ANINDITA, A Tale of the Past

Rose Flower Box

Tok tok tok tok

" Anin, are you asleep, Nin?" Mama Arya's voice accompanied by a knock on the door was heard from outside Anindita's room making Anindita approach the door and open it.

" Mom ...."

" Anin, Mama want to talk to you for a minute?" ask Mama Arya before entering Anindita's room.

" Please, Ma." Anindita lets Mama Arya into her room. He even helped push the wheelchair even though the wheelchair used by Mama Arya was electric.

" May ...."

" Ma, Anin's sorry about the incident." Anindita immediately sat down in front of her in-laws.

" Anin didn't know that Mr. Ricky would do that. But Anin did not think Mr. Ricky was that determined. He did it without Anin's permission, Ma." Anindita tried to clarify that her mother-in-law did not become misunderstood.

" Anin, you don't have to feel that way. Mama has already approved of you, Anin." Mama Arya rubbed Anindita's head.

" Mr ..." Anindita loosened her head when she heard with her own ears if Mama Arya approved Ricky's plan to propose to her.

" Anin, Mama knows ... Arya will stay in your heart she stays alive there. But Arya is gone, her body will not return and you alone must live life and you need someone to lean on, share stories, share grievances. So Mama hope you don't hesitate to accept Ricky's offer to marry you after your iddah period is over." Mama Arya tries to open the way of Anindita's mind to be more open and more logical mind.

" But Anin doesn't want to betray Mas Arya, Ma."

" You did not betray Arya, Anin. When Arya dies, it means that your marital status is broken. When Arya dies, it means you're divorced and dead with Arya. So you also have the right to start a new life again after your Iddah period is over."

" Mama wants you to remain Mama's daughter-in-law because then marry Ricky, because now Ricky has been Mama considers like Mama's son too, Anin." Mama Arya constantly reassures Anindita.

Anindita squinted her eyes looking suspiciously at Mama Arya.

" Did Mr Ricky force Mama to support his plan?"

Instead of being offended by Anindita's words, Mama Arya just chuckled.

" Why do you think that, Anin? Without having to be forced, Mama will support you. Only Ricky deserves to be with you in place of Arya."

" But Anin isn't ready, Ma. It feels so strange if Anin should suddenly marry him, roommate, sleep together, then ah ...." Anindita covered her face, embarrassed to imagine it with another man.

Mama Arya laughed again.

" Mom knows it takes a process, but it can go with time. Ricky's been doing us a lot of good, Anin. He also looks familiar to you. Mama thinks it should be immediately memorized rather than going to be the talk of people because you are too often together."

" Mom hope you're always nice to Ricky. Don't let you regret it if Ricky gets tired of chasing you and picking another woman."

" Mommy thinks that's all Mama wants to tell you, Anin Now you rest, it's night." Mama Arya glanced towards the wall clock that already showed ten o'clock at night. No lam Mama Arya also came out of Anindita's room to Ramadhan's room.

***

Anindita squirmed her muscles when she woke up this morning. He then turned on the room lights until his vision was now directed at four boxes located on a table consisting of three black boxes and one white box.

Anindita walked towards the box. He read the name of the brand in the box was the name of the florist store but not Alabama.

Anindita tried to open a box of black from the very end, she gasped when she found the box containing white roses varied pink roses form the letter I. Anindita then opened the second black box positioned in the middle which contained still white roses with variations of red roses forming the symbol of the heart & the. He then opened the third box with a thumping heart. Especially when he found a white rose with pink roses that form the letter U. Anindita then opened another box that was white. He wondered what else was in the box.

Anindita found a neatly arranged white rose and a red rose in the form of the letter RA surrounded by baby's breath. R and A are the initials of Ricky Anindita. And if it is read in unison in all four boxes it may have this meaning

...I & U...

...Ricky and Anindita...

" Why buy it somewhere else, anyway? Why not buy it in Alabama? If we string like this we can too." Anindita frowned when remembering the name of the florist in the box was the name of one of the best florists in Jakarta.

But then Anindita took her phone and immortalized the rose on her phone and she sent the photo to the sender of the flowers that she definitely knew who did it.

" Thank you for the flowers."

After sending the message, Anindita wanted to save her phone back but suddenly heard the message entered the flat object of hers.

" Do you like it?" Ricky's reply quickly went to his cell phone

" No!" Anindita answered briefly but impressed ketus.

" Oh sorry if you don't like it."

" Why buy outside? Why not buy it in Alabama? If only we could do that - we in Alabama can do it too!" Anindita's like taking out all her junk.

The message sent by Anindita was read by Ricky but the man did not reply to Anindita's complaint. Waiting for up to a minute there was no sign of Ricky doing a typing motion to reply to Anindita's message made the woman pluck her lips. He put his phone back and wanted to walk to the bathroom.

Tok tok tok tok

Anindita pulled her steps as she heard her bedroom door being knocked.

" Just go in is not locked" said Anindita because she thought if the knocking is Cika or Tita. But Anindita was aghast when she found Ricky who now opened the door and entered her bedroom.

" father? What are you going to do here?" Fortunately, this time Anindita wore a negligee knee-length and arm so it did not make Ricky stunned by the beauty and smooth skin of Anindita.

" I want to take the flowers back." Ricky walked towards the flower box it was in.

" Why was it taken again?" asked Anindita in surprise.

" Say you don't like it? Yes I want to just love to others later I change like this from Alabama florist." Ricky was about to take the box with the rose but Anindita forbade it.

" Eh, don't-don't! Leave it there, it doesn't need to be replaced! Who would love someone else who is this flower? Rachel's Mother?" ketus Anindita's.

The words of Anindita who mentioned Rachel's name made Ricky pull one lip up. He then remembered Mita's remark that Anindita did not like her closeness with Rachel.

" For Rachel? Maybe, he likes it too. Only later I change the arrangement of the red roses into the letter R as well" Ricky responded to Anindita.

" Yes, just bring all this. Thanks to Rachel!" Anindita closes and arranges the box violently and thrusts toward Ricky making Ricky accept the boxes by force.

" Please get out of this room." Anindita then forced Ricky's body out of his room and closed it and locked it. For some reason, suddenly there were bursts of emotion that appeared when Ricky said he would give the flower to Rachel and change the initials of the letter A to the letter R.

*

*

*

Connect ...

Happy Re is a happy-go-lucky