A ROSE FOR MOM

A ROSE FOR MOM 38

"Yu Siti, what are you.." bu Suryo stepped closer, then crouched down to help pick up the broken plates.

"Sorry ma'am, this is my mother's favorite plate," said Yu Siti rather trembling. Not only for fear of being scolded, but also for what he thought. About the twins, suddenly reminded him of his two children. Thousands of questions filled his mind. Really...really... and really..?

"Yes already.yeah already. Just a plate, you're shaking so ta Yu, it's okay, I'm not angry. There are many other dishes. "

"And Mom always asked for this broken plate."

"Yes later change others, already , just take the pengki, later your hands hit the plate you know Yu."

Yu Siti stood up, wiping her tears. It was not the broken plate that shook his heart, but the twins.

When Arum was sick and Yu Siti rubbed her stomach with rubbing oil, she saw a mole near her navel. It was like her baby mole, but wasn't it a sign she had to believe in as her child? A lot of people have moles on the spot. But the other baby also had a mole, above his left lip. Does the one named Ratih have a mole there?

"Oh my God, . " lamented yu Siti.

"Yeah, you're like the one who regrets it to such a sky-high. I have no regrets and will not be angry with you, you know Yu, really," said Suryo's mom who thought that Yu Siti complained about breaking her favorite plate.

"Yes ma'am, sorry ma'am.."

"Yu is okay ... said it's okay..."

Bu Suryo loves Yu Siti very much. Never once did Suryo ma'am get angry if yu Siti damaged the goods or eliminated them though. But this time Suryo ma'am was surprised because it just broke the plate yu Siti to tremble and look pale like a frightened person. 

"What's wrong, ma'am?" asked Arum who just came out of the room.

"That, yu Siti broke the mother's plate. I'm not angry, but Yu Siti's like a scared person so."

Arum approached Yu Siti who had finished cleaning the broken dishes.

"Mother is not angry. Geez, why is Siti's body so cold?" said Arum who held the hand of Siti ma'am.

"It's okay, son."

"Mom Siti sick?"

"No son, it's okay."

"Yu, if it hurts, it hurts. Yes, your body is cold as ice. Let's leave this behind and get into your room."

Arum leads yu Siti into his room. Yu Siti was indeed feeling weak. When he got to the room, he dropped his body on the bed.

"Get me a warm Rum drink."

Arum came out and came back with a cup of warm tea.

"Mom, let's drink first ma'am," Arum said as he woke up Yu Siti's body. Yu Siti according to, spent a cup of warm tea, then laid down his body again.

"You should eat now, then take medicine. You're exhausted and catch Yu's wind."

"Let me take it myself, ma'am."

"Let Arum take it away, ma'am."

Yu Siti lay weak, as Arum fed her food, she stared fixedly at the pretty face. Eyes glazed. 

"Are you really my son?" whispered yu Siti plan. Arum heard it but it wasn't so clear.

"What mom? It's true, Arum considers Bu Siti my mother, of course Arum son Bu Siti."

Arum then thought that Yu Siti was sick because she was going to leave him.

"Taken the meal, ma'am, then taken the medicine. Miss Siti don't be sad, Arum didn't go far. If Ms. Siti wants to, Arum can come here every day."

 Yu Siti kept staring at Arum, her tears welling up. Arum rubbed it gently.

"Yes Yu, I lost Arum too, but did you say that Arum needed his family? If you want, you can meet every day."

Yu Siti did not answer, she did not want to say what she felt for fear of being considered fabricated. Let them think I'm afraid of losing son Arum, inner yu Siti.

"The medicine is drunk Yu, I want to look ahead, who knows our guests have come."

***

Arum left Yu Siti's room when he saw that Yu Siti closed her eyes. The face still looked pale. Arum enveloped the slender body before exiting. He hopes, the medicine he took immediately works and mom Siti feel fresher.

 Yu Siti felt limp all of a sudden, the shadow of the two tiny babies she had just born filled her mind. The babies were beautiful and healthy, with loud cries, so out of her womb. The midwife who helped her give birth said her baby was very healthy. And beautiful of course. With a sharp nose, plump eyelashes, oh yes, the hair is also very thick. 

Being a poor woman without power, she had to let go. Let go of his heart and soul mate. 

"Yes Tuban, will you find me with them again? These twin girls, is it really my son?" whispered in his heart while closing his eyes. 

