Long River

Raining

Aiko pulled Leka all the way to the kitchen. Kenzo was busy looking for a position to photograph a box in front of him. Mariko, their mother who was standing next to Kenzo noticed Leka's presence. "Eh, this isn't the maid that Aska brought the other day?" He came to Leka.

Of course Leka's guts grew increasingly shrivelled at Mariko's words. I'm just a maid, everyone thinks so. Why did I forget? Was not Aska, my own husband who introduced to the world that I was only a maid. Yes, the poor are only fit to be a maid. No more, but why does Kenzo know this still like me?

"Eh, is there a chibi? Funny ...." Mariko was about to touch her but Runi immediately hugged her mother tightly and hid her face on Leka's body.

Aiko and Mariko laughed.

"Chibi .. what?" Ask Leka wonder.

"Oh, chibi from Japanese, means little."

"Oh."

"His husband has been dead for how long, sorry, but his son is so funny. Your husband must be handsome, right?"

Leka painstakingly swallowed her saliva. The lie will always be followed by the next lie that makes the perpetrator of the lie unceasingly lie for the perfection of this lie. Of course this makes Leka sad. He who has hated lies all his life has done it.

"What's his name?" Ask Mariko again.

"The Miss."

"Oh, then you? Did you forget?"

"Leka Ma'am."

"Yes. You're also beautiful, there's a line on your face as well as on Runi."

"Thank you, Mom."

"Don't you think so. Oh yeah, you came with Kenzo?"

"Yes, Mom."

"Welcome to our family?"

"Yes, Mom."

"Mom, I'm done washing his clothes." Sri came carrying a bucket from the back garden. Sri is a maid in Arya's house.

"Yes Sri, if you want to go, just go. You can take off until tomorrow morning."

"Thank you, Mom."

A servant alone is appreciated here, why Aska to me who is clearly his wife alone cannot. Really too ... If only I were really a maid, I would have asked to quit her and move to work here. This family is so warm, so loving to each other. Even they know I'm a maid, but they accept me for who I am.

Someone came in from the front door.

"Dad ..."

Arya came in followed by her son Tama. "Assalamualaik."

"Waalaikum salam. Why Mas?" Welcome Mariko while taking Arya's hand and kissing the back of her hand.

"It's Tama, being caught smoking behind the school as well as other kids ditching class."

"Astaghfirullah alazim."

"Dad, I was just smoking, not naughty. Why is the teacher so nosy?" Kilah Tama's.

Arya immediately grabbed Tama's ear.

"Oh, Ouch Dad!" Tama pain.

"Heh, rules remain rules. Can't be broken."

Aiko laughs. "Ra-sa-in."

Tama tries to kick Aiko but the girl has gone away. He's still laughing.

Leka laughed too. Arya realized the existence of the woman. "You're Aska's maid, right?"

Hurriedly Leka nodded her head. He fixed his face to be more serious.

"What's his name, Leka?"

"I-yes sir." Leka looks nervous.

"How long has it been working with Aska?"

"Newly 4 days sir."

"Don't be so nervous, I'm not a cop." Arya again.

"Yes." Yeah."

"This is my father ...." Aiko suddenly jumped up and twitched around Arya's neck.

"It's you, he said, but it's still like a child." Arya touched her daughter's arm that was wriggling around her neck. "Udah dong, this sick father!" He began to protest. Aiko also broke away.

Leka smiles at the foreskin seeing families that are so close to each other. They love each other so much. I would love to stay with them, even as a maid.

"It's Ma." Kenzo returns Mariko's phone.

"Eh, yes. Thanks." Thanks."

"Would you like to have dinner here?" Ask Arya to Leka.

"Oh, no sir I want to go home. Later su uh, Mr. Aska look for me." Leka almost spoke wrongly.

But Arya saw the mistake. Mmh, finally .... "Yes already. Kenzo, you take him home."

"Yes, Dad."

"Excuse me." Leka paid a farewell to all.

"Here, I just carry Runi?"

"Don't, don't you."

But Kenzo had taken it out of Leka's hands when they had not been so far away from Kenzo's parents' house that the others saw what was happening. Leka was really embarrassed because at that time her position was a maid, but Kenzo instead carried her child. Runi also looks not fussy in the cradle by Kenzo.

"Yes Ma. He called Niichan 'Papa'. He said it's because Niichan sang papa-papa." Bright Aiko.

"Mmh, what time?"

Kenzo's family was surprised to see the man bring Leka into the house because usually his girlfriend only talks on the porch. Even if he wants to have a long chat, he takes it out and rarely introduced to the family.

Arya can see how comfortable Kenzo is with Leka and wants to get closer to everything she has including her son. He really loved her sincerely.

