CAMELLIAS

episode 22

Author pov

"Sir, where?" An hour passed, Kara was still waiting for her driver, but Mr. Parman did not come. The school has begun to be quiet only a few students who are members of the organization are still living.

Since then Mr. Parman difficult to contact, whether the call to how many tens, finally Pak Parman answered Kara's call.

"Non said I could go home first. I'm home now."

"When did I say that?"

"There was a friend of Non Kara's, tell me to go home first."

"Father believe, what now? Who's Kara coming home?" Complain Kara, Kara,

"I picked you up again, Jon. Just a minute."

Kara just sighed. The clock has shown at four in the afternoon the distance between his house and the school is quite far. It took almost forty minutes, even if it was not stuck in traffic.

Kara is waiting in front of the school gate, as the guards have started to lock down the entire building area. There was not a single student left, only himself, a few school guards and a janitor.

Today felt so heavy, the incident in his class had ended with a misunderstanding. From any point of view Kara must look wrong, when the real events are not like that.

Jupiter had helped him, even helping to reduce the pain in the cheek due to a hard slap of Dea, Kara knew exactly Dea would be furious to see him cuddle with Faro. But Kara was not given the slightest chance to explain what really happened. Kara actually got a hard blow on her cheek, even when she had not finished her first sentence.

From the beginning Kara had known Faro's relationship with Dea, just because Kara was comfortable with the presence of Faro who he thought was very mature, despite the incident of a kiss at that time, but it was just as a momentary outburst of emotion. After that, Kara realized that she only felt comfortable near Faro not because she liked it, but because of the comfort provided by Faro, making Kara feel protected. Kara does need an adult figure like Faro, a figure who accompanies her, hearing every complaint. But Kara only thinks of Faro as a friend, because deep down she likes other men.

The roar of the motor is getting closer, the clatter of the brake is so loud it sounds, making Kara turn and find Jupiter riding a motor, stopping the side in front of her.

"Come back with me!" Jupiter immediately handed over the helmet, reflexively receiving Kara's helmet from Jupiter's hands.

"Let's ride!"

"I'll wait for Mr. Parman to pick me up." Kara returned the helmet she received.

"He won't come." Jupiter's Carcass

"I told him not to come. Let's hunt,, get some afternoon!". Kara was still silent, repeatedly opening her eyes, and,

"Look up, come on! Should I help you get up?" Kara shakes,

"But,,"

"He's not going to come, Kara. Let me deliver, guaranteed not to be ration."

Eventually Kara climbs up, clinging to Jupiter's jacket and the motor begins to drive away from the school building. They did not realize if a pair of eyes were paying attention, with a look full of anger.

Jupiter rides his motor slowly, tracing the streets that have begun to be empty, because the day has begun to afternoon.

They walked down the road without anyone talking, until suddenly kara asked Jupiter to stop the speed of the motor.

"Stop!" The screech.

Without a warning, Kara immediately went down as soon as the Jupitet motor stopped and walked half-run towards the shoulder of the road.

Seeing Kara coming down from her motorbike, Jupiter pulled the motor over, chasing after Kara.

"Why are you suddenly asking to stop running?" Jupiter approached Kara who was squatting to notice something.

"Kara! You know, we could have rationed and you could have been hit by another vehicle. Run not see left right!" Jupiter is still upset, but Kara is still not moving.

"Kar, I'm not talking about it!"

"Jupi, the cat is blind." Kara lifts a black, brown-haired kitten from behind a pile of used cardboard.

"Pity, "Snake Kara's eyes, looking at a kitten roaring.

"You're asking to stop, run here just because of the cat?" Half-believing Kara's behavior, Jupiter steps back as Kara stands while clutching the kitten.

"Look, he's blind." Kara pointed at the two closed eyes of the kitten.

"Pity, huh?"

Jupiter stepped back, again,

"Why are you going back and forth?" Kara was amazed every time she stepped, so Jupiter must have stepped.

"You didn't mean to bring the cat home, did you?"

"I want to take him home. Poor,,"

"What?!"

"Why is that?"

"Don't whip!" Jupiter warns as Kara approaches her. Kara seemed to know what Jupiter meant, she smiled ignorantly and just stepped closer.

"Kara! Stop. Don't come any closer!" But Kara is getting closer.

