The Journey of Jinan

Chapters. 18

Indonesia, 15.21 PM.

In a large two-story house in downtown Jakarta. Two middle-aged people and two twenty-six-year-olds were having a serious conversation in the living room. The house belonged to the son of Kusnaidi - the father of Romi - who was discussing the happy day of his only son, Romi Saputra.

One month ago, Romi ventured to introduce Aurel to his parents as his old friend. Both of Romi's parents received Aurel with open arms, especially the deceased/ah Aurel's parents who turned out to have been one of Putra's business partners, making their closeness not too difficult to create.

Romi is happy not to play the reaction of his parents to his women. In this way, it would not be too difficult for him to convince his parents to give him blessing to marry Aurel.

And sure enough, after three weeks of running time, both Romi's parents approved of their relationship. They even want to accept Aurel's son who was almost four months old at that time because they felt sympathy for the poor woman's life. They were sympathetic because Aurel and Romi gave reasons, that Aurel was divorced by her husband when she was two months pregnant, and now Aurel is living together with his son with only makeshift possessions.

And because seeing the look of happiness that emanated on the face of his son when he was close to Aurel as well, made Linda and Putra gladly accept Aurel and his son to be their daughter-in-law and grandchild. They were convinced that Aurel would not do as lowly as Jinan would do to his son. Namely, cheating.

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Today they deliberately gathered to discuss the preparation of the wedding of Romi and Aurel which will be held in three months at one of Jakarta's five-star hotels. In the middle of the serious conversation, Romi's phone suddenly rang. When he looked from the top screen, it turned out that there was one incoming message in the form of a photo of a foreign number sent to whatsapp. At first Romi ignored the message because he thought it wasn't important. But after the second message entered with the same number and several prefixes that made him curious, Romi finally opened the message.

How shocked Romi was to find out that the one who sent him the message and the one photo was ... Jinan. His ex-wife.

After a long breakup, Jinan finally contacted him again by sending him a photo of a baby. Romi frowned while entering the photo.

"Why did he send me a baby photo? Whose son is this?" inner Romi wondered.

Romi pressed the back button on his phone screen, he read a short message that Jinan had written for him.

'Assalamu'alaikum, Mas Romi.

It's me, Jinan. I hope you don't forget me.

I just wanted to let you know that the baby girl above is my son. Our son, more precisely.

I just gave birth to this child a few hours ago, and thank God she is healthy.

I'm telling you just to keep a promise I made myself a few months ago.

And I also don't want to hide this truth from you, because you deserve to know.

If one day he wants to meet his real father, I hope you don't disappoint him.

If you can't handle it, pretend for a minute. That's enough for me.

I just don't want her to lose the affection of one of her parents.'

Romi's eyes glazed over with messages from Jinan. Is that really his son? Meat-blooded?

"I have a daughter?" inner Romi doesn't believe.

Romi raised his head so that his tears would not fall. He reopened the baby photo, and he pasati the photo with the feeling of haru.

"Rom," called Aurel while touching Romi's shoulder as he watched the man daydream with a blank stare on his phone screen.

"Ah, huh?" romi said in shock.

"What's wrong with you, Rom?" linda asked in amazement at her son's suddenly strange behavior.

Romi looked back and forth, and then he looked at his mother. "Romi wants to pee, Ma."

Romi walked quickly to the toilet, while the three people were just stunned by Romi's attitude which they thought was quite strange.

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Berlin, Germany. 20.18 PM.

Inside Jinan's nursery, all of the faces now looked serious. They were thinking about the terror that happened to Jinan's restaurant. Even Marco and Ira, who had just arrived an hour ago, were shocked by the news given by his son about the state of Jinan's restaurant this morning.

"For now, let's just forget what happened today. Right Elena said, maybe they were just the wrong target. We do not rush to take action, dangerous people like them will be very dangerous if we make a wrong move. Initially it may be the wrong target, but if we are missteps, we can be the real target," said Marco mediate.

"But, Pa. What if they keep terrorizing Jinan's restaurant?" ask Rico.

"We will act" Marco replied with a serious face.

Semua mata menatap ke arah Marco. Bertindak? Bertindak seperti apa maksudnya, pikir keempat wanita yang ada di sana kecuali Rico dan baby Ay, karena baby Ay belum mengerti apa-apa. (😅😂)

Marco never joined the underground world, but when he was thirty years old, he had a friend who happened to be now working for one of the German underground organizations. He was sure that his friend could rely on him to help him later. And no one knows it all except, Rico. Only Rico had met his friend when they accidentally met at one of Berlin's famous bars.

"What does Papa mean by acting?" ask Elena.

"Oh, don't think too much. You take it easy, Papa is sure that this is just a misunderstanding. We better pray a lot that all these bad possibilities do not happen in the future to all of us" said Marco.

There is no word from them all. They simply put Marco's words in their hearts. May there be no more bad news tomorrow or so, their minds.

"Yes, you all go home, let Mama and Papa take care of Jinan tonight" Marco said.

"No, Pa. Ria and I will take care of Jinan tonight. Mama, Papa, and Elena go home. Didn't Mama and Papa just come home from business, surely you guys are tired" said Rico.

"Tomorrow Jinan will go home, while Mama and Papa will leave early tomorrow for business out of town for two days. You go home early, and come back here tomorrow morning" Ira explained.

With a heavy heart finally the three brothers say goodbye to home.

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Who was Romi in chapter 14 yesterday?😅😅😅

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