Merlinda (Ranging Back)
Like a Story in a Fairy Tale Country

After about eighteen hours in the air, at exactly four in the afternoon, a private plane belonging to the Remkez family arrived at John F airport. Kennedy.

Just then, Elin let out a long breath. It didn't take a day for him to be miles away from the people he loved.

Not unhappy, when he realized he had returned to New York. It's just that his feelings are still troubled to think, that from today, this city is the place to return, not Jakarta anymore. The city he lived in was more than twenty years old.

Daniel reached out with a smile, "we've come to love" he said, and Elin could only reply with a bland smile at the time. But he did not refuse the man's hand.

" Come on, take Daniel, ask him to get up from the chair in which he looked at the clouds for hours.

" Come ", ask Reymond to chim in. And he smiled again for the middle-aged man, "yes Papi", he said, and began to move on.

" Welcome Mrs. Remkez ", said several people at the same time, who were standing in line in front of Elin, when just one foot touched the stairs, and he found everyone smiling at him. His mood changed slightly by that, and he smiled, smiling sweetly. And for the first time, he did it after a few gray days that he passed.

" Welcome also Mr. Remkez", said some of the men later.

A woman approached him and Daniel, just after they had arrived at the foot of the flight of stairs. More precisely the woman approached him, "welcome young lady", he said so kindly. The middle-aged woman he saw for the first time today, her smile bloomed, gave her a bouquet of red roses, "safe for your marriage. At that moment, Elin smiled and turned to Daniel, who now replied with a smile.

" Thank you ", he replied.

Along the way to the Mansion where they live, Daniel did not stop holding Elin's hand. Occasionally kissing the back of the woman's hand. He understands too much the feelings of his wife now, who is depressed, is sad because it is far from the people closest to him.

He even understood, when along the way the woman did not speak a single word, only smiling, every time she kissed the back of her hand. And it continues like that, until the car that brought them arrived at the Mansion yard, "we've arrived dear" he told, though at the time, that, elin's eyes were already looking at the few people standing in the main doorway.

And he smiled again, welcoming the hand of Daniel who took him out of the car.

" Welcome Mr, Young Madam", said a middle-aged woman. He looked older than the big madam in the mansion, and he became the leader of some people who were still in the doorway.

Elin did not reply to that remark. He looked more interested in looking at the face of the middle-aged woman in front of him, the face he had just found in the house. For a moment he looked at Daniel. His forehead creased slightly, but Daniel smiled at him instead. He looked back at the woman before him, looking closely at the woman's face.

" He's like Jamie's aunt", she said softly to Daniel, and again, the man just smiled. And at that moment Elin's eyes instantly enlarged, "so she was right, Aunt Jamie ! ", he said exclaiming, and still in disbelief.

" Welcome son" said the woman once more. Her smile was broken, and Elin no longer doubted her guess, "Auntie Jamie", she was so happy, she couldn't help but hug the woman, "I barely recognized auntie ", said in an embrace.

" Aunty is so pretty ? " ask Jamie laughing and Elin nods, "very pretty", she said approvingly, though Jamie herself was only joking with her words.

Elin took off her embrace, and observed once again Jamie's body. That woman, she looks so different. Her hair was arranged so neatly, with one-eyed earrings on her ears, "Aunty being a butler ? ", he said a guess, and after that he turned to Daniel.

The man nodded. And his eyes sparkled with the news.

She hugged Jamie's body again, "I'm so happy auntie's here" she said. Even Jamie could feel his heart thumping as he said that sentence.

" The big lady who asked Auntie here to ", Jemie said, "your mother-in-law loves you so much" she added.

" But that's my advice Bi" Daniel said. Elin took off her arms, and Jamie chuckled at the man's protesting words, protesting that his name did not mention being a part of his existence there.

Elin looked at her heartbroken, and was not ashamed to take turns to kiss the man's lips, despite still being in front of Jamie, "thank you dear", she said earnestly. And Daniel nodded.

Reza comes closer, giving Jamie a bouquet of red roses that Elin got from the welcome at the airport.

" Gosh I almost forgot it ", '' said Elin, wanting to move to get the flower, but Jamie kept the bouquet away from her, "let me take her Mistress" she told Elin. And at that moment, both of Elin's eyebrows immediately linked together, and threw a dislike gaze, "why do formal talk like that Auntie", she protested.

She turned to Daniel, "I don't like aunt talking to me like that ".

" Bi talk to her like before" Daniel told Jamie.

" But I'm currently working, sir ".

" But you're a family here, not a real waiter" replied Daniel, dismissing his answer.

" I really don't like aunty talking to me like that" Elin said. Jamie no longer protested. In fact, he really disagrees. It was too impolite for him to have been given the best place, in the position of the worker in the house.

" Alright, I can't argue if it's the Young Madam's wish" she said with a laugh, and Elin immediately dodged.

" Let's go in ", take Daniel, and so does Jamie, who allows Elin to walk again.

" Give me the flowers Auntie", sergeant Elin. And Jamie kept the bouquet away, and when Elin came back to reach her, "your hands wouldn't be enough, holding this bouquet" Jemie refused. Elin's forehead was slightly wrinkled, she really did not understand what the woman's words meant. However, he no longer tried to take the bouquet back into his hands.

Returning with Daniel, he walked into the large house that was waiting before him. The luxurious house that will be his residence and become his place home. And he sighed when he realized it again.

One foot stepped on the stairs in the house. At that time, he felt himself in a fairyland. Like a Cinderella, coming back to the kingdom. After next to the pair of glass shoes, found by the Prince on him.

Although actually there are no glass shoes, but the fact is exactly like that.

Every step of his foot moved up the stairs, every step of it, he realized his life was like a dream. He just felt it now, that the way of his life is not like a woman in a fairy tale. The ordinary woman who married a prince.

A servant gave her a red rose, "welcome Young Madam, and congratulations on your marriage ", she said very gently. That was the first greeting he got, from the dozens of servants who stood lined up on a display of the main entrance stairs. All of them said the same sentence, and gave one stalk of the same red rose.

When Elin's eyes water again.different this time, he cried because he was moved. He was touched by something extraordinary he got. Something he never thought of in his entire life.

If a few hours ago he was crying out of sadness, right now he was also crying, but this time, his crying out of happiness.

Happy to realize he has a special life line, an unexpected lifeline. Like a story in a fairy tale, but this story is the reality that he got in his life. She is not a Cinderella as in the story, but Merlinda, a woman who is also married by a prince.

Now his tears had flowed from his eyes that were still puffy, and at that time he immediately embraced the body of the man beside him, the man who continued to hold tightly his hands, like the story of the prince in a fairy tale. She clasped Cinderella's hand, as she stepped up the steps of the Castle.

" I still have another surprise for you" Daniel said at the time, and at the same time the big door in front of them was wide open.