CONFINEMENT

CH 70 - ESCAPE

'For the Lover

I hope you're okay now, even though I know what you've been through this afternoon is painful and I'm the same.

I never thought my family's attitude would be like that, it was out of my control and desire. You know for yourself how I wouldn't be able to live without you, like the grief we've been through together and now as you grieve over my family's treatment, I hope you never change my judgment because I'll still be the lover you've known for a long time.

Loving you is my most beautiful destiny, being able to love you is something I never thought was in vain. Who you are and what breed you belong to, I never knew and didn't want to find out, but I have a belief that you are a human name in Lauhil Mahfus that goes along with my name.

I'm sorry that my family and I made you angry, made you hate all the pain I caused, put you in the maelstrom of my life's troubles, insulted you with your family but I say, again, it's out of my control.

Thank you for always thinking of me as the best, thank you for teaching me to always fight for life, thank you for always being there during my downturn.

Now let me accompany you in your grief, let me accompany you in your life, in the rest of our age to be always together..

Take me away sweetheart, before dawn, I wait for you where we first met

From the one who loves you so much

Sariwati'

In the folding of a letter from Sariwati delivered by We Landep, Muhibbin's vision looked far away staring at the depth of the night above the starless Manguntur sky, droplets of rain remnants accompanied by gusts of night wind that increasingly piercing not felt.

"What does all this mean?"

"What else did Wati want from me, after the insult to Mother earlier?"

"I must make sure and ask for his explanation." murmured Muhibbin inwardly as he rose from his place of silence.

The rooster tree unpretentious in the distance broke the thick of the night at the end of the morning which was still dark, seen the young man heading to the shower next to the surau An Nur and after that Muhibbin entered into the surau performing prayers. Not long after the young man came out of the lake, he stepped out and pedaled his chariot to a place he still remembered, the place where he first met the girl.

***

While elsewhere precisely in the residence of the Governor of the Coast Country, the cold night atmosphere due to the rain since the afternoon made the guard not so tight, as well, the Bhayangkara who used to stand guard can be seen sleeping in the guard post at the gate of the magnificent building.

A shadow can be seen settling between the plants and trees growing in the courtyard of the governor's residence, the figure is seen coming out through the window of one of the building's rooms. The shadow continued to tread carefully through the guarding regol, suddenly someone pulled the shadow figure's hand.

"Mistress!"

"Fast follow me." said someone.

"We Landep?"

"Why did We Landep come back here again?"

"How was the assignment I gave you, did my letter have you delivered to him?"

We Landep nodded slowly,

"Already, Ni Mas."

"I just came here to make sure Ni Mas Wati can come out without the guards knowing." said We landep on the figure in front of him who is none other than Sariwati. The girl's face looked cheerful hearing the answer of the middle-aged man in front of her.

"Go quickly, Ni Mas!"

"Behind that angsana tree there's a carriage you can use."

"Meet the Good Boy Muhibbin."

"I'm sure Good Boy is waiting for you now, Ni Mas.."

"Go, before the governor and the guards know that Ni Mas is out of the house."

The girl hurriedly stepped towards the angsana tree that We Landep said. The train is behind the tree.

"We, I'm going first."

"You must leave this place immediately."

"Thank you for your help" Sariwati said as she extended some of Ru's money to the middle-aged man.

"No, Ni Mas."

"Just use the money for Ni Mas's purposes."

"Me and my family have been helped by Ni Mas" We Landep refused to give Sariwati.

Glazed as the girl looked at her maid.

"We, once again thank you for your help."

"I'm going first, We"

We landep nodded his head at his master, "Be careful Ni Mas!" the man's murmured softly.

Sariwati's body began to disappear between the thick of the night and the man rushed away after Sariwati was not seen.

***

"Where is he?"

"It's almost dawn and he's not here yet."

"Did he lie to me?" murmured Muhibbin in his heart, his face looks restless waiting for someone he really awaits his explanation, in his suction a cigarette to kill his saturation in waiting.

The young man was sitting under a bun tree not far from the temple Melanting Batubulan village where he and Sariwati first met. Without feeling that two sticks of Muhibbin spent his cigarette while waiting for Sariwati, and what he hoped for had not appeared.

"Didn't she intentionally prank me?"

"The stupid step of me, still believing in him after what his family did to me and my family." murmured muhibbin inwardly, the young man seemed riled up by what he was going through.

Muhibbin prepared to leave the place but suddenly from the depths of the night appeared someone with a wind train that was in a fast paddle, shortly afterwards a girl with a gasp breath approached Muhibbin.

"Ibbe!" said the girl was still exhausted.

"Die!" Muhibbin looked at the girl in front of him. It was unbelievable that the young man looked fixedly at his lover who had been several full moon since his departure to the Stone Snake Country was never on his lap.

"Ibbe!" Sariwati ran towards Muhubbin, where he threw the train he was driving and hugged the body of the lover. The two lovebirds shed their longing after a long time without meeting, their feelings mixed with what they experienced.

Sariwati crying in Muhibbin's arms,

"Take me away, Bin!"

"I'd rather die than part with you."

"Take me away." Sariwati said to Muhibbin, hugging the young man tightly.

The inner upheaval experienced by Muhibbin, he loved this lover very much but on the other hand was very disappointed and upset with the treatment of Papi Sariwati who had insulted his mother.

"Wati, what are you doing?"

"Are you running away from your house?"

"What if your papa finds out that you're looking for me?"

"Didn't they feel we're a bad person who doesn't deserve to be with those who are blue blooded?" a series of cynical questions in Muhibbin.

Sariwati let go of her embrace and slapped her face.

" Didn't you want us to live together?"

"After what we've been through all this time, are you just going to give up?"

"If you don't want me, I'd better get out of all your lives!"

"I'm not willing to obey Papi's wishes and marry Seto whom I don't know."

screeched Sariwati with tears. The girl is getting hysterical,

"I'd rather die than obey their will!"

Muhubbin is no less emotional to see the lover hysterical.

"But your family's gone too far, Wati!"

"They can resist or even insult me, but don't insult my mother!"

"If my proposal was rejected, why not at the time of Ajik Nengah first conveyed to your family."

"Not even insult us in such a way, as if we were a group of people thirsting for speed and position."

"And you need to know, I don't want to pawn my mother's honor even if it's for you!" muhibbin.

The debate between the two became increasingly, the two lovebirds expressed what stuck in their hearts.

"That's all out of my control."

"I didn't expect it to be like this."

"If I had known their attitude like this, I would have warned you." Sariwati.

"I know, my Papi's going too far."

"And I want to apologize to your mother and brother for the treatment of papi" concluded Sariwati.

Muhibbin was now silent, not a word came out of his lips, the words of disappointment he could not hide in his face.