Renjana Dusk Kala

Chapter 78. We're Such A Happy Family

We're Such A Happy Family

(We're like a happy family)

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Jakarta

Pocktail

"I ... feel bad about Mr. Raka because ...." He exhaled a long breath unable to continue the sentence.

"Not to worry. All is well," said Tama after sipping his homemade tea. "Mmm .. fresh. What is this tea?"

He shook his head and laughed at Tama's overreaction. Of course it's a million people's tea, sariharum tea. Purchased in sachet packaging for a thousand rupiah from the Sunar sump stall yesterday. Tama's astonished expression was truly ludicrous.

"Please prepare tea like this in our homes later," continued Tama while mengu lum smile. "I want to drink it every day as long as you do."

He shook his head and laughed at Tama's joke. "If others hear can ...." He could not finish the sentence because he laughed again.

But Tama was smiling meaningfully. "I have no business with anyone else. My business is just the same as yours."

"Salamelukom!" Umay's shout stopped his laughter. Ducking shy while pretending to be busy twisting the tip of the hijab to cover up nervousness.

"Udah delivered all, Ma," reported Umay. While Icad who said his greetings in a soft voice immediately walked towards the kitchen with hasty steps.

"Thank you, May. That's what?" He pointed at the plate covered in rice paper that Umay was holding.

"Oh, this is .. from cing Weny. Replies to expensive cakes, he said." Umay opened the rice paper slightly to peek at the contents. "Know baso. I ate ya, Ma?"

He nodded.

"Have you met Raka?" Ask as soon as Umay disappears behind the kitchen door.

Tama nodded. "Then before you came here."

"It seems, I should apologize to Mr. Raka for ...." She looked down while playing with the tip of the hijab.

"No need." Tama shook her hands. "You're not wrong."

"But it feels less ethical because of me ...."

Tama looked. "All settled. We don't need to talk anymore. I'm here to see you and talk about us. Not the others."

He's looking down. Unable to linger against Tama's sharp gaze. "Sorry .. I ...."

"You don't have to worry about these things. You think of five things." Tama still looks at him.

He looked at Tama not understanding.

"One, thinking of the children," Tama smiled with a teasing glint. "Both think of me, me, me and then us. Five things."

He was once again unable to hold back laughter.

"Why do you keep laughing .. I think it's a really good thing?" Sasa's carefree voice surprised him. Sasa, who was wearing a nightgown and was smeared with mosquito repellent lotion, walked over while hugging Sparkle.

"Why mom, Om?" Sasa stood before them with his eyes squinted. "Sasa heard from the bathroom .. from earlier mama laughs continuously. Hihih ...."

Tama asks Sasa to come closer. Then raised Sasa's tiny body and sat him on the lap. "Don't you see my mom laughing?"

Sasa nodded. "Zinc."

"If so ...." Tama behaves mysteriously by pausing the sentence. "Would you help me, right?"

Sasa nodded back. This time more excited. "What help?"

"We make my mom laugh every day. Agreed?" Tama reached out to pitted her fist against Sasa. "Toss dong agreed to it."

While giggling Sasa replied to Tama's toss invitation. Connected happy chat Sasa who told all trivial things to Tama without exception. And Tama listened with interest while occasionally asking and then laughing.

I don't know, but the atmosphere in the living room feels warmer and quieter. His chest was almost overflowing with jubilation when he heard Sasa's chirping and Tama's crisp laughter.

But the sound of a loud wall clock beat managed to restore his awareness that the day was late, at 21:20 WIB. It's not nice if Tama still met at an unusual time like now.

"It's night now" he said, rising up. When Sasa was in a frenzy telling his friends about the amputated finger.

"It's better to go home" he continued, looking at the exit. "Awhile walk around passing. If people see Mas still visiting at this late time ...."

But Tama gestured, asking him to wait, while continuing to listen to Sasa's tumultuous story of the loss of a finger.

"Lost one and this." Tama shows the length of Sasa's missing finger. "But more are still intact. There's one, two, three ...." Tama started counting the number of Sasa's fingers.

"Nine." Tama smiled. "The one time that there is even a nine that is still intact?" Then flicked the tip of Sasa's nose.

"Oh yeah, yeah." Sasa's eyeball suddenly brightened. "Why should you be sad because there aren't, Om?"

Tama nodded. "Now ... Sasa play first. I want to talk to Mom."

Sasa came down from Tama's lap willingly. "Mama is going to laugh again. Hihih ...." He then ran and jumped in search of his two brothers. "Ang? Where's where?"

"It's late" he repeated, pointing to the wall clock.

Tama grabbed the cup filled with unsalted tea then sipped it. "How dare you ngusir a future husband?"

He rolled his eyes while smiling. "Yes." Yeah."

Tama laughs. "Borrow a book."

"What?" He doesn't understand.

"Borrow a book or a piece of paper" Tama said, looking at her right wrist. "Five minutes is enough. Oya, same ballpoint pen."

