The Sweetest Harsh
Episode 70 - Muara Rindu
Alfa who had entered the steering room removed her sunglasses and squinted her eyes. Making sure his pupils were indeed catching a familiar figure. Helmias. The woman looked straight at her son while closing the door. Alfa grinned and got out of the car, standing with one hand in her pants pocket. Simultaneously, stop the silver car right behind Helmia's car. Make both of them focus attention for a moment on the arrival of the vehicle.
Karina who casually got out of her favorite car was stunned because she could not pay close attention to someone who was standing next to the black car in front of her. The woman then stared in turn, Alfa and Helmia face to face asking for an explanation.
Helmia looked at Alpha again and walked over. Ignoring Karina behind him. “Where is Tiara?” Ask with her usual face.
Alpha raises the eyebrows. “Wow. I didn't think Mama would come here and suddenly look for Tiara. What's up?” The man asked with an indecipherable calm face. There was a sense of joy and satisfaction that erupted in the chest, but he managed to control it completely so that Helmia even turned her face to get a throw of such questions.
“I will go first to the studio,” Karina interrupted between the awkward conversation of the mother and the child.
The man tilted his head for a while, giving up a few seconds to respond to the woman's words with a nod. The model woman then re-entered the car and drove her vehicle back into the traffic crowd that was in gap with two vehicles that were stopping in front of the gate.
Alfa looked at Helmia again in front of her. The woman breathed a long breath. “Mama wants to meet,” answers.
“For?” the man advanced the body with full readiness to argue with his mother. “Does anyone still care about Mama?” Alfa asked in a confrontational tone that Helmia immediately responded with a sharp gaze.
“Is she really pregnant?” Helmia asked with such a real doubt in her expression.
Alfa laughed a little. “I don't understand what Mama is thinking,” always.
“Why do you look covered up? Is there anything wrong when you just ask how it is? Isn't this what you want? Reception?” The woman seemed desperate to explain her question sensibly in order to be well received by Alfa.
The man in a loose-fitting, ash-colored T-shirt leaned his body against the hood of the car. “What if Tiara is pregnant? And what if she's not pregnant? Will Mama still care? What kind of reception do you mean? ” Ask with a face full of stifled emotions. “I hope Mama remembers what Mama said about me who deserves to be happy more than the life I'm living,”. “I'm picking up my own happiness now. So, do not think again to hinder my efforts a second time,” he said then re-entered the car, closed the door hard and forwarded his vehicle without concern, Helmia who was still stuck in place.
Yep. Helmia was cruel to her daughter-in-law. It was not that he was unwilling to accept Tiara who had similar flaws to him, but, Helmia really could not heal the trauma to him and did not want Alfa to suffer the same fate as him. He just wanted his son to be happy without going through the hard times that woman had. However, he seems to have missed one of the most important things that he forgot that apparently, his happiness does not lie in grasping what he wants, but also, the existence of loved ones who accompanied his steps. And right now, Helmia doesn't have that. He had just felt the departure of Jonah that was so long it was enough to empty his heart. He's lonely. In fact, even though Alfa was now close to Karina, she felt that something was lacking because her son felt far from his reach. Not to mention the knowledge of Tiara who was pregnant with her granddaughter.
Alisa who looks out of the house and sees Helmia coming closer. “Mistress,” sweep.
The old woman who looked like she was daydreaming, lazily turned her head towards the voice that called out to her. For a moment the woman scanned Alisa's face and gasped while she recognized her face.
“You ...,” guess.
“Iya .. I .. Alisa, Mr. Alfa's domestic assistant. Please enter,” he said with gestures to give space to his master's guests to enter the house.
Helmia swept a glance around the unique minimalist home area before her gaze landed back on Alisa's face.
“No need, I just want to meet Tiara. Does he exist?” He asked hesitantly because it was as if the quiet atmosphere that seemed from the house had answered everything.
“Sorry, Madam, Ms. Tiara is not in this house,” she replied.
“Where did it go?” Helmia scrunched her face. Uncomfortable with his own questions because it is not appropriate that he be called a mother when he does not know what is happening to his children.
