
A small humming rune mimicked the favorite cartoon song he watched. He was on Kenzo's lap and both of them were late in the tv show he was watching. Sometimes Kenzo chuckles when he hears Runi saying his words wrongly. Every now and then the little girl rolled her lips to see Kenzo laughing at her. Instead of stopping, the man laughed even more. Runi looks cranky.
"Oh yeah, Papa was wrong," Kenzo pretended to admit.
Runi returned to singing standing up. He hugged Kenzo's neck and rested his head on the man's shoulder.
Soon both were silent. Leka peered into Runi's room. Both of them fell asleep on the floor in front of the television.
Leka just shook her head to see her husband was very patient in taking care of Runi until recently the little girl seemed to demand a lot to be accompanied by Kenzo. He is grateful to be married to Kenzo because he is very dear to Runi who is not his biological child, even though Runi rarely demands on anyone including himself but with Kenzo, the little girl seemed to want to be his world.
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Tama's luxury car entered a large area whose building was being leveled to the ground. The area has been given a zinc fence indicating it has been taken over and ready to be processed. It's just that there are some buildings on the side that are still intact and still inhabited by their owners. It seems that land acquisition has not been fully completed.
There was already staff from HRD waiting for him. Tama and Mei came to them.
It turns out that his arrival is also being awaited by the counter citizens. HRD staff accompanied Tama to meet residents who were gathered in front of one of the shabby and unkempt houses. Beside him was also a luxurious house and some ordinary houses. It seems, they come from different elements of society who banded together to derail the project or might want to ask for more turnover. This is what the young man wants to find out, because the project has been almost a year without a solution.
One of the residents looked at Tama with an astonished face. "Sir Andi, is this the CEO you mean?" ask her on the HRD staff who accompanied Tama.
"Oh, yes sir. She's."
"That's right. Are these kids?"
She just smiled without feeling offended.
"Yes, but he's our CEO."
"Sir Andi, we are seriously responding to your request by gathering here but you are joking."
"But sir, he is indeed our CEO."
"He's not lying" Tama replied trying to mediate.
The man looked at Tama, in doubt. "You ... High School boy, the most." He saw Tama from head to toe, in disbelief.
"It's fine, but it's up to the CEO's job."
"I think a company of that size should hire a professional" another one was upset.
"Why do you think they hired me?"
Some citizens who were all men looked at the young man more thoroughly, and still remained unconvinced. Why such a big and famous company even employs young people like Tama. What's special?
"Prophet Muhammad was also doubted by many when he first spread Islam and now his people are all over the world. Do not judge people from outside. Try to find out more so we can understand each other."
"But what kind of person you can solve is that someone older than you has failed to agree with us."
"Where is the problem?"
"It's a family estate and we don't want to sell it to anyone."
Tama saw their one-on-one faces. If you look at their faces, they are very similar. They seem to be brothers.
"We'd better sit down and talk about this well" Tama bargained.
"Ok, let's see if you can solve this problem, now." The man was curious as to what argument the young man would make.
The man invited Tama to sit on his porch. There are chairs of various sizes deliberately collected in the house for meetings with company representatives.
Everyone sat down and Tama started talking. "Didn't everyone in this neighborhood move, why are you forcing yourself to stay?"
"I told you this was our parents' land."
"We from the developer want to develop this area so much better. Are you not interested in contributing to your ancestral ground?"
"meaning?"
"This area is still poor road access, there is no adequate housing when increasingly this area began to develop for the better. In some places on the left and right will be built malls and private schools of good standard and we contribute to make good housing here. Do you not want in the family heritage land stands a nice building or smooth road access so you participate in increasing the empowerment of the surrounding residents also make the price of this land also go up to ahead?"
"But the one who enjoys others, not us."
"That's what I mean by contribution."
"Well, it's delicious. Where do we move?" answer the other.
"May help buy a house."
"Yes, it's impossible. It must have sold again at a great price. Not all of us can afford to buy any more housing that you build and maybe we are not suitable to live in your housing" replied a man who had earlier spoken. He was appointed probably because he was the Oldest Brother and at the same time his life was far from established seen from the clothes he wore. It seems, the man was the owner of the house where the meeting was held.
