My girlfriend, my daughter-in-law (Mantu becomes sister-in-law)
111. Dotty
Tokyo, December 18, 2021
"Damaz!"
Ina was suffocating in her eyes. His breath was interrupted when he looked around him. He currently lives in an apartment in central Tokyo. His body rose towards the middle room. There's a small refrigerator. His hand grabbed the handle of the refrigerator and downed the cold mineral water. Ina recalled her dream, in the dream Shasa continued to cry like pain.
"Oh Allah give health to Shasa. Don't you leave the pain to him." Ina's prayer in the heart.
The night was cold, Ina couldn't sleep. His hand grabbed the laptop to draw anime. His hands nimblely made a picture of a man. Until Ina realizes who the man in the picture is.
"Why do I have to picture him?" Said Ina while scratching her non-itchy hair.
"Oh ah, dark!" Ina deletes the image and refocuses by drawing another one.
Before long Ina felt her eyes begin to sleepy again. Her tiny body fell asleep on her study desk, her scratch-looking figure drawing the same figure of a man.
Kriiii!
Ina flinched upon hearing her room alarm. It quickly wiped away his saliva that soaked the corners of his lips. His eyes widened when he saw the clock was showing at 08:00.
"God, why doesn't anyone wake up!" Pekik panicked.
Ina ran towards the middle room. Lonely! that's how he feels. Ina called her two brothers but there was no word. Then put yourself on the couch.
"Na, if you want anything, call Rio. Sister now in Osaka has business." Ina read the sheet stuck on the refrigerator door.
After taking a shower, Ina decided to sit in front of the television. A week in Japan has made it difficult to adapt. The cold temperatures that enveloped the city of Tokyo made him lazy everywhere.
From the top floor Ina looked at the streets covered with snow. Looking at the phone as if someone wanted to contact her. As soon as he realized that since leaving for Japan, he had changed his mobile number. Replacing his sosmed account all that he did because of the request of the brother.
"Why does it feel like since I've been here anything's empty? Ah, no Ina you promised you'd forget her. Remember Ina your future is more important than a love story."
A warm chocolate slug that he thought could treat his gala feelings. But it didn't help at all. Ina can't lie to herself there's a longing she wants to give up. His body leaned against the corner of the glass that contacted the outside world.
Ting...
He opened his phone and read a message.
"If the cold air makes you smile, smile. You know, Na. The snow symbolizes the longing that shackles in the chest.
"Sister Rangga do not fight. He said he was going to Japan"
"Eat him down! don't just go home. When was the last time we snowed?"
Ina recalls, the last time to Japan when delivering Rangga who will go to college. At that time, Ina was nine years old. Still complete with his mother, papa Aryo, aunt Raya and Om Donal who came to Japan.
"Halllooo..."
"Ja..so .. brother now .." Ina got off the apartment and went out. Inhaling the extremely bone-piercing snow air.
"Where's brother?" Ina is still looking for her sister.
"Hello, Miss Ina." There was a sound coming from the direction of the snow puppet that was almost the size of him.
"Hello snow doll." Sapa Ina pulled out the twig that became the nose of the doll.
A puuuuk!
Ina throws a small snowball at the back of the doll. He could guess that Rangga was there. But unfortunately his guess missed. His body was fixated as there was a hand coiling around his waist. Slowly he took off the circle of hands. But the owner did not give up, even tighter.
"You're cold, Na. I'll warm your body and your heart." Bisik Rangga's.
"Sorry, brother." Ina had to take off violently.
"Are you still thinking about Nature? He didn't even come when you left. Your brother also disagrees with your relationship. Remember he's your brother's son-in-law!"
"How is it different from us! Just the same, Auntie Raya also disagrees with us. That's because we're brothers! brother!" Pekik Ina stayed away from Rangga.
"I've been kind to my sister all along because of our brotherly relationship. Okay I used to love big brother, but now my feelings for big brother as a sister's affection are nothing more. So I beg you not to break our fraternity, please." Please Ina.
Rangga clasped Ina's hand tightly. Right now he was still trying to give in to the girl. But in her heart she promises to keep fighting for the love that grew over the years.
"I'm sorry that you disappointed me."
"I want to go home!" Ina precedes her steps towards their apartment. Rangga walked in Ina's footsteps. Throughout the journey they kept quiet.
Clique
Jakarta, December 18, 2021
In a family room, there appears a man who is still struggling with his work. A glass of warm tea and a snack did not make the man flinch. Some of the files he examined made his forehead wrinkled.
Some days he heard that one of the hotels they were going to recruit had changed hands. Especially if the one who holds the hotel is Damar Pratama, their company's business rival. It was reported that Damar sent people to infiltrate his company. After investigation it was not proven. The man squeezed the flat-fixed number.
"Hello, Lena. Can you come to my house?"
"Okay I wait."
That man is Nature. Since the week of Ina's departure he was more busy with a pile of work. Marni shook her head to see her son who began to workholic.
"Pa" said Marni when she met her husband who was resting in the room.
"Yes." Yeah."
"We take Alam and Shasa on vacation yuk.Poor mama see Nature."
"Continue, ma. Next month papa gets an invitation from Japan for the opening of the papa relations hotel."
"Continue?"
"We sent Nature there. Work as well as vacation. How's it?"
"Mama agrees."
