TWELVE DAYS OF LOVE

Eat Together

In the midst of turmoil, I tried to stay seated and calm my mind. You cannot ask or say anything else. For a while, let this remain a secret.

"Assalamualaik." A voice from the front room sounded.

"Getishalight." The three of us answered simultaneously.

The person who said the greeting appeared in the kitchen. Scan home.

"Now are you home, son?" ask Cindai's mom.

"Scan permission, Mom. My mother is sick again. Uh, there's Mak Ama?" replied Cindai as she greeted and kissed her mother's hand and mother.

"Don't you see, there's Fadil in there? He was the one who accompanied the mother even made the mother medicine," Cindai's mother said as she pointed at me.

"Oh, yeah? Thank you, Bang," Cindai told me.

"Together," reply.

"Come, kid, eat here. It's a party meal" Mamak told Cindai.

"Wah ... good times yes, Mak," cried Cindai.

"Come, Dil you eat too. If you've eaten earlier at the party," said mom to me.

We also ate together. Not much meaningful chat at that time, only occasionally me and Cindai exchanged glances. We had to talk to each other after this, I thought.

And finally the opportunity arose also where after eating mamak spied Cindai's mother in the room so as to leave us both in the kitchen.

Scan was washing dishes as I approached her with the mode helping to organize the dishes onto her shelf.

"Tadi. I'm saying yes because I think it'll be an opportunity to find out about your soul mate," I said slowly.

He turned quickly to me with a curious face. "Then the outcome? Did mom say that?"

"Hmm .. no." I'm shaking.

"Yeah!" his gerrick.

"He didn't mention his name directly, just gave some information that could be a clue" I said.

"Oh yeah? What'sthat?"

Scan was silent for a moment, lowered his head and momentarily raised his head, staring at the wall nanar before him.

"Why, since childhood when my mother told me about the soul mate, I felt she was always in my heart even though her figure was unclear. If you think I'm too naive or may be delusional, but this is the truth, I've loved you since I was a kid."

I'm stunned. Cindai loves her baby soul mate. Even if the soul mate is me, but .. I don't know .... I still won't tell him about this.

"So ... That's why you don't accept my love?" tanyaku later.

"Have I not answered?" Cindai.

"But from your words, in your heart you already love someone, isn't that the answer that you don't accept me?"

"Bang ..." he hissed.

"If that were the case, I'd back off." I looked at him fixedly.

"I told you, I haven't answered. Can't you be more patient? Will you back off soon?"

"That means .. You still give hope? Does it mean that in your heart there is a space for me?"

Cindai.

"Answer Scan," I urged.

"I ... I could not answer it until I met the soul mate that mother said. Tell me first, what information did you get about him?"

"He is the son of your mother's true friend" I replied.

"Then what else? the question is getting curious.

"Hmm .. that's it."

"Huh? That's it?" Scan squeezing.

Turned his face away from me. And after that there was only silence between us until finally me and my mom came home.

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