Bridal Flowers

Onions

"Oh, brother since when are you here?" Nanda took off the fresh vegetables that had been washed in the water and noticed the presence of his sister who was sitting sweetly in front of the table to process the favorite food ingredients Naila.

"Didn't I just talk to you a while ago?" Rumi asked back a little surprised by Nanda.

Wasn't the first person she spoke to was Nanda, so why was her sister acting like she never talked to him?

"really?"

"That's right, if you don't believe it then you can ask both of your friends." Rumi's advice is not to wind up dizzy.

Seeing Nanda who was still displaying a confused expression, Annisa who had been silent earlier could not shake her mind about the conversation she had with Naila.

Naila once said that she missed her aunt who ran away because she was often angry with her Grandfather, then did the aunt Naila meant was Nanda?

Because as he had heard earlier, this newly arrived woman said that Naila wanted her favorite food and even Nanda's response looked natural, she called this woman with the call 'Sister'. So is Nanda and this woman a family too is Naila the child of this woman?

That's probably because their faces look similar and don't have much difference.

"Annisa, are you okay now?"

"Eh?" Annisa instantly realized from her deep daydream.

Smiling, Rumi did not say anything after seeing Annisa's dazed expression.

"Sister Rumi knows where Annisa is?" Tanya Mira is curious because she never knows if Big Brother Nanda knows about Annisa unless Nanda has planned this of course.

"So, I didn't know Annisa yesterday when I was cooking for breakfast, at that time Annisa looked pale and not feeling well so I took the initiative to ask her to talk." Rumi answered honestly remembering the day Annisa was ostracized by the people of the cottage in the kitchen.

Seeing her weak and helpless made Rumi unable to hide her concern for Annisa. So, out of sympathy he finally decided to greet Annisa and save her from the exclusion of the cabin people.

"Ooo, it turns out that way." Mira muttered understand.

Hearing Rumi's story, Annisa then turned her eyes to Rumi who was busy preparing her cooking ingredients. He said it was for Naila.

"Sister, can Annisa ask you something?" Annisa asked doubtfully and carefully.

Smiling, "Sure, what does Annisa want to ask me?" Rumi said.

Glancing at Nanda who was busy, Annisa did not get any movement from Nanda. "Did Naila and Sister have a blood relationship, and if so, was it a mother-daughter relationship?"

"Annisa, do you know Naila?" Mira was again surprised by Annisa. Naila is Rumi's child so it's a little surprising that Annisa found out because Naila only a few times to the boarding house to visit it was always in the main house. Therefore Mira felt confused why Annisa also knew Naila because as explained Rumi meeting with Annisa had a special reason.

"So you know my son too?" There was a faint smile as he asked this.

Nanda stopped her activities and turned to stare at Annisa who looked a little nervous.

"I-iya, I knew Naila when I accidentally met Mas Gio into the river yesterday." Annisa replied in a voice that was getting smaller.

"Gosh, so the pretty big brother I talked about last night was you? Well, I don't know if you've ever met." Rumi remembered the chattering of her son, last night the little one kept telling her talk with the beautiful sister he found near the river. Now that I know who Rumi is, I don't worry about it and think everything is normal.

"Well, you're so brave Annisa didn't tell us this. We're both your best friends but this important thing is you're so reluctant to tell us both." Rajuk Mira who was greeted lazily by Nanda. Mira thought again.

"No, it's not like that." Annisa denied panicking because she did not intend to hide this from the two of them.

"You are like that." Rajuk Mira is still teasing Annisa, it's great to see Annisa as sweet as this.

"It's not like that, it's just that.me.just.." Annisa was confused to say the reason. In this room not only the three of them so it was a little inappropriate if he said that because the rumors had spread then everyone in the soup kitchen at that time ignored and just ordered it. Well, this is privacy so Annisa is not crazy to say it plainly to Mira and Nanda. Annisa just acts passive and waits for the two of them to discover this awkwardness then goes to question the truth of what they heard. This was the scenario Annisa thought up for the two of them.

"Only that is the privacy of Annisa, just imagine how the romantic atmosphere that intertwined between him and Mas Gio. Plus there was Naila among them so it was more like a happy and harmonious little family." Nanda's words clearly expressed her thoughts. Yeah, who wouldn't think like this if someone else heard it. Imagine an accidental meeting with a man we like let alone the role of a small child as a supporter of the emergence of a romantic atmosphere. This is more like the stories that are often written in novels. So imaginative and fun.

