When Love Teases
43. Applicable
Cia threw the phone right on the pillow. Disappointed look adorned her beautiful face. Just after calling, talking let go of the longing of almost 30 minutes with Adit. With the conclusion of the lover can not come to Ciamis. Though he was very hopeful that his lover would visit him after a year of not meeting physically.
The long breath sounds harsh. Calm down for a moment before exiting the room to restore the mood. The mood is plummeting in this moment of Eid because reality does not match expectations. Adit apologized for not being able to come because he was reluctant to get stuck in traffic.
"Astagfireullah! Brother Damar--" Cia jumped from her seat on the edge of the bed. Just remembered not contacting her brother's best friend. The one who was always there for him. With a cheerful face, her thumbs moved touching the video call button.
"Kirain had forgotten the same I-" the first greeting from Damar when he met the face through the phone screen. No smile, just flat.
"Ulu-ulu. Watch for a stroke later, brother." Cia chuckles seductively. But the man over there still had a flat face.
"I'm sorry.not to forget, brother. Here just finished the open house. Then again there is his family Puput, detained with Mami and Enin. Ordinary Sister.still in order to snack." Cia reasoned with a wide smile. The name Damar was forgotten. He did not want the adult man to be more cranky if he knew the real reason.
"Okay, I'm sorry." Damar seemed to walk to the balcony. His right hand held a soft drink can. The original Jakarta has not gone anywhere. He is currently at his parents' residence. Family gathering.
In this moment of Eid, Cia also apologized to be born and inner. Which Damar responded to with the same. Now put on a normal face as usual. In a conversation that flows more relaxed and interspersed with laughter.
"Sir, Adit is in Jakarta." Cia switching topics. He was always open to Damar as he was to his own family.
"Keep I have to say wow that?!" If only Cia was sensitive. There will be a change in the look of Damar's face that hardens even if only a little.
"Isa...Sis, that's the response." Now it's Cia's turn to frown. Hope Damar Ketangsangan happy even apathetic.
"He's going to Ciamis?!" Damar always refused to mention Adit's name. Continue sipping a soft drink without taking his gaze away from the screen. Seeing the change in Cia's face that became grim.
"Can't come here he said.males with jam because it's still homecoming." Cia replied lethargicly. Disappointment that had evaporated as soon as he looked at Damar's face, tilted again.
Damar smiled cynically. "Kok cemen is a guy. Said love. Is not the word figurative, mountain kudaki, sea kusebrangi in order to meet the idol of the heart. It's just a matter of jamming....." Continue to mop while blasting lips.
"Kaaak--" Cia rebuked weakly. Shaking head. Too lazy to argue. Only the face looks uninspired.
Damar seemed to take a long breath. "Cia...how if you are the one who loves surprise?! Come to Jakarta. Meet her. Let me go to Ciamis pick you up. How, hmm?!" He could at least look at Cia's face. Will do anything that can make the face of the baby always decorated with a smile.
"Aiiihhh, really, really, sister." Sontak Cia straightened her back with vigor. The solution that Damar offered did not cross his brain. Considering the plan to return to Jakarta is still another week with both parents.
"Sister Damar is the best." Cia gives kiss bye with cheerful bright romance. Simple things that without knowing it just makes a thin smile always rising on the lips Damar. "When are you coming, brother?!" he is impatient.
"Lusa aja yes. Tomorrow there's still a family event."
"okay, Sis. I'll wait. Greetings to Om and Auntie!" Cia terminated the video link while giving kiss bye once again. Mood's improving. He left the room to join the others.
"Sleepless kok. Where are you going, Nin?!" Cia approached Enin who was watching the afternoon news accompanied by Papi Krishna.
"Your mom's in the kitchen with Aunt Ratih and her mom's fat. The same banner Aul came out, Enin told him to buy milk. Rama's the same as the Escape on the porch." Enin kept his eyes focused on the television screen.
Cia frowned. "And the milk stock is still in the closet. I bought 2 dus yesterday."
"Ssttt---" Enin turned his head while putting an index finger in front of his lips.
"That's Enin...." Cia nodded her head with a narrowed look.
"White, Enin mah deserves the title Temperature Mode huh?!" Cia turned to asking for her papa's support. Who responded with a chuckle. While Enin just smiled faintly.
...***...
"Rilex.if Titanic has Jack and Rose. The tree house has Rama and the Princess."
Puput stared at her reflection in front of the vanity mirror. There was still the voice of the soulful baritone. Even the breath of mint aroma was still lingering on his left cheek until now.
He had just returned home with Mother delivered by Rama, after dinner together. Choosing to go home first because Aul is still on the road stuck in traffic. After all, the moment together in the tree house even if only for a short while, had left a sense of groggyness. Entering again into the house, he was more silent and reduced the interaction of views and conversations with Rama.
"Udahan. I can't relax.even tense."
