Damar For Kinanti

Watching him since High School

Joseph drove with his heart, and he led Kinanti back to her boarding house.

Since then after returning from the house of Damar he continued to be silent, not chatty as usual.

" Why is your face so cloudy? not willing to go home? wanna care?" joseph's voice was half seductive.

" Your mouth.. Itches don't tease me?" Kinanti sour.

" You're silent a thousand languages so, your face is also bent..!" Yusuf said while focusing on driving.

" I'm just surprised." Kinanti's voice softly.

" Shocked why?"

" yes surprised by his condition.it feels confused and sad.."

" confused what?"

" i don't think something's wrong.he's not a carpenter." Kinanti's face was worried.

Joseph laughed, though,

" it's true what he said, but he's the owner, not the exchange..

this is where my dad picked up furniture, and I think I've met the guy a few times, only I forgot to remember..

but after hearing his surname mentioned earlier, I have confirmed that he is the owner of the factory..

good guy, hard worker..

father said he did not hesitate to work with the workers,

this business was bankrupt first, when his father was alive..

but when he takes over, everything starts to normalize again and develop well..

that's what I heard from my father." explained Joseph.

" if he owns a factory, can't he afford a good car? then why is he using a little car.. "

" Old and worn?" joseph laughed again at Kinanti.

" Not all men like to show their wealth Nan..

I love a guy like Damar, he has money and power, but he doesn't show it.."

" you know, I'm traumatized by social status..

I was abandoned because I was considered the son of a man who didn't have much money..

the more I knew he had money, the more lazy I got close to him.." Kinanti's voice fretted.

" He's different.Don't you see?" ask Yusuf.

Kinanti was silent, I don't know what she was thinking.

" He's been paying you since Mas Aji died..

explain how many years it was, then why did she just appear before you now, when mom started getting sick..?

this is just my point of view as a man..

I don't know if it's wrong, but this is what I think..

He was actually satisfied with seeing you well from afar, he also had no intention of showing himself..

but because of the mother's anxiety, and the mother's condition..

he finally showed himself to be worried..

you are his responsibility, before you get married he will feel obliged to continue supporting you..

so it's only natural that he'd have you marry every time you met..

the burden of your death is like the rope that binds his feet..

before you get married the steps must still be heavy.."

" Yeah I have to get married just to lighten her load?!"

" How about lightening each other's burdens." again the ambiguous sentence of Joseph.

" Don't make weird words..!"

" Ahaahaha..! you care but you don't care." - Yusuf.

" Who doesn't care if that's the case? to pay me off, suddenly came to take me, got me used to it, and now he's sick.. Suf..?!" obviously Kinanti was upset.

" If you had seen his pale face, I would be saddened.The strong and sometimes indifferent figure turned very weak.. " Kinanti fell silent.

" And what?"

" that mbah, I remember my great-grandfather first.he said that Damar was sick, or agitated, Damar always slept there..

sometimes I even sleep in the kitchen on the mat-clad chair I was sitting on..

for some reason there was a feeling of sadness that infiltrated my heart Suf..

I felt that he was lonely, that big house he left, and then he lived in that simple room.." Kinanti's face is really like a flower that is not watered for a few days.

" The house of the altar is also not a house, although half of it is wood, but you see the wood carving teak.."

" yes, he also prefers to cook with wood even though I see an electric stove and rice cooker.."

" well.that's the advantages of women in the past..

I guess I educated Damar so well that he grew up to be a simple man and not much manners.."

Kinanti silently heard him, worried that he was throwing his gaze out the window, watching the darkened streets.

" Why don't you want to marry her?" ask Joseph then.

Kinanti sighed,

" Yes when I married a man who just wanted to keep his promise to my brother? so what will our wedding be like..?

although not love, at least there is affection as a foundation for not hurting each other later." explains Kinanti.

" Yes you said that to him.."

" say what? do you know that he was insistent on me marrying another man." - Grumbled Kinanti.

" So you're angry because she told you to marry another man and not her??" goda Joseph again.

" You're a Suf?!, of course not! I'm just wondering if there's a guy like him.."

" how could you not be interested in that? have Nan. follow your heart, do not be opposed. later you regret..

things of the past, don't you remember.." counsel Yusuf that Kinanti forget the betrayal of her former lover.

" Where can it be? all these years I've been crying for her even now I can't forgive her for leaving me like shit.." I remember his past relationship.

" He left me because I couldn't please him and my family's status was ordinary.."

" uh! what about Haikal?"

" a man in uniform?" Kinanti was not pleased as it seemed.

" Well, try to meet, who knows if it's a good match for an old friend.."

" hemm.. Are you a matchmaker now?"

" it doesn't matter.you're happy I'm happy too.whatever I try for you.." Joseph smiled widely irritatingly.

you who have never been betrayed will never know what it's like.."

