The Setra Backhouse
CHAPTER 38. TINA MA
“You know where the old man's ghost is good at?”
“Ndon't know No, anyway I feel he's a good person and different from the one we met here”
“Ah….No. Let's go get some food, the food from this hotel is not enough for my stomach. Uh I'm curious about Gusta, let's just go to the stall selling food he No”
“Ngapain to there In?”
“Just go there No, want to know their reaction when we go there aj”
“Do not find problems in”
“No, if the mother sells we buy her trade”
“You sure it's safe to eat rice wrap even though the one selling it was his mother Di?”
“Hehehee yes no no, anyway I want to get out of the room for a moment, all we see the twins how the reaction”
I agree with Sumadi's proposal, we headed to the stall where the twins were selling.
If true what Mbak Hera and Gek Ayu said, the twins should be surprised and increasingly hostile to us.
Exit the hotel and turn to the left of the hotel. About a few tens of meters is the sales pitch of their packaged rice.
From a distance we saw their sales pitch was still there, but I didn't see the two kids there.
“No.... whose sales koyoknya not two children, is it possible that his mother yes No?”
“Let's go there No, I'm curious about his mother hehehe, his son is aja handsome and beautiful, how with his mother”
“Iya Di but don't be weird c*k”
“Quiet ae No”
Basic Sumadi…
We were getting closer to trading with big umbrellas and tables, this morning it just so happened that buying was not as much as usual.
In the stall there were only women who might be around forty or fifty years old, the face of the woman was beautiful.
“Good morning ma'am, I want to buy rice for this half lunch, which there is rice wrap anything bu?”
“Iya sir.. It's a little afternoon, so the rest is just chicken rice and egg rice pak”
This caring mother is beautiful, the way to talk and how to smile at the buyer is also beautiful, but behind the look of her beautiful face there is something that she keeps.
Like there's pain, though,...
Hahahah I know, but really…. The face of the rice seller's mother is a little unhappy if I think.
“Sorry is this mother the mother of the twins Gusta and Gustin?” asked Sumadi suddenly
“Iya sir... uh what's with my son, is my son making trouble?!!!” answer with a high tone
Suddenly the look on the face of this mother changed, from the usual but a little sad.
“What's with my son sir.. Do they cause trouble!” ask mom for a second time
“No ma'am, nothing. I'm just asking you, ma'am, usually selling here Gusta and Gustin”
“Alhamdulillah...” said the mothers.
“Eh this father is from java, here on vacation or what?” asked the mother to switch the conversation
“We are not on vacation mom, we are doing something here, it's in hotel C that we have stayed three days bu”
“It just so happened yesterday that I asked my mother's child to be delivered food for breakfast, and for daylight. It's just that I'm we're a bit hungry now, so we're on this lap bu hehehe”
“I think Gusta and Gustin are here mom, are both mom's kids okay?. Kok was rich mom was surprised so”
“Oh….How my son never told me yes if these fathers want to subscribe.eh.” replied the mother of the twins in a soft voice.
“Eh yes sorry sir, today take care of my coincidence, because uh no papa sir….Because it is time for me to take care of Pak”
“Sepentar sir...eh when was the last time my son delivered food to the father?”
“Tadi morn..tadi six o'clock they came to my room”.
“but..but..or maybe I forgot sir.. But.. uh but I don't know, maybe I forgot...or my son who forgot so the father came here?!!”
“Lho earlier I said, my mother's son had delivered breakfast for us mom, while now we are a bit hungry, so we are here again” replied Sumadi
This mother suddenly became strange, like her own confusion, she seemed to be trying to calm herself who was confused by our arrival.
Speaking of him not focusing at all, he said it was time he took care of it, but not long later he said that his son was sick.
If he had said that Gusta and Gustin were sick, and now he was home, then who had delivered the food in the room this morning.
“Bu, if you can know, mother's stall opens what time?” I'm starting to get a little suspicious of this mother or the two kids
“Eh seven o'clock I've been here sir, and probably selling at seventy thirty..”.
“Oh is so bu, so if six in the morning means everything is ready dong bu?”
“If six o'clock in the morning still pack food sir... uh sorry there are buyers sir. I serve buyers first pak”
“No papa ma'am, relax aja”
Not good selling too, there are some buyers who come to this wrap rice stand, after serving some buyers we continue chatting again.
But frankly this woman is a bit strange, do not know the strange that she or her child….
“Oh yes...yesterday night we also brought the mother's children home you know mom, after the mother's children Gusta and Gustin passed in front of the hotel after she said delivery of food in the store next to hotel”
“Antar dinner to the store next to the hotel...?” asked the mother with a gawking face
“I never knew my son delivered food to the store next to Pak”
“Yesterday night they were both at home kok pack, they were afternoon already at home and did not go anywhere”
“Kok they are both at home mom, but are they both we take you home bu?”
“Eh yes….. Eh I also forgot whether they are at home or not sir, uh because uh. yes it seems like they are both not at home kok pak”.
The more nervous the seller's mother became, the more she couldn't control her composure, the more she showed her lies.
It's getting weird, and there's something wrong with the twins, or something's wrong with this mom.
Sumadi signalled to stop the conversation by poking my arm, and said that we have a job and must go back to the hotel room immediately.
“Oh sorry ma'am, uh we're having a job that we stayed in the room, happened to my friend just reminded me”
“Bu, if you can know whose mother's name is this?”
“I Agustina sir, just call me bu Tina” he replied with a face that was still confused mixed with fear
“Sorry mom Tina, I don't mean to bother Tina's mom, but may I ask for mom's phone number or mom's husband, I may need something so can contact Tina's mom?”
“Do what sir..make what ask my phone number pak” ask bu Tina suspicious
“Yah make food messages only ma'am, I have trouble finding food near the hotel bu” added Sumadi
After getting Tina's mother's phone number, we went back to the hotel room. I kept thinking about who the child was coming to and delivering food to our room.
The woman ..The mother of the two twins was like she was depressed and she was in a bad state.
“Bu Tina was scared No, don't you keep wondering to him”
“I'm curious about Di”
“Iya No, I'm also curious. But now is not the right time to ask questions, later if we meet with him again"
“Gini you know Di, if the two children are sick and at home, then who we meet and deliver food at the hotel who?”
“Already…. Already No, our business is still complicated, do not add to the strange business about the two twins again. We better focus on our work on No”
True said Sumadi, I better not take care of the twins, but I felt something was wrong with Tina's mother earlier, from her eyes as if she said for help.
He was strange, from the five minutes of chatter earlier, his face looked frightened, there seemed to be something very feared and there was no way out.
But true Sumadi said, it is none of our business. And we have no right to interfere in it, unless we are forced to interfere because we are involved heheheheh.