UNEQUAL
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. After the two families get together, Yugito finds no sign of the Pratama family coming soon. Even Rayyan did not give an explanation why his family had not arrived. Until one of his subordinates reported that Oma Galuh was being treated since noon. Then Yugito nodded in understanding of the report he received.

"We came here at your invitation, and there are things we want to discuss together with the big family of the Son of you." Sayid Sanjaya, Fariz's father, started the conversation.

"What do you want to talk about?" Yugito's question could not cover his curiosity.

"Seeing the closeness between Fariz and Raisa, and Fariz's confession also made me, who is Fariz' father, want to propose to Raisa as our daughter-in-law. Do you mind?" Sayid managed to make Raisa sculpt instantly. Arisa who was beside him also nudged his arm and continued to tease Raisa. The embarrassed Raisa could only smile while looking down hiding her reddened face. Yugito fell silent and his gaze became sad as he glanced towards his two daughters who were now sitting beside him.

"Do you mind? Or do you already have another candidate for Raisa?" Ask Sayid later.

"Ohhh certainly not sir. Raisa has no other candidate but Fariz's son. It's just that I don't know what to say when someone else wants my daughter. Not that I disagree, but maybe because I have been a witness for 26 years to Raisa's life. And with complete sincerity, I must let go of Raisa to live with others."

"What's that in dad's heart?" Raisa asked half a whisper. But Yugito just patted Raisa's head with a very warm look.

"I accepted your proposal, Mr. Sayid." Yugito finally develops a smile between them.

Tio who saw Arisa's anxiety also took Arisa to the balcony of Arisa's room.

"Are you thinking about Rayyan?" Tanya Tio leaned against the balcony barrier.

"No. I was just thinking about Reza's sister." Tio frowned and his gaze became sharp as if showing that he really did not like what Arisa said.

"I don't care if you're angry, but I really miss you."

"Aris. If you hear, you'll feel hurt."

"But my mom never took care of my feelings. Mama slapped me so easily."

"Well... You still bring that up?"

"And also, Rayyan only loves Raisa. I watched them hug."

"What's? When?"

"That's it. I want to be alone." Arisa's voice moved and she passed into the room and took something from the drawer. After that he actually left with still wearing formal clothes.

Tio who was worried rushed to follow where Arisa was going. But he was amazed when Arisa entered the yard of Rayyan's house.

However, as Tio waits a bit away from Arisa's car, Arisa is seen coming out and passing to another lane. Not towards the house. Tio rushed to follow Arisa back and now his car pulled over in a park that Arisa often visited first.

Which makes Tio even more surprised, why Arisa can know the shortcut to the park? Because he remembered he must have forgotten because of his amnesia.

Tio followed every step of Arisa who was shaky and as if not excited. Arisa then sat down and stared deeply at a bracelet that somehow had been attached to Arisa's wrist. Tio squinted trying to remember when Arisa started wearing the bracelet, and he momentarily recalled when Arisa returned from Bandung.

With courage, Tio approached and sat beside Arisa making her beloved sister surprised.

"Sister." Arisa's squealing shifted her body.

"Am I like a ghost?" Tio asked in annoyance.

"Just be clear. Brother suddenly appeared." Reply Arisa.

"Yes from Rama who appeared. Aren't I better?"

"But I expected Rama more than brother." The devil was relaxed and then he looked up to himself because maybe Tio would realize something. After he returned, obviously he never brought Rama in anything, but now, Arisa seemed to show that she was missing Rama.

"It's good that you remember it, at least don't forget it all." Said Tio patting Arisa's head who was dumbstruck to hear it. He thought Tio would think he remembered.

"Is it painful, brother?" She smiled faintly trying to provoke the sensitivity of Tio who still did not understand every word Arisa said.

"What time in Bandung, you're always alone?" Tio asked again by staring at the star-studded sky. He turned back to Arisa who was just laughing a little in response to her question. Where's the funny place? Thought Tio for a moment.

"Nothing's funny Aris." Delik Tio looked up again.

