Never A Stranger
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Tok tok tok (door sound)

"Honey.. Open the door!!, Don't you have to go with Aldo" a shouting voice from outside Riri's room door, it's mother.

Meanwhile, in the room a girl was sleeping soundly on her comfortable mattress. Riri still did not wake up when she shouted to him outside the door. Not just a mother, her handpone also never stop ringing like helping to wake her up, Aldo called her.

Mother continues to knock on Riri's room door to wake Riri because her bedroom door is locked by Riri, mother continues to knock on the door and Riri never woke up to make the mother become anxious if Riri why-napa, finally, I took the spare key to open the door.

After the door was opened, mother saw Riri who was still asleep on her bed. Mom then immediately woke Riri up so that she would get ready to go with Aldo. In the end, Riri wakes up.

"Mother, why wake me up at this hour?, I just went to sleep" Riri told her mother, upset to wake her from a good night's sleep.

"What do you mean at this hour, it's 7 o'clock, instead of you going with Aldo?" said mother while closing the window of Riri's room.

Riri paused for a moment and looked at the clock, how many hours did he sleep today. Until he forgot to close the window.

"Unfortunately I let Riri go with Aldo bang?" riri asked his mother because this morning Riri asked his mother's permission to just shut up.

Mom sighed and said "hm.. Aldo had called mom this afternoon he said he wanted to invite you, papa not if you want to go anyway you have not been to the playground since then".

Riri was silent and daydreaming

**flashback**

It turns out that there was an incident on the playground, right when Riri was 5 years old he went to the rides with his father, mother, and brother. At first nothing strange happened, Riri and her brother were engrossed in playing the rides happily. H

When they came home, Riri whined that he wanted ice cream. Her brother who could not bear to hear her brother who continued to whine was encouraged to buy ice cream for his sister without the knowledge of his parents, his father and mother kept walking and tried to calm Riri, who was not happy, Riri was not allowed ice cream because he had a tooth disease, which if he ate something sweet and cold his teeth would start to hurt and Riri would cry all night.

His mother and father did not want that to happen, the doctor said, not to give Riri sweet or cold food and drinks for a while. However, his older brother who was still an early age did not understand it so he immediately wanted to buy ice cream for his sister.

After walking far enough away and about to arrive at the exit the father and mother only realized that they had just lost their first child.

They panic and immediately search around the wahan, but because this is a vehicle to play, of course, people are very crowded. His father and mother had trouble finding their first daughter.

They searched never to see finally they reported to the security guard there and asked to announce the missing child of all visitors rides

Meanwhile, her brother Riri apparently heard the report and also found out that the announcement was fixed on her because the person mentioned her name. He rushed to the source of the voice to meet his father and mother. But the unwanted things happen.

Because of his early age, he is difficult to remember the way out the door, coupled with the visitors rides are so crowded. he continued to walk through the rides unexpectedly he entered into the circus rides.

He kept walking in the ride and heard people yelling at him "get out!!" the visitors shouted at him. He who was still confused continued to walk and for a moment he realized that he had entered the location of the circus that was going on, how shocked he was to find out that it was not a magic circus but a lion show circus.

Elisha cried as hard as he could, the officer saw it immediately secured him to the edge of the field and asked the vehicle security officers to take him out of there.

Due to the negligence of the security guard, Elisa is separated from her supervision when she leaves Elisha alone to break up the commotion outside the circus. He told Elisha to wait for him in the room while he was gone.

Elisha saw his ice had begun to melt, he could not bear to wait long, he remembered his sister who wanted the ice cream. Elisha went out and found a way out.

Finally after searching for Elisha to find a way out of the circus vehicle building, he immediately asked the person there by saying his name to the person. The man realized that Elisha was the missing child in the announcement and then he immediately delivered Elisha to his parents at the security guard post.

Both her parents were relieved and very grateful to the man, Elisa explained to her parents that she went to buy ice cream for her sister. However, it actually made her father and mother angry because elisa should know that her sister should not eat ice cream at that time, but because of her father and mother still forgive her.

It's not safe, why?

