
It rained all the way and was pretty heavy too. Vira who had wet clothes and hair felt cold in the car she was riding in.
Vira hugged herself, folded her hands in front of her chest while rubbing her face that was hit by water droplets from her hair.
"I'll just get off here, sir! thank you, oh yes, this is what I added. Sorry to make the seat wet" said Vira who had seen her rented house. He gave the taxi fare to the driver.
"Oh, yes thank you. But mostly this, brother!" said the driver.
"It's okay" said Vira to open the car door.
"It's raining hard, I have an umbrella, brother! I'll take a minute" said the driver, who appeared to be younger than Vira.
"No, my mom! already wet too, anyways run away already up," said Vira who directly broke through the rain.
A person who noticed the woman recklessly ran away during the heavy rain only shook his head.
"Gosh, he's not afraid of that rain!" said the man who did not take his eyes off the woman who was now lost behind the door.
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After cleaning himself and changing his clothes. Vira also enjoys a glass of coffee mixed with creamer and a little sugar.
"The rain is durable, even though it is already malem." said Vira while blowing air on a yellow mug containing hot coffee.
"Srrr! enjoy what you lie about, Vira! drinking coffee while putting on a blanket is really uwow," Vira spoke to herself.
"Huaaatchihin..."
"Ih, the nose even like to run gini! Huaayashi! ah, mamfet's address is the nose! uhuk, uhuk!" Vira sneezed and coughed. He placed the coffee on the table near the standing lamp that Vira turned on while going to sleep.
Vira's getting her blanket up. He kept sneezing and occasionally coughing.
"Old water toys will not hurt. The older it gets, the more frail it gets. The rain is like a cold! Huatichiiiihh...!" Vira felt her head slightly dizzy.
Vira took the coffee he put on the table again, and drank it slowly.
"The selfishness of haqiqi is like this! I should've made him tea instead of coffee, my throat added after drinking coffee!" Vira put her empty mug on the table.
When he was scrolling his chat app. There's a call coming in, ' said mama Gia.
Vira swiped her phone screen to answer the call.
"Oahoo, tanteeee. It's Gia..."
"Ohalo too, Gia. Huatchih!" Vira felt her nose clogged. He took a tissue to wipe his itchy nose.
"Auntie why? Sick aunt?" ask Gia.
"No, just .. huaatchih, uhuk uhuk!" Vira sneezed again with a cough.
"Who are you talking to, Gia?" asked a man who had just entered Gia's room. Penny who was sitting on the edge of Gia's bed suddenly shifted.
"Sama aunty Vira." said Gia showed her phone screen to the person who asked her.
"G-gusti?" pekik Vira when she saw the wrestling face filled the screen of her phone.
"Isn't he out of town?" muttered Vira in the heart.
"Huatchhiyah!" Vira sneezed back.
"But talk to Aunt Vira for a minute, shall you?" ask Gusti to his son.
"Byeah, Pih!" said Gia adorable.
"Vira, I'm sorry about the cup cake you gave Gia," said Gusti who felt bad.
"No problem. He's your only child so it's only natural that you want to protect him and prevent something bad that might happen to Gia" Vira replied.
"I mean if the cake is from you, it should be okay. But, maybe my nanny was afraid to let Gia eat something she got from someone. I'm sorry and I hope you're not offended, Vira." Gusti said.
"I understand, it's okay." said Vira smiling.
"You're sick?" ask Gusti.
"Yes, just a little flu" Vira said.
"I'll take you to the doctor?"
"No need! if it hurts like this I just need rest" explained Vira. He doesn't want to receive attention from a man of any kind.
"Then rest" Gusti said.
"I want to talk to Gia. Because I promised her something,"
"Gia, aunty Vira wants to talk to Gia.." said Gusti and handed the phone to Gia.
"Gia, what do you want to tell me tonight?" ask Vira.
"But the aunt is sick again" said Gia gloomily.
"Ehem, what if my aunt told me a story that's not too long, how?" ask Vira.
"Okey, I'll put on my leather hat first!" gia is excited.
"Penny get me my trunk hat! after that you come out, because tonight I want to sleep with papi," said Gia.
"Campus! why is Gia using her papi to hear my story?" vira said in her heart.
"Lady, Miss!" Penny put a proboscis hat on Gia. That girl looks so funny.
Finally Gia began to lay down herself accompanied by Gusti. Vira begins to tell the story of an elephant lost in the middle of the forest.
"At first the elephant boy played chasing a yellow butterfly that perched right at the end of his trunk. Elephants feel amused and wag their long trunks. The butterfly flew further and further into the forest. And the little elephant chased the butterfly and left the herd. Elephants are very upset because the day is approaching dusk.." Vira's story stopped when she saw Gia was closed.
"Has she slept?" ask Vira whispering.
"Yes, he's asleep." replied Gusti who was holding a cellphone that pointed the camera at Gia's face.
"You should also sleep" Gusti said.
"I turned it off" said Vira.
"Sweet dreams and sleep tight!" gusti told Vira.
Vira turned off her phone.
While Gusti who did not get an answer from Vira could only smile at the face of a woman who was close to Gia.
"Hhh, how do you not get sick? you got in the car wet like that!" muttered Gusti who looked at Vira standing in front of his house in the rain and into the car. Gusti had followed where the car took Vira, because he also wanted to know where the woman lived.
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The sun is starting to shine today.
Vira wakes up with a pretty throbbing head. The sound of knocking on the door forced him to end his dream with small elephants.
"Ah, what a bother, anyway!" gerutu Vira sitting on his bed. He held his head which seemed to make him look a little.
The knocking on the door did not stop.
"Yeah of sebentaaarr! o Allah, whoever comes early in the morning to the house of the people! uhuk uhuk," Vira's upset. He felt his body cold. He lowered his foot on the cold floor.
With her hair still in disarray, Vira opened the door.
"Morning!" said a man standing by greeting Vira at the door.
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