Will the girl come with Aryo? That was also the question of Yu Siti. He had not been able to ask it. Perhaps if she came, Yu Siti could see the mole above her left lip, and she would believe that they were her children. Did ya? But doubt still enveloped his heart.

He remembered the beautiful woman who had brought one of her children, and then gave him money to pay for childbirth. The woman was beautiful, but Yu Siti forgot her name. Perhaps he could recognize her when he met her. But the next woman, who was carrying a second baby, had no memory at all. At that time he was in a state of severe pain, semi-conscious, and may have died had Suryo ma'am not helped him and embraced him like a family until now.

*** 

Arum stood in the courtyard. A car stopped in front of the fence. Arum knew it was her husband's car. He opens the fence and asks Aryo to enter his car.

He heard Angga screaming from inside the car.

"That's mom ?"

The car stopped. Angga had already slumped down first, Nastiti's mom helped him. Arum hugged Nastiti's mom tightly, which she responded with tears.

"I'm sorry Arum, mother."

"Have, have forgotten everything" said Ms. Nastiti.

"Mother works here ?" yelled Angga as Arum carried her.

 "No, I'm playing at the fairy grandmother's house."

Angga looked at his mother in surprise.

"This is the fairy granny's house ?"

A woman with graceful steps walked out of the house.

"That's a fairy granny !!"

"Greet the fairy grandmother, said Arum."

Aryo embraced his wife, clutching her tightly.

"Grandmother fairy... This is the fairy grandmother's house?"

Bu Suryo laughed widely, then bent his body to kiss both cheeks Angga.

"Right baby, this is the fairy grandmother's house. Come on, let's go in.." said Suryo's mom kindly.

"Mother, this is my mother-in-law" said Arum introducing her mother-in-law.

"Oh, nice to meet special guests. I'm Suryo, Arum's mother, isn't that Arum?"

"Yes, that's right," Arum replied with a smile.

"Let's go in everything, Aryo.this is your in-laws' house.please everyone."

Aryo approached and kissed Suryo's hand.

"I leave Arum to you, but once again you hurt him, I will never forgive him" Suryo whispered as he kissed Aryo.

"I promise I will always take care of her and love her," Aryo replied as she once again kissed Suryo's mother's hand.

Ms. Suryo seemed friendly to greet her guests.

Suddenly Angga stepped inside as his eyes searched.

"Where are you going?" reprove father.

"Where's the fairy godmother ?"

"Oh, yes, I forgot to say, the fairy godmother is visiting another good boy.."

Angga came back, then slipped on his mother's lap.

"When did the fairy godmother come home?"

Bu Suryo grabbed Angga's hand, then pulled the handsome little guy into his lap.

"Baby, one day the fairy godmother will come to see you."

"The fairy granny's house is nice, but there are no toys here."

Everybody laugh.

"Because fairy grandmother is old, so don't like toys."

That cheerful full voice was heard by yu Siti from inside her room. He already feels calmer. Then he got up, then stepped out of the room, He saw that Arum was checking the dining table and fixing anything that felt lacking. Yu Siti approached.

"Lho, Miss Siti how, already, just fall asleep, let me arrange it."

"Yu Siti is better."

"Don't do it Mom, you'll be angry."

"No, just Aryo mas, my mother-in-law and Angga."

Yu Siti looked disappointed. There's something he wants to see, Arum's twin, but it turns out he doesn't exist.

***

Bramasto invited Ratih to eat breakfast at a soto stall located in the Ivory area. The shop is simple but always full of customers. Bram chose a seat in the corner of the room, then they ordered two glasses of pans tea and chicken soto.

"Have you ever eaten here?" ask Bram.

"No, I rarely go far. Near the house only, so also if you want to shop."

"Areally a pingitan girl huh?"

"Oh, no. I'm free to go everywhere, I'm just lazy. I was not it?"

"Not really. It's good that a girl doesn't like to go. Let alone the beautiful girl, her many temptations, her many bullies," Bram said as he looked at Ratih. The heart-shaking look of Ratih. Well, what the hell does this handsome doctor mean?

"I'm sorry, but it's true" Bramasto continued.

"What's right?"

"Many beautiful girls tease and annoy him.."

"Oh... " Ratih blushed, is she what she said beautiful? 

"Includes me.." continued Bramasto.

"What?" 

"I'm being annoying.."

"Who's Bram bothering?"

"Bothering Train.." Their eyes stared, a spark of fire igniting the taste, causing a tremor that came out of nowhere.

"Will I bother you ?" 

"No need ah, time is disturbed.."

