
Under the dim lighting of the room, moonlight enters through cracks that allow it to enter into rooms that are deliberately left dark because maybe the owner really wants to be alone first in an indefinite period of time.
Star, he started to play his phone. Hope there is an incoming message from Reynand who gave it to him even if it was just saying good night like before. A habit in which two teenagers who are kasmaran in general.sometimes people who are used to feel so comfortable from waiting for news, then become something so foreign when not given the news. Painful is when we wait for news that never comes.
The wait feels long and tiring is when you want to know the news is fine or not. It's very nice to say hello but there's no courage to start it all. Not because you don't want to, but the heart forbids you to do that. Not wanting to be selfish, but keeping someone's heart from getting hurt is not a good thing?
He remembered that time, the man who was always kind to anyone during his school days, anyone who asked for help, so gladly the man whom the Star craves helps gladly.
The admiration began from him seeing the man's attitude that was always good to him. But when a good that we have become accustomed to becomes an unpleasant habit that is when the good that is in it is not as it used to be. That's the hardest thing.
A girl was lying in her room staring at the ceiling of the room while putting her cell phone over her chest. Closed his eyes for a moment hoping once that there was a notification going into his phone.
"Have you slept?"
The sound made the Star open its eyes and turn on its cell phone flashlight then came out of its room where the source of the sound came from. The star who had been eager to sleep but delayed after hearing his papa's words from outside.
The star opened the door of the room and invited his father to enter.
"Why not sleep?" said the man while rubbing the right shoulder of the Star. A girl who always needs to be spoiled by her papa.
"Papa, why isn't Papa sleeping?"
"Star, the day after meet Mama!"
The girl rounded her eyes surprised by what her father said so suddenly.
"Why is this all of a sudden, Pa?"
"Mama asked, Star,"
The star nodded resignedly, he had already promised himself to meet with Reynand someday. He will express his feelings and apologize. Perhaps they can understand each other even though in the end no one is really united.
Both Star and Reynand, both of them have to really let go of each other if they are not put together later.
The girl bit her lower lip. I couldn't believe what her father said, but it all sounded so clear.
"Darling, Papa excuse me. The day after you remember, Papa who will take you to meet your Mama," then the man said goodbye. The star locked the door of his room and laid himself on the bed. He closed his eyes, feeling great pain. One more week he will meet as a meeting as well as a farewell that will be done together with a man who was once so valuable to him.
He had built up such great expectations towards Reynand. Destroyed for a moment when he had to be separated along with a man who was so excited to stay alive even stronger.
Falling into the comfort created by the man is not a wrong thing. Rey, is a man who has torn down all the strength of his heart in surviving for himself this time.
"Don't forget we met, and I'm sorry to speed up the time to be tomorrow. Because I want to spend time with my family."
The stars sent that message.
There was a notification sound coming into his phone. Rey, who was watching a movie on her laptop, picked up her phone and saw a message from the stars asking her to meet tomorrow.
The man smiled, hoping that tomorrow would be better. And the Stars were much more honest with their feelings as they were written in the notebook they were given.
He deliberately did not reply to the message so that the girl rested well. A happy look from his smiling face like a teenager who is really in love.
The man understood that there was a gap that was indeed created between the two of them. That is exchanging news that some days just disappeared. From habit to unusual.
He did not want to complain and let things go as they were. He wanted to meet with Fendi to tell it all, had told him several times about Bintang to Fendi, still his friend's request to leave Bintang and focus on the parents' orders. But he believed that this time he would find another Star to be a new light in his life; in the sense of finding a Star that was honest with his own feelings.
Rey came out of her room to go to the kitchen to fetch water from thirst before going to bed. The water he was carrying was gone when he was busy watching a movie on his laptop.
"Why hasn't she slept?" say his papa while yawning and stretching his muscles.
Rey paused exactly a few steps from the man who was opening his glasses while yawning it. "Yes, get some water, Pa. Papa himself why haven't you slept?"
"Papa told Mama to make milk for your sisters if they wake up later,"
Rey nodded, but she saw her papa was completely exhausted. "Here let me make milk for them, Pa. Papa take a break, his room is not locked, I'll go in for intermin,"
"Really?"
"Yes, Pa. Papa's sleeping, looks like Papa's tired,"
"Further tired Mama who take care of your sisters, Rey. Papa is nothing," said Azka calmly because in fact the heaviest is indeed parenting. Moreover, the one Nagita nurtured was twins, and it was really exhausting.
"Yes already, Pa. I'm going to the kitchen first, Papa sleeps, later if Mama asks you to stay answer me who made them milk,"
Azka rubbed Rey's head and turned towards her room. Reynand went down to the kitchen to make milk while taking water for himself.
There he began to make milk, his mother always provided hot water there. He was used to making milk for his sister, his two younger siblings no longer drink breast milk from his mother. But still drink formula milk.
Finished making milk, Rey went straight up to the room of both her parents and her sister. He just walked in, found his father who was hugging his mother. While the two were in a corner near the wall, the man put milk near the table and raised the blanket. He saw his two brothers sleeping very well.
Looking at the comfort when his parents hugged him he just smiled looking at that simple happiness.