Dusk Star

Chapter 48 About the 2nd Star

Sha plays his fingers nervously, “By not asking in anterin to his house brother Yusuf.”

Akbar immediately braked his car suddenly. “Sha you are no longer nervous, right? Or your brain is changed because of rain?” akbar asked in an unrelenting tone. How to relax he is upset with Sha who wants to wait for Yusuf to rain and now even want to go to his house. Akbar was confused and annoyed.

Sha's eyes blinked in shock, “tadi Mama Kak Yusuf called. Sent to his house by kak.”

Akbar let out a rough sigh, he returned his car. “This is actually Mama Yusuf who contacted you right?” Sha nodded.

“OK I anterin this time.”

In the rain they kept quiet to each other. Sha did not dare to start a conversation first with Akbar. Although he wanted to say that he was cold with Akbar's car ac, Sha still could not pronounce it. His mouth seemed to be locked and could only squeeze his fingers slowly.

Seeing Sha's strange gurgle Akbar turned his head to happen to be stopping at a red light. “Sha why?” Sha just shook his head stiffly.

Akbar looked worried seeing the pale face of Sha, “Sha really okay?”

“Di ngin.” Akbar looked at Sha not understanding.

“In ngin kak, die in her ac.” Said Sha.

Sha's like a trauma to the cold. Since the accident at that time, it was added to the drowning in the river. Sha became afraid if it rained or cold. Sha was in a dark room without air.

Seeing Sha shivering Akbar looking around for his jacket in the back seat. “Sha use this first let the cold ilang.”

Sha accepted it with trembling hands. Wearing it slowly and directly hugging herself. Akbar also turned off the car's ac and returned to drive his car.

“Sha how long have you been waiting at the stop?”

Sha's head turned to Akbar, “sat u jam.”

“One hour?!” Akbar hit the steering wheel hard.

“Lo is stupid or what the hell?!” Sha looked back down, not daring to look at Akbar who was like a possessed person when angry.

“Mending now we go home!” Akbar tried to turn the wheel.

“Do not!” sha's cold hand prevents Akbar's hand from turning the car around.

Akbar was silent stiff in place, Sha's hands were really cold and he was worried something happened with Sha. “Sha please this time I moon lo, better now we go home. Lo need rest.” Akbar's insistence is not ignored by Sha.

“Kak I beg you. I promised Mama Yusuf kak.” Please Sha, try to soften Akbar.

Fortunately, they stopped on the roadside. Akbar gripped his steering wheel firmly. “So I'm fine, anterin I went there ya.” Pinta Sha with my eyes that make anyone will melt.

Akbar is confused by Sha's way of thinking. Akbar knows Sha has promised Mama Yusuf, but he must also pay attention to his own condition which is not okay. Sha said he's okay? It was fine how her body shivered so, her daughter's face grew pale.

Akbar looked at Sha's face which still displayed a pleading gaze. “Oke fine, I naterin to Yusuf's house, but promise one thing if there you why-why I will not hesitate to mukul Yusuf.”

Sha's pale face displayed a glimmer of light, Akbar had always been his helper. “Kak thank you.”

“Gue don't need a thank you for this.”

“I... that thank you for nolong Sha on the river.” Akbar choked on his own spit. His memory returns to him who gives an artificial breath to Sha.

Why does Akbar feel sultry now, “Sha I open the window can be?”

Sha looked at Akbar not understanding. Akbar opened the glass of his car. The cold rain immediately pierced his skin that was only wearing a T-shirt. Still Akbar's face still feels hot considering that. Sha why remind me of that incident again.

“Kakak why-why right?” replacean Sha who was looking at Akbar was worried as he sat restlessly in the steering wheel.

“Nothing really, just a little bit of heat.” Akbar replied, now fanning his face with one hand.

Sha stared at his body wrapped in Akbar's oversized jacket. Sha still feels cold, why is Akbar hot? Sha asked in his heart. Sha took something from the dashboard.

“Sha what are you selling?!” akbar shouted as he kept Sha's hand away from his face.

