Antara Darah dan Hati: Dream Reality English Translation

Chapter 21 Part 2 "Dinner"

POV Lodewijk

My meeting with Tantri surprised me. I didn't think I'd meet her at the graveyard and what's weirder is, I didn't expect those words to come out of my mouth. A sentence that contains a request to Tantri so that she wants to taste my cookings.

I should have just said yes after she gave me the suggestion that I should give my homemade food to someone else for that someone tasted it but instead I answered by offering her to taste my cooking. Never mind, it has happened, I have to do it.

I returned to mevrouw Sofia's house by bus, got off at the bus stop near the residential area where she lived and walked towards her house. When I got there, I went to the front of her bedroom and knocked on the door, calling her name.

"Mevrouw, excuse me!"

A few moments later her bedroom door opened and she asked me.

"Yes brother Lodewijk, what is it?"

"I want to borrow your car mevrouw, can you help me ask mr. Wisnu for the car keys?" I asked her.

"What do you want to do with it if I may know?" she asked me, asking for an explanation.

Then I recounted my meeting with Tantri at the graveyard and the contents of my conversation with her. After I finished explaining, she gave me a small smile then gave her answer.

"Okay brother Lodewijk, let's go to mr. Wisnu's room."

We both came down from upstairs, walked towards mr. Wisnu's room then she knocked on his bedroom door when we arrived in front of his room, then she called him.

"Mr. Wisnu, excuse me!"

"Yes mevrouw, what is it?" asked mr. Wisnu.

"Brother Lodewijk wants to borrow the car, please give him the car keys." she replied.

"What does he want to do with it?" asked mr. Wisnu to mevrouw Sofia.

"Brother Lodewijk wants to buy ingredients to make Sayur Lodeh (Indonesian Pumpkin Soup), he wants to cook it for sister Tantri." she explained.

"Ho? Interesting." said mr. Wisnu answered in a curious tone accompanied by a look on his face that showed one of his eyebrows raised and the corners of his lips that gave off a slight smile and then he continued his sentence while still showing the same facial expression.

"Wait a moment, let me take the keys."

For some reason the look on his face made me think that he thought I was doing this because I wanted to make Tantri interested in having a relationship that was more than just friends with me.

He closed his bedroom door and a few moments later the door to his bed room opened again and then he gave me his car keys.

"Here's the car keys, good luck." he said still showing the same look on his face, I felt my body temperature risen up and warmth filled my insides because of the look on his face that he showed me.

He closed the door to his room then I turned around to face mevrouw Sofia and bowed slightly, thanking her.

"Thanks, mevrouw."

"You're welcome, good luck brother! hihi." she replied back to me with her eyes closed and a little laugh while covering her mouth with her right hand.

I turned my body away from her and then walked out of her house while still trying to calm my body which felt warmer due to the attitude that mevrouw Sofia and mr. Wisnu showed me where they seemed to expect that I would have a relationship more than just friends with Tantri. Hhhh... what a nuisance.