
One year later…
"Huueeee... paaaa.." The cry of the baby girl who had just turned one year old sounded heartbreaking, not because everyone was not paying attention to her but because it was late at night everyone in the house was asleep. The baby was crying because he woke up alone, usually he woke up and cried in the middle of the night because he was hungry but tonight he woke up because of a nightmare
" Paaaa…."
The figure of a man opened the door of the nursery and waltzed in, even though he only wore training pants and a t-shirt the man still looks handsome and charming anyone, including his own little daughter
"Sierra darling..why are you crying..?" The baby raised his hand up to see his papa coming towards him, the man immediately raised the baby and hugged him. The baby girl leaned her head against her father's shoulder and stopped crying
"Cup..cup..nightmare yes..? papa's here, baby.." The sound of hiccups was heard, but gradually the baby went back to sleep
"Julian.. Why..?" the man looked back at his mother who woke up to hear the sound of the baby crying
"Eum.. Mama, it looks like Sierra's a nightmare"
"Aah.. It seems like he was too excited to play yesterday afternoon to have a bad dream, caaa.. give it to Mama, you are working right?" madam Rianty extended her hand holding the small waist of Sierra
"Don't, Sierra will wake up as soon as mama picks it up" Mrs Rianty smiled and rubbed Sierra's little head
"Dear Jerra, if your mother were here, your father wouldn't be overwhelmed like this" Julian hardened his jaw, always like that if he was reminded of Vania, even now he still doesn't know where the girl is
He had completely disappeared without a trace, what else would he have to do if all he had from the girl was just a name? There are hundreds of people named Vania Anastasha in Indonesia, not to mention Julian does not know whether the girl lives in Jakarta or other areas in Indonesia.
Julian forced his smile on his mother and walked out of the nursery
"Where are you going?" ask his mother
"I'm going to sleep at night too"
"Oo well.dream good.."
"Yes, mom, too" Rianty smiled and returned to her room, Julian often took her daughter to bed with him.
Julian went into his room and arranged his pillow in bed to form a barrier so that his daughter would not fall while he slept. Julian put Sierra slowly on his bed and lay down next to the Sierra.
Julian stared blankly at the ceiling of his room, already a year had passed, there was already a lot Sierra could do, besides crying loudly his daughter grew up very healthy, smart and clever seducing. Every day Julian could always be surprised by his daughter's behavior.
Julian watched Sierra, who had first held his head up, crawl, even limp, despite still having to hold on to walk. And Vania missed all that
"Vaniaa." The soft whisper sounded heartbreaking to anyone who heard it, no one could describe how much she felt for the girl, every night he wakes up not because of Sierra's cries but because his body misses Vania
He wants to wake up with Vania next to him and hug the girl while he can sleep. But every night she wakes up alone, so Julian goes to the nursery and takes Sierra to bed with her. Julian even gave his daughter the name Sierra because Mr. Norman told her, Vania often whispered that name while carrying it first.
Where else he had to find the girl, he already felt very desperate when six months had passed he still did not find Vania. The girl just disappeared, even Julian felt doubtful whether the girl was really real or just his delusion.
"Huueee.." Sierra got up and sat down and he was about to cry but stopped when he saw his papa next to him, Sierra crawled straight towards Julian and leaned on Julian's chest and went back to sleep, as memorized that his papa's chest was indeed the most comfortable place to sleep. Julian smiled angrily, his hand patting quietly**** Sierra
"Sleep my dear Sierra"
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"Vania Anastasha, what are you doing? Why is your work so slow?"
"What. forgive me"
" I want those clean plates right in front of me"
"Yes.." The kitchen of the restaurant sounds boisterous as usual, the lunch hour is rush hour because this jam is the people's hour for lunch, Vania just started her work at this restaurant about a month ago, this restaurant, this restaurant is just about, he has tried many types of work that he can do, not just wash dishes in a restaurant that he does.
Vania works all day, any job vacancy she will do, in the morning she delivers the newspaper to the house, by noon she works to keep the shop that is now turned into a dishwasher in a restaurant, he said, in the afternoon he delivered people's clothes, until the evening before he would work delivering delivery orders at a local restaurant
Vania works hard with one goal, immediately returns the money she used to operate on her mother, she does not play around when telling Mira, no matter what happens the money will be returned. She doesn't want to sell her baby for money. In addition, Vania works all day just to keep herself busy and forget all her longing for her baby or Julian.
Every night coming home tired Vania would fall asleep and would not have time to think about Julian and the baby, but when he has free time in his hours of work, Vania will rethink Julian.
Vania will only smile and close her eyes, remembering the smiling face of the man, and she will feel relieved and tormented because of the feeling of wanting to meet the man
"Vania, I know you need a job, but it's so slow" the restaurant owner called her after lunch. Evaluate its performance
"I know boss, I'll fix it"
"What if you just rest" the restaurant owner handed Vania a long envelope, hesitating for Vania to take the envelope and open it. Some fifties are in that envelope
"That's your salary for a month and a little bonus for you" Vania mend*sah resigned, again she was fired, because she was so slow.
Vania often cursed herself for being too slow, no, Vania instead of being slow just that she worked meticulously, there was no way she could work carelessly
Vania always wanted the perfect result, so she made sure the dishes were washed clean, not wanting a single stain left on the plate, but as a result she seemed to move very slowly
" Fuck" Vania kicked the empty can lying in front of her, she walked out through the restaurant kitchen door and walked in lethargy
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