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Have you been busy lately?" Anandita started the conversation after a moment of silence in silence.
The capital's traffic was busy by noon and everyone seemed to be planning to spend their weekends outdoors.
"Lumayan." Regan answered.
"I heard his mother was sick?" The girl kept asking.
"Know where?" Regan who was driving the car laughed a little.
"Had it been said that at Opa's house again at the gathering."
"Hm …."
"He's hurt bad?" Anandita asked again.
"Some bad."
"What direction?"
"Enough, to the point of having chemotherapy every day at the NMC."
"Chemotherapy?"
"Yes." Yeah." Regan nodded slowly.
"Because of cancer?"
The man nodded again.
Anandita was silent for a while to find another topic, because it seemed like this man was not too interested in conversing.
"Om if you can't pick me up I'm okay. I can be escorted Papa and get the driver back home. It could be …."
"No, Ann. I can." The man without turning his eyes away from the traffic in front of him.
"Pity, it will even bother because …."
"I said I could. Why are you so insistent? If I can't, I won't come to pick you up, will I?" Regan stopped her vehicle when the traffic light turned red, then she turned to Anandita.
"No, I'm just scared of Nerepotin Om." The girl answered.
"No, I'm used to this, so yeah .. no problem."
"Are you used to being repotined? So if you don't bother to feel like something is lacking?" anandita said as she looked at the man.
Regan fell silent and looked back at him, then they both laughed.
"It's like something's missing. Hahaha," he said, then he drove back like everyone else when the lights in front turned green.
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"Well call me when you're done, will you? I'll just be in the hospital after this." Regan approaches him after taking down the last box containing food. Then Anandita nodded her head while preparing her needs for the teaching of the day.
"It's okay if I don't wait? Like my chemotherapy is over I'll be here soon." said the man again.
"No need to rush. If the camp is not finished, do not come here first, especially until his mother left, right? Beresin was. About me easy, can ask to pick up the same driver Oma." Anandita threw out an answer so Regan was silent looking at her.
"What Om? I usually don't see it!" The girl laughed and at the same time she approached while scooping on Regan's visibly upset face.
"You talk like that as if you don't need me" said the man, who grabbed a hand with Anandita's clasped fingers and gently crept it down.
"It's not. But would pity if for example Om had to go back and forth from the NMC to here vinegar because it wants to pick me up. Another hug waiting for you, right?"
"Yes, but ….."
"No need to think too much about me for now, it's not the time yet." The girl continued.
"CK!" Which then made Regan cluck because again the right made him feel upset.
"Uda, no. There quickly go, eventually here even forget again later. Haha." Then Anandita pushed Regan out of the building even though the man refused.
He waved to the man who finally decided to leave even with a heavy heart.
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"Daddy?" Nania patted Daryl's cheek which was comfortably resting her head on her lap, and the man almost closed his eyes as he was so comfortable.
They are in the garden beside the house whose atmosphere is quite shady by trees and other plants that are allowed to grow high. With the grass as the base so that both of them feel quite comfortable being there.
"Daddy, it's noon. Why don't we go?" said the woman who lowered her face to see her husband.
"In a moment, Malyshka." Daryl muttered as he clasped his hand which was still patting his face.
"From now on but don't go away."
"Inter, Malyshka. I still feel sleepy." And Daryl blinked his eyes to get rid of his drowsiness.
"You're kayaking a baby, hahaha." Nania laughed while then peeking at the man's forehead.
"Yes, I am your baby!" And Daryl embraced the woman's body so she could spice it up for a while.
"Dating is just, there are kids too." However, Rania's arrival interrupts the interaction, leading Daryl to release Nania.
"Well, why the hell are you always bothering? What is this narrow house? Come here again, come here again." Daryl protests to his sister-in-law, though Nania immediately slaps her shoulder to stop him.
"Oh, this place is the most comfortable. Shady and cool without AC." And Rania as usual, did not want to lose to the words of her sister-in-law.
