My Hate, the Water of His Eyes (The End of A Taste)

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A plane from country X arrives at the capital's largest airport. For the first time in seven years he has set foot in his homeland. From the airport instead of returning home he went to an apartment.

Yep. Leo is back, even though he's not ready.

"How did it go?" leo asked Bima who was with him.

"The girl had just finished her exam for the fifth semester. He went to college xxx because he got a scholarship. Since graduating High School she worked part-time at a restaurant as a waitress. Don't have many friends and every....."

"Did I ask you to tell me something like that about him? It doesn't matter to me what he's doing" circus Leo doesn't like Bima's words.

"Sorry sir but I think you need to know this one. Two or three times a month he's definitely visiting a bar."

"Bar? Meanin?" Leo was curious about the words Bima.

"Yes, sir. Mami jelita was the name of the woman he always met there. That woman who took care of him since childhood until the day that he finally was in the Suntama family until now."

"really?"

Leo smiled, not knowing what was on his mind. "Find out who Jelita's mom is and what her relationship is with her mom."

"Good, sir. Wouldn't it be better if the master and the girl did a DNA test? Mr. Ferdy just checked his blood type and happened to have the same result. There are thousands if not millions of people who have the same blood type in this world, sir."

"Deliver well, I'm tired and want to rest."

Leo closed his eyes and turned his head back. He thought of the advice Bima said. It never occurred to him to do a DNA test. It's just that he was worried that if the results really showed that Syera was his father's son as well then it would make his mother's heart even more sick and broken. That's why he didn't want to do a DNA test.

Arriving at Leo's apartment, he reopens his old cell phone, which he used before going abroad.

He smiled looking at the photos saved. The memory of someone is back in his mind. The phone wallpapers still use the same photos. The photo he secretly took of a girl biting an ice cream.

He woke up from his daydream when he remembered that the girl would never be able to get in his life. Leo turned off his old phone and came back to reality.

..........

In a bar a middle-aged woman walks around the table of guests who are hilariously chatting while sipping her drink. The woman walked so sensually while throwing a seductive smile at the guests. Mami Jelita greeted one by one her loyal customers.

From where he stood he saw the figure of a girl who was so adorable. The girl smilingly waved her hand at Jelita's mother.

Hem... The boy was stubborn. I told you not to come here again but still come.

"Are you going to keep this up, huh? I told you not to come see me here, we can meet outside if you need me."

"Shera just misses mami."

"really?" Mami jelita was singing her lips. "Where is your brother named Fandy?" his reticence led Syera to one of the empty tables.

"Are you angry because I rarely visit you?" tanya Syera embraced her mammary arm.

Can't stand the look of Syera's eyes make mami Jelita finally melt. The woman brought a bottle of soft drink to give to Syera.

A tall man approached the two with a grin on the face. Sitting right next to Jelita's mother and glancing at Syera from head to toe.

Mami Jelita understood what the man was thinking, making him look cynically at the man.

The man raised his eyebrows on Jelita's mother and blinked his eyes.

"Do you think all the women here are the same, huh?" cynical mami Jelita. "Are you a new customer so you don't know who this girl in front of you is?"

A bartender who heard Jelita's mother speak by raising her voice approached the man and whispered something.

"The girl is his daughter. Once you touch it then go home from this place of yours that the woman will touch using a saw."

The fat man gulped his saliva and left them. Mami Jelita smiled as she watched the fat man hastily leave the bar.

..........

Tonight Leo visited his mother whom he had longed for. Without further ado with the guards and servants, Leo headed to his mother's room and entered after getting permission. Mami is very surprised and happy to see Leo who is now in front of her even being needed. Mama Mila was crying happily, so Leo came home.

Long time they miss each other. Although while abroad Leo always call his mother and make video calls but it feels so different when face to face in person.

Finished meeting his mother, Leo headed to his room that he used to occupy. Leo opened the door. Everything was the same as when he left it. Nothing different, even the position of the items that became his collection was in the place he put them.

Leo laid down his body for a moment and returned to meet his mother. Leo will return to his apartment and attend one event.

Before going to the kitchen Leo felt thirsty. Syera, who had just finished eating dinner in her room, walked into the kitchen to put the dishes and cups into the sink.

STOOP...

Syera was surprised until the cutlery in her hand came off and fell on the floor. Fortunately, the plates and cups he used were made of melamine, so they did not break. In a hurry Syera took it but because she was so nervous the plate in her hand fell back.

Seeing such a Sera made Leo smile wryly at the girl. Sipping the water Leo leaned against the fridge.

"Are you seeing a ghost?" ask Leo cynically. "As he recalled there were only four servants in this house, two women and two men. And as I recall Retno's aunt also had no daughters," she continued.

Not knowing what to say, Syera just kept her head down holding the cup in her hand. He plays both thumbs because of nervousness mixed with fear.

"Are you the new servant of the Suntama family?"

Syera looked at Leo, she was not angry with the words of the servant and seemed not to know him but she did not expect to feel that much pain when she heard it.

"Are you planning on staying here forever?" put the bottle so strong on the table. Syera shuddered, shrugging her two shoulders back in surprise.

Not a single shred of Syera fluttered from her place. He is aware of his unclear position in the Suntama family.

"You're not a child anymore. You must know what you're supposed to do!" firmly Leo.

Leo passed away leaving a silent Sera. His first meeting after seven years ago made Leo did not expect that the teenage girl he had met was now growing up.