
"Mil ..."
Melani was surprised when she saw Jenar who called out to her. The beautiful woman was sitting in the tv room near the stairs.
"Ma ..." Melani replied.
"Have you?" asked Jenar with a surprised expression.
He was speechless when he saw Melani coming down from the second floor with wet-looking hair. Both were not in the room for two hours.
"Have you?" ask Melani who instead interpreted as an answer to Jenar.
Jenar patted her forehead. You brat! In the afternoon this hit his wife. She thinks Melani isn't feeling tired?
"Mama why?" Melani segers came down quickly when she saw Jenar patting her forehead
Jenar looked at Melani who could walk as usual even more agilely. Evident by his presence in front of Jenar in just a few seconds.
There is no way this mercurial Melani if indeed Jendra had done it.
"Not yet, is it Mel?" ask Jenar to make sure.
Melani frowned and her eyebrows almost fused together in wonder to see her in-laws who immediately looked shocked, but now looked curious.
"So it has been, and now it hasn't. I don't understand, what's your mom talking about, ma?"
Jenar breathed a sigh of relief. "So you said you already did."
"I asked my mother, what has she?"
Jenar laughed making Melani more wrong behavior. "Ma ..." Melani looks at the eyes of Jenar who shed tears because she laughs too hard.
"Jeez, Mel. You mean, you guys have done it yet?"
"Seeing your wet hair, it's not wrong if you think you've already ...."
Melani is embarrassed. "Not yet, Ma."
"just fine. How could the newlyweds have finished even less than two hours."
"How many hours should it be, Ma?" ask Melani who just found out about it. Two hours still a minute?
In the office alone, he does not feel at home constantly sitting in the chair of work. Sometimes he looks for opportunities to walk to Kayla's desk or to the bathroom.
What would happen if he and Jendra had to spend more than two hours?
His eyes are perfectly round. I'm not sure my bones are intact for more than two hours.
"Don't worry, you'll love it, Mel!" Jenar tried to calm Melani's mind because she saw her daughter-in-law looked tense and frightened.
"It's not as bad as you think! What more if you and your husband love each other."
"Calm down. He can make the atmosphere fun. Leave it to him."
Are you admitting that Mas Jendra is very experienced? Huh! I really shouldn't be afraid. He must have understood better how to handle it.
Jendra came down from the second floor and saw Melani and Jenar talking. Surendra was there too, but more silence because Jenar and Melani were talking about Jendra.
"He was like that, ma. No one would dare disturb him if his heart was clouded." Jenar endlessly laughed when Melani told him that Jendra's mood was often fickle to make employees reluctant to meet him.
"What else plus a thunderstorm! The manager just doesn't want to get into his room, Ma!" The two laughed together.
"Tell the disgrace of the husband, sin, dear!"
Melani looked at Jendra. "We're going to talk about facts, Mas. Mama was happy to hear my story."
Jendra sat down beside his father. "If you decide to talk to your mom, be prepared to keep telling stories non-stop."
"It's still good, you're talking about it in person."
"If via video call, you can run out of your batrai and quota, Mel!" jendra.
Melani laughed without a sound. "Mom likes an open child, Mommy."
"Mama just wants you to tell me whatever happened to you, even if only when you stepped on a pebble, Mas."
"Mama wants that. Mama wants the distance between you to be meaningless when you tell her everything."
"Mama wants to tell you a story every day, right?"
Jendra nodded. "Yes, almost every day, Mel. Sometimes I get bored."
"It is fitting that you often refuse mama's call, Jend!" jenar Sambar.
Jendra grimaced as her papa pulled her ear. "So, you deliberately made my wife worried, huh!"
"Oh, Pa!" Jendra held his papa's hand so as not to pull his ear too hard.
"Better your ears are loose than that woman's been sad for days."
"But the woman you mean is my mother!"
"Yes, but she's papa's wife, Jend!"
Jendra is finally released after whining for her mother's help.
"When mama can see me from the cctv!" muttered Jendra rubbed his reddened ear.
He looked at his father who was staring at him. "Isn't that just your job? Watch home and office cctv footage!"
"All right now, put it in my car, or in my room, or maybe in my bathroom!"
Jendra continued to nag even though his father and mother and his wife were holding back laughter because of his childlike behavior.
"Mama, consider it!"
Jendra immediately looked into his mother's eyes. He was surprised by his mother's answer. He is not giving input. He complained about the behavior of his parents.
"Where do you want your honeymoon?" tanya Surendra became a mediator in a situation that began to heat it. He deliberately distracted his son.
"Balinese!" Jendra and Melani say the same place.
"Why should you go there, honey?" ask Jenar.
"Why ma? Can't it?" ask Melani scared. He was afraid that Jendra's family thought he wanted a luxury holiday on the island.
"Surely can!" jenar's reply stroked Melani's hair. "But, haven't you guys been there? After all your reception will be held there."
"No problem, Ma. I really like that place. I don't know why, but I feel like I'm living there."
The night ....
"What meda?" jendra asked his wife who was sitting cross-legged in front of the suitcase whose contents had been moved in the closet.
Melani pulled the corner of her lips. He showed me a necklace with a butterfly shape pendant that was given last night by the mother of the parlour.
"It's so pretty!" Jendra held the locket. He flipped through.
"That was one of the things my parents left with me when I was dumped in the orphanage, other than this blanket."
Jendra looked at his wife. There was a stroke of distress, yet it tried to be covered with a smile. Melani also averted her grief by wiping the thick-feathered blanket.
Jendra twisted the butterfly-shaped object to see it as a whole.
Jendra was surprised when he realized something. "It looks like it can be opened, Mel!"
Melani looks towards the object in Jendra's hand. "Open how, Mom?" ask Melani.
"Just a second!" Jendra stood up and took the nail clippers. He used a slightly pointed part to pry the thing.
"Look! Looks like there's a gap right?" Jendra pointed at the bottom which indeed seemed to be there a little gap.
Justright. The pendant can be split in two, precisely in the body of the butterfly and split its two wings.
"There's something in it, Mel!"
Looks inside there is a flat object berbtap love with engraving on it. Melani never knew.
"M.A." Jendra looked at Melani's face after reading the writing.
"Just like the one on the blanket, Mas." Melani showed the same writing on the blanket.
"Maybe it's your initials, Mel."
Melani shrugged her shoulders. It's possible, Mas. And father, mother gave me a name with the same initials."
"This can be a clue, Mel!"
"For what, Mom? It's been 30 years too. Too long, Mommy."
"They never saw me when they knew where to look!"
Melani enters into Jendra's arms as her husband embraces her body.
"If you don't want to meet them it doesn't matter, honey!"
"But, if you meet them, you can at least say that you're fine without them."
"I'm not entirely okay, Mom. There are times when I'm sad because I'm not as lucky as other kids."
"But sometimes I feel much luckier because mom and dad take good care of me. Unlike other kids who even sleep on the streets."