My Husband is a Ningrat

Chapter 34. [Former ]

"Why do I have to close my eyes." I complained as Kaysan put the black slayer in my eyes.

"Let's not know where we're going."

"Why mas? Jani wants to see mom." I fumbled at the slayer that had tightly closed my eyes. Darkened.

"Mas is not playing hide-and-seek, right? Didn't you lie? Don't make Jani afraid of me." I fumbled, looking for Kaysan's whereabouts. "Mas, where? Mas don't leave Rinjani." I said scared, "Mas..."

I continued to feel the air, I could not find Kaysan holding my hand.

"Mas isn't going anywhere, Rinjani. I'll stand behind you." Kaysan grabbed me by the waist, pushed me to follow in his footsteps. "Mas, don't take it off" I said tightening his grip.

"No, be patient. We'll take a lot of stairs. Slow down."

I nodded, slowly my feet began to follow the stairs. I don't know how many stairs I climbed, really a lot.

The atmosphere is so cold. The sound of the wind and the chirping of the sea birds. Kaysan took me where, why go through so many stairs. Indeed mother is where, why mother far away. Did Kaysan really find mother in the place so far, am I really going to get married any minute? That question hangs so much on my mind.

"It's still a long time, my legs are getting sore" I said while adjusting my breath.

"Patience, we'll be here soon."

"Yes, my mom." I move my legs again towards either.

One, two, the stairs I went through again.

Three, four I feel the plains are swirling.

"Smart girl."

"Yes, why did you leave? Why there is the smell of flowers. What's the one that prepared it?" I asked as my nose sniffed the flowers like a grave flower.

"Rinjani, if I open your blindfold. I know you'd be surprised not even to believe what you saw. Rinjani, I haven't known you for a long time. But I know, you're a strong girl. Jani, believe me the universe has done its best for your mother, Lastri..."

Kaysan opened my blindfold, slowly my eyes began to blink. I see, a lot of rocks neatly lined up. Like a gravestone.

My eyes are blurry, I close my eyes again.

"No way, 'we're in the grave" I said to confirm.

"Open up..." Kaysan held both of my shoulders.

Slowly I opened my eyes, a tombstone with a wet mound of earth was in front of me.

The fresh flowers I was breathing were as thick as white roses sprinkled on top of it. I looked at the tombstone with a familiar name in my mind.

Lasts

08 04 1975

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29 08 2019

My body slumped to the bottom of the earth, my bones collapsed along with my body which suddenly had no energy.

"No way.no way! Don't joke, don't make things up! Don't play me! I lied, she's not my mom's lastri. He's not my Lastri. She's not a mother, she's not a mother!" I said I didn't accept the new reality I was facing.

My tears began to break the silence of this cemetery. My mouth says no, but my heart is... I leaned my head against the tombstone while stroking the stone like stroking my mother's head. "No, it's not my mother's pastri."

I kept convincing myself that this wasn't my mother. But the date of my mother's birth and the date of her death are so obvious that this wet mound is where my mother lives.

The date of death is the date on which the final trial of the divorce of the mother and father. At that time I had a fight with my father, I wanted to take me away. But you locked me in my room, locked it from the outside.

I heard they had a big fight about me. Mom insisted on taking me away because I knew you weren't taking care of me. He refused, flatly berating my mother with harsh words. You do not allow my mother to take me away, under the pretext that I am a child who will make rupiah for her.

I remember that afternoon it rained so hard on the earth. An hour later I didn't hear that fight. I started to open the door to my room. I cringed out looking for mom, while the dad with his red eyes said, "Your mommy wes stopped by!" [your mother is gone! ]

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As I continued this headstone, my cries began to explode as Kaysan also sat down near me. Brushing my hair softly, calms.

"Don't look at me." I said while hiding my face. "Don't see me as weak as this."

"You're as beautiful as your mother, Rinjani. Your hair is black and thick like a mother's." Kaysan was still stroking my hair, my crying broke again. Although the mother never gave a face, the mother's face looks beautiful with thin strokes in her eyes. I love it when she squints her eyes, investigating if I'm hiding something.

"I'm not forcing you to believe, but this is my last attempt to convince you to be mine, Rinjani. Just the evidence I have to convince you that your mother is gone. Cry, if it makes you feel relieved. So that I know the other side of you. My little girl, cry." Kaysan pulled my body from the tombstone, drowning me in his arms.

"I'm sorry Rinjani, I'm sorry."

Kaysan patted my back many times.

Long I sobbed in Kaysan's arms. This shocking taste made my whole body fall into the belly of the wet ground.

I wiped my tears, I bowed my head, I made prayers for my mother.

I rubbed my face with Do'a, who was flowing with my tears. My body can not stand alone, my body slowly over the belly button mother.

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[Kaysan Residence ]

"Rinjani why Kay, Rinjani why?" juwita Ningrat asked in a worried tone.

Juwita Ningrat sprinted a little following Kaysan's steps towards her room, "Kay, why was Rinjani taken to the room. You what's Kay?" Juwita Ningrat blocked Kaysan with some questions.

"Mother, relax. Jani just fainted." Kaysan replied as he put Rinjani in his bed.

"Why did you faint? You what's Kay?" Juwita Ningrat pointed at Kaysan's face suspiciously.

Kaysan let out a heavy sigh, "Mother get Nurmala Sari here." pinta Kaysan who was taken in by her mother. Juwita took the HP she had tucked in the stagen that was twisting her waist. While Kaysan himself took some documents from behind his closet.

"Already, Kay, already. Something going on, Kay? Let's tell Mother." persuade Juwita Ningrat again.

"Rinjani gave me an order to find her mother. Two weeks ago Kay was looking for him. But what Kay found was something that made Rinjani faint." Kaysan handed over medical papers and police attachments.

Juwita Ningrat pulled the sheets of paper that Kaysan held. Juwita read the writings carefully. His eyes were round, "Then where is Rinjani's mother's grave, Kay?"

"Kay moved to the family grave, sorry Kaysan did not ask permission first with Mother and Father." Kaysan stooping.

"What does Rinjani give mean?" search Juwita Ningrat on her son who is still bowing.

"Wake up." jinta Juwita Ningrat patted Kaysan on the shoulder.

"Rinjani is willing to marry Kay, after Kay manages to find her mother."

Juwita Ningrat shook her head, "It's not good to have a girl get married while grieving my son. The situation is falling, kasian cah ayu." Juwita Ningrat turned to look at Rinjani. Her tang stroked Rinjani's face that looked puffy.

"How Mother, has Nurmala Sari replied to your message?" kaysan asked worriedly, as the longer Rinjani's countenance grew pale.

"Prophe, Nurmala Sari again on the road."

"Mother, Kay wants to do Do'a's delivery at home for Lastri's mom. Does Mother allow it?"

Juwita Ningrat shook her head again, "Right tresno, Kay? [Crazy in love, Kay? ] Have your servants prepare a banquet and guests for the delivery of your future in-laws." Juwita Ningrat said, making Kaysan the youngest. [pleased ]

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"Saben hard must be ono bungah, saben bungah must layune hard. Pathi, Pesti, Jodo wes must be the secret of Gusti. Amergo kui wong Urip ki ojo ngawulo karo bondho donyo."

(Every hardship there must be joy, every joy must meet sorrow. Dead, Pesti, soul mate is definitely Gusti's secret. Therefore, the living person should not be arrogant about the treasures of the world)