A ROSE FOR MOM

A ROSE FOR MOM 04

Ratih thrashed, the hug came off. Practice turning around and they face each other, looking at each other, with different feelings.

"Arum ?"

"I am not Arum." said Ratih, trembling, especially the eyes of the handsome who stared unblinkingly, full of charm.

"You..can't Arum?"

"Aryo.. You're wrong Aryo.." Nastiti's mom who was in the room was surprised to hear Aryo's voice. He felt late coming to tell Aryo first, so that there had been a misunderstanding on the kitchen doorstep.

"Mother, Aryo is confused..."

"That's the name Ratih, Aryo's teacher, is very similar to your wife. Even Angga considered her his mother.

Aryo looked at the woman next to him again. Is difference?

"Your wife doesn't have a mole on her lips, look good" Nastiti said.

"Yes right, sorry yes.sorry." said Aryo as he continued to stare at Ratih. 

"I beg you to leave, it's late afternoon" said Ratih who had found his bag on the kitchen table. He had to quickly dodge that electrifying gaze.

"S..I'm interrupting?" aryo said a bit nervously. The meeting made her feel strange. 

"No. no. thank you, Mom, I'm saying goodbye" she later told Nastiti's mom. He kissed her hand and then passed.

"Aryo never met her ma'am.."

"Oh yeah?"

"Aryo came home from work, saw he was walking, then Aryo chased after him, but he was angry. Maybe think I'm making it up."

"The crowd immediately shouted when they saw him. He ran up to him and was directly placed in Ratih's lap. This morning, so go to school."

"So she's a teacher ?"

Ms. Nastiti told me everything that happened once Angga entered the school.until then Angga asked Ratih to cook, and fell asleep. 

"Look, he tidied up your daughter's closet" said Nastiti, holding Aryo in her room.

Aryo stunned. Angga's room looked clean, and when it opened the closet, everything was neatly arranged. The bedding and pillowcases are all new. And the dirty ones have been put into the available baskets in the corner of the room.

Really like his wife who used to arrange the house in such a neat way.

"The mother was in your room Yo, to collect your filthy clothes that were scattered, so as not to know that you were coming."

"Aryo had been to the mother's house, but the door was locked, so Aryo just went home, did not know there was Arum. uh. I mean Aryo there was a girl who looked like Arum in this house."

Suddenly the whining of Angga. Arya and Miss Nastiti run to Angga's room. He saw Angga sitting while looking left and right.

"Where's mom ?" tanyakanya.

"Mother?"

"Mother was sleeping here with Angga, where's mom.." Anga started crying.

Aryo came closer and hugged Angga.

"Mom's gone, didn't you say you left because you work?" said Miss Nastiti.

"Now there is a father, not if the father is near Angga?" aryo said as she held Aryo to her chest.

"Oh yeah, did Angga forget? Tomorrow's school, and Angga will see mom again" said Nastiti reminded.

"O. Is that Yang? See you again tomorrow?" aryo pretended to ask.

"Yes, I'll see you again tomorrow."

Angga. Embrace her father's neck, then Aryo invites him to stand up, and holds him out of the room,

:"Would you make milk?"

Angga. Angga dropped off, then he walked towards the kitchen. Aryo saw the hood covered on the table. His curiosity made him then open the hood.

"Well, there is fried chicken, soup that has been cold. and .. hm.. smells good, Apparently the girl had time to cook for Angga," murmured Aryo while closing the hood.

Suddenly a comfortable feeling. I don't know why. Maybe it's because Angga feels he's found his mother, or maybe something else, I don't know. Aryo took out a can of milk and opened it while putting on a smile on her lips.

"Honey he's not Arum" he muttered again after he finished making milk and carried it forward. Aryo was sitting on her grandmother's lap.

"It's milk for Angga.. "

Angga received the glass that his father extended, then drank it.

"So mom cooked soup for Arya" she said after finishing her milk.

"Oh yeah? Is it good mom's cooking?"

"Enak Bapak, Angga will eat again. Can it be bribed?"

