Not as Beautiful as Angan

Do not follow Karmin

"That Karmin has come" Gentle slowly bu Sekar whispered those words in his ear Cempaka.

"Yes mom, I already know. Seruni had told me" Slowly her voice Cempaka while holding back her sobs.

"What do I do, mom?" Whisper again.

"Find him, son. He came with his brother"

"Mom" Tangis Cempaka was sobbing. He was increasingly convinced that Karmin would bring him to his hometown.

Bu Sekar and Seruni also cried sadly, their embrace was getting tighter, the harder it was to let go.

Some of them were silent, no one spoke. Only occasional sobs were heard.

Sad, sorrowful, poignant and sorrow mixed in his heart Cempaka. Because, she knew soon she would leave her home and family, she would go to follow her husband's family, inevitably, even by force.

Slowly, Bu Sekar let go of his son's embrace.

He raised his face Cempaka, then his finger rubbed the warm water that slid from his eyelids.

Then Sekar's mother nodded, gesturing to Cempaka to meet Karmin immediately.

"Yes ma'am" Sahut Cempaka lirih.

"Aren't you going with that guy?" Seruni looked at Cempaka's face with tears in her eyes.

Cempaka couldn't answer it, though,

He simply wiped his sister's tears with his finger.

Ms. Sekar also came out of her room Cempaka, Cempaka wearing her hijab first.

Before long, Seruni and Cempaka followed him from behind.

The rest of the tears were still visible on Cempaka's cheeks.

Both of Cempaka's legs felt heavy to be taken by him to step.

Slowly, he stepped his feet towards the middle room.

Where Karmin and his brother were waiting for his presence.

"Assalamualaikum" said Cempaka softly, as he and his sister arrived in the living room.

"Waalaikumsalam" Sahut all who are there.

"Karmin, is this your wife?" Mbak Siti and mas Kunti were stunned to see the beauty and softness of Cempaka.

"Yes mbak" Sahut Karmin is proud.

"God willing, beautiful" Ma'am Siti was amazed, her neutrality could not be seen the perfect creation of God standing before her.

Cempaka and Seruni sat beside his mother. After they greeted all of their guests.

"I, is this what Cempaka's name is?"

Tanya mbak Siti stammered so enchanted.

"Yes, mom. This is our third child Cempaka" said Bu Sekar.

Siti and Kunto could not take her eyes off her beautiful face Cempaka, with smooth white skin, although only a little on her fingers, because it was covered by the shar'i clothes he was wearing.

"It's beautiful, it's hijab again"

Said mbak Siti amazed.

"This is my sister, Mbak Siti and this is her husband mas Kunto" Karmin introduced her brother to Cempaka.

Cempaka nodded his head while smiling.

"Oh God, Karmin!" Bisik mbak Siti, she was so captivated by her smile Cempaka.

"Oh Allah, why mbak so stuttering like this, emh, emh, so can not talk right" Mbak Siti misbehaved.

"Why, mbak?" Ask Cempaka gently.

" Emh, emh, ma'af is ours" said mbak Siti.

"We, we came here that, with the aim for friendship, yes for friendship and men, emh pick neng, emh, pick neng, neng Cempaka" Siti said nervously she expressed the meaning of her arrival.

"Outside! The disjointed words felt like lightning in the middle of a very hot day, it was heard by Cempaka's ears.

"Haha?" Cempaka glared in disbelief at what he heard just now.

" Sister" Seruni hugged her tightly.

"Sorry if my sister said it, it makes it not good to hear" said Karmin.

"Yes, forgive my wife" Kunto said.

Mr. Jati and Bu Sekar looked at each other, both of them took a deep breath, as if they wanted to release the burden that had accumulated on both shoulders.

They were not in the least bit in love with the reality now unfolding before their son.

"Nothing, nothing to forgive. Because this is not the fault of mbak and also not the fault of his mas" Mr. Jati said slowly.

"Yes sir, but we feel guilty about this incident" said Siti again.

"How, did mom and dad allow it? If we take Cempaka neng to Indramayu?" Kunto asked him.

