15 Years Adrift
Episode 18: Ask for Permission
Clungs.clung...
Fani's phone rang signaling an incoming message, with Fani's semi-conscious eyes fingering her phone and opening the incoming message.
"yeay.....!"
Fani immediately pranced with excitement when she saw the message was her first salary slip in the company, and what makes Fani happy is her salary is 2 times the salary while still a retail employee.
Fani immediately ran out of the room to approach her mother at the stall. With
a lump of dirt still stuck to the end of his eye.
"Mother...! Fani already payday.we can repay the debt as loan sharks." Fani jumped up and down in excitement while shaking Nita's hand. He didn't realize there was a Dimas there.
"Our debt is paid, son.." Nita replied with a gentle smile.
Fani doesn't believe her mother's answer.
"uh uh..? when's mom? who paid? we don't have that kind of money."
Nita turned her eyes towards Dimas who was already sitting sweetly behind Fani. With a light brown shirt that increasingly exudes an aura of good looks.
Fani was dumbfounded to look at Dimas, why did the man come there this beautiful morning?
"Okm Dimas? Why are you here early in the morning?"
"I want to take you guys to play, take a day off." Dimas stood up to Fani.
"As if you sleep well, your eyes lay eggs." Dimas rubbed Fani's eye dung with his thumb.
"ihhhhh.. slovenly om Dimas !" Fani immediately cleaned Dimas's thumb with her clothes she pulled.
"Yes, that's why it's cleaned so it's not dirty."
"aisss..could-can I go straight out the room without washing face.!" fani grumbled in his heart. He ran into his house in shame. He better take a shower first.
Nita just laughed at the behavior of her eldest daughter. The carefree face of Fani is very soothing to his mind.
"Let's go, let's have breakfast first." Said Nita while presenting the menu Favorite Dimas, and invite her to eat together.
"Mom.." Call Dimas hesitant, he is confused as to how because he is not good at pleasantries. His face became very serious. He was determined to tell Nita, that he fell in love with the firstborn.
"Yes..?" Sahut Nita looked up.
"I know this may sound presumptuous and inappropriate. I also accept that you want to be angry with me."
Dimas took a deep breath, really he was very nervous to talk about this.
Nita listened to Dimas seriously. Both of his eyebrows folded, out of curiosity with the look of Dimas' face that looked tense.
"Why son..?"
Dimas' heart was beating violently from seeing Nita's extremely serious gaze.
Dimas mustered his courage, and he had also thought of all the possibilities that would happen.
"I fell in love with Fani. I know I don't deserve Fani because of my age. And I accept that you're angry, because I'm so sassy." Dimas said as he clenched his hands over his thighs. Even a soft sweat felt seeping behind his nape.
Nita sighed long while smiling gently. He thought what was going on.
"Falling in love is not a mistake, son, and you and Fani also have no blood ties. So you think it's perfectly fine that you love Fani."
Getting that answer, Dimas was very surprised. His eyes widened, as if he could not believe what he had just heard.
"Truly mother allowed me to love Fani?"
Nita nodded her head slowly, with a smile emanating on her face. If the kids are happy, why not? The happiness of her children is happiness for Nita as well.
"Where about Fani? Is he the same?" Looking at Nita with her gaze, had Fani fallen in love too?
Dimas shook his head. "It looks like he has no feelings for me ma'am, but I will be patient and won't force Fani to reciprocate my feelings."
Yes, Dimas is determined to have a serious relationship. Not a messy relationship like a teenager. Because he realized he was no longer young. For that he talked directly about this with Nita.
"Funny, ma'am..." Dimas chuckled softly.
"Talking about something like this. I never expected to fall in love with Fani, whom I used to play with."
Dimas looked awkward for discussing this inappropriate thing.
"Mom's been thinking, since the first time you met and washed the dishes together that night." Nita seduces Dimas, as he always notices Dimas' gesture when looking at Fani.
"Om Dimas's. Let's go...!" Nurul and Ayu cried with great enthusiasm, they also held Fani's hands and forced her to come along.
Fani did not want to come with them, but Nurul and Ayu insisted, as well as Dika who wanted her brother to go with them.
Dimas's memories came back 10 years ago, when they were all children.
Dimas still remembers when he used to wear seat belts to them one by one, and now they have all grown up to be very smart and jolly children.
"You guys ready...?" Ask Dimas to make sure.
"Each om... leave....!" Seru Nurul, Dika and Ayu together.
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They agreed to go to the mall while nostalgic with his childhood, Ayu who had never been there amazed to the amazement of seeing the magnificent mall, in addition there is Snow world that he had long imagined from the frozen film.
"Sister, let's snow." Pinta Ayu while pulling Fani's hand.
Fani happily complies with the youngest's request. He and his two brothers played in the snow laughing. Fani felt very happy to see her sister laughing happily like this.
Dika who is not interested in playing snow, just sit down to enjoy a drink with Dimas. Dika also observed from earlier that his om unceasingly looked at the brother, even he also found Dimas smiling himself.
"Sister Fani is beautiful." Chirps Dika.
"Yes." Dimas replied with a smile.
"uh.. " Dimas immediately regained his senses and looked at Dika.
"Dek, Nurul the same Ayu asked to ride your rollercoaster that accompany ya. brother did not dare." Said Fani with a breath of gasp because he had run away playing.
"OK on ready.." He complied and immediately rushed from there.
Fani sat on her chair while fanning her face that felt hot. Then he sipped Dika's iced coffee very ferociously
Not a single look of Dimas was diverted from Fani's face. This widower seems to be crazy by the figure of Fani.
"So I told you the same mother.."
bbfferrrr.tt....!
Spontaneous coffee in Fani's mouth gushed out and landed on Dimas' shirt.
"What..?! How is mom? He must have scolded Dimas, right? Fani told you, it's not appropriate..."
"Your mother doesn't mind, so you shouldn't be afraid to open your heart, and accept my feelings." Dimas put on a confident face.
"Damf... Fani no one said yes if mom agrees, Fani will return the feeling of om." Fani took her eyes off Dimas's face.
"hahahaha. yeah... I told you I wouldn't push you."
Although Fani has not been able to accept his feelings, Dimas is very happy because Nita has given the green light.
"Let's find the sink.." Fani moves on, invites Dimas to find a source of water.
"For what?" Dimas scrunched his forehead.
"That's..." Appoint Fani on a coffee-embossed Dimas shirt.
Dimas only realized that his shirt was dirty because of Fani's actions, and he rose from his chair following Fani looking for a sink. Falling in love really made her forget everything. That was Dimas. It is not wrong if his ex-wife toyed with Dimas's sincere feelings, because he is very easily distracted.
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