Asta Brata: Kartika

"Depends on the Way. "

"Thank you, Brother Mark, for today" said Kartika after getting off Mark's motorcycle. The girl smiled broadly. It made Mark who saw her smile.

"Gue is grateful, Tika," Mark chimed in.

"Yes already. I'll go home first" said Mark.

Kartika waved her hand. Mark waved back before driving his bike away from Kartika's yard.

Until the figure of Mark disappeared from view, then Kartika into his house. The girl was happy when she remembered that she and Mark had gone to the cinema. Have lunch together and take a walk to the city park. Mark treated her very well.

"Cartic,"

The heavy voice grabbed Kartika like thunder as she entered the house. It makes it seem like it is losing its power to stand up. And when his eyes looked, the figure of his father was sitting on the living room sofa, with his mother. Both of them looked at Kartika with a view that made it difficult for Kartika to swallow her saliva.

"Where are you from?" ask papa.

Kartika is deep.

"Why silence?" the man did not change his voice. Still chilly.

And Kartika is still down.

"Carticle, here!" mom's orders finally.

Kartika remained silent. The girl had no intention of advancing. If he could, he chose to just disappear. But the second call from his father, made Kartika inevitably approach his parents.

"Where have you come from?" mother's interrogation.

"Study group," answered Kartika softly after a long silence. His head is still deep.

"Where from?" repeated mama because she did not clearly hear her son's answer.

Kartika was silent for a moment. "Study the group" he replied louder than before.

"Mama doesn't like lies, Tika," pressed Mama.

"When just playing with friends," honestly Kartika after. I heard her mother sigh.

"What's this, Tika?" his papa held up a paper with a scrawl of a red pen with the number seventy-five on the top right.

Kartika Physics Review!

Kartika's body trembled because of it. How did his parents know about the paper? Today Kartika deliberately did not enter so as not to be divided paper replicates. Who gave the paper to Papa?

"Papa got this paper from your physics teacher. Answer papa!" sentak. Kartika did not dare to look. Papa placed the paper roughly on the table, then got up.

"Hp you papa sita!" break up papa before pulling the phone out of Kartika's hand and leave the living room.

Kartika stared at her father's departure.

"You're it. The more days, instead of getting more submissive, the richer the gini. Mom is tired, Ka. Dingy. Try it, you are rich Maya. Submissive, do not like to argue," mama compared with Maya-kakak Kartika, "You. Instead of studying, even going home at night, still in uniform. Play, do not know the time," added his mother, "Mama still want you to be a successful child. And if this is how, how do you succeed?"

Mama's words hit Kartika's heart. But the girl was silent. Not enough strength and courage to fight. And when her mother left, Kartika could only go to her room. Dropping the body on the mattress without changing the uniform.

Mom and Dad were never fair to her!

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Twenty times Ismaya tried calling Kartika. Twenty times, the phone is not connected. She frowned-expression as she felt worried. Staring at his phone, sighing and then put hp on the nightstand. And when he was about to collapse in his bed, someone came in. Make him lie down.

"Why grandma?" Ask Ismaya politely. That guy has a lot of respect for that woman.

One fact Ismaya tried to accept. She was not the granddaughter of the woman in front of him. Grandma found baby Ismaya crying in front of her house, and with the man she used to call grandfather, picked her up. The thing that makes Ismaya always try to be independent, not bother him both.

"You, keep learning. Not tired?" tanya observed the open book on the man's bed - the results of her learning from earlier before trying to contact Kartika.

Ismaya smiled and shook her head. "No, no, Grandma. This is Isma's job. Learn," replied the man.

"Yes already. Don't make you sick. Pity your body" said the grandmother before leaving.

Ismaya stared at the door that had been closed. The guy sighed. Grandma loved him very much. After grandfather left - four years ago - the grandmother only had Ismaya. And Ismaya only has a grandmother. After all, Ismaya had to make grandma happy.