"I'm sorry, man," now they're both sitting by the side of the road. Kara who kept holding a box of tissue without stopping said sorry.

"Jupi, sorry Kara ya." Jupiter just turned the eyeball, and still held her nose with a tissue.

"Geekh!!"

"I'm sorry, I didn't know you were allergic to cats." 

"Udah said don't come near, still ngeyel." Jupiter murmuring.

"I guess you're just scared, when the cool guys are scared of cats." Kara giggles amusedly, imagining the figure of Jupiter with a large tall body scared just because of a kitten.

"The cat really wants to be kept." The poor cat, finally brought by Mr. Parman first to Kara's house.

"Yes, pity. You know, he doesn't have anyone, because he's disabled, he doesn't want anyone." At first glance Kara looked at Jupiter's eyes, smiling gently as soon as their gazes met.

"Why? I'm weird?" Ask Jupiter because Kara seems so attached to watching her.

"Why don't you hate me?" Kara asked back.

"Why should I hate?"

Kara cut off her gaze, now she turned to look at a group of birds, perched on a large tree on the side of the road.

The streets are not too crowded, because it has begun to enter the residential area of Kara make them cool to linger on the shoulder edge of the road.

"I know, actually you're so angry that you might even hate me. Aye right?"

"So tau!"

"Jupi, have you ever liked someone?" Kara asked, Kara's eyes were still staring at each movement of the birds that perched from one branch to the other.

"Funny know,,. The cat I gave you the name Jupi, huh? Nice right?"

"Why is Jupi, not that coconut milk or nutella?" Kara tekeh's.

"It's funny to be as rich as you are, you're Jupiter he's a Jupi. It's both funny, right?"

"But he's blind,"

"It's not blind." This time Jupiter could not answer.

"You haven't answered my question." Back to the topic because Kara still hopes Jupiter will answer the question.

"What answer? About me not being angry or about liking someone?"

"Two."

"There's no answer."

"Now that is."

"I don't know." Kara clucked in annoyance, as Jupiter just swirled around without answering any questions.

"You know, I like someone. But this is a secret, only you can know?" Jupiter was stunned, between certain and not, because Jupiter knew what Kara meant must be Faro.

"But she has a boyfriend." Feeling increasingly convinced by her guess, Jupiter chooses to quietly listen to Kara finish her story.

"I don't know since when I liked him, maybe since he dragged me to make my legs hurt or maybe far away. She did hurt my legs, but it was my heart that felt pain. Weird, right?" Kara laughed, telling her the absurdity of liking someone.

"But life doesn't always go as smoothly as a child's fairy tale, it doesn't seem like she's interested in me. Do you know why I took care of that cat?"

Jupiter shakes her head, feeling that the man Kara likes is not her, suddenly his tongue is twisted and numb.

"The cat was just like me, had no one and was unwanted." Look Kara's eyes turned soft, though,

"Maybe I can't see the guy I meant, let me put something for him."

"Why not give directly. Why should I?"

"I don't have much time. Only you can, will you?" Jupiter did not answer Kara's request

"Yes, will you?" Kara keeps pushing.

"What are you looking for?"

"These nitip," Kara pulled Jupiter's collar, so that the distance of her face and the distance of Jupiter's face remained an inch.

"Tell him, I love you." Kara erodes the distance between them until their lips meet.

KARA pov's

I didn't want things to get any harder and even more uncontrollable, though I was afraid that I might finally vent to express my true feelings.

Ever since that night, the first time I met Jupiter at a dinner, my heart was pounding erratically. It was not the first time I had ever seen Jupiter. I often see him milling around in school and the cafeteria, he always seems to stand out compared to other children. Besides being handsome, he is also smart. Smart in the field of learning and smart to fight, not infrequently he often makes trouble in school if anyone dares to find trouble with him.

Jupiter Alfian, I don't know when I started liking her. My heart pounded every time he looked at me, different when I was with Faro. At first I thought I liked Faro, but as soon as I read a letter in Dad's drawer, I buried my feelings for Faro. I'm not a kid who just shuts up as soon as I see something strange happening.

