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“follow Mil, I do not want to disappoint my parents again” said Arya who increasingly pressured Mila to participate in the activity.

Mila already knew very well the meaning of Arya's sentence, because she had heard all of Arya's problems with her parents after hearing Arya and Tomy talk the night before.

Mila's heart rages, between the ego that wants to continue to be cold to Arya with guilt that makes Arya in a difficult position before her parents.

“ok, from brother Vanessa also joined” Mila finally willing to come, but he also wants Vanessa to come along because thus he will also feel safe.

Hearing Mila's reply, Tomy's eyes sparkled with delight, he glanced towards Vanessa and Vanessa nodded her head in agreement.

“thank you very much brother, Mil, you are a good sister-in-law Mil” said Tomy who returned to fishing Arya voiced.

“kan I told you to be polite to your sister-in-law” ketus Arya who was annoyed with Tomy,

“what the fuck are you, she's my sister-in-law Kok”

“aku is older than you, where Mila might be your sister-in-law”

Mila and Vanessa frowned at the commotion of the two grown men.

'this has a problem what the hell, whose time is old and young only they do not know,'

*

As usual, Arya was taking a shower when the new hour showed at 4 am, a habit she never left when she became a nomad. When he came out of the room he found Vanesssa engrossed in the kitchen. Vanessa's cooking hobby has always made her a jolly woman in the kitchen.

“hai kak” greeting Arya when through the kitchen similar reply by Vanessa, Arya then glanced towards the side porch door, there seemed to be imprinted Irman car.

“wah, pantesan very happy face sister, apparently there was a new one to get rations last night” said Arya who wanted to tease Vanessa.

But Vanessa instead welcomed the temptation with a sad face.Something slipped into her heart that made her feeling so painful.

Slowly her eyes glazed over. He had not been able to get an inner living from Irman for a long time, because usually Irman rarely sleeps at home, and when he came home Irman was tired and chose to sleep immediately.

Arya captures the sadness of Vanessa, if all this time she can only guess that there is a problem in the marriage of her brother-in-law, but now she has got the answer. But he tried to be calm in order to find out what the problem was.

“why brother?”

“not what-pa Rya”

“can I ask you something?”

“apa?”

“why does brother and bang Irman have no children? looks like this house will be more crowded if there are already cries of children”

Vanessa was silent, her knife-wielding hand she had now let go, her heart was racing, there was something there she had to let go of immediately, something that he had long been craving and made him live in agony under pressure.

“All wrong sister Arya, should not force this relationship, sister made the same mistake as mother did, we both forced our will and finally we are the ones suffering like this, she said,” Vanessa's eyes start to glaze over.

“Bang Irman has been betrothed by grandfather to someone, but we still force our love feelings for a serious relationship, to be honest at that time my sister felt it was the right decision, he said, and brother with bang Irman will not regret it. But it turns out fate said another, brother can not give offspring to bang Irman, since then everything changed, brother has asked bang Irman remarried in order to have children, so that, sister also said ready to separate and give chance bang Irman get the perfect woman, but she said she loved big brother very much and will never divorce big brother, he said, at that time my brother was happy and so very much loved him, even now my love for him is not reduced at all, but a few years ago Irman bang began to change, as you can see, as you can see, rarely go home and sometimes act cold, sister does not know how anymore, sister also does not know until when sister can survive like this.” Vanessa story to Arya.

Arya scrunched her forehead to hear the story of Vanessa, berbersit sympathies there for Vanessa, but there are other things that make Arya feel strange with Irman from the story told Vanessa.

‘how true does he love brother Vanessa, how can he love brother Vanessa but behave like that to her, what is love? does love hurt like this?’.

Arya then returns to fetch another glass of water for Vanessa who looks her eyes wet after telling a story.

“I can't give advice to big brother, because honestly, I've never been in a relationship with a girl, Mila first, and sister knows for herself what she's like me, but if you want to tell a story, I'm ready to be a good listener for you, if you need help, I'm ready to help you, so do not hesitate if you want to share the story with me” said Arya who was attentive to Vanessa, and Vanessa also greeted him with a smile.

'Arya, you're a good man, Mila will definitely regret wasting you' inner Vanessa

*

The breakfast ritual was taking place in the dining room, there was Mila, Irman and Vanessa there, and as usual the atmosphere there looked tense without any sound. Mila and Vanessa felt quite a lot of changes in Irman, Irman who used to always speak openly, now became quiet, easy to emotion and did not want to care about the situation in the house.

While Arya is still in the room engrossed with her laptop, she is lazy to join the dining table because of Irman, usually she will join Mila and Vanessa to drink warm tea made by Vanessa, who is also a fan of her, but if Irman comes home, he prefers to go straight to the office, there is a feeling of heartache with Irman that he still feels due to the blow of that time. In addition, there is also a feeling of displeasure when remembering how dirty Irman in running a business.

On that day Arya did not go to the office, there was a special agenda that day he began to do after coming to Jakarta, so every day it came, he preferred not to work.

In the middle of a stressful breakfast that took place, came Tomy who had been standing behind the glass door of the porch beside the house, usually Tomy came through the front door, but after a night he visited, but after a visit, he knew to go straight to the door of the porch next to the house.

Seeing the arrival of Tomy, Vanessa immediately got up and approached him, Mila and Vanessa glanced in puzzlement towards Tomy who was carrying 4 flower bundles in her hands.

‘flowers for what? isn't he going to propose tonight? why bring flowers now?, why bring all the flowers? why also bring that much flowers?’ the curious mind of Mila to Tomy.

Tomy chatted briefly with Vanessa, and then Vanessa walked into Arya's room to meet her.

Arya came out and met Tomy, she passed through the dining room without even glancing at Mila and Irman, whom they also seemed to be indifferent to.

*

The atmosphere of the morning was quite cloudy, but the rain also seemed reluctant to fall, the atmosphere was quite cool, the wind greeted the skin gently, an atmosphere that was rarely felt in the capital, in a cemetery area, and a small, there they are now, Arya and Tomy are solemnly offering prayers for the two tombs in front of them.

In addition to praying, they also took the time to clean the tomb.

“thank you Tom, you really are my brother, I am really lucky to know you, you always even remember this important day to me,”

“just relax Rya, this is what should be done for our brother right, but you also have to remember, you owe me an explanation of what happened with them”

“if it's time, I'll tell you a story, too, but I don't know when, I just want to keep this alone, forever like this, let my old self be buried with them, and they must also be happy to see me who is now”