
Two weeks passed, and,
"Are you ready, honey?" ask Adrian make sure.
"Attep, Mas!"
All the suitcases and the necessary equipment were in the car half an hour ago. But the time to leave was precisely Ara who went back and forth, and there was always something left behind.
"Come on, baby, yes. Let's go back and forth again, if something is forgotten and we need to buy it once there. Ok!" Ara gave her thumbs up sign in agreement with the words of the husband who made a unilateral decision.
After they got into the car and put on the seat belt, the Eagle made sure everything was complete by asking the employer.
"It's all, sir?"
"Already Lang," said Adrian who embraces the wife who still looks to remember something, I don't know what it is. Then the woman opened her bag and seemed to flip back looking for something.
"Mas em_"
"Don't tell me anyone's missing again?!" annoyed Adrian.
"I beg you, just for a moment. We have not yet come out of the gate, either" the wife pleaded with him, always causing Adrian to melt. But this time it seems not.
"I told you to buy it there" said Adrian lightly. I stopped for a little while, because it was not far enough. But it seems Adrian who is tired of the reason of his wife, began to fad at the woman he loved.
"No, I don't want to. Can you, Mas?" The woman clasped Adrian's arm spoiled.
"Road Lang. We'll be late if we stop again, honey. We bought it in Switzerland. Point!"
The eagle spurred his car as soon as it got such an edict from the master. Actually pity Ara as well, but how else, the woman had gone back and forth several times.
Afterwards Adrian looked forward without speaking again, while the wife still clutched her arms but with an adorable pouty face.
The Indonesia-Switzerland trip takes about 18 hours, with multiple transits. Fatiguing right? But the shadow down the city that was there evoked a sense of aching due to a trip of more than half a day.
Yes, this is the first time Ara has visited the country. In addition to vacationing, the main purpose there is to visit the tomb of Akio, and also the stepson who went to school there. Three dollars, right? All frugal.
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Arrive at Zurich airport at 6 hours and ten minutes. That morning the air was cold for the unaccustomed Ara. The husband reminded to turn the clock 5 numbers early so as not to be confused.
Dani attended an international school in downtown Lausanne. From the airport they went straight to the city where Dani studied it. The journey takes about 2 hours overland.
It turns out that Switzerland is winter at the moment. In this country if the summer air feels warm but if the winter will feel cooler. Back again, don't ask how Ara is doing right now.
The woman speaks a thousand languages. Not because of continuing the annoyance he brought when in Indonesia earlier, but because he enjoyed a cold other than the others.
Even in mountain areas in Indonesia, which is famous for its low temperatures, it is still less cold than winter in this country. The hands feel frozen and numb and the face is pale with a distinctive red hue. But what most makes the woman interested, of course, because every time she breathes through the mouth will come out a fairly visible fog than in the country of her birth.
"Where are you going?" Adrian pulled the fur coat worn by his wife until she hit him on the chest.
"Comm ... It's beautiful here, Mas. It felt like running around there," pointed Ara at the meadow in front of him. It is like a field but very green and clean. And the most amazing thing in this country is that everything is well maintained.
"Yes. We meet Dani first, yes dear," said Adrian who did not take off his possessive hold on the small waist in front of him.
"Mas seems to know this place well? Have you been here before?" ask Ara to her husband. Because from the airport to here, the man does not look foreign to anything that is here.
"When not to this city. But if you go to St. Moritz. We used to be immigrant students, always traveling to neighboring countries if on vacation." Adrian explained to the wife who was always amazed, with what he thought he had just learned from the husband.
"st. The moritz? What's that place, Mas?"
"It's a city at the foot of the Alps, there's always snow there. I love skiing, honey. Do you want to try it?"
"Of course you want. I've never seen snow, Mom." Ara's eyes sparkled with a face that grimaced in embarrassment.
"alright. After we meet Dani, to the tomb of Akio and then proceed to visit some beautiful cities in Switzerland. How's it?"
"Ready!" answer very excited wife.
