CARNATION (KIARA)
HELEN TOLD ME

"This is Carnation's tea."

At the poolside Kiara and Meira sit down, Meira makes Kiara a warm tea with her favorite sugar cubes.

"Thank you, Meira."

Kiara said this while sipping the fragrant tea.

"The fragrance of jasmine, the adrian mas who brought the tea from Semarang when he was there at work."

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Kiara's heart felt strange when one woman mentioned Adrian's name proudly.

"Call me Meira Anyway, I don't think our age is far adrift, do we?"

Meira said this again with a smile, and her smile was warm.

"Maybe it's Meira."

Kiara who is currently nervous trying to position herself as neutral as possible, did not want her nervousness to be seen by Meira.

"I think Helen has the talent to be a film director, this you can calculate in the future Carnations."

Meira said this while looking at Helen who had been observing the director was giving directions.

"Thank you for Meira's concern, I didn't even realize if Helen had such talent, maybe I was too busy."

Suddenly it came out of Kiara's mouth while staring intently at Meira.

"Anyelir, you can't say that, all mothers are the most sensitive people to their own biological children, you can't blame your busy lives that I'm sure you did for Helen."

At once Kiara fell silent with all the things Meira said, deep down in her heart the deepest she wanted to say, if her goal is to work hard, one of them is to be able to meet with the real father rather than Helen.

"You're right Meira, maybe all I've been dealing with is dozens of novel scripts, so sometimes I forget to socialize with others, just tell me the grievances I've been through."

"I understand Carnations, being a single parent is definitely not easy, a role that should be in for both, in the end must be felt alone, there is no place to tell stories, there is no place to tell stories, and we'll have to swallow it ourselves."

"Although I've never experienced being a single parent, yet I can feel what young mothers out there are going through, you must be strong Carnation."

Meira says this while smiling at Kiara, and Meira's smile gives Kiara her own strength.

"Thank you Meira."

"Well, if you need a friend to share, I'm ready to listen, Adrian is a husband who understands very well if his wife also needs a female friend, therefore, Adrian is very free for me to be friends with many people, especially women, so you don't have to worry about the time, it can be arranged."

There were no more words Kiara could say except for a nod of her head and a slightly forced smile to keep looking appreciative of Meira.

That afternoon Meira told me more about her, about her daughter Michelle and most about Adrian the husband she adored.

Many times Kiara wanted to close her two ears so as not to listen to all Meira's words about Adrian, but in the end Kiara still had to listen to everything without being able to move from the seat that she really wanted to leave.

Meanwhile Adrian who was finished with his work approached Helen who was currently sitting in the garden while paying attention to many flowers.

"Hello, can you sit next to you?"

Helen who listened to the sound immediately straightened her head and immediately nodded her head to agree with Adrian sitting there.

"Sit down."

In the end, Adrian sat down next to Helen.

"Do you like flowers?"

Helen quickly nodded her head.

"Like it, but mom doesn't allow Helen to plant it in the yard."

"Why?"

Adrian said it as if - would be so curious with an indifferent answer from Helen.

"Mama says it's home and dirty, and it's for other reasons."

Helen said this while looking straight ahead.

"Om, is it the CEO of this production house?"

Now, Helen's two eyes set her eyes on Adrian.

"Yes om is the CEO of this production house, what is it?"

"What made you interested in this novel? because according to Helen the novel is the end of the story is not finished, whether om is not afraid of loss with production costs om out, because according to Helen this is very expensive om."

Helen the little girl gave her analysis to Adrian about the mother's novel to be adapted into a film.

"I admit you're a very good girl at analyzing things, at your very young age, you can think of the profits and losses of a film production, salute you Helen."

"Thank you, but you haven't given Helen the answer to why you dare to take risks by taking your book with minimal readers and making a movie production with a very grandiose?"

For this time Adrian was silent again, because it is impossible for Adrian to tell the truth that the novel that will be raised into a film is a story of his past with Kiara.

"Om, is it okay?"

Helen's unanswered question made Helen again ask for the umpteenth time to Adrian.

"In the world of business there is a name of risk, and now that's what om is taking, om taking this risk, om, because om is very confident that the story in the novel can make this film a success."

"What if you end up making a loss? does it mean you've prepared everything?"

Adrian quickly nodded his head.

"Yeah om already prepared everything, someday if Helen becomes a career woman with a lot of work Helen will understand."

"Helen doesn't want to be your career."

At once Adrian also looked directly at Helen.

"Why? isn't it now that young people really want that?"

"Yes, but not Helen, Helen wants to be a housewife who takes care of Helen's children well."

"During this time Helen saw mama working from morning until night, sometimes saying good night to mama was very difficult, Helen did not want to later experience the same thing as mama om."

"Helen wanted to accompany Helen's child with complete parental affection, unlike Helen now, had a mother, a house with a mother, but Helen was like living alone."

"Om know, the sickest thing a child experiences is when living in one house with two parents, but feels foreign to two parents themselves."