CURTAINS OF THE PAST

DEPARTED

Iffah returned to Antoni's new home that night with the Zulherman family. He immediately ran towards the room that had been in his place. Without him noticing, Chellin looked confusedly at him

when he passed the front room was about to go to the room at the end of the house.

Iffah packed all her things, her naughty tears unceasingly flowing from her eyes that had begun to moisten.

The suitcase that was not too heavy seemed to contain a chunk of stone in it. He's been so hurt since hearing Toni's confession about who Milka is.

Iffah was sitting tired on the bedside floor with bed sheets made of mustard mustard favorite of his late mother Toni. He leaned his face and patted his chest that felt sore at that moment with his fist.

He was still sobbing in such deep sadness. Ever since he had forgotten everything, that was the first time the thing that made him the most sad.

“Why God? Knocker? Why did You meet me with him just to grow pain in my heart.” Isak Iffah is becoming more and more so in its conclusion.

Iffah took back her powers and pulled her suitcase out of the room.

“Iffah... What happened dear?” Chellin who had been curious immediately approached Iffah in front of the door of the room where Iffah came out of.

“It's okay Bi. Iffah has to go home today too.” Flat language.

“Loh, but why is that?.” Chellin looked worried and wondered what had actually happened to the girl.

“Not why-why Bi, has Grandma and Mr Bobi not come home from the house of her husband Kamelia Bi?.” Iffah asks where Grandma Toni and Bobi are not seen in the house.

“Numbers, Nak.” Chellin was still confused.

“Then, Iffah asks Bibi to apologize Iffah to them Bi. Iffah has to go home.” He insisted on maintaining the disappointment and pain in his heart to make a decision.

Chellin could no longer do anything to prevent the girl's wishes. Even if he doesn't know what's really going on. But he knew at the time that there was a mess that made the girl seem hurt by it.

Iffah grabbed Chellin's hand and kissed the middle-aged woman's back before actually leaving from there.

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“Iffah... Iffah... Iffah..” Toni circled every corner of his house until he reached his old room Iffah occupied last night.

“Toni.. Hey Toni..” Chellin calls Toni who looks overwhelmed looking for the whereabouts of Iffah in the house. “Why are you so bored, baby?. Calm down..” Said Chellin again menenankan the young man who had been considered his biological son.

“Bi Chellin..” Toni hugged the middle-aged woman and cried so badly.

“Why are you, son?. Tell me quietly.” Chellin gently rubbed Toni's back to calm her down. It was not usual for the child to behave to his full extent even as sad as his heart felt.

“Iffah is gone, she said that she has to go home today too.” Chellin said she remembered the girl was crying too so her face became slightly moisturized.

“What? Iffah is back in town?.” Grandma was seen coming with Bobi at the door of the house.

“Iya Ma'am, Chellin had even prevented it. But Iffah is so hard and can't be prevented anymore.” Chellin explained to Grandma Toni who slowly approached her and Toni with the help of Bobi.

“Iffah up what was Bi?.” Toni asked later, trying to calm herself down.

“She board delman request transfer to terminal.” Chellin even remembered, because he was the one who drove the girl forward and stopped the delman who happened to pass by.

“Actually what happened Toni?.” Tanya Bobi tried to get to the core of the problems that were facing Toni at that time.

Toni told me everything she had in the back yard. Until whatever makes Iffah angry and leave. “Toni is late to come tell her own Om. Toni sure, surely Misya has said a lot of bad things so Iffah was so angry and did not want to hear the explanation Toni.”

“That girl,, It's still the same. Can't change.” Gerrutu Chellin who seems to have known the character of the Missya.

“Then Toni should what now, Om.” Toni looked hopeless and parched.

“We follow Iffah now yes, dear.” Grandma's proposal to look at the sadness on the look of her grandson's face.

“No, Grandma don't. Let Toni see the terminal first, Grandma. If Iffah has left, we follow up tomorrow morning. Toni doesn't want grandma why-why if we leave for the night. It's not close, grandma.” Toni still looks thoughtful and considerate to her grandmother despite her chaotic mood at the time.

“But nak.” Grandma tried to protest Toni's decision.

“Grandma, believe. Iffah must be fine. Grandma do’ only yes.” Toni tried to convince her grandmother to be more calm.

Bobi and Chellin nodded confirming Toni's words to add to the old woman's confidence.

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