The Winter Promise
Chapter 70: Eating at Rina's House.
Today is a special day for Lina as today is her birthday. I along with other friends plan to go to Rina's house to have a birthday party there. Actually it was Rina who invited us to her house.
“Happy birthday Rina.”
Everyone who was there scolded Rina.
“Thank you everyone for coming to my birthday.”
Lina looks so happy that her friends are coming.
According to Rina, today her mother made yellow rice for all of us. At first I thought that if we were going to eat soto together here, I was wrong.
“Have you given your gift to Rina Mar?”
Miyuki whispered to me
“Of course, I already gave it earlier.”
“Ah what a pity, whereas I want to see your expression when giving a gift to Rina.”
“Hah? Just give me a gift what changed?”
“Amar's expression was not different as usual, only his expression of Rina alone changed because it was unexpected that Amar would give him a gift.”
Riki explained that to Miyuki.
“How are you Kirana?”
Maul greets Kirana who happens to be invited also by Rina.
“Alhamdulillah well, how about Kak Maul himself?”
“Alhamdulillah well too, how is SMP Cibubur now?”
“SMP Cibubur is now a little boring because there is no exciting thing like when Kak Amar and others are still in school there.”
“What did Amar do in school?”
Miyuki who was curious to Kirana about it.
Why this woman is curious is so amazing. I think he would be a great fit if he worked as a journalist.
“Then when there was Kak Amar and also others. SMP Cibubur seems to have a lot of secrets and interesting to be revealed one by one. Like shadow leaders, agreements between male students, mysterious upperclassmen, and much more.”
“Woah! If in my school there is also something like that but we call it with seven mysteries.”
Miyuki said to Kirana.
“What mysteries were solved?”
Maul became curious about it as well.
“Nothing, on average all that is just a rumor.”
“If in my school, all those mysteries were for him Amar.”
Maul tells Miyuki.
I can't deny it, because all the problems caused by Riki and Maul must be me who solved it, too, and the average of the problems I solve will be a mystery because of the discord spread among the students.
“Is that Mar?”
Miyuki immediately looked at me with sparkling eyes.
“Looks like I can't dodge it.”
“How do you create those mysteries? Do you want to make something similar in SMK Sawah Besar as well?”
Please Miyuki, once you're not like this. My views on you will definitely change and not think you are annoying anymore.
“Then where is your next school destination Kirana?”
Lina asked Kirana.
“Of course I will enter SMK Sawah Besar, I will try my hardest to get a recommendation there.”
Kirana with a burning spirit and clenched her hands said that with great certainty.
“Excite!”
“Thank you Sister Rina.”
“Why do you want to get into SMK Sawah Besar? if you want to target the majors that are there, better get into a school that is near here.”
Because if Kirana goes back to my school, I think it will be very troublesome.
“You are cruel once Brother Amar. I want to go to SMK Sawah Besar so I can go to school with Kak Riki. We can go home to school together, leave together, eat lunch together, and many others.”
This is the power of love. When he started acting, they were already unable to think logically anymore. Is it as fun as doing things together with people we like? Wouldn't if we met that person often then we would get bored quickly?
“How about the race Rik?”
Maul asked Riki.
“There are still four more games to make it through the preliminary round.”
“And after that you went straight to Makassar?”
Ask him.
“Iya.”
“Will you feel lonely if there is no Riki Mar?”
Maul's trying to taunt me.
“In contrast, I can sleep peacefully when resting.”
“You are evil once Mar.”
Riki.
“By the way Miyuki, where are Yoshida, Kichida, and Takeshi? Wasn't she invited to this event?”
“If Yoshida has an event with his family, Kichida has a sudden affair, and Takeshi says he can't leave today.”
Miyuki told Maul that.
“Alhamdulillah Takeshi does not come here.”
Huhhhh.. If Takeshi comes, there might be a dispute or two between me and him.
“Why do you still hate Takeshi Mar? Though he has tried to accept you loh.”
Miyuki said to me.
“Even if he's like that, but I feel that he still sucks.”
While we were talking there, Rina's older sister came and joined us.
His sister Rina named Rania, he worked as a lecturer majoring in art at one of the public universities in Jakarta. Rania's sister is very good at drawing and painting, I've seen her draw a few times and I'm amazed at the ability she has.
“Hei Mar! It's been a long time since I've seen you. Now you're big huh.”
Brother Rania greeted me and sat right in front of me because only my front was empty at that time.
“I think Rania's own sister who is rarely seen in the mosque.”
Rania is also one of the senior mosque teenagers at the mosque near my house. That is why all the information in the mosque will be conveyed through him. Sometimes Kak Rania also makes creative events at the mosque with mosque teenagers and the community.
“Now which school is Mar?”
“I went to the same school as Rina, but I was in the multimedia department.
“Heee... It is fitting that Rina clean hard to enter SMK Sawah Besar. So because there is Amar anyway.”
Rania's sister glanced at Rina, Rina immediately looked panicked and her face reddened to hear the remark from Rania's sister.
“Stop talking about it Brother!”
Rina's face turned red and now she was embarrassed.
“Kakakaknya Rina something once yes, very different with Rina.”
Miyuki whispered to me.
“That's.”
“Come on everyone, let's eat!”
His mother Rina also came with a large pot containing yellow rice and side dishes that were already there. We started eating rice and eating together. After taking the rice, when about to return to my seat. I saw Kak Rania playing her phone and right on her phone screen, I saw Kak Rania reading a comic.
“What's Comic is Kak?”