Rona is happy Ara cannot be lied to. The woman is always interested in new things from a country. If Adrian allows himself to go to college, he may take a geography-related major. He's very interested in that.
But did her husband allow her to go to college? Ara shook her head slowly, seemingly not. The man did not demand much. He just wants his wife at home waiting for him to come home, or just accompany him to work in the office and spend his money.
Ara sighed in her heavy breath. Adapting to low temperatures was not as easy as he had imagined.
"Why is your head, honey? It hurt?" asked Adrian who saw the wife suddenly blinked and closed for quite a long time.
"It's just a little heavy, Mom. Maybe just the adaptation process." Ara is a little dizzy, but she can still control herself.
Adrian nodded in confirming. Indeed, in addition to breathing that feels heavier, the temperature is too low also causes the head to feel dizzy, and sometimes also the ears buzzing until mild hearing loss that lasts several days.
Dani lives in the dorm. After getting off the airport Adrian had contacted him, and it turns out his son was outside, there are extra activities that he followed to fill a vacation that is only a few days.
Adrian decided to stop one day in Lausanne to meet his son. He stopped at an empty house close to the dormitory, which is usually used for parents who only briefly meet their children.
After Adrian met a guard woman who was asked by Dani to welcome the father, they were shown a house with typical Swiss nuances.
A house with thick walls. Earth dominant color and old impressed. Then the garden in the yard though small is always not quiet of colorful flowers that captivate the heart. What a dream home of the future.
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"Daddy, how long is it here?"
"Weekly maybe, Daddy's leave is only that long. You feel right here, Boy?" adrian asked the child while staring at the tall body that looks higher.
Dani is indeed different, maybe far from the father and lives alone in the overseas, making the child independent.
"Of course, Dad. What kind of question is that? I've been here almost a year. Is my face like a depressed person, Dad? Daddy must have seen the changes to my body to think that way."
Adrian smiled with a smile. A year ago the boy was still with his teenage body that tended to be fat. But now, Dani looks more athletic and can not be denied as handsome as his father.
Then Adrian asked the news of his college friend who had asked for help to watch his son while here.
"Uncle moved out a few months ago, Dad. He was transferred to another country by his company. Fortunately, interacting every day with people around me makes me already quite familiar with their characters. So they're like family to me here, Dad."
"Thank God. Daddy was worried because Daddy knew your nature long ago," joked Adrian.
Dani smiled wryly. Why did his father say so, was not the unique gene obtained from the man he called Daddy.
"Oh yes. Where is Akio buried?"
"st. Moritz. Grandma said, before Om died he asked to be buried there. I'll send Daddy the contact of someone who lives there. He's a friend of Akio's Om. I also see him every time I go there."
"You don't want to go with Daddy there, Dan?"
"It would be awkward if we went _"
Ara came out carrying three cups of hot chocolate that she made after some time peeling the small kitchen where they stopped by.
"Hey, Honey. What are you carrying?" adrian asked as his eyes unintentionally stared at the exit, and saw the wife standing there with a tray in her hand.
That's what kept Dani from continuing. The child only threw away his face after he had turned his head unintentionally to look at where the stepmother was.
Ara almost turned around. But Adrian's words certainly undo his intentions. He has been found out to be there, will create awkward situations later if he does that.
Strengthening her heart, the woman began to step up, continuing her initial intention to give a cup of chocolate to her husband and stepson. And also himself if allowed to sit there. But the last intention suddenly disappeared, after what he heard accidentally earlier.
"Wow chocolate? Must be good." Adrian immediately sipped his cup up to half. "Sit here, honey," he pointed it at the seat between himself and Dani.
"The woman who drove us earlier taught me. I didn't speak English very well, but she kindly taught me by using gestures" explained Ara happily.
"Drink, Dan." Dani just nodded without intending to nudge the chocolate-filled cup her stepmother gave her.
"Join here, honey. We do not stay here, let a little afternoon later we immediately glide to the tomb of Akio," said Adrian.
