The Fate of Adipura Kingdom

31. Gathering

Missing and worrying are definitely experienced by a wife to her husband. It has been five days since Aryo's departure to the battlefield to make the atmosphere in his house to be quiet. The days he spent without the affection of his beloved husband.

But she had to accept everything because she knew that what her husband was doing now was for the benefit of many. The feeling of sadness was then replaced with a feeling of pleasure after the baby in the womb Sinta who began to react kicking in his stomach.

Sinta sat on a bamboo chair in front of the porch of the house while stroking her stomach. With a melodious song accompanies his activities now. Not long ago came bik Sekar greet him kindly.

“How is the condition non today?”

“I'm fine bik, some days this baby in my womb has kicked-kick” several times

"really? Ah... Surely your son will be as good as his father later”

“I also hope like that bik, but I don't want him to have the fate like his father”

Sinta answered Bik Sekar's question while smiling at him. But the smile did not last long and slowly began to fade. Bik Sekar who knew the reason that made Sinta like that chose to divert the conversation.

“What non not bored at home? How about we take a short walk around the village”

“Really bik? I was also bored at home. Let's take a walk now!”

Sinta answered excitedly the invitation from bik Sekar. The quiet atmosphere of the house makes him sometimes feel bored, of course to go out alone he did not dare because he was pregnant. And now there was someone who took her for a walk making her so excited.

Bik Sekar helps Sinta stand from her sitting position. With the age of pregnancy that is quite old Sinta movement is currently limited. They walked slowly while talking about many things. Sinta laughs when Bik Sekar tells funny stories that once experienced by Bik Sekar when he was young.

"It turns out the aunt never did that"

"Shhuutttsss's... It's just the two of us who know, don't tell anyone"

Bik Sekar made a gesture of covering his mouth with one finger, Sinta's laughter was quite loud made the villagers who heard him glance at them.

Sinta closed her mouth but her expression was still the same, she tried to hold back her laughter due to the story that had been told.

“Now try to tell me the beginning of non meeting with young lord”

“Aihh... Bik, I was so embarrassed when I remembered it”

“Ahh... Let aunt guess, non dare not express feelings to young master right?”

She was shocked and spontaneously stopped walking. He then looked at the face of Sekar's bik who was now smiling meaningfully. The red color of blushing slowly graced Sinta's cheeks now.

He blushed in shame because bik Sekar learned of his habit when storing flavor with Aryo when he was still the crown prince.

“Did non not want to tell it to bibik?”

“How from the beginning of non start meet with young lord”

Bik Sekar continues to urge Sinta to tell a story, while Sinta like the wrong behavior must tell a story or not. But his little heart did not want to disappoint his travel companion now. Finally, Sinta chose to tell her love story first.

“Alright make me will tell you from the beginning of our meeting which can be said to be a destiny", Sinta smiled, "That time...”.

Sinta started telling stories while walking with bik Sekar. The beginning of the story begins when he just stepped on a new teenager growing up but has a beautiful face. He told me that his house became a training ground for his father's students.

One day his house suddenly became crowded and a little noisy. Sinta wondered what was happening at the time. According to one of his father's students, he finally found out the reason for the crowd.

That day in his house the arrival of a very important guest who was none other than the late king of Aryi when he was still king of Adipura. The king of Aryi came to bring his two sons who would be handed over to his father as students of the silat college that was built by his father at that time.

Sinta's father is a white swordsman who is quite famous with the nickname White Taring, he is very respected in the kingdom of Adipura. It was also that made the king of Aryi choose his father to be the silat teacher of the two crown princes. King Aryi was convinced that his father was the right teacher for his two children.

Sinta saw the conversation of his father and the king of Aryi from a distance, but soon his existence was known by his father.

He approached after seeing the wave of his father's hand asking that he sit with him. Sinta walked slowly and was now sitting next to her father. He then quietly heard his father's talk with the Aryan king.

His father introduced himself to the king of Aryi who was greeted with a sweet smile from the king of Aryi.

"His sharpness was visible early on, he will be a prima donna in this place later", the Aryi king smiled.

Sinta responded to the compliment with a shy smile, not usually she was like that. Sinta who blushed embarrassed made the Aryi king laugh because of his attitude while his father only smiled while drinking the tea that was on the table before them.

Many spoke so to Sinta and she responded only in a normal way, but the words uttered by someone very important to the kingdom of Adipura were very unusual. Her cheeks reddened afterwards, making her face even more beautiful when seen.

King Aryi laughed, "He does have the shy nature of you Rama"

His father smiled again at the attitude of his son, it reminded him of his shy personality when he was a teenager. But that all changed when he knew the king of Aryi who was still a crown prince.

Sinta again watched his father and the king of Aryi discuss various things. He now only lowered his head but slowly he ventured to steal a glance towards the guest in front of him.

His father and the king of Aryi kept talking and occasionally laughed together. This is natural because the two used to be friends from childhood until now. That was Sinta's chance to steal a glance towards the crown prince. When his gaze was fixed on Prince Jaka his feelings were ordinary.

This is because the face of Prince Jaka who looked so fierce and did not seem comfortable with the atmosphere in his house, "Basar among the nobility", thought Sinta at that time.

But when Sinta looked at Prince Aryo at once, their eyes suddenly met.

The two looked at it for quite a while and without Sinta from the beginning of the sight the prince Aryo smiled at him. But Sinta's expression turned upside down and was quite surprised by the smile of her opponent now. A smile that was so friendly to her and so warm.