Mystery of Room 13
Section 57: Faithful Promise

Hearing the bitter life story that has been kept tightly behind the laughter and jokes Ridwan makes my heart full and dissolve in sadness.

"You're strong, Wan." I rubbed his arm with my palm.

His eagle eyes were all staring far ahead, adorned with flashes of anger and sadness at the same time. The glassy-looking eye beads he never showed. It's smart that he's been hiding wounds that I believe have been around for years.

The eagle's eyes turned to look at me. "Then I promised myself that as far as I could be, do not play with the heart. I will treat the woman I love like a queen and not as a babu. I will keep my loyalty to the woman who will later be my companion."

I was embarrassed to get a speech that sounded firm and sincere from his heart. Even though I knew I wasn't necessarily his companion in the future, still a pink hue adorned my cheeks.

"Han, whenever you're ready, I'm still waiting for your answer."

"I-I still can't determine," I quivered. If I had never seen beautiful eyes twinkle in love, if Love had never asked me to promise to let go of the man we both loved, already from the beginning I received a good man's statement and entered the criteria of a woman's dream man.

Ridwan is a complete package. Physically he can be said to be perfect with a tall body and a beautiful face, plus dimples that add sweetness when laughing. So far he has a good personality, not reluctant to help his friends.

"Why are you daydreaming. You must be fascinated with me?"

Yes, I am indeed fascinated with creatures like Ridwan. Ridwan was destined to take care of me because he was always present at the right time. Like the tragedy of the falling porridge yesterday, he suddenly just came when I needed a hug. Even in the factory when I was scared of the ghost that appeared in the spinning building, he was there.

"Don't you, daydream me right?" his questions and laughter made me gasp.

"Duh, this is why people are so confident anyway? I'm daydreaming doesn't mean I'm fascinated, but I'm thinking of you."

"Sure, you don't think of me?"

"It sure is sure."

"Well, the richness of my struggle to get my heavenly angel still needs a long struggle." Ridwan said while patting his forehead. I wanted to say that the struggle to get this heart worked but circumstances forced me to be quiet. There's no way I'm hurting a nice beautiful girl.

"Here we go, let's finish the food and go home."

"Ready Boss Ma'am!" I chuckled at the ridiculous manner of the twenty-five-year-old man, almost four years behind me.

After finishing the porridge, the man ordered four packs of chicken porridge then handed me two packs. Again and again he refused the money I gave him.

"I don't feel good about having to owe you one more time. This is all just let me pay."

"No need, baby. It's my birthday so I want to treat someone special at heart."

"You're on your birthday today? Congratulations, hopefully..."

I wonder why the man when I tried his hand, it was even broken until he held his stomach.

"Ish, why aren't you? Something is wrong if I want to pray for you on the day you grow older."

"No, there's nothing wrong with your prayers. Precisely ridiculous I really want to find a reason to treat you to lie about my birthday that has passed from two weeks ago." I hit his arm in annoyance and kept pranking me.

"You know, Han. You are the most beautiful gift for me."

"Because on my birthday, for the first time I met a girl as sweet as you. Without any need for a complicated reason, I could instantly fall in love at our first sight."

I blushed in shame, apparently on the first day there was someone hooked on me even though I realized Ridwan's love and I would not be united. "How can I fall in love? You don't know my personality and background."

"And I said that. There is no reason for me to fall in love with you. The more days I began to believe that maybe you are a soul mate who is destined to be together. Every time I think of you, you're suddenly in front of me."

Ah, if I stay close to him for too long, I'm like ice cream in broad daylight, melt fast. "Yes already, Wan. Let's go home. Poor Wulan must be waiting for me to come home."

"Okay, Mrs Boss. Today you're in the afternoon, aren't you, Han?"

"Yes." Yeah."

"I'll pick you up?"

"Yeah. Uh don't, I'll just go alone."

Hanna, that's stupid. I almost agreed to Ridwan's invitation without thinking about the risks. I don't want to hurt beautiful. Yesterday when Ridwan fixed my bike, he didn't look like it. How will he see me and Ridwan together. Can-can be beautiful to set the war drums.

"Well, what the hell, Han? You're just confusing."

"Don't, I'm riding a Wulan motorcycle. After all, after a break I want to go home for a while, if you pick up even complicated later."

"Can I take you with us to eat at rest." I refused because there was a heart I had to keep.

"Yes already. If you change your mind, call me right away. When else can I be a private driver for my heavenly angel."

"Gombali. Let's go home quickly. Poor Wulan."

Along the way from the chicken porridge seller to my indekos, I shared many stories with Ridwan. That's where I knew her mother's state of concern.

His grandfather and grandmother were not people around here, they were living in his mother's hometown in Semarang. Meanwhile, Ridwan's mother used to migrate to this Javanese land on the grounds of wanting to be independent. However, the profit is unachievable, unfortunate can not be denied, four years Ridwan's mother wander and break contact with his family, his mother, unexpectedly they got news that their daughter was hanging out in the streets in a state of terrible circumstances and carrying a child in his biennial, namely Ridwan.

"I don't know how hard I lived. All I remember is that my grandparents took us back to the city of Semarang, while my mother was locked in a room because she was often missing. I don't know some people who came to heal my mother, but nothing's worked."

"Have you been taken to a psychologist?"

"No, because my grandfather believed, my mother's insanity was due to the black magic sent by someone. They were also sure, the culprit was the man who had dumped mom just like that."

"Where do you know that a man dumped your mother? You'll meet your mother when she's not okay."

"I'm the real proof that there's a bastard who grabbed my mom." Ridwan spoke with a trembling voice. "Every day my mother was always rummaging, cursing all the men she met. For him all men are bangsattt, just want sweetness. One more thing that caused us to move here is that every time my mother goes missing, she's always found in front of your index, bloody index."

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