SOMETHING IS MISSING

Meet the Great Lord

"don't know?" the tenor's voice rose. "how could you not know?".

hearing the reprimand, phani's body vertical.a claustrophobic attack gripped her when she heard the shrill voice of her father.as powerful as possible, phani dammed and fortified herself higher, and, including sweat is also prohibited from coming out of the forehead.

"phani, Alfin is your husband. How can you lightly say no?" father spoke in a higher tone, a voice that was not at all melodious.

phani down.gathered his energy to defend himself.he must not lose. not anymore! "i'm working well, I've told him to eat deluan".

"what the fuck are you, phani? this is still the atmosphere of your marriage. employees only until the father liburkan to respect you. Look, you are even here, work, and work continues! though in front of many guests.is the work more important than the arrival of guests? now Alfin's gone nowhere!".

phani's lips were tightly clenched. he was guilty.it was clear that was what his father was going to say. Phani threw a face not dare to challenge the eyes there.at the same time, it was clear, his mind was busy thinking of justifications for his decision today, yet, somehow, all of them ignored his own death.

"stop your work! find Alfin".

father turned around without saying much more.phani began to feel that the sarcastic father's sentence was not asking. Dad knew Alfin had just left, and it was wrong phani. claustrophobia was showing a thin victory. squeezed a thin cloth patterned maple leaves again before moving slowly.he admitted wrong!.

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many times phani looked at the wall clock. Alfin had been gone for hours. There was no sign of the man going back. supposedly, Alfin's work time was finished, but, it was also if the man went to the kiosk at the wholesale market Setono. since their engagement, the stall has been entrusted to Alfin even though the time to take care of it is still liked in the intersections with his minimarket. however, all the batik business managed by his father was all temporarily closed.so, there was no way Alfin could go there.

"what happened to Alfin?" phani asked at the silence that remained silent.

phani is worried. she does not know how to contact Alfin. she does not know his phone number, does not know relatives or friends to ask. while Phani feels so stupid. she knew nothing about her husband, but they had known each other for a long time.

phani sat with her chin up in her room.

"*\*\*\*\**! to hell with all this" he said, to a little distraction, he took a drawing paper and started making designs again. of course he could not return to work or anywhere other than the room with the risk of being reprimanded again.

at first, he drew random, Lily flowers, tendrils, leaves, to finally form a flower garden in batik motif. beautiful, but *mood* phani is not too good, phani is not too good, so that the picture is not too neat, not as usual.

phani stepped into the glass window, looking straight out, at the high iron that almost covered the entire wall and yard of the house that was in it. It had been twenty-five years he lived here. there are many minds buried.and, this is the end of his dreams, the end of everything. life has ended in the hands of his father.phani is no longer able to cry. has been many times to forget the taste.he smiled cynically, he smiled, laughing at fate.

"i should have run away, not to Jakarta or any other. to Europe alone".phani cried while hugging an invitation with an envelope with the Oxford logo. "luckily I penetrated it, now it just ends here. this goddamn place".

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