Sha looked at Akbar confused, instead of Akbar saying hot. Sha was helping the sweaty Akbar by rubbing his face with a tissue, but Akbar scolded him instead. “Kak why the hell?” tanya Sha was confused.

“Nothing, have not done anything strange.”

What a strange thing Sha did, he asked in his heart. Since that strange time Akbar, suddenly scolding Sha who rained, now blushing Sha who helped him. He wants what this shitty upperclassman is.

Akbar glanced at Sha from the tail of his eyes. He was now busy regulating his heart that was beating incoherently. There must be something wrong with him, especially when Sha touches his face. Something in his body seemed to be turbulent, somehow Akbar himself did not understand why it became this way.

Akbar's heart was suddenly relieved that Joseph's house had been seen. Akbar mentions his purpose to the security guard at Joseph's house. The rain only leaves the spot. They both need umbrellas to avoid the rain.

Akbar leads Sha who hugs his own body, he also knocks on the door of the house. It was not Mama Joseph who opened it, they were told to wait in the living room first.

***

“Sha yes potent you why?” mama Yusuf asked excitedly when she saw the condition of Sha who was wearing a wet uniform. Although it was dry using a towel, Sha uniform wet Sha still does not look dry. The jacket he wore was also wet.

“It's okay.” Sha rubbed his hands together to keep warm.

“Aibi, Rio.” Shouted Mama Yusuf calling the maid and Rio who was busy in the upper room.

Quickly they approached the hostess. “Iya mistress.” His assistant.

“Please grab a clean towel in my room.” His maid immediately walked away.

“Rio you please go out and ask the driver to buy a new shirt the size of Sha.”

“No need aunt, don't bother.” Sha sungkan.

“You want to wear uniform it uterus-continuously?”

Sha suddenly glanced at Akbar who pretended to be indifferent and noticed the family photos he always saw when he came here. “Tante I'm really good at kok.”

“No, Rio anyway you pesenin it to the driver.”

Rio's hand was respectful, similar to the ceremonial attendant. “Siap aunt.” Rio rushed out of the house to call his driver.

“This is the mistress of her towel.” Mama Yusuf gave the towel to Sha, awkwardly accepting it.

Mama Yusuf invites Sha to go to the bathroom for a warm bath, while waiting for her clothes to come. “You wait here until Rio and the driver comes yes.” Mama Yusuf said to Akbar before leaving.

Mama Yusuf also advised to make a warm drink to her maid. He and Sha walked towards the bathroom on the second floor. Seeing Sha embracing herself made her motherly soul become pity. “Sha still cold?”

“Still cold?”

“It's been lightening kok.”

Mama Yusuf's hand stretched out to hold Sha's hand. Mama Ysuuf thinks that Sha is indeed his lost son, of course he feels very happy. No clear liquid down his cheek. Before Sha saw him he immediately wiped it off.

They went into a double-sized bathroom with a bathroom in Sha's house. Mama Yusuf arranged the bathtub into warm water and began to fill the bathtub with warm water. “You take a shower first yes, the towel is on the hanger. Aunty to the next room first, later when you are done there aja.” Sha nodded in understanding.

The warm water began to wet the cold skin of Sha. Sha's body warmed up, he also felt relaxed. Sha drowned herself in the bathub. He closed his eyes.

“Mama.tolong”

“Please...”.

“Huaaa.” Sha's head went back up to the surface. Why did he remember the drowning in the river. Sha's body became silent. That painful memory was again present in his memory. The relaxed body returned shivering.

Tok tok tok tok

“Sha hasn't finished her bath?” voice from outside kamari bath.

Sha clung to his body, pulled himself up to get up and looked for a towel. After meeting her, she put it on and came out of the bathroom. Sha found Mama Yusuf who was already standing in front of the bathroom door with a worried face.

“Sha is almost twenty minutes and you have not come out yet, auntie so worried.” Seeing the teary Mama Yusuf made Sha feel guilty.

“Sorry aunty looks like I overslept.”

Sesal Sha lowered his head.

Mama Yusuf immediately mmebawa Sha's body in his arms. Sha's body was sculpted, his heart racing faster than usual. Sha wondered why Mama Yusuf's embrace was so comfortable, when they were not ready. Sha immediately let go of his embrace considering that he was only the son of the driver from Mama Yusuf's family.

