Pura-Pura Jodoh
May I Try?

Frans' chest went up and down hearing cries mixed with sounds coming out of the tape recorder. Surprise, this is a surprise for him. Everything that was never in his mind was now done by Lula.

A thank you from the heart that sounds so sad. It was capable of shaking his soul, he had no idea how long they had known. But clearly, what Lula is doing right now is a kindness that will not harm anyone. It will make people amazed after seeing all that.

“So, since when? You act like this?” Frans tried to find out, enough to have heard the thank you that actually made Lula's sadness more clearly felt.

Lula wiped her tears, tried to stop the crying, still could not, the crying still sounded soft. “Grandfather always says, preferably ... If our right hand gives, the left hand does not need to know.” Staring at Frans fixedly, confirmed that he would not divulge anything at this time. “So whatever I do Daddy doesn't need to know. Let's not count riya!” lula explained.

“Not that concept dear Lula ..” said Frans softly, this time trying to help Lula wipe her tears. Suddenly he remembered the salary money that had been given to Lula. “What because of this? Explain to Daddy, is this because your money runs out quickly?!” frans urged, starting to guess the direction of the flow of Lula's money.

“Ya,” says Lula, slow down.

Frans was not angry at all. He smiled and heard that explanation. The reality received made him powerless to hug Lula's body tightly. Either as a thanksgiving for having a good-hearted wife, or as a sense of anxiety because Lula is good at hiding this secret. “Since when?”

Lula was suddenly reluctant to discuss it, he forced Frans to take off his embrace. "There, don't get close! Someone will see!"

“Lula ...”

“I'm hungry, want to eat!” Lula was about to move on, but was soon arrested by Frans.

“No, answer first! Later Daddy delivery to canteen.”

Lula sat back down, then replied in a weak voice. “Since Lula went up in third grade. When you bring Ben in, it's the first time Lula sees a desperate man. He couldn't pay for his daughter's hospitalization, he sat not far from Lula waiting for her and Ben. Since then Lula was satisfied to lighten their load.”

“Means it's been a while?” Frans tried to guess.

"Not yet, only 3 years old."

“Daddy Rainer, know? em or anyone who knows about this?!”

“Mbak Wulan, Mbak Dyah, Zola, and ... Levin.”

Suddenly Frans' blood flow boils to hear Levin's name called his wife. What exactly was the man's relationship with Lula, until he knew everything about Lula. I just don't!

“How can they know about you but your own husband does not! You're the same Daddy! You deliberately made a distance with Daddy?!”

“Make kindness need not be announced, right?For what, too!? Let them know how good we are?! It will not make us satisfied, want to continue to get praise after the first compliment they made. And Lula doesn't like that!”

Frans was silent, still confused as to what to respond about the other side of Lula. “Better we go breakfast first!” take Frans after seeing Lula calm down a little.

Although Lula was still overwhelmed with feelings of sadness, she did not refuse, her legs were walking beside the man who had officially become her husband. “Daddy ever lost the most valuable person? How's it feel?” lula asked, trying to break the silence.

“Early, it feels like want to go catch up with him.”

“Why not follow, Aunt Priscilla is in Singapore.” Lula silenced her bucket mouth. He was too tired to say that.

“You know he's in Singapore? From whom? Your dad?” freddy Frans, curious.

Lula's eyes were perfectly rounded. He, also surprised when he realized that the father already knew about the existence of Aunt Priscilla.

Lula tried to cover up all the information about Aunt Priscilla. “Originally, Dad!” he made Frans to waste a sigh of relief.

They refocused on the steps towards the canteen. Silence, no one speaks. Lula who was still overwhelmed with sadness was reluctant to speak again.

“Mama,” Frans, making Lula turn towards him. “As mom goes. Leaving me and papa. I want to catch up with him. When I was a kid so close to my mom, I felt like my life depended on her. Since then, I have not relied on anyone else. Because know what sad it will be.”

“There is still a grandfather of Ferdinan, why is that? Daddy can still depend on her first, right,” Lula's response, so lightly responded to her husband's story.

“Grandfather, grandfather! He's now your in-law Lula. Call papa!” frans said in an annoyed tone, he could have forgotten about his in-laws.

“Ya, sorry. Not used.”

“Start getting used to!” emphatically.