A shy girl came to bring him a few glasses of warm tea in his bathtub. Mei helped him put the glass one by one onto the table.
"You know hijrah, right?" ask the man Tama.
"Yes, Muslims must know!" The man folded his hands in front of his chest.
"The Hijrah for the struggle. Know how difficult it is to live on people's land but be sure there is a change. Maybe you live better in the land of people or can even bring your daughter together with her soul mate, where we know. Aye right?" Tama raised both hands.
"But this is a legacy land ...." The man still hesitated.
"If I were to be your parents who gave this land for inheritance, I would leave all of his decisions to you. You can stay or decide to move, because when I buy land this is definitely meant to make my children have a comfortable place to live, but if this place of residence brings quarrels, it will be, and the inconvenience from the beginning is that I won't buy it for you to occupy."
Everyone listened to Tama's explanation. The explanation made perfect sense and made them start rethinking to stay there.
"Look around, there are no neighbors, of course, your wife and children do not have friends to talk to. Do you think they're happy living like this? This place is also isolated because it has been closed zinc fence project, dust flying, and access in and out difficult. Do you want to survive in such a difficult environment?"
They were silent for a long time, then the man started talking. "If I move ...."
"We'll help you move to a new place. What do you need? A truck? Or find a place to move?"
"I'm just a traveling merchant."
"Fathers can go into that housing for sale. What sales dad?"
"I'm just a vegetable and meat peddler."
"I plan to allow traveling merchants to enter the complex that I made. So later I will give an identification for the merchant who entered the complex."
"Oh yeah? So what's the system like? I'll open a shop?" ask the others.
It turned out that most of them were traders that Tama later promised to facilitate. They looked enthusiastic and the conversation continued into the night. I could hardly go home because I kept talking.
"Help ...." Tama threw her body in the back seat of her car. He looks tired.
Mei glanced at Tama from the front seat through a small mirror above her. He saw the young man begin to close his eyes. A moment later he fell asleep. Mei wakes him up after the car gets to Kenzo's house.
Mei follows Tama up the stairs to their room. The young man touched the back of his neck due to the ache. "Douh .. if sorted, good times huh?" He moved his head to the left and to the right.
"You want to be followed, brother?" Mei directly massaged Tama's shoulder from behind.
"Oh, good May. Keep." Tama stopped her steps and enjoyed a moment of May's massage, then she stepped forward. "Older days, there's nothing mijitin pegel-pegel body."
Mei, so focused she didn't see where she was going. He had followed Tama into his room. "Udah Brother?"
"No, hold May." Tama gets into bed and sleeps on her stomach. He enjoyed the girl's massage.
Mei then realizes she is on top of Tama's bed. "Eh, Brother ...."
"As of May, my neck and body are still sore" the young man asked.
Because it looks safe, Mei continues to massage around Tama's neck and body. A little later the young man fell asleep again.
"Keep May, keep."
"Capek ah Brother." Mei stopped.
"Keep May, keep."
"Udah ah Kak, tired."
"Keep .. hugged me."
Mei frowns. The problem was that his last sentence was said faintly. It feels like Mei heard the word 'hugs'. "Mmh?"
He tried to look at Tama's face from the side. The young man had fallen asleep, but he actually said 'hugs?'
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Reina closed her phone. He came to Chris who was hiding him. "The phone call from Rafi earlier, invites us to go to America."
Chris looked at Reina with a frown.
"Lho, why? Are you still jealous of him?" Reina almost chuckled. "But I just consider him Brother."
"Hug me," joked Chris with a face pretending to be sulky.
Reina did it while laughing. "It's not that Arya is the same, but you're not jealous of her."
"Yes, I don't know. Maybe because Arya wasn't as keen as Rafi when she looked at you until now."
"It's just attention." Reina was still laughing.
"How is life now?"
"It's been better since Anna. Lydi also started to have a lot of friends."
"Mmh, easy to adapt as well, Lydi."
"Yes. If you tell Zack he must be very enthusiastic."
"Oh that's for sure."