Longing Memories
Reality in Front of Eyes
That afternoon the air was very hot, as hot as the heart of a middle-aged man who was standing at the window stared at the expanse of fruit orchards surrounding his tiny house in the middle of the plantation.
His stature is large with a face that is still arguably youthful for his current age. The old man was named Anton, a figure who came to the Kemala House suddenly and threatened to spread the secret of Kemala to Dedi.
“You underestimated me too much, Kemala. Just look, I will demand back whatever is rightfully mine, even if it should get rid of you and get myself into jail!” with a smirk smile, Anton turned his body and sat down on his beloved old chair. Not to forget he turned on the television tube to just look at the news that is being discussed by the public today.
“Dad?” there was the voice of a woman who called Anton “ayah”. “Yes, dad is here again watching tv, son.” Shortly after, the door of the television room was opened and it appeared that a woman about 35 years old came while pushing her own wheelchair by pushing her wheels with her hands.
“What watch, Yah?” ask the woman.
“Just news, I haven't seen the news on television for a long time. Why did you leave the room? Did you get your body?”
“Udah, Dad. Lili Bosen in the room continues, want to take a short walk out of the house. Can you, Dad?”
“But you're sick again, son. Would you rather rest in your room?”
“Well, Lilies are fine. Please don't treat Lili like a cripple, Dad. Look at this, Lili's healthy, isn't she, Dad?” The girl deliberately twirled her wheelchair agilely, intending to show her healthy self to her father.
Anton could only stare sadly at his daughter. A child who should be born normal, healthy, and beautiful. However, everything was destroyed because of the selfishness of a woman who should have been called Lili by the name “ibu”.
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Lili Anggraeni, is a child born from the forbidden relationship between Kemala and Anton. When she found out that she was pregnant with Anton's child, Kemala was so panicked and immediately did everything possible to abort her womb. She conceived Lili at the age of 45 and was at odds with the distance from the last child she gave birth to as a result of her marriage to Dedi.
There have been various ways he did so that the fetus that was in his womb at that time could come out immediately. However, the fetus is too strong and continues to survive in the mother's womb. When Kemala begins to face the despair of a pregnancy she does not want, she decides to meet Anton and inform Anton of her pregnancy, in the hope that Anton helps her on a mission to eliminate the innocent fetus.
But it turns out Anton's attitude is far from what he expected. Anton turned out to be very enthusiastic about the pregnancy and tried to persuade Kemala to want to maintain the fetus in his birth. Initially Kemala refused strongly with Anton's proposal because Kemala was afraid that if Dedi knew this, then he would soon be divorced by Dedi. Kemala did not want to be left by Dedi just like that.
However, thanks to the threat from Anton who threatened to tell all Kemala's actions so far to Dedi, including Kemala's affair with Anton, then inevitably Kemala obey what Anton wants.
“But how do I cover this pregnancy from my husband? This stomach will definitely enlarge over time,” asked Kemala at that time.
“You rest easy, everything let me take care of. You just need to focus on your current pregnancy. Remember, it's my son, I don't want anything to happen to him when he's born later,” Anton threatened.
I don't know what Anton has talked to Dedi so Kemala managed to get out of his house in a long time, until finally she gave birth to Lili. As long as Kemala was in hiding with Anton, none of his family members attempted to contact or search for him. They seemed not to care about the departure of Kemala at that time, maybe it was due to the absence of love in the heart of Dedi for Kemala, maybe, also because Kemala who can not get closer to herself and position herself as a loving mother to her children, so that they all bodo will all the acts of Kemala.
Sarah POV
“Stop in front there aja sir,” I said to Mr. Sadikin, the driver of the online motorcycle taxi who was driving me to Andre's apartment.
“Iya, sir.” The motorbike stopped in front of the name of the apartment where Andre lived. I immediately went down and took off the light green helmet.
“So already use the application balance yes sir to pay the fare, this is for your tips,” I handed a piece of blue paper money to Mr. Sadikin.
“Loh, Neng. That's a lot of tips. The anterine fee is not this big, Neng.” Mr. Sadikin looks very surprised by my gift, according to him, the nominal is too big for him.
“Nothing, Sir. This is his reaction, father. Make a wife's snacks at home.”
“Alhamdulillah, thank you very much, Neng.”
“Sama-sama, Sir.” I left Mr. Sadikin in front of the apartment building and headed straight into his waiting room.
“Siang, Mr. Sam,” a message to the security guard there named “Samsul” but want it called “Sam”.
“Loh, it's still noon, Sister Sarah? No matter it was dawn,” he answered while being dramatic put his hand on his forehead and looked towards the sky. I laughed out loud at his behavior which always invites me to joke if I meet with me when I visit Andre's apartment.
“Ke lobby first yes, Mr.”
“Monggo, please Sister Sarah”
I've been sitting on the long sofa that's in the waiting room, I took my phone and I sent a message to Andre to pick me up downstairs right away because I didn't have an access card to go upstairs where Andre's unit was. “Surely he was surprised to know I was already down here, hahaha,” I said to myself.
The message has been sent, and it looks “centang” sign two pieces which means my message has been sent, just wait for the sign to change color to blue only to find out that Andre has read my message.
“Night, Mr. Sam,” heard a male voice from behind my back, precisely from the direction of the entrance into the apartment. That voice sounded so familiar to my ears.
“Night, Mas Andre. Where from, Mas? Who are you, Mas?”
“Buy aja snack, Sir. Biasalah, I met you on the road.”
I immediately turned my body around knowing that it was Andre's voice, and was shocked to see him being with a woman I didn't know at all. It looks like the two of them will enter Andre's apartment unit.
I stood up and wanted to get to him, but my legs couldn't move as if something was holding me back from getting close to them. I could only see the three of them chatting and occasionally laughing with their chat materials.
Andre was not aware of my existence which was behind them with a distance that was actually not too far away. Until finally, Mr. Samsul, the guard of this apartment building realized again there was myself who was standing staring at the three of them. I saw that he suddenly stopped laughing while giving Andre an eye-coding.
At first Andre looked very confused by the intentions of Mr. Samsul, until he finally realized that there was something behind him, he said, he turned his back and saw me staring at him without doing anything.
