Rainy
The Taste That Ever Existed

Rainy narrowed his eyes, staring at the bowl of noodles that were half left. In front of him now, Aksa was like a starving man, but the noodles were still hot. While Rainy's own is still full because Rainy is afraid his tongue is burning.

“Why not eat?” aksa asked, when she saw Rainy who was silent.

“Still hot,” replied Rainy.

“Kan stay in inflatable. Or do I want to blow it?” Aksa raised her eyebrows.

Rainy shakes. “Lo really laper? That's why I gave eggs as mustard?”

“Share it beautiful.” Aksa said with a chuckle, when in fact when his nose smelled the aroma of noodle sauce cooked by Rainy, the hunger suddenly appeared.

“Padahan without lo love it too, I also want to make two portions,” said Rainy who thought Aksa wanted him to return the favor.

“Good dong.”

“What's Good?” Rainy asked in surprise.

“That means you are self-conscious.”

Rainy clucked hearing that. “Leave aja if lo laper, continue to want to eat my cooking. Yes right?”

“Idih, who said?”

Rainy rolled his eyes. Aksa was still evasive when it seemed that the guy was hungry, just look at the bowl that was almost empty, while Rainy had just run out a little.

Lazy serve, Rainy continue to eat only. The afternoon just eating a snack and making him hungry when he came home from school.

After eating, Rainy saw Aksa who was about to wash her bowl. Rainy stood up and took over the bowl from Aksa.

“Let me aja,” says Rainy.

But Aksa took the bowl again. “Gue aja, right who ate me.”

“But what makes my food, you eat my cooking with that bowl. Let me be the pure one,” pinta Rainy, trying to reach for the bowl again but Aksa immediately raised it up high.

“Yakin can?” ask her in a mocking tone and raised eyebrows.

“Aksa .. ”

“Gue said I did. Whose bowl does this have?”

“Nyokap lo.”

“This is home to whom?”

“Lo— means family lo.”

Aksa grinning. “Well, means I dong the holy one? You are a guest here. Not maids. Lagian you already give me noodles too, it's enough as a form of thank you because I've been allowed to cook here.”

Rainy clucked, but he just resigned himself because he did not want to argue anymore with Aksa. Moreover, the bowl was still in the hands of Aksa who was lifted up high. It was clear Rainy would not be able to take it.

“Lo stay nyuci used to eat lo aja, former meal I responsibility me. Inget! I'm the host, so you can't just sit here,” said Aksa made Rainy again cluck.

“Iya, yes.”

Rainy sat back down to finish off the rest of the noodles and broth that stayed a little more. But occasionally the tail of her eyes glanced at Aksa who was standing behind her. Of course he was washing his bowls. When she finished, Aksa turned off the tap and wiped her hands.

Rainy turned his face when Aksa was about to turn around. Now replace Rainy who'll wash the bowl.

“Oh yes, don't you have a brother? Bang Bara if not wrongly named. Where is he now?”

Rainy turned around after drying both of his hands. He replied, “Again lecture, in .. LN.”

“Oh pantesan,” Aksa mangosteen.

“Why? Kangen lo same my brother?” ask Rainy a little bit of a teasing.

Aksa shook her head strongly. “Nanya doang masa in say kangen anyway?!”

Rainy chuckled, then left the kitchen when all was well.

Aksa caught up with him, while earlier recalling the expression on Rainy's face that chuckled lightly like there was nothing. But the rarity was only a few seconds until that flat expression returned again. So, is Rainy really okay?

“Lo is not the same as Abang lo?” Aksa tries to find information in subtle ways and questions that do not lead too much to personal matters.

“Ngak. I used to be left behind, after all he was six months back home again,” said Rainy.

They were already sitting on the living room sofa, and the front door was left open because Aksa was afraid that something might go wrong. Especially in this house there are only the two of them.

“Ck! That's adek time anyway? No kangennya same brother himself.”

Aksa shook her head making Rainy who just opened her phone look up.

“Yeu~ do you have a brother? Have Adek? Do you know what I am feeling?”

