The Widow of the Duda Doctor

Chapter 25 - Nostalgia

After dinner together, Madam Baskara invites Rina to go to one of the rooms in the mansion, while Ayra accompanies the children to play. As for Ricko, he climbed into his room to clean himself up and changed clothes.

"Sit down." Madam Baskara told Rina to sit on one of the sofas in the room. The room is full of displays in the form of large frames that seem to be decades old. How not, in the photo Madam Baskara still looks young with her husband and three sons. In the photo, Ricko still looks very young, apparently not in his 20s. Both of her sisters looked much more mature.

Actually not only the photo, there are still many other photos that look longer than the photo mounted on the largest frame. Actually Rina wanted to get up from her seat, h!endak looked at the photos one by one at close range to make it look more clear, but because Madame Baskara was seen taking out several photo albums from inside the closet, Rina also undoes her intentions and chooses to sit waiting. Looks like there's something that Madame Baskara wants to show her.

"See this. All these albums contain old photos." Madam Baskara placed several photo albums on the table, right in front of Rina.

Lina smiled and glanced at the old woman, then picked up one of the albums whose colors looked the most worn. It seems that among the dozens of albums that accumulate in the closet, the album is the oldest. Lina could even guess if the age of the album was definitely much older than her.

Lina started to open the photo album. The first thing she saw was a black and white photo of a girl wearing a wedding dress.

"This is your wedding photo, ma'am?" asked Rina, and immediately got a nod along with a smile from Madam Baskara. "The picture is still black and white. What year is it exactly?"

"My husband and I got married in the 1970s. You were definitely not born at that time," replied Madam Baskara with a chuckle.

Rina laughed. "Yes, Madam. I was born in the '90s."

When Rina continued to see the photos, on the next page there was a photo of Madam Baskara and Mr. Baskara when they got married. The face of Mr. Baskara in his youth looks very similar to the face of Ricko.

When Rina was looking at the pictures of their family, Madam Baskara suddenly got back up from her seat and took another photo album that was in the closet. The old-school 3R photo album is made of plastic, but the condition is still very good because it is well kept by Mrs Baskara.

"Are you curious to see Ricko's face as a baby until he's 5?" ask lady Baskara. "When he was little, he was very funny and adorable" she added with a smile.

Madame Baskara then sat down next to Rina again. Tonight the old woman looks very excited to show a photo of her memories in the past to Rina.

"It's funny, ma'am. It felt like I wanted to pinch her cheek," said Rina, then laughed.

For several tens of minutes Rina looked at the family photos of Madam Baskara. There have been dozens of photo albums that the old woman showed to Rina, while retelling happy moments when the photo was taken. Memories of his precious youth with his late husband and three sons did not escape he also told Rina.

However, as time went on, the life of Madame Baskara who was initially almost said to be perfect, slowly began to change with the passing of Lord Baskara, and his children who go one by one because they already have their own lives and families. Madam Baskara seemed to be left alone in her golden cage full of luxury. A lonely and miserable old age cannot be prevented from coming. The abundant treasure that Madame Baskara has seemed not too important to guarantee her happiness.

However, that miserable life slowly changes when Ricko's wife dies in an accident. At that time, Ricko entrusted Aurora who was 3 years old to be treated by Madam Baskara. So that he did not feel as lonely as before.

"Do you want to know why Aurora hates dancing so much and doesn't want to learn it anytime?" Madam Baskara looked at Rina fixedly.

"What is the cause, madam?" ask Rina curiously. For almost 1 hour, she had already been a chatting friend and a good listener to mistress Baskara. That's what makes Madam Baskara now more like Rina. That was because Lina knew how to behave in front of an old man like herself.

"Laura had an accident when she wanted to restart her career as a dancer. A career that was delayed because of Aurora's presence in their lives" explained Ms. Baskara.

"Good God, that's the reason. It's so sorry."

Now Madame Baskara is back to tell a lot about Ricko and Aurora. Aurora, who needs the love of a mother, also Ricko who was supposed to get a replacement for Laura and a connecting mother for Aurora.

"Ricko's a tough guy to fall in love with, but once he's in love, he's not going to let go easily. He will continue to fight until he can" said Ms. Baskara. "Then, she was like that to Laura, and after Laura died, until this moment it had been years, but she had yet to find a woman who could make her fall in love again. I don't know which woman will be lucky to get my son's love."

I don't know why Lina suddenly felt insinuated with the words of Madam Baskara just now. That made it his own misdeed.

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