A Wound

Chapter 5's

Currently Ara was staring blankly at the back of the man who was waiting in line to place an order at one of the outlets there. His lips curved into a smile as the man turned around and threw a smile at him.

The man was really handsome, it was only fitting that Miya was so adoring to him. But somehow he just realized it, but almost every day they met. Is it because on campus he has a lot of rivals? Her thought.

After a while Bima returned and they began to eat the food in front of them.

“Thank you for today,” said Bima open chat.

“He's the same, sir. I'm glad to be able to help, Father,” replied Ara smiling.

“You must be very tired, I hope you won't be kapok help me.”

“Ah is not, sir, ordinary,” he said trying to smile, although in fact he was back upset considering how annoying it is to shop with the man in front of him. As he recalled, his two best friends were not this thick as they shopped together.

“Oh yes, sir, can I ask you something?” tanyanya doubt.

“What?”

“What is the right gift for your lover?”

Bima chuckled at the girl in front of him, “who said?”

“Mmm__”

“Not, it's not for my lover. I have no lover,” replied Bima cutting. “More precisely not yet,” he added.

“Oh so yes,” answered Ara soberly, back feed food to her mouth. I don't know why there is a sense of happiness when he heard the lecturer's answer.

“Oh yes, when I was at your house I did not see your mother. Though I am very curious about the appearance of a mother who gave birth to a girl as beautiful as you.”

Ara was made to gasp with the words of the man before her. “My mother has died a long time ago, Sir,” Irene smiled bitterly.

“Sorry sorry, I don't know,” said Bima sorry.

“It's okay, sir,” he said again smiling, at least so that the man before him did not feel awkward.

“Maybe your father is a little protective of you, limiting you to doing things because he doesn't want you to do anything, because all your responsibilities are with him.”. At least he knew about the girl in front of him after talking while walking around looking for gifts.

While touring earlier they continued to discuss about the girl's father who always limited his daughter's movements, and also they discussed about the two girl's friends, who were none other than Arumi and Miya.

While Ara himself dares to ask personal things to his lecturer.

“Iya,” Ara stared blankly at the food in front of her, imagining the face of her first love, who was none other than her father. “I used to be angry at my father, I felt jealous of my friends who were given freedom by both of their parents. But there's no point in me getting angry, anyway dad still won't allow me to go out with my friends, until finally I get used to all this.”

Since his daughter became a teenager, Hartono is often limiting the association of Ara. Never let his daughter out if just for a walk. To go out to do schoolwork, he will take the time to deliver his own daughter.

“Until now, I only believe in Arumi and Miya,”.

“They both do look good,” said Bima

“Bapak did not know that Arumi was very ignorant to my father.”

“Really? I think he's very stiff, considering he rarely smiles, unlike Miya who is very easy to laugh."

“They're both the same,”. “What you know, a week ago we pranked my father, until I regretted doing it, and it was all ideas from Arumi,” he said.

Over time Ara became comfortable telling stories with the man in front of her, until Bima asked him to tell her about the events he meant, Ara also happily told her.

That day was a weekend, the three of them asked Hartono for permission to take a walk. And as always, Hartono allowed on condition that they should already be at home before night.

And they were obedient children, they came home in the afternoon before Hartono came home. But Arumi gave the two the idea to work on Hartono.

As usual when the three came out, in the afternoon Hartono would call his daughter to check their whereabouts. But this time they were compact not to answer the call from the middle-aged man.

Hartono's coming home at night. And when hearing the sound of Hartono's car entering the yard, the three of them hid in Hartono's room, and previously they had seduced Bi Ratih to cooperate.

Hartono rushed down from his car and into the house to check on his daughter. Since then he has been made anxious when none of the three children raised his phone call.

Looking at her employer's face which looked extremely anxious, made Bi Ratih a little hesitant to lie, but she had already promised the girls. It's a shame that their plan failed because of him.

“It looks like not yet, Sir,” the answer is doubtful.

“Seems?” tanyanya.

With a quick step Hartono climbed into his daughter's room to confirm Bi ratih's remark. And sure enough the daughter's room was empty, they hadn't come home yet.

“Where are they?” Hartono became riled up, thinking about where his daughter was now.

Hartono reached into his pants pocket, grabbed his phone and again tried to contact the three, hoping this time there was an answer from them.

One missed call made all bad thoughts fill his head. Where are his three daughters? What if something happens to them? How did they get into an accident? Or maybe someone hurt them.

“Arghhh...” his shout was full of anger, then back to make a call.

With his cell phone still stuck to his ear, Hartono walked at a rapid pace out of his daughter's room towards his room which was right next to his daughter's room.

Hartono went into his room, and pressed the switch to light his room in complete darkness, and…

“Doorrr...!”

“Astagfirullah!” pekik Hartono held his chest, feeling shocked until he unconsciously dropped the phone in his hand. ”What do you guys do?” mean it.

The three of them did not care about the anger of the middle-aged man, they felt more funny to see the expression that Hartono showed which they thought was very funny. The three laughed out loud as if they had no sin at all.

“What do you guys do?” the voice of Hartono began to weaken as he watched the happiness of the three girls who looked fine.

Ara who saw the worry on her father's face stopped her laughter, then approached her father and hugged him, “maaf pranking father,” he said regretfully.

Hartono returned his daughter's embrace and kissed her head in a deep, perfumed breath of princess hair. There was a sense of relief to see her daughter doing well. It might be a little exaggerated, but that was what he always felt, he was just afraid of losing the most precious treasure of his life.

“Don't be like this anymore, you don't know dad is so worried about you guys,” softly, still not able to adjust his heartbeat which is still beating fast.

“This is all Arumi, he who gave the idea to prank, Dad,” his sword.

“Sorry, Dad! Sorry..” said Arumi and Miya together. They then approached Hartono and embraced the man they called the father.

“Other times don't be like this again, how about dad hang up and die on the spot? Want you to go to jail?”

“Ya stay in sekumin,” replied Arumi casually.

“Arumiii..” shouted Ara and Miya almost simultaneously.

“Aw..aw.aw...” ringis Arumi who got jeweran from Hartono.

“Tega you are with dad!” said Hartono then took off his jewelry. “Then where is your car? Father didn't see it.”

“Ditipin in next door neighbor,” replied Arumi, making the three again chuckle. And Hartono just shook his head to see the efforts of the three in working on it.

Bima who heard the story of Ara also laughed, “you guys are very nosy, what if your father really hangs?”

“Not really, sir, we have checked, Dad has no history of heart disease,” replied Ara tetawa.

“There-there's just you guys.”

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