"Let's go, ye .. Oma's house this opinion. Can't it, right?"
"Yes, you can't have your own house, so why …." Daryl hung his words as Nania again patted him on the shoulder to remind.
"Our rights are the same, you know. Let's not stay here too but it's still his son mama same papi. Not you." Rania gave a little laugh that made Daryl laugh.
"Mommy, Mommy! Look, look! I found something!" Anya and Zenya ran towards them with something in hand.
"Damn! Surely you guys caught insects again huh? There don't bring me here. Put it in the jar and take it home. It's disgusting to see it." Daryl bagkits and sits cross-legged like two women nearby.
"Not insects, Om Der. Don't be so ignorant." Anya answered her uncle's words while moving closer.
"If it wasn't an insect it would be a slithering animal, or a frog. Maybe a caterpillar too. Hiiiiii disgusting!" While Daryl shuddered as if he had found the most terrible thing in the world.
"No!" Zenya who was behind the brother was convincing.
"Keep what?" Nania then asked out of curiosity as to what her two nephews were carrying.
"Wanna see it?" Anya asked now.
"Yes." Yeah."
"Promise not to be surprised?" The boy again with a suspicious sneer.
"Ah, I don't feel good about this. May it be the son of a snake again?" Daryl rolled his eyeballs, and he prepared to leave.
"No! Om wrong. Snakes are dangerous, right? The word Opa should also not be taken especially if the color is striking. We could die if we get bitten." Zenja answered his uncle's words as usual.
"Do you know anything about dying?" And Daryl muttered because of the boy's words.
"Ofcourse." Zenya with her cute face that looked flushed and sweaty.
"Yes ... what do you bring? A hum?" And Rania finally felt impatient about it.
"You ready?" Anya almost opened both of her hands.
"Yes, open it."
"It's a dragonfly …." The child slowly opened his two hands that were originally clenched, then looked like a dragonfly-type insect with a striking red color all over.
"What is that?" Then Daryl slowly approached with a curious looking look.
A rare species of dragonfly that is rarely found anywhere, especially in a big city like Jakarta. It is very unlikely to be a place of life for insects whose habitat has disappeared in that era.
"Is a dragonfly, right Mommy?" Zenya asked his mother who was also silent looking at the insect.
"Rapid?" The woman said.
"What?" Daryl.
"That means dragonfly. Haha. The Sundanese call it papatong, you know. Papatong rice field." It was Nania who looked closer.
"What did you do he got to gini, Anya?" Then he asked his daughter.
"I don't know who he's got on his tulip Oma."
"Times?"
"Yes." Yeah."
"There are no dragonflies in Jakarta? This type of insect is the presence of forests, villages or in pesawahan also where the air is still clean. Can't live in a city, let alone this type. They're just as sensitive to climate change."
Nania and Daryl stared at the woman in silence.
"What?" Then Rania reacted to the couple's attitude.
"I guess your knowledge is only about motorbikes and cars, it turns out you also know dragonfly soap huh? That's great." Daryl.
Rania pulled one corner of her lips up and then glared as the sister-in-law laughed.
"I like automotive, but that doesn't mean I don't know about science" he said.
"really? Haha." Daryl laughed loudly enough to make the dragonfly that was not moving in Anya's hand suddenly fly into the air.
"No, wait!!" The two boys then chased him.
"Hey, wait! Don't leave!" The zenya even yelled as the insect continued to fly away.
"Yaaahhh .. Why go?"
Daryl's laughter sounded louder looking at his two disappointed-looking nephews.
"Om Der evil, make the dragon go away." Anya.
"What's? Are you kidding?"
"Yes, when he was in Anya's hand" said Zenya with a frown.
"He was tired, and after a short break in Anya's hand, just flew again. He should be free, you know?" Daryl returns laughing which leaves the boys misuh-misuh and back on their adventure in the backyard.
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