes, you know."

Cleo chuckled, "Once again you tease me about to turn back to tea!"

"I don't need it either."

The girl clucked in annoyance and frowned at Bass' blunt behavior. "Lo ain't changed, like a mouthful!"

Bass nodded then turned to his cousin, "That's why I moved to the village tau, rich lo!"

Bass shakes his head unexpectedly, "Why the descendants of your grandfather if it makes a severe punishment! Kaya educated the military. What village anyway? What can I try?"

"Lo dateng-dateng directly confided! What you think is not why the grandfather's son was educated rich military, but why all his grandchildren are not real! Anyway yes, a lot of you can enjoy this village as much as possible, and that so your morning alarm is no longer the sound of a cell phone, but the sound of aunty Helen who makes your ears red!"

"Does this carry the name of aunty?" aunt Helen exclaimed from the doorway with a laugh that made her two nephews laugh.

"This is aunty, Bass new nyampe ehh the Cleo directly gotipin people!" sindir Bass blatantly.

"Have a son! Bass just came!"

"Emang yes from the first its nature is still the same, but kirain had already changed!" continue the man.

Helen chuckled at the behavior of her two nephews who looked very familiar. Yes, maybe because they also know each other, so it is not foreign that the two of them can be that close.

"Udah come! Auntie is ready to clean your room! Let's go help Cleo get Bass bags!" helen's orders were strong.

They moved then began to take care of Bass. Actually Bastian still can not forget his frustration to Bagas, but that is the purpose he is here. To forget that Bagas very hard set all the ins and outs of Sebastian's life.

"Nyesel made the Bass tea, instead of drinking the same flies in front!"

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Anggi sat in front of his study desk, while occasionally glancing at the clock that showed at three in the afternoon. He had to immediately tidy up his belongings to be taken to the oma house. With a little annoyance he turned towards the pile of books he had to carry, as well as his so many beloved items.

She had to part with her parents and living with oma was the best option. Honestly, if given the opportunity to reunite his father and mother, Anggi will be the most eager person to obey it.

But it seems futile that he did such a stupid thing. But things will not go back to being the way they used to be. Anggi will still move to the village and take care of Oma, the school there, and live an ordinary life with her grandmother.

Instantly Anggi's mind collapsed when the sound of a phone call rang from the phone located on his desk. His hand casually floated up grabbing the thing and glanced at the name of the caller. Gladys.

Quickly Anggi shifted the green button then pointed the hp to his left ear. "Yes Glad?"

"Pig! Lo where? Yuk street!" glad said from across.

Anggi thought for a moment, he had to collect his belongings because three more days the girl was going to the village. "Lo come to my house, help me finish my stuff!"

"Stuff? The move was still a long time!" hiss Glad in a tone of disbelief.

"Judah if you don't want to come!"

"Ehh! Yes, I came!" glad said as he hung up the phone.

Anggi threw his body into his soft bed, then took a deep breath because he would not meet the ceiling of his room decorated with stars.

Even so, the Oma house is very comfortable for Anggi as a shelter from the word broken home. Oma who always understands about Anggi's heart and always cooks the girl's favorite cake. And now Oma's affection must also be reciprocated by Anggi, rather than her being contested to live with her father or mother.

The girl closed her eyes for a moment, then slowly began to fall asleep due to the atmosphere. His sleep was accompanied by the wind coming from a balcony that was wide open and his curtains were hit by the cool air. Put the girl down.

Her dreams are quite interesting when she sees her father and mother getting along. In the dream, they were eating together in a restaurant. All three wore very beautiful white clothes, matching.

They sat at a round table and ordered a lot of food. While waiting for the order, they laughed merrily like a completely complete house.

Anggi laughed no less happily than his parents, but the girl's laughter suddenly stopped when a servant came to the table carrying their order.

The man was no stranger in the eyes of Anggi. Suddenly Anggi was shocked to learn that the servant was Bass. The man smiled and laughed at Anggi's face.

Anggi gasped and woke up from his sleep.

He tried to remember what dreams made him wake up when his sleep was very good.

"Sebastian? A bass? Why did he get into my dream?" pekik Anggi while rubbing his eyes.

The girl glanced at the clock, and realized that she had already spent half an hour sleeping in her bed. He's pissed off. Her beautiful dreams are plagued by men who have nothing to do with Anggi.

Tok..

Anggi glanced at the door of his room. The sound of the door being knocked from outside the room made him remember that he invited Glad to come to his house earlier. The girl quickly moved and opened the door. Glad with his bright face slipped quickly into Anggi's room and did not know he jumped into the girl's bed.

Anggi closed the door, "Kaya kampung aja lo!"

Glad realized Anggi's taunt, "Gue gini because I'm not sure I'll be able to jump again in your bed! Soon you'll move on, keep leaving me alone."

Anggi bergeming himself, he was sure that the words Gladys just now is a code of passage because Anggi will soon leave the city. "It's all because of my parents! They have no feelings for my defense!"

"Pig!" decak Glad while sitting close to his best friend. "Lo can't say that. Whatever you do with your parents, there must be no intention to make you sad."

"When they think of me, it's impossible to separate Glad!"

Gladys shook his head looking at the extremely stubborn Anggi so. Sometimes Anggi realize that his parents love him, sometimes he also thinks that his parents do not think of him. Although Glad had reminded her how many times, the girl could not be completely sure.

"This is it! I want what I said yes! Inget the words of this beautiful friend of yours!" said Glad while holding both hands Anggi and looking at him very deeply. "Your parents are very fond of you, so you are not discarded at birth.. Now you understand, right?"

"So why did they split?" ask Anggi with teary eyes.

"They separated it because there was a problem between the two of their love, not the matter of their love for you! Ilhamin deeply! I want you to take my words, and don't forget!" reply Gladys while smiling.

Anggi began to understand, now there was a smile plastered on his face. He rubbed the tears that had fallen onto his cheeks, and looked at Glad full of gratitude.

"Gini dong my best friend, Anggi! Beautiful smile!!" Gladys chuckled and hugged his best friend. "

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