"Oh, so it's like that. My brain really can't think about it." Sahut Mira was satisfied after sending provocation to others who had never participated in the talks.

"Really, it's not like that." Annisa muttered could not hide the red hue from her beautiful smooth and gentle face. Sensing the hot sensation slowly occupying his face, he immediately turned his face and lowered it naturally as if he was so focused on doing his work that he did this to cover up his overflowing shame. Even the work that he did was finished and ready to be washed, but because he had gotten the temptation of the others Annisa had to disguise the hue of her face that Annisa believed was so clear.

"Annisa's right, it's not what you think it is. After all it was just an accidental meeting and the romantic things you guys thought were so impossible to happen between them." Reina's soft and friendly voice entered everyone's hearing, saying as if she was defending Annisa with a sincere voice and sounding pleasant.

Annisa froze, not knowing what to respond she just nodded faintly while carrying her steps carrying a container that had been filled with pieces of beef.

"Ah, I smell vinegar everywhere. Did you kiss her too?" Mira asked in surprise because the pungent smell of vinegar so filled this area of the kitchen.

"really? But I didn't kiss her." And foolishly Reina sniffed around him, looking for the smell of vinegar that bothered Mira.

Shaking her head, Rumi was so amazed by the various provocations that Mira sent to Reina. But strangely, the perpetrator who was provoked sometimes did not realize Mira's intention, making Mira more motivated to carry out even harsher provocations.

"Hem, is your olfactory problematic so you can't smell it?" Putting his work done, Nanda then walked toward a table filled with various vegetables that are still fresh and not yet washed.

Putting it in the container, he started again doing a new job. "The smell of vinegar here is so harsh, I'm sure someone once dropped vinegar here that it smells so stinging." Then he continued his role to make Reina even more confused.

"Well, here I don't smell anything." Reina muttered still had not found the vinegar smell they were concerned about.

"Annisa, do you also smell the vinegar they mean?" Curious, he questioned the matter to Annisa who was now busy washing the container containing fresh pieces of meat.

Stopping the movement of her hands, Annisa also tried to sniff the air around her and only found the smell of blood from the flesh she had held and the fishy smell of freshwater fish was very strong.

"I don't smell vinegar here, there's just the rancid smell of this beef and the fishy smell of the freshwater fish that Abi brought." Annisa said bluntly without noticing the intimate sentence that came out of her lips.

"Oho, now Annisa really recognizes Pak Kyai as her Abinya. How did Mas Gio feel when he heard this?" Mira again teases Annisa who just realized her words spontaneously calling Pak Kyai as Abi.

This embarrassed him even more.

"Hey, stop. Don't tease Annisa anymore, don't you realize that this vinegar just stings the smell." Nanda chuckled because some time ago he had seen Reina's response with a bad face.

His expression looks not good every time he hears Mira continues to tease Annisa and Reina is not stupid if all this time her existence here is toyed with by the three of them. How crafty!

Damn it, I just remembered it now if the smell of vinegar they were referring to was my jealousy towards Annisa. How cunning, toying with a goddamn charade to fight me. Huh, just look at it later until when they will continue to provoke me, I will not stay silent!

"Mira, are the leaflets finished you cut?" Annisa asked after she finished washing the meat.

"I've already.I've finished." Mira answered quickly as she walked up to Annisa and gave her a medium-size container containing neatly cut chives.

"Thank you." Annisa said as she took over the container and began washing it with clean water.

"Then I'll clean the freshwater fish from your father-in-law." Mira said while emphasizing her voice at the end of the sentence.

"Don't be like this anymore, people will misunderstand if they hear it." Tegur Annisa felt embarrassed which was greeted with a small laugh of Mira.

"Hey, I'll also help you clean this fish." Reina's voice was already standing beside her.

Surprised, Mira had never heard the sound of footsteps behind her before. "Are you sure you can do it?" Correcting his surprised expression naturally.

Smiling sweetly, he nodded his head confidently. "Of course, I used to do it at home." She replied with a sweet face but a horrible look in Mira's eyes.

"You don't smile like this." Whisper Mira carefully.

Grimacing his forehead puzzled, "What's the matter, is there something wrong with my face?" He asked confusedly as he touched his face in panic.

"There's nothing wrong, it's just that you look terrible when you smile like that." Mira whispered, then after saying it she immediately brought her focus to the freshwater fish she had been holding. Escaping from Reina's exact expression worsened after hearing her honest answer.

"...." - ".Reina was speechless for him, feeling his face annoyed he was watching his surroundings. Seeing the people in the kitchen neither seeing nor hearing her weightless questions with the unreasonable humans beside her!

