Fragrant For Galih

Ep. 29 Unexpected Stories

Galih smiled after reading a reply to a message from Wangi.

"Freak girl." Galih muttered in the heart.

"Drag, baby... Here's how we eat the cake together." Call her mama while opening the wet cake package of typical Yogyakarta market snacks such as Legomoro, Yangko, until Gethuk was there.

"Yes ma..." Galih replied while keeping her phone back in her pants pocket and then walked over to her mother.

"Honey, Doctor Fragrant can't come to eat with us." Said his mother in a sad tone.

"I'm not busy ma, after all Fragrance is clear." Galih tried to calm the disappointment of his mother.

"Don't know your mom likes baperan, besides we can invite Fragrance and her family to eat together when papa comes home from here." Sahut Ridwan chimed while teasing his wife.

"Oh papa, do you know what baperan means?" Bales Ratna sewot on her husband.

"Yes you know... Likes to laugh at feelings." Reply Ridwan did not want to lose, while Ratna could only sing her lips towards her husband. And Galih who saw the behavior of his parents who still like the banter like a child can only shake their heads.

"Oh yes Lih, you are very familiar with the same Doctor Fragrance? You two called each other names just as you heard earlier." Ask her mother half-curious.

"It's usual that ma, because he doesn't like to be called mbak he said like calling mbak-mbak herbalist, called Doctor he said too formal because we often meet outside his working hours." Galih explained to his mother.

"Ohh that's it... It's good." Said Ratna lirih.

"Why ma?" Ask Galih who heard vaguely his mother's tweet.

"No, it's nothing." Ratna replied instantly with a stiff smile.

Calm down for a moment...

"Ma, I want to go to Mushola first yes, want to pray dzuhur." Said Galih later.

"Lho... Don't eat cake first?" Ask mother.

"Let's go ma." Answer Galih while stepping out of his papa's room.

"Pa, why else would your son be? How strange is that attitude?" Ratna asked her husband.

"How weird? Just want to pray, already do not baper continue." Ridwan said stupid time.

"Huhh talk to papa it makes sprain!" Ratna said half sulked, while her husband Ridwan just ignored her while engrossed in eating the marrow porridge that Galih bought earlier.

Meanwhile, Galih went straight to Mushola in the Hospital. Taking water and then immediately fulfill the obligation of prayer dzuhur. After a few minutes, he finally finished his prayer. He came out of the Mushola but did not leave the place. Galih actually sat on the terrace of Mushola and his eyes looked like he was thinking about something.

"Ohhhh...."

Galih took a long breath. He remembered something his Komundanya Rendra aka his papa Wangi told him that night. The night when he drove Wangi home after knowing his papa relationship with his Command, as well as the night where he felt unwell and Fragrant gave him medicine.

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Flash Back's....

That night after making sure Wangi entered the house Galih immediately forwarded his car to return to his dormitory. But just about to enter the gate of the Commander's dormitory, Rendra Wangi papanya called him and asked him to meet him in front of a mini market located not far from the dormitory. Galih finally turned the direction of his car towards the mini market referred to his Command.

Arriving there it turns out the Commander has not arrived and Galih waiting for him in the umbrella seat on the mini market page until ten minutes later Rendra came to him. Galih who saw him immediately stood up from his seat.

"Ready Ndan! Just got." Answer Galih firmly.

"It's relaxing, we're not on duty, just call me om. You must have known that me and your dad were old friends?" Said Rendra while positioning himself to sit down.

"Ready, it's Ndan." Answer Galih.

"Casual Lih... Call me out if it's like this outside." Rendra said once again to affirm.

"Ba good Ndan, um... Om." Answer Galih who still feels awkward with the request of his Command.

"Sit down Wih, uh wait... You better buy coffee in this mini market first as well as some snacks, because we will chat long enough. This is the money." Said Rendra while reaching into the wallet that was in his pants pocket.

"Just use my money." Reject Galih.

"Don't I bring you here." Said Ridwan but Galih still rejected it.

"It's okay om, I'm there." Galih who still refused him made Rendra give up.

Galih went into the mini market and bought her Command coffee and skin nuts and wafers as a light snack, while she chose to buy bear milk considering her body feels less vit. After that he returned to where Rendra sat with a coffee cup that was still steaming along with other groceries.

"This is the coffee." Galih put the hot coffee right in front of Rendra while putting a packet of peanuts and wafer.

"Lho you don't copy, huh?" Ask Rendra who did not see Galih's coffee.

"I'll just drink this." Answer Galih while showing the milk of the bear he bought earlier.

"Ohh..." Rendra Reply.

Ridwan sipped his coffee slowly and carefully because it was still very hot.

"Switch... There's something I want to tell you, but please listen to me first until the end, maybe what I'll say later makes you surprised or uncomfortable." Said Rendra who started talking seriously.

"Okay, I'll listen to you until the end." Reply Galih who started to feel curious in his heart.

"Look... You must have known if my father Ridwan and I were old friends?" Galih nodded as the answer.

"We have been friends since we were in Junior High until we were in High School. Your father who comes from a family that is quite able to choose to continue studying business majors in order to continue the family business, while I who indeed since school aspired to be a soldier chose to register to become a member of the TNI after we graduated from High School. However, the two of us never stop communicating and occasionally meet if we are free time. Until each of us got married and Ridwan chose to move to Jakarta to continue his parents' business. If it's not wrong at that time, you're not even two years old and at that time my wife was pregnant with Fragrance." Rendra paused her story for a moment and took her coffee for her to drink back. After that, he resumed his story.

"Before you go to Jakarta the night before we gather for dinner all Ridwan want to say goodbye. But there was one thing he wanted to ask me to keep this friendship going. You know what your father asked of me?" Galih shook his head at the sign that he didn't know.

"Scented." Rendra's words immediately made Galih surprised, he was very surprised and felt whether he heard wrong?

"Compense om? Meanin?" Galih still does not understand Rendra's words.

"Either what was in Ridwan's circle at that time, but your father was very sure if the child my wife was carrying was a daughter. And Ridwan wants you to get married when you grow up." Galih was made even more shocked by the words of Rendra the Commander.

"And you agree?" Ask Galih with a face that is difficult to express.

Rendra nodded...

"Yes, I thought that time Ridwan was just joking and I agreed to make him feel happy. Understandably, your father who was an only child made me and him like his own brother. He looked sad when we had to part so I agreed. After a long time we both so rarely communicate because of the busyness of each until I got word from him who said that he was very sick and was undergoing treatment at the University Hospital where Wangi worked. And when I met him before the operation, your papa Ridwan collected a promise of an arranged marriage between you and Wangi that I thought was just a joke of him." Rendra revealed that Galih could not say anything more so speechless.

"Now I want to ask, how did you decide Galih?"

Seriate....