
Arrive arrive...
Yuck..
Mia vomited right on the lap of the woman next to her father.
" Gosh!" The woman and Arnold were shocked.
" Sorry, sorry! Forgive my daughter." Arnold looked at the woman.
Luckily the woman was wearing a jacket that she used to cover her thighs as she was wearing a knee-length skirt at the moment. He seems to be an office worker because he also uses a brown blazer.
" It's okay." Legally.
He took off his jacket and put it down.
" I'm sorry Aunti." Mia Say.
The woman looked at Mia with a smile. Mia looked pale at the moment.
" You sick?" The woman placed the back of her hand on Mia's forehead.
" Hot." It surprised Arnold. He felt Mia's neck which was hot.
" It looks like your daughter caught a cold sir, did you bring eucalyptus oil?" The woman looked at Arnold.
" I didn't bring it." Arnold Sahut.
" I have anti-cold medication sir, your daughter can drink half of it. I'll find eucalyptus oil for your daughter first." He opened his bag looking for the medicine.
" This is Sir." The woman gave Arnold a liquid anti-cold drug.
" Thank you." Arnold said in a nod back by him.
The woman stopped the bus just before the mini market they passed. He asked the driver to wait for him for a while. He got out of the car and soon returned with eucalyptus oil and some snacks in his hand. The car drove back, the woman sat back at each other Arnold.
" Why haven't you been given sir?" He asked when he saw Arnold still holding the medicine he gave earlier.
" A yes." Arnold Sahut.
" It's a drink baby, we're a long way away so don't let you why are you here." Arnold gave the drug to Mia.
Mia also said, he took the herbal medicine half.
" The rest keep it for later, sir." The woman next to Arnold.
" Thank you." Arnold.
" Aunti, Aunti is very kind. What's Aunti's name?" Tanya Mia looked at him.
" Want to know what you know?" Ask teasing Mia.
" Want to know what Donk Aunti is." Sahut Mia's.
" What's your name?" He asked again.
" My name is Mia Aunti, and Mia's father. His name is Arnold." Mia patted Arnold's shoulder.
" Greetings to Miss." Say hello Arnold.
" Greetings also sir, my name is Sera." A woman named Sera.
" Aunti's name is good, the person is also beautiful." Mia's words made Sera smile.
" Here Aunti kasih eucalyptus oil first your body, after that you can eat this snack while enjoying the journey." Sera.
" Okay Aunti." Answer Mia.
Sera rinsed Mia's body with eucalyptus oil. Then he gave the snacks he bought earlier so that Mia did not get bored if she had to stay on the way.
Sera's attention moved Arnold. He did not expect there to be a good person as good as Sera at the moment.
" Where are you going, sir?" Ask Sera.
" Want to go home to town B." Arnold Sahut.
" I happened to go there too, looking at my sick grandmother." Sera.
Finally, they talked to each other like people who had known each other for a long time. Arriving at the terminal in city B, the three of them went down together. Usut had a whistle turned out they were one goal because Arnold and his grandmother Sera lived in one village, one RT anyway. It made them return together all the way to the local village.
Sera Liliana, a twenty-five-year-old girl who is still single works at a private bank in the city of J in the xx area as a customer service. It was the same with Arnold, the same from an ordinary family. So did Sera's confession, but in reality only she knows.
After getting off the taxi they were riding, the two walked to their respective destinations. Arnold's house is only five houses away from his grandmother Sera's house. That means they can be said to be close neighbors.
" Aunti Sera." Call Mia when Sera is about to open the gate of her grandmother's house.
" Yes." Sera Sahut.
" Can Mia go to Grandma Sumi's house?" Ask Mia.
" Of course, baby, but now you have to rest first so you get back fit. Aunti's here about a month." Sera. Yes Sera applied for one leave instead, if in one month her grandmother has not healed, she will submit a resignation letter.
" Yey.. Thank you, Auntie, see you later." Mia was happy.
