
"Flood ... It's flooding!!"
Alika's long daydream instantly crumbles. He gasped at the Papa's exclamation which shocked him.
"For a long time it can flood if the water from the tap continues to flow." said Papa then approached Alika who was still staring in front of the sink washing dishes. Wash Alika's hands full of soap with water that is still pouring, then turn off the water tap and take the child to leave the kitchen.
"But the reward, the laundry---"
"Let your mother finish" replied Papa.
"Well, please do the dishes." exclaimed Papa as he passed through their bedroom door.
"Where's the alika?" asked Mama from the room who was cleaning some clothes that she had ironed to put in the closet.
"Papa wants to go with Alika for a while" replied Papa. "Where are you going, Pah?" ask Alika plain.
"Eating ice cream yuk." asked Papa, their steps had arrived in the yard. Alika nodded and waited for Papa to pull out his motorbike.
"Where are you going?" mama Alisa asked when her feet reached the door, she followed her son and husband who said he wanted to leave for a while. Mama Alisa lost quickly, she could only stare at the back of Alika who was already on the motorbike and out of the gate of the house.
"So twenty thousand, sir."
"This is the money." replied Papa.
"Thank you." said the cashier Indodesember. Papa and Alika again turned the steps to get out of the minimarket.
"Let's sit down first." Papa told Alika.they also sat on an empty bench provided in the minimarket Indodesember.
Papa unfolded the ice cream and offered it to the princess. Alika accepted it with a happy face, then took a sip of the sweetness from the chocolate and bean circles. Papa did the same, he opened another pack of ice cream for him to enjoy.
"Aren't there any problems?" being delicious to sip ice cream, Alika immediately turned to look at Papa who was looking at her. Can't he say he's heartbroken because of a breakup? Must have been his life.
"You know, you have a problem. These few days are silent, daydreaming and rarely laughing. What's up, son?" ask Papa softly.
What Papa said was right, since where Alika decided Bilmar, the happy look on his face seemed to have crashed somewhere. There is only sadness, disappointment and longing.
How do we feel when a heart is blooming, loving someone and being forced to stop and move away? The pain is not playing. Being played unilaterally by someone we care about.
Alika shook her head with a smile. "Just tense because you want a national exam, Pah."
"really? No other problems bothering you?"
"Yes, Pah. Brother is fine." replied Alika, then sip the ice cream back. Far from his heart he still thought of Bilmar. Were his words that had pierced the man's heart.
"There's a hard lesson? Would you like to take extra lessons?"
Alika shook her head again. "Papa Kayak doesn't know Alika" he replied with a short laugh.
"Oh yes Papa forgot, you are Papa's son who is very smart" said Papa again sip ice cream until it runs out. Because Alika answered without hesitation, Papa immediately believed Alika's reason.
"I'm sorry, Bil. I had to." she explained. Of course, it is not that easy to forget, throw away and eliminate the shadow of the man who became his first lover and love.
"We are not fools, Bill. You and I are like heaven and earth." Though the word soul mate from now on is too early, for some reason Alika always wanted to be, her future husband was her first love. So he was very happy when he was mingling love with Bilmar. The man he always thought was perfect in every way. But even scratch the wound intentionally.
"Bilmar was just playing me!" Alika is back.
*****
After splitting the night road with an hour. Finally the three of them reached the courtyard of Bilmar's house. Dion first went down and then on after Bilmar, and Nino still settled on the bike.
"We're back, you don't be sad anymore, Bil." said Dion.
"Yes, Bill. If there's anything, call us." - Nino.
"Yes, Yon, Nin. Thank you so much for taking me back." replied Bilmar with a thin smile. He looks uninspired to bribe or joke a lot. He himself is devastated. It feels like drowning yourself in the Indian Ocean.
"Lo on be careful ya on the road. Let me know when I get home." said Bilmar to the two of them while waving and turning steps to pass into the house.
Dion and Nino stared at Bilmar's steps which looked very shaky.
"The chicken will die" said Dion.
"My friends, because girls are so." - Timpal Nino.
"It's because of his own actions! How dare playin the Alika." replied Dion.
"May be too, but I'm afraid, Nin. Alika tuh fierce original, demen gampar, demen nabok."
"Boiled what man, how did he do that?" instantly I nino's fur goosebumps. "It's natural, taekwondo child." added Dion.
"That means that Bilmar has fouled in tampol, dong?" nino's eyeballs are perfect. Then they both giggle.
"It seems, you didn't see his face as swollen as a cry? Once abis slapped, hahahaha."
Indeed, savage friends, only they can laugh at Bilmar's suffering so happily.
"But, Nin. Why don't I calm down?"
"You got your period, lo?"
"Yes the devil! I'm not a stem, where can menstruation begoo!" Dion is the head of Nino.
"Lo go home alone, I want to stay here. Nemenin si Bila's. My heart's not good."
Nino was silent for a while, actually her feelings since then were similar to Dion's.
"I've been with you too. Uh but, I don't have the same clothes yet Mami and my Papi, Yon."
"Anjimm Papi-Mami, you usually call them, also use the name doang, ck!" answer Dion.
"Lusi-Beni, is that it?" nino foolishly uttered the name of her parents.
"Oh so the name of Mr lo Beni? Not Dr. Good deeds?" dion chuckled.
"That's her little name! Look out you tell Bayu!"
"That's his father Bila, begoo!"
And their laughter was heard again. Without thinking long, for the sake of a friend who is sad. Nino and Dion had to choose to stay.
Just a short message to their parents, asking permission to sleep tonight at Bilmar's house. Without waiting for a reply from the parents who might be grumbling them. Nino and Dion instantly turned off their phones quickly.
Breathing relief was out even though there was still a sense of ketar-ketir for fear of being angry. Friendship is everything to Nino and Dion, Bilmar means a lot to them.
****
"Sister!" exclaim Binara from the dining table. The beautiful girl who was still sitting in the third grade Junior High School stepped up to attack her beloved cousin.
Bilmar approached the girl, hugging and releasing a kiss on Binara's whirlpool of hair.
"Don't help me with PR." Binar whined to Bilmar.
"Because, Bin. Not now." muttered Bilmar. But he had no power to say such a word. Finally he forced his head to nod with a flat face. Want to refuse, but he did not have the heart to see Binara who had come night-night.
"Who are you here with?"
"So you've been delivered by Papa, I'll stay here for two days because from tonight Papa goes out of town, brother."
"Oh." replied Bilmar.
"You just got home, son?" asked Mama who had just emerged from the kitchen while carrying a soup cup for her to put on the dining table, then Bik Minah was seen tailing from behind carrying other cooked food.
"Why does the night keep coming home?"
"Usually Mah, basketball practice." Bilmar approached Mama Mira and kissed her hand.
"You why? Crying out?" Mama looked closely at the face of the son. Binar also looked back at the sister's face clearly.
"Yes, Brother Bilmar cried. What's wrong with you, brother?"
Bilmar just shook his head, he should be able to restore his face to recover happy. There was no way he could tell the truth, if he was upset. Even though Mama Mira had guessed what happened to the child.
Then before Bilmar wanted to open his lips that had been silent, he turned his head quickly towards the door when he heard a familiar voice giving greetings there.
"Dion's? The nino? Haven't come home yet, boy?"
****
Hurray nih malem-alem two tadpong nginep at Papa Bilmar😂😂