(Tak) Bile Sepahit Bile
Section 89
Arjuna stood on the balcony of his room, in the villa he had his own room. Staring at the sky decorated with reddish orange clouds, slowly the sun returned to the contest. A building whose peak was exposed to that light, so caught his attention.
Arjuna leaned over the balcony clamp, in his hand holding a cup of coffee he made himself. What is so interesting about the building that it makes the view reluctant to be detached from it?
"What's up there? Why do I feel like I'd want to go to that place?" arjuna murmured not out of sight from the top of the building.
The lights start when the sun is completely submerged in the contest. Who does not escape from it, the bright light there is a stark contrast with the darkness of the night.
Arjuna sipped coffee that started to feel cold. The curiosity in his heart made him want to visit the place.
"I'll come to that place tomorrow" he murmured as he straightened up and turned back into the room.
In another room, Caesar did the same thing as Arjuna did. The difference is, the room he occupied facing right with the building.
"Why did the building attract my attention? I think I want to go to that place. What's up there?" Caesar folded his lips, his hands resting on his stomach.
The night wind felt another way, flying a longing in the heart at someone who was out of nowhere.
"Maybe you're there? Had destiny been on my side, to us, we would not have been difficult to meet. Where are you, Cempaka? You leave before I can beg" Caesar said, moving his hands on the iron balcony.
The bright lights in the building did not make him feel bored. His lips smiled as Cempaka's simple face loomed in the fertilizer.
"I really miss you, Cempaka." He clenched his own body, dispelling the touching cold air.
****
A breeze of longing that Caesar sent, gently blowing greeted the face of a woman on the porch of his house. Cempaka closed his eyes, the feeling he craved for someone suddenly peaked and churned.
He let out a long breath, holding it for a while before exhaling slowly. Cempaka hugged his own body, rubbing both arms for warmth.
"What exactly am I doing here? Wish he'd come see me?" Cempaka sneered at himself.
"Stupid! You're just torturing yourself, Cempaka. He must have forgotten you. Maybe now he is happier with the woman and the child. Forget, Cempaka! Forget it!" Cempaka lowered his head, hiding the sadness from the moonlight that was watching.
His body was blown away when a clap landed on his shoulder.
"What are you doing here? You're not resting?" reprimand Lucy who came while also standing side by side with Cempaka.
The mother of the twins sighed, she herself had no idea what she was doing in that place.
"I was thinking of visiting the grave of my mother and my two younger sisters, Lucy. Maybe tomorrow morning, I'll go with my two children" said Cempaka as he turned to the woman beside him.
Lucy's eyeballs move quickly, looking at Cempaka's two neutrals.
"I'll accompany you. You can't go alone to that city. It feels .. I don't know. I felt something bad," Lucy said anxiously.
She smiled, that was Lucy. She has a mother-like feeling towards her child.
"Yes, we'll go there and maybe stay a few days. Don't you mind?" Cempaka nailed a look at the woman's face.
"No problem."
The two smiled, then faced towards the moon together. Enjoying the beauty of its diffusing light illuminates the dark sky.
****
At the dining table of the Aryan family villa, there was no conversation. Only the sound of the clanking of spoons clashing with plates filled the room. Also the voice of the mother who was so gentle was feeding the baby Evan.
"Dad, that building over there still looks like it's new. What building?" ask Caesar after finishing his meal.
"Indeed still new, it's a resort. It was built to attract the attention of the tourists" replied Mr. Arya after drinking water.
"I'm curious, Sir. The plan is tomorrow morning I will visit the place," Arjuna said into their conversation.
Master Arya fell silent, glancing at Caesar later. Judging from the ripples of the child's face, he also wanted to leave. It may have been their fate to meet. Like her who was destined to meet Cempaka at that place.
"Well, if you want to go. Go then! I've visited that place once and it's convenient." Master Arya smiled, hiding the anxiety of her heart.
What if Cempaka misunderstood him? Guess if it was Aryan master who had deliberately invited Caesar to come see him. Oh, that's business later.
"alright. What about you, Sir?" Arjuna dropped a glance at his superior.
Caesar shrugged his shoulders, answering neither yes nor no. Give up tomorrow.
"Mobile rings. You don't want to lift it?" Mr. Arya glanced at the pocket of Caesar's pants where his phone rang.
"Eva. I'm not talking to him" Caesar replied after seeing who had called. He deactivates the phone, and asks Arjuna to save it.
Mr. Arya sighed, not wanting to interfere in the affairs of the child's household. He looked at Evan who was so greedily fed to mother. His mind went back to the figure of the baby, who was the woman who gave birth to him?
"They went to the main house." Caesar suddenly said after a moment of silence.
Master Arya turned her head, her eyebrows meeting each other.
"They? Who?" He asked, but actually understood who they meant.
"Eva, Lisa and Gyan." Caesar answered.
"Why did they go to your mother's house?" A tone of voice that does not sound friendly. I don't like anyone else coming to visit the late wife's house.
"Eitherway. Maybe they think I'm there. They forced their way in, but the workers there did not allow it" Caesar replied again with a sigh.
"Ah, thank goodness. What was Lisa thinking? He's getting too outrageous. I'm guessing they're working together for one thing." Lord Arya glanced at Caesar as well as Arjuna.
"You're right, sir. At least I have proof that they often have meetings. Either at Lisa's house or somewhere else." Arjuna chimed in on the little information he got.
"Wait!" Mr. Arya called the butler of the villa, asking him to come.
"Master!" He bowed after arriving beside the master.
"Show them what you get from the people you send" Arya told him.
"Good."
He took the phone out of his uniform pocket, then searched for something and gave it to Caesar.
"It was sent by the man who spied on Lisa's mistress' house yesterday."
Caesar's jaws hardened after seeing for themselves their meeting. His fingers closed slowly, and became tight after gathering.
"Damn!"