This girl, she is really testing her patience here. Dawdling with this damned girl makes her chest burn even more, she must make him kapok because he has dared to play tricks on her!

"Then, what about this one?" Reina did not want to admit her defeat to the foolish girl beside her. Must, he must break this stupid girl's mentality.

Mira raised her face, looking at Reina who was now also looking at her. Reina's beautiful face now displayed a sweet smile that looked innocent and pure, how beautiful.

"No, you're making it worse. You look creepy." But this smile did not even reach Mira's eyes. To Mira the smile that Reina was displaying right now was so fake and fabricated. Making her involuntarily shudder in horror because Reina's face looked so cruel!

"...." - ".Reina now realized that this girl was really sick and stupid. She is now convinced that this girl needs first aid and must be diligent enough to take nerve drugs to improve her mental illness.

Then, Reina did not care anymore about her idiot attitude and chose to carry out her plan. Yes, of course he has ambitions to please prospective Father-in-law.

"Assynogaal?" Gio's baritone voice entered the hearing of everyone who was in contact instantly gained the attention of all of them.

Smiling handsomely, "I came back to finish the task I had previously left behind." Said Gio casually immediately bringing his footsteps closer to Annisa who was again frozen to see her arrival.

Nodding in understanding, everyone did not say anything and quietly gave each other a faint look of ambiguous understanding.

"Is the bringer peeled?" Tanya Gio started busying himself looking for onions that he had left earlier.

Neutralizing the sound of his heartbeat, "Alhamdulillah is already Mas." Annisa answered nervously while taking a small container filled with red and white onions that had been peeled clean.

"So what can I do to help make it up to you?" Tanya Gio felt uncomfortable because he had not had time to complete his task.

Shaking slowly, Annisa did not want to make Gio a hassle. "This..Mas Gio didn't have to make up for it because everything was done." Rejected Annisa gently did not dare to look at Gio's face.

Don't accept, "No, I have to pay for it. It's my negligence for leaving duty." Said Gio behaving as if he had just missed an important mission that was so precious to him.

Doubtful, Annisa looked at her surroundings who looked indifferent towards her. Only Reina who was on the other end looked at him with a pleading look?

Looking at her, Annisa thought Reina was having a hard time cleaning the fish so she intended to say something to Gio but was immediately preceded by Mira's innocent voice.

"Mas Gio helped Annisa slice an onion because we were all busy with their respective jobs so couldn't help her to slice an onion." Mira said casually with her natural face.

"All right, thanks for the advice." Said Gio while bringing the onion container closer to him.

Looking at the foolish girl beside him, Reina felt like she wanted to vomit blood. Though the golden opportunity he was just about to get but because of this idiot girl all his hopes are on the clean broom by his stupidity that has thickened in the nerves of his brain. He has completely exhausted his patience!

"What's? Don't look at me with those laser eyes of yours, I told you you looked so creepy." Mira said with a plain face when she found Reina looking at her with a sharp look.

"...I understand." He immediately felt foolish to face this sick creature.

"No, you can't do it that way." Annisa's worried voice again attracts Mira and Reina's attention.

"Why can't I do it like this?" Confused Gio while looking at the red onion cut randomly on the cutting board, then his confusion increased when he saw the small knife he held firmly in his right hand.

"Mas should not do it like that because it would hurt Mas's hand. Instead of slicing an onion, Mas sliced Mas's own hand." Omel Annisa could not bear to see Gio's hand being so stiff while slicing an onion. Moreover, the wrong position of his hand when slicing onions made him want to hit Gio's hand helplessly.

Nodding to understand, "Then I have to how to slice an onion safely?" Gio asked a curious question which was immediately responded well by Annisa.

"Mas don't hold it like that," Then he shows Gio his hand how to hold the correct knife.

"But hold it like this." He continued while watching Gio's hand which followed him obediently.

"Then while slicing the onion left hand Mas Gio had to hold the onion to be sliced, do not hold it all and simply by holding its side." Annisa held the onion on the cutting board and quite skillfully she began to slice it casually. Because of this to teach Gio, Annisa deliberately slowed down his movements in order for Gio to be able to look closely and understand him as quickly as possible.

"I get it, I'll do it like you did." Gio said understandingly as he tried Annisa's steps carefully and kiku. Finding how worried and panicked Annisa was when she saw him slicing an onion earlier, Gio would occasionally smile faintly as he remembered it again. Even her gentle smile sometimes she could not control when she remembered how diligent Annisa taught her to slice onions. It may seem trivial, but for both of them this is an important and precious moment to remember.