Oh obviously Aksa shook his head. “Gue has no brother and no brother. Enough of me as the only child of Mama Clarissa the most handsome.”

Rainy just found out that Aksa is very. Makes shudder. “Gue doain lo later will have adek.”

Aksa glares. “Hiih! Don't, I'm big. Shame if you have adek again, how the hell lo?” sahut Aksa shuddered.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, Mama Clarissa came home. Once you see Rainy who is playing mobile phone with Aksa, different seats of course. Mama Clarissa immediately excited, not her who was welcomed, even mama Clarissa who greeted Rainy with a hug quite tight.

“Tante .. ” Rainy somewhat ... startled.

“You're safe here as aunty's son? Not in anything, right? Aksa no macem-macem is it the same with you? If he dares to macem-macem say aja to Auntie, let Aunty who is legal.”

“Ma .. ” Aksa glared at her Mama's greeting. This is not what is Clarissa's mother's son Aksa, why even more worry to Rainy who is nobody?

“You didn't do anything Rainy, did you, Aksa?” Mama stared hard at Aksa.

The guy was choked to see the eyes of his real mother. “Yes, No Ma! How can Mama not even believe in her own child anyway?”

His intentions did defend Aksa, but it seems like mama Clarissa thought the other one, but, “Lho? Why should I cook? Kan at the dining table there is still aunty cuisine, in the refrigerator also stay ngangetin. Or not allowed with Aksa, yes?”

Aksa said he did not accept. “Wah, why is Mama now even accusing Aksa that? That was Rainy himself who wanted to cook, Aksa already nawarin Mama's cooking but he did not want,” said Aksa upset.

Jeez .. This is who Mama Clarissa's real son is?

“Iya, Aunt. Aksa already nawarin me, but emang I again want to eat another.” Rainy defends Aksa again, and Mama Clarissa nods to make Aksa snort.

Too late for the trust, Aksa thought.

“Tadi Aunty from in-WA Your aunt, he said he forgot to leave the key because he did not know would return home malem. So, just when Auntie knows that you will be at the Aunty's house, Auntie came home to stop by the supermarket to buy additional ingredients we have dinner,” explained Mama Clarissa at length.

Rainy looked surprised. “Eatnight Aunt?”

“Yes, didn't your aunt say she came home late, so afraid you were starving because you hadn't eaten, so you had dinner with Auntie, huh?

Rainy could not resist, let alone see the face of Aksa's mother. Finally he could only nod to make Mama Clarissa squeal with pleasure.

Rainy's activities in Aksa's kitchen are not only limited to cooking instant noodles, but also helping his mother Aksa cook for dinner. But, Rainy only got the chopping part, and they both got additional personnel when Aksa joined and sat down at the dinner table.

“Aksa was naughty though but he can cook. Although the cooking is not home cooking like stir-fry, but the cooking is delicious. I was like a chef at a restaurant.”

Rainy has no idea why Aunt Clarissa is suddenly promoting Aksa. But, Rainy kept listening until Mama Clarissa stopped talking.

While Aksa who felt her ears hot, immediately stopped her mother's speech. “In front of others, Mama likes to praise her child, no one's turn, her child is always corrected the same in love cultum.”

Rainy chuckled at Aksa's words. While Mama Clarissa mendelik not accept. “So that in front of people you still have positive things to show off in addition to the negatives.”

At seven o'clock in the evening, Papa Aksa comes home, and is shocked to see Rainy there with his school uniform.

The man who was the same age as her father Rainy smiled after rubbing Rainy's head. Then ask her how she and Rainy's family are.

“My news is good, as Om sees it now. Papa's news is also good, because Papa always take care of health,” said Rainy who answered his question Aksa papa while thinking about how the news is now? Is it true as he said just now?

“Thank God. Om was shocked when Mama Aksa said that her son Bang Hamza came back here again but alone. Om guess initially it was Bara who came here, it turns out you .. ” Om Martin chuckles.

Rainy could only smile in response to the ruckus. They were having dinner right now, and for Rainy, this was the most delicious dinner he had ever had after all these years.

