
Arum just finished after working on everything. Clean the house, sweep and mop. Although several times Maura or Sonny like deliberately pacing while dropping food crumbs or maybe cigarette butts ash on the floor that is on the mop. Next he had to iron a pile of clothes belonging to three people in this house until it was finished at three in the morning.
Steps staggered. His body is really tired. The girl threw herself on the bed without a bed. Sleeping in a curled position, feeling the pain that is getting worse.
Whatever he did was meaningless, willing to give up or try to fight back. Everything was the same, he would still lose to them. I want to complain, but to whom?
The crystal flowed when his tired eyes closed. At least he had to sleep even if only two hours, before returning to his usual activities.
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Mentari has started to blister, Arum is now standing in front of the bus stop to go to the department store. Many times he evaporated. Both of his eyes still felt heavy.
"Arum!" Call someone, the girl looked over. A moment of pain when he found the man by his side who he knew.
"Rayyan?"
The casual looking man smiled. "Where to. College, huh?"
"No, I'm just going to gang 22. To Daddy's department store," grinned.
"To the store? You're not in college?"
Arum only smiled faintly, as the red angkot stopped in front. "I go first, yeah..."
"Eh, Rum!" The man did not speak because Arum had gone up into his trunk. His eyes continued to look at the car that was starting to move away. "He still gave me some distance." he muttered then before the bus he was waiting for arrived, the man named Rayyan rushed in line to board.
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Inside the angkot, Arum leaned his head towards the back looking with a blank look.
Where you going? College, huh? (Rayyan said that.)
The girl sighed. Had not met his schoolmate for a long time, making him pangling because of his increasingly cool appearance. The man who sometimes gives her drink or bread every day, even without speaking, knows that he cares for her. Rayyan also once expressed her feelings but Arum continued to try to avoid. For him there would be no time for him to fall in love while his life was like this.
Listen Rayyan studied at the University of Indonesia. His appearance is getting interesting. It was already impossible for him to still have feelings with a shabby woman like me.
For a moment the angkot on his ride stopped because of the red light in front.
Along with that, a luxury sports car also stopped right behind him. A man who was making his hand as a head support sighed.
His gaze was still empty, looking ahead at a glance and then sliding to the side. And then, before going back to the front.
Caught Arumi's sad face in angkot. The man widened his eyes, before rubbing in disbelief.
"Aliee.." he muttered. He thought the girl in the car was Alicia. Again Arga rubbed his eyes to make sure what he saw was real not a hallucination. After careful confirmation he was sure that the girl was Alicia. "Oh my God, he's really my lover..." The crystal that had been held back from earlier suddenly fell.
The light turned green. The car in front drove, while Arga still looked at the girl to forget his own car was still blocking the vehicle behind.
Tin... Tin... Tin...
The sound of the horn behind made him wake up. Arga stepped on the accelerator. Trying to chase the red carrot earlier. Although it was blocked by several cars in front. Arga kept trying to find him.
His head turned left and right, before overtaking the car in front. Unfortunately, Arumi's angkot had stopped in front of the alley when Arga was overtaking a large truck.
"Damn it, Alicia in which car?" Trying to catch up one by one, until he got to the last angkot he met. Arga pulled the car over, upset. "Where are you, baby? I'm looking for you."
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Arum has opened his shop. First he must be be beberes first. Sweeping and mopping while waiting for customers. For a moment he looked at the shelves around him.
Food is not as complete as before. Even more and more shelves are emptied. The other store was closed, only one store was left.
"I fucked Mom and Dad. The two of them must have worked hard to build this. But the more here everything is running out." Arum was surprised, even though every day income is a lot but why the contents of the store are rarely added. Even if added, not much just part of it.
Klaa....
The door opened, Arum lowered his head to let his first customer this morning enter. He rushed to fix his cleaning equipment before returning to the cashier's desk.
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At 20:55
Arum closed his shop, his body getting tired. However, he must not complain because he must immediately go home before being invited again like last night.
The money from the store was taken by Mama Linda this afternoon. And now there are only about three hundred thousand left, the last sale. The store is getting quieter here, losing to famous department stores that are increasingly mushrooming in every alley, plus incomplete merchandise. Yes, obviously people would prefer a complete and convenient place to shop.
Arum moved after locking the rolling door. Flip her body, "jeez!" The girl was immediately shocked when she saw a neat-looking man, complete with a suit attached to her body.
"Miss can we talk?"
"Sa–my?" He recalled, one week ago there were two debt collectors from the online loan party who used his stepbrother who deliberately used his name as collateral.
"Let's come with me, Miss."
Arum stepped back. "Master, I swear never to take out any loan online!"
"Online lending?" The glasses guy looked confused.
"Yes, only my name is used, I swear." Arum walked back slowly.
I have to run away. Looks like he's gonna kidnap me 'cause I can't pay his bills.
Just as he turned his body, two people dressed the same, complete with suits were already blocking him. Arum was getting panicked, plus the alley road seemed quiet.
The girl clasped her hands in front of her chest. "Master, please. I swear, even though the loan was using my NIK ID card, but it wasn't me..."
The two men did not listen but held both hands.
"Kyaaa. What are you doing, let me go. Please don't take me..."
"Come with us. And Miss can understand the situation later..."
The woman shook her head, "i am innocent, I never owe you, sir. I swear it."
They're still taking Arumi. Put the body that is still struggling to release it into a luxury car in black.