Ask him.
“Oh this, so my friend is making a comic for a comic application that will soon be released in Indonesia, and he asked my opinion about the comic he made.”
“So.”
“What app is Kak?”
Lina was curious about it.
“So there is a company that used to issue comics, the magazine used to be often you read Rina.”
“What is Comic Universe?”
And Rina also knew that, it was just me who did not know about the Universe Comics here.
“Iya, and he now wants to issue an app for reading comics on mobile. There have been many domestic comics who followed the release.”
“Shouldn't the magazine be bankrupt?”
“So you know about the magazine also Rina?”
Ask Maul to him.
“I used to buy that magazine a lot because there was one comic that I followed because it was fun.”
“I don't know how the details are, but if my friend says, the owner of the company wants to rebuild his company.”
During that conversation, I always looked up to Miyuki because she was the only one who knew that I was working at a company that was in the comics world. Miyuki also looked at me and smiled with the intention of something.
Is that kid going to talk to him here too? If he talks about it, it will be very complicated to explain it to them, especially here is Brother Rania.
But Miyuki said nothing, preferring to shut up and listen to the talk of Rania.
“How does Kak Rania think about this?”
Maul asked him that.
“I think this application is very good, especially later this application can channel the works of comic in the country. Of course I will support it.”
“Why are you asking like that Mul?”
Rina looked at Maul suspiciously, and Maul looked at me for help.
You stupid Maul! You should think before you speak. Your cause is now that Rina has become suspicious of this. You have to explain it without any help from me.
“I'm just curious, hahaha.”.
“All of you, when going home from school be careful.”
Suddenly Rania immediately changed the subject.
“What does this have to do with the kidnapping cases that are being crowded lately?”
Ask him.
“Yes, yesterday there was a student on my campus who almost became a victim of kidnapping, Alhamdulillah at that time there were citizens who saw and helped him. Otherwise he might have been taken somewhere.”
“This is getting more and more troubling once, why has the police not handled this case?”
Miyuki looked really upset about it. Me, Riki, and Maul prefer to be quiet and listen to the conversation from them first. Especially if I make a sound now, surely they will realize that I know something about this.
“It looks like you know something Mar.”
Brother Rania looked at me who was hearing their conversation carefully.
Why is it that when I'm silent there are still people who can find out.
“Why can Sister Rania think like that?”
I asked him back.
“Because when we are talking about this, you do not look surprised or interested at all like you already know what really happened.”
I just found out that feeling unenthusiastic about something can dismantle my disguise.
“Kak Rania could have.”
“I've met a lot of different types of students, and nature like you is usually a person who is not interested in something but behind it all you actually know a lot of things.”
“It's totally like Amar.”
Miyuki said to strengthen the allegations of Rania.
“I don't know anything, what do you expect from a SMK boy who just entered three months ago?”
“Usually if Amar has already said that, he is covering up something. I'm more and more convinced that Amar must know about this.”
Basic Miyuki! Why does this woman always confuse me. Now what will I tell them to convince them.
“I don't know exactly how, but if I think based on the news I've read about these cases, there may be internal problems in the police themselves.”
I had to say it.
“What's the internal problem?”
“Once, there may have been a leader in the police who was bribed by the kidnappers.”
I glanced at Maul and Riki, I knew they were trying to help me out of this but they didn't know what to do. Because what we are currently fighting is Miyuki and Rania Kak who have a very strong combination if you are asking someone. These two are the types of people I don't want to meet.
“You said it like you already know what happened.”
Rania's sister smiled slightly as she said that.
“That's just my assumption, I don't know if my words are true or not.”
“Why do they kidnap people? Is the money made from kidnapping people very much?”
Are you Rina's little boy?
“They can earn a lot of money depending on the way they do it. Whether it's asking for ransom to the victims' families, selling them to a trafficking site, or worse selling the entire limbs and organs of the victims on the black market.”
Rina and Miyuki looked shocked and disgusted as they listened to my words. Thank goodness everyone finished eating.
“Unfortunately such a market is in Indonesia?”
Asked Rina who was still disgusted by my previous words.
“I myself don't know either. We all don't know what's out there.”
“You turned out to be a smart person to imagine also yes Mar.”
I know what Kak Rania has just done to melt the atmosphere because the atmosphere has become tense. If Rania has done that, it seems like I just need to follow her.
“I just said what was in my mind only.”
“The three of you must be careful, especially the three of you are beautiful. You are very prone to being targeted by those kidnappers.”
Rania's sister also warns Miyuki, Rina, and Kirana.
“Is what you just said true Kak?”
Kirana whispered to me about it.
“That's just the guess, what happened actually I myself don't know.”
“Are you guys handling this case?”
“No way, a case like this should be handled by a person who is already an expert.”
“Hei! What are you two talking about?”
Riki looked at us with her jealous gaze because Kirana was talking to me.
“Kirana just asked me about a suitable gift to give when your birthday is later.”
I also glanced at Kirana.
“Why did Kak Amar say that?”
Kirana was a little panicked from not expecting that I would say such a thing. It seems that if Kirana feels distress because of this, I will help her when looking for a gift for Riki.
“What is true?”
Riki's jealous gaze had already turned into a look hoping for a gift from Kirana.
I raised my eyebrows slightly to give Kirana a code to follow the conversation I had made.
“Hee-That's the way.”
Kirana said that by force.
“Kirana!”
Riki was moved to hear that.
“You must be responsible about this!”
Kirana warned me.
“Quiet only.”
the End Chapter 70
