Brother But Stupid

CHAPTER 38

Nayla had a bad dream again, Riki who had just fallen asleep on the living room sofa of the inn a few minutes ago immediately gasped awake when she heard the cries that changed sobbing weeping bitterly from inside the room.

With a semi-conscious condition, the man immediately jumped into the room, for a moment Riki just shook his eyes to look at Nayla's condition, his hands clenched stiffly while his face scowled miserably, it was as if her subconscious was reminding something but Nayla was unable to accept it.

"Naila!" call Riki and sit on the side of the bed to shake the woman's shoulder.

"Naila! Wake up!" Riki called out louder.

The cry sounded even more painful and Nayla started speaking in Japanese which Riki understood the meaning was that the girl missed her papa.

"Nay?" riki's voice softened as the pair of girl's eyes stared at him, the tears still flowing.

"I'm sorry, Pah." said Nayla, clearly considering Riki someone else, obviously when Nayla hugged him tightly.

"I'm sorry..," she said.

Riki was more and more eager to hear Nayla's sobbing that was getting louder because the girl seemed to still not realize, she still considered Riki was the figure in her dream. Therefore, Riki forced Nayla to let go of her embrace.

"Naila! Lookatme! the door was hard, then one hand shook

the girl's shoulder.

Nayla seemed to gasp in shock as she regained her senses.

"Ricky? What's?" Nayla frowned in surprise before she fell silent once she realized her face was wet with tears. Nayla knew she was having nightmares again.

"Wait here, I'll get some water to drink first." Rikipun went out of the room to the kitchen to get a glass of drinking water.

However, when Riki returned to the room again, Nayla's figure was no longer there, the man placed the glass he carried onto the small table located in the corner of the room. He then stepped out of the inn to look for Nayla and sure enough, when his steps were getting closer to the shoreline, Riki saw the figure of the girl sitting on a long bridge that protruded into the sea.

Nayla is seen hugging her knees and putting her chin up there. Riki walked through several steps to climb the bridge. Riki's steps approached Nayla, then sat down beside her carefully.

Riki glanced at the girl's sad face. Obviously this time in the man's head was filled with various questions, but Riki chose silence. He would not raise his voice before the girl, because he knew that right now the girl was not doing well. His job is to accompany.

"Rik..," Nayla said softly, her eyes looking blank forward.

"Hm." Riki looked at the girl.

"You know why I love the sea?" Nayla turned to Riki and the man shook his head slowly.

Nayla looked straight ahead with teary eyes again, "because papa promised to take me after she returned, he never came back to keep his promise." Nayla's tears also fell.

"That was the first and last time I heard Papah talking so softly to me.." Nayla's lips seemed to shake.

An increasingly pitying Riki pulls Nayla into his arms trying to calm him down.

the flashback

The shadow of Nayla talking over the phone with her papa back flashed in her mind.

That night, Nayla, covered in bruises all over her body, limps over to a loud ringing phone.

"Hello...."

"I'm sorry papah... Nylas."

Instantly Nayla's body relaxes, her healthy legs also relax until she is unable to hold her body weight again and immediately sits on the floor. Nayla silenced a thousand languages, as soon as she heard the trembling sound of her papa apologizing. It felt like a dream, Nayla heard her papa say that way, after all this time she had expected it.

"Pahhh..," Nayla sobbed.

"I'm sorry Papah, son... Papah is wrong, Papah many sins are with you. forgive Papah..."

Nayla grew sobbing, suddenly her chest felt so tight, as if oxygen was no longer working properly.

"I miss Papah." Nayla hit her chest that was getting sicker.

"Don't cry dear, papah will return tomorrow morning.From now on Papah will atone for Papah's sins by treating you well... Papah will take you wherever you go. After Papah comes back where do you want to go, baby?"

"Whatever Papah. I'll come with Papah wherever Papah goes...."

"See you tomorrow, baby. Again, I'm sorry..."

Nayla was getting saddened to hear the sound of her papa which also sounded very sad even the girl heard the stuffing of her papa.

The pain all over her body was not felt anymore when her papa started asking about her condition and apologized again.

Throughout the night the girl kept talking to her papa until she fell asleep on the back of the nightstand next to the sofa in the living room and after she woke up she got word if the plane was boarded by her papa lost contact and a week later it was declared drowned and all passengers including the papah there were no survivors.

Flashback...

Nayla again cried bitterly in Riki's arms when she recalled the figure of her father who had not been found.

"She made you suffer all this time, but why are you crying like this..," Riki said softly.

"Because she's my parents, and she's the only one I can cry about, Rik. I don't have a mother I can't cry about."

Riki's neck was choked to hear the girl's words, the man also increasingly attached his embrace to Nayla.