Now how do I find a reproach so that Aska does not dwell, if I take his wife? Mmh, but actually, what was the reason until Aska kept her marriage a secret?What exactly happened between them?

"Mas, how do I feel Jo treats her differently? Do you know anything?" Ask Mariko wonder.

"Jo has a crush on the maid." Arya looked at Mariko. "How do you think?"

"I agree Dad, Dedenya made Aiko's friend at home." Aiko answered first.

"I'm up to Brother Jo." Tama gave her opinion. "It's important dear Brother Jo is the same for all of us."

It's actually from the mouth that everyone calls Kenzo, 'Jo'. Only Aiko called him 'Niichan'.

Mariko smiled. "If she's happy, I'm happy too. As long as she's a good woman."

"OK, the vote's over. Okay, now punishment for Tama." Arya called out to Tama with her finger.

"Ah, Father ... It's already dong Yah!" Tama started to moan. Aiko and Mariko laughed.

In Leka's car it's not convenient to see Runi close to Kenzo, while the man is not the biological father of Runi and he does not feel good to Kenzo who feels too hopeful for him who notes bene is the wife of people. He regretted that he had made the man expect much of him.

Suddenly in the weather that afternoon it was raining. It's quite raining.

"Yes .. rain." Kenzo looked out the car window through the glass which was a little dark.

Leka immediately took Runi. He looked at Kenzo who was busy looking for an umbrella in the car. "Where's Dan's puppet?"

"In the back of the trunk sir."

"Yes."

"Sister," call Leka to Kenzo.

"Yes?"

"Tomorrow don't look for me anymore."

"Why?"

"I'm just a maid. I don't deserve you."

Kenzo surprised. The car stopped right in front of the entrance of the apartment building. Leka opened the door and immediately came out carrying Runi inside the heavy heavy rain. Kenzo grabbed his jacket that was leaning behind his bodyguard chair and ran out. He covered his head with the jacket and chased after Leka and Runi. Still had time to move the jacket to Leka's head until he got to the front of the building lobby made Leka surprised because he did not expect Kenzo would chase after him.

"Sister, why are you here?" Ask Leka wonder. He saw that the man was soaking wet chasing after him. Let alone him, himself with Runi was also wet with rain.

"I want to tell you something."

"What?" Tanya Leka was confused.

"I want to tell everyone I like you." He walked back and held his jacket until the rain soaked his body.

"Sir, it's raining heavily." Leka warned.

"If you will, I want to be your girlfriend." The rain had completely flushed Kenzo's body. "And if God permits, I want to marry you and tell the WORLD THAT YOU ARE MY WIFE!" Shouted Kenzo in the heavy rain. He deliberately shouted for Leka to hear him because the heavy rain made his voice not sound clear.

Leka looked to the right and to the left, embarrassed that anyone would hear her and fortunately no one else.

Kenzo immediately got into the car with a satisfied face. The car left the apartment building immediately.

Leka looked shocked and held back her cries, but she remembered Runi to rush into the building.

"Mom!" The apartment called him.

"Yes?" Leka wiped her face wet with rain water.

"There's another package, ma'am."

"Mmh?"

The security guard showed a large dus.

"From who?"

"I don't know Mom. This is a signature please."

Leka gave me the signature. "But I took him how?" He fixed his carrier on Runi.

The security guard then helped him bring him upstairs. Leka left the dus on the floor while she took Runi to the second floor to take a shower because she had started sneezing. He also took a shower with Rune. After that, he checked the package.

The name and address in the package were written in the same handwriting as the sender of the fruit basket yesterday and with the same message: Spirit. Leka. It contains various kinds of snacks such as chips, pudding and sweets. Can you eat with Runi? Meaning this fellow also knew of Runi's whereabouts, who was he? Why did he send it to me instead of Aska? Is he watching me? But who?

Leka was completely confused by this mysterious sender.

"Sound ...." Runi who was crouching with her mother checked the box and offered the pudding.

"You want this?"

Runi nodded.

"Mother get a spoon." Leka stands.

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It was late at night but there was no sign of Aska coming home. It was 9 p.m. The rain began to subside and Leka took the initiative to call her husband.

At the same time it turned out that Aska's car was mired in a pool of water, one wheel so that he was difficult to run the car. But he is still far from home. The place was also far from the homes of residents so he had to work for himself so that the car could go. The rain was still quite heavy and he outsmarted it by looking for stones around it to block and fill the waterhole. Already several times he tried to run it but could not lift his wheels while his body was drenched in the rain so heavy. It had been an hour until a car stopped at the deserted intersection and the driver helped him push the car through.

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Author Nophie's novel Rebith: The young master's revenge tells the story of reincarnation.