Pursuing Love in the Past

A truth

Adrian is still waiting for the phone to connect.

"Assalamualaikum", said Ayunda from across the phone.

"Vaalaikumsalam. How's your deck?" Adrian salutes Ayunda.

"Alhamdullilah well, brother. How's your brother, father and mother?"

"We're all good here. Father and mother also heard our conversation."

"Father, mother, Yunda kangen", cried Ayunda who made the father and mother feel the same longing. They were eager to tightly hug their beautiful daughter.

"Father and mother miss you more, deck. If you can see the facial expressions of the father and mother at this time, surely you have run to hug them" said Adrian.

"Yes, brother. Yunda will be home on my sister's wedding day."

"Hmm, there's actually an important thing you want to talk about."

"What's important, brother?"

"We watched the shooting. And we're worried, because you're the target of the shooting."

Ayunda was silent for a while, she had expected that her family would talk back about it.

"Yund... You still listening to brother?"

"Yes, brother", said Ayunda with a little gagu.

"So my father and mother asked Yunda to return to Indo only. Here Yunda can also achieve dreams. It makes no difference", said Adrian who tried to persuade Ayunda.

"Mmm, can we talk about this when Yunda has returned to Indo?"

"Why?"

"First here is still at 1 am, sis", said Ayunda who did not want to disturb her 1st room friend who just entered the dorm today.

"Oh, sorry. Brother forgot our time difference."

"And there are many other things that Yunda can't convey over the phone."

"Okay, then let's talk about it after your arrival in the Indo."

"Okay, brother", said Ayunda.

They ended the phone call by greeting each other.

"Father and mother have heard for themselves, what Yunda said. So how's dad, mom?"

"Yes, how else. We can't force Yunda", said the father.

"Mother is also coming. Mother does not want this to be a burden on the mind of your beloved daughter."

Adrian also smiled when he heard the words of his parents who understood the wishes of his sister.

***

In the hospital.

The grandfather stepped out his legs with the help of a bodyguard. His young age no longer made it a little difficult to walk.

"Grandfather!" yelling Alfian who immediately scattered herself hugged the grandfather. The arrival of the grandfather this time seemed to add to Alfian's happiness.

"Would you like to see Grandpa's great-grandfather?" alfian asked as he just took off his embrace.

"Later on", said the grandfather casually, as if not feeling the excitement as Alfian felt. He sat in the waiting chair holding a stick in his hand.

Alfian continued to stare at the strokes on his grandfather's face that looked very clear. "Grandpa needs something?" alfian asked when he saw the attitude of the grandfather who was not as usual, then sat next to the grandfather.

"No", said the grandfather briefly.

Then Alfian looked towards the bodyguard who had accompanied the grandfather.

"Is grandpa okay?" ask the bodyguard.

Alfian could only wait for the grandfather to say something while sitting pensively.

"Grandfather has reported the impactor of your parents" said the grandfather suddenly opened a voice that made Alfian gasp.

"Who did the cake?" alfian asked while looking at the grandfather seriously.

"He was not the driver who carried out the collision, because the driver who crashed had died a month after the incident. By now Grandpa has reported the man who told the driver to run into both of your parents."

"Who's that guy, cake?" alfian asked curiously.

"Siria Ayunda!" exclaim the grandfather.

"What's? Hadn't Yunda's father been found not guilty by the court, why was he also involved?"

"Ayunda's father was heartbroken to both of Ayunda's parents, because Ayunda's family inherited a lot from his grandfather Ayunda, while his father got nothing, because they were Ayunda's distant family."

Alfian knitted his two eyebrows. "It's exactly what Yunda's grandfather did."

"But to his uncle it was tantamount to not appreciating his existence, for he did not ask for much. He only wants a quarter. But still not given. So he had framed his father Ayunda who was supposed to be the driver who was carrying a truck at the time, but he replaced it with another driver. He made Ayunda's father the prime suspect, but Ayunda's father was out of the car before the truck was hit."

Alfian nodded his head. "Don't both of Ayunda's parents separate because of the threat from her uncle?"

"Grandfather did not ask to get there", said the grandfather while rising to his feet.

"Where are you going?" alfian asked who also got up from his seat.

"Seeing the great-grandfather", said the grandfather with a flat face. But suddenly the grandfather stopped his steps when he saw his father Siska standing sculpting.

"When have you been there?" ask the grandfather suspiciously.

"About 5 minutes ago", replied his father Siska casually.

"So why do you keep standing there?"

"I don't want to bother you guys" he said still relaxed.

"Then let's look at your newborn grandson" said the grandfather as he stepped on his leg, assisted by the bodyguard.

His father Siska replied with a thud, then followed in his grandfather's footsteps Alfian.

***

They also arrived in a sterile room. They could only see a tiny baby writhing from outside the glass.

"Grandfather, look at your great-grandson. She's really cute" said Alfian, who couldn't wait to touch her little daughter.

"He's not my great-grandson. But he is the grandson of Mr. Herman, his father Siska", said the grandfather who made Alfian look at the grandfather with annoyance. Somehow the grandfather did not want to consider his daughter as his great-grandfather.

"Why did Mr Santoso say that?" ask Siska's father who is beginning to get suspicious.

"Currently, don't pretend anymore. Or you don't know your daughter's been having an affair all along. Mm... More precisely have a relationship outside of marriage" said the grandfather bluntly.

"Don't accuse me!"

"If you don't believe me, please ask your beloved daughter directly", said the grandfather.

"OK, even though it's true. But he's still Alfian's flesh and blood."

"Do you have any evidence that it was Alfian's seed, and he never did it at all."

His father Siska and Alfian gasped at his grandfather's words.

"Grandfather, did the night never happen?" ask Alfian.

"Yes, and that's just Siska's wits. We can prove it with a DNA test", challenge the grandfather.

His father Siska began to fret when he heard the grandfather's statement, he wanted to make sure of it by asking his daughter. Without saying goodbye he set foot into Siska's room being treated.

"Why can you assume that?" asked Alfian who did not fully believe the words of the grandfather.

"This is not an assumption but a fact, a reality that will never change" said the grandfather as he walked in the footsteps of his father Siska who had left him far away. Alfian walked in the footsteps of his grandfather.