When Love Comes Again

The Fight Begins

A fishing village near the harbor, a place far from the city center. A place that is simple and far from the frenetic city. But life here is very hard. The average person is either a fisherman or a port worker. Freight loading and unloading ships alternately leaning on the dock, dozens of transport porters pacing up and down the ship, moving large sacks into the ship.

In one corner of the harbor was a small house. The wooden-walled house has only one front room and a back room, with a bathroom on its right end. In the front room there are some men are busy playing cards while enjoying boiled beans and toast. Cigarette smoke filled the room. The sound of music is very loud. At the bottom of the window was a sleeping man, his large unbuttoned checkered shirt and his worn jeans torn off on both knees.

The man ignored how stuffy and frenetic the room was. The smell of cigarette smoke and liquor blend into one. Black pajero parked in front of him. Then Dicky came down and entered the courtyard of the house. There were two people who were busy sitting and talking in front of the terrace. Again the smell of liquor was smelled from both.

"Hey! What do you need to do here, young man?" ask one of them.

"I'm looking for someone. Name's Yudha. I hear he's been here a lot." Dicky replied politely.

"Yudha?" Dicky showed me the picture on his phone screen. "Oo, Bang Iyud," they answered compactly.

"Yes, do you know where he is?" ask Dicky again.

"You who? What's the need to look for him?"

"I'm Dicky. Her sister." The two people looked at each other, as if in disbelief. They're watching Dicky. One of them came in and soon he came out again.

"Come in, he's inside." Dicky snuggles. He put his foot inside. Seeing Dicky's arrival, everyone there fell silent. Looking towards. Yudha who slept on the couch woke up. Without command, all who were there disbanded. It was as if there was an important conversation between the two of them.

"Sit down" Yudha said as she patted the sofa next to her. He jumped up his body, his head leaning deeper on the cushion of the sofa. Dicky approached and sat down next to him.

"What's it gonna take, Dek?" asked Yudha with soft eyes. Dicky noticed her brother's appearance. His eyes are so red. Like someone who is drunk. But his way of speaking is normal. Assertively. And it doesn't look like he's drunk.

"Sister," he called.

"Hm ... "

"Sir Yudha, all right?" Dicky felt a little anxious about his brother's sad state. Not as usual.

Dicky did not have time to answer his brother's question, from outside the sound of the car stopped. Then his Papa, Opa Saut and Aunt Jovi appeared at the door. The three of them were surprised to see Dicky there. Moreover, the aroma of cigarette smoke and alcohol still dominates, making them guess the non-no.

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Opa Saut's face reddened to see the susana in front of him. His anger is no longer contained. He didn't think what Jovi said was true. At least that's what he had in mind.

"What are you doing here, Dicky!" snapped Opa

"Look Opa.Dicky was just chatting with Sister Yudha," he lied.

"What are you doing with this real person? Look what he's doing here."

"Well, if you're right, Dicky, you need to stay away from people who can ruin your future." Jovi's words made Yudha rise from her backrest. Hearts upset. He felt his nap disturbed by the arrival of creatures from this planet ngeselin. He just stared at the group of people lined up in front of him. He looked towards her, Jovi and laughed mockingly at her.

"Could not speak more calmly. No need to be so. Just make my head hurt." Seringai Yudha makes Jovi hot. He felt slighted by the young man before him.

"Children don't know manners! Do you realize who you're not talking to?" snapped Jovi.

"What care!" Yudha was no less tall.

"You're like you've never been on a school bench. Is that how you talk to older people?"

"Ooo .... Do I have to be polite to you, Jojo!?" Everyone in the room was shocked. Juan, Saut and Jovi. They looked towards Yudha. No one else calls Jovi Jojo. From childhood Yudha never called Jovi as aunt Jovi. Juan realized that the one in front of him was Yudha, his eldest son who disappeared decades ago.

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