The Temptation of the Former
The Birthday of Design

Jihan is currently with Kinan in the living room of the apartment, while Mela and Nino try out all the clothes Kinan brought.

The two hundred million budget that Johan gave Kinan, was certainly more than enough to buy all the pants, clothes, skirts, even underwear for Jihan, Nino and Mela.

Kinan did not waste the opportunity to buy all the clothes in a famous clothing store, of course everything in need of Jihan, Mela and Nino, he said, almost one store was moved into three large suitcases that he had bought before.

Jihan brought some tea for Kinan. Yes Kinan stayed alone, since Raksa had already gone to the office, Jihan put tea on the living room table.

It seems Kinan also bewitched with the luxury of the Apartment that Jihan now occupies.

His eyes pay attention to every corner of the room that must have edelweiss flowers. He remembered very well if the flower was a flower to the tribe of Jihan during High School.

Not only that, both from the color of the wall paint, furniture are all favorite items of Jihan.

"This apartment, filled with flowers in every corner of the room, is not your favorite flower," Kinan told Jihan who now sat next to him.

"Ah yes, what a coincidence," said Jihan pretended not to know, when clearly this apartment Johan design based on what Jihan likes.

Kinan turned to a glass cabinet, a collection of stamps from various parts of the world. Again it was a favorite of Jihan first, collecting stamps.

Kinan moved from his seat to the glass cabinet, wanting to clarify what he saw.

"Well, if this is also a coincidence, you are also a hobby of collecting stamps first," said Kinan while looking at Jihan.

"Oh yeah, that was just a coincidence. Hehe," Jihan said as she scratched her non-itchy head.

Kinan looked suspiciously at Jihan, he knew very well that Jihan must have been hiding something from him. Kinan walked towards Jihan and sat down next to her again.

The current look of her eyes seemed to be intimidating Jihan. Seeing that, Jihan threw away her face in any direction to avoid Kinan's eyes.

"Is there something you haven't told me?" kinan asked in a whisper, afraid to be heard by Mela and Nino who were in the TV room.

"W-what, no, no," said Jihan nervously.

"I know you're hiding something from me, tell me quickly," Kinan pinta.

Jihan breathed a heavy sigh, this kind of thing was actually not necessary to tell, but because Kinan was pushy and of course Jihan could not refuse if Kinan had urged her.

Jihan glanced back, Mela and Nino seemed still busy trying on various clothes that Kinan bought, Jihan approached Kinan who looked increasingly curious.

"Actually, this apartment, brother Jo bought and then in a special design for me, when he was still in America," Jihan whispered.

"What!" pekik Kinan made Mela and Nino turn towards him.

"You why Ki?" ask Mela from the TV room.

"Ah I'm fine Auntie," Kinan told Mela.

"Oh kirain what's going on" said Mela then refocused on the suitcase in front of her.

Kinan looked back at Jihan full of questions, he was not satisfied if he only knew it until there.

"Tell me, in more detail, I'm still confused, why did Brother Johan, buy this apartment for you, while he was still in America and you never communicated for seven years, either," kinan said slowly getting curious.

"Sister Jo said he designed this apartment on purpose, so when he arrived in Indonesia, and he remembered me, he would come here and vent his frustration at every corner of this apartment, you know, right, she hated me so much back then" Jihan whispered to Kinan.

"Oh so, but now that Brother Johan has found out the truth, he must be very sorry now," said Kinan.

"Of course, obviously, everything is too complicated to fix anymore" Jihan said.

"Don't think too much, if the soul mate is not going anywhere," said Kinan while patting his best friend's shoulder.

Kinan looked at the watch in his hand, which showed at 1pm, finally saying goodbye to Jihan and Mela to go to the boutique, because there was still a lot of work to be done.

The most confusing thing is that Jihan cannot stay away from Johan, they are always together, but without the clarity of their relationship status. Mela now memorizes Jihan and Kinan who are busy chatting while Nino is busy watching television.

"17 September yes ... I will go home the day before Auntie because I have to ask permission to the head of my department first, when will Auntie leave?" ask Jihan.

"Maybe this afternoon, please call your usual travel car" asked Mela.

"Oh yeah auntie all right," said Jihan.

Mela returned to take care of the clothes that she had dismantled again, Mela thought the clothes were too much to bring to the village, so she would bring some.

Jihan walked towards the balcony of the apartment, she walked out to enjoy the breeze-blowing air. Jihan stared at the sky. September 17th, another week is the anniversary of the death of his parents, as usual he will go on a pilgrimage to the graves of his parents in the village.

Without Jihan noticing the tear-eye soaked her cheeks, she thought, if her parents were still there maybe her life wouldn't be like this. In the presence of Mela and Nino he tried to be strong, but in fact he felt very devastated with all the misfortune that befell his life.

As an orphan, he had no father to lean on and a mother to share his grievances with. Mela is very good to him, but he does not want to increase the burden of Mela by talking about her complaints.

Jihan went back into her room, to rest, she still felt tired of being kind, and her mind needed rest.

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At four o'clock in the afternoon, the travel car that Jihan ordered arrived in front of the apartment building, Jihan helped Mela carry a suitcase. While Nino looked sad because she had to leave the luxury apartment.

The driver helped Jihan put Mela's suitcase into the trunk of the car. The driver seemed to wonder why Mela and Jihan were here, usually he picked up Jihan and Mela at home.

"Replace neng, how do you live here?" ask the travel driver.

"It's not the transfer, sir, Aunt Sayakemarin's house, just burned down, we just stayed here for a while" said Jihan.

"Oh my God, I'm so sorry, how did it burn, how was the story?" ask a curious travel driver.

"The police are still investigating him sir" said Mela, who is now approaching Jihan and the driver behind the car.

"Yes Ma'am, if the disaster is not expected data, who is patient yes ma'am," said the driver to Mela.

"Yes sir, thank you" said Mela.

"Then we leave now" said the driver.

"Yes sir" said Mela.

While approaching Jihan who was still in her place, Jihan felt sad, because Mela was leaving, after the fire.

"Jihan, Aunty left first yes," Mela told Jihan.

"Yes Aunt, be careful" said Jihan.

Jihan memorized Nino who had first entered the car, Jihan saw Nino from the window of the car that was still open. Nino still seems to be pouting because she does not want to go, she likes to stay in the Apartment.

"Nino, be careful on the road, yeah" Jihan told her cousin.

"I still want to stay, why should I go home anyway," he said annoyed.

"Yes Nino, just stay with Jihan's feet" said Mela who was sitting next to Nino.

"No, if you're not around, Nino wants to be like you" Nino said, shaking her head.

"Yes we've been home for a while, we'll come back here again" said Mela.

"Okay," said Nino in the end.

As the car drove away from the courtyard of the luxury apartment, Jihan stared at the departure of Mela and Nino, until the car disappeared from her sight.

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