He rushed into the room. Look for papers or books that are still empty.

"Don't you have an empty book?" Ask Icad who is sleeping while chatting with Umay, Sasa, and mamak in the back room. "Mama borrow."

Icad went out of the room to the sideboard in the living room. Pulling a book that has not been wrapped from the pile.

He received the book from Icad's hand with a smile. "Thank you, Bang."

Icad immediately returned to the back room and he handed the book Icad gave which turned out to be empty to Tama.

"Babylon?" Tama reminded.

"Oh." He forgot. "Sepent ...." He said as he passed into the room to pick up the pen.

"Thank you." Tama received a pen and began writing.

"Is anything important?" Ask me to know.

"Administrative terms," Tama replied with her head lowered and continued to write.

"Please prepare. On Monday, there was a man who took me here. It could be Agus, it could be Devano, or something else. Later kukabari," said Tama at length while opening the second sheet and re-writing there.

"I want us to get married soon" muttered Tama.

He took a long breath. At the pinangan event earlier, it has not been agreed the wedding time because of Tama's absence. Only about one to two months ahead.

"Tama is going to go to education" Niar's mother's speech surprised him. "Preferably, the marriage was done immediately. Because good intentions must be shaken."

"Want an education?" He dared to ask.

Tama. "Yes. That's why we have to hurry." Then smile. "Reply with time."

"When?"

"Around ... Two months more. Or even not until," replied Tama who returned to writing.

"How long?"

"Six to seven months." With a sudden quick movement Tama looked at him while smiling knots. "Why? Feel lost? Not yet gone."

He shook his head while smiling. Six to seven months is not a long time. He was used to being left behind for years by bang Is. So, it's not a big deal.

"You read and learn." Tama handed her a book and a pen. "If something is not clear, ask."

He nodded and got up thinking Tama was going home. "I call you mamak ...."

"Wait," Tama grabbed his hand but he tried to dodge despite the failure. Because Tama's moving faster.

"Tomorrow my schedule is empty. What if we go out?"

He looked at the hand that was being tightly gripped by Tama with a feeling of carelessness. Although hindered by the blouse cloth worn. But the warm grip of Tama's palm no doubt makes his chest beat fast with the heat that radiates throughout the body.

"Sorry." Apparently Tama understood the discomfort she felt and let go of the grasp. "Me, you, kids. Including your mother-in-law."

He knew that sooner or later something like this would happen. Build togetherness between them to reduce awkwardness. Moreover, he had never talked much with Reka. Just had a chat when he was at the dining table of Niar's house some time ago. It's just a glimpse of just making small talk. Much different from Tama who already knew his three children.

Tama smiled relieved to see him nod. "Where do you want us to go?"

He clearly had no idea of a fun place. "As far as it is."

Tama nodded. "We .. walk and eat. Take a photo. Ten o'clock?"

He agreed. "Four ten."

As soon as Tama returned home, he immediately asked Mamak for permission if tomorrow they would leave.

"Use the time as best you can" Mamak rubbed his arm slowly. "Talk about all the things that need to be talked about. All this time ... you haven't known each other very well."

He understands. From tomorrow, he will talk a lot with Tama. About how they're going to live the future together, about the shortcomings it has, about the kids, about everything.

"Mom is coming, right?"

But mamak smiled as he shook his head. "Murder guard the house."

He continues to persuade. "When we go together."

But my mother still refused. Smiling and holding his hand. "It's the first show you two had with the kids. Have fun. No need to think about this old grandma."

Yuda Wiratama.

Halimatussadiah.

Gemintang Rekata Yuda's.

Teuku Rishad Isaac.

Teuku Umair Isaac's.

Cut Rumaisha Isaac.

He smiled to himself reading the first line that wrote the names of the six of them. Then below it is a list of requirements.

1. Married conditions

ID

KK

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2. Terms of marriage

....

Last degree

Photograph of both

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3. Requirements to make a passport (skip if you already have one)

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Birth certificate

Graduations

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4. Requirements to make a child's passport (skip if you already have)

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Birth certificate

The parent's marriage book

....

His forehead scrunched up reading the last two numbers. Make passports? Wh-wh-what for? But he can only ask tomorrow.

"Roadway?" Sasa's eyes that were initially still sleepy because they had just woken up suddenly patterned with his excitement. "Now. Want. Want. The streets are the same Om, right?"

"Roomnngg!" Sasa even directly inched from the bed and ran looking for his brothers. "We're going. Ashiiiiik!"

"Mama wants to ask for something to Brother" he told Icad. For fear Icad will reject the plan today.

Icad. "Go the same Om?"

He nodded. "Ang coming, yeah."

Icad did not answer. Just giving a nod and muttering in passing. "Go take a shower."

Alhamdulillahot. He can breathe a little.

At about ten in less than five minutes, Tama and Reka came to pick up. Along the way through the alley, he stepped hastily while holding Sasa's hand. While Tama followed behind him chatting with the children.

