Cursed Night

CHAPTER (21): Being Like Father Tere

Tere family from the bathroom with full clothes, and still wet hair. Towel in his hand, he rubbed into his hair so that his hair was dry because Tere did not like to wear Hair Dryer.

Tere stared at the surroundings, looking for Arya's whereabouts and his eyes met the figure of a well-built man sitting on the hotel balcony, smoking.

Tere walked up to Arya, then without saying anything sat beside Arya while staring intensely at Arya. Arya tries to ignore Tere's gaze, but he fails and turns to Tere.

"Why see me that?" ask Arya and then smoke her cigarette without burden. Actually Tere did not want to ask Arya, but want how else his curiosity is too big.

"When do you smoke?"

"It's been a long time, I started smoking in Junior High."

Tere's eyes were rounded when he heard Arya's words, while Arya smiled thinly and then sucked back her cigarette until it filled with smoke. When Junior High even Tere still playing Barbie and cooking, but Arya has touched illegal goods because for Tere cigarettes are illegal goods in his life.

Tere continued to look at Arya who seemed to enjoy every suction of her cigarette, the cigarette which was said to be deadly on television looks very tempting when Arya tasted it. It made Tere want to feel it.

"Is that cigarette good? If it's good, can I ask for one?"

"No, cigarettes are not good so you should not try them let alone ask for cigarettes from me," Arya replied quickly, then kept her pack of cigarettes away from Tere.

"Then why do you smoke?"

Tere asked while looking at Arya demanding Arya answer her question

while Arya is only able to stay still, think of the right answer and can be accepted Tere's intelligent brain but there is no one right answer.

"Really, does that mean my father's condition is always good?" tere asked with a mocking smile on her thin, red lips, Arya stared at the puzzled Tere.

"You mean?"

"My father never smoked, I always hoped to get a soul mate like my father. Dad always stay away from bad things so that me and my mom follow in his footsteps" Tere said, picturing her father who always forbids Tere from doing disrespectful things for women, such as eating while talking, skipping school, and laughing too hard.

But Tere never felt restrained because he knew it was for his own good. Tere is like any other daughter, who thinks her father is her first love.

"Why stop smoking?" tere asked as he watched Arya step on her cigarette with her foot and throw the pack under the balcony.

"You said you wanted to get a soul mate like your father who doesn't smoke and stay away from bad things...

Arya brought her face closer in front of Tere, looking at Tere so intensely that Tere was misbehaved and just kept quiet and continued to say it again.

"I want to be your soul mate, so I have to stop my bad habit of smoking."

"You why the hell? Get out of my sight!" tere said pushing Arya until Arya sat back in her chair.

"I did say that, but that doesn't mean I'm asking you to stop smoking and be my soul mate. I don't want to have a soul mate like you!"

After saying that Tere went back into the room, and did whatever activities he could so that he could remove the red hue on his cheek when he heard Arya say.

Tangerang, November 16, 2019