The Fate Or Destiny

Eps. 47. Between Comfort and Love

Ben was still sitting on the side terrace looking down, clouds began to appear above the sky of Manado city. There's a comfortable chair there. He rarely goes anywhere while in Manado. Currently in the house of papa Keke whose environment is green as far as the eye can see, enjoy the open air in the mountains anyway, it feels different, cool soothing. Moreover, there is the lover of the heart who is leaning on his arm. He laughed as he realized Keke was silent beside him not because of the silence he used to face, but was asleep. His hands have been numb half an hour did not move, just a little move afraid Keke woke up... Keke comfortable dong ya can fall asleep on the arm of Bens...

(This photo is a view of Manado from Jln Raya Tinoor)

Papa Ramly came out of the room holding the hands of two boys, it seemed like they had captured the heart of the opa Ramly. Papa's fresh as if he's been taking a shower. The children were noisily looking for Keke, and as they appeared on the porch with the papa, Ben put his index finger on his lips gesturing for the loudest Lisya of his voice.

"Mami Keke bobo?"

Lisya whispered and released a hand from Ramly's opa, coming closer while observing Keke's face. While Ben nodded respectfully while looking at his beloved papa. Smiling in response.

"Bipi Cow... mami bobo?"

Ben nodded his head. Yica whispered back...

"Opa Lamly says we're going to go to Glinhis (Green Hills)."

"Later on. wait for Mami Keke to wake up."

"Yica wake up..."

"Eh.. wait to wake up yourself."

The whispering event finally brought Keke back to the real world. He immediately straightened his body when he realized his sleeping position. Yica was in front of him.

"De... What's wrong?"

"We want to pengggi mami. that opa cudah wake up already shower, cudah handsome.. ayok..."

Lisya spoke with her head swaying away from the face of Keke and the opa Ramly standing in the big doorway. Keke stood near his papa...

"Why not lemes? You healthy?"

"Yes, you're feeling well, papa take you to Green Hills."

"Now?"

"Yes. Ben.. you brought the car..."

"Yes, can..."

Benaya stood following those who had entered the house again.

"Niek.. Call Engline, tell us we're going there." Papa grabbed a car key from the table and thrust it at Benaya.

"It's cold in the afternoon like this, there's a sudden fog too. Kids have sweaters or jackets, Renske?"

"There, Ma Ade..."

"Please now. You two too..."

"I'm quite like this. Brother Bens?"

"Eyeah..."

Keke wore blue jeans and a navy blue flannel shirt with long sleeves, and Bens also wore long sleeves, so it didn't matter later with the cold. Keke went into his room to pick up warm clothes for the children, and their bags were taken down from the car.

"Let's go..."

Papa Ramly grabbed the hands of the two boys who finished wearing sweaters and headed for the back door that was connected to the large garage in this house. There is one truck and several parked pick-up cars, there are also three large SUVs, the car used by papa Ramly and Lody there.

With a strange feeling today, exasperated sprains and whatever the name might be, finished eating Lody back in the barn with her bike. He came home to eat in the middle of his life. He was surprised to see a foreign car parked and so upset to see Keke and Ben there, again a romantic scene again.

"Boss... is done loading, ready to go."

Menix the warehouse supervisor greeted Lody just as Lody's motorbike stopped in front of 2 trucks whose rear had been covered in tarps.

"Travel costs are also a fix boss..."

Lody did not reply just standing with both hands at the waist. The two trucks finally left. The lambaian of both the driver and his kenek were stared at by the young boss in this plantation.

Lody got back on his bike and slid down the plantation hill following the two trucks.

At the junction of the entrance to the plantation he parked his motorbike, there were some workers while cultivating chilli plants in the area. Elon was watching the workers. Lody headed to some sort of sabuah or saung and sat there.

"Lod... when fertilizer is taken? The stock is almost out..."

"Ntar in the afternoon..."

"It's late afternoon boss.a little bit again at three..."

"You take care, I'm lazy to come out. This is the take note..."

"Lazy tumben? What's the matter boss?"

Elon said with a probing look towards Lody who was sitting straight on the floor of the plank, his head leaning against the support pole of the saung. Since long they were friends, Elon was Lody's college friend at the Faculty of Agriculture, originally from Central Sulawesi. The initial intention came to this plantation only for thesis writing research, the continuity of being an employee. Elon sat down.

