
"O he went upstairs, maybe to his room."
Kenzo immediately went up the stairs and climbed up to the 2nd floor. He knocked on Zack's room and opened it. "Mirh ...."
Aiko screamed. "Onichang!(Brother!)" He immediately got out of bed and approached Kenzo. He jumped up and hugged his brother.
"Ow ow, you're here too apparently." Kenzo hugged Aiko.
"Onichan bring what for me?" Ask Aiko spoiled. It was always so that every time Kenzo came home from abroad, and Kenzo also spoiled his sister with many gifts until Aiko became very close to him.
"There's at home. Later huh?"
"Yes." Yeah."
Kenzo came to Zack who had gotten out of bed. "This is for you." Zack receives a gift box in a smaller size.
"Favor Brother."
"Also you." Kenzo looked at Lydia.
"Eh, me?" Lydia got out of bed.
"Eh, but he's not a birthday?" Aiko's protests are fierce.
Kenzo laughs. "Yes it's okay. You're not a birthday either."
Aiko scowled in annoyance.
Kenzo reached into his pants pocket and pulled out a pink ribbon-shaped clasp. "Here Brother put it up." He tidied Lydia's hair on the side and pinned it.
Zack was watching. "Beauty you know!"
Kenzo just smiled. Lydia looks happy and Aiko is upset because the two men in front of her are very attentive to Lydia. Aiko doesn't like Lydia very much. He likes Zack but the young man's attention is often split because he thinks of Lydia. Anything all over Lydia, anything was always Lydia and now her brother also began to follow the attention of the girl with a little dark skin Indonesian-Indian-American-Russian.
Kenzo could understand Aiko's feelings. "Aiko, you can't be jealous of that. Nichan just bought a present for Lydi this time. Every time you go abroad, Nichan always buys you a gift. You should start learning to be grateful?" He rubbed Aiko's head. The girl is still grumbling.
"Here, brother come out first." Kenzo pamit's. Outside he was silent. Because at the dinner table there was Aska, he was reluctant to go down. Zack's birthday is the reason he came to that house. He tried to avoid Aska because his mouth was always spicy towards him.
He knew Aska had not lived in this house but once in a while he still came to see his parents.
Kenzo sighed. Why the previous problem did not end. Aska remained angry with him until almost 12 years passed. Aska, who was dating Nena, broke up when Nena started teaching her Indonesian. But it wasn't his fault. Nena herself chose to break up from Aska and she herself did not know why.
It did not feel like he had walked on the back porch of the clothesline on the 2nd floor. He used to be there when he was hesitant about the course of his life while Mariko raised her son. A big struggle because during the life of his biological father, he tortured many people including women and one of them was Mariko. The woman accepted it sincerely, so sincere that she was ashamed and almost committed suicide. It was Ary's father who led him to convert to Islam. Remembering is like turning back the clock on his stupidities that he has done.
The sky looks bright even though it is dark and a little star shines. His ears then caught the crowd down there, the voices of women talking and the voices of children sulking. Little boy ...?
Kenzo's eyes looked further down. Among the 2 servants of Chris' family he knew, he found another different one. A green veiled woman holding a small child who looks like a girl because of hijab also heard her screams joking with 2 maids there. Kenzo smile.
The woman then sat on the garden chair holding the little boy and his face was exposed to the light of the lamp. Kenzo was surprised to see the woman's face. Very beautiful, difficult to describe in words. Like a goddess who suddenly came interfering with her vision. The woman smiled at the behavior of the little girl who was on her lap. Every now and then her expanding smile looked at the little girl, stealing her attention.
Who her? I've never seen him before? Is she the new servant of this family?
Kenzo's moving down. He even passed the dinner table without listening to Chris call. "Kenzo, where are you going? You're not eating?"
He found no one in the back garden. He's back in. He saw that the 2 maids were heating the food and the woman .. just came out of the bathroom with the little girl. Runi is shocked to see Kenzo and immediately backs off and grabs his mother's leg. Leka was equally surprised.
Kenzo is confused as to how. His spontaneous movement down from the 2nd floor also he did not know the cause. Only his instincts led him there. Fortunately Ijah saved him.
"Oh, Brother Kenzo. Want to eat, sister?" The woman greeted him. He's already memorized, if Kenzo's the only guest who likes to sit alone on appeal joined the others.
