A Friend from Malaysia

Discussions with Mama Ratih

"Lucas?"

"Whatever the name is," replied Ratih briefly. "Mama's informant Eva is in a relationship with one of the man's closest people."

Ilham sighed. She tries to recall the moment she was in Yola's apartment that time and overhears Eva and a man talking to her. It seems that was the lover of Eva Mama Ratih meant.

If Ilham does not remember wrongly, the conversation Eva and the man who Ilham suspected her lover was indeed full of hatred for Yola, even impressed to want to get rid of Yola, and even impressed, to make Ilham want to quickly get rid of him to Alor Setar as soon as he had planned.

"What really happened, Ma? Why does Eva have the same name as Yola too? And what makes him seem to hate Yola so much?" ask Ilham.

Then without hiding anything else from Inspiration, Mama Ratih began to tell about the disgrace of Abhimanyu in the past. Connecting outside the boundaries with a lover who is not sanctioned by his father, Salim Gunawan, to have a daughter.

Ratih also told me little he knew about the history of his father-in-law who had a stressful experience at once who changed his life on a cruise ship called Yolanda.

"So, his grandfather Yola wanted if he had a granddaughter, then the name that would be given to him was Yolanda. And it just so happened that when the son of the father and Mira who was born was a girl, so made by the papa named Yolanda Gunawan, hoping the grandfather was devastated, he said, but Salim's grandfather still insisted on not accepting Mira and remained with his stance on marrying Abi's mother and father. At that time I did not know the problem, and you can see, my mother finally married my father and born a daughter too. Grandfather insisted on giving her the name Yolanda Gunawan. And she is now your wife" Mama recalled.

"Is the marriage of Ilham and Yola also included in the wishes of grandfather?" tanya Ilham wanted to know.

Mama Ratih nodded slowly.

"Yes, even though it was originally because of the incident of the disappearance of your sister, Andini in our house but honestly Mama and Papa never worried about it because at that time, you and Yola were still small, you and I were, so that conversation was never taken seriously by us. After all, even if the soul mate is not going anywhere, so our minds. But who would have thought that Mamahmu still insisted on editing Yola as his son-in-law, well that included forcing Yola to marry you, hufft ..." Mama Ratih took a deep breath while developing her hand a sign that she could do nothing at the time.

"Where is Mama Ratih always less friendly with Mamah every time you meet?" guess the Inspiration with a smile.

"Just right!But a promise is a promise, can't blame your mother completely. He also lost his precious daughter because of our negligence as the host," Ratih said. "Mama should feel more fortunate. Yola is only married to you, although she is still a child but she still lives with Mama, still able to live her life as a child. Even though ... in the end you still disappoint Mama too, Ilham ..."

Ahhh, Ratih brought it up again. Women are the best historians!

Inspiration immediately inched closer to Ratih again, and hugged her. When Ratih is not tired of bringing up his mistakes, he also wants to show that he will not get tired of apologizing.

"I'm sorry, Ma! Inspiration should not do that. Inspiration regrets it and it won't happen again, ok? Inspiration will protect and harm Yola and the grandchildren of Mama, "persuade Ilham before the tears in her father-in-law broke.

After Ratih calmed down again, Ilham finally continued his discussion again.

"The ship, Ilham had heard but not much. Ilham only knew that Atok and Atok's friends, had defeated pirates on a cruise ship. Is that Yolanda's ship you mean?" tanya Ilham curious.

"It looks like it. Because Grandpa Salim was so impressed with the ship that he wanted to make his grandson's name with the name of the ship. As you know Mama, they got the loot of the robbers there, which they ended up using for the cost of going home, why?" Practice back asking.

"only then? Nothing more valuable?" tanya Ilham could not believe it.

"What is more valuable? For example?" Now Ratih is confused about that question.

Then Ilham also briefly and in detail explained about the discovery of facts that he got from the letters that had run away Melisa. And it led to the curiosity of Ratih on the letter, so inevitably he finally showed it to his in-laws.

"Wait a moment, Ilham will take first to the room," said Ilham and immediately approved Ratih with a nod.

"Udah finished a secret meeting with Mrs. In-law?" satir Yola with a sneer.

Inspiration is just a head-scalp disregard for Yola's sneers. Soon he headed for the closet and took a large envelope containing letters from Salim Gunawan, Yola's grandfather.

"What's that?" ask Yola curiously.

"Not payang pening this article. You just throw away your buying stuff first. Want to put all that dimane?" ledek Ilham who saw their bed filled with groceries now.

Not caring about Yola's response anymore, Ilham immediately returned to the living room where he and Mama Ratih spoke earlier.

"This, Mah," he said, handing over the large envelope filled by Atok Salim's letters to Atok Yahya.

Quickly, Ratih immediately pulled out the small envelopes containing the letter from the large brown envelope in his hand. Then he began to read the letter one by one. It wasn't long for him to finish reading all that.

Inspiration can see Mama Ratih who looks often frowned.

"Where do you think Mama is?" tanya Ilham asked for the opinion of Ratih as a person who is very familiar with Salim Gunawan.

Train took a deep breath before finally he put the envelope containing the letters on the table.

"Mama really did not know about the golden statue and the montha somnang that his grandfather Yola meant. But according to Mama it seems we should also see a reply letter from Atokmu to grandfather Salim so that we can conclude and not unilaterally like this," proposed Mama Ratih.

Inspiration agreed.

"But how?"

"The letter from your grandfather is definitely not here, but in Jakarta. That is if there is still. Gini aja deh, later if mama go home mama findin how? Keep sending you here?"

Inspiration finally agreed. The Inspiration Talk with Mama Ratih seemed to find a bright spot.

"On Yola ..." Mama Ratih asked carefully. "He didn't know that Eva was Papa's son?"

Ilham nodded.

"Yola, don't know about that ...."

Just now Ilham answered Mama Ratih's question, suddenly someone's voice sounded shocked to hear their conversation.

"Whataa??!! Eva Papa's son how does that mean??"

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