Love Stories Overseas

Chapter 39

In the evening, El went to sleep even earlier, because since then he kept making a fuss asking when to go to his mountain. El was impatient to see firsthand the animals he often heard from fairy tales and story books.

Dila accidentally entered Indra's work room, because when entering Indra's room there was nothing in his room.

Tok.dok..

" Can I come in?, I want to talk".

Instead of answering, Indra came out of the study, and walked to her room, forced Dila to follow Indra and enter the room.

" What do you want to say?", Indra's voice sounded hoarse.

" I'm sorry I didn't ask your permission to go to Mom's house. I just wanted a gift for my child, that's all" Dila said trying to explain.

" Just want to talk about it?", asked Indra.

Dila nodded.

" Yes already then, I want to sleep, good night" said Indra briefly.

Indra had indeed received a phone call from Indri when in the workspace, Indri asked Indra to express gratitude for the gifts given by Dila, as well as congratulating her two brothers' marriage, and apologized for not being able to attend the wedding. While the wedding gift for her brother, Indri said she would definitely give it, only to follow, it was still thought what gift for her only brother was.

Dila felt strange because tonight Indra was not as usual, he was very indifferent and spoke as necessary.

" Is it possible that Indra is still angry because I'm not saying goodbye, but he said 'yes', doesn't that mean I've been forgiven?", Dila continued to monologue in his heart.

Dila looked at Indra who completely closed her eyes and fell asleep beside her. " Has she really been sleeping?, when it was only 8", Dila tried to see Indra from a closer distance.

" No need to disturb the sleeping tiger, if you want to be safe, just sleep, not tomorrow morning you have a promise to meet your friends".

Dila was shocked and immediately rewinded when she heard Indra speak, even though she closed her eyes.

" It seems like Indra is tired tonight and is going to sleep soon, so it doesn't matter if I sleep here" thought Dila, who immediately closed her eyes next to Indra, tonight Dila didn't put up a barrier because it seemed safe.

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In the morning Dila was awake and immediately busy preparing provisions for the trip with El ragunan. Although there are many traders, but Dila deliberately made his own provisions, to be eaten with his friends later.

Some kinds of cut-up fruits, sandwiches, wet cakes the rest of yesterday's event and also some Frozen food and soft drinks.

Everything is neatly arranged in the lunch box, do not forget Dila brought pure milk for El later.

Today Indra looks lethargic, his face looks pale, but he still leaves for the office, and brings his own vehicle, because Ari is assigned to take Dila and El to ragunan.

After Indra left for the office, Dila soon got a message from Asri if he was already on his way.

Dila also invites Ari to leave, afraid of traffic jams if misfortune. They leave three of them from home.

It only takes 40 minutes to travel, and even with a fairly slow pace because of the hours to go to work, many vehicles passed by, so the car several times stuck in traffic, fortunately not too long, so the car is not too long, so when Dila arrived in front of the ragunan, his other friends had not arrived.

Dila and El waited in front of the ragunan for almost 30 minutes, El who repeatedly asked to enter, because impatient. Dila continued to give understanding to El to be a little patient, until it was seen Asri, Joko and Evan waved at Dila. Dila also immediately returned the wave of their hands and smiled widely.

Asri and Dila immediately embraced long enough and so tightly.

" Ahem..ehem.., want also dong hugged so..", joked Joko.

Dila just chuckled and greeted the two former rented neighbors while asking for news.

Evan's gaze was a little strange and different from before, for some reason, Dila thought because they had not met for a long time so there was a sense of awkwardness at the beginning of the meeting.

" Has the shoal been allowed in?", El's voice distracted everyone.

" Is this what El is called?, O El... knowin, I am Aunt Asri, this is Om Joko and that is Om Evan, wah..... it turns out you are handsome, lest his father 'Duren', aka the cool widower ", joked Asri.

" Hi Auntie, hi om-om, is El able to enter the collateral?", again El asked when to enter, it turns out that since then El had been impatient to go inside.

" Okay, El we're in now" Asri replied.

Ari got out of the car approaching them while carrying the provisions that Dila had made. Dila's friends look at Ari questioningly, they think Ari is El's father.

" Wah it turns out your boss is also Dil?", whispered Asri while glancing at Ari.

" Oh no-no, he's my friend, I know this Ari, Mr. Indra's personal driver, today he joined us, just as the boss was told to bring his son here, wouldn't you say Ari joined?".

Evan immediately looks at Ari with a hostile look, while Joko embraces Ari and invites him to join. They all went into the building. El immediately pranced around feeling very happy.

