
The rain drenched the windows of oncoming cars. Cold weather felt piercing his skin. Driving in an emotional state? That's what happened, until Zion who this time sat in the driver's seat. A message came in through his phone, a message sent by one of the bodyguards.
Tomy sighed harshly staring at the adult video on her phone, "She enjoyed it," her lips smiled disdainfully, momentarily turning her gaze to stare at the raindrops sweeping through her car window.
A grudge? Does that exist? Of course, Tomy still clearly remembers the neighborhood scorn about her mother. However, Merlin did sell himself, there was no defense that a stuttering child could pronounce.
Lia came several times just to sneer, trying to ignite a fight. The goal? Maybe just to vent his emotions on Adrian who never warms up to him again. Is it her mother's fault? Merlin never saw Adrian again. If they accidentally met, they just fought like a child.
However, the result of Lia's actions and insults, made Merlin look even lower. Mothers and children are getting more and more scorn.
"Tomy?" Zion clenched her forehead, still concentrating on the streets.
"Emm," only one answer came out of his mouth. I don't know what's on his mind right now.
"We're going to your hotel, your house, or the police station?" tanyakanya.
"Don't know, just walk." he said just silently staring at the drizzling rain on a cold morning.
Just walk? You know, once I stay home... My bed would be cold without me... He (Tomy) is married, does not understand it yet, basic.Zion grumbled in his heart, clutching tightly at the steering wheel of the car, still trying to smile.
"Tomy, seriously, where are we going?" tanyanya back.
"Just hotel, let's get more leads. If necessary threaten the hotel staff.." she replied expressionlessly, finding a dead end.
"Every senior!!" Zion smiled, stepped back on her gas pedal, finally getting a clear goal.
Until, Tomy's phone again sounded with the caller number not recorded. The young man sighed violently, raising his call.
"Sorry, who is this?" tanyanya, tendering her body.
"I'm Frea, can you pick me up? I'm in a bit of trouble." replied someone across the street sounding awkward.
"Zio!! Stop Car!!" tomy snapped, at the young man sitting beside her.
Kriyiets....
Shucks... I almost had a heart attack. Can talk slowly a little. Zion sneer in the heart, braking suddenly, a sports car that had been traveling at high speed.
"The problem? You're all right, right? Need me to call an ambulance? Do not hesitate to tell me anything, no matter what your condition is now whatever has happened to you, I will still love you." he said quickly, full of panic. It was as if the logic disappeared, forgetting to ask the location first.
"Still assume your wife was raped?" Zion grunted in a small voice, faintly hearing Frea's voice that seemed to be fine.
"I'm fine, it's just that I owe you. My wallet's missing, can pick me up at the little shop, Jalan. Remember number 342?" tanyakanya.
Tomy was stunned for a moment, clenching his forehead."The stall still exists?" mumbled stunned.
Mampus... The grandfather would sneer at me all over again.Germutu in his heart remember the spicy mouth of the stall keeper who always gave him two packs of rice, and money of ten thousand rupiah.
***
Who would have thought, the old stall that has been renovated many times but does not change its original shape is still standing, although rarely open. Wh-wh-what for? Suki still hopes that her most reviled granddaughter comes, just to stop by.
But now the old man was sitting in a wheelchair. Silent in the drizzling rain, watching a sports car followed by two other cars stopped at the slum.
A man in a black suit (guard) in the back car ran to open an umbrella for him(Tomy). Another man from the same car runs up an umbrella to a young man who gets out of the driver's seat (Zion).
Suki clenched her forehead, staring at the figure of the young man in white, wearing clothes that were not cheap. Unlike 17 years ago, a child with a skinned deck with tattered clothes, flip-flops with a safety pin on the bottom.
Suki clenched her hands, hopeful of the figure of the young man descending.
Until, the motion was seen again, entering the stall awkwardly and hesitantly. Just like 17 years ago, that awkward kid. Afraid she'll be pouty, but still need money and two packs of rice.
Plaque ....
A snack was thrown by Suki tightly right on Tomy's face. Complete with tea that began to cool down, hit his face.
Wow, how brave this grandfather, sure his stall will be flat with the ground.I thought Zion shook her head pity.
"Sorry..." Tomy, who was usually cold, is now guilty. The conquer? Of course, the young man will only be subject to people who are meritorious in his life.
He is my stammering grandson... Suki thinned her lips, restraining her laughter.
Apologizing? I didn't hear wrong, did I? Great old grandpa... Zion gave her thumbs up, looking at Suki's grandfather.
"Say tomorrow is coming!! But not coming!! The ice I made melted shattered all!!" suki snarled at the young man before her.
"Sorry...!!" Tomy looked down again, remembering that he had indeed left without notice.
"Now you can speak well!? Then stop!! Tomorrow bring another ice candle!!" grandpa Suki grumbled, looking sulky.
"Grandfather, now that I'm an adult, I have a lot of work, I.." said Tomy on the sidelines.
"It's just never come here!! Girl of the night, it's like a nut forgot on her skin!!" the insinuation from that spicy mouth again sounded.
"Tomy, do you know this grandpa?" Frea clenched her forehead.
"Of course your husband knows!! He's a traveling ice candle salesman!!" the grandfather's lips to his grandson.
"Sttt.. Grandpa is my wife, don't tell me.." Tomy's words stopped.
"Tell me what!?" snarled Suki back. Makes Tomy incline down, speechless."Kneel down!!" surprisingly Tomy complied, kneeling before the man sitting in a wheelchair.
Tell me how hard your life is? You have grown up. The wrinkled hands of the grandfather stroked his hair slowly. Touching his sturdy shoulder.
Sorry grandfather was selfish, educating you too hard. Planning on letting you live in trouble until High School, then taking you home on your graduation. But my stuttering grandson, took a different path 17 years ago. Disappear before Grandpa takes you home, to live a better life, alone...
