ANINDITA, A Tale of the Past

Resembled

" What's up?"

Anindita gasps at the sound of Arya's voice, plus the touch of Arya's hand holding her hand.

" Hey, are you daydreaming? What are you thinking?" tanya Arya linked her finger with Anindita's fingers.

Anindita sighed for a while, then turned her head towards Arya.

" Here My Mama's daughter came to Alabama Florist." Anindita finally honestly said what made her depressed.

Arya turned her head for a while towards Anindita then refocused her with the road in front of her.

" He has met you apparently "Arya's words suddenly made Anindita scrunch her forehead.

" Did you know Rachel's mom met me?" Anindita was surprised to see Arya's reaction seemed ordinary and not surprised when she told him that Arya's ex-wife had met her.

" Yes, he did ask me for permission to meet you. He said he wanted to know the next candidate for Lady Arya." Arya chuckled in response to Anindita's question.

Arya's reply made Anindita sigh.

" Why didn't you tell me earlier that Rachel's mom wanted to see you?" Anindita flicked her lips because Rachel's sudden arrival made her nervous because she had nothing to prepare.

" What if I told you first, what would you do? Want to put on a red carpet to greet Rachel?" ledek Arya chuckled, making Anindita look at her.

" Are there any words that Rachel doesn't feel good to hear and hurt you?" arya asked later, and Arya's question was immediately answered with Anindita's head.

" Mad Rachel is nice, beautiful and classy. Actually Mas Arya really fits Rachel's mother." Insecurities came back to Anindita's heart.

" Oh yeah? Rachel spoke otherwise. He said you were the right woman for me."

Anindita's two eyebrows intertwined when she heard Arya's words.

" When did Rachel say that?" tanyanya.

" So after coming home to see you he chatted me. He said you're the kind of woman I've been looking for all this time."

" She's still communicating with him, huh?"

Suddenly Arya stopped her car on the side of the road.

" Want a chicken pecel or some fried rice?" tanya Arya gave a selection of food that lined the side of the road.

" Which Arya wants to eat?" anindita asked back.

" I want to eat kwetiau, you want?" Arya opened the seat belt and the door of her car.

" I'm fried rice, huh." Anindita chose a different food menu with Arya.

" You don't have to go down, we eat in the car. I ordered the food while I got the mineral water in the trunk."

Arya got out of the car and did what she said. Anindita was still waiting in the car.

Arya soon got back in her car. He pulled down half the glass of his car.

" Oh yeah, what did you ask?" ask Arya later.

" Arya and Rachel are still communicating with each other?"

" Yes, still. Even though we split up does not mean we broke up, let alone hostile each other. There are children among us, of course we must set a good example by not hating each other between us because of this separation." Arya explains the condition of his relationship with his ex-wife now.

" Why did Mas Arya part ways with Rachel's sister?" Although Anindita had heard the reason for Arya and Rachel's divorce from Rachel's mouth but she wanted to hear that reason from Arya herself.

" Rachel explained the reason, right?"

Anindita sighed because Arya did not want to reveal the reason for the divorce from her own mouth.

" What Rachel said, that's exactly what happened until finally there was a separation between us. We are both selfishly holding each other's principles that are not in line. I cling to wanting a wife who takes care of the whole family, but Rachel wants to support her family."

" And now I find you, the figure of the future wife whom I've been looking for." Arya caressed Anindita's face which instantly blushed as Arya praised her.

" But I'm ashamed, Mom." Anindita threw a glance out the window.

" Why should I be ashamed?" Arya pulled Anindita's chin plan until now the woman was back to face him.

" I'm not like Rachel's sister, I'm just a normal woman. Is Mas Arya not ashamed to be side by side with me?"

Arya gave a small laugh in response to Anindita's words that sounded insecure.

" You don't equate yourself with Rachel. You are Anindita, a simple woman, as she is but it has made me fall in love since the first time I saw you."

Anindita was now bowed and blushed in shame because of the expression of feelings that Arya had just thrown.

Tok tok tok tok

Suddenly the car door was knocked from outside. Arya immediately lowered her car door window again until now showed the face of the fried rice seller with two plates of kwetiau and fried rice in his hand.

" This is the order, Ma'am." The fried rice seller offered two plates of kwetiau and fried rice ordered by Arya.

" Thank you, sir." Arya and Anindita answered simultaneously.

" Having warm tea is okay, is it?" ask the merchant.

" No need, sir. We have mineral water." Arya refused.

" Oh, yeah, I did, Mom." The merchant then returned to his cart to serve the other buyers.

" Have you ever eaten kwetiau?" arya asked, feeding the wide sheet of noodles into her mouth.

" Never." Anindita shook her head.

" Cobain, deh." Arya then spooned the noodles with a fork to the mouth of Anindita and Anindita opened her mouth to take a bribe kwetiau from Arya.

" Good?" Anindita nodded her head answering Arya.

" I'll definitely love you another nice one if we get married later." Arya seduces Anindita to make the woman meet again.

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Ramadhan looked at Ricky's sleeping face. His tiny fingers down the line of the father's face that he did not know it to make Ricky gasp open his eyes.

" What's up, son?" ricky asked a glance at the clock on the wall that now showed at eleven o'clock in the evening. " Rama hasn't bobo?"

" Om, what's that look like, anyway?" tanya Ramadhan wants to know.

" Like that .. is almost the same shape. Why is Rama asking like, Son?" Ricky stroked Ramadan's head.

" Why do so many say Rama looks like Ricky, huh, Om?"

Ricky swallowed his saliva when he heard Ramadan ask that question.

" Mother teacher Rama once said, a friend of Rama whose name is Fathan his face is very similar to his Papa. But this Rama is not the son of Om Ricky. Why do people say Rama's face looks like Ricky's?"

It was as if a large chunk of rock was squeezing Ricky in the chest when he heard Ramadan's final question for him. He could not wait to reveal the truth about who he was. It felt like he broke his promise to Anindita to shut up and hide his status to Ramadan. But the longer he lasted the more irresistible it was to immediately uncover the truth especially when getting honest questions at this time he could not choose the right answer to answer the question of his biological child.

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