THE SOULMATE FROM HELL
9. EIGHT
“How are you, anyway, Bara. You can't give your wife the key. You think your wife can break through what wall?” Gendis Atmojo. I don't think about the behavior of his son.
“Bara forgot, Ma.” says Umbara lightly.
“Hadeh,” Can-can Umbara forgot to give Betari the house key.
From where he stood, Betari sneered. “Peccupy basis.”
Although Betari's voice was quite slow, Umbara could still hear it. He who stood in front of the mother— looked at Betari who was also standing in front of her, right next to the mother—with a dislike gaze—nyar sniggering. While the stared pretended not to care while replying to the message that kept coming in on his phone.
***
Gendis Atmojo noticed Betari's face was covered in red spots. “Bited by mosquitoes can do this. A lot of this loh.” said Gendis Atmojo who was astonished by the condition of the face of Betari.
“Mosquitoes here next time, Ma. Ferocious.” say Betari at will. Indeed, the red spots on his face are somewhat different from the mosquito bite marks in general—and that Betari had experienced before.
“Behind this residential wall is a city forest, be advised that the mosquitoes are aggressive.” chirpednya, again soon. He did not want to make others follow along anxiously with the condition of his face that was approaching destruction. Although since then he has been ketar-ketir, for Betari face is an important asset even though he is not a celebrity. So now he's going to the dermatologist.
“This is an allergy, Tari.” Gendis Atmojo concluded his diagnosis.
“Times anyway, Ma?” answer Betari. He felt he had no allergies whatsoever.
“Feelings I don't have allergies.” Betari said later.
“Try you remember again yesterday what you ate?”
“Eat what, yes, yesterday?” Betari began to remember what she had eaten yesterday.
Oh, aye. Betari remember. Time on the way home last night—dia ushered with Hendrik Leo. They were stuck in traffic because of a large tree that fell. Betari knew that it would take a long time for the officers to clear the tree until the road could be used again, because the tree was quite large. He also hated the most if he had to wait a long time, so he advised Hendrik to just turn around. But Hendrik Leo said he would enjoy it.
Honestly, Betari was upset, he was upset, he did not want to argue the man and to repel the annoyance and saturation Betari also chose to eat a snack in the form of a baby crispy fried crab owned by Hendrik Leo— which the man offered him.
The hell, because of the crabs?
Come to think of it, although Betari rarely eat crabs because it does not like it because it is expensive and the meat is a little. As far as Betari can remember, she never developed any symptoms after eating the crab.
“Did you finish beauty treatments yesterday? You see there are mama's friends whose faces become like that after running out of ulterarapy treatment or what's it, mama forgot.”
Uh, yesterday instead of Betari having tried treatment at a beauty clinic—which she again did for endorse. But not an ulterarapy treatment like the mother-in-law just mentioned. Betari did not need the virgin.
Betari remembers now, before the treatment was done, the doctor gave her an anesthetic cream first. However, she complained of pain after being given the cream. Meanwhile, the doctor ignored his complaints.
Lothawat!
If true his face red-red gegara treatment yesterday Betari will break up cooperation.
“Mending you now to the doctor. Tell Umbara anterin.”
“No need, Ma.” However Betari is more comfortable going it alone.
Gendis Atmojo wants Betari to see a doctor. He was very worried about his son-in-law. “If you do not want to be delivered Umbara, your anterin mom to the doctor now.”
“Nevent gone, Ma. I went to the doctor myself.”
“I'm leaving first, Ma. I've been waiting for it.” Betari hurriedly hugged Gendis Atmojo tightly while kissing both of her cheeks, and said goodbye. But the mother-in-law was really fussy.
“Awaited who?” asked Gendis Atmojo, curious.
“Abang Grab , Ma.” Reply Betari honestly. Even the Grab Brother had already told you that he had arrived in front of the complex.
“You didn't leave with Umbara?”
“No need, Ma.” says Betari, then make excuses. “Different directions because.”
“I'm leaving first, Ma. Bye!” Betari once again kissed the back of Gendis Atmojo's hand and walked out.
Betari sent a message to Grab Brother to get inside which the brother replied:
Hadeh! This one elite housing is indeed other than the others.
Betari also had to walk to the front. He knew he had to go back inside the house and asked Umbara to drive him.
After Betari's departure, Gendis Atmojo returned to the kitchen, intending to arrange the food that was brought—ke in the refrigerator and saw Umbara was seriously reading the documents on his MacBook while drinking a cup of coffee— made by himself.
“Bara,” Gendis Atmojo calls Umbara gently.
“Ya, Ma.” Umbara put his cup of coffee on the table and looked at his mother who took a seat next to him.
“When do you want to take Betari to honeymoon?”
“Bara don't know yet, Ma. I am still very busy until next month.” replied Umbara honestly—soal himself who is very busy. As for the honeymoon, he felt it was unnecessary.
...***
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When her phone rang, Betari was just about to go to dinner together after she finished broadcasting live on Tiktok with Chiky Vanessa, beautiful gamers who are also one of the brand ambassadors of the famous esports team Indonesia— and love to cosplay.
Betari answered the call while walking out of the elevator. “Halo, Grandma?”
“Halo, Dance dear.” There was the voice of the grandmother greeting him back with her soft voice, but there was a worried tone tucked in her voice.
“What pain do you have, honey? Grandma just met Andre, he said he had met you at the hospital.”
You Andre the bucket is leaking! betari grunts in the heart. Why did he also have to queue with Andreas Kusworo, the cousin whose mouth likes to leak.
“From all right, Nek.” Allergic only. Not gonna make it die, anyway. But the cure might be long. The doctor said two weeks at the earliest. “So I looked at a friend who was out of the water.” he replied lying. By the way, which one of his friends ran out? Betari just didn't want her grandmother to worry about her.
“Grandmother does not believe. You're a liar.” Widuri Salim always knew that her granddaughter was lying to her.
“Dance does not lie, Nek.”
“Grandmother does not believe. Grandma is coming to your house soon.”
Hadeh!
“Ngapain the hell grandma to the house all.” protest Betari. “Tari is not sick. Mending granny cancel. Grandma rest at home teenin grandpa watch our planet.”
“Basic bratty grandson! You don't want to meet your own grandmother. Don't you miss grandma?!”
“Yes, kangen dong, my dear Grandma. Today I plan to go home. Want to take a car too.” But not because of the disaster.
“Halah! You are just a grandmother phone from yesterday you did not pick up. Don't excuse your busy life!” attack the grandmother.
“Emang busy, kok.”
“Grandmother has arrived at your home. You open the door.”
Phone call disconnected.
Lothawat!
Betari.
***
Umbara Atmojo hastily left his real job still a lot and handed everything to his assistant, as soon as Widuri Salim—grandmother of his wife finished calling to ask her home address and said going to his house, he said, today also—with her husband, Juan Salim.
Luckily, he arrived home before the guest arrived. And sure enough, Betari had not yet returned.
He wanted to contact the woman, but he did not have her number.
Not long after that, the bell rang.