Dinner at the dinner table that Rainy liked the most. There was a warm chatter flowing in the middle of the twang of the spoon. There are jokes and laughter that adorn the quiet atmosphere of the night.

“Oh yes, you have not gone to your Mama's grave right?” ask Om Hamza.

“Iya, Om. Haven't. I'm waiting for a holiday so I can talk to Mama for a long time,” Rainy said with a smile that looks sore.

Aksa continued eating, occasionally observing the movements of Rainy who. Only his face looked a little sad.

“What is your stepdad? Still safe, right?” ask Martin for a joke.

Rainy laughed a little. “Good ..maybe. Or now still in the hospital.” replied Rainy grimaced.

Not knowing, Rainy did not know the latest news of his half-brother. Either still critical in the hospital, or returned unconscious or could be in need of blood again. Rainy did not know and did not want to know.

“oya? Why why?”

“Accident.”

Right, accident. Falling down the stairs as they fight. Again Rainy grimaced considering the reason why he could recklessly leave the house. It wasn't Rainy's fault, Riana herself made herself fall. But, still, Rainy is to blame and Rainy accepts even if he feels unfair.

“Since when did you have a sister?”

It was Aksa, who asked Rainy to make the girl stop her eating. To that question Rainy could not answer. Of course Aksa frowned in wonder, was the question wrong?

“Ya .. since she was in the womb.” Rainy tried to answer with a casual expression, then chuckled as he tried to make her feel funny. Though in his heart, Rainy felt in his words by thousands of invisible knives.

“Enak has no adek? It must not be good, right? That's why I don't want to have a grandpa. Enough of me as an only child. Yes, Pa?” Aksa turned to her Papa then was surprised when she saw the sharp gaze from her Papa.

So did Clarissa's mother, Aksa frowned in wonder. And immediately made his mouth shut when Papa asked Aksa to no longer make a sound. And at that very moment the atmosphere became tense.

***

Rainy came home when his aunt called when she came home. Before that, do not forget Rainy said a lot of thanks to both Aksa's parents for taking her to dinner and accommodating her in the house.

Rainy could not linger in Aksa's house, other than being uncomfortable in someone else's house, Rainy was also afraid that the Aksa family would find him troublesome.

It was eight o'clock when Rainy came into the house. My aunt greeted him with many apologies.

“Maafin Aunt yes, Darling. Aunty really doesn't know that aunty will come home at night. Next time Aunty will put the key at home so that if there is an incident like this again you do not need to go to someone else's house to wait for Aunt.”

“Yes, no papa, Aunt.” But Rainy breathed a sigh of relief when she heard that Aunt Risa would be leaving the house keys from now on. That meant, he would not trouble the other person's family anymore.

“You haven't had dinner yet, have you? Let Aunt masakin ya?”

Rainy shakes. “I ate already. They invited me to dinner, they were good, Auntie.”

Aunty smiled and hugged Rainy again. After that, Rainy can go to the room to charge his phone that is out of power. It's not dead yet but the phone's battery has been flushed.

Rainy went to the bathroom to clean himself up. Getting used to bathing at night makes Rainy feel not cold despite using cold water. But, in this Tantenya bathroom there is a shower that can make the water warm.

Rainy came out of the bathroom ten minutes later with a towel wrapped around his body. Her hair was wet, and Rainy was about to grab a hairdryer when he saw her clinking phone signifying an incoming message.

From the pop up of her phone screen, Rainy had seen who the sender was and what messages were sent. That message would be Rainy's nightmare. Instantly makes Rainy restless and difficult to sleep.

Aunt Devi

*Hello, Pretty. How were you there after you ran away from home? Comfortabley? Eat well? Be happy?

Definitely dong. You must be very happy after running away from your responsibilities. Moreover, there is no mother who will disturb your life.

But just calm down, Mami may not forget this most beautiful child Mami. Wait after a few days, you will feel more comfortable there, Mami will give you a surprise.

Have fun, honey. I love you*.