Sulastri's Struggle.
Chapter 13
It was late afternoon, Arman went home. He drove a car with mixed feelings, when he heard the story Dina was still fluttering in the ears.
Dense roads crept, in the afternoon most workers went home.
The music of the love song that he had sung with Lastri used to play soft. Comforted him when his heart was broken.
Ah... remember Lastri, he thought he had to go back to the village first, to ask his biological mother, what does that mean? her birth mother had the heart to cancel her marriage to the girl she had loved since the first grade of Junior High.
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Meanwhile, in a luxurious house, Lastri is currently cooking in the kitchen with his aunt Fatimah, Mama Adnan, helped by his aunt. Aunt Fatimah asked this, sometimes throwing jokes to make Lastri entertained.
"You still live at Nina Nak's house?" tanya aunt, while stirring sago flour with flour and then attack it on the stove.
"No Auntie, I'm now boarding" replied Lastri who was separating mackerel from his bones.
"Keep...your activities other than what college?" aunt Fatimah knew Lastri could not stay silent because Lastri was a typical working girl.
"I'm sewing Auntie, enough, to pay the cost, eat every day" said Lastri.
"Ma, here's an example... Lastri made a hat, I bought a loh" Adnan suddenly walked into the kitchen, showing off the hat, which he bought last week.
"Waah... creative once.." aunt Fatimah looked at the hat taken from her son's hand. He's mangosteen.
Adnan then opened the refrigerator, took a bottle of cold water, and sat down at the dinner table.
"Actually, the hat I made from Tan patchwork, enough remnants to make pants and clothes, the money can be to send a sister in the village." said Lastri.
"Good, I salute you" the smiling aunt looked at Lastri from behind who was opening the gloves had finished separating the fish meat. All that could not be separated from the eyes of Adnan who was sitting at the dining table while gulping water.
"If you had loved me Tri, my dear mother you and papa would not have betrothed me to a demon-like woman, like Bella,"
"Already Tan" Lastri brought the fish closer.
"Here, I mix" auntie was about to take fish but Lastri forbid.
"I'm the one who mixes Tan" Lastri mixes the fish with the dough, after coldly adding the broken eggs stirring. Aunt Fatimah again smiled, whatever she taught Lastri quickly understood and could practice.
Lastri again put the gloves scavenged the dough according to taste, then splashed into a pot filled with warm water on the stove.
"Have you ever received a lot of stitches, son?" auntie's back to talking about stitches.
"Just finished yesterday Tan, make a robe" Pastri replied while draining the empech. It turns out that Lastri made papa Adnan's favorite palembang cash food.
"Tante plans to make a dress uniform, for the birthday of the boarding school, you can kid?"
"How much is Tan's stel?" empek-empek is ripe at this time Lastri is tidying up his scars.
"We chat in the chair only" Aunt Fatimah walked to the family room in the following Lastri, while Adnan had returned to the room.
"About 40 gamis, but still three months, you can start from now so as not to keteter." proposed aunt.
"Ready Tan" Pastri eagerly looks twinkle in the eye, he is grateful his net to find sustenance in the watered down.
"I show you his catalog, Aunt stay select" Lastri rushed through the catalog of the bag, which he put on the table. It shows to aunt. Aunty chose a picture that Lastri designed himself.
"All good, I'm confused, but I choose this one only" aunty chose a simple model.
"Tan, it's late afternoon I go home yes" Lastri finished praying ashar then wanted to go home.
"As a sign so. I love you, first," aunt handed me the envelope. "Material from here anyway, you just buy knickknacks only" aunty cheered.
"Oh yes Tan, thank you again" Lastri then put the envelope in the bag and threw it.
"Every once in a while, you stay here, the lecture can be with Adnan" pinta aunty Fatimah.
"IsyaAllah.. next time yes Tan, I say goodbye" Lastri kissed aunt Fatimah's hand. He got out of the house wearing shoes and got in a car, Adnan who was waiting in the yard.
"This is for supplies" aunty delivered with a bag, put in the middle seat because Lastri sat in front.
"Don't bother Tan, Auntie right, if I come here like to be packed with all kinds" Lastri was embarrassed.
"Hurry up Anan's way, be careful on the way yes" aunty's prayer.
"Yes Ma" Adnan said from his seat. Then Adnan runs his car.
They didn't know there was a pair of eyes that, paying attention to them. She is Bella, she is emotional as to why Mama Fatimah could be acquainted with Lastri.
"Mama" Bella immediately approached the aunt Fatimah who was picking flowers in the yard.
"Eh, you're Bell, where's my son?" mama Fatimah stopped her activities.
"From home ma, his intention was to take Adnan away. Eh even went first" he said scowling.
"Are you guys making a deal?" mama looked at Bella who was holding back angrily, shaking her head. Bella with Adnan is like a cat with a dog how can it unite?
"Not yet" he answered briefly.
"Other times... If you want to take Adnan away, you have to ask Bella first... make sure, Adnan can or not? if it suddenly comes, Anan does not know" mama advised.
"Tan, the poor girl, can be here anyway.." said Bella as she***************palms are currently sitting in the living room with Mama Fatimah.
"Poor people?" mama Fatimah was shocked to hear Bella's words.
"Ma, the woman who ran out of here earlier, poor girl, she approached Adnan just want his property to doang," Bella was pumping her future father-in-law.
"Then anyway... Lastri is not that kind of person, my mother also knows Pastri already from the first grade of SMK loh" said Mama Fatimah.
Bella looked quickly. "So the Adnan family has known Lastri for a long time, huh! the insolent! just watch out for you! poor girl!" Bella.
"Mama doesn't believe, just try, later if he comes here often must steal the belongings of mama" Bella as much as possible to make her future father-in-law affected.
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"Still far away from home?" adnan asked when he had turned from the highway, heading towards the road towards the contract of Lastri.
"Contract Brother, not home" said Lastri.
"You need a cake, the cost of the cake, whose name is the place to stay, the house," Adnan said.
"A little more, sister, in front" Lastri arrived in front of the rented as soon as stepping on the asphalt to get off the car. Spreading his eyes, when he caught two men and women in front of the contract.