" Friends, how about if we rest here first, you must be tired of having been on the bus for two hours more, we go for a walk if we have a short break".

Dila asked Ari to open the folding mat that was deliberately brought, and they sat on it while opening the provisions that Dila brought.

" Wah a lot of food that you bring Dil, we do not bring anything" said Asri while taking a soft drink and dividing it to his friends.

" Yes, this is all in the house, I just bring the existing ones" Dila replied.

" Aren't you getting scolded by your boss if you bring all this?", Joko starts to enjoy a sandwich made by Dila.

" No papa, I did not invite El, so just consider this the provision of El that is distributed to us" replied Dila lightly.

Dila has not told about her marriage to another, rather deliberately not a story, Dila was already afraid of the other responses before telling her. After all they rarely met, maybe it's better not to tell first, not necessarily the marriage will last, if later he really divorced, maybe only then Dila told me everything. If they still have a chance to meet.

El was still engrossed in seeing the birds in the cage, although Dila was chatting with the others, but Dila's focus remained on El who was standing not far from his position.

Dila listened to Asri tell a story, life in the factory was full of color, Asri told how he was often scolded at the beginning of work, until Asri became acquainted with a man who was part of the machine on the shuttle bus, and now they are sending messages often. Dila was more silent and listened to Asri tell a story.

Because El called, Dila stood up and invited Asri closer to the bird cage watching El up close.

Evan who was sitting next to Ari deliberately approached Ari to look for information about Dila. Mumpung Dila and Asri left.

" It's been a long time working in that house Bang?, asked Evan.

" About 4 years old, you guys seem to be younger than me" Ari said.

" We are only 20 years Bang, at home working in that house?, how can we last that long, up to 4 years" asked Joko .

" Keep it bro, the boss is good, salary is good, work is relaxed, so do not think to want to find another job. You are from the same village as Dila?", asked Ari.

" No, we met at the rented have the same person yes, we are rented neighbors, the brother is at least a week difference first we know the same Dila" said Joko.

" Oh, I thought you guys were a village, pretty far away from the village".

Ari's words make Evan and Joko stare suspiciously.

" Don't Ari have a crush on Dila as well, to find information about her hometown", Inner Evan.

" Why know far, have you been there Bang?", asked Evan curious.

" Just yesterday was from there".

Ari's reply made Evan's suspicions even greater.

" Why did you go to Dila's village?".

Evan's question made Ari laugh.

" Yes nganter father of Dila's mother".

Evan thinks Dila's father and mother came to Jakarta to see his son because he had not met for a long time, and Ari drove them deliberately to take the hearts of Dila's parents.

" When did you have a crush on Dila?", now Evan is straight to the point.

" I used to have a crush, now where I dare to have a crush on Dila, can lose my job if you dare to have a crush on Dila", Ari answered enigmatic.

" Situ has a crush too huh?, Dila mah so, it's easy to make guys interested. Though he was never aggressive and always behaving normally to all his friends, but indeed he was too good as everyone, sometimes making people so wrong caught" , Ari seemed to know Dila well.

" Dila said she already had a candidate in her village, whether it was genuine or just a confession so as not to be approached by any man" said Joko.

Ari frowned when she heard Joko's sentence, "well this is new news, I have to tell the boss, if Dila actually already has a candidate in the village, then, but why did Dila want to be married to the boss if he already has a candidate in the village", Ari monologue in his heart.

They continued on, supplies were up, and luggage was not too much. Others just follow where El wants to go, see elephants, deer, tigers, giraffes, everything El wants to see, so without feeling they play all day in ragunan.

" It's late afternoon, we've had our walk today, my goodness until 5 pm but it doesn't feel so fun talking while walking. Let's go back, Dil, see you next time. I will definitely miss you again soon" Asri said as she hugged Dila, a farewell hug.

On the way home, El fell into a deep sleep, he must have been tired from the streets all day.

In the car Dila and Ari were silent, no one tried to start a conversation, all were busy with their own thoughts.

Just then as the road was side by side, Evan asked for an answer from his letter, but Dila did not know what letter. Dila so remembered the paper bag given by Evan when Dila was about to go to Jakarta six months ago. Dila kept it in her bag, between a white shirt and a black skirt that was never taken out of the bag.

Dila apologized, said honestly, he forgot to open the paper bag, and promised to open it after the ragunan.

" What letter?, God, why did I forget, I forgot Evan gave me a parting gift", Dila said.