Ara was invited to sit down, but she looked at Dani instead. The boy looked at her flatly with no hospitality at all, making Ara self-conscious.
"Emc ... I left the oven lit, Mas. That woman also taught me how to make oat cake earlier. I'm afraid the cake's charred, Mas." Ara reasoned that she would no longer be forced to sit there by her husband.
Really, if asked he would love to talk with the three as before when they are still fine. Although the moment was only a moment but Ara missed him a lot. However, looking at Dani's face that no longer needs to be asked how it looks, Ara's guts shrieked. Who am I? And he always rang the boy's words, 'You're just my Daddy's wife, not mine."
"Go, and bring your cake immediately if it is ripe. We can't wait to taste it." Adrian pushed the small waist that looked fat because of the thick sweater that wrapped it.
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"Are you okay? What's wrong?" The Swiss woman stared worriedly at Ara who was sitting with red eyes near the oven.
Ara just nodded. He couldn't answer the woman's question, because right now it felt so crowded. Even without saying much or insulting, Dani's hateful gaze was able to tear down Ara's defensive walls, which she had actually prepared since the husband confirmed their departure to this country.
I have to be strong. I should be able to, all for her husband's sake. If you love your father, you must love him no matter what. Moreover, the child does not do anything that hurts you, even though it hurts your heart more often.
Suggestions that he said every day in his heart for approximately two weeks waiting for the day of departure arrived.
The hearts of no one knows. So is his power. Ara stared at the brown nanar in her still-full cup without reducing the volume. I don't think he wants to taste it anymore.
The best chocolate this country has that it says is capable of improving the mood, no longer makes it interested at the moment. Moreover, he had to hang his hope, that his stepson would drink it.
Ara held the woman who was about to come out calling Adrian. I don't know, I think that woman meant that. At first glance Ara only heard the word 'your husband'' and then suddenly panicked to see the woman who helped him move out.
"I am okay."
"Carl. I am Carla, Ara" he said. Though they have been together for more than an hour and they just remember not getting acquainted so fun. But the woman knew his name, maybe Adrian said it.
Ara nodded. "Thank you, Carla." Then Ara asked Carla to stay in the kitchen with her. Waiting for the cake they made to mature while talking about many things.
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"Be careful, Boy. Actually Daddy really wants you to come," said Adrian unraveling disappointed.
Dani glanced at Ara, making the woman look down. But when Ara was about to leave let the two men talk. His hands were tightly held by Adrian. Even when he asked to be released by signal, the man did not care about it at all.
"I'm a lot of unfinished work, Dad. Although it's not a busy day but I'm not on holiday." Dani reasoned to the father not to participate.
"Okay. Later before returning to Indonesia, Daddy stopped by again." The two men hugged and Adrian patted the boy on the back saying a few words of advice with the fingers still holding his wife's hand.
The couple immediately headed for the car to continue their next trip to St. Moritz. Go to Akio's tomb and also see the snow as Ara said.
Actually Ara was eager to take the train for their trip to St. Moritz. But the travel time is quite long that is almost doubled, making Adrian undo the intention of the wife. If they get in the car they can be up in 4 hours more. That means if you take the train can be 8 hours. If there is a transport that can take them faster why not. Because lingering long on the journey is boring.
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Arrive at St. Moritz is late afternoon. They contact someone who turns out to be a girl named Pauline, who claims to be Akio's college friend.
Pauline blasteran Indonesia - Switzerland. His mother is dead and he is with his father who is a doctor at a private hospital in Bern. Although he himself lived in the cold city of St. Moritz.
"So you're Adrian? And this beautiful one must be your wife" Pauline said when they first met. If many girls are amazed at the figure of Adrian, when he first met, another thing with Pauline. The girl just glanced at Adrian then even extended her gaze on the figure of the woman next to her, Ara.
"Do you know my wife?" Adrian feels that Pauline has been watching Ara since.
