
Office hours are over. Rara and Mora walk down the stairs out of the office. They prefer to go through the stairs rather than the elevator, because if they go through the elevator they have to wait and queue, the workplace of the financial staff is also on the 2nd floor, so the stairs are not too cape.
"Where do you live? go home on what?" Moras.
"I live here ko, I go home riding ojol" Rara.
"Huh?! with me, I got a motorbike"
'It's not funny if later he knows I'm staying in a hotel' Rara.
"Eh gausah, I'm running out of this to stop by first at the front cafe, meet someone" Rara lied.
"Oh that, yaudah"
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Arriving at the hotel, Rara saw 2 men in front of her room. One sits in the front seat of the room, while the other stands next to the person sitting.
"Dad?!!" Rara's.
Apparently Rara's father and her personal driver.
"Hey boy. Just got home from work?" ask dad.
"Dad can be here?"
"You're here why don't you tell me?"
Rara silently did not answer and walked to the door to unlock the door and let her father in. The driver was waiting outside.
"Dad you know I'm here?"
"Your mother told me"
'Ah mother, habit' Rara.
"Where do you work?" continue father.
"At ABC company"
"Why don't you work at my dad's company?"
"Dad. while I can be alone, I want to work alone"
'I don't want to depend on dad'
"You're a father's son, wherever you are who will continue the business of the father"
"Dad, I'm a girl, someday I'll get married and come with my husband"
"You can take care of it with your husband. Just like your sister, now she takes care of the business of the father who is Bandung branch with her husband"
"Ayaaahh. There's a little brother, he's a boy"
"Your sister is still in High School. Still gotta go to school"
"Ayaaah.I really don't like being forced... I was only the first day of work when I resigned. I'm happy to work there"
'if my friend Mora is new'
Dad breathed as if resigned. "When do you stay at the hotel? why not stay with my dad?" continue father.
"I've been looking for costs through the internet that is decades here, you don't have to worry most tomorrow or the day after I've already got costs"
"Pick up your clothes now" Dad ordered.
"Dad, I'm a gamau!!" Rara was a little screaming.
"Here" I held out a key.
Rara was silent and astonished looking at her father.
"Dad didn't tell you to stay with dad. But stay in dad's apartment. Although the apartment is not too luxurious, at least you can live more decent. The apartment is not too far from here either"
Rara surprised.
"Ayaaahh. I live in kos-kosan aja gapapa. In college, I'm also staying in a boarding house"
"You said you want to have a cake shop, in the apartment there is a complete kitchen there is an oven too, you can use all you practice making a better cake. If the kitchen is not necessarily complete"
Rara was really shocked and moved by what her father said.
'Where do you know I want to have a cake shop. Must've been mom'
"Receive it, as an apology from my father for not attending your graduation" he continued.
Rara was silent and shed tears. Rara approached her father and hugged her father while crying.
'thank you dad'
"When was the last time Dad was hugged like this? now that you're a big, little girl dad who used to cry seeing lizard is now growing into an independent woman" Rara's father then kissed Rara's head and stroked Rara's hair.
Rara laughed in her father's arms.
Rara used to be her father's favorite child, Rara was never angry let alone in snapped, her father was so dear to her. Every school exam, Rara studied with her father, and when she ranked in the top 3 in the class, her father always hugged Rara while holding a rap book in his hand. From a small Rara never asked for many things let alone luxury goods, although Rara knew her father was among those who were. But being with her father every day was enough for Rara.
But everything changes when the bastard comes snatching everything from the hands of Rara and her family. I rarely go home, I almost never get in touch with Rara again. Although Rara knows her father still often asks through her mother. Since marrying the bastard, Rara's father has almost never been in direct contact with his children, especially Rara, because Rara was disappointed and angry, even in her heart, Rara loves her father very much.
But, even so, father never ran away from his responsibilities as the leader of the family. Father gave everything, home, education, facilities, money, etc to Rara, mother, brother and sister. Dad always worked hard to build his business for his children later. Dad built a business that is now beridri in Central Jakarta and already has a branch in Bandung (which is now in the hands of his brother Rara and her husband). Although Rara knows, her father will tell her to take care of her father's business in Jakarta, but Rara does not want to. Rara wants the business to be continued by her sister one day, and Rara chooses to work alone and open her own business one day with her husband.
Maybe Rara's father is not a good husband for her mother, but Rara's father always tries to be a responsible father for her daughter's son's life.
'No matter what you are, I have never really hated you. You are still the greatest father, the hero of my life, Rara.
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Finally Rara took care of her clothes, and went to the apartment between her father and her father's driver. Rara was also given a motorcycle that had been in the apartment. His father's apartment is not a luxury apartment but very decent and comfortable. The apartment that consists may be about 20 floors (sorry Rara does not count it hehe) and her father Rara's apartment is on the 8th floor. The apartment is available 1 bedroom, kitchen, toilet, living room, and a beautiful terrace because of the 8th floor terrace can see into the city of Jakarta.
Dad's apartment is very clean and well maintained, maybe because it was previously cleaned by one of the father's employees, so Rara did not need the hassles of cleaning it. After Rara's father said goodbye, Rara immediately cleaned her clothes, put them in the closet. I also have prepared some staples in the kitchen and in the refrigerator, such as rice, milk, coffee, tea, instant noodles, and some fruits. Rara then concocts a cup of black coffee and inserts it on the terrace of the apartment. Rara looked around and drifted away in the cold of the night.
'Bie 'Bie. Right what you said, dad loves me so much'
Rara put her coffee on the table then stepped back to the edge of the terrace, stood up while closing her eyes, raised her hands parallel to the chest, asking God, her heart read Alfatihah.
Each Rara recited a prayer for Obie, as if she was comfortable and at ease, as if Obie had received a prayer message from her with a handsome smiling face.
'May you be quiet, and be placed in his paradise Bie'
'Thank you father, thank God so much'
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