Steps Connect

Meet Anara's Ex

Setting foot back to Jogja made Anara pull her lip-nosed smile. Especially now with Candra beside him. It feels like the world belongs to both, the other is not contracted but lost.

"Where?" Bryan asked his best friend. While Rati awaits her brother's response.

"So far so good." Answer Candra steady.

He seems to have forgotten his past. Mercifully.

In front of the station they are still waiting for a pickup car. True said Candra, this trip seemed to involve people of one village. Hopefully, those who have a wish can be granted given the ultimate struggle.

"Still long?" Bryan asked Caroline who was busy with her phone.

"Attent."

"Later malem we will travel around the city!" Invite Rati to get teakai from Candra.

"Learn the real thing! The day after the exam even ngajak klayapan." Gulp Candra.

"Mas Djata what the hell? It took a refresh also times my brain to calm down after the exam."

"Yes. We'll take a walk. If your sister doesn't want to. Same with me!" Tukas Anara was happily welcomed by the owner.

"No. I'm coming too. Aye, right. You have to refresh." Candra was perceptive in her speech.

The black car that picked up at the station entered a typical Javanese house with an untold yard area. It seems that Bude from Caroline is not a random person if you see the vast yard of her house.

Caroline guided everyone into the joglo-shaped house. After saying hello and finding the truth from inside, they headed for a spacious living room with a row of wooden chairs in it.

A woman about 45 years old came out to say hello. Her modern dress is typical of career women, maybe just coming home from work. His smile expands when he finds a female figure he knows.

"Son, Olin." Greet the woman. Caroline grabbed the woman's hand and kissed her. Continues scattering in arms.

"Did you introduce Bude, these are all Caroline's friends who plan to stay here for the next three days." Caroline said followed the introduction of her four friends.

"Call me Bude Ningrum!" The four nodded politely.

After unwinding with a cup of tea and talking briefly with the host about the trip from Malang-Jogja. Bude Ningrum invited his guest to the room to clean up because it was almost evening.

"This is your room. Please rest!" Bude Ningrum looked at the male guest alternately. Conceived by Candra and Bryan, the two enter the room.

Candra and Bryan occupy one room with Javanese wooden ornaments. The room is spacious with a view of the garden outside the window. Alternately they clean themselves in the bathroom inside.

While the female team occupied a room close to the dining room. With a king size bed with a clean white bed. They took turns cleaning themselves in the bathroom next to the room after Bude Ningrum said goodbye.

"The house is big, but it's quiet?" Anara asked who was brushing her hair.

"Yes, An. This is the old man's house of Bude. There's only a bude, his son, Bik Inah, the same driver who picked us up earlier." Caroline explained.

"His husband?" Connect Rati who already looks neat.

"Well, I got divorced about five years ago." Rati and Anara nodded compactly.

"Say bude last night after the magrib we had dinner. If you're ready let's go to the dining room!" Take Caroline.

At the large dining table it has served dishes. The owner of the house has not yet revealed himself. Bik Inah appeared from behind carrying one place filled with fruit.

"Where dude, Bik?" Caroline asked along with Candra and Bryan.

"Still get the phone in the back, Ma'am." Caroline nodded and Bik Hinah lost sight.

"So a walk after this?" Ask Candra to Anara whose position is opposite.

"Next how Rati." Rati nodded quickly signifying enthusiasm.

"What are you riding on?" Bryan made everyone think.

"Let's talk to Bude. We borrow the car." The solution came from Caroline's voice.

We were? Get out again dong. I was like a school holiday group. Candra rubbed her nape.

Before long awaited to come, Bude Ningrum now looks more relaxed. The image of the working woman melted instantly as the long negligee bandaged her body that was no longer young.

"Awhile yeah. Waiting for my son. He said it was on the road." The Pinta Bude Ningrum.

"Oh yeah, who wants a test?" The middle-aged woman's netra swept over all her guests.

"I, Bude." I'm Rati.

"May escape. You can go to college and stop by here." Bude Ningrum's sentence is guaranteed all in the room.

"Bude, we're going out. Hmm... Can I borrow a car?"

"Can anyone drive?" Candra and Bryan nodded.

Does Bryan seem to be driving too? Anara looked at her lover's friend with a frown.

"Can. Let me tell you later Mr. Budi." Looks like it's the name of the driver Bude Ningrum.

The sound of the motor stopped in front. Followed by a galloping step that was getting closer. Bude Ningrum said it was the sound of his son's motorcycle. If so soon they will have dinner and soon see the beauty of Jogja at night.

"Night. Sorry to be late." The voice of the man greeted. Instantly Anara stiffened in her seat.

"It's okay, son. Sit down!"

"Januo. How are you?"

