I Love Not Lara

I Love Not Lara

After an hour and a half by plane, Cinta finally arrived in Jakarta. Currently, he was walking on the door of domestic arrival. Although, actually Love is very confused, but he tries not to look kampung.

After leaving the airport, he then took a taxi around the airport. In accordance with Lara's directions and orders, she mentioned the address that Lara had already sent via chat. Lara did deliberately not order Cinta to use an online application because she was sure Cinta definitely could not use it.

Hustle and bustle of Jakarta, and the height of buildings, as well as several fly over streets make Cinta so amazed, but he just holds it in his heart. He was afraid that if the taxi driver knew he was from the village, Cinta would be lied to by going around first and would make the taxi fare swell, even more, as Cinta once read in the old newspaper that she read in loakan, because her family did not have a television at home.

An hour later, Love has arrived at a house that according to Love is unusually large. After paying the taxi fare, he got off, then walked closer to the house.

"Wahhhh this is a really big house huh? Kayak palace in Fairy Tale Country. Even much bigger than Lara's house in Surabaya."

Despite her doubts, Love finally put her foot into the house. As Lara stood in front of the gate, it appeared that some of the guards guarding the house looked so confused, and looked at her from top to bottom. "Non Lara?"

Hearing the words of the security guard, Cinta just smiled, she then stepped foot into the courtyard of the house after the security guard opened the gate.

"Please come in, Non Lara."

Love nodded her head and walked through the courtyard. 'It's Sunday, they should all be at home, ' Inner Love while pressing the bell.

"Assalamualaik."

Moments later, a woman's voice was heard. "Waalaikumsalam" answered a fat woman who now opened the door for him.

"Non Lara!" she shouted with a face full of happiness.

"I'm not Lara Bu, I'm Love."

"Non Lara don't have to pretend. Lara's love must be the same! Come on in, Non. I call Mr. Arya and Mr. Marshal." 

Love then sat in a guest chair, so awkward. Lara had just sat down, suddenly a voice sounded, so much to her surprise. "Why are you coming back to this house, Lara? Didn't you choose to live with that man, huh!" shouted a middle-aged man who was now standing not far from him.

Love so shocked that it turned its body. "Sorry sir, I'm not Lara, my name is Love."

"No need to pretend to be welcome back in this house, Lara! You have always been full of tricks!"

"Right sir, I'm Love not Lara."

"Lara, have you forgotten, haven't I told you many times that if you make a mistake once again, I will never forgive you!!!"

"For God's sake, sir, I'm Lara not Love."

"No need to carry the name of the Lord, you should be ashamed to mention His name, look at all your deeds, first! Always stray from God's teaching!"

"But it's true, I'm not Lara. Sir, please tell me how you can believe that I am Love?"

"Not much theatricality, now get the hell out of here!"

"Marshal quickly get rid of him!!" arya orders on the Marshal who is currently standing behind Arya, while continuing to stare at Love.

Love turned her eyes to the handsome man. In that instant, the heart of Love beat very fast as the man named Marshal approached him.

'Very handsome,' Inner Love while gulping down his saliva violently.

"Lara get out of here!" snapped Marshal. However, Love only fell silent, and looked at Marshal's face with a smile.

"Well!" marshal again.

"Emh... Oh yeah, how was it?"

"Lara, get out of this house!"

"But Mas, I'm not Lara. I Love, Mas."

"It's silent first, I'll persuade Opa to take you back!" whispered Marshal in the end, after dragging Love out of the mansion, because in fact he was still curious. The real reason why Lara suddenly disappeared.

"For God's sake, I'm not Lara."

"Shut up! Now you wait for me here! I'll talk to Opa for a second!"

Marshal then entered the house, while Love, now sitting in the front garden of the mansion. Moments later, Marshal appears to be drawing near to Love.

"Lara, you can go inside. You can stay here for a week, then help you get out of this house."

"Okay sir, thank you."

Love then entered the mansion, then escorted by Bi Sumi to a large room that is Lara's room.

"Wah the room is very big, the mattress is soft. It must be good to sleep here" muttered Love. He then laid his body on the bed, then began to sleep.

***

I don't know how long Love was asleep, when she opened her eyes, she saw that the sky outside the window was already dark.

"Oh it's malem."

Tok tok tok tok

"Non Lara, wait for Master to eat dinner."

"Yes a minute."

Love then comes out of the room, and sits at the dinner table with Arya, and Marshal. He then stared at all the food on the dining table with a astonished face.

"Sir, is all this edible?"

Arya and Marshal were shocked to hear it. "No need to pretend Lara, did your husband never feed you?" Love also stopped hearing Arya's words.

When they started eating dinner, Love seemed so confused wearing all the equipment on the table. Cinta then resumed dinner by using the cutlery as much as possible. 

The attitude of Love, actually did not escape from Marshal who is now paying attention to it. "Lara, when you're done eating dinner, quickly go to the room. I don't want to see your face!" Aryan orders.

Love just nodded, and after dinner, she went back to her room. Although he was not sleepy. Arya and Marshal are sitting at the dinner table.

"Opa, isn't Opa suspicious of her?"

"What do you mean Marshal?"

"What if it turns out she's not Lara?"

"There's no way Marshal, he's just pretending to be stupid so we can take him back."

"But her attitude is very different to Lara's, Opa."

"She's just pretending to be a Marshal, I know how Adiatma's family business, her husband's family-owned company. Right now, they're on the verge of bankruptcy."

"I mean Opa?"

"It must be Nicholas who told him to come to this house. Soon, Lara will be 23 years old. That means all my wealth will fall on him, as written on Ferdi's will, my son. This wealth belongs to Ferdi, for I have bestowed all my wealth upon him. And our position in the company is only as a replacement for Ferdi. Nicholas must have told him to take my heart again, to accept Lara, so he could easily take control of all our assets."

"I'm sorry if I sassy Opa, shouldn't we investigate the woman first? I know Lara very well, and she looks so different. Can I investigate it first? What if it turns out she's not Lara? But someone else."

"Other people? Who do you mean, Marshal? In this world there can't be anyone so similar, unless they're twins."

"That's what I mean Opa, twins."

"So you want to say Lara's twin is still alive?"

"All the possibilities can happen Opa."

"But I've seen my grandson's body, and I buried him myself."

Marshal was only silent at Arya's words, his heart was now increasingly raging and filled with various question marks.

All that Love who was walking to Lara's room seemed to sigh. "How many times do I have to say, I love not Lara."