He took the book back. Learn the material before the teacher explains. Until the time the teacher taught, he already understood the material well. Ismaya knows, she's too hard on him. But, he was just a scholarship boy who had to maintain his grades in order to continue going to school. He did not want to, everything he had built all this time was destroyed.

Ismaya drew a piece of paper between her books. His eyes were fixed on the number ninety-eight with a red pen. Then exhale his breath.

Almost perfect! The value of the retribution of his Physics yesterday which was just divided last afternoon. And the guy remembered Kartika all of a sudden.

And about Kartika, Ismaya doesn't know what she wants. That girl who approached him at the beginning of the eleventh grade semester. And Ismaya who really likes Kartika of course accept it. Their relationship is closer, and when the opportunity arises, Ismaya shoots Kartika at the instigation of Candra. Kartika accepted it. Their relationship continues to this day, and Kartika has always considered it non-existent. His attitude is different from Kartika who before becoming his girlfriend. Ismaya was too confused to digest everything.

Ismaya saw her phone again. Kartika did not even want to bother calling him back or even sending a message.

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"Tika," call Maya who just entered Kartika's room. The woman circulated the view throughout the room, and found Kartika sitting on the sofa balcony of her room. The woman entered until the balcony of the kartika room facing the garden behind the house. Kartika is looking at a bright full moon without stars. The girl seems unaware of Maya's existence. Maya sat down beside her sister, who finally turned her head and immediately threw away her face. Maya takes a breath.

"Lo likes stars, right, Ka?" Maya opens the conversation.

Kartika just cleared up. Maya looked at the moon while commenting on a smile. Maya knows, Kartika is angry with him.

"Beautiful stars. Ngalahin. The stars also do not like to depend. He's strong" Maya said. Kartika frowned, not knowing what Maya meant.

"When, I know, when rich gini, when the most annoying," Maya continues to stare at the sky, "Any bandingin, forced, prosecuted, restrained. Our desire is to be free. Passing through adolescence that should be enjoyed. I did too, first,"

Maya's last words made Kartika look up. Although Maya is still staring at the sky, the woman realizes that she has attracted the attention of the cartica.

"Gue is coveted with our cousins, with our neighbors, with other children. When I SD papa said 'Maya, you should be able to rank one. Let me make papa happy'. And SMP time. When I play, papa says 'Look at your friend Maya, you can rank one because you learn a lot. If you learn a lot, you can definitely lose him'. I was the only one who could recede at that time. High School, when I was together with my friends, when I came home, papa was waiting in front and said 'Maya, you play continue his work. See, your cousin, can study abroad, get a scholarship. Now the work is established. Wh why? Because I learn a lot. You should be rich your cousin. At that time, I who already know a lot, feel restrained. Papa always means I'm number one. Actually I can't" Maya's long story. Kartika has been listening.

"I also tried to fight back. UTS time, when you tell me to study, I go with friends. When I got home, Papa was angry. Do you know what I'm doing?" Maya is now staring at Kartika "Gue is fighting Papa. Say this-that. Until papa gets angry and laws me. I was locked up for a whole week of study, "Ma's staring back at the sky.

"At that time, I didn't dare to go back to papa. I follow everything papa ordered. Until the time of graduation, I got the highest grade of one school. But my grades didn't get me into an international college. I can only enter the campus in Indonesia. Papa was angry. Fortunately, my mom tried to persuade me. Tell papa. 'I'm going to enter the UI, Pa. That's really good. Maya also got a scholarship'.

"Finally Papa was not angry anymore. But with the record, I'm still number one."

Maya turns her eyes towards Kartika. "Gue tau, must be heavy for you, Tika. But trust me, effort will not lie to the results."

Maya stroked Kartika's shoulders. "So, it's all up to you to walk," Maya pats Kartika on the back before she leaves.

"Oh, yeah. Don't go on the balcony. Night breeze, you can get sick," Maya messages before disappearing behind the door.

Kartika. He was still surprised by Maya's story. Her sister's... Not as bad as he thought. And what did Maya say?

"So it all depends on me, huh?" kartika Gumam.

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