Fragrant For Galih

Ep. 8 Stories at the Dining Table

Today was a very tiring day for Fragrance. He was finally able to get home before the magrib and went straight into his room, laying down for a while before entering the bathroom to clean his tired and sticky body, after that he took the water and performed the magrib prayer. Today he was really very tired and just wanted to lay down on his bed. Sleep was the best medicine for now, yet he would not be able to sleep if his stomach was very hungry. So he decided to go to dinner with his family. At the dinner table was Dino and her father was waiting for his mother to prepare their dinner.

"Let's put this on the dinner table." His mother's orders when she saw him were there. Without saying anything Fragrant moved a large plate of fried chicken from the kitchen table to the dining table.

"What do you think is that, son?" Ask Papa Rendra who saw his daughter look lethargic.

"Harap kali pa hence Sak Wangi looks lemes." Seloroh Dino just like that, while Wangi just silence there is no intention to answer and immediately take his seat in front of Dino's chair.

"Then anyway? Usually if you are hungry you will just play food comot for granted, this is not." Papa Rendra said he saw a slow-looking fragrance.

"Scent hungry pa... But fragrance is more tired than hunger." Finally came out also lamented Fragrance.

"Capek why? It's not that today you said you were just taking your schedule and assignments on campus, but why did you come home so late?" Ask the mama who came with a tray of ginger to warm the body in this cold weather, plus the rustling of rain out there makes the night even colder.

"Indeed from the beginning of the plan once take the schedule and straight home, but suddenly on the road I was confronted with the same mad dog, inevitably I had to follow it if not want to be bitten and exposed to rabies." Reply Fragrance that sounds absurd in the ears of his parents and sister.

"Huhh?! How can there be a dog that dares to be the same brother Fragrance? Usually all dogs run away first before meeting with brother." This Dino is even more absurd.

"It's Din's crazy dog, not a regular dog." Eehh Wangi even nanggepin Dino's talk, which there is a papa mama they can only shake their heads to see the strangeness of the two children.

"Pa, this is actually us who are misdirected or indeed they are the only ones who are indeed strange from birth." Mama said she did not think about her children's behavior.

"Quiet ma... Fragrant you that if you speak clearly, do not absurd it can not? Who do you mean, crazy dog?" Ask papa.

"Senior Fragrance pa, he likes to rummage Fragrance for this task, ngerjain this, there Fragrance here Fragrance, anything Fragrance, I'm tired pa..." Fragrant Complaint while putting on her pouting face.

"The whole job thing isn't a weird one, is it?" Ask the father again. Fragrant shook slowly.

"Good dong, so you can add science." Papa said.

"But tired pa, the time targeted is only fragrant? Of the many people there I'm the only one who gets more work and more work." Complaints again.

"If you mind why don't you just refuse?" Ask papa.

"How could Fragrance refuse senior? Rejecting seniors is tantamount to world war, they will be even stingier to share knowledge." Answer Fragrance.

"Well that you know, therefore you are patient, complaining can but should not be blushing, which papa heard from his fellow papa who became a doctor, who became a doctor, taking a specialist is a tough ordeal especially from seniors who put a lot of pressure. All the struggle is nothing easy, you see this papa, papa was also a lot through difficult times until finally it can be in the current position. So papa hope you are also more relieved and enjoy it just like you enjoyed dinner today. Let's eat first, you must have been hungry from earlier." His papa's advice may not be able to reduce his fatigue today, but his papa's speech makes his fragrant heart feel lighter. Yes he realized to realize an ideal there is no easy way, like all day he had to follow and hear the barking of Elias.

After dinner, they enjoyed the warm ginger wedang and fried bananas made by the mother. Papa Rendra occasionally observed his daughter.

"Scented... You have a boyfriend yet?" The sudden question his papa made the scented one who was engrossed in chewing his fried banana choke.

"Ouch... How do you nduk, eat a real dong." Mama Rina immediately offered a glass of water to Fragrance which she immediately gulped.

"Former papa suddenly nanya that, Fragrance is shocked." Said Fragrance after sipping the white water.

"Yes, papa the tumbens are so fragrant?" Sahut.

"Papa just ask, because papa's a little hesitant." Answer the slightly ambiguous papa.

"Papa just doubt there aren't men who want to be with our daughters?" Papa.

"Don't you say that?" Excited Fragrance by squinting her eyes and blasting her lips.

"Yes, is this papa talking about it? Although the postage and gini babar Wangi is quite beautiful, the doctor also, dauntar again also passed the specialist." Bela mama even though on the sidelines of her praise there is blasphemy in it. Fragrant who heard it did not know to be grateful because it has been defended by the mother or miris because all the words of her mother are true.

"Well that's it ma, papa never hesitated with his intelligence and profession, which papa doubted it's strange nature and behavior... Papa can't imagine how much pain the man who will become her husband." Reveal the father who feels sorry himself to see his daughter who has grown up but sometimes his behavior is still like a child.

"Damor..." Dino who from earlier was just a henchman chewing fried bananas giggled at the chatter of both his parents and brother.

"Laughter laughs, don't understand!" Perfumed spray while touching the forehead of the sister.

"Ouch! Sick brother..." Rengek Dino while rubbing his jidat.

"That's why don't you suck." Said Wangi while glaring at his sister.

"That's it... You guys are just making a fuss every day. It smells good when you're done resting there you said tired, and you're Dino when you're done working PR there." The order of the mother is no longer inviolable, because if it is angry the mother can lecture a day last night.

"Yes ma..." Answer Fragrance and Dino in unison.

Now live mama Rina and papa Rendra at the dinner table. Mama Rina was busy tidying up the dirty dishes and washing them. While papa Rendra still has not left the dining table, enjoy fried bananas and spend his wedang gah who lives half.

"Lho... Is papa still here?" Asked Mama Rina who still saw her husband at the dinner table while she finished washing dishes and dirty glasses.

"Sit here first ma accompany papa, wedang ginger papa is still not finished." Papa Rendra told his wife to sit in the chair next to him.

"Papa is not usually like this, like you think." Mom said guessing.

"So early in the morning you got a phone call telling you to come to the hospital." Papa Rendra said to his wife.

"Hospital? Who's sick?" Ask mama Rina curious.

"Ridwan." Answer papa briefly.

"Ridwan's? Ridwan..a dear old friend at High School?" Ask mama make sure and papa nods justifiably. Then Papa Rendra started telling stories.

"It turns out you still remember, we haven't exchanged any news in a long time, lastly he told me when he and his family moved to Jakarta to continue his family business and after that his phone number could not be reached. Only papa knew at that time only his son still lived in Semarang. And this morning someone called Papa to come to the Hospital saying that Ridwan was very sick and wanted to meet with papa. He had stage three bowel cancer and had to be operated on immediately. Then he took our appointment first." Papa Renda told his wife.

"Promise? What promise?" Ask Mama Rina who does not understand anything about her husband's promise with her best friend Ridwan.

"Promise to match our son when he grows up." Papa Rendra replied and it made Mama Rina shocked for a moment.

"Indeed? Is Ridwan's son going with Fragrance?" Ask Mama Rina.

Seriate...