"Lho, isn't Angga already in school, the meal should be bribed?"

Angga curled his tongue.

"What school did you study at?"

"Learn toys."

"Yes... learn toys?"

"So Angga sat on the swing, then swung by the mother."

"Hm, senengnya...."

"Mr, Angga saw the big cars. Said eyang if buy should say the same father."

"Lho, another car? Do you have a lot?"

"That's big, Angga can climb into it."

"Wouw. then just ride the car father," joked Aryo.

Angga chuckles.

"You're a kid, the car has to be small.."

"The father is pinter. Yes, later if you have a holiday, we buy."

"Mom did you buy it too?"

"Lho.k same mom as well."

"Yes, I told you."

"Do you want to?"

"You don't want to look?" ask Angga to his grandmother.

"Maybe you want to, if you're not working."

"So buy me a holiday. Tomorrow Angga wants to ask mom, when mom's off."

Aryo held his head. It was not enough to just meet, and make the dishes he wanted, and be given during naps, now ask to go buy toys with mom too. What if Ratih refuses? Is this an outrageous request? He's not an Angga.

"Well, isn't it Eyang?"

Miss Nastiti just nodded.

"Let's take a shower first" said Nastiti's mother, switching the conversation.

***

"The father bought a hodgepodge in front of it, Ratih, you do not end up coming home" said Mr. Pardi when Ratih prepared tea that afternoon.

"Yes, I'm sorry, there was a fussy student, ask Ratih to cook soup for him."

"Well, when was the teacher told to cook?"

"long story. Poor that kid."

"No parents?"

"Have. But his mother's gone for a month."

"Well, because of any disagreement, sir, maybe the wife is very angry, and then leaves."

"But yes angry at someone, it should not be until the heart leaves the child."

"Yes, too, sir, don't know what the problem is. What was clear was that Ratih was sorry to see the boy. Suddenly he called out to Ratih 'mother' and asked for a soup with fried chicken, moved to see he was very lost."

"Why does he think you're his mother?"

"Wajah Ratih said he looked a lot like his mother. Even his grandmother who drove him to school also thought Ratih was his daughter-in-law who left."

"Oh yeah?"

"No, yes, there are people whose faces look very similar. Kan Ratih was not born a twin. Isn't that right, sir?"

"Yes, anyway..."

"Father it's okay, right, if Ratih comes home late? Afraid that tomorrow Angga still asked Ratih to cook again for him, then accompany him to take a nap. Aduuh.not until Ratih's heart rejects it. Poor thing.." said Ratih pilu.

"Nothing will happen, helping that person is a noble deed."

"From tomorrow, Ratih will cook early in the morning, for breakfast and lunch should Ratih come home late. "

"Aren't you bothered? If it's a matter of eating you can buy it at the front stall."

"It's okay sir, pity that you starve and buy yourself. Just cook for a minute. Later Ratih buy vegetables at warung near there. Cook it easily."

"Yes Tih, the side dish also does not need to be strange. Anyway there's a know, you're happy enough."

"Yes, Ratih already knows that you like to know."

*** 

That morning Angga prepared to go to school in high spirits. Still early in the morning, ask for a bath, ask for food and drink milk, then rush to ask to leave for school immediately. Miss Nastiti who that night stayed at her son's house.addressed all the needs of her granddaughter.

"Look, your son has asked to go to school, while you are still not bathing," Nastiti grumbled when she saw Aryo sitting dumbstruck in the living room.

"It's okay Aryo dropped off at school just got home and took a shower."

"Huh, you're that."

Aryo just laughed. 

"Mom, how about I just stay here as long as Arum doesn't come back?"

"Lha how's mom's house?"

"At any time you go home, you're alone there."

"It's okay. I'll take mom's clothes home first."

"What if we find a maid? Repot if there are no helpers."

"Finding the maid is not easy. Nowadays many prefer to work in factories, or be a shopkeeper. Not necessarily if it can later, then it can be trusted. I think let it be like this. It's easy if there's a cocog. We're only three people, I don't think it's too much of a hassle."