"It's serious.."

"What's serious..?"

"I'm bothering Ratih, but I'm serious.. "

"Ah, don't understand me."

"Yes, next time I'll explain."

The timing has to be explained? Didn't Ratih understand? That look, that speech. Do you not believe?

"I want to be straightforward. Train very much attracted my heart." Seeing Ratih's smile, Bram grew more and more bold in saying those words.

No, it's unclear what?

"So easy?"

"No, I'm a hard person to fall in love with. That's why I became an old virgin."

Trained to hold her laugh. Priya in front of him was still young, sweet and handsome. Where the hell did that show him old? 

"Friends my age have had a child or two. But I haven't done it either." 

"When I first met Ms. Arum, I thought I was in love, but it turned out I was just sorry for her. Then I met Ratih. My other feelings. Sorry if I'm sassy."

Ratih was speechless, he had never heard a man express his feelings. 

And that makes it wrong. Did Rathy refuse it? Not particularly. The man in front of him is very attractive. But Ratih has to be sure that he means it.

"Rice angry?"

Ratih. Many people around him, it was impossible in the frenzied voice of people eating and ordering food could hear what they were talking about, let alone Bram saying it so softly, almost whispering, but so touching a feeling. 

One way with Bramasto, as if he had met thousands of times. Ratih wondered at her, then asked, is this the name of falling in love?"

***

 "Mother... Do we want to go for a walk?" ask Angga on the way home.

"Not now Angga, I want to go home first. Angga knows, now the mother does not work anymore, so it can be every day, morning, afternoon, night, always with Angga."

"Really, Father?"

"Yes dear. What mom said was true."

"Horris..." Angga cheering for joy."

"Mother later can help Angga organize Angga's books again, right?"

"Definitely Angga."

"Anga changed schools again, right? You're not leaving Angga in a new school?"

"Mother will wait for Angga as long as Angga wants to. But, if Angga getting bigger, it seems that the school should not be awaited deh."

"Oh yeah, I used to say that."

"Rum, whose name is Miss Siti it seems to hurt huh?" ask Miss Nastiti.

"Yes mom. She was like her maid Suryo's mother, but Suryo's mom thought of her as family.So it did get a little cold."

"Bu Suryo is very good, Rum. Lucky you met him." 

"Yes ma'am, that's why Arum should be able to keep the feeling when it's time to go home, because Suryo's mom is very worried if I get hurt again," Arum said while glancing at her husband. Aryo smiled and cleared his throat

"What's up? Suddenly hoarse huh?"

"Don't shirk, he said that the past let it pass." said Aryo.

"Yes. yeah... "

"Horee.. We are home." cried Angga.

***

"Yu Siti, you are what is right, let me rearrange these dishes" said Suryo when he saw that Yu Siti was busy cleaning in the kitchen.

"It's okay Mom, it's feeling better."

"Then, the rest of this side dish and rice we just wrap Yu, somehow how many packs, will be distributed to who wants. There may be a rickshaw brother, or a scavenger willing to accept, but the side dish deserves to be given to the Yu people, not the remains."

"Yes Ma'am, I had thought so too, usually if there is food left Mother would have told to give it to people who are not able to."

"Alright Yu, let me help you get the spit done."

Bu Suryo and Yu Siti were busy wrapping up the remaining food.  But there's not much they talk about. The two still feel lonely after Arum returns home to her husband. 

"Open to Yu?"

"It's lonely, but I'm actually reminded of Mom's story.."

"What's Yu about?"

"About a girl whose face looks a lot like Nak Arum."

"Yes Yu, it's a great God. Angga who was left by his mother suddenly got a change of a girl who was very similar, then he felt that she was his mother."

"I was curious mom. How's that girl's face?"

"Yes just like Arum was Yu, it made no difference. I think they're twins, but each has his own parents."

"The more curious I am, ma'am, want to see what that girl looks like."

"Unfortunately Aryo didn't bring her here yesterday. If he comes along, you can definitely see Yu. It's magical there's such a twin face."

Magically? What was even more miraculous was that they were really my children, said Yu Siti.

"Yu, it's been six packs, how many?"

"It's over, it means there are fifteen packs, I will share them with those who want to receive them."

"Yes Yu, just put it in this big bag. Quite a lot, thank goodness." said Suryo when she saw that Yu Siti was still like a daydreamer.

"Mom, I'm still curious about the girl. Does he have a mole over his left lip?"

***

tomorrow again yes