"Still worried about Inge? *Man*.. what a lack of him.. If you already do not have the same feeling he, I told the Torino forward yes, he had a long time crush Inge..."

"Why does everyone think we're dating, anyway?"

"Well... Is not dating? How much deket?"

"Second because we're sisters..."

"Nobody believes you're just that Lod, you two are like my son said yes.. 🎶 like pants with clothes. 🎶 like butter with bread. Like a bottle just click the lid. There is also no brother relationship between you. Still pissing at you, boss sir..."

"That's the reality..."

"Then anyway... Then why dong, do not usually look you like gini..."

"I. I like someone..."

"Weiiiii..*man*, you've talked a lot like that, uh. soon returned to Inge again. It seems that if you get angry with Inge again, you shift your feelings to someone else..."

"It's really not like yesterday."

Lody was silent with eyes glaring. Right.. What's different?

"I know she has a boyfriend, but I still want her..."

"Huhuh? Severely you boss... want to be a destroyer of people's relationships huh, so a blower??"

"No, but I can't hold my heart back from not liking him..."

"Keep... Do you deketin' that girl?"

"Yes.I try like that, I can't hold myself every time I see him..."

"Continue.. How is the man, sir?"

"He's.it's hard to conquer..."

"Hahahaha..yeah sir boss, he already has a girlfriend, how the hell are you?"

Lody silently nodded. He did see that there was no possibility, Keke was very distanced from him and moreover his girlfriend was also not an ordinary man, the bargaining value of the man was far above him.

"So curious I'm the boss sir"

"Renske, papa's son..."

"Huhuh? Weiii.. you got karma what is this boss sir..all the girls you like are on *circle*nya Mr. Boss... Inge bangkan, the Manda ponakan as well, the Leony's distant brother Mr. Ramly.. now his own son..jeez *man*..."

Lody grimaced at the words of his best friend.

"Now I'm serious Lod.emang like how you feel the same Inge anyway.ok changing like a chameleon so.. era Power Rangers have long ago through the boss sir..."

"I feel like he's normal..."

"Sir boss, you are very smart to lie to yourself as it turns out. I know *man*, you care about him, love him. Every time you walk the same way, how do you feel?"

"Yes.comfortable, nothing more..."

"Lod.comfort is a sign of love. It is your mind that distinguishes love from comfort. Why would anyone sort through that, because they're not sure yet or because they don't want to be bound."

Lody quietly plumbed into his own heart, was there really a love between himself and Inge or just because he was used to caring for each other?

"Lod... same as the philosophy of the Javanese yes *witing tresno jalaran soko kulino, but that love is the result that arises in the course of that relationship. Love is the result of your relationship.you and Inge, so you are comfortable with him. Don't think in reverse*man*..."

Lody was silent...

"I'm confused as a couple out there, he said love but comfortable with other people, a dilemma with feelings he said, uh. it's mah because it really wants to cheat only..."

"So clever of your talk, wise now yes..."

"Weiii.. sir boss reasonable and appropriate me to lecture you, I've married already have a child, as a man I'm more above you now, you must admit it *man*..."

"Yes, yes you are often on top of your wife, right..."

"Hahaha.yes, obviously. But this serious Lod my experience is also the same Greity, we are not like the story of people when they fall in love.I and he are not two people who are attracted to each other so hit by the arrow of romance. There is no story can not eat can not sleep can not anything because it remembered him. Just our relationship because we are friends right. You know how the story is we got married, he's dating the same who else is upset, I'm dating me, he wants. And. Now that I'm not married to me, Greity is too. Now I can assure you that we love each other."

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"Lod..natural as well as you say, Inge as if demanding clarity about your status, he was 28 years old too right, that's the critical age of a girl. He's only been walking with you, if you're not clear like this. He has a right to know other men too...

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"This is really Lod. You can not dissolve with the feeling of love for a girl who has clearly no owner, it is wrong. And more importantly, you have to tell yourself about Inge for you. lest I tell Torino to go forward..."

"Udah ahh. Beware of the trance of the boss sir.don't be too late here."

Late afternoon, the sun had reached the eastern horizon, Lody was still leaning with eyes staring far past the thousands of chilli plants around him. The workers had finished watering the fertilizer and had already moved back to their *base camp. Lody still hadn't finished getting into the recesses of his own heart to look for answers about a taste.

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