Starting from the chat Bi Iyah and Sister Susan who I accidentally heard in her room the other day. Bi Iyah rebuked his son, Sister Susan for accidentally telling the cause of the quarrel Mom and Dad at that time, one of them because Dad wanted the child of his first wife to stay in one house and began to publish the truth.

That's not what makes me cry and feel so hurt. But because Bi Iyah's words tell me that I'm not actually Fathur's father's son. My heart ached, my world shattered instantly.

The father who loved me so much, the first love of my life was not my biological father. I cried for days, lamenting my fate. No one knows and I don't tell anyone. I still behave as usual, even though sometimes I cry when Dad shows me how much he loves me.

My curiosity grew, and lately there were often two men who continued to come to Dad's office. I ventured into Dad's study as soon as he wasn't home. Looking for anything that could be evidence. Until I found one map containing information and data of someone. Though hesitating, I opened the brown map and started reading through each piece of information.

My hands are cold, my breath is tight. Even my heart throbbed in pain as soon as I saw the photos even the data of the people I knew so well. Faro's image is clearly emblazoned on the paper, even complete with all the information and DNA tests.

So Faro is Fathur's father's son?

Until now I still pretended not to know, until one afternoon Dad and Mom again had a big fight, no one could break up the quarrel between the two of them. The anger of Mom and Dad can not be controlled, starting from the revelation of Faro's identity because it turns out that Mother does not stay silent once she learns Dad began to look for his ex-wife and child.

Mother feels betrayed, because all this time the company is still fully dependent on the company Mother. They quarreled as if there was nothing more to fix, and ended up with a divorce lawsuit that Dad had filed first.

I still pretended not to know, even Mother immediately fired Faro unilaterally.

I don't like him as a man, I just need him as a friend. That's how I feel but not with him. Faro considered the closeness between me and himself as a relationship between women and men and that was one of the reasons his relationship and Kak Dea ended.

This misunderstanding continued even worse when Dea's feet and Jupiter's feet caught me hugging. They must have thought I and Faro liked each other, but at that time I refused and asked him to come back with Kak Dea.

Faro refused, but as soon as I told him the truth about the man I liked, he finally began to understand. The hug was just a parting hug, but it became a trigger for Kak Dea's anger that ended with a hard slap on my cheek.

I was indeed guilty of letting Faro misunderstand and end up hurting Kak Dea, I should have stopped him earlier. If only I could control myself and give no hope, maybe Faro wouldn't go too far to think I liked him.

I was thinking of harboring my feelings, but I just wanted this one to dare to reveal the truth, before it was too late. Finally I tell the contents of my heart the truth, I do not know after this will end horribly or even my feelings are reciprocated.

All the shares in the company Dad pulled at once, even some branches of the company Dad experienced a drastic decline. Mother can indeed be that cruel, not leaving even a little share of hers and not care about the condition of Dad who began to mess with the split of shareholders.

Father's condition is increasingly concerning, in addition to two days he fell ill, and was intensively treated at one of the largest hospitals in Jakarta due to narrowing of blood vessels.

Some people had already gathered in the room where Dad was being treated. It appears that one middle-aged woman was carrying a ten-year-old daughter. The little girl kept looking at me nonstop, but I just kept quiet as if I didn't know her.

The door of the room opened displaying the figure of the man who had been waiting for his presence since. He is Alfaro,

Faro looked surprised, even his breathing was as dashed as he ran for tens of kilometers. Highlight his eyes down one by one the people present in that place, until his gaze stopped on me.

"What is this?!" Ask Faro. His tone was high even he was angry because he took his mother to the Hospital as a bait so he would come.

I chose to leave the room, because I don't think it's my business. I did not belong to their blood type, although Dad had forced me to stay but I chose to leave.

"So this is one of the reasons you rejected me?" Suddenly Faro was next to me, along staring at the vast expanse of Jakarta from the roof of the building.

"Not."

"Because we're brothers?"

"Not."

Faro shifted my body to face him.

"Look me all right. If you refuse me for this reason? I'm not letting you go! You will still be mine!"

I clasped his hand, "That's not the reason,"

"Because of Jupiter?!" I didn't answer.

"Jupiter can't take you away from me at any time." His tone was full of threats. Faro did not let me interrupt or answer his sentence, he first left me who was still silently staring blankly at the vast expanse of the City that looked so crowded and hot.