Caroline's voice made Candra turn her head trying to see the figure behind her. Followed by Bryan who also did the same thing when the expression of his best friend next to him looks less like. What was?

The world is so narrow. Even the woman I couldn't contact right now comes to my own home.

Anara's heart is not bad, she is nervous amazing. He looked down after his eyes met the eyes of the man who suddenly appeared a split second ago. While Candra stared at him without letting go.

"introduce. This is my son. His name is Arjanu." Bude Ningrum.

After putting hands together and exchanging names. Everyone eats while chatting. Caroline is Janu's cousin. Never before had it been imagined, either by Anara or Candra if they would be found in this kind of situation.

Candra had only been quiet throughout the dinner which was suddenly bland to her. His stomach was full before he filled it. Unlike Anara who sometimes responds to sounds with a smile. Occasionally glimpsed by his lover who is still staring sharply at him.

Bude Ningrum shows up and gives Candra the car keys. Candra's gaze was cast on the man she judged to be a bitch, who unceasingly looked at her like she wanted to pounce.

Goddamnit!

"Where are you going?"

Don't tell me you want to come with the asshole! Gusar Candra's.

"Kirround Jogja. Wanna come?" Caroline's question makes Candra cursed her best friend's boyfriend.

"No. I'm gonna take a shower first." Janu smiled smirk.

"Good." Tukas Candra who got gazes from all. Lucky Bude Ningrum has entered after giving the car keys earlier.

The mood suddenly turned bad. Finding that, Bryan who knew very well the habits of his best friend immediately took a vote. Means to muffle Candra's hot heart.

"It's good to take a shower, so seger in the body. Yeah, that's." Rati even held back the laughter that got the plot from Bryan.

Janu was still standing staring at Anara's departure. How could he have come to me? When I almost lost news. But the man in the white shirt was there?

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"Slow down dong, Mas!" Rati cried because Candra was driving the car at an unusual speed.

"Yes. Why speed everything? What a rame!" Caroline Timbrung.

However, the eagle-eyed man did not heed the voice behind. His heart was too hot and it was hard to think cold. Very embarrassing, he had to hitchhike live in the house of an ex from his lover. Cih, not be.

Finally Bryan gave Candra an ultimatum to pull over. He took over the wheel. This time Candra was sitting in the back seat next to her sister.

"Why the hell, Mas?" Rati felt an aura that her brother was not doing well.

"Yes. Why anyway? Our lives are at stake." Caroline murmurs.

But Candra still doesn't budge. His gaze was straight at the woman next to the steering wheel who was looking forward. The woman had just been silent without asking or trying to explain anything to her, at least making her feel calm.

"An, where are we going?" Ask Bryan.

"Follow the Rati!" Anara answered briefly without cutting her eyes off from the road.

"I know, Brother." Reply Rati.

"We're going to Malioboro!" Caroline offers an alternative solution.

"You can drive it, Yan?" Caroline continues.

"Haha. Yes, it is, brother. How the hell? Her boyfriend doesn't know." Rati's voice laughed.

"Yes, how do I know, Rat. All this time I knew she was .. hmmm hitchhiking on your sister." Caroline's voice was softened by the choice of words made as best as possible.

"Yes aampuun, Ra-ti brother, Ra-ti. Bryan is not a hitchhike. He was asked by my brother to make Mas Djata. What is numpang kayak anyway? Indiscriminate. He's a son of a father." Rati was made by Caroline.

"Ha??? A cook? The guy he's if I go with me on the bike." Caroline still can't believe it.

"Sister, I swear. Try to find on the internet who owns the barge company in Kalimantan. Well, that's his father noh! Antoni Wijaya." Rati even said it with almost inaudible.

"What?" Caroline was shocked.

So, my lover is a rich man's son. Buseet but his appearance is very ordinary. The handsome. But I still didn't think he was that tall.

Moving from Malioboro. All five are now in the Alun-Alun Kidul Jogja. Candra and Anara step aside from the other three friends. There's something he wants to talk about. Of course it's about Janu.

"An ..." The called look.

"I don't want to sleep there." His hands tightly clasped the fingers of his lover.

"Then?" Anara knew her man didn't like it. She did not expect Caroline to have a family relationship with a man in her past.

"We're looking for an inn!"

"Yes, but tomorrow? It's already malem, Candra."

"OKAY. But early in the morning I want us out of that house."

"Two of them?" Candra nodded steadily.

"After this, I'm looking for a car rental." She pulled the woman into the trap.

Bryan who actually wants to know what happened to undo the intention when he found the two are in awe.

That's what Caroline said. His heart felt torn to see the two people who were drunk with romance. And he could not do it to a woman who considered herself a lover.

Caroline, you're right. They show feelings of love. Not like me to you.

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