
"Where is Mbok Rara?" Adam asked as soon as he got out of the car on the mbok Atun who was sweeping the yard.
Not yet had the middle-aged woman gave an answer Adam had already stepped in to find the wife in the house ignoring Ali who was still following himself behind.
Not finding Rara in the kitchen and backyard, Adam goes up to the second floor looking for her in the room.
"Where's Rara going?" Ask Adam who is standing at the end of the second floor stairs on the new Atun mbok entering the family room while holding Ali.
The woman looked up, looked at Adam who was walking down, "he was looking at Rara and went to Adam's apartment a few days ago, with Ali and Mas Rangga?" Mbok Atun with his confused face asked back when Adam was standing in front of him.
"He's gone home mbok. On Saturday morning Rara was home."
"But Mbak Rara did not reach the mas house. From yesterday I was at home."
"Trus where is Rara now? He came home in Rangga's car, is it possible that he went home to mama's house?" Adam's Guman.
Not waiting for an answer from mbok Adam invited Ali to go to Eka's house on the grounds of delivering souvenirs for the mother. He wanted to find his wife there.
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"Grandma!" Shouted Ali so out of the black Lamborghini car that Adam was carried in the row by Adam who came out of the steering chair. The boy immediately ran over to Eka in the middle of the flower garden.
Eka who originally called the grass in the front garden of the house immediately stood up when Ali approached him. Removing hand shirts.
"Grandmother's favorite grandson." Eka hugged Ali back, who was hugging her waist, rubbing the little boy's head with her right hand.
"Ali kangen." Ali looked up at Eka's face.
"Grandmother is also kangen. How was the holiday like?"
Ali nodded, "yes. I brought a toy with my dad. Play in the game zone until satisfied. Play on ice skating too. How's the video on your HP, grandma want to see?" Tanya Ali was enthusiastic.
"Can."
Eka listened to her granddaughter who told her with passion, making the middle-aged woman's face sparkle happily.
"I also buy a lot of souvenirs for my grandmother and make the same mbok mas Yuda too." Babe Ali pulled Eka's hand and took her grandmother to Adam who was standing on the front porch waiting for the two of them.
"See grandma. I bought a lot of souvenirs, right?" Show Ali some of the crackle bags that Adam had placed on the patio table. "I also bought a toy for Yuda's mas."
Eka just smiled to see her grandson who likes to show off new things.
"Mama how are you?" Adam asked after kissing Eka's hand.
"Good."
"If papa?"
"Everything's fine. Mom's condition is getting better today. Looks like mama fits the same exam doctor Budi because behind this mom's heart so it never relapses."
"Alhamdulillah if that's it."
Adam followed Eka and Ali into the house with a shopping bag containing souvenirs on the table. Ali takes a toy box containing a level bus out of plastic to give to Yuda the child from the mother who works at Rara's house.
As soon as he gets what he wants, Rara's son immediately runs to the back looking for Yuda, his playmate.
"Cock you two. Rara's not coming?" Ask Eka. Now the woman took out the food that Adam had brought from the plastic bag. To be stored in jars and refrigerators.
"Just Adam asked."
"Ask what?" Eka turned her gaze from the table towards Adam.
"Rara's not here? Is he not home?"
"Had Rara gone with Rangga and Ali followed you?" Eka asked back, "indeed Rara did not reach your apartment? But Ali is the same as you?" Eka wonder.
"Until now, but Rara's home by Saturday morning."
Eka was surprised to hear Adam's words. How could? If you're home, why isn't Rara home? Think Eka.
"What's really going on? Does Rara know about your affair with that woman?" Eka's face turned dull.
"No, it's not that. I have nothing to do with Monica."
"Why did Rara leave?"
Adam also tells what really happened between himself and Rara as well as a misunderstanding between the two.
"That's you, why do you just accuse me like that. The husband and wife should understand each other instead of being cornered and judgmental without proof."
Eka nagged Adam, she lamented the reckless deeds of her son.
Several times Adam apologized with a face full of regret.
"If you want to apologize, it's not the same mom, it's the same Rara."
Adam gave up the plastic containing honey almonds that he had opened to his mother to pour the contents into the jar.
"But Rara has no ma. Ma, where'd Rara go?" Adam shifted his gaze from the scissors he was holding towards Eka.
"Where do you know," answered Eka Ketus. He looked at Adam annoyed.