" See you, Mia, baby." Sera Say.
Sera looked at Arnold and vice versa.
" See you Ma.. Mas."Sera said nervously. Earlier on the bus, Arnold asked him not to call Sir because they looked the same age. That's why Sera called him Mas.
" Bye bye." Arnold continued his steps towards his home.
Sera immediately entered her grandmother's house.
" Assalamu'alaikum Grandma." Sera Say.
" Wa'alaikumsallam Grandma's granddaughter has come." Grandma Sumi.
Sera approached her grandmother who was sitting on the sofa of her house.
" My grandmother misses me." Sera hugged her grandmother and kissed her wrinkled cheeks.
" Why don't you ever visit Grandma? If Grandma's not sick you don't want to come here. Do you have to wait for Grandma not to come here?"
Sumi's grandmother's question made Sera's heart break. He was so busy he did not have time to visit his grandmother. Grandma who had been taking care of him from Sera Little until Sera graduated Junior High School, because when entering school Sera was taken by her parents and brought to the city of Jakarta.
Sumi's grandmother lives with the granddaughter of her second child, Lena. Lena and Sera are almost the same age. It's just that Lena has been married and now her status is a young widow because she lives away by her husband. Lena always glanced at the one-child widower who was at the end of the house, who else if not Arnold. Arnold never responded.
" I'm sorry, Grandma, I was too busy pursuing a career until I forgot about my beautiful grandmother." Sera.
" Your seduction doesn't work for Sera, Grandma won't be tempted by you." Sumi's grandmother's words made Sera chuckle.
Sera sat on the sofa next to her beloved grandmother, they continued chatting to let go of the homesickness they had endured all this time.
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Inside Revia's house, tonight after dinner Revia and Zayn sat on the bed accompanying Arvi who was doing her homework. Arvi felt very happy because of her learning this time accompanied by her parents. This is what he has dreamed so far.
" It's over, Daddy's trying to correct Arvi's task!" Arvi gives the book to Zayn.
" Dear, this is Daddy's homework. So Daddy can't correct at home. Daddy will correct it at school along with your friend's assignment later. If Daddy corrects at home, there will be a fraud in your opinion. Later your friends think that Daddy gives good value to you because you are Daddy's son. Do you understand what Daddy means?" Zayn.
" Yes, Dad." Sahut Arvi nodded her head.
" Now finish your book." Zayn taught Arvi to be independent. Arvi obediently did what Zayn told him to do.
" Arvi has something Mommy wants to talk to you about." Revia said after Arvi cleaned up all her books.
" What is Mom?" Ask Arvi.
" Mommy heard you rejected daddy Arnold and Mia, why?" Ask Revia.
" Arya doesn't like Ma." Sahut Arvi did not want to explain what the reason was.
" Dear, if you do that because of daddy Arnold's attitude toward us all along, it's your name's revenge baby. And having a vindictive attitude is no good dear." Revia.
" Whatever daddy Arnold does, you should be grateful now. At least you can have a replacement daddy like Zayn. Just imagine if daddy Arnold didn't leave us, surely daddy Zayn wouldn't be here. Aren't you happier living with good daddy Zayn?" Not to compare, but Revia tried to make Arvi understand.
Arvi seemed silent, maybe he was thinking.
" Daddy Arnold just left Mommy instead of leaving you baby, because all this time daddy Arnold didn't know that Mommy had you. Now Mommy asks you, would you like daddy Arnold the same daddy Zayn?" Ask Revia again.
" Same daddy Zayn." Sahut Arvi fast.
" That means you have to thank daddy Arnold, because it's indirectly daddy Arnold who made daddy Zayn here." Revia.
" Yes Mom." Sahut Arvy.
" Mean now you can't be angry anymore with daddy Arnold ya." Revia.
" Yes Mom, I'm sorry Arvi." Arvi.
" Smart kid." Revia stroked Arvi's head with a smile.
TBC.....