“I do not know, Mother Tiara left with a lot of goods and did not leave a sentence to me. It's been one week,” clear.
“What?!” Helmia was shocked beyond measure. It was really curious that she asked Alisa about Tiara's pregnancy, but, she preferred to keep quiet. The woman then nodded thinly while exhaling. “Good. I'm h-home. Thank you,” said goodbye then stepped closer to his car and got back in.
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The woman threw her body into the lap of her car seat. Feeling his heart that was now suddenly completely desperate to be able to interpret the raging feeling that was so ferocious filled his heart trough with turmoil. No one can be a place to complain now, not Karina.
Helmia closed her eyes. Trying to dim the glare of uncomfortable feelings lodged in his chest cavity.
“The lady,” Julius who was driving behind the wheel turned her body and turned her head towards Helmia. “Your phone called from earlier,” he said.
The interface screen that lit up with the unusual caller's name added to his shock. Jennies. With a slight tremble, the woman shifted the green button and listened to the voice across her phone with a questionable expression.
“Helmia?” The doctor greeted me with a troubled voice.
“Iya. A jeni? What's the matter you called me?” Helmia frowned deeply.
“Where is Alfa? Is he with you? I called him a few times but his phone number was off. Something happened to Tiara. I hope you call her soon and bring her here,” she hopes anxiously.
“Tiara is where?” The woman could no longer bear the question.
Doctor Jeni appears to be breathing out a long breath. “There is with me in the hospital of Bunga city,” he replied.
Helmia's chest was rushing to receive the sudden information. Tiara was outside of the city that was so far from his current range. He has to go there and see what is going on.
“Julius stop!” his exclamation made the man who was driving was shocked and braked forcibly the car he was driving when he heard the surprising orders from his master. “We go to the city of Flowers right now,” the command with a sharp expression full of rage, close the speaker of the phone for a moment, then bring it closer to the ear. “Jeni, wait for me, I'm on my way to your place,” he said then disconnected just like that.
“Yes, Mistress,” replied Juius then refocused on his vehicle, turned the car around and sped quickly towards the city desired by the woman.
Helmia repeatedly looked at her watch, hoping that time would cooperate by not making it too late. I don't know what's going on, but the woman convinced herself to have to get there soon.
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Alfa who was still sitting behind the wheel seemed restless to see his car was now surrounded among hundreds of vehicles that slowly crept on the lane full of traffic jam. His tall body he threw on the seat while occasionally glancing at his cellphone which did not show for a moment the notification. Lazily, he picked up the black object and clicked. How could he miss the important thing to charge his communication tool? It's only right if he doesn't find his notification light on. The man then moved the body and placed the phone on the charger that was on the dashboard of his car. A few seconds later, the 6.5-inch screen comes back to life, along with the horn sound that is heard everywhere because apparently, the, the traffic jam was slightly unraveled and some vehicles asked each other's owners of the other mounts in front of him to move.
The man folded his lips and cursed because he had to get caught in such a situation when he was in a hurry. His light brown eyes glanced at his flaming phone and the sharp bead of his eyes instantly caught the name listed as a summoner in a moment ago. Doctor Jeni?
Alfa who felt a little relieved because the traffic in front of her had returned smoothly on some of those lines, then increase the speed of his car and stop at the edge of the road to look back at the notification on the phone that tickled his heart.
“Doctor?” he said when he found out that his phone call had been answered.
“Ah, where have you been? Hurry up here, something happened to Tiara,”.
“What happened?” The man scrunched his forehead receiving news from the doctor. Bad premonitions immediately surrounded him without pause.
“Save your question first. Come quickly!” Jeni orders absolutely without accepting but, because the woman immediately closes the call at the end of her sentence.
Alfa let out a sigh and closed her eyes for a while before stepping back on the accelerator and speeding as fast as possible towards the longing estuary that was too quick to answer her desire to meet with unexpected news.
If there really is a real teleportation device, he really wants to have it to cut the distance and time that always forces him to soak his longing during the trip.
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