The grandfather cried sobbing, tightly hugging Tomy's body. Haru, that's how everyone saw the scene before him, "Finally, you came back to compensate for the ice candle that melted 17 years ago." said the grandfather.
In a moment of silence, Tomy frowned, "I have to pay the restitution for not coming?"
Grandpa Suki still hugged her granddaughter while nodding, "60,000, due to the inflation of the value of the goods to 120,000 plus the snacks your wife spent. 156,000 in total,"
Just when he was 9 years old, the old man called, then hugged him. 'Stuttering child, are you hungry? How about selling ice candles, Grandpa's?' warm words and hugs that he did not understand at that time.
***
Tomy sighed harshly, clasping Frea's fingers, after hearing from his wife, all the things that happened, "Thank you." he said with a smile.
"As your wife promised. You owe me a lifetime.." Suki's words sounded resolute, "Dashing boy!! You can pay it off from now on." she said with the man behind her taking out two large flasks of ice candles, which she had no idea where.
"Es the candle again?" Tomy scrunched his forehead.
"Sell in the cafeteria where you work." said Suki smiling without sin.
I've gotten a bad feeling by going to this place again... right?.. See ice candles sucks all those colors. Maybe when Frea gets pregnant later our son will ask for ice candles. Because his father carries a lot of ice candles everywhere.
"Es candle..." Tomy lifted two flasks without being able to argue.
"Let's pack some food, take it easy!! The side of anchovies and spinach..." Suki laughed loudly, unable to hold back her laughter anymore.
"Yes, I will return the favor well. I'm saying goodbye..." Tomy smiled, holding an umbrella for her and Frea. While the ice flask was achieved by his bodyguard was put into the rear passenger seat.
"Later in the afternoon do not forget to come, return the empty flask!! Without my rice wrap, you wouldn't be able to eat right!?" said the grandfather from the shop.
"Yes!!" tomy shouted from the car that started driving.
Suki was silent for a moment, staring at the departure of her grandson.
"Great master.." the subordinate bowed, hesitatingly asking.
"What's wrong?" Suki sighed harshly.
"I think Mr. Gilang, Mona, and Leon and Agra are better suited to be commissioners. They were more aware of the situation of the company, as well as education." the subordinate's words came to a halt.
"Take the tab in the drawer." he said.
The subordinate complied, taking the thing.
"Open the document, which I gave the password to. The sand is 12FR15TY21," Suki sighed violently.
The subordinate, according to him, knitted his forehead in disbelief staring at the document.
Fill document? All JH Corporation assistant profiles. Surely Suki paid dearly to the professional heaker. Documents stating education while in Singapore, but not including childhood.
"Master's degree, National University of Singapore? Even co-founded JH Corporation?" tanyanya stared in disbelief. Given Tomy's young age as well, living without Suki's protection.
"More than that, our fabric company is almost closed. At that time, I had to intervene myself, because he (Tomy) reported about the waste treatment process that was not correct. Though he knew himself, the Bold brand of course belongs to his father's extended family. Crippling opponents, not looking at family, just looking at right and wrong. People are meticulous without loopholes..." Suki chuckled proudly.
"He's more on JH Corporation's side? Then why do you insist on finding the facts about him?" asked the subordinate did not understand with his master's mind.
"One of our troubled fabric factories was held by Agra. Agra chose to bribe local officials to pass waste treatment tests instead of renewing the equipment,"
"Not careful, letting the opponent find the loophole, cheating. Leading domestically is okay, but when leading a large multinational business. Using these methods, then sooner or later everything will collapse.." he explained.
"Then why don't you just ask him to help in the company?" ask the subordinate back.
"Can't, my grandson has high royalty on the people who helped him. The owner of JH Corporation is the one who supports his tuition fees, currently the crafty boy (owner of JH Corporation) is in a coma. The only way to bring Tomy back is to ask her directly..."
Suki sighed harshly, "There's actually another way, sandra's mother and his wife. Threatened to kill them, skin them alive. But I'm gonna be a bad grandpa, right?" suki said laughing with her not funny joke.
***
JH Corporation Office...
This time the step is headed toward the cafeteria, the employee there mengyitang staring at the highest-income employees, as well as the most stingy in the office.
"Es candle?" tanyanya.
This super stingy astral creature wants to sell ice candles? He thought this was the elementary school cafeteria.
"I just dropped it, can't I!?" Tomy scrunched his forehead.
"But.." the cafeteria employee sighed harshly, considering there was no way a small child in the office or an employee that the majority of the upper middle class would buy it.
"Put it down and help me sell!! What hard!?" said Tomy walked away from the cafeteria employee, indifferent considering his busy piling up.
"Crazy cheapskate." the cafeteria official's lips stared at the colorful ice candles like a rainbow.
But who would have thought, one of the employees posted it in the social media group, after taking pictures of Tomy from a considerable distance.
The fans? Maybe it is someone who will never think badly of their idol.
'Mr. Tomy was carrying two ice flasks, wearing a suit. Ice candles are cool!! Kuy..borong to cafeteria...'
'Our cool vampire, maybe teach you how to live a simple, ideal husband-to-be'
'His salary is highest, my future husband may be doing social experiment...'
And there are many other comments that make the snacks of the children sell hard.
Meanwhile, Frea insists on working as usual, although Tomy wants his wife to stay at home temporarily. The woman, sighed staring at the comments in the Facebook Group.
"Frea why is your husband selling ice candles?" Keysha asked curiously.
"He's done it a long time ago, for rice packs and survival." answered Frea honestly.
Keysha was silent for a moment, clenching his forehead at the unreasonable answer coming out of Frea's mouth.
Seriate