“Why should? We know where this relationship will end?” Lula pushed open the canteen door, closing in on the seller behind the storefront.

“Serah.”

“No food up.”

Frans took a deep breath, trying to be patient. “Whatever you order I'll eat!” sahut Frans, while removing a small box from the jacket pocket.

Lula who saw her husband start a cigarette fire could only snort angrily. Return focus to the display table in front of him, then take two lollipops that are exhibited on top of the jar. After successfully bagging candy

Lula noticed the way Frans smoked, really enjoying the man. Suddenly a case with her husband. The man was delicious but he who was inhaling cigarette smoke felt tight.

“Dad! Cute?” lula Spray.

“What?”

“Cigarette?!”

“Lumayan, my favorite flavor.”

“Can I try?” lula Pinta.

“No need to be weird!”

“Why, Daddy can you why can't I?! Situ human, me too!”

Frans showed me a small print on the cigarette packaging. “Read it yourself!” his orders.

Lula had even memorized the writing. He smiled and took a deep breath, his fingers hesitatingly pulling the lollipop that had just been taken out of his pocket. He remembered Frans had once deflected his hand, that day.

“Lula won't ban Daddy from smoking. It's true said Daddy at that time, even when Lula was not born Daddy was already familiar with cigarettes. But please, Dad! Fasting at Lula's side! Just change this! Lula couldn't stand it! Same smoke, make asphyxiation!” Lula tried to be as friendly as possible, hoping that if the man did not please, at least he considered that this was just a joke.

Frans did not respond at all. From the look of his face it was clear that the man was thinking about Lula's words.

“When Lula was second grade High School, there .. em, Lula met a chronic lung disease patient. Not the patient at the hospital. He lives around the foundation. Daddy knew he didn't want to be taken to the hospital, but said the man's doctor had lung cancer - the effect of a cigarette he smoked every day, eight months later his life was not saved. Horrified right?" Lula was waiting for a response from her husband. When I didn't find an answer, Lula spoke to another story. "Lula had also heard Daddy stories about placental calcification. I told him so much when I heard the story, horrified. Most of the causes are cigarette smoke pollution. Can Daddy shadow, maybe Daddy feels good every cigarette that Daddy does. But negatively, those who do not know Daddy can be affected.”

Frans instantly turned off his cigarette nipple tucked in his fingers, making Lula smile brightly.

“Daddy want to eat first!” frans said as he watched the waitress approach their table.

Angry Lula, Frans realized not because of his words. Except for enjoying breakfast. Let her husband enjoy his breakfast first.

They both ate in a quiet situation. Frans ate the food Lula ordered until it was gone. After the food ran out Frans took the wallet in his pants pocket. A few seconds passed, he was busy staring at the contents of his wallet. It wasn't long before he handed two cards to Lula.

“Black color for you personally. The gold color to help those you feel need to get help!” frans said, full of orders.

Lula who was still enjoying her breakfast suddenly stiffened. He saw two cards in front of him. Glanced at Frans who was waiting for him immediately took the two cards.

“No need, Dad!” Lula tried to resist, she was still capable.

“Not just for you! Daddy just doesn't know how to spend this money! and Daddy believes you can manage it.”

“Dad!”

“Stt ..” Frans drew his lips closer to Lula. His index finger moved asking Lula to come closer. “You're my wife! It is my duty to meet your needs. Do not let you lack, ask your parents. If that is what you do, woe to me, for not being able to meet your needs! Do what Daddy asks. Daddy's not a jerk!”

The distance they passed close, the breath that hit Lula's face made her cheeks feel like an electric shock. He suddenly misbehaved when Frans' hand caught his cheekbones. Gently rubbing the corner of his lips that contained a grain of rice.

“Woey!” rainer's screams made the pair of humans go up. Indeed, if not seen properly, they both feel like they are kissing. So Rainer deliberately surprised the two of them.

“Asuuu, lu!” frans' curse, emotion.

“I dissolved the inhabitants of the earth first rather than them envious! About you new host of the world seems to belong to both, the others are told to go home first to the planet Mars, is that it?! Crazy Lo Frans wants to keep making out with my son!" Rainer glanced at his daughter. "Why did Lula skip school?!” her protest, when Lula was still wearing her school uniform.