"Try me to call Ratna's mom. Ask him if Rara was there or not? Who knows, Rara went home to her mother. Yes ma? Please?!" Adam cupped his arms full of hope.
As a parent, no matter how much the fault of his child must not have the heart to see them suffer. Same with Eka. Whatever he was sorry for Adam at this time, Eka just complied with his son's request to call his besi to ask about Rara.
Adam and Eka sit on the family room couch when Eka pulls out a cell phone to call Ratna. Not frankly asking about Rara to the mother, Eka started their conversation by asking her news and activities at this time.
"Yesterday Rara said she wanted to go home. Whether he came home or not because he has not played two weeks at home so I can not ask directly," said Eka talking.
"He hasn't come back here yet. The last one came with her husband a few weeks ago and until now no one has come again. I don't know what the news is that the child because some days the number is off, I call can't," answer the voice from the voice that made Eka and Adam know if Rara did not go home to her parents.
Where did Rara go? The human heart of Adam.
Where is Rara now? Thought Ratna.
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Until Monday, Rara did not return home. Making members of the Syaputra family panic over Rara's disappearance.
Especially when Adam called the principal Rara and Mr. Burhan said that if Rara had asked permission not to enter for one week because there was business that must be resolved to make Adam more dizzy in his making.
Adam is afraid of anything happening to Rara, such as robbers or murder of his wife. I can't imagine if that happened.
Even Adam and Rangga had reported Rara to the police as a missing person but for up to three days they had not received any information.
Adam has also asked the messenger to look for the whereabouts of Rara and Rangga's car and the results are the same.
Rara's departure is really a valuable lesson for Adam especially Ali who began to fuss because he missed the mother. The six-year-old boy did not want to go to school or eat if there was no Rara, making Eka and Rangga have to work hard to persuade him first.
While Adam who from the beginning was not close to Ali was no longer able to seduce his son because all the persuasions that Adam gave did not work at all.
"Want to go to school with mom, not with dad."
Ali cried in the morning when she found out that Adam was going to take her to school.
"Yes dear to go with papa will return the new mother who picked up."
Adam wiped the tears of his son who had been two days always melow like a girl.
"Papa lied. It'll be like yesterday picking up school grandma isn't mama." The boy's cry grew louder when he remembered that he had been lied to these days by the adults he loved.
"papa promised, papa will bring mama to pick you up at school later. Because Ali's school back then now, ok! If Ali does not go to school later mama angry with papa, grandma, grandpa and om Rangga. Ali doesn't want to see you angry because Ali didn't go to school?"
Ali remained silent. Even so the little boy thought as well.
"Papa promised to come home from school mama is already at home, with us again," said Adam presents.
With pouting lips and a disheveled face and red eyes Ali walked up to Eka's motorbike, the boy to go to school.
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For almost a week Adam has not been to work, he asked Rain to send all his files and work via email. As for the meeting and meeting Adam postponed if it could be delayed but if it is very important then Adam asked Rain and his representatives to replace him at the meeting.
Adam could not leave Ali alone at home when there was no Rara, even though it was at Eka's own parents' house. There was an uncomfortable feeling when he had to leave his son to someone else.
Maybe all this time he was careless and did not care about Ali because he felt his son was safe with Rara, but now when Rara was not there then Adam felt unsettled, so he chose to work at home while watching Ali rather than leave his son to papa, mama and Rangga. Although Adam is one hundred percent if the three of them can take good care of his son, but still the instinct to protect a father does not allow Adam to be selfish.
Adam leaned against the head of the bed, massaged the base of his nose, his head dizzy. Next to him Ali lay weak. The little boy slept after being examined and given medication by Nanda's doctor.
After three days of being lied to continuously by family members, Ali was really sulking, the little boy did not want to eat at all which led to fever. Ali who had not met the mother for five days was really longing.
"You're exactly where Ra is, why do you have me and Ali. Why would you leave Ali so sick like this?" Adam is sad.
Adam opened his eyes when he heard the door of his room being knocked from the outside.
"Dam somebody's looking for you outside." Eka's voice was heard with the appearance of a female figure wearing a batik negligee.
"Who?" Ask Adam lazy.
"Don't know. The male. He said there's important business with you." Eka told me, "mama told me to wait in the living room" she said, then turned to leave Adam's room.
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.Who is that looking for Adam?
Where's Rara going? 🤔🤔🤔