When Destiny Meets
17. BAR

Alina's body suddenly warmed. His cheeks were flushed but his body froze and could not move. Arkana was too close to him. Something Alina never imagined would be like this. Arkana was still staring deeply at Alina.

Suddenly the sound of the phone ringing managed to divert Arkana. He soon wakes up looking for his cell phone. Leaving Alina who was busy regulating her breathing.

His breathing was suddenly fast, his heart was also pounding incoherently. Alina was able to see every detail of Arkana's face when it was close together earlier. His body temperature was still unwilling to drop, he was sure now that his face was no different from a boiled crab. Redness.

Arkana had picked up the phone for quite a while, leaving Alina at a loss as to what to do now. His attention was then turned to the view behind the Arkana apartment window. Night view of the capital. Glittering lights of high buildings along with crowded streets.

"Keep wanting to bengong that ain't no intention of going home?" ask Arkana who is done with her phone.

"Yes okay I'm home .. gapapa anter diomelin mom gapapa."

"Keep if I'm fired gapapa, continue later ga diga-" said Alina stopped seeing Arkana who went to her room.

Dicekin. 

Alina is getting ready to go home without being ushered in by the homeowner. Alina crouched down on her shoes until she suddenly felt someone standing behind her. When looking at it turns out Arkana is neat with his distinctive leather jacket.

"I'll drop the boat down."

Alina responded with a faint smile. Then come out following Arkana.

Arriving at Alina's loby. Alina tells Arkana that she will be on vacation for two weeks. Alina hoped that when she returned to the Miller house, Arkana would be there. "So we both take a vacation first from there, then we both return again."

Arkana had not denied Alina's words, the girl had already left. Arkana then returned to his unit to work on some of the pending work. At once diverted his mind that was messed up by his father.

Alina who arrived home was not welcomed by anyone. Seen from the state of his house, it seems his father did not come home for a few days at all. This is sometimes what often triggers the quarrel of both parents.

His father loved his job so much that he forgot that his family was waiting at home. Once thought by Alina, her mother's decision to part with her father was the best decision. But after what happened now, his mother was even worse than his father.

Not forgetting Alina told Tari she had come home. Alina told him a lot, including what happened between her and Arkana. Remembering that again made Alina turn red again. This was his first time being that close to a man.

When Alina was cleaning up her house that had not been cleaned for a long time, her father came home. Adi didn't expect her daughter to be home today. With surprise and longing, Adi hugged Alina.

"Why don't you want to go home today?" ask Adi warmly.

"Surprise .." replied Alina laughing.

"Well, honestly, how many days have you been home?" Alin interrogated his father.

"Since you are also not home," replied Adi lowered his head feeling guilty.

Alina glared at her father angrily. Alina was more worried that her father would not go home to sleep outside. The food was not awake either. All the things Alina was worried about.

"Jeez Dad .. Where's his sleep all this time? how's eating?"

"You need to worry, I'm safe in the office." Her father calmed Alina down.

Alina went to her room. It has been more than ten years that they have lived only two. Her mother and father divorced since Alina was a child. They each brought one of their children. Alina with her father, while her older brother with their mother.

Since then Alina has been forced to grow up without a mother. However, as an adult it is Alina who sometimes has a role as a mother in her home. Alina was very worried about her father's health. Moreover, not long ago Adi just got out of the hospital after appendectomy.

"You need to talk to me."

"What is gamau? still anget lo Al .. "persuade Adi to Alina.

Adi did not hear any sound from inside the room. The door opened, "This time."

The two had dinner together while watching TV. Suddenly Alina smiled as she remembered something. It felt very different, the atmosphere of his dinner at home with dinner at the Miller family. Dinner there was like eating at a military barracks because it was too tight and organized.

After eating Alina returned to her room leaving her father alone watching her favorite news show. In her room Alina silently watched her family photos. "Jeez, I forgot to ask about my brother to Mas Arka."

The last time he and his brother met was probably in high school. Or maybe younger than that. Alina heard the news that their mother took her brother out of town. That made Alina sad and decided not to look for her brother anymore.

Elsewhere, Arkana and some of her friends were gathering at a bar. They hadn't seen each other for a long time and talked like this. "The more shoots aja lo Ar," said one of his friends laughed softly.

"Whisper you."

They were friends during Arkana High School and became the ones closest to her. Satrio was also present there. They discussed about Arka who now chose to stay in her apartment again.

One of his friends who knew the guests who were at Arka's house at the time, even heard that Arka would return to Boston.

"Lo really want to go back there, Ar?" tanyakanya.

"What crazy. My company is here to be accompanied."

"Please Satrio." All his friends were harassing Arkana.

Suddenly Arkana's phone rang, and it was her mother's phone. Arka quickly went out to pick up the phone. Apparently Rose only asked her son, Rose was worried because Arka left in a state of anger.

"That's my gapapa, Ma."

"Later to call again, this again outside ... bye," said Arka hanging up.

At the door of the bar, Arkana meets someone she did not expect to meet here.

"Alina." said Arkana in shock.

Both of Alina's eyes bulged, and she did not expect to meet Arkana there, "Mas Arkana?"

Ah .. I inget. In this bar, where we first met. 

Rose and Bi Iyah were taking care of the beautiful dishes she had collected all this time. This hobby has been owned by Rose since adolescence, this is one way to forget the burden of his mind. Her husband did not respond to her at all when Rose discussed Arkana.

Mr. Miller was pretty sure he was going to send Arkana back to Boston. Even though he didn't say the reason. Because Arkana had never bothered his father, until it had to be sent back there.

That thought was constantly spinning in Rose's head. Until one of his favorite plates fell out of his grasp. Makes Rose scream in shock.

"Mother gapapa Ma?" tanya Bi Iyah made sure Rose was okay.

"Gapapa .. calm down, no one is hurt."