So sweet.

Seeing the ambiguous atmosphere between them, Rumi and Nanda carefully remove their presence that could interfere with the comfort of a couple who are drunk with the pink virus. So for the welfare of their hearts that are far from the poet, they better step aside and know themselves enough not to disturb him.

Unlike Rumi and Nanda who are wise, Mira and Reina actually spend their time watching husband and wife cooking shows live in front of them. Their wide-open eyes have a different light. If Mira ignites with joy, Reina lights up with the flames of envy. He also wants to be in that position, be close and talk to Gio that intimate. The man she has always admired.

"Oh Allah, why don't you marry them straight away. I can't stand to see their leaking affection all the time without a clear bond." Mira's envious murmur was also upset by Gio and Annisa's closeness.

He was jealous of Annisa and Gio who were met unexpectedly by God and he was also upset that why these two people were different sexes still did not make a clear bond.

Ah, falling in love why so complicated.also of course sweet. Ehe.

Suddenly in between the show watching his leisure he felt his back feel cold. It was as if a deadly weapon was being pointed at him.

"What else is it?" Mira asked innocently as soon as she found Reina's unsightly face looking at her sharply.

Flat, "Nothing." Answer with unstable emotions.

Grinding her forehead uncomfortably, "You.don't show this expression again." Mira said plainly while keeping her distance from Reina who was now staring at her blankly?

"...."

"That's too scary." His whisper on Reina's stiff face that really looks stupid in front of Mira.

"...I understand." He said helplessly as he brought his gaze to focus on the fish he had neglected. Commemorated many times by this idiot girl makes Reina instantly numb. Is this stupid girl so idiotic that every time she says anything should be so honest?

This sucks and Reina now regrets her choice to be this close to the perpetrator of the provocation which turned out to have a dangerous nerve disorder that made her brain sick and paralyzed simultaneously.

Reina wanted so badly to castrate this damn girl!

"Are you done?" Tanya Mira wanted to know.

Focus on the fish, "Not yet." The answer sounds indifferent. Well, this idiot girl was now trying to get along with him after playing his emotions many times.

"Hahah.me too." Mira said with a small laugh.

"I want to kill him." Reina's murmuring couldn't stand Mira. Roughly, he began to tear the fish apart and violently remove all its organs. It was as if the object he was surgically and tormenting right now was not a fish but an idiot girl standing foolishly beside him.

"What do you mean you want to kill me?" Tanya Mira sounded stupid and a little frightened.

"... the fish, I want to kill all these fish." The answer is helpless. He was really desperate to face the stupidity of the idiot girl who was beside him.

"Ah, it turns out our minds are the same. I also want to kill all these fish.ahaha.."

"....." Reina could no longer speak and began to question how could this boarding school just accept this sick person?

Though the others looked fine then why did this girl beside him have a mental disorder?

Is it because the education of this boarding school is too hard?

If so, then Dea is in danger of staying here. Ah My dear sister, forgive this brother of yours who was so helpless to save you. Dea, understand whatever happens to you someday it's all for your brother's future. Yes, I will greatly appreciate your efforts!

Then, with a sorrowful expression he lamented the future of his sister who was struggling here.

 

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"Thank God everything is done and ready." Gratitude Nanda was excited as she stared at all sorts of dishes neatly lined up on the table.

"I'll go inside first to tell the others that your hard-working food is all ready." Said Gio telling the others while wiping off his right hand that had just been washed.

"Mas, have them chat for a while before going to the dinner table because we still haven't sent all these dishes to the dinner table." Nanda's suggestion was to slow down those inside. He wanted when everyone entered the dining room all the dishes were neatly arranged on the dining table.

Nodding lightly, he understood the meaning of Nanda's words. "Okay, Mas will try to slow them down before they get into the dining room. Then you take care of the rest." Gio said as he gave his greetings and took his steps out of the kitchen.

"Yes, if so Brother must also go inside. Naila may have been running from Brother from earlier, for the porridge of Brother Serahin who takes care of Annisa." Rumi said as she turned her gaze to look at Annisa who was also looking at her.

Smiling softly, "Beauty sister, Naila's porridge is not too hot well.kasian his teeth are still not evenly grown." Rumi's message casually pretended to be indifferent to Annisa's face which was now blushing violently.

"In shaa Allah, Brother, Annisa will make sure the porridge is warm." Annisa said approvingly who was immediately satisfied by Rumi. After that Rumi took her steps following Gio's footsteps into the living room, where all the people gathered and had a casual conversation.

