
Mbok Rati looks down on Karin who is already hysterical and forces her to say that Zoya is still alive. How could Rati talk that way if in fact there was never a single name Zoya that he knew.
"Mbok, tell me that Zoya is still alive. I beg you." Karin's body decays while holding on to the cloth used by Rati.
"Cah ayu,, forgive the mbok." mbok Rati could not hold back her crying as if she also felt the pain of Karin's heart.
"What's wrong mbok? Mama why?" Delvara who heard the noise from her room ran down the stairs to her room.
He was so surprised to find his mother had sat down and cried in the arms of Rati. But looking at the photo of Zoya now lying on the floor, Delvara can already guess what happened.
"Mama, Zoya is calm there. Relax." Delvara gently rubbed Karin's back which was still sobbing in Rati's arms.
"Came it ayu. Eling. Istighfar." whispered mbok Rati.
"Astaghfirullah, Astaghfirullah, O Allah, why is your trials so severe? Om papa,,, Zoya, Astaghfirullah," Karin became short of breath.
"Let me take my mom to her bed" Delvara asked Rati to give her space to carry Karin.
Mbok Rati immediately stepped aside while wiping her own tears. In his heart he felt very guilty because his words earlier about having felt familiar with Zoya's face even made Karin's empty hope again.
Moreover, seeing Karin hope big to hysterical like this, mbok Rati regretted it. His view cannot be separated from Delvara who put Karin to sleep. Covering her body with a warm blanket.
"Mama rest. It's night. Pity also mbok Rati has not rested since coming earlier" said Delvara who even thought about Mbok Rati as well.
"Yes son. I'm sorry, son." said Karin.
Delvara smiled and shook her head as a sign that her mother would not apologize. Delvara kissed the mother.
"Good sleep ma. Del dear mama."
"Basic of his mouth is difficult to understand." mbok Rati hit her own mouth as Delvara came out while closing the door to Karin's room.
"I'm sorry mom. Sometimes you do that when the trauma comes." said Delvara.
"The mbok who want to apologize is just as good because the mbok who made the ayu light so. The mbok was curious but forgot. Like I knew, but I don't know where. Hmmm." mbok Rati is actually still very trying to remember.
"Obviously it's definitely not Zoya. Mbok used to live in Bogor long ago. With his late grandfather Rajesh, right? Then move in with Rajesh's family. As for Zoya, she had never been there in her life. Ten years is too short for him to go to many places." Delvara became sad.
How he misses the little brother who did not feel dead 12 years ago.
"Bogor,, Wardoyo's house,, mmm, cook anyway??" mbok Rati muttered to herself.
"What's the mbok?" ask Delvara.
"Anu,, Ng,, Anu,," mbok Rati hesitated.
"What is mbok?" delvara.
"Looks like a tired mbok good. After boarding the plane, the brain of the mbok so slurred. What's the slang??" mbok Rati did not want to speculate any further about his memory which began to faintly imagine.
"Yes already. Mbok just rest. She was shown the same room as Nita, right?" tanya Delvara made sure that Mbok Rati did not go wrong way to his room because this house is very large and has a lot of space.
"It's good."
"Well, good night. Get enough rest." said Delvara.
"Does anyone want to tell me? Or maybe you want to ask?" delvara Fishing.
"Mother Zoya, why did it die so well?" finally rather than curious and for the sake of breaking the tangled memory in his head, Mbok Rati chose to ask.
Delvara breathed deeply. Undeniably all this time he did not even know for sure how his only brother died. His body was never found. The headstone bearing his name that he has often visited so far is no more just a stone with a carving of Zoya's name because there is actually no body buried under it.
"Zoya was kidnapped. And until now the kidnapper is still alive but can not be questioned because he became insane. He just kept shouting words that he had killed Zoya. He always said that Zoya was dead. But we never knew where the body was. That's what made my mom so bad. Had to part with Zoya under such conditions. Didn't even close Zoya's eyes for the last time."
Goodnight speech last night turned into a conversation with Rati in the family room in the silence of the night.
"How good is Zoya at that time?" ask mbok Rati.
"Ten years. On her birthday, she was kidnapped. And the police can only reveal who did it about a month later in a condition that is not sane."
Mbok Rati nodded.
"The culprit was arrested in the Bogor area as well mbok. But either at that time I heard the news of the kidnapper being caught or not hehe, "" joked Delvara who was greeted with a frown rati who frowned.
"What happened 12teen years ago, is that good?? Ciampea District??" guess mbok Rati.
"Where do you know that?" Delvara wondered how could Rati know how many years ago it happened because Delvara only mentions the age of Zoya when it was only 10 years old.
"What's the mbok's guess??" mbok Rati asked back.
"Yes mbok." Delvara's eyebrows wrinkled.
"Mbok used to live also in the Ciampea area is good. 12 years ago there was a scene of the arrest of a child kidnapper who became crazy because he was obsessed with his mother the child he kidnapped. He went crazy because the boy fell in the river under the bridge while thrashing and jumping from his car."
"Then mbok?? Where's the kid she kidnapped? Did he really die from jumping and falling into the river?? Did the locals ever find a child's body a few days later??" now Delvara who seems to expect a lot from the answer mbok Rati.
But then Delvara was lethargic because Rati's answer was just a head bobble.
"We've never been excited because there's been a good discovery. We had thought maybe the body of the poor boy was washed away by the current and somewhere because the current and the flow of the river there was very heavy."
Delvara dropped his shoulder. It seems that hope was also carried away by the flow of Rati's story.
"But the mbok has a secret story,," whispered Rati later.
"What's mbok?" lirih Delvar.
"In that year, Wardoyo, his grandfather den Rajesh brought Indah nduk and introduced her to us all. I don't know where it's coming from, but Wardoyo loves him so much because he looks like Hesti."
"Hesti?? Hesti again mbok?? The same Hesti grandmother???"
Mbok Rati was silent between sure and unsure.
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