"Emh, if according to the current status, yes it is impossible that we will not allow it. Because, even in the not-nothing, how's it going" Jati sir's voice stuck in his throat.

"Thank you, we're glad to hear that. But, what his Cempaka neng is willing not to come with us to Indramayu, live with us in a narrow hut, and not as big and luxurious as this" Mas Kunto humbled.

Cempaka was silent, he could not answer. He felt confused to answer it, because it was impossible for him to answer unwillingly. If he answers yes, he also feels not ready to follow people he never loved at all.

Finally, the warm water that had been crammed into her eyelids, fell down on both of her cheeks, representing the hardness that was in her heart.

Cempaka was bowed to hold sobs that he could not control anymore. She was crying on her mother's shoulder.

"If indeed neng Cempaka is not ready to come with us, it is okay. Maybe neng Cempaka still does not know us, so feel anxious or feel awkward when suddenly have to come and live on the roof with us"

Siti wisely said.

"Yes, neng. Later after the Cempaka neng feels ready, we will come again here to pick up Cempaka neng. We're not going to force Neng Cempaka to come along right now, how?" Timpal mas Kunto.

Cempaka nodded his head in response, his face looked slightly sparkling, no longer tangled like that. She had tears left on her soft cheeks.

"You're nothing, right? If Neng Cempaka doesn't come with us now?" Tanya mbak Siti while looking at her youngest sister.

"It's okay, I'll wait for him" Karmin said.

"Assalamualaikum, apparently there is a guest, eh Karmin has come? When's come? And this who? Karmin came with his family, why don't you tell me? From the beginning I introduced Karmin to you, until the single Cempaka could marry him, could have a husband and not single anymore. It's because of who? If it wasn't for me, it might be that Cempaka now has a husband"

Canary suddenly came with questions that were endless, and nyerocos to and fro felt meritorious for the disgusting matchmaking.

"Waalaikumsalam, ma'am Kenari, how are you?" Karmin immediately got up from his seat, and immediately he greeted him as well as kissed the back of his hand Canary with full familiarity.

While Mbak Siti and mas Kunto

Aghast was shocked by the sudden presence of Canary, and with his very spicy words was not pleasant to hear.

"I am Kenari, Cempaka's eldest brother, and because I am Karmin can marry this girl Cempaka for free. Indeed, at that time Karmin was in the midst of the collapse of the durian, getting sustenance that not everyone can get" Kenari introduced himself to his brother Karmin, with a million frills of words that are not worth speaking.

"I'm Siti, her sister Karmin, and this is her husband and this is our son" said Mbak Siti as is.

"I heard earlier said you guys want to pick up Cempaka for boyong to your hometown? Is that right? If so, I'm very happy to hear it. And, from yesterday Cempaka was impatient to want to go with her husband, since the departure of Karmin, she cried continuously because she wanted to come with him. Thank goodness you've now come to pick her up" Walnuts nyerocos again.

"Don't like turning the facts around!" Mr. Jati reminded.

"Why can't I say that? She is now Karmin's wife, so she has to go with her husband wherever he goes. Especially this to his hometown" continued Kenari did not want to lose.

"You seem to have cried? Wh why? Is it still like a week ago? Karmin is now your husband! He has full rights over you! Wherever he wants to take you, you have to go with him.

Don't tell me that you're crying because you don't want to be invited by Karmin to move to his village!" Canary staring

Towards the downed Cempaka.

"Answer! Why are you quiet?"

The canary approaches Cempaka.

"Seruni, you enter your room!Brother wants to sit next to him Cempaka!" Canary to get rid of Seruni to get away, away from Cempaka.

"No way, I want to be close to Brother Cempaka" Seruni held Cempaka's hand firmly.

He did not want to be told to go from beside his Cempaka.

"It's a kid!" Canary emotion.

"Had left it, Seruni sat beside his Cempaka, he was the closest to Cempaka. It's an empty chair, why don't you just sit there?" Mr. Jati told Kenari to sit in an empty chair.

Walnuts then sat on an empty chair, albeit with a stuck heart, upset that they could not sit next to Cempaka.

He wanted to pinch and blow incantations from Eyang to Cempaka, so that Cempaka would come with Karmin.

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