
The loud sound of a cricket is deafening. Raynar who was sitting alone on the bench in his yard garden. The man could never guess what was the reason behind the rejection of cooperation that Arfan decided.
One firm hand suddenly patted his shoulder slowly. So, he was surprised by it.
"Eh, Papa!" he said he was jolted from his mind.
"What are you keeping quiet here, hmm? How was it at the office? Is everything all right?" ask the father specifically about his son.
"It's okay, Pa. I was just ... just thinking about something. Everything's good, Pa. No obstacle at all. What's papa doing here?" ask Raynar.
"Papa is just curious about you sitting alone here. Tonight, are you gonna stay at home, Ray?"
"No, Pa. I'm still sleeping in the hospital. After all, the hospital business has not been completed yet. So, I gotta keep going back there, Pa."
The moon that looks intact in the face with a sad gaze. Adiwangsa can not look far. It's too hard for him to understand and understand the current situation.
Especially with his health condition that increasingly makes him uncontrollable. He can no longer deny that he increasingly does not have high expectations.
"Pa, is papa okay?" asked Raynar who wished honesty from his father.
"Indeed, why? Papa is fine, Ray." he said with a smile that did not forget to be engraved on his lips.
"really? But, why has papa always come to the hospital lately? Is your health really okay, Pa? Please, answer me honestly, Pa!" said Raynar who over-exerted his will.
"So, do you know everything, Ray?" Instead of answering, Adiwangsa turned things around.
"If, yes. Am I wrong, Pa?"
"No. Papa never blames you. You're the only one who knows, yes! Let this be a secret between us, Ray."
Raynar still could not understand the meaning of his father's words in detail.
"Why, Pa?! Is it wrong for everyone to know the truth about health conditions, Papa?"
"Not yet, Ray. All of that has time. Never mind, don't argue about this anymore, yeah! Then, papa come in first. Be careful on the road!" Adiwangsa inched away, after he again landed a soft pat on the child's shoulder.
"Papa is always weird! That won't surprise me anymore. Hopefully, this is not a wrong decision." Raynar murmured in his solitude.
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The sun began to rise at its speed. It was as if the clock on the wall was spinning even louder than before. Anxiety is still framed on the face of handsome people.
Arfan who was still faithfully accompanied the wife. Instantly became dumbfounded to see who was coming.
Without a word of greeting, let alone greetings from the owner of the netra that he looked at with a sense of astonishment. Arfan did not expect that the brother-in-law would arrive with a man.
They just come in and break through. Then, it began to walk closer to Fayra who was still lying weak.
"Fay, are you okay? Does it still hurt, hmm?" savina asked with a somewhat apprehensive look of anxiety.
"Alhamdulillah .. I've been much better, brother. But, ... Who is he, sister?" A question sentence that makes Arfan also feel the same as Fayra.
Savina glanced at the man that the younger sister was referring to.
"He .. he's Morgan Tan. You still remind the crybaby who used to play with us as a child?" Fayra sharpens her memory to go back in time.
"Ja-so, he's Morgan that's ...?" said Fayra, who had begun to remember clearly, who was the owner of the dashing body.
Savina nodded and said, "Emmm, right. But now he's a lot different, right?" savina whispers to Fayra. Fayra simply replied with a casual smile.
"Oh, yes .. how did you know I was hospitalized, sister?"
"long story. The point is, brother Raynar called brother. And without thinking any more. Brother immediately hurriedly wanted to go home to Jogja. Oh, yes ... Papa and mama where? Did they not accompany you here, hmm?"
"They came home and only Arfan accompanied me here, brother. Anyway, I don't want to trouble them. Poor them, Brother." Fayra was bowed down as a form of unpleasant taste.
Savina tried to strengthen her weak sister. While the brothers were chatting. The two handsome men pulled away.
"Can we talk to you for a second, Mr Morgan Tan?" sapa Arfan looks unfriendly.
"All right," said Morgan sparingly.
"Follow me!" exclaimed Arfan who had led Morgan to immediately go outside the room.