Because it turned out that after that the problem was Riri himself, he still whined not want to go home and still want to eat ice cream. His mother and father still calm him down until finally his father had an idea that it would take them both to see a clown circus performance. They were both happy and agreed, they went to a clown circus without their mother because she chose to wait for them in the security guard post.

They enter the clown circus and start watching it, they are very happy and enjoy the attractions shown by the clowns, until one of the clowns asked two small children to come forward to follow the action of their danger. A young boy advances onto the field, unexpectedly the brave Riri also raises his hand and advances, his father stopping Riri from advancing. However, the innocent Riri had already entered the circus field while running.

The audience saw the adorable Riri clapping for her, her father between happy and anxious still clapping for her youngest daughter. So did Elisha who was very proud to see his brave sister.

Attractions begin.

the clowns told the boy to sleep on the wooden mat they had prepared. While Riri's task is to choose 3 types of supporting wood with different colors under the wooden mattress, the wood is, if the wood chosen is wrong then the boy will die cut because it turns out there is a large sharp knife inside and one of the wood is the support of the knife, the knife, if the support is taken the knife will lgsung split the mattress as well as the person on the mattress.

People in the building hysterically heard the clowns' explanation, even the mother told her to get her son out of the circus. So even Riri's father who was very panicked shouted and asked the officer to take his son out of the circus field despite Riri's only duty to choose wood but his father was very anxious about his daughter.

One building was blown away by the cries of those who asked to stop the dangerous circus. Then the circus organizers managed to explain to the audience that they had done many times such attractions and so far they never found anyone who was injured after following him.

The circus committee also explained that they had prepared strict security related to it. The explanation of the committee made the audience gradually calm and in the end the attraction remained on the road even though Riri's father was very worried about Riri there.

The clown began to tell Riri to choose a wooden crutch, the clown who will pull the wood to prove that Riri chose not a knife. Riri chose blue wood, according to her favorite color, she is very plain by directly choosing blue color without thinking long.

Clown asks if he is sure of his choice, Riri replies yes and instead asks the clown to buy him ice cream that makes one building laugh including Riri's father and her brother Elisha. Riri is adorable.

The clown told Riri to be right in front of the mattress to see the wood he chose, while the clown would pull the wood Riri chose. If it wasn't a knife then the boy would have survived. A tense building awaits, especially the worried mother of the boy and repeatedly yelling for them to stop the attraction.

When the wood was pulled one building shouted hysterically and it turned out that the wood Riri had chosen was right, it was not the knife support. The audience applauded and many stroked their chests in relief.

When the child was about to be dropped from the mattress, the clown did not realize that there was one of the wood cracks so that when the child moved the wood was broken and destroyed, what makes one building scream in panic is that the wood is a knife support.

The boy who had not had time to go down had his unfortunate fate, a sharp knife split both sides to emit blood to the face of Riri who was still in front of the mattress.

All the spectators panicked including Riri's father who immediately ran into the field and took his son who was silent and did not cry a bit. Likewise, the hysterical mother of the boy saw her son die in front of her eyes so tragically, the audience was angry and made the atmosphere in the studio chaotic, the committee tried to calm but the emotions of the audience even more pronounced.

Since the incident the vehicle was closed, its owner and circus colleagues were also charged and thrown into prison. The boy's mother also became depressed because of the loss of her son and went crazy, it was the negligence of the officers and the committee who did not check the attraction equipment first.

From that incident Riri became often daydreaming and rarely laughed because of trauma, long saw his son who was not cheerful father and mother decided to move from the city to the city where he now lives. After moving, Riri finally recovered completely and returned as usual, even his father did not want to take Riri to the rides again after the incident.

When Riri was still Junior High he said that he was not traumatized by the rides of the game, he even wanted to go there again. His father was worried about his daughter, but Riri still assured his father that he was okay with it.

It turns out that's what makes his mother speechless when Riri asks for permission, not because of going out at night or going with Aldo, but because the place Riri wants to go is a playground. However, when Aldo convinced Riri's mother and Aldo also called Riri's father, Riri finally got permission from both parents.