"Bapaaaak, let's go! Why haven't you had a shower yet?" namel Angga was upset to see his father still sitting talking to his grandmother."

"Oh, yes.all right, let's go now," Aryo said as he stood up.

"Have you not taken a shower?"

"Bring later after taking Angga to school" Aryo replied as he entered the room.

Aryo was wearing only shorts and a short-sleeved shirt, coming out of the room with a car key

"Let's go, young master," joked Aryo.

"Idihih. pak stinks," taunted Angga as he ran ahead.

***

Once at school, Angga immediately got out of the car and ran inside. Aryo bobbing head. 

"Aryo, you can go, " said Nastiti as she descended.

"Mom didn't come home yet, didn't you change your clothes?"

"Later if you have put Angga on the nak Ratih, the new mother came home, alone is also okay" said Nastiti.

"No ma'am, let Aryo wait here, mother met Ratih and can leave Angga right? Nantti Aryo intermarried mother to the house, only Aryo came home and took a bath. And don't forget, Aryo will pick up Angga."

"Are you not working?"

What time does Angga come home?"

"It's usually ten."

"Later before ten Aryo is here, it's okay to leave work for a while."

"Bu Nastiti nodded. He stepped inside, directly entering the teacher's room. He saw that Angga was already sitting on Ratih's lap.

"However, his friends play.. How come Angga even ngrepotin mom?" tegur bu Nastiti's.

"It's okay, ma'am, let it be as she pleases."

"I'll play with Mom" said Angga.

"Well, how to train, ngrepotin right?"

"It's okay, ma'am, Angga isn't naughty."

"Yes already, then leave Angga for a while, son, I want to go home to change clothes, this from yesterday did not change because sleeping at Aryo's house."

"Oh, is it Mom?"

"Yes, last night I was wearing Arum's nightgown."

"Yes ma'am, let Angga here be with me."

"People, can't be naughty?" order mom Nastiti.

"No Eyang" said Angga while pulling Ratih's hand to accompany him to play.

Miss Nastiti exits the school yard, approaching Aryo's car, which is still waiting at the door.

"Kok stopped in front of the door anyway, instead of a little forward."

"Want to see Aryo as 'mother',"

Miss Nastiti got in the car.. Aryo was glued to see Angga pull Ratih's hand, invite him to play a swing. There was a strange thump banging on his chest.

"Oh my God, Aryo, it's not Arum" said Aryo's inner voice who immediately started her car away from there.

Ratih looked towards the car as Angga waved his hand, watching his father leave. Ratih wanted to see the thin mustachioed figure smiling, but was blocked by the black windshield and closed as soon as the car passed.

***

At ten in five minutes, Angga had parked his car in front of the Angga school. Aryo slowly came down, and waited under a leafy trembesi tree near the fence.

Heard the school children singing 'sayonara' then the parents who picked up approached the classroom door so that when they disbanded they immediately saw that their parents were waiting. Miss Nastiti was among them. But until they get home, Angga hasn't come out yet. Aryo looked at her mother, but Nastiti was still waiting at the door.

Soon Angga was seen coming out of the door, holding Ratih's hand. There was a haru who took a sip of his chest looking at that scene. Angga really misses his mother, and is happy when he feels that his mother is back.

Seeing his father, Angga immediately ran ahead.

"Father, Angga has told me that we want to buy cars."

"Female, this father still has to go back to the office."

"Yes, it's a holiday, right? But mother said, the father who should ask the mother," said Angga while pulling his father's hand to be invited to approach Ratih who was talking with Nastiti ma'am.

"Seek how?" aryo asked confusedly.

"Solicit that mom would be invited by you to deliver Angga buy the car."

Aryo and Angga have arrived before Ratih. Stifled with a thumping heart beating his chest, Ratih received Aryo's hand that was touching her, and grasped it tightly.

 "Come, I said dong same mother..!" whining Angga.

***

tomorrow again yes