BEHIND THE TWILIGHT
Ch. 6

Handoko let out a long breath on her bed. The night had already been said hello and the dinner routine had already passed with his son and wife. Now, there is only himself and his wife in a room as big as the living room. Their children have returned to their rooms.

''Amara, how about Luna give up on Lula first?''

Amara, who was busy cleaning her face with cotton, turned her head, looking at her husband who looked at her with doubtful eyes. His two hands fused together perfectly forming a fist and a breath could be heard sliding just like that.

''What are you asking for?''

''Being to..going to School by bus, or public transport for example.''

''What?'' Amara rounded her beautiful eyes. Staring at Handoko who increasingly looks afraid of his sharp gaze.   Although the middle-aged man was too strict and cruel for his children, but not if he had faced the woman he loved for decades.

''Why take the bus when we have a car?''

''Didn't you hear Lula say what it was this afternoon?''

"It doesn't have to be by making Luna go on the bus!" hentak Amara wanted to be angry but he could stand it. Not want if the girls hear and then feel sad due to the quarrel of his parents.

"Imara, if I buy Lula a car and hire another driver, it's gonna cost us more."

"Yes, don't be granted what Lula requests. Let her and Luna be together when she leaves for school. You have always spoiled Lula Mas, making her feel even more flattered and adored. Makes him feel whatever he wants is always granted. You made it so spoiled and unruly."

Handoko breathed in annoyance, talking to Amara was the same as talking to Luna. Both have their own thoughts.

"If you keep pampering Lula, the more she grows up, she will ask for more of this. Luna is Mas's sibling, she shouldn't hate Luna." lamented Amara stared resentfully at Handoko. Feeling that the husband is too indulging his last daughter out of the mother's womb.

"Lula my son,..."

"Luna is also your son." Amara sidelines getting angry.

"Yes, you talk to Lula tomorrow. I'm going to sleep."

So, closed eyes tired of a middle-aged man named Handoko. Not wanting to argue more with his wife about their children. The more they know where their debate will certainly not have an end.

***

This morning Lula came out of her room with a perfectly fluffy smile. The look on his face was so cheerful when he went down the stairs one by one, staring at the dining table that was inhabited by both his parents and his twin brother.

His smile dimmed when he saw Luna who was dressed up neatly, very pretty with a bangs accent dangling over the side of his eel. Today apparently the bangs are tilted by the owner, making the owner of the bowl pony look more beautiful and radiant.

"Dad, have I bought a car?" tanya Lula occupied her chair while staring fixedly at her father. Hopeful gaze.

"Not yet."

"Why not? I want my own car." Lula looked disappointed at the father who had finished his breakfast. Amara stared at her son and husband. Occasionally staring at Luna next to him with pity for having to accept all the selfishness of Father and brother.

"Mom surely?" guess Lula looked at Amara. He knew his father would always grant his request if Amara did not stop him.

"Lula, what's the problem if you're with Luna in one car, son?" ask Amara gently. Lula exhaled in annoyance, he looked at Luna while thinking. Stared even with his leisurely breakfast, occasionally their eyes meet in a straight line.

"Luna is always late when you go home. Dating used to be the same Bara." chirped Lula without sin. While Luna was surprised to hear the babbling of her twin sister, while she stopped her activity chewing food. But a few seconds later, he continued his delayed activity for a moment. Still in his style.

Handoko and Amara looked at each other, then turned to look at Luna who was still loyal to her favorite fried rice. "You got a boyfriend?" handoko asked directly at the core of the problem created by Lula.

"No."

"But Lula said, are you dating? Who's Bara?"

"Dad believe Lula?"

"certain."

"So you don't believe me?"

"No."

It's just that all this time, he hasn't gotten a strange request from the mother, just for the sake of his annoying sibling.

"Luna is not dating anyone. Luna just entered the school, where dare to approach the Big Brother" said the girl explained.

"Today you took the bus! Lula does not want to wait for you long dating." break up Handoko makes Luna put on a flat face.

"Mas! Why that?" said Amara glared sharply at her husband in front of her.

"Mother, why do you keep defending Luna? Lula does not want to be late home and rest just to wait for Luna to date doang ya." Lula said as she looked at Amara in annoyance.

Luna threw down her fork and spoon and looked at Lula sharply, "Lo tuh like a child know not! Always manipulate stories that are not real, just to grant what you ask1 ****!" he snaps at his twin brother. He then took his backpack and ran out of the big house.

The house that he himself does not know what the actual function of the house.

Lula smilingly won seeing Luna who he could repeatedly defeat easily. Although at first he jumped in shock because Luna snapped at him, but it was okay. He was already quite happy because there was no car with the girl that rivaled his beauty.

"Lula! If until tomorrow you do not want one more car with Luna, you better not go to school!" breaking up Amara with annoyance, she left the living room by stomping her feet towards her own room. Before the mother of two children left, she looked at her husband very sharply. Not liking if what he wants is denied by the husband.

"Dad, why did you defend Luna to such an extent? Don't you love me?" said Lula bowing her head with teary eyes.

Handoko sighed then stroked Lula's head gently. "Don't think. Eat now, and go to school. Studying hard."

***

Barrels in front of the main fence, where students and students come in droves to enter the school with different vehicles.

The girl with jet-black hair squinted her eyes when the car she admired yesterday afternoon appeared in front of her. Come out the girl he does not like who immediately greeted his two friends.

"Lula! Where's Luna?" tanyanya approached the girl who wanted to immediately become the most wanted at the school.

"Gue doesn't know. He's a good bus." concluded Lula felt unconcerned, he then went with his two best friends with a laugh like a laugh at him.

"Gue doesn't have Luna's number, where she is." he muttered less if there was no friend next to him. Sighing for a moment, Laras then went to enter his class because the entrance bell would ring in a moment.

***

While away from the school, Luna stayed in a gazebo on the beach. The beach is always his favorite when all the flavors have filled his inner niche. The beach is rarely visited by many people, even though the beach is very beautiful and clean.

Sighing for a moment, he lyrics watch in his hand that has shown at 7 am. That means, the main fence of his beloved School has closed and the lesson has already begun. Since he was told to go on the bus, since then he has decided not to follow any lessons.

Not that the beautiful girl was embarrassed for setting off on the bus, she just wanted to calm down all the feelings that plagued her heart. A feeling easily defeated by anyone.

"Lo truant?"

A beautiful bass sound buzzing perfectly in his ears. The girl turned her head, making the hairs that she did not pigtail waving around.

"Mara?" he looked at the young man who greeted him. The young man nodded then sat down next to him, following Luna's style of hanging half her legs in the air. Gazebo shaped like a stilt house is designed quite well with an accent of a small staircase at the end of the gazebo.

"Gue classmate Lo, call me Kak Bara" said the young man as he gently touched Luna's forehead.

"Yes sorry," concluded Luna did not want to argue. The contents of his brain had already argued first before Bara came, making him lazy to think this and that.

"Why did you skip?" tanya Bara stared fixedly at Luna.

"Pengen aja." Luna averted her eyes, staring at the stretch of beach in front of her.

"Lo himself why skip?" luna turned her gaze to Bara.

"It's just been truant. Because look at Lo here, that's why I'm samperin."

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