The Forgotten Asmara

Finding the Star

Steven picked me up in the apartment early in the morning.

"Miss, from today on I'll take you anywhere." Steven bowed his body while talking to me.

"Sir steven, just call me amorous. I'm here also just working neither your boss nor your salute guest." I was on steven. He's probably five or six years older than me.

"Then call me steve. Then I'll call you mara." Steven straightened his body looking at me with a smile.

"alright... Thanks steve." My answer is not to be long.

Steve drove his car down the streets of Amsterdam. Left and right of the road did not escape my sight, it was amazing that I saw the beauty of this city. This sight that warms my eyes makes my journey felt. Steve stopped his car.

Steven stopped his car at a big house. The white house was very clean and tidy. I thought this was my place to start training or maybe this was my place to work. But where is it possible? Because bu saras said I will work at the headquarters of the company in Jogja.

"Please enter the mara.." Take steve.

"Is this the office I work in? Or am I going to train here?" I asked while walking towards the terrace of the large house that I now stepped on the floor.

"It's a house, not an office." Steve answered briefly.

"You mean?" I'm getting clueless. "Am I going to work at Steve's house?" I ask him again. Steve just smiled at her smile.

Until we were in a big house. Steve invited me to sit in the living room sofa that is quite spacious.

Steve's headed for the second floor, I don't know where he's going. He told me to wait here.

No suspicion or anything against him. I just follow and think positive.

A few minutes later, Steve came down from the second floor with a boy in his cradle. The little boy looked excited and patted his palms looking at me.

Hearing that voice, I remembered the voice of someone I knew very well. The voice that stretched out my ears, that voice that had been in my mind and mind all along. I miss that cheerful voice.

"Mamm.ma Mam.mom.s.." The little boy looks so happy to say the word mama with a typical voice of a baby who is good at talking. The voice can be clearly heard in my ear, until the steven with the boy in his hand was getting closer to me.

"Star???" I can recognize who that boy is. Until I drip clear water on my cheeks.

"Mara... He's waiting for you, he misses you so much." Steven handed the stars to me.

I also immediately took over the stars, without stopping I continued to kiss the cheeks of her puffer. I clutched it with an incomparable whip of longing. Miss, I miss my son so much.

The star laughed crisply, he patted my face and bit the top of my nose.

Although it hurts a little because the star already has some incisors, but I don't pay attention to that. I kept kissing her and hugging her.

"Star...." Lirihku kept saying his name.

The stars kept on letting out their laughter. He was relentlessly patting my face. Until I don't care about my surroundings.

"Ma.mara.." A man's baritone voice called out to me. I also looked towards the origin of the voice.

"Of... About afrizal?" I was surprised to find the afrizal who was sitting weakly in a wheelchair, with a young woman behind him pushing the wheelchair towards me.

"Of.. How are the stars here?" I don't understand what Afrizal says. I was just curious about the existence of stars in this place.

"I'm sorry mara, I've separated you from the stars. I was evil... I'm an evil grandfather to my granddaughter.." Afrizal kept crying, he remembered his actions in the past.

"So, um that......." I drooped to the limp of hearing om afrizal's words. I sat on the sofa holding a star. Seeing me as helpless, Steven instantly took over the star from my grasp.

"Mara... You okay?" Stephen approached me.

"Mara, I know you must be surprised to hear all this. I was selfish, I ruined your happiness. I'm sorry mara.." Afrizal put his palms together and apologized.

I was silent, not sure what was on my mind this time. I really can't think. All my past glimpsed in my memory. When the star disappears, the anger of the byan, Cacian umi andryani, to the talaq of the byan. It all happened again in my memory. I lamented my fate all this time, and it turned out to be the work of om afrizal. I never thought this would happen because of it.

I looked at the man's face, a face that showed great regret by continuously apologizing to me.

"Mara, forgive me. I'm old and sick, I don't know how many days I'll be..."

"Of! Don't say that...." Steven immediately cut off the word afrizal.

"Steve, did you hear yourself not what the doctor said yesterday?" Clearly the afrizal looked towards Steven whose face was full of worry.

I got up from my seat, I was going to step this leg out... I want to feel like I'm getting away from here.

"Mara.. Where are you going?" Steven looked at me. But I couldn't help it anymore, I ran small to get out of the big house.

"Maa... Hoeee... Hoe..." I heard the sound of stars crying out loud inside. I stopped this step then turned towards the star.

"Mara, look at the stars. He doesn't even want to be left by you, I beg you to come if you don't want to forgive om afrizal at least you want to accept the star back with you..." Steven calmed the star who kept crying.

"Star..... Forgive my dear mother." I'm denying my selfishness. I grabbed the star and carried it.

"Mara, look after the stars. You're the only one I trust for the stars. Just you mara..." Afrizal closed his eyes, then held onto his painful chest. Afrizal collapsed from his wheelchair and fell to the floor. Seeing the incident, Steven quickly helped afrizal and took him to the car to go to the hospital.

"Mara, come..." Steven picked me up and I went with him. I also forgot to bring a star.

After arriving at the hospital, afrizal is immediately handled by a doctor. Until he received special treatment at this hospital.

Steven kept pacing indeterminate in front of the ICU room where the afrizal was handled.

While I was sitting in a chair with a sleeping star on my lap.

Moments later, the doctor came out with the nurse beside him. The doctor had a flat face, he spoke Dutch on Steven which I did not know what it meant.

"Om afrizal!!" With a panicked face, Steven immediately ran into the ICU room. I followed him by holding a star.

Steven continued to cry, occasionally wiping his cheeks that had been moistened by tears. I saw om afrizal on top of the gurney covered by the hospital's white blanket. Suddenly I thought if the afrizal om was gone.

I stood next to Steven who was crying. I'm still a little confused here, don't know what to say. I can't calm down Steven, because I also know what the afrizal relationship is to him.

I feel sorry for the stars, he was a child but abandoned by his grandfather. I continued to hold the stars tightly in my arms. I didn't feel like this clear water had fallen down my cheek.