
I like to hang out with my cousins, because from our childhood we often get together. Once or twice a month they will visit my grandmother's house, the house where my sister and I grew up. I can laugh with them, because they are not like my neighbor's friends who often question the whereabouts of my father who is out of nowhere.
But that was when we were kids until we were old enough, and before they got married. Because usually close relationships during childhood will be a little stretched after adulthood, and more stretched again after each marriage, especially after each has children, we can only gather occasionally, and only once, this is what often happens in human life.
Yep. That night I was quite happy to be able to laugh when I gathered with them, although the rest of me was quite inferior because my three cousins were married. Indeed, there are still unmarried people, of course unmarried people are all younger than me, they are still in college and still in school. I am the only one who is mature enough but still has the status of a single.
"Ra, this afternoon there was a friend Ari nanyain you, lo. You know, the guy's handsome. I guarantee you'll like it. She loved your performance, "saucer Hengky, her husband Zaza, my cousin's sister, first-aunt's first-born son.
I took a deep breath to endure the annoyance. "Once again someone talks about this, I swear, I'm leaving for the room, yeah."
"You are, Mas. Already know Inara does not like to be combated so," said Zaza as he elbowed her husband. Hengky also immediately throbbed.
"When are you like this, Ra?" ask Zizi, who is also my cousin.
Zaza and Zizi, eldest aunt's twins. Zaza's first child, Zizi's second child, they're twins but their faces aren't as fair. They have different faces and skin colors, Zaza skin is whiter than Zizi skin color. Unlike Zaim and Zain, who are identical twins, my aunt's fourth and fifth child. It was really hard to tell the two handsome white men apart. But even so, Zaza and Zizi are a pack of other twins. Zaza and Zizi were two and a half years older than me. They were married when they were twenty-three years old. While my age at the family gathering was twenty-four years more with true single-match status, it was the reason for my cousins to find me a partner.
"We all love you, Ra," Zaza chimed in. "We don't want you to keep doing this. Try to open your heart. Not everything we fear will happen" he continued.
I noticed that all of them, Zia, Zaim, and Zain, who were younger than me did not speak, probably out of disdain. While Dimas, her husband Zizi, is indeed a silent carrier, it is rare to talk. And Ari - who had just entered the family - seemed confused, he did not seem to understand what his brother-in-law meant. Likewise with Ihsan, my handsome brother was also silent, he knew very well that I would be disturbed if they discussed matters concerning my personal affairs.
"Have you?" my many. "I know you all care about me. But I believe that the soul mate is not going anywhere, he will come just in time. So, you guys don't have to be busy being matchmakers, okay? I love you guys. Good evening. Bye." I also left the place.