LOVE CINTYA

The Part 31

After five hours of travel, they finally arrived at a small town, hometown, and city that so many memories, be it good or bad memories. The city of PARAPAT.

Yes, they were born in a small town called Parapat, a city with a thousand charms of beauty. The city is adjacent to a large lake called Lake TOBA. The city is often used as a beautiful tourist destination where visitors not only come from within the city, but from outside the city, even abroad.

Their father was also originally from this small town, but not their Mother who came from Bengkulu city.

How did they meet? Their mother once told me about how their father and mother could meet.

At that time their mother wandered to the city of Parapat and got a job at a big hotel there as a receptionist. Similarly, their father also worked in the same hotel as Executive Housekeeper who is responsible for the cleanliness of guest rooms and public areas owned by the hotel.

Because they often meet, so that the seeds of love arise between them and they also establish a relationship. But their relationship is not as easy as when they express their feelings. Differences in beliefs make their relationship more complicated. Parents from both the Father and Mother, do not approve of their relationship even really oppose their relationship.

Father and Mother they had broken up because they had no way out of this belief problem. But again, because of the frequent meeting and the absence of intention among them to find another partner, until finally they decided to fight for love they must also get out of the family is the only way.

So it was their father who decided to enter the religion of Islam, the religion embraced by Cintya and Tama today.

Although at first Dad felt hesitant because he had to leave the family and had to be willing to get out of the family card and even had to be willing to lose the clan, but he strengthened his heart and preferred to live together with their mother. That is love must be willing to sacrifice soul and body even treasure and throne.

But that doesn't mean the father actually left the old otang who had given him life all along. He chose to stay in his hometown and close to his parents. In fact, he chose to quit his job and opened a business right next to his parents' restaurant business.

He believes, every parent certainly does not want to be far from his child must be with all their heart said they do not want to see the face of his child again.

Evidently, with the birth of Cintya in this world both parents of the father gradually can accept the presence of the Mother as a daughter-in-law. What else when Tama was born, so happy they were born because the children born were boys.

But the rice has become porridge, the clan of the opung doli is not nested in the name of the grandson because of his selfishness first who asked the child to release his family if he wants to marry his choice and convert.

That is the story told by the Mother to them when Cintya asked the Mother how her Mother could meet the Father and why they could be different religions with Opungi.

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Because they until the early hours of the morning, they chose to rent a room to rest until morning arrived. Only after that, they will go on a pilgrimage to the tomb of the mother who is located not too far from their lodging.

Morning is approaching, but the eyes of Cintya still want to be closed. There was no intention to rise from his sleep anything more to get out of the blanket. The morning air in this small town is very cold. Even the cold horn until pierced to the bone.

But his sleep was disturbed when the bed he slept on felt trembling. He turned his back and found Tama asleep with her body coiled and her body shaking from the cold. Geez, it turns out Tama slept not using a blanket. The blanket ration that was only one was subconsciously overpowered by Cintya as she fell asleep.

Finally Cintya chose to get up and take the blanket she used earlier to cover Tama's body that was still shaking. The glance of the clock attached to the wall of the room, it turned out to be eight in the morning.

He went into the bathroom. Touching the water in the bucket, he initially wanted to take a bath but when he touched the ice-like water, he undoes his intention. It could be that his allergy will be inflamed if he forced to take a bath.

When he finished from the bathroom, he moved to wake his only puppet sister who was still coiled in the blanket.

"Tama. awokennn." Cintya shook the body of Tama who was covered by a blanket. Only his head was visible.

Instead of waking up, Tama covered her head with a blanket. His whole body was completely covered by a blanket.

Huf.. Cintya sighed as she did not manage to wake Tama up.

"Yauda deh, brother came out first to get breakfast. Anyway, later if you come home, you have to wake up." said Cintya firmly while taking her wallet and phone from inside her backpack and moving out of the room. He knew that Tama had actually woken up and heard his words. Before he actually came out, he glanced again at Tama and then shouted. "Tamaaaa."

Tama just took her hand out of the blanket and made a symbol okay with her finger indicating that she heard her brother's words.

"Not really up. You lazy man.." - Cintya grumbled as she passed.

Cintya walks down the path to look for breakfast with the Bismillah logo on her steling. However, he must be observant in choosing food, because here the majority of non-Muslims. After walking some distance, he finally found what he was looking for.

But he had not yet entered, he saw a body that he was very familiar with was behind him.

"Dad.." he muttered slowly. His father was also buying breakfast at the restaurant.

He wanted to say hello and hug his father who had not met for three years. But he remembered the words of his father when they stepped out of the house 'don't expect you to come back to this house if you take a step out of the door. And you're not Dad's kids anymore'.

Cintya also undoes her intention to reprimand the father. In fact, he chose to hide when his father turned his back because it was finished with the purchase.

Cintya regulates the rhythm of her breathing, when a sense of tightness suddenly approaches. However he is his real father, they should not be in this situation. A very painful situation according to Cintya. But he must be strong and try not to cry. These are all decisions that he has made, and he must accept the risk of that decision.

After his father left, he went into the stall and ordered two packs of nasi uduk along with two packs of warm sweet tea for him as well for Tama.