
"Auntie, I want chocolate-flavored ice cream." Dimitri asked Erita, the boy looked delighted.
"Alright, Auntie also wants a brown one" she answered holding an ice cream and giving it to Dimitri first.
"Thank you Auntie." she answered immediately enjoying the good ice cream.
Erita smiled, she still grabbed her wallet in the small bag she was carrying, but she had not yet given money to the ice cream seller.
"It's the money." The man's voice made Erita very surprised, the girl looked at him in wonder and also nervous.
"Dad why did you come here?" dimitri asked as she enjoyed the ice cream in her hand.
"So you didn't bring any money dear, I thought you were going to spend your aunt's money." Dev replied smilingly, glancing at the little girl who was still glued to him in wonder.
"Oh, I guess you came here on purpose because you wanted to go for a walk with us." she was totally innocent.
"No, I should've given you money, you like to ask for something outside" Dev replied, he was standing by and not wanting to be caught following them.
Erita said nothing, just enjoying the ice cream in her hands like Dimi, Dev's arrival made the cute girl reluctant to talk.
"What else do you want to buy?" Dev saw many merchants around the park.
The view of the afternoon is indeed soothing in that place, many young people who come with a partner, some are with their friends.
"Dev!" the voice of someone calling his name.
"Yes" replied the man.
"Tumben once you take a walk in the afternoon?" apparently Dev's co-worker was there too.
"Just accompany Dimitri." Dev pointed at his son who was leaning on Erita's shoulder.
"Well beautiful, a walk in the afternoon with the family. By the way your wife is beautiful too!" the strong-bodied man pointed at Erita.
The girl turned her head feeling she was talking about Dev's friend behind her.
Dev smiled, he did not answer.
"Alright, I think my presence is interfering with your time." the man left Dev who was still smiling so sweetly.
"Why are you quiet?" Erita looked over and spoke to Dev.
"Oh, that_ leave it alone, he won't understand." replied Dev trying as calmly as possible.
"Of course she won't understand if you don't talk" Erita replied upset.
"Sorry." Dev still smiled meaningfully.
"You'd better just go home" Erita said.
"Don't kick me out, it's a public place." Dev won't be able to give up.
"I don't like it." Erita pursed her lips.
"I won't interfere, I'll just pay for what you buy, because if I give you money you won't." Dev replied still calmly.
Erita was lazy to argue with the man, and again, her ever-sweet smile made Erita reluctant to see him over and over again.
"It's okay." The answer is short.
Dev smiled victorious in this sunny afternoon, he only followed the two people in front of him. Not eating when they both eat, not playing when both play, he just pay. Too bad..
"Let's go home, the day is going to Maghrib." Dev finally opened his voice to end the excitement of the two people of different ages in front of him.
"True, let's go home." Erita invites the little boy, a handsome face with a sweet smile like her father always makes Erita love him.
They went home on foot, a distance of only about fifty meters that made them able to enjoy the dim atmosphere in the beautiful twilight. As beautiful as Dev's heart watched his son happy with laughter and jokes though not with his mother, or his wife. But to get married again, it's impossible. With a million shortcomings he had, with a myriad of sins and mistakes that could not be covered, where there might be a good woman who could accept him.
Moreover, Erita, she is a good girl just like Reva, even her way is also almost equal to Reva. Sometimes the meeting comes at the wrong time, even the breakup happens at the wrong time. At least being close to Erita could reduce his worries when Dimitri stayed home. A good woman is born into a good family, but she is not good enough to get one of them.
"Erita!"
Aji was already standing at the door staring at his sister who had just returned home with Dimitri, but what made Aji wonder was not that, but that there was Dev behind them. They walk together like family, yeah! like family.
"Sister!" he smiled, but looked wrong.
"Where's Erita?" ask Aji gently.
"From the back garden, with Dimitri." he replied, he was explaining the situation, but he could see that the man behind him had no objection to such an atmosphere.
"Oh." Aji answered briefly, letting his sister enter the house without saying goodbye to Dimitri, maybe he was afraid of getting a reprimand from Aji.
"Sorry, they were walking together, and I followed because I was afraid Dimitri asked Erita for something too much." Dev seemed to understand what Aji was thinking about his sister.
"It's okay, brother, I was just waiting for him a little while, I came home early from last night I haven't rested." Aji spoke politely.
"Is your partner still working?" tanya Dev approaches Aji.
"Still brother, he got a warning from Aldo's brother as well as David's brother. I felt guilty, but she was wrong too." she replied, thinking with a confused look on her face.
"You don't have to feel guilty, I even came straight to his house and found them both." Dev smiled as he shook his head.
"I don't mean to unpack everything, but I also don't get to the heart if I don't tell him" he said still in a dilemma.
"Don't you think about it anymore, it's all over."
"True sister." replied Aji breathing in.
"We pray first, Dimitri must have waited." Dev goes to his house, and Aji enters the house.
"Do you want to eat or pray first, brother?" ask Erita.
"Sholat first." replied Aji immediately rushed to take a shower.
Until dinner, the two brothers sat at the table and leaned back as usual.
"Erita, do you like Dimitri's father?" tanya Aji looked seriously at her sister's face.
"No sister, I was really with Dimitri, and he followed." replied Erita quietly.
"Don't be in a hurry to like someone, let alone us new people here, we don't know what and who, why and why he can part with his wife. Although you know the cause but the inside you do not know." explained Aji advised Erita.
"I understand brother." Erita nodded obediently, the obedient and kind girl.