"I'm sorry Nay. I couldn't do anything at that time...."

"You don't have to apologize, Rik, because you're suffering too."

Riki let go of his embrace and then turned his sitting position to face Nayla, the man stared intensely at the girl's eyeball full of probing.

"Where do you know that I'm not okay?"

"Aldi once said, if you suffer from Anosmia... since when and why it can happen?"

"It was Nay's accident." Riki lowered his face.

"What does this have to do with dad?" nayla asked again to make the man lift his face back to look at Nayla.

"I've never once seen such a warm interaction between you and dad. Did you change too?" Nayla said softly and then returned to shed her tears.

Riki nodded weakly then went back to piercing and shedding her tears.

Nayla pulls Riki into her arms, "why can they change? they loved us very much." - Nayla.

Riki's tears grew louder and louder to hear Nayla's words. Why could they suffer the same fate, which was so miserable like this.

"I just realized, it turns out you're so ugly when you cry." Riki started off with a stickler.

"You don't think you're ugly! you know, your snot's seeping into my shirt." Nayla pointed at her clothes that were wet from Riki's tears and snot.

"Ecchem..." Riki cleared his throat and turned his face from feeling embarrassed, suddenly an awkward atmosphere enveloped the two of them.

"Why can you change Ki?" Nayla asked again.

"Come, Nay, he turns into a stranger in an instant. Dad is very loud and ambitious, he always presses his children to always obey his orders. When I turned twelve, my playground turned into my father's office..."

Nayla was stunned to hear Riki say, the girl looked at the man as if in disbelief.

"You're serious, Ki?"

Riki nodded.

"I had to study marketing documents, financial documents, market strategies, investors, stocks and others... it left me in shock and with a high fever for almost a month and after I recovered I felt nothing." Riki looked down again.

"It's very difficult for Nay, besides I can't feel the taste of food nor can I smell anything." Riki said.

"Do mom and dad know?"

Riki shakes.

"They'll never care about Nay, they're selfish..."

"Don't talk like that Rik. They're like that, because you can't open up to them." Nayla again advised.

"No Nay, they are selfish." said Riki.

Nayla was silent, unable to speak anymore. Because the girl knows every problem that occurs, everyone has different ways and views in responding to it.

"It's your turn now, Nay." Riki looked at the girl.

"Huh? what's wrong with me?" Nayla's confused.

"What is it that makes you break your promise?"

Nayla nodded.

"Why didn't you ever call me? so I can come get you soon?"

Nayla looked at Riki, "i can't do that Rik, papah never allows me to make calls anywhere, calls to Indonesia in the same block papah."

"What do you mean Nay? why did Papah Romi do that."

"He doesn't want to see me in touch with you guys. Because dad didn't want to see me happy, he always thought of me as my own mother's killer. And he won't let the killer be happy."

Riki was getting more and more dumbfounded and did not understand.

"I once asked the doctor about my Papah's condition, and the doctor said if papah was psychopathic.it happened because of a sad past, often lost loved ones and papah always lost. When papah beat me, papah looked calm and satisfied..."

"Why don't you fight Nay, report him to the police, for example."

Nayla shook her head weakly, "i can't Ki, when I do that, Papah will hurt others." said Nayla.

"Your helper?"

Nayla's eyes rounded in wonder, "you know where the maid came from?"

"Huh? mmm, that's from your dream."

Nayla must understand, it turns out from a dream, but wait for Nayla to remember something.

"Ki?"

"Hm."

"When we slept together, was it because I had a dream like that?" ask Nayla.

Riki nodded.

"Wait!"

Nayla looked at Riki who looked astonished.

"Why Ki?" ask Nayla.

"Do you know where we slept together? wasn't it when I woke up, you were still asleep?" Riki slit his eyes at Nayla.

"Huh?" Nayla was wrong. "It's cold here." Nayla shifted the subject, "mending now we return to the inn." the girl clutched her cold body and left Riki.

Riki grinned at the wrong behavior of Nayla.

"So I fell out of bed because you pushed me." Riki spoke behind Nayla who was seen walking in a hurry in front of her.

"No? I didn't kick you." said Nayla.

Riki pulled Nayla's hand hard and made the girl stop and face him.

"So you didn't push me, but kicked? that's a hell of a deal." Riki.

Nayla rolled her eyes.

"At first I wanted to push, but because you held me so hard, so I kicked you" Nayla said.

"Hugs? I'm fucking you?"

Nayla folded her lips, damn she was flushed. Her face was flushed with embarrassment and immediately ran towards the inn.

Riki increasingly smiled broadly at Nayla's awkward behavior like that. He felt that girl was very funny.

"Day!" Riki shouted, "Wait for me.." The man also ran after Nayla who had entered the inn.

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