But from the sound that was heard, apparently Tama was not chatting with the children, but Umay a. Because Icad and Reka turned out to walk in the back row while keeping quiet.

Even so, Tama and Umay chat is still exciting and fun. Plus Sasa's speech that repeatedly released his hand just to chimed in the jokes of Tama and Umay.

"We take Mas Reka first, yes," said Tama while advancing the wheel. "Let's eat it near there. Let's go one way."

He looked up while whispering. "They're not coming with us?"

Tama nodded back in whisper. "There's a promise he said."

"With?" It cringes.

Tama shrugged her shoulders. "Friends from Surabaya."

He nodded in understanding.

Tama winked one eye at him. "Just relax, we slowly ... later also want to join us."

He gulped and smiled. It was funny because the two of them were whispering to each other. Normal speech is okay too. Because the kids in the back were joking low boisterously.

Again not children. Because only Sasa and Umay are playing guesswork. While Icad and Reka sat in the back seat while remaining silent.

"Mas Reka's not coming, why?" Ask Sasa while sitting facing back. "We're going to go rame-rame?"

Unknowingly he and Tama looked at each other and threw a smile.

"Little princess in action again" Tama whispered making her almost laugh. "We see ... successful persuasion not."

He kept smiling, holding back the laughter.

"Mo go," replied Briefly tending to ketus.

"Where to go? Not with Sasa?"

"I like .. I like ...." Tama muttered as she glanced at him.

Again he smiled.

"No. Make a deal with me." The plan returned a short answer.

"Yeah ... It's not fun, ah." Sasa complained that he sat back facing forward. "Why go with friends when we all go for a walk."

"We play guessing again yuk, Sa." Umay always makes the atmosphere more alive.

"There's a duck 10 times 2, so how many?" Without waiting for Sasa's approval, Umay had already given a guess.

Sasa who was initially pouting immediately thought and counted. "Twenty!"

"Wrong!"

"Reason 10 times 2 times 20. Yeah Bang, yeah?" Sasa looked back asking for Icad's help. But the one being asked for help was engrossed in seeing the street through the side window.

"Said wrong too!" Umay remained insistent. "That's right .. so 8. 2 Is at times."

"Ciii! Bang Umay cheated!" Screeched Sasa while blushing.

Again Tama glanced at him hearing Sasa and Umay's chattering.

Tama turned the steering wheel into the courtyard of a Mall in the Kelapa Gading area. The plan immediately separated himself to move to the hotel where his friend was staying.

"This filio." Tama tried to grab her shoulder as they walked hand in hand inside the Mall. But he's evading. "Familiar Friends of the Design. Who helped make me escape here."

He nodded. But a second later gave a warning look as Tama was still trying to grab her shoulder.

When Tama chuckled, suddenly Sasa turned around and noticed her face. "Cock Mama glared? Who's the same angry mom glared at that?"

Tama's naughtiness grew louder to hear Sasa's question. "Mama's mad at you, Om, Sa."

"Why angry with Om? That's naughty Om, isn't it?"

This time Tama laughed. And he could only sigh in disbelief. It was completely unexpected that Sasa would grab his hand and then unite with Tama's hand while saying,

"Don't marahan, Ma. Ustadzah Mutia said .. It was not good. Same with Om, Ma?" Shaking their hands together with a sinless face.

He wants to be angry because Tama took advantage of the opportunity in a narrow situation, but the situation is not possible. The only way is trying to take off the grip. But it only makes their hands more adrift.

After Sasa turned around. Walk in front with Icad and Umay. He whispered with a red face. "Please let go."

Tama looked over and smiled meaningfully. The more tightly grasped his hand then let go.

As soon as the grasp slipped, he immediately walked ahead of Tama following the children with heated faces holding back the embarrassment.

"What do kids want to order?" Tama asked as soon as they sat inside the restaurant. "The croffle is delicious. Sasa want to try?"

Sasa, Umay, Icad, even he himself could only be dumbstruck to hear the name of the food called.

"Croffle is a blend of croissant and waffle." Tama Terang. "Combined with strawberry or vanilla sauce."

When the order finally came and they started eating food, someone called Tama's number.

"Go here, Design." Tama silenced the call. Then switch to looking at him. "Teman Reka wants to go with his family. Their plan was to swim the cancel. He's coming here now."

He nodded.

Shortly after, Reka appeared and walked over. Sit down with them and order food.

As ever, chirping and carefree laughter are dominated by Sasa, Umay, Tama. He only occasionally chimed. While Icad and Reka took a similar stance, silent a thousand languages.

"Do they still want to swim?" Tama asked, when some of the dishes in front of them had moved into the stomach.

The design just shrugs.

"Okay, we're swimming. Icad, Umay, Sasa .. like to swim?" Tama looked at her three children in turn.

Icad. Umay. And Sasa was excited.

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