The After The Rain
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Kinara had only been to the night market a few times. In addition to the complex where he used to live in the elite area, he also did not have friends to be invited to enjoy jajajan and various games in the night market.

Not much different from Kinara, Sekala was also only a few times invited to the night market by his mother. And after the woman died when she was nine years old, Sekala never again came to the night market because her father brought her to live in a new environment that was completely inversely proportional to the life she previously had.

Another thing with Lestari. The little girl came to the night market with her mother quite often. Although their economic situation was not very good (it tended to be lacking on several occasions), Sinta quite often took the boy to the night market to find entertainment, although not infrequently they just walk around without buying anything because they have no money.

And since among the three of them only Lestari was quite familiar with the atmosphere of the night market here, then Kinara and Sekala let the little girl walk the lead in front. They just followed where the little footsteps were.

Earlier, they had been patiently waiting for Lestari when the girl asked to play fishing, coloring the picture until boarding odong-odong. Now, when the girl has started to confuse what else to try, Sekala took the initiative to offer an option for them to enjoy snacks in the night market only.

Lestari, as the tour guide of the night market agreed, and they finally walked over to a round-talking seller who was being mobbed by several people.

"I want a spicy taste" Lestari's message to the salesman's brother, when he had no money at all.

"How much do you want?" ask the seller.

Lestari did not know she had to buy how much, so she looked back to ask for advice from Sekala as well as Kinara. But instead of giving advice, the two adults looked at each other in confusion.

With a mature style, Lestari sighed then shook her head. The little girl then looked back at the salesman who was still waiting for an answer.

"I want ten thousand, so two, yeah. One is spicy, one is spicy sweet."

"Okay, ready!" the seller immediately made Lestari's order with enthusiasm.

Meanwhile, Kinara and Sekala looked back at each other, as if they could understand each other's contents inside their heads.

"Which money,"

He looked down when he felt his pants being pulled. Found the figure of Lestari who looked up while raising one hand.

"Money, his brother is waiting" repeated the little girl.

At once took out the wallet from the pocket of the pants, pulled a hundred thousand pieces from there and then extended to the seller to be exchanged for two plastic bags containing the round tofu which was still hot.

"Return, Mas" said the seller, extending his change.

Just take the change, say thank you and then immediately pass with Lestari and Kinara.

"We ate there, yes," Lestari pointed to the field above which was called a colorful tarp, some of which had been occupied by other night market visitors.

Kinara and Sekala. The three of them walked to the field and immediately took off their footwear and sat on an empty tarp that was closest to the road.

"Big guy, can I ask for more money?" asked Lestari when they had just landed their buttocks on the tarp.

Without asking what the money was for, Sekala immediately gave all the change he got from the handyman round earlier to Lestari.

But instead of taking everything, Lestari just took a piece of fifty thousand pieces and then immediately darted away without saying anything.

"Heh, kid! Where are you going?!" Kinara panic. Since the night market was currently quite crowded, he was afraid that Lestari would disappear.

But Sekala held his arm and tried to win when he was about to rise to catch up with Lestari.

"Let's go, give him confidence." Sekala said, with a melodious voice that instantly managed to make Kinara's worries disappear.

Her boyfriend? Her thought. But the thought did not continue as Sekala put the phone back in her pants pocket and their gazes met for a few seconds before she pulled away first.

"I have responded to the chat from the Father" said Sekala, managed to make Kinara turn back to him.

"My papa?"

"Yes." Yeah."

"What's the talk?" search Kinara. As soon as she smiled back at her message, Kinara became suspicious that Papa had said nothing to the man.

"It's just that you're happy or not. I said, You are more than happy."

Mas Kala, can't you talk about it without a smile like that? My heart is weak, Mom. Inner Kinara, when finding a smile Sekala more and more feel alluring every day.

"Mas Kala often chat with my Papa?" of the many questions, that one appeared more often in the head, so Kinara asked him. Again he did not understand, already how far the relationship between Sekala and his father.

"Often, almost every day."

"..." almost every day.

Kinara was confused. Why with Sekala, Papa can be so familiar as quickly as that? Not to compare, but when he was dating Atha, the young man never told him that he had exchanged messages with Papa. Either Papa did not do it, or Atha who deliberately secretly did not tell it to himself.

"Papa ... don't talk weird about me, right?"

"No, Kin. You just know how you were doing in Orion. He just wants to make sure you don't have any trouble, that's it."

Okay, that's a relief. At least Papa doesn't talk nonsense. However, it was not enough to answer the question he had in his head. About how Papa and Sekala became close in no time.

Kinara had no chance to find out more, because suddenly the little Lestari came back with three cups of drink and immediately took a sitting position in the middle, he said, become a barrier between himself and Sekala.

"I bought avocado juice for you" said Lestari, while offering a cup containing green drinks.

Kinara received the avocado juice, keeping it on her side as her eyes glanced back at Sekala who was still maintaining her smile.

"Make Mas handsome, I buy apple juice, just like mine,"

Ough, that Mas is handsome! Why did Lestari have to dub Mas Kala that way? Kinara could only grumble inwardly.

"Thank you, yeah, pretty boy." Once he took his apple juice, and again used his big hand to damage Lestari's hair, as if it had become a new habit.

"Yes together, you're handsome." Lestari giggles.

Then, Kinara felt himself kicked away when in an instant Lestari and Sekala had been cool to enjoy the round tofu they had bought. Two different-aged humans occasionally throw jokes at each other, tease each other and end up cracking up together. There really was only Lestari and Sekala, and Kinara was just a lifeless stone that happened to have the unlucky fate to bear witness to how familiar the two human children were.

Is it a friendly Mas Kala, or are the people around me weird? They weren't this close to Atha.

Okay, Kinara. Please keep the question in your head until the time comes for you to find the answer.

Seriate