YOU'RE A LICK OF ME
2. Denying Deva

"Have you and Mom lost their minds? Deva just 18 years old. Deva still wants to go to college, the debt will be paid after Deva works later. How much do you owe?" deva asked while pacing back and forth and occasionally holding her forehead.

"200 billion. You die and live once again, will not be able to pay off the debt if you only work as an ordinary employee." Answer Edward.

"Tw-Two hundred billion?" Deva shock.

"Yes. You think it's only 20 million? where maybe you could let your favorite child get married young just because of such small debts. My mom is unlucky to have only two daughters. Try if there are twelve daughters, there must be one of them who is willing to sacrifice." Yasmin replied as she let out her cultural tears.

"Ma.not that Deva does not want to sacrifice. But does it have no other way? Deva still wants to go to college" asked Deva.

"What are you going to pay for college? a leaf? what is the purpose of college for? find money, right? why are you so hard to think about it? if you are married to the grandson of Wanggono's grandfather, you sleep with money. Do you know your money?" edward said with fire.

"Now we are bankrupt. Papa can no longer fulfill all your wishes anymore, including making a lecture. This house will be confiscated as a debt repayment. And we have to sleep under the bridge if that happens" Edward continued with a face of sand.

"That's pa. Don't force Deva anymore. Maybe it's our fate to live in old age. It's not Deva's fault either, he deserves to live better than us by following his own path of thought" Yasmin said with a cloudy face.

"Now you pack your clothes. Tomorrow we are forced to live first, in order to build a cardboard house. Grandpa Hanggono did give us some lightening until you got your diploma. But why wait that long, if you still refuse. Soon enough this house will be confiscated, so we quickly leave this house," continued Yasmin who then moved from the edge of Deva's bed.

Yasmin and Edward exit Deva's room, and do a TOS after the door closes.

"Are you sure Deva would agree with seeing our grief?" ask Yasmin.

"Papa's sure. Although it looks hard, but Deva has a soft heart. We just have to polish our acting once again, for sure she will agree." Answer Edward.

Meanwhile Deva, whose mind was in chaos, was sitting limp on the bed. The hope that wants high school, like extinct already. But he did not give up so easily, he put two pieces of clothing into a backpack with the aim of going to the ruman Leoni, a 12-year-old brother from him.

"Where are you going?" yasmin asked who stopped Deva's steps when she was about to walk out the door.

Deva looked at Yasmin who was wearing a negligee shirt, holding a knife and a clove of garlic in her hand. Things he hadn't seen in the 18 years he lived. Deva stared around the kitchen, not a single servant in the house used to do everything.

"What are you looking for? the waiter has mama back. We can no longer afford to pay them. Now that we are poor, this house hitchhiked for a while until it was completely confiscated" said Yasmin who again spread poison in Deva's mind.

"Deva wants to go to Leoni's house first. Tomorrow Deva's home." Answer Deva.

Yasmin pretended to agree, though she was actually very worried that Leoni would influence Deva to refuse the match. After Deva exits the door, Yasmin goes upstairs to tell Edward about Deva's departure to Leoni's house.

"Why should you worry. Now Leoni is not much different from us. Her husband has also been unemployed since bankruptcy. So how could he possibly help Deva out of that matchmaking problem" Edward said.

"Yes too? our problems can only be solved if there is 200 billion of that money" Yasmin said.

"But even if there are 200 billion, I will not waste the opportunity to share with people as rich as them. The stupid Devanya just think a lot. Why go to college, if you can't make it rich. Now many scholars are also unemployed" said Edward.

"Papa's right. Mama is also a graduate, so she ends up being an ordinary housewife. Either way, Deva has to agree to marry Decky" Yasmin said.

In other places, Deva had just arrived at Suwiryo's residence. Leoni, Ferdy and his niece have been hitching a ride at their home since Ferdy went bankrupt six months ago.

"Deva?" Leoni smiled happily as she saw Deva on the doorstep.

"Wouldn't you go?" deva asked when she saw Leoni carrying a black plastic bag, which she did not know what was inside.

"No, I don't want to throw trash in there." Leoni replied while pointing towards the trash can with her lips.

Deva followed Leoni's line of sight, and let her brother pass by to take out the trash.

"Look yuk!" Leoni took her brother's arm, to go into the house with him.

"Mom" said Deva to Leoni's mother-in-law, who is currently in a sour face.

Leoni could only swallow her saliva, for fear that her mother-in-law was talking in front of Deva. While Deva who did not know anything, grabbed Sumarni's hand and kissed her.

Leoni's house is much simpler than Deva's. But even so he was forced to embrace Leoni and Ferdy stayed one roof, because it could not do more since the bankruptcy of his son.

"Sister" Deva said as she watched Ferdy just come out of the room while playing with his phone.

"Eh Dev's. It's old?" asked Ferdy whose hand was grabbed by his sister-in-law for a kiss.

"Just come, brother." Answer Deva.

"OK relax, right? brother wants to call a friend first," said Ferdy who was then nagged by Deva.

"Mama, papa how are you? did you guys have any trouble after papa went bankrupt?" ask Leoni.

"So Hanggono's grandfather came to the house to collect a debt. He wanted to confiscate our house, but mommy, papa wanted to make me a debt relief tool." Answer Deva.

"How much debt repayment?" leoni was surprised.

"Grandfather Hanggono wants me to marry his granddaughter, as a condition of repaying the 200 billion debt that papa borrowed." Deva answered with a sad face.

"What's? why papa, mama could that be so?' ask Leoni.

Sumarni who was secretly eavesdropping, so impatiently wanted to join the roost. Because he thinks it's also an opportunity for his son.

"There's nothing wrong with your parents. Just think about their fate if your house is confiscated. Where do your parents want to live? my mother did not want my house to be a shelter. This is not a social institution" said Sumarni who made Deva so surprised.

"You as a child cannot be selfish. Your parents have worked so hard to raise you, to send you to school. It's time you guys returned the favor. You will also be married to the grandson of Hanggono, not married to the old man. So there's no harm, right?"

"If you marry his granddaughter and live a good life, you can also help your parents rebuild their business. Can help your sister-in-law too. Do you want your nephew to live destitute, clothes can not change? sorry, but I am not cruel. But nampung people also can not forever, we eat for two difficult mouths," Sumarni continued.

"Jeez...what kind of household life has Leoni been living all this time? has Brother Leoni been unhappy all this time?" inner Deva who looked towards Leoni who was already bowed.

Intentions want to stay and tell a lot of things with the brother, but Deva finally returned home by adding to the burden of his heart because thinking about the fate of Leoni.