The Temptation of the Desire of the Stepchild
AIRPORTS

Sergey waited for a flight in the lounge while staring at a glass of soursop juice Nathan had just ordered. He kept glancing to the right side. "He won't come."

"Atha is coming." Pedro glanced at the watch agitatedly. His eyes glanced at Nathan who kept looking at the phone screen.

Where the hell? Nathan saw Nita's chat history, no reply. The young man asked Nita to come. It was nothing, just pity to see the figure of the middle-aged man in front of him.

Nathan recalled yesterday when he pulled Rama to the side of the restaurant in front of the fish pond, in the side parking lot, which there were only two servants.

"What! Pull me?" Rama looks upset, confused, sad all into one.

"You're sitting next to us, I know you were standing! Until where did you hear" Nathan frowned, looking at Rama's expression that glanced down right and that shoulder was instantly lackluster, Nathan was convinced. "You heard it, yeah."

"Is he right my papa?"

Rama's voice sounded like a statement as if Rama realized that Ergi was Rama's papa. "Yes, you heard it, you can definitely tell for yourself. But there's more to it than that. He's going to Switzerland and there's no way he's going back. He wants to cut himself off from you and erase all the past as Sergey. I'm not sure, but Pedro saw your papa ordering a drug that could erase someone's old memory. The worst of it can also make the wearer experience severe mental disorders, including schizophrenia."

"You're saying ... could he go crazy over that drug?"

"Yes .... It's the effect." Nathan glanced at Rama who looked down thinking with a gloomy face.

A surprise pat Nathan and the young man stared flatly at Sergey. He thinks, it is necessary not to tell Sergey, that Rama may have believed that Ergi and Sergey were the same person.

"Can you call, Atha?" Ask Sergey.

"Call from your own phone!" nathan's grunt gawked as his phone was snatched away. He tries to reach for his phone but Sergey has already looked into the chat column he had with Nita, who has no reply from Nita. Sergey put on a grim face.

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"It's soon your turn to take it" the assistant director's voice told Rama who was in makeup. His eyes continued to look right and left, thinking what Nathan said.

After saying to the toilet, Rama turned the direction in a school hallway that became the filming location. He went through a deserted road, then covered the roadside and stopped the angkot. Until he sees a taxi that stops, Rama moves on to a taxi and returns home.

He heads to Nita's location, which he learned from the gps on his wife's phone. Seen at home, Nita was busy playing with the twins, incidentally Moses also just came home from school.

"Follow me" Rama said coldly to Nita. "Let Helen and Bunga play with Mamah first."

"I'll get a cell phone and a bag first" Nita said, wiping the twins' tiny hands with wet wipes, until they were clear of the papaya.

"Don't bring anything, let's spit." Rama took Moses in his arms, laying out a picture book that Moses held.

"Where are you going, Ram? No lunch yet." Intania is suspicious as usual Rama's face is full of worry.

"It was a friend of Rama, he brought a child of Moses' age. So Rama brought Moses to play with the boy as long as Rama chatted with him." Rama reasoned. "Titip Flowers and Rama, Mah." Rama kissed mama's cheeks on the right and left.

"Be careful, Ram." Intania sees the departure of Nita who pulled Rama. Hope there's no problem.

Rama was driving the car when Nita took Moses. Nita kept silent, thinking about Nathan's chat, which she did not answer. The woman frowned as Rama pulled her down from the car, this instead walking to the departure entrance.

"Mass? How's it at the airport?" Nita asked confusedly past many people who were busy carrying suitcases.

"Mas, get Mas's friend first." Rama walks with Moses and Nita in confusion as Rama leaves.

Her feet kept stepping, Nita did not carry a phone, but she remembered the location Nathan had asked her to come. Waiting for more than ten minutes, fearing Rama's return.

Finally Nita started looking for a lounge like a photograph that Nathan sent. From a distance he saw the figure of Mr. Ergi. Although hesitant to fear Rama knew and misunderstood, Nita had already been caught by Nathan who invited and approached him. I could see Sergey's face shining.

"It's been a while!" Nathan pulls Nita, the woman glances at Sergey's empty glass.

"I'm out smoking first." Nathan takes Nita in front of Sergey.

"I'm going to the toilet too." Pedro followed Nathan.

"Why did they go" Nita muttered and bit her lower lip. His eyes fixed on Sergey kept smiling at him. Always with that view that is so meaningful.

"Thank you for coming, Tha."

Nita nods, she's not actually coming, but because Rama is fitting the airport, yes she wants to see Sergey for a moment. "Why ask me to come here?"

"I want to see you last time."

"You mean what? It's so scary that it sounds like you're not meeting again?" Nita squeezes her own hand in the lap.

"Do you really want Mas to still see you?" Sergey frowned as Nita simply looked at him wistfully without answering.

"You don't want to see Mas Rama and speak frankly?" Nita returned to voice after five minutes of silence. He wants to persuade Sergey to tell Rama the truth. "Until when did you hide this from Mas Rama, the person who should have known best earlier?"

"Atha, until the end of Mas's life, Mas doesn't want him to know. I could not see him grieving twice for an undeniable death. I'm old, and I don't know when to pick up Mas-" Sergey pushes his palms on the table as Nita's face grows grim. "Give me your hand."

"But where are you going?"

"You don't need to know."

"What, Mas will still call Uncle Pedro and Brother Nathan?"

Sergey smiled meaningfully without answering making Nita think that it would only be known from Uncle and Brother Nathan directly.

