
The lunch was over, the two families walked out of the restaurant to their cars.
"Sin." Call Ana to the girl who is now looking at her.
"Ah aunt Ana, what's wrong?" Nana asked, the girl stopped her steps and turned her body towards the mother of her cousin.
"Yuan didn't come to your graduation, did he?" Ask Ana.
"So I've contacted him, but it looks like he has a lot of schedule activities today, so can't come." Answer Nana.
"Many schedules? Ck, looks like the kid is busier than me." Ray said, more like a mutter to himself.
Ana turns to her husband, looking at Ray for a moment, but then turns back to Nana.
"Is Yuan okay?" Ask Ana.
Hearing the question, Nana smiled accompanied by a nod of her head.
"He's always okay, why don't aunts see him? Everyone even knew that Yuan was working at Cafe F." Nana answered that made Ana silent.
"Here you go, why think of a child who has run away from home, let him be." Said Ray, the middle-aged man tried to calm the heart of Ana who he believed was being upset.
"You yourself must also miss and worry about him right? He's our only son." Ana looked at her husband.
Ray averted his gaze, not wanting Ana to look at his eyes which were now shining a beaming glow of longing.
"Sir Nana, let's get in the car quickly." Call Daisy who's been waiting long enough in the car with Rachel and Yohan.
"Nana, hurry up and go, they've been waiting a long time." Alex said, the man was standing behind Ana and Ray.
Nana nodded, she threw her warm smile at her biological father.
"See you, grandma Calista, aunt Ana, and uncle Ray. Thank you for today, by the way." Pamit Nana, the girl who has completed one of her studies, stepped foot into the car owned by her stepfather.
"Be careful and see you again." Reply Alex, who was responded by a hand wave by Nana.
•••
Yuan sat down to lay down his tired body on the sofa in the living room of the small apartment.
Yuan was seen closing his eyes, relieving fatigue after finishing cleaning the apartment which was now clean and neat again.
"Here, drink it." Rose came to Yuan with two cans of cold drink, and gave Yuan one of the cans.
"Thank you." Yuan said, the man opened his eyes and received the drink Rose gave him.
"Rose." Call Yuan when he has gulped down the canned drink Rose gave him.
"One more week— I'll move out of your apartment." Yuan said which made Rose speechless for a moment, the girl was unhappy with what Yuan had just told her.
"You're leaving this apartment? Wh why? Is it because I asked you to help me clean this apartment? If that's true, then you no longer need to clean this apartment, I can clean it myself, and we can change beds, she said, you sleep in my room and I'll sleep on this living room couch, so you don't feel uncomfortable staying here— any longer." Rose said, at the end of her sentence, the girl said it in a soft voice and bowed her head, her last sentence was her wish, for Yuan to stay with her longer.
Yuan listened to Rose's words with an expanding smile on his face, he knew the meaning of the girl who was so infatuated with him. Yuan knew that Rose was not willing to move because it would automatically set Rose back away from Yuan.
"It's not because of that, the reason I moved because next week me and my boyband will perform at the campus anniversary celebration. If my appearance succeeds and is able to make my father's mind change, I will return to my home. You don't want me to keep running away from home, do you?" Yuan asked at the end of his words.
Rose sighed, though it was heavy, but the girl said it anyway.
"alright. Besides, I don't want you to be a bad boy who forgets your parents. True— if you think about it, you've been away from home for a long time, surely you miss your parents a lot right?." Rose asked with a face forced to smile.
Yuan returned that Rose smile, his hands full of consciousness ruffling Rose's hair furiously.
"Thank you, thank you for everything, Rose." Said Yuan sincerely.
•••
Ana went into her room, shortly after, Ray also entered following his wife who on the way home was just silent.
"What's up, baby? What's troubling your mind? What's that about Yuan?" Ray asked as he walked over to Ana who was staring out the window of their room.
Ana exhaled, her bead eyes looking at the scratches of the cotton candy-like clouds.
"It's been almost half a month and I haven't seen him, even though I know from the media or his friends, it feels like there's still something that's bothering me, I want to meet him Ray." Said Ana while staring at Ray who was standing next to her.
"He can be big-headed if we meet him, wait a minute, we'll see to what extent he's capable of." Said Ray.
"What did you say? Yuan even works part-time, that means he is able to live without us, I'm afraid— I'm afraid Yuan has completely forgotten us, I'm afraid he won't come back." Said Ana expressing all the worries that had disturbed her heart all this time.
Ray could only stay still, he grabbed his wife's body into his arms, giving Ana peace.
"Let's meet him." Ana pushed slowly onto Ray's body, letting their arms loose, the middle-aged woman stared at her husband's bead with a serious look on her face.
"Listen to me baby, I also intend to meet him. One more week there was a campus anniversary celebration, and I was invited to attend the event. We'll come there together, then we'll meet our son, how?"
"Why not now or tomorrow?" Ana asked, a mother who seemed impatient to vent her long longing in her pendam.
"We don't even know where he lives, if we meet him at the cafe, it's the same as we're troubling him who's at work, just let it be for a minute, be patient for the next week, okay?"
Ana nodded, eventually agreeing to her husband's advice. After all, as long as Yuan left without bringing a bit of treasure from his parents, the man had changed with the amount of experience he had gained in this short time.
The experiences that made the man grow up to be a slightly different and more mature person than before.
✍ This story is just fictitious. Sorry if there is an equation of the name of the character of the scene or events that occurred.✍