ALPENIA (The Cruel Small Town)

A Terrible Coincidence

“Intan, mama thought you went out, playing with Amora and Rima,” Cantika said when approaching her daughter.

Intan caught a strange expression from her mother's face. He saw the woman in front of him a little surprised when he saw her.

“What's the matter, why is her father Renaldi with her mom in papa's office?” Intan asked suspiciously. According to him, it is not right if two people who are not supposed to be alone, are in a closed room.

Cantika kelabakan, do not know what to answer, “anu, he-it, want to minjam money, he said to pay his son's school." His lips were in response.

Intan frowned, he did not believe his mother's words. The reason, his mother never hesitated in speaking, and this time was clearly different. Something must be wrong. “Do not lie!” the cetus is always straightforward.

“Who is lying? Remember that your suspicions once made our relationship tenuous. Stop this interrogation!” Firmly Cantika while raising her legs and moving away, leaving her son with serious questions.

It was very disturbing to Intan's mind. He wanted to tell someone about his suspicions. And what appeared in his mind was Renaldi.

***

It had been half an hour Naya looked at the calm water that spread wide in front of her. He almost forgot that his working hours were still long, if he did not see the man who was standing a little far from his current place.

I don't know when that man was standing there. Sangking drowning in daydreams and sadness, Naya so unaware there is someone who might be watching her dumbstruck from earlier.

But the girl was astonished too. Why did the man instead stand to the side and daydream, instead of working. In fact, the man had been truant from two days ago.

Strangely enough, Naya finds out that the man named Sandi is a little silly. But he did not expect that the twenty-year-old man did something that could make himself lose his only job. In fact, Sandi once told Naya that she had a sister who was sick with typhoid.

Naya walked over to the tall, skinny man, greeted by a pat on the shoulder. “Bang! why not work? You have not entered for two days" he asked cheerfully, as if he had forgotten the sadness that had plagued his heart for a while.

Sandi was surprised to find Naya standing next to her. "Why are you here? Not working?” He answers Naya's question with a question. He feels a little strange when he sees Naya wearing a work uniform, but instead hangs out at the lake.

Naya rolled her eyes back, “how's your sister lo?” the question changed the topic.

“Still the same, has not improved,” bright Sandi while exhaling a long breath. It was a sad face that she was trying to cover.

Naya who realized the look of Sandi's face, then patted the man's shoulder trying to strengthen. Although, he already knew that Sandi was a very strong person.

The proof, the man was willing to drop out of school while still sitting in the tenth grade, after his father died. And he began to become the backbone of the family. Ms. Sandi is also just a tailor who rarely takes orders from customers, because it is often sickly.

Naya finds out about the story because Sandi told her herself.

The two men were silent for a moment, compactly staring at the water that began to look a little orange, because the sun will soon sink.

“Nay! According to you, if doing good things in a bad way is wrong?” Suddenly, Sandi asked the question.

Naya was astonished, it was rare for Sandi to talk to her about anything serious. “If I think wrong, bang! Say small things, for example, you eat oranges, but not peeled skin. Although it will taste sweet, but the bitter taste of the skin it certainly makes you uncomfortable,” bright Naya makes Sandi chuckle small.

“Who eats the same orange peel?” Sandi didn't laugh.

“Then from that, do not take the bad way to achieve the good. No matter how good it is, there will definitely be things that feel wrong,” continued Naya.

Laughter Sandi stopped for a moment. His face bahkam looks bent after his mouth silent noiseless.

Understanding something was not right, Naya again asked, “What's the matter, bang? Disposable talkin' stuff like just now?”

Samdi was silent for a few seconds. He has something that disturbs his mind. However, he was not sure he would take the right step if he told this to the girl he had considered his own sister.

***

Things got very awkward between Salman and Iswanti.

Salman who according to Iswanti is ambiguous. Because when he was with his mother the young man was very excited to tease him, and now when they were both, Salman instead acted very cold.

In silence, Iswanti gets what might be the cause of this silence away. Helen and her mother and stepfather were loading some suitcases into the trunk of a car.

“Helen where are you going?”The girl with slender body opened her mouth.

Replied quickly by the imperceptible young man how happy it was to get the question. His sign iswanti was not angry with him.

“Today he wants to move,” replied Salman calmly.

“Where?”

“Belisia.”

Iswanti scrunched her forehead. He guessed how Helen felt at this time, considering that the girl had just lost her biological father, and helped bury the body of the father in Belisia. How depressing. Hope Helen is okay.

Seeing the dreamy iswanti for a while, Salman also snapped a finger several times right in front of the girl's face, trying to resuscitate her. "Hey!"

“His mother Helen doesn't know yet that—“

“Now!” Salman cuts ucpan Iswanti.

Iswanti had just wanted to ask if Helen had told her mother about her father's tragic death.

The tall, well-worn girl approached Salman and Iswanti with a cheerful smile. However, there was sadness that he tried to hide. He hugged Iswanti tightly. "Gue go first, brother, take care of brother Salman.”

Iswanti nodded after Helen removed her hand from her shoulder, “lo well yes, there!"

Iswanti really hopes Helen will not get into as much trouble as yesterday and live in peace.

Helen moved to hug her cousin, “do not itch with other girls, take care of sister Iswanti,” he said while chuckling amusedly.

Salman replied to the taunts with a toyoran in Helen's head. “Gue is bigger than lo, I should be nasehatin!”

Helen thumped her lips, before finally whispering right in Salman's ear, “fight until she can!”

Salman smiled sumringah, and said, “definitely!”

Helen is ready to move on, move on and get out of the city that has inflicted deep wounds on her heart and memory. The place where he saw with his own eyes when the father was shot dead in front of him. Although he felt, that the place to go was no better than this city.

***

Naya was still waiting for the password to open her mouth, the man hung up his words from earlier.

“There is a nawarin I work, anonymous is that, to do child abduction,” explained Sandi.

Naya glared her eyes in surprise. What a terrible coincidence. He and his friends are investigating a kidnapping case. Did the offer that came to Sandi, come from the same mastermind?

“The payment is quite large, enough to pay for the treatment of my mother and sister-,”

“Gak! You can't do that. It's wrong if you can be a child kidnapper," cut Naya immediately.

Sandi nodded in understanding. After all, he did not have the heart to commit this crime.

However, on the other hand Naya had an idea that had just popped into her head. A little crazy and dangerous.

“But, maybe you should do it!”