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"Would you come all the way here, Mr Morgan Tan?" ask spontaneously without the courtesy that Arfan threw at Morgan Tan.
"Didn't .. earlier you can hear clearly the words of your brother-in-law, Arfan?" Morgan again reminded Arfan of the previous incident.
"So, right. That, your relationship has been established for a long time, is it?"
"Yes, that's right. It was just that contact had been lost for a few years. But, that does not mean it can eliminate the traces of memories that we have been through together." said Morgan with full affirmation.
Arfan hush. He can't deny the past they've been through, can he?
"Does your arrival here also have anything to do with the cooperation contract I wish to cancel?"
"Take a water-drinking dive. Yeah, that's how it's going to be" Morgan Tan lightly replied with an ultimate level of confidence.
"Actually, did you agree or did not the cooperation between us get canceled?"
"Arfan .. I remind you of one thing that you must obey in business. It is an ethic that you must take care of when you have made a choice. Do not confuse your personal affairs with your work. Understand?!" Morgan's advice, enough to make Arfan slapped with invisible.
"Hahhh .. if you are married. Then, you will also know what it is like to be in my current position, Mr. Morgan Tan." Arfan replied in a flat, yet satirical tone.
"Do I have to get married first? So I can feel the same way as you, Arfan? No, right? It all depends on how you think and behave. It is not your status that is our talk. Rather, your sense of responsibility is at the root of this problem at the beginning."
Do not want to be accused arbitrarily. Arfan tries to lure Morgan into thinking.
"Then, what are you doing. When are you in my current position, Mr Morgan? It's obvious it's not the company you built on your own hard work."
Morgan was speechless with a thousand languages that made him stiff.
"There I was very self-conscious. Unlike you who have been able to achieve success for your own hard work. So, one piece of advice I want to give you as well. Not everyone can control something, which is not his right to do that" explained Arfan who seemed to drop Morgan's confidence that had been fiery.
Skak mats ...
The value of each other in terms of healthy mutual advising between the two adult men. The fiery utterance was enough to burn the hearts of the two at this moment.
"So you still want to do what you're told to do, do you?"
"Yes, if that's what you want it to be. Then that's the choice I can make." replied Arfan with a face that is difficult to digest with an easy reproach.
"All right, according to mutual agreement. You have to pay a penalty for the cancellation of our cooperation contract which is not yet running. Are you sure you want to use it this way, Arfan Alhusayn?"
"Related. The penalty payment issue, could it be my personal business with you alone, Mr Morgan?"
"Cih ... Do you still act as a confident pretender with your own abilities?"
"No! But, more precisely I will find a solution without complaining to the company. I myself will compensate for the carelessness I did. No need to involve the company. Can, right?"
"If you can afford to pay me for the period of time I have set. So, that's not a problem. Whatever," said Morgan Tan with his shoulder raised.
"How long did you give me to pay for it?"
"Emmm .. one week. Hows it? Are you willing?"
"What ...? One week ...?" shouted Arfan with breath that seemed choked made.
"Yes, why? Any issues?"
"That kind of money needs to be collected in a week? Is that fair?"
"Don't talk justice with me, Arfan! If, you are not able to. Yes, continue our cooperation. Easy and easy, right?" said Morgan who began to stand up from his seat. He put it in his pants pocket. Increasingly make confidence improve perfectly.
While Arfan, he was still sitting in a position that felt depressed. He scooped up his disheveled face with both hands. The legs are wide open as a backrest for the support of both of his elbows.
No longer want to talk about businesses that are threatened with failure. Morgan would rather go. Leaving Arfan alone. Hoping, Arfan regretted his current decision. That is Morgan's true hope.
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I think Arfan wants to escape from reality. He really felt very depressed. Not to mention his business to take care of his wife. Now it must be added again with a new deal between him and Morgan.
Ambiguous feelings plagued her mid-mistered self. Because, the ordeal never goes away. There will always be a tempest that hits the house.
Whether it is internal or external. Everything is mixed like a dough, which has expanded asking to be completed properly.
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