Regret Room
The Word of the Rich

"Thank you, sir, for buying this house. This house has many memories for me, but I have no one else to take care of."

Seruni shook the man's hand before her. Neighbors who had several houses from his house bought Seruni house at a price that was cheap enough to live in a child and his newly married daughter-in-law.

Seruni then stepped up, dragged the suitcase and left with an ojek towards the dimly lit stall of mak Ute. The middle-aged woman greeted Seruni with a stretch of hands.

"I'm saying yes, Mom. Maybe it will be a long time to come back to the village and come here. I've sold the house, Mom."

"Ununderstand me, Run. You are good in Jakarta. Remember, no matter what happens, stay happy."

Seruni nodded, bowed for a while and then climbed again to the ojek that would deliver him to the terminal. There he will look for a bus or travel to the airport. Previously, Seruni wanted to deliver Bima's watch, but he paused. Let it be later in Jakarta will be repatriated again that thing.

Mak Ute released Seruni's departure for the second time and after this either time they can meet again. Maybe when Seruni returned, he had already conceived the land. I don't know, age doesn't know.

Seruni waved her hand until it disappeared from sight.

Meanwhile at the house of his parents, Bima was standing on the terrace above his house, he saw all the houses he could see from up there. He looked for where the Seruni house was. Bima's smile was imprinted every time she remembered Seruni. Actually, he has fallen in heart.

"Rome ..."

Bim turned his head, seeing his mother behind folding both hands in front of his chest. Bima took her mother to sit down later. His mother's face looked so serious like there was something to talk about.

"Mom looks serious." Bima laughed a little at her mother.

"There's something serious I'd like to discuss with you."

"Tell me, Mom. I'm not usually this serious."

"Brt ... Are you and Atikah okay?"

Bima was silent. Expressions change. Right, what does that have to do with Atikah being okay right now? Bima himself did not know, but now the shadow of Atikah is almost no more. Already changed with another figure, the woman he once left just like that ten years ago. The woman who still looked at him with hatred. Cermun.

"Listen, I've totally agreed that you're married to Atikah. His family is worth our family. I don't want your relationship and Atikah to be troubled by the presence of others."

"I mean Mom?"

"Mom knows you've been visiting women lately whose mothers recently died. He doesn't deserve you, Bim. I hope you're not missteps. Moreover, she works as a comfort woman in Jakarta there, it would be very embarrassing if you play with her."

Bima looked at her mother fixedly, in fact, her proposal with Atikah at that time was accelerated because Bima's mother had urged her to marry Atikah. Bima was not ready at the time. While his mother had a reason because Laras was already married and in their family no one should step over her brother. Therefore Bima was urged to immediately marry Atikah.

"Mother don't just talk like that. Seruni's not like that, ma'am. And to be honest, I don't think I can continue my marriage with Atikah. I'll come straight to her parents to cancel the wedding."

"Dam!!!"

"Mother, really, it's not about me and Seruni feeling alone. There's something I took away from him ten years ago. I want to account for all my actions to him in the past."

Madam Tono pressed against her chest. Bima immediately approached and calmed her mother. Inevitably, he wanted to tell the truth so that his family knew that he was the one who had been chasing Seruni all along.

"Until you die, I will never approve of your intentions, Bim! I don't want to have a daughter-in-law who is not equal to us! You have to understand where you're from, lest you embarrass our family with all your misguided decisions. Remember, only Atikah can marry you. Marry him according to the date we have agreed with his family because after that Laras will also be betrothed by his lover."

"I'm sorry, Mom, I don't want to be locked up in the guilt of Seruni until the end of my life. I have a decision to make after returning to Jakarta. And as for Laras who wants to get married soon, then let him step on me. Don't let Laras date men for too long, I don't want anything that has happened to Seruni in the past because of my past, will happen to Laras."

"Mom don't understand what you mean! But I will never approve if you keep chasing that woman. Remember, Bima, you're from a distinguished family. Throw money at that woman and forget her as well as the events that once happened between you."

Bima shook her head, she released her grip to her mother slowly.

"Truly, ma'am, not everything can be bought with money."

Bima then passed, going downstairs with madam Tono who was still calling herself to come back.