"Really, you're leaving?" Nita bends her lips with the face she thought was the most moody of her life. Sergey never say goodbye like this, when saying goodbye is very painful.

They look at each other, Nita with a gaze of protest hoping Sergey undo Intention. Sergey with a deep longing gaze, not strong when longer in as strong as Nita just makes him want to hug Nita and have her alone. Meanwhile, Rama had expected, Nita would meet the man.

Rama clenched his fists, remembering last night when he woke up in the middle of the night, after urinating, he was glued to the food Nitay made on the room table, which he refused.

Rama sees Nita sleeping. Then the man devoured the meat steak and it felt like it had just been taken out of the refrigerator, cold because of the room AC. Her eyes were fixed on Nita's flashing phone screen.

Grabbing from the top of the nightstand, Rama saw a call from Nathan that was missed up to 25 times. No call from another number. Why Nita makes mobile phones in Silent models.

The phone vibrates, there's a chat coming in from Nathan. The phone was made airplane mode, then Rama saw the contents of the message from Nathan.

You are the one who brought Moses to school. I need to talk to you at 09:30. Urgent - Nathan's.

Rama opened the phone chat history by looking for Ergi's name. It was just a matter of picking up the shuttle a year ago. So, right, they don't chat with each other. A little guilt enveloped Rama's heart.

Rama's daydreams were renewed as he felt a tiny hand slip from his hand. He saw Moses running away. Rama left from behind the lounge wall still the papa holding Nita's hand.

It is not pain that Rama feels, but more disappointed why if it was his papa, papa did not contact and instead chose to meet Nita rather than his son. Envy enveloped Rama's heart in Nita, because he could meet his father, while he was just helpless to observe from afar.

"Rome .... "

"Nathan" said Rama as Nathan called out to him from behind. He glanced at Moses who was in the grasp of an old man who was ageless, the old man as if beckoning Nathan.

"It's okay, Moses with Uncle Pedro." Nathan patted Rama on the shoulder. "Finally, you came too. I thought after I told you everything yesterday, you wouldn't come. Do you know Nita's here" Nathan was surprised because Rama nodded.

"I brought Nita here, the rest is up to him whether to meet papa or not" Rama stomped Nathan's hand which pulled him firmly.

"I don't want to! Fucking release!" In vain Rama shouted because Nathan's power was stronger. Airport security even walked in here because of the commotion he made. Somehow unnoticed by Rama, Mr. Ergi had stood up from the chair and side by side with his wife, looking at her with a surprised face.

Rama froze because Mr. Ergi was just away and was about to leave. In fact, his father did not want to see him leave. Go on fucking !

"Stupid chase! Your father thinks you still think of him as Ergi!" Nathan encouraged Rama who was still silent with his hands clenched.

"Pursue, or no one will know from us where he went, including Nita! He's going to Switzerland, but can you think he's going somewhere and maybe another country without us knowing!" Nathan smiled as Rama ran and chased after Sergey, the young man clasped Sergey's hand violently and slammed into Sergey's right cheek.

Security is heading back towards Rama. While everyone who was looking, was surprised because there was an actor who was on the rise making a commotion. Everything about Rama must go viral. There are some haters who consider Rama's life too drama like his late father. Fruits fell not far from the tree, they thought.

"So it was for you to dare to hug Nita." Rama flicked his fist quickly to the pale white left cheek. "This, because you dare to hold it again." Rama punched Ergi's stomach. "That's because you're a bad papa!"

The next fist was restrained by Security holding his right and left hands. Rama shouted, "YOU POOR PAPA!"

Sergey smiled faintly, glancing to the left at Pedro and Nathan who were clenching Nita's hand so as not to get close to here. His gaze was again directed at the red-faced son, until the eyes began to turn red. The green veins stood out on Rama's forehead that looked eager to hit him. The heat on his right-left cheek was not as painful as looking at the injured eyes of his son.

"You want to go? Just go! From the first it was your hobby to leave me and my mom until the solution of the night. Just keep going. Why not go to another universe as everyone thought, why are you still, in this fucking world and keep pestering me-"

The call of flight notification on the plane Sergey was about to board echoed, stopping Rama's screams. Sergey sighed violently and hugged Rama after staring at the two security men.

"Sound not knowing yourself, but Papa apologizes, Rama Abimasa. There's your grandfather going back to Indonesia and Papa can't wander around here anymore. Because Grandpa was getting suspicious. But this punch felt more powerful than before. Papa's happy, that's how being a man should be stronger than anyone, right." Sergey patted Rama's trembling shoulders. His son's face sank in his chest and he could feel his clothes wet surely by Rama's tears.

"Brengs*k you still want to go!" Rama hit Papa's back with hatred. "Why did you leave when I just found out shit!"

"What a rude mouth?"

"Baggot, do you have to be polite to a madman who wants to leave me! Always leaving me, Goddamn it!"

Sergey smiled bitterly, able to understand Rama's anger. "Ma'af Papa has to keep going. It's too flashy." With great difficulty Sergey tried to let go of Rama's strong embrace.

Without them noticing, a paparazzi recorded, in zoom mode to Nita's tearful face and looked towards Rama who seemed unwilling to release the hug from the male figure. The two people beside Nita also both shed tears with trembling lips. Paparazzi know, Jonatan Pradipta who can be called Nathan Pradipta is a famous artist of his former papa men Nita.

So who is the man Rama was invited to storm?

Instantly comment columns and articles flood the Maya world where the faces of Rama, Nita, Nathan, and the man that Rama beat up pop up in the mass media

Of course there was one person who was very excited to know the news. Who else? If not .... Jefryn.