
The warm embrace of father and mother felt after 16 years passed. Her smiling bright face, truly cherished her two masters.
"You're too young to get married." chirped the mother.
"But two more years I can marry Kamal (the young man of the village) was married when he was 17 years old." A plain sentence from him, made Erin speechless frown. Sanjaya laughed loudly.
"Married cannot. You can't take responsibility and make money. If you like a girl, I promise I'll arrange a match with her." The words of the father who promised in his heart will find a way to make his son happy.
"Don't! William you're only 16. A kid wants to date!" angry at the mother.
"This child will continue to rebel if you forbid it. What if she's courting secretly and suddenly brings home her boyfriend and a two-striped peck test? If we know the woman he likes, at least we can keep an eye on their limits." The sensible words Sanjaya uttered. Making Erin grunt throw away face.
"So who? What's the girl in the village? Or your schoolmate?" sanjaya asked really curious about her son's personal life.
Is his son a playboy? Or love the innocent village girl like the old movies, about love blossoming in the rice fields, maybe also love springing in the cowshed.
William quickly shook his head."They're below my standards. The woman I love often taught me to play the piano every night. He's also the one who paid for the mother's surgery, so get the handling quickly."
"Mem... pay for mom's operating expenses? You didn't pawn the house certificate to Wan Abu?" erin asked, thinking her son was asking the village's most famous moneylender for help.
William quickly shook his head."I'd like to leave a home certificate as a guarantee at the hospital. But the hospital did not. In the end the servant uncle paid for it. The man I love."
Sanjaya and Erin glanced at each other. Sighing harshly, staring at how enthusiastic their son was at his monkey love. But this time they should thank me. If there was no girl Erin would not have survived and William would never have forgiven Sanjaya.
*
A few days later. Erin's condition is recovering. The goods are packed in the trunk of the car.
William was wearing new clothes that his father had bought. Spraying her body with expensive perfume, combing her hair staring at the mirror. His face was smiling itself considering the teenager who had dragged his body until his trousers came off.
Wearing a strange looking Venetian mask. The bells on the end of the mask will ring every time the girl moves. Anxiety is in him, what if rejected. Teen's first love statement.
"Are you ready?" asked the father, he wanted to laugh to see his son now. Playboy's face, but a flabby heart. However, it was better that his son would not make the same mistake he had done to Erin.
"Already.." answers from William, following in his father's footsteps. Talks that will lead to matchmaking at an early age. That's what's gonna happen.
*
After driving for a few minutes the villa was seen at last. But quiet as never. Several times William pressed the bell of the house, no one was seen coming out.
Until after 15 minutes, a villa keeper came out to open the gate."What's the need?" ask them without letting them in.
"Do you know the owner of this villa? I want to meet you" explained Sanjaya.
"The owner of this villa is Indonesian who lives in Manila. Never been here 10 years ago. They just routinely send money for the care of the villa, my salary and tenants always come to pay directly to him." explained the villa keeper.
"So who previously lived only tenants? Then do you know the address?" sanjaya's question was answered with a headband by the villa's guard.
"Your name is William?" asked the villa guard to the teenager in front of him. Questions answered with a nod of the head by William.
'For my first friend William'
'These two weeks have been fun for me. Is it because I never had a friend? But one thing is for sure, we can't see each other again. Let me see you become a bright star from afar, be famous like your dream. So that I can see you smiling from afar.'
That was the contents of the letter written, making the young man heartbroken. It was his first love, but it was like this. Her tears flowed down the letter with those handwriting. The Venetian mask is still in his hands, a mask usually used by the love of unfamiliar monkeys. Even the name doesn't know.
"Dad he wants to break up!" william's chattering while crying, made Sanjaya want to laugh.
The teenager was even sitting on the ground."Dad am I less handsome?" she was narcissistic, but still crying.
"No, you're the handsome one." Sanjaya instead laughed at her son, who still hugged the mask with a bell at the end of it.
Why did Giovani leave without saying goodbye or his name? Of course since this was about to end, the first best friend he had. The always restricted association is the cause. Can't hang out with the bottom. That is what his parents always emphasized.
Therefore, once his condition improved Giovani immediately returned to the city. I don't want the teenager looking for him.
*
Year after year passed many things that William had passed. Starting from the death of his mother due to shortness of breath, while the father who did suffer from brain cancer followed Erin three weeks later.
William kept his father until the end. Maybe just two years of happiness it lasts can be a perfect family. A message from his father, a talk at breakfast on the day of his father's death.
A message so that he looks for a partner who loves him sincerely. Willing to accompany him when sick or healthy. As Erin is looking after Sanjaya, a married couple who eventually get together for two years. Separated by death, but may meet again at His side.
Perhaps that is why William desperately pursued Yesy who cared for him when ill. Not caring whether there are feelings or not. It might suggest his own heart to love someone he might only consider family.
*
At present...
William was silent for a moment, when he was packing to find the appropriate costume in his car. His eyes looked around, a box that had been around for years in his car. Always carry it when going anywhere.
After two years of being forgotten, precisely after the presence of Yesy in his life. William opened the box again. His hands raised, his smiling face palpated every inch of the strange mask with bells at the ends.
"What meda?" corrie asked the tuba.
"While asking yourself. Why was I decided unilaterally." Muttered the young man who still considers friendship when he was taught to play the piano is a love relationship. In other words, a monkey love affair.
It was him who thought so. But not with the woman who already had a fiancee, only consider William teenagers as the only people who want to visit him every night.
*
While the girl who owns the piano, now walking followed by her secretary and assistant. Every employee he passed always looked down to pay respect.
Slowly getting off the elevator, wanting to meet the woman who dared to come to him in a public place. His eyes glared, when the woman he said he loved William, snapped at an office boy, just for giving a wrong drink.