"No. I just heard the story from Kio." Pauline smiled awkwardly, realizing that what she was doing did not escape Adrian's eyes.
"Did Kio tell you something bad about me?" Ara interrupted, out of curiosity what Kio told the stranger who accompanied the man to his last breath.
"Darling!" Adrian glanced sharply at the direction of the wife's question.
"No, Ara. Apparently what Kio said was one hundred percent true. You are funny and adorable. Everyone should like you. Including me who just met you this time." The beautiful girl carrying an adult laughed breaking the awkwardness of the three of them due to his actions earlier.
"You guys going there now?"
"If not trouble Pal. We were from Lausanne visiting our son. We haven't rested at all. Is the place far away?" adrian asked who realized the day had gone up.
"Five kilometers from here. Not far away, just a short trip," said Pauline, he allowed his two guests to sit.
"Do you guys have a place to live here?"
"I happen to have a resort. Not far from the ski area," Adrian replied while putting the fondue in his mouth. A typical Swiss dish in the form of slices of bread dipped in melted cheese that has been cooked and added some kind of seasoning first.
"Oh yeah? Kio never told me. Try Ra, this fondue is usually the friendliest food on an Indonesian tongue unless you don't like cheese" Pauline said. The girl thrust out a fork whose tip was fixed on a piece of bread.
Ara according. Seeing Adrian eat it several times seems like the food can also be accepted by his tongue.
Once inside his mouth, the taste of his cheese was incredible. It is not wrong Switzerland got the nickname of the best cheese producing country. But the smell of the bells is not so Ara likes.
"Wise. Let me get the car ready first." said Pauline leaving her two guests.
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A large tree seemed to have aged for decades, standing firmly in a place that was more precisely like a small garden.
Like the scenery in a fairyland. If you've ever seen a Hobbit movie, you can definitely imagine what this beautiful place looks like.
As far as the eye could see there was no sign of a tomb in this place. Maybe this is just a road that needs to be crossed to get there. While the tomb itself is still quite a distance to go.
"Still far away, Pal?
"Look a few meters in front of you. Under the huge tree was a mound of land higher than the surroundings. That's where Kio rests" said Pauline lirih. For some reason, Adrian felt there was silence in the heart of the girl every mention of Akio's name.
Adrian pointed in the right direction, evident when Pauline nodded his ass.
"There's no headstone there. How to recognize the place? Moreover, this mound there are several," said Adrian who had thrown a gaze around the tree.
It is true what Adrian said. There were several mounds made around the big tree. There are box, triangle, round and love shapes. All of them have the same height and the top layer is overgrown with grass that looks neatly trimmed.
"Kio who wants to be like that. He said he only wanted to be known by his family, not someone who might accidentally visit his grave. Because he has lived a new life now, without sadness and pain, he said, "Pauline explained in detail. It was like a planned death. Because everything feels perfect and beautiful.
Adrian breathed heavily. A cousin who is like his brother is always amazing. Imprecise every step of life he goes through with passion, even though his chance to be in the world is not long. But of course his figure will always be missed by those who know him.
The man hugged Ara's waist, taking her to a place where Akio's body was stretched out.
They sat for a moment, in a wooden chair that looked freshly painted. The seat has the inscription (L' amore e tutto. Non potrai resisters). Beautiful words, maybe it was also the quote of Akio or the person who built this place for him.
"We visited you. Be happy with your new life Ki" said Adrian lirih.
Ara wiped away her tears that were unhappily dripping. Then take some flowers that grow in the garden that surrounds it and pin it on the beautiful green grass-clad soil.
"May Brother be happy. Forgive us for coming to visit late" Ara said in a raucous voice.
Adrian brought his wife back. Pauline's been waiting and the day's gone. Especially the night here is very cold.
Thank God, thank you reader, I am so excited in this month of my birthπ hopefully what I am targeting can be finished on time and can again make a new novel, lamove u2KIDUNG
Amore e tutto. Non potrai resistere. Love is everything. You won't be able to refuse it.