ANINDITA, A Tale of the Past

Are You Pregnant?

Anindita noticed the three-by-three-meter-wide room she was about to occupy. There is a single bed of one hundred and twenty centimeters, a plastic wardrobe, a nightstand and a small chair near the closet as well as a fan on the nightstand.

" It's you sleeping here." Sandra showed the room to Anindita.

" In the meantime, just rest, don't think about work until you calm down. Ci Sandra will accompany you. Now Koko wants to go back to the store again." Koh Leo told me.

" Koh .. same ask for help, do not tell about this to the clerk in the store. I'm ashamed .." lirih Anindita.

" Yes, Koko won't talk about this to others, but ... What about Yahya? He's very close to you. He was also very worried about you earlier."

Anindita was silent for a while, Yahya had always been good to her, especially she always drove and picked her up if she went to work. It would be unfair if he was not forthright with Yahya, but he was ashamed to have to tell him what happened to him.

" Hmmm, Yahya let me tell you later, Koh." Finally Anindita decided she herself would tell Yahya.

" Yes already then. Koko go first, yeah." Koh Leo says goodbye.

" Yes, thank you Koh Leo and Ci Sandra for helping me." Anindita unceasingly thanked her boss.

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A week passed, Anindita had started to return to normal activities. During a break at Koh Leo's house, Sandra always invites to talk about various things. Sandra also taught Anindita to cook various kinds of food because Sandra actually aspired to have a restaurant. Sandra wanted Anindita not to continue falling and pensive with her sadness.

Meanwhile in Jakarta, Ricky is getting busy with his activities. As the person who had been trusted by Mr. Poetra and the most experienced among the children of Mr. Poetra, of course he had to help Dirga in making important decisions about work.

Ricky grabs his phone which reads and reads the message that goes into his phone.

" Good day, Mr. Ricky. This is the data we have obtained so far. Is one of these images matching what Mr Ricky was looking for? All this we took from the people around the place Mr. Ricky pointed out. Women around the age of twenty, tall, long-haired, white-skinned, pretty-faced and have bicycles."

Ricky then noticed one by one the pictures of the women sent by his man, but none of them matched what he was looking for. Ricky then typed in a message replying to the man.

" Nothing matches what I was looking for. Please search again to the area close to the settlement you've been looking for."

" Okay, Mr. Ricky. We'll try to find again." The person who was told to tell.

Ricky then pulls the drawer on his desk. He then took out a light blue hairband belonging to the woman he had taken away.

" Where exactly do you live? How are you doing now?" ask Ricky to get inside.

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One month later ...

" What's wrong with you, Nin? Is your face pale?" Ika asked when she saw Anindita's face that looked pale. As if it was not pale, since this morning not a single piece of food could enter his stomach. Each entry of his stomach food always refused and eventually had to be removed again.

" Are you sick, Nin?" ask Ika back.

Anindita shook her head. " I'm okay, Ka. Maybe it's because I didn't have breakfast this morning." Anindita answered Ika's question.

" Well, why not have breakfast, anyway?" Ika asked in wonder, because she knew now Anindita was living with her boss, why Anindita did not eat breakfast.

" I had a bad stomach so I couldn't eat breakfast this morning." Anindita said the reason why she didn't eat.

" What are you guys gathering here for?" Suddenly Koh Leo's voice was heard behind them.

" Oh .. i-it's, Koh. I saw Anin's pale face, and it turns out she hasn't eaten." Ika answered.

" You haven't eaten yet? Wasn't breakfast at home, Nin?" Koh Leo gnashed his forehead.

" My stomach hurt, Koh. Can't get into food." Anindita gave a reason.

" Oh, yes, now you eat first. Ka, please get me a sandwich bread with two large mineral waters." Koh Leo told Ika to do as she asked.

" Okay, Koh." Ika quickly acknowledged.

Before long Ika had returned with two sandwich breads as well as mineral water in her hands.

" You eat there bread first so as not to limp and there is energy so not pale so." Koh Leo told Anindita to eat immediately and then passed from the presence of Anindita and Ika

" Koh Leo is very good with you, Nin." Ika judged that Anindita was indeed treated very special by her boss. " Never do Koh Leo like you, Nin.

" Yes, it's good for all employees, but the same way you still feel the different treatment." Ika still believed in his assumption.

Anindita shook her head. " It's good to be back at work, later if Koh Leo comes here again continue to hear what you said earlier, it could be your danger, Ka."

Ika grinned in response to Anindita's words. " Yes, you also eat the bread quickly."

Anindita also moved towards the small kitchen located behind the store owned by Koh Leo.

***

" Huek ... Hoover ...."

Anindita's eyes until watery when she had to remove a sour-tasting liquid from her mouth.

" O Allah, why do I keep vomiting every morning like this? What can't I ..." Anindita rubbed her face rough, she was unable to continue her sentence. I was too afraid to mention it.

" Jr .. huek ...."

" Nin, Anin .. Why are you, Nin? Are you sick?"

Sandra's voice was heard from outside the bathroom with the sound of knocking on the door.

After washing her mouth and wiping her tears, Anindita came out of the bathroom.

" Nin, are you vomiting?" sandra asked as she looked at Anindita's pale face.

Anindita nodded her head. " Yes, Ci." Anindita answered quietly, indeed the fear and worry that is currently engulfing her heart.

" Nin, I'm sorry if Cici asked like this. When was the last time you had your period?" ask Sandra carefully. Previously Sandra brought Anindita's body to sit on the dining table chair.

Deg

The question that Sandra asked increasingly made Anindita's chest turbulent. He felt that the wife of his boss was suspicious of the same. At once his heart also seemed to melt if he had to imagine a bad thing due to the events that happened to him more than a month ago.

" S-I last hitch about mid-month yesterday, Ci." Anindita's hand squeezed the clothes she was wearing.

" This is twenty-five. Means one more month you didn't come to the moon?"

" Yes, Ci .." lirih Anindita increasingly lowered her eyes until the tears that had been held since not to fall finally fell on her cheeks even without a sound

Sandra clasped Anindita's hand.

" Nin, are you pregnant?"

Deg

The words Sandra spoke were the thing she had feared the most all along. Although lately he also felt if he was experiencing signs like a young pregnant person, but he did not expect that he would really experience it.

" I don't know, Ci. I don't know what to do if it happens to me. I'm scared, Ci ..." Suddenly, Anindita's tears broke again. And Sandra immediately grabbed Anindita's body into her arms. He gently rubbed the girl's back, trying to channel strength without saying a word out of her mouth.

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