
Minimarket is crowded with visitors, because it avoids heavy rain on the way, many are sitting in chairs in the store.
The chairs were indeed provided, not far from the shelves of goods, for the visitors who came with the intention of resting. They mostly buy instant coffee or noodles in ready-to-eat packaging, with hot water brewed, which is also provided by the minimarket.
Ara and Abhimanyu did the same.
Ara takes a fruit-flavored drink, with ready-to-eat instant noodles. While Abhimanyu, asked the minimarket to make one glass of coffee for him, and brewed noodles owned by Ara.
In addition to instant noodles and fruit-flavored drinks, Ara also took some small meals, for friends to chat with her father, while waiting for the rain to subside.
"We're sitting there Dad!"
Ara invited her father, to sit in the back seat, which was on the corner side of the room. The seat at the back is empty. All are filled with visitors, who come first before they arrive at this minimarket.
Abhimanyu simply nodded as he walked, accompanying the steps of his son. The two of them sat down and began to enjoy their food and drinks.
The door of the minimarket is open again.
Klinting!
"Good morning. Welcome and happy shopping."
There was the sound of minimarket cashier employees, who greeted visitors. It is commonly done by minimarket employees, bearing the Alfamart and Indomaret logos.
Abhimanyu looked towards the outside, which was made of glass. So, he could see clearly, how things were out there.
But it seems like the rain is falling more and more.
"It seems like it's still raining a long time Honey," Abhimanyu said, then turned to Ara, who was engrossed in enjoying the instant noodles in front of her.
Ara looked up at her father, then her gaze turned outward.
"Yes Well. Kok even added deres anyway," said Ara, with a worried tone.
He was worried if he could not get home quickly. She already misses her mother, and also her sister, Anggi.
Although in fact, the two of them, Ara and Anggi, often quarrel and quarrel, but they both still love each other. It's common for kids like them to get used to being together.
"But there's no way I'd drive myself in this situation, dear." Abhimanyu said what his son already knew.
"It's not Dad. Let's just wait until it subsides. Moga aja soon rain subsides," said Ara quickly.
Abhimanyu nodded with a smile, hearing the words of his son, who was upset, because he could not return to Jakarta quickly.
"A_father. It_it..."
Suddenly, Ara greeted her father with a trembling voice, pointing outwards.
Abhimanyu turned his head, and looked at his son, who was currently paying attention to something outside the minimarket room.
It turns out, out there, there's a woman who's in a feud with a man. I don't know what or who they are. But because the man slapped the woman on the cheek, making some people around her scream.
All of them, no one dared to help or get close.
"What are they? if you want to play drama, mending at home. Not a spectacle of many. No need to look!"
Abhimanyu reminded Ara not to pay attention to the conditions outside the room.
"Just finish your noodles Ara. Don't think about what you see. They have their own privacy. Maybe they're both married couples, and there's a problem."
Slowly, Abhimanyu explained to his son about the incident he had just seen.
"Indeed, if the husband and wife, can slap Yah?" asked Ara, who was curious. He had never seen the scene before, at his father and his mother.
Of course, Ara became astonished by the incident.
Abhimanyu again explained about the circumstances that they might be, people who are outside, natural.
Ara was still waiting for an answer from her father. He wanted to know, what happened to the husband and wife, who were no longer in conflict, because there were some people who broke up and reconciled the two of them.
As Ara looked outwards, Abhimanyu was reprimanded by someone, unknown to them.
"Mas Abi's. Abi, right? Her husband Anjani," said the man.
Abhimanyu who was just about to explain something to his son, so felt shocked and turned his head quickly towards the person who reprimanded him.
So too with Ara. He looked over as someone rebuked his father. He watched and watched who the person was.
But Ara didn't know that guy. He had also never met anyone, who was currently smiling looking towards his father, regardless of his whereabouts.
"Yes. I'm Abhimanyu. Who yeah?" Abhimanyu, justifying the call of the man. But he didn't remember a name, for he could say to say hello back.
"Let's guess what. Wh who? I forgot about Abi! I never forget Mas Abi" replied the man, without giving his own name, or his identity.
The person actually gives the question, with a puzzle that Abhimanyu must answer. But because Abhimanyu's brain memory is not as good as it used to be, or it could be, it is likely that he does not know, who is in front of him at this time.
Abhimanyu finally gave up. She nodded and smiled awkwardly, as she felt bad.
"Ah. Mas Abi where possible, remember with me. Hehehe." said the man chuckling.
Ara just silently watched. He did not say hello, or reprimand the person who was acting like a mysterious pretender.
"Oh yeah. Who is this, Mas?"
Suddenly, the man turned his gaze away from Abhimanyu, towards Ara.
But Ara was still silent, without expression. He also had no desire to answer the question of the person
"Guess yourself" said Abhimanyu, with the intention of replying to the man's actions.
"Ihhhh! I'd like to know. Is he Anjani's son!" ask the person by guessing.
Ara was still silent. But when the person's hand was about to hold her cheek, Ara turned the other way, so that the person could not touch her.
"Wow! Cute little girl. It seems like I know who you are" said the man again, without being asked to give an answer by Abhimanyu or Ara himself.
'Ah, pretty prett. Who the hell? So know that!' inner Ara, grouch.
He disliked the person who was pretentious and flirtatious, just like the one in front of him right now.
Abhimanyu also did not respond to the person's words. He only noticed how the person spoke, and moved.
From all the observations made by Abhimanyu, he thought of one name, which had once been in his house, when the person had an accident.
'He's time anyway?' ask Abhimanyu in heart.
But it seems that Abhimanyu's conjecture was correct, because shortly afterwards, the person again asked about Anjani.
"Oh yeah, you guys are from Bogor right? from Anjani's house or where's Dati?" The man seemed to know many things about Abhimanyu or Anjani.
This made Ara lean towards her father. From the look in Ara's eyes, it was as if asking her father, "who is he?"
Unfortunately, Abhimanyu also forgot the name of the person in front of him at this time.
He could not remember, a name he had never considered and thought of.
This attitude of Abhimanyu, which makes people who are currently in front of him, always feel challenged to be able to conquer it.
Although he actually did not have the heart of his friend, Anjani, but the nature of 'adventurers' he had, made him more eager to make Abhimanyu 'get' a little towards him.
The impossible thing that Abhimanyu could do, against Anjani. He couldn't possibly turn away. Given all their family life history, both past and present.