"Now it is not. Ever since you said Aunt Sarah was trying to make your stomach ailments heal, from then on I started taking away my hatred for them. And you always said that they loved you very much. And I thought, there's no harm in me making peace with this hate, right?" And this time Arisa smiled in response. He breathed a sigh of relief for a moment and deepened his gaze at one of the stars that looked brighter than the others.

"It looks like the star is Rama huh? He shines more than the others. And it caught my attention. He said, if I miss him just look at the night sky, then he'll be there among the stars. Ahhhh I want to catch up with her."

"Sut ehhhh."

"Haha I'm kidding, brother. But I miss my mother more. He said he was sick, but I couldn't take care of him. Though my mother always took care of me when my stomach relapsed."

"Is your stomach completely healed?"

"You prove? Now want to buy spicy food with coffee? Yes, at most the effect is just mules." His words are so light.

"Hemmm later fitting a crying stomachache.." taunted Tio by putting on a silly face.

"Haaaa anyway I miss mother.." whine Arisa suddenly act spoiled. "Don't know? For four years I lived with my mother, I never sat outside like this. Even if I stare at the moon in the garden of the house, mother must be angry. What else is Reza's sister. If Reza is here now, he'll say it's the Princess. What are you doing huh?' And sister knows? Brother Reza said that while putting on his face that sucks. And he kept saying this 'I'm tired of working for your treatment and now you're playing with the night wind?' Ahaha Brother Tio alone never scolded me that way, right? Hahahaha." he continued laughing but with tears unceasingly breaking.

Tio did not in the least turn his gaze away from Arisa's face which he saw now a little different the last time he left the house. And he was glued to the scar that was under Arisa's right eye. Just as she was about to grab it, Arisa immediately covered her cheeks realizing Tio's movements.

"It's a scar in an accident." Arisa said with a slight smile.

"Aris.." as if Tio wanted to say something.

"Hmm?" Her mouth tilted her head in a bit of curiosity. He thinks that Tio will take him to Bandung after Tio sees Arisa crying because she misses Sarah.

"Let's go home. Mama must be worried." Tio said later. Arisa who looked disappointed instantly faded her thin smile.

"Not just go first." The answer suddenly became cold. His eyes were no longer warm.

"It's Aris's night..."

"I know."

"You why else? Arian. What cares about you isn't just Reza and Aunt Sarah. But me, your siblings and the house people love you too. Who's Reza? Who's aunt Sarah? They were good and were once part of my life. But not now."

"I don't care. In fact, not even the biological parents love me more than my mother. And mother also never put hate on our family. Though brother Tio and mama blasphemed them blasphemously. Even mom was being rude to you."

"Aris is enough.. let's go home."

"Going home? Wh-wh-what for? It's quieter here." His reply more and more casually leaned back and closed his eyes.

"When has he been like this? He never even got this way." Tio's mind was getting closer to looking at Arisa's face which felt very different from her previous version.

"Why brother? I know I'm pretty. So don't look at me that." His words opened one eye and glanced at Tio who turned his face away.

"When did you become like this?"

"Not since long ago? There's no way brother doesn't know, right? What's more since Rama left, haven't you seen how ruined my life was after that?" Tio increasingly unwilling to turn his face back on Arisa, he seemed to be guilty because he could not make Arisa happy while living with her. Instead of treating her loneliness, Arisa feels emptiness every time Tio accompanies her.

"So I said I was going home." And hearing this, Tio moved and pulled Arisa's hand rough and took her to her car.

"So I brought a car. Untie me. It's paining. Didn't you realize your grip could break my bones?" His whimper pulled his hand rough from Tio's grasp.

"Shut up or I won't let you out of the house for a second?"

"Sih's sister is very different from Reza's sister."

"Yes. Yes, I am different. He's more perfect to play a big brother to you. But just so you know Aris. But he also took the happiness of my mother and I 25 years ago. And the woman you call mother is nothing more than a destroyer of our family." Tio's snapping made Arisa speechless.

"Didn't one of her children save my life? Didn't Nadhira sacrifice her heart for me so that I wouldn't die? Did you know the pain of not being able to return the favor was because he was gone? My whole life wouldn't have calmed down if I hadn't made Nadhira happy. And by loving my mother the way I repay her bud."

- connected.