ANINDITA, A Tale of the Past

Husband Candidate

Anindita rushed into the burial area as a black cloud suddenly covered a portion of the blue sky and a rumbling sound above the sky signaled that it would soon rain.

The soil conditions were somewhat muddy because of the rain on the previous day made flat shoes wearing Anindita filled with clay and made Anindita's steps feel heavier. Anindita also had to be careful until she arrived in front of the husband's navel.

With little distress Anindita sat crouched beside Arya's grave. After giving his greetings he began to offer prayers to Arya. After finishing praying, Anindita sprinkled roses and jasmine that she had bought in front of the cemetery area. He also put down a few sprigs of white roses and Lily which he had brought from the florist shop where he worked.

" She, I miss the same thing. Our baby's been wanting six months. My stomach is also starting to grow." Anindita has no power not to shed her tears.

" It feels like a dream, Mom. I hope it's just a dream and when I wake up I can meet Mas Arya back ..." The sobs of tears instantly broke to make his shoulders shaken. The sudden loss of a loved one especially in a pregnant condition for Anindita is very severe. It was not easy for him to stay strong.

While the sky continued to rumble, flashes of light appeared several times in the sky covered in cloudy clouds, as if feeling the sadness that Anindita felt at that time. Even now it was not only tears that Anindita felt dripping on her cheeks, but the point of rain water began to feel her touch her skin.

After saying goodbye Anindita got up trying to stand up. But because too long Anindita squatting makes her legs tingling and difficult to stand, even almost slumped down if there are no sturdy hands that support her body so as not to fall.

Anindita was surprised to make her look at the person who helped her. And his eyeballs were rounded as he looked at the figure of Ricky who was currently wrapping his arms around Anindita's back.

Anindita spontaneously turned to her husband's navel while keeping Ricky's hand away from her body. Making physical contact with Ricky especially in front of the grave of her husband, making it seem to be caught cheating.

" Why is Mr Ricky here?" ask Anindita.

" Why don't you tell me if you're going here?" Ricky answered Anindita's question by asking back. Of course, Anindita's pregnant condition makes her very worried if the woman goes alone let alone to the cemetery.

" Why should I tell you?!" ketus Anindita's. Because Anindita feels her privacy is disturbed by Ricky's presence.

" Of course I should know because I'm your future husband."

Anindita's eyes widened when she heard what Ricky had just said. He immediately looked back at Arya.

" That's not true, Mom! Mas Arya don't hear what she said! He's crazy!" Anindita seemed to want to explain to Arya if what Ricky said was just a joke. Anindita immediately walked away from Arya's grave and away from Ricky by holding back the tingling sensation that made her legs uncomfortable. Not to mention the clay that seemed to want to tie the footwear he wore

" Aaaakkhh ...!!" Anindita shrieked in shock because at this time her body seemed to float and rest on two burly arms supporting her.

" What are you doing?! Release me!!" Anindita immediately beat Ricky's body when she saw the man who had raised his body. But Ricky seemed to not care about the protest carried out by Anindita so that the man still walked toward the parking lot of the cemetery area.

" Take me off!!" Anindita is still fighting with Ricky's body.

" You better shut up if you don't want to be the center of people's attention!"

" I'm sorry, what's up, Mom? Why is this mama screaming?"

There has not been a minute Ricky ended his words suddenly there was a man approaching Ricky who carried the body of Anindita. The man looked at Ricky suspiciously

" Ordinary, Sir. Household troubles, she ran away and complained at her parents' grave."

Anindita immediately glared at Ricky's words which at that time only showed a flat face without guilt.

" Oh, household matters. Yes, it should be done well at home, embarrassed if it reaches public fuss, Mas." The man gave advice.

" Thank you, sir. Excuse me ..." Ricky said goodbye and continued to move his legs towards his parked car.

Ricky dropped Anindita down when he got to her car, then opened the door for the pregnant woman to sit next to her steering chair.

" I'll take you home." Ricky asks Anindita to get into his car. And after Anindita obeyed what she was told, the nearly thirty-six-year-old man walked to the corner of the other door and finally sat behind the wheel.

" Next time if you want to go from the apartment area let me know. I'm just worried something happened to you. You're pregnant, the weather is cloudy and it's almost raining" Ricky said, wearing his seat belt but not responded to by the beautiful woman, because the woman first threw her eyes out of the window with a pile of annoyance.

Ricky turns on his car engine and also tunes the audio. Because it was on the way to the cemetery area he was listening to the latest info around the Jakarta area from one of the leading radio channels.

I will not retreat, I will not waver ....

Convince you, love me ....

My God loves her, I want to be with her ....

I want to spend this breath alone with him ....

Do not change my destiny, unite my heart with his ....

Together until the end ....

Ricky finally drove his car away from the cemetery where Anindita's husband was buried.

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Anindita rushes out of Ricky's car as Ricky's car stops at the lobby door. Anindita then used the access card lift to get to the floor of her apartment. The presence of Anindita from the entrance of the lobby immediately became the center of attention of most of the people who were there, because at that time Anindita pinned her flat shoes filled with clay attached to her shoes, until now he is barefoot without using any pedestal.

" I'm sorry, my shoes are dirty. Pity the same Mas-mas cleaning the floor." That's the answer Anindita gave when the security guard near the lobby door asked why Anindita took off her shoes.

Ting

The elevator door that took Anindita to reach the floor she was headed to was opened, making the woman with a bulging stomach also out of the elevator and walk towards her apartment unit.

Anindita opened the apartment door and entered it with a greeting. But immediately he gasped when he found the guest room which is usually neatly arranged with a sofa and some furniture now looks empty. But the floor is now stretched beautiful tapestry from corner to corner and only leaves the bench sofa, where on the sofa without a backrest is composed of several hampers, making Anindita scrunch her forehead. But before long Anindita came out back from the apartment she entered to ascertain whether she was wrong apartment or not. But when he saw the number on the door, he did find the number of the apartment he had occupied.

" sa ...!! Ma'am Tita ...!!" Anindita then shouted calling out to the two ARTs.

" Have you come home?" Tita answered his call.

" -What's going on here, ma'am? Sofa and the others where?" anindita asked in amazement.

" Temporary items placed in the middle room are either partially in Rama's room, Mom." Tita explained where the objects Aninda meant were.

" Why was it moved there?" Anindita still does not understand what happened.

" Will after the prayer isya there will be a forty-day tahlilan event Mr. Arya, Mom."

Deg

Anindita's heart rippled as she heard Tita's answer to her husband's forty-day tahlilan plan.

" Askullet? B-but who prepared this? I didn't make this show, Mommy?" anindita asked confusedly.

" It's been told by Mr. Ricky, Mom."

Anindita again surprised to find out if Ricky is the one who prepares Aryan tahlilan event.

" That's the hampers are also provided, ma'am. If boxed rice is the same snack after Maghrib delivered, Mom. The message is also in the restaurant below which is close to the florist. And Anindita knew the restaurant in question

Anindita walked slowly closer to the neatly arranged hampers on the bench sofa, She opened one of the hampers, inside which contained prayer mats, skullcap, digital beads and also Yasin's book. She grabbed the book she was covering featuring a photo of Arya smiling, making Anindita shed her tears, as she could not express how her heart felt right now.

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