After reminiscing about things first, Riri told her mother that she would be fine and not to worry about anything like that anymore. His mother smiled trusting his daughter, after all their daughter was already big and surely he could take care of himself.

Right at 8 Aldo came to pick up Riri, Riri met Aldo and immediately got into his car. Mother asked Aldo to take care of his sister, who was not the only one, Aldo knows what he has to do because he also knows what happened first.

Aldo's car drove after saying goodbye to Riri's mother.

"Where's your girl?" riri asked shortly after the car drove. Aldo just shut up and look at Riri as if to say why you are talking to Riri.

Not long after, Aldo stopped in front of the house or rather boarding.

"Let's get off" Aldo asked Riri while getting out of his car. Riri followed Aldo's invitation without asking, after all he was sure that the boarding was Aldo's female boarding house.

Turns out right, it didn't take long for someone to get out of that boarding house. The girl was quite tall, taller than little Riri seemed. The girl is beautiful and her white smile is also very sweet.

"Hello" he said to Riri and then immediately hugged Aldo, Riri just smiled. Aldo introduces Riri to the girl as his cousin's sister.

"Gee.. She's so sweet huh. Hello Riri I'm Dwi Aldo's girlfriend" he said as he reached out to Riri to get acquainted, he also did not forget to praise Riri. Riri returned his hand and said his name as well.

True what Nadin said that day that Aldo's girlfriend was Dwi Nadin's friend, Riri chose not to say his first major to Dwi because he still felt new. They get into the car after getting acquainted, Riri without being told to get up behind the car because he values Dwi as Aldo's girlfriend.

Car drove again died boarding entered the road leading to the rides in the cultural park.

**In car**

"Honey.. Riri is in your care, your younger brother" Aldo said to Dwi began the conversation, Aldo must have felt that Riri was awkward to talk at that time. Even though when meeting Nadin, Riri was ordinary and not even awkward like this, for some reason with Dwi he even felt afraid to talk. Riri was afraid that Dwi was a fierce senior later

"Ohya?.. Geez I just found out, it's great that Riri graduated huh. Riri must be this very smart girl" Dwi praised Riri, unlike Riri's guess, Dwi turned out to be a friendly person. Riri eliminates her nethink on Dwi and starts to get along with Dwi.

"Yes brother Alhamdulillah Riri can be a sister level brother" said Riri who has begun to feel comfortable. Aldo and Dwi laughed at Riri's statement.

"Have you met there?" ask Dwi. Riri recalled Nadin and Hilda the friend he met on the day of the test.

"Udah sak but a little, yesterday Riri met with Hilda a test friend but she failed the test" explained Riri who had begun to open up to Dwi.

"It's okay it's normal, because the failed ends will definitely be successful as well, we're not competing now, we're just looking for which way we will go to Rome" Riri was amazed by Dwi's explanation, he was really wise in responding to something.

"Yes, brother Nadin also advised Hilda like that" said Riri.

"Nadin?"

"Yes, Nadin's brother is his friend Kak Dwi" Riri explained to Dwi

"Oh. You met him also means"

"Yesterday Riri was confused which building the test site and brother Nadin both delivered Nadin to the building" explained Riri again while praising Nadin who was good to him.

"He was very good Nadin" continued Dwi.

They talk so much that it does not feel like they have arrived at the cultural park, Riri is confused because Aldo said this morning that he took his friend but he did not pick up his friend, even directly to the place of the rides.

"Bao.. What about your friend?" riri asked Aldo curiously. Aldo smiled and looked at Riri from the windshield and then said "he's waiting for us here" Aldo replied without saying who it was. The increasingly curious Riri impatiently wanted to meet that person.

Aldo parked his car, after which they got out of the car, the rides were very crowded just like the rides he had visited first. This was his first time to ride again after so many years.

"Bang" call someone to Aldo. Aldo turned to the origin of the voice, including Riri and Dwi who spontaneously looked towards the voice.

The man approached them. When approaching Riri was shocked to not believe to see the person whom Aldo invited was....

Seriate...