"Okay, the others came with me to move all these dishes to the dining table." Nanda's instructions with full spirit were immediately agreed to by all of them.

Seeing that the others were busy moving dishes, Annisa also did not want to be idle and directly carried out the task that Rumi had given her.

He quickly moved the still-hot porridge into a special porcelain bowl for Naila. Once the taste is enough for a small child's portion, he then takes a small container to fill with cold water from the tap.

After feeling enough, he then brought the porcelain bowl containing the porridge into a container filled with cold water. This is done to move the heat coming from the porridge into the cold water in the container.

"Annisa, what are you doing?" Suddenly Reina's familiar voice entered into her hearing.

Shifting his eyes, he now found Reina staring at the porridge bowl in the water-filled container with a curious look.

"Oh, I'm reducing the heat of this porridge to make it warm faster." Annisa explained her work to Reina.

Reina nodded obediently and with a slightly uncomfortable face sat herself on the chair beside Annisa.

"Reina, are you okay? Your face looks a little pale." Annisa asked worriedly as she saw Reina's face pale slightly and looked uncomfortable.

I'm like this because you're fucking!

"No I'm fine Annisa, I'm just a little uncomfortable on my wrist." His speech was weak while showing his wrists that looked flushed.

Carrying her gaze on Reina's wrist that looked unkind, Annisa worriedly reached out to her hand. "Astagfirullah, this is like a bruise. Wait a minute, I'll get you some over-the-counter drugs"

"No need for Annisa." Cut Reina looks tired. He pulls Annisa closer to him and won't let her run anywhere!

He had to destroy this cunning and fake-faced woman quickly and once a blow!

Pests must be destroyed so that the plants grow faster and more fertile.

"I just wanted to ask you a little help." Glancing at the warmed up porridge, Reina behaved as if the day she was living now was so exhausting.

"Reina just say it, I'll definitely help you as long as I can." Annisa said honestly without a second thought. This was Reina, his friend back in school so he would never have the heart to let it go like this.

"You can, you can help me." Reina said in a slightly excited voice.

"Do you want to bring that last meal inside? My hands feel uncomfortable when lifting weights so I'm afraid I'm going to drop them and make everyone lose." He pleaded with a look of real fear, making Annisa nod without seeing the awkwardness of her attitude.

"I can take him, this I can take with me while delivering Naila her porridge." Annisa was able to carry her hand to lift the bowl of porcelain containing porridge that already looks warm.

"No-no, it's still not warm and it's not good to take it now. You go first deliver the dish and then come back to get Naila's porridge. Rest assured when you return this porridge is warm and fit for Naila to eat." Reina refused as subtly as possible avoiding Annisa's suspicion of him.

Annisa fell silent, bringing her gaze to the porridge. Then after thinking for a long time he finally decided to agree to Reina's advice, after all Naila was still a child and he was afraid that the temperature of this porridge could not be accepted by the little Naila he missed.

"Then you just rest here while I'm going to send this last dish to the dinner table." Annisa broke up while taking her steps carrying the remaining dishes out of the kitchen. Leaving behind Reina herself who was so calm looking at her thin back slowly disappearing from her sight.

"Stupid, why are you so stupid Annisa?" He said coldly as he got up from his seat. Twisting her wrist that had a bruise, there was a pain expression imprinted sweetly on her beautiful face.

"Damn it, just to lure you out I have to hurt myself." His feet were angry while staring coldly at his beautiful and white hands now suffered bruises that damaged the beauty.

"But it's okay because the results I'm going to get are worth my struggle, Annisa your stupidity has to end here." He muttered excitedly, then with a careful movement he took out a small, clear bottle showing the contents of the bottle. Inside was a white powder that was so smooth and soft.

Glancing at the surroundings with a look of caution, he then quickly unscrewed the bottle and dropped the white powder into the warmed porridge.

Once it felt enough, she then closed it as fast as lightning and put it back into place behind her big hijab.

Then, he frantically stirred the porridge quickly so that the white powder he spilled was mixed evenly and looked natural.

Sighing in relief, the spoon he used to stir the porridge he threw into any place with a satisfied movement. Then, he casually returned to sit himself on the chair he had used earlier.

Annisa, the little Naila that you used as a bridge to get close to Mas Gio must be a victim of your greed. Hah, they will all hate you for killing innocent people then Mas Gio will open his eyes and leave you like they call family. Mas Gio will turn to me and throw you away like useless trash.

Seriate...