SUPPOSE THAT...

MOM AND DAD

Andreas got up from his seat, saw the clock on the wall of his study already showed at 12 pm more.

"I've been pondering for too long" he said, The 50-year-old knows it in his heart. On the swab his face was flushed a few times, then let out a long sigh.

He had just picked up his navy blue suit that was draped in a chair for him to wear, when the phone he had placed on his desk lit up and shook.

The bright brown slanted eyes he passed on to Kirana and Kiandra were rounded to see the name on his phone screen.

Swipe the screen on his phone and then attached to his ear. Andrew deliberately did not speak first.

"Hello...?" A subtle voice from a woman sounded.

"....After all these years we haven't talked, what made you call me Ev...?" The old man with a few strands of gray hair and a frown under his narrow eyes said as he leaned back on his desk made of teak wood.

The white-haired woman in a simple loop with a fur coat sat down with a cell phone she had attached to her right ear while looking at her cup of latte coffee that was still puffing hot smoke, and a piece of her lemon tart that was on the table where she was sitting.

He was sitting in a cafe located not far from the river shine, Shakespeare and Company cafe. A cafe with a combination of white and brown color that gives the impression of calm on its visitors.

The cafe is located right next to the famous Bookstore Shakespeare and Company, where in addition to seeing the beautiful scenery of the river shine. We can also see the beauty of Notre Dame Cathedral across from the Cafe.

The world's first Gothic building was built in the Middle Ages, whose beauty inspired Victor Hugo's 'Notre Dame.

"...It's about Dave." the woman who still looks beautiful despite all her hair has turned white said with her right hand still holding her phone on her ear.

He stared at the somber streets that are now starting to crowded with people who are jogging, cycling, or renting when to explore the beauty of the Shine river which is very famous in the City of Paris.

"Dave...?" Andreas again sat on his bench made of black synthetic leather. "Why Dave ?" tanyakanya.

"Dave wants to stay with you." the voice of the woman from inside the phone replied.

Andreas was a little surprised, "I did want Dave to be able to stay with me once in a while, but Uncle Hertoni never allowed it" he said.

"....Papa allows it." said Eva after being silent for a while while looking at her latte coffee which now began to cool with no smoke billowing on it.

Andrew looked at what his ex-wife was talking about.

"Mama had to call and tell me about Dave who wanted to stay with you, and Papa allowed it." Eva's voice came back from her phone. "It looks like Dave's been working hard on that permit." he continued.

Andreas still silently listened with his master's face that seemed stiff and bright brown eyes. "...You don't have to worry, Dave's gonna be fine while you're with me." Andreas said after that he just silently listened.

"Sure Dave will be fine living with you" Eva said as she tightened her coat. Although the sun had risen, but the morning air around the shine river was still cold to his old and thin body. "I don't mean that." he said.

"What....??" The 50-year-old man's face stiffened.

"Kid all the pictures of that man away." Repeat the sound from the phone.

"That guy...?" andreas' forehead was wrinkled deep. He was holding back his emotions that were ignited because of the word of his Ex-Wife on the phone. "Even after all these years you still call him that guy...??" Andreas doesn't take it.

Eva clenched her hands together in her lap. His face wrinkled miserably, he bit his lips tightly and gulped with great difficulty. His teary eyes watched straight see the small boats filled with tourists who traced the shine river that was right in front of him.

"....Please get rid of all the pictures." he said again.

"It's the day of her death." Her Ex-husband's voice rang out from inside the phone, making the 50-year-old woman's heart shake. "At least show a little sympathy" he continued.

Eva gulped back, she closed her eyes for a moment to lift her heart in the middle of the iris, every time she remembered someone in her past and Ex-Husband.

"His death has nothing to do with me." Eva's voice was made as calm as possible to cover her grievous heart.

"His death has nothing to do with me, but ask your beloved daughter." Eva said in the middle of her little laugh.

"Kirana doesn't know anything, don't you ever mention it." Andreas' face stiffened.

Marisa who opened the door to her coworking space to take her to lunch before leaving was surprised to see Andreas who was on the phone and looked very angry.

"From you telling me to sympathize with that man's death, you better ask your daughter to apologize to her tomb !" Eva spoke again.

"HEAM !!" andreas snapped startling Marisa who was still near the door.

For years she had not seen her husband so angry.

"Is it because today is the anniversary of Rendy's death...??" The 43-year-old woman said in her heart.

"I don't want Dave to know." Back Andreas heard a voice from inside his phone.

Andreas's face was still wiped with his face that was getting more and more wrinkles if he was as angry as he was right now.

"If you love Dave the way you love your daughter with that woman, don't let her know..."

Maybe it was just Andrew's feelings. But for a moment he heard if the voice of his Ex-Wife was shaking and the sound of stuffing a cell phone just turned off without him having a chance to say anything.

Slowly Marisa walked up to her Husband. "What's up...?" ask her with an anxious face.

Seeing his wife's anxious face made Andreas' emotions recede, he let out a long sigh before then at the hug of the petite woman with a height of only 158cm.

"It's okay" Andreas said with a smile after breathing his arms.

His wife looked on unceremoniously.

"Eva only told me that Dave would stay here for a while" he continued, smiling.

"really ??" Instantly Marisa's face turned bright in disbelief.

Andreas nodded with a smile still on his lips.

The 43-year-old woman with her long, jet-black hair looked very happy.

"A !" he clapped both his hands. "I'll prepare a room for Dave."

"Don't be tired, you can tell..."

"No." cut off his wife with his sparkling black eyes staring at her. "I'll prepare myself." he smiled broadly and turned over the badany and walked towards the door.

"I've packed lunch at the dinner table. Eat first, you haven't eaten since this morning ." Marisa said while looking at him before she came out and closed the wooden door with a typical carving of the city of Jepara on the edges.

While Andreas still smiled widely with his wife's behavior that looks so enthusiastic about the arrival of Dave.

Before then his eyes lowered and became my eyes. He took a 5R photo figura displayed on his desk.

In his amateurs a picture of him as a young man with an old man sitting in a chair and another man his age standing next to him.

Eva was still sitting in front of the Cafe with her eyes reddened and watery. He looked straight at the beautiful river shine with the bright blue morning sky of Paris.

"It's been almost 20 years, but these tears won't stop flowing..."