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It was Mama Yusuf's turn to be sculpted because of Sha's treatment of indirectly resisting his embrace. Honestly, he was happy to hug Sha like this.

“Sorry aunt.”

“Tante is wrong to hit you suddenly. Come now change clothes, later you catch wind.”

Mama Yusuf invites Sha into a room that is all pink. It looks like a girls' room, Sha thought. Did Mama Yusuf have a daughter? Maybe his brother Yusuf's assuming Sha.

“You change clothes first, auntie wants to prepare food down first.”

“Pakainnya in already aunty prepare in mattress.” Mama Yusuf left Sha alone who seemed to be watching the room. In his heart he thought hopefully Sha could remember it.

***

“Whose room is it?”

Sha asked at the mirror that reflected her. If his brother Yusuf's room is not like this. Her brother's room had a lot of dolls. If it's his sister's room, it feels like Sha never met his sister. If so, how old is his sister? Looking at knick knacks for little Sha so think Yusuf's sister is still small, maybe around the age of 5 or 6 years. The hell time, far difference age with Joseph who High School.

Sha looked at himself in the mirror. The clothes that Mama Ysuuf bought were very fitting in his body. Knee-length dress is light blue, with a quarter hand model. Sha felt unworthy to wear this seemingly expensive shirt.

Sha looked at the mattress and the tone of another outfit, a body and a short sweatshirt. Sha will wear this as it seems. He was more comfortable wearing casual clothes than semi-formal. Finished wearing his clothes Sha tried to find a hair comb.

Sha was already searching around the open, but he didn't find it. Sha wanted to find the comb in the drawer, but she was afraid of lancing if she unpacked someone else's room. Sha confused himself, he finally chose to sit on the bed.

“What is this?” Sha was like occupying a hard item. Sha got out of the bed and opened the blanket he was sitting on. There's a wooden frame there.

Sha took it, there's a picture of a happy looking family there. A boy who displayed his flat expression, in contrast to a girl who was smiling cheerfully. Both parents embrace them. Sha recognized the young woman in the photo who was Mama Yusuf. The adult male in this photo is likely Papa Yusuf.

That boy..Yusuf? Sha asked in his heart. Sha watched carefully. The boy was not, the boy who was in his dream yesterday. He's the one who shakes a girl that Sha doesn't remember clearly her face.

Is that Joseph's sister? Where is he now?

Sha's head throbbed, the dizziness was so painful that Sha involuntarily released the picture frame.

Brakes

Sha sat on the floor. His hands held both of his heads that were throbbing violently. The shadow of a boy whom Joseph always calls his daughter, is also the boy in the picture.

“Sha.” Shouted Mama Yusuf from outside the room.

Akbar, Rio and Mama Yusuf who were waiting for Sha outside immediately approached Sha who was holding his head. Assisted with Akbar and Rio Mama Yusuf laid Sha on the bed. Sha still held his head.

“Sha are you okay?”

“Rio you take water below, Akbar you try to call doctor.”

“Iya aunt.”

“Iya aunt.” Said Akbar and Rio simultaneously, they immediately rushed out of the room.

“Sha you're okay, right?” ask Mama Yusuf again.

Sha tried to close his eyes, trying to erase the shadows that had been present in his brain. His hand was not holding his head anymore. Sha was still trying to cast away the shadow and catch his hunting breath.

Rio came and gave a glass of water to Mama Yusuf. “Sha this drink first.”

Mama Yusuf helps Sha to sit down.

Sha received the glass, “thank you aunt.”

“Have it done?” Sha nodded.

“Tante anyone wants Sha ask?”

Mama Yusuf suddenly riled up, he looked at Rio. Rio nodded as a sign that this was their chance to know the truth. “Iya Sha?”

“Who are the two little kids in the photo?” tanya Sha who now pointed at the photo frame that had broken her glass.

Mama Yusuf was stunned, she squatted down and took the frame. Mama Yusuf got rid of the broken glass. “They..”.

“They're aunt Sha.”

Sha's heart raced fiercely.