GROWINGS
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Dafa was shocked not to play when both of his eyes were closed by foreign hands from behind.

"Sir Inu don't joke around, I'm busy..."

Instead of slacking off, the hand even more tightly covered the two eyes of Dafa.

"Ayoo guess..."

Dafa's smile expands. Showing her well-groomed white teeth. "Sam's brother, yes..!!?"

Sam woken. He briefly exchanged glances with three people nearby, before finally releasing his hand.

Dafa threw a smile at the four people. It was an event beyond their prejudice.

"There's Ardiansyah's father - Grandma Anggita -- Brother Sam - same -" Dafa was silent for a moment. His forehead creased like he was thinking for a moment. "Tante Trinity must be..!?"

Anggita Suryatama barely blinked. His lips were trembling like he was about to say something.

"May Grandma hug, Dafa...?"

Dafa refused with a little distance. "I'm granny again, smell.."

"It's okay, Dafa.."

And for the first time, after a long time - Anggita Suryatama can hug his youngest grandson again.

"Grandma misses you, Dafa..."

Dafa just grinned. It's a bit crowded and uncomfortable too. "Grandma's sorry, not that I don't want to - but I still have a lot of work to do.."

"Work?" Anggita Suryatama let go of her hug. He looked around him. Where the dining room at the boarding house that is not how wide, is filled with piles of baking pans and jars, both those that have been filled with special cakes Lebaran, and those that have not.

"You made all this, Fa?" Sam asked in disbelief.

"Yes, Brother Sam."

"Then, you must not fast..?"

"Sam's brother don't just accuse dong!" Dafa puffed his cheeks. "I have no idea at all..! If you don't believe me, ask Mr. Inu..!"

"Mas Dafa, someone wants to take an order of two dozen pastries. Said Widya's mom's man.." Said a middle-aged woman while thrusting a white envelope at Dafa.

Dafa opened the envelope. Check its contents and match it with the notes in its sales book.

"Ohh yes, for Widya's mother who has the yellow ribbon, yes, Mom."

"Okay, Mas Dafa."

Ardiansyah and Anggita Suryatama did not take their eyes off the figure of the skinny, pale-white boy who looked exhausted.

"Fa, what would this box do?" Sam asked on the cardboard box of the shoe that was wrapped in the middle of the top.

"That's a donation to the orphanage's children, Brother Sam." Dafa answered without lifting his head.

At that moment, Kinno appeared with a completely disheveled face. And he did not know that that afternoon there was Anggita Suryatama and his family.

"Ehhh Grandma Anggita same Om Ardiansyah.." Kinno said clumsy.

"You seem to.." Sam mengedik's.

"Heheehee.." Kinno laughed indistinctly.

"So you just fasted?!" Sam was a little surprised.

"Hheeheehee, that's how..."

Embarrassed by her appearance, Kinno decides to return to Inu's room to take a bath and change clothes.

Dafa's phone is ringing. The call came from Tita's number. He invited Dafa to break the fast together later in the afternoon.

"What if tomorrow? You see, tomorrow I'm going to break my fast with the orphanage kids."

'That orphanage near the school, huh, Fa?'

"Yes. If you want later, please tell the others about Grandma Stevie as well. All right, I'd like to introduce you to the orphanage kids, too.."

'Oh, 'OK, Fa. I'll see you tomorrow..'

"Can Grandma come too?"

Dafa looked at Anggita Suryatama deeply. Then he switched to Ardiansyah. From the look on his face, it was like there was something he wanted to say.

"Dad-granny..."

"Yes, Dafa.." Anggita Suryatama.

"That's-- actually-- uhmmm---"

"What's up, Dafa.." Ardiansyah touched the hand of her youngest son.

"Can I -- uhhmmm.." Dafa bit his lips. He was really hesitant to say it.

"Say, Dafa. Who knows if Grandma and your father can help."

"Actually, right now I really need money..."

"Money?"

Dafa nodded at Anggita Suryatama. "So of course, my current savings are not enough to be able to buy a new house for the children of the home.."

"New house?" This time it was Ardiansyah.

"Yes dad. Yesterday the day after tomorrow I got word that Aini's mother and the children were going to be kicked out of the home. You see the house they now occupy in a bank dispute."

Aggita Suryatama and Ardiansyah are both silent. Both were silent not because of material problems. This second also, both are even able to buy ten minimalist modern two-story houses at once.

It was just that what made them silent was because of the Dafa thoughts they had never thought of, before.

"Later, if I had the money I promised to replace it.."

"Becch..." Anggita Suryatama let out a long sigh. "Trinity, help you find a home for those kids."

"Home, Miss Anggita? But--what kind of house? What's up? Is there a swimming pool? Or --"

"You better not listen to Aunt Trinity, Fa. Because, maybe later you even dizzy made it.."

Dafa laughed giggly at the innocent babble of his grandmother's personal assistant.

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