Joseph was silent at the word Kinanti,

" If you were healthy, I wouldn't have followed her to meet Damar,

I feel like my chest is sometimes struggling to think about it..

the fee he gave was not small, it was like a burden to me..

especially after I found out he was capable..

it felt like I wanted to run away from him." said Kinanti still throwing her gaze out the window of Joseph's car.

Joseph breathed, though,

" You'll get a good man. Trust me. So calm your heart.." Joseph stroked Kinanti's head gently, as if he understood the unease his brother was feeling.

Winda helped Damar get me the minun,

suddenly the man looked better..

his face was not as pale as before.

" Hemm... Now tell me, about that Kinanti?" ask Winda with a glance.

" It's just friends." Damar replied, turning his eyes away,

" friends? a female? coming here? bribe you? and you ate so well? you think your mom's stupid??" Winda glares.

Damar gave a weak smile.

" Tell me who is he? know how long?, don't you meet every Friday night and Sunday night?" tanya Winda guessed nebak.

" yes, I drove him back to the boarding house a few months ago.." Damar nodded, though,

While Winda was shocked so surprised.

Taking to the boarding house.Winda wonder in his heart, while after him, Damar often broke up with women and only lasted a month two months because so acute, let alone deliver, not to take, meeting his girlfriend only he rarely with busy reasons, then now how can he take the woman easily?.

" Know how long?" Winda is right like a cop dealing with a suspect right now.

" I am sick" Damar was tired of being asked.

" No excuse, you've eaten a plate of rawon, your face is not as pale as before, so answer my question?!"

hearing that Damar could only sigh.

" I've known him since he was in High School, but we've only met for a few months now" Damar replied,

" i've been watching her since High School, keeping quiet, without her knowledge." she continued,

" like om om pervert? how creepy?!" comment Winda.

" Huss.. How could you say such a thing? I watched him get permission from his mother at the time.."

" How does her mother allow her child to be watched over by a foreign man? is it because they know you're a capable kid?" Winda was full of suspicion.

Damar was silent for a moment, as if he was feeling his way.

" I'm not a stranger to her parents because they're Aji's parents.."

Degs..

Winda was silent, there was shock creeping in his heart, the look on his suspicious face changed instantly, with a slight hesitation he asked.

" He's the kid you've been paying for all this time?"

Damar nodded slowly.

" They don't know about my family because when I became friends with Aji I was a tough guy living outside the house..

at the end of the month I was often invited to eat at Aji's house, even often borrow Aji's money..

it's impossible for them to look at me because I'm the son of a factory owner and have this asset..

because they know I'm the son my parents abandoned because my father remarried.."

" then how did he come here?"

" it was me who called my mother.I said I couldn't take Kinanti because I was sick, and I left my address once if there was something urgent and I couldn't be contacted..

that's also the new mother knows, when she insists on not accepting my money again..

he's afraid my life is getting harder because it's paying for Kinanti all the time..

he wants me to stop all my help because Kinanti has graduated and has been working alone..

I had to tell him about myself..

In addition, I also told my mother about my identity because I had the intention to marry Kinanti a few months ago.."

Winda was more astonished, his sister who was like this did not want to get married..

it turned out that there was a desire to marry a woman.it was like a breath of fresh air for Vinda.

" Why don't you just do it?" ask Winda then.

" I've asked you to ask Kinanti, even I asked you to lie if you proposed marriage to me so she wouldn't feel burdened if you didn't like me.."

" then?"

" He was once hurt.The interest in marriage was like there was no..

but there was a man who was aggressively approaching him, I saw he was a good man..

I'm willing to budge if Kinanti feels right with her..

I even promised to pay for her wedding." Damar said in a heavy voice, as he seemed to suppress his feelings.

" Sound fool..!" Winda hit the arm of his sister who was still sick hard.

" Supervising her since High School, financing her, and happily letting someone else pick her up after she's grown up and mature, your mind is where is Adamar?!" Winda is very anxious, though,

" That's not giving up, but stupid..! at home you've surrendered to your stepmother, outside you still want to give up again?!" exclaim Winda.

" I don't want to force him to watch him from afar and see him happy enough..

expressing my feelings will only make her stay away from me..

moreover, my promise to Aji is like a rope that ties my neck..

I also had a fear of him being wasted by another man..

a lot of things go around in my head either to make her happy or to hurt her.." Bows down.

" Ohh...! got a little brother, one aggressive on love, one insensitive and passive! do I have to step in to get things going?!" The chatty mind is really anxious for Damar.

" A. ono opo tho yo?? your sister is sick.. even mbok omeli..??" si Mbah went into the room that was occupied by Damar, because since then he heard the high sound of Vinda.

" Iki! in putune kandani..anything is just anyone who wants to..?! gemes Winda mbah..?!" exclaim Winda,

she smiled looking at her two grandchildren.

the Mbah is not surprised, the way Winda talks is indeed flat-headed.

People who do not understand must think it evil or scold people.

" le.. l want sopo..?" asked the Mbah also wanted to know, he sat slowly beside Damar.

Damar who felt pinched could only hold his chest while sighing.