"Oh yes, but who is this?" Kenzo asked Ijah in front of Leka.
"O that's Aska's new maid in her apartment."
"Mmh?" Kenzo looked at Leka who looked embarrassed in front of him. He just couldn't believe she was a maid because it didn't look like that.
"Helper?"
"Yes, but he previously had a business opening a food stall. Since her husband is dead, Sis Aska pity so ask her to work at his house."
Leka just looked down embarrassed to listen to the lies she had to defend. It seemed like back then he wanted to shout it was not right and ran home, but he could not. He was begging for his status to Aska. He wanted a divorce but it was a sin and there was a Runi that he needed to consider. He wants to be selfish and be himself, but how hard.
"Isn't selling better, the money is more even if a little tired. I could have an assistant."
"Have a little boy, brother, hard." Leka answered it herself.
"Oh."
Excuse me and go back to the park while Kenzo takes the food in the kitchen. The man then followed Leka. "Sorry, can I eat here?" He immediately sat down on the garden chair beside Leka. Usually it is not so. He is usually careful when talking to new people but Leka has bewitched him into a different human being. He seemed to want to continue following the woman and wanted to know more about the woman who now suddenly controlled his heart.
"Hello," Kenzo said to little Runi.
The little girl, still staring at Kenzo, lay her head on her mother's chest.
"Oh yeah what's your name? Did you mention your name?"
"Oh, Leka."
"Look?"
"Jaldeans."
"Is that a common name, I never heard of?"
"A common name in the village like Jamilah, Jamiah."
"If even that I hear often. Are you interested in office work but at home so just do online?"
"Online's? What kind of job is that?"
"Yes you just check everything on the laptop and send the data. Easy it?"
"Laptops?" Leka's face looked confused. He then shook his head.
"Can't you or don't understand?"
"Everything."
Kenzo surprised. "Oh, it's a pity when the money is good and the work can be light while taking care of children."
"Oh."
At the dinner table, Aska was already agitated. He saw Kenzo go to the back garden. Actually that's what Kenzo used to do when he visited this house because Kenzo always gave up. He sits in the back garden when there is Aska in the house. It seemed to be a satisfaction for Aska to see Kenzo sitting in an isolated back garden. An inexhaustible grudge.
But this did not go unnoticed by Arya, Kenzo's father. He knew Kenzo in his daily life was a gentle-hearted man who always succumbed to opponents. So Arya always finds out the people who tried to hurt Kenzo because she knew Kenzo would never tell. Especially about Aska. Seeing his father befriended Chris, he did not dare to harass him. Arya also goes awry because Aska is also one of the potential teachers at Wushu College that she has made her a dilemma. So far this father and son neatly cover up Aska's crimes on Kenzo in front of Chris and Reina but not his name parents if he does not want to avenge Aska for his arbitrariness against Kenzo. He was just waiting for the right opportunity.
The memories again annoy Aska, about Nena who decides herself after the girl starts getting to know Kenzo. Now he doesn't want it to happen a second time. With Leka.
Aska stands.
"Oh yeah, do you want to change your teaching schedule?" Arya asked, seeing Aska wanting to get out of her chair. She knew Aska looked agitated when Kenzo, her son, went to the back garden. He suspects Aska is afraid Kenzo is talking to the woman he calls the maid.
"What?" Aska sat back down. "Schedule?"
"Maybe you want to teach Sunday because you only teach Saturday."
Aska looks confused. "But I don't have a day of rest dong."
"Or you can also maximize the Sabbath because there are 3 classes, morning, afternoon, night."
"I thought about it first."
"Or any ordinary day, but it's night."
"It certainly can't because I have overtime Om, not necessarily."
But the arrival of Salwa made Aska aware of his main focus. "Hello everyone, I'm sorry I overtime. Good thing to have an assistant who can help and can be told." Salwa just got home from her office.
"Oh, I'm going home too. Sleepy." Aska pretended to yawn. "I'm going home, Pa?"
"Oh, yes. Careful."
Aska immediately walked towards the back garden to pick up his wife. "Looks." He was surprised to see his wife sitting in a long chair with Kenzo. He was really furious but in the end.
"Yes?"
"Yes, I want to go home."
"Oh." Leka immediately raised Runi who was sitting on her lap. "Excuse me, brother."
"Yes," said Kenzo as he glanced at the glint in Aska's eyes.
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