The Desire Tarnished

Grief

Today was so hot, Wine saw his watch pointing at 13:20 p.m. Wine moved from the campus to return to the boarding house. Wine stopped his footsteps in front of the campus gate, where a week ago Wine saw a middle-aged man. The face seemed to remember him to someone. His figure and face seemed familiar, but when Wine wanted to get closer to see, the middle-aged man passed by driving his car. Wine hopes to see and meet again today.

The heat of the sun was getting stinging, Wine wiped away the sweat that fell on his temple. Long wait but the figure did not seem to appear. Wine looked back at the watch in his hand already almost 1pm. From a distance came the sound of a familiar motor exhaust in the ears of Wine. Pepi stops his bike near Wine.

"Hey Wine, what are you doing here?" Let me take you home, said Pepi.

Wine did not reject Pepi's invitation, he immediately sat in the back. The sound of the motor exhaust sounded so noisy, Wine covered his ears as the motorbike drove him home to the boarding house. A moment later Wine had arrived in front of his boarding gate.

"Thank you, said Wine.

"Yes, there is a greeting from Vishnu for you, said Pepi.

Wine's face instantly blushed. After Wine got off the bike, Pepi immediately rode his bike and darted and disappeared in the middle of the hustle and bustle of the campus.

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Next day.

Alarm clock alarm sounds deafening. Wine always used the antique clock to wake her up every morning.

Cringe

Argh...Wine wriggled, stretching his hands up while yawning and rubbing his beautiful eyes.

Tok

The sound of the door being knocked

"Who, screamed Wine while turning off the alarm clock alarm sound."

"It's me Melda!" sound of voice from outside. As usual every morning Melda must come to his boarding.

When the new Wine opened the door to his room. Melda went straight in and laid her body on the bed as usual but her face looked a little pouted.

"What are you Mel?" ask Wine.

"I'm bored, they're always busy with business! Shouted Melda, as her hand hit the mattress.

"They, who?" ask wine.

"My parents, they paid little attention to me and my two sisters!" said Melda while lying on her back and putting a pillow on her face.

Wine approached and sat down on the bedside. It's not usual for Melda to behave like that. Melda is a cheerful, humorous child and a little cocky but this time Melda looks sad and angry. Wine picked up the pillow that covered his best friend's face.

"Finish college, I want you to come with me to my house!" said Melda.

"okay!" say Wine while grabbing a towel and going into the bathroom. Melda waited while playing her phone.

A few hours later

Today's lecture is over, Wine and Melda head to the parking lot where the driver and his car are waiting.

"Wine.look over there, it's in the motor park!" melda said in a whisper.

Wine looked in the direction indicated by Melda.

"You mean Vishnu?" ask Wine.

"Yes, who else!" sahut Melda while pinching Wine's hand.

Vishnu walked and a little ran over to Wine and Melda.

"Hey, Wine, where are you going?" vishnu asked with a smile towards Wine, Wine had not had time to answer Vishnu's question, Melda answered him.

"Wine's coming to my house, you're coming!" said Melda.

"Oh.sorry next time," said Vishnu.

The car driven by the melda driver was already in front of Wine. The driver opened the door to let Melda and Wine into the car. About 45 minutes drive to Melda's house. The car stopped in front of a house with a large and high gate, a security guard opened the gate and the car drove slowly into the spacious yard.

Wine flabbergasted to see the large and luxurious house with pillars that adorn every corner of the house and the yard with a beautiful garden and neatly arranged.

"Definitely not a normal person who has a house like this!" he said in his heart.

"This is your house?" asked Wine while continuing to look at the car glass.

"Yes" Melda replied.

Wine and Melda got out of the car after the driver opened the door. Wine followed Melda into the house from the side door of her house. Suddenly a little girl approached.

"What's the matter, baby?" melda asked as she moved her hand as if speaking in sign language.

"This is my sister, Melisa, but my sister is deaf!" said Melda.

"Hey..Melisa, greet Wine while waving her hand and smiling."

Wine followed Melda to a room.

"This is my room, let's go in!" melda shouted while opening the door of her room.

A large room with a slick interior and classy furniture, so that makes Wine fascinated to see it. Someone approached in clothes like a restaurant waiter.

"Sorry lady, there's something I can help you with!" he said while bowing his head saluting Melda.

"Bring me a snack and lemon juice!" melda gave the order.

While the servant nodded while bowing again before Melda.

"Melda, is that the housekeeper?" ask Wine.

"Yes, there are 20 servants here not including the driver, security guard and gardener.me and my two younger brothers always and even every day only accompanied by those servants. My father and mother rarely come home and hang out with us."

Melda's eyes glazed over and a crystal fell down on her cheeks. It was obvious that sadness was filled with anger.

Krekka...

The sound of the door opening, Melda immediately swept away her tears. Melisa ran over and hugged Melda and saw Melisa with a sad face, moving her hands and lips to convey something to Melda.

"Why is your sister Melda?" ask Wine who doesn't understand the way they communicate.

"It's okay", just ask my dad, when they come home he replied."

"Come on..Come with me Wine, let's go to Melisa's room!"

Wine follows Melda and Melisa, there are many rooms and there is a room that is quite large, Wine runs while paying attention to every interior and furniture of the house is very large, luxurious and has a lot of rooms that.

Instantly his eyes were fixed on a photo hanging on the wall with the door of the room left open as Wine passed by, then he stopped his steps, his attention fixed on the photo inside the room.

Wine Stepped in, trying to take a closer look at the figure in the photo. His body shook violently and trembling hands tried to grab the photo.

Then Wine closed his mouth with both hands so that his shock did not make a sound.

"Wine!"

Melda patted him on the shoulder from behind.

Instantly Wine held back the sadness so that his tears that began to pool were invisible to his best friend and Wine slowly turned his body while slightly bowing his face.

"That's a picture of my father when he was young! He's handsome, isn't he?" looking at the photo in front of him with pride.

Melda's words were like lightning striking and her heart was pounding and blood flowed very fast when she heard Melda's words. Wine tried to hide the feeling that was enveloping his heart. He tried to stay standing even though his body felt boneless again. Wine tried to catch his breath slowly and tried to act like nothing had happened.

Seriate......