Puput chose to open his eyes by honestly looking to his left side. So that the views that are rubbed against each other are inevitable. Rama was caught looking at him intensely. Makes his heart work abnormal.
Sane Put, sane.
The reflection in the mirror depicts reality. Puput patted both of his heated cheeks and blushed again. Flashbacks in the tree house are still clearly illustrated. It was only a short time because he asked to come down again. Reason that soon adzan magrib. Though the real reason he did not want Rama to be able to read the gesture that represents his heart.
His mouth opened both of his palms. It still felt the grip of Rama's hand that led him down. Alternately, lead the left and right hands. Making his nape now bristling.
Monologue in front of the mirror. Self-suggestion. Falling in love today can make the planning and acting that has been arranged for the future of his family messy.
"Where's milk, Aul? Just got home." The new pupil came down the stairs, sitting at the dinner table. Staring at Aul who sipped a glass of water until it ran out.
Aul opened his veil before answering. Decomposes a sultry and sticky feeling due to sweating. Roman was annoyed to look adorned with his beautiful face.
"Actually each mart that is visited there is a stock of milk Anl*** but small in size. Kak Panji said it should be according to Enin's request, which is 900 grams big. He said that when he was old, his attitude returned like a child. So if it is not obeyed it can lash out. Finally fit magrib dapet at the intersection of five. Uh.mau home stuck. So Kak Panji ngajak eat first to the cafe. I'm going straight home."
Puput listened to the long explanation of the younger brother.
"Where is the banner now?!" The eavesdropping turns the head towards the living room door that becomes a barrier to the middle room.
"Home home just now, not long to sit. Talk to Mom for a moment and apologize. Keep saying goodbye. The motorbike will be delivered tomorrow he said." Aul's limbs were then going to the bathroom to take a shower, refreshing the body.
...***...
The night on the second day of Lebaran, Via and Adi came to visit Puput's house. They had just returned from Banyumas this afternoon with the two families. Because there's a relative who's getting married tomorrow in Ciamis. A pair of lovers who will soon take off single, mingle with the family of Puput in the living room without awkward because it is familiar.
"That's my favorite, too." Ami most eagerly unpacked the souvenirs in the paper bag that carried Via. Accomplish one-on-one Banyumas specialties. There are fried giteuk, jacket jang, and nopia. All are claimed to be his favorite food.
"Halahhh. Everything you brought must have been said to be 'my favorite'. Your mode is..biar brought again." Via mopping with lip smashing.
Ami giggled while opening the bamboo besek which contained fried getuk wrapped in brown sugar. "Mbak Via pinter deh..gak kayak Teh Puput," he said. One got bitten and chewed with a savoring expression.
"That's so good about teteh!" Puput whipped. "You again, why support the centil," he continued glancing towards Via who held a thumbs up.
"Well, you're like a snail anyway. Slow down.got sensitive to the same code people." Answer via relax.
"What the hell is this?!" The puput frowned. "If I don't have to code. Instead of misunderstanding, mending to the point says." The link is no less relaxed.
"I want your double that's durian!" Pinta Puput to Via asked for the selected cake flavor named nopia it. Sontak makes Ami and Zaky laugh amusedly because Novia chose the taste by grumbling.
"This must be his mother mbak Via used to crave eating nopia huh. So fitting born given a similar name." Aul laughed in a fit of laughter. It eats red sugar stuffed nopia.
Via added mendelik annoyed because now part of the material bully an.
"Put, tomorrow will you join the SD reunion?! I sit there." Adi turned the topic of jokes into a serious topic. He and his band were invited as performers for the SD Pitaloka reunion entertainment.
"Yes follow. Wuih engrossed dong.I want a duet ah. Chrisye song request Yes, Di!" Puput clenched his hands into the air excitedly after Adi agreed. Adi already knows for sure what favorite song he is asking.
Mother separated herself from her children. Heading into the kitchen as soon as he saw Via who went to the bathroom.
"Via, here!" Mother said slowly as soon as Via walked out of the bathroom door that was in the hallway before the kitchen room.
"What's up, Mom?!" Via did not lose said slowly. Closer to the curious look saw the drowsy Sekar Mother watching the situation.
"Tomorrow can come here no, mumpung Puput want to go reunion. I want to talk about something important about Puput."
"Tomorrow I'll meet first. Most abis dhuhur. What the hell is ma'am, say now only.I'm being an acute kepo deh." Via turned impatient to see a serious look on Mother Sekar's face.
"Tomorrow, we speak with four eyes."
"It's curious ah. Clue it first, ma'am. Pli!" Kepo Via's soul is increasingly struggling.
"Don't be excited! Wrapped up." Whisper Mother.
Via widened while smothering his mouth because spontaneously screeched in shock.
...***...
It's Nopia. One of the special souvenirs of Banyumas.
From the outside, the nopia is white, but in it this food has a brown sugar filling. Some nopias are also filled with chocolate, durian and pandanus.
Sc: gotravelly.com
