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The Immaculate Love 79

Rafardhan clenched his eyes tightly, and threw away his gaze quickly. Now the green scene in the side yard became the focus of his gaze, no longer the face of the mother who broke into tears.

For so long, he let himself drown in the maya of his own mind. Without anything that can disturb him, including the sobbing sobs of Risa heard now.

Rendi also fell silent without being able to utter any more words. He only occasionally looked at Risa who was wallowing in regretful weeping, who refused to stop. At times he stared at the handsome face of Rafardhan who did not show a single expression.

Rendi sighed slowly. At the end of a search that finds no clarity. He can't guess what Rafardhan is feeling right now. Except for just one possibility, that young man must have felt a great sense of disappointment.

The handsome young man himself was exploring his thoughts space by space, and passage by passage of time that had passed. The bridge of time, for the sake of time that has been missed. No one could hold back his steps to stop. Nor is it a greeting or a question call.

“Im sorry mom, Nak.” Even with the words of Risa, unable to call Rafardhan to return. He continues to step through the space of time that has been passed, the time sheet that has been passed.

The silence of the son further troubled Risa. Until now it feels not only limited to regret and sadness, but also the fear that dominates.

“Nak, forgive mother,” said Risa once again, with the hope of doubling bigger than before.

But Rafardhan is like a deaf man, who can't hear at all. Or instead he really did not hear Risa's words, because it was too lena with her own mind wandering.

Can't stand the silence of his son, can't stand to be left alone. Risa groaned to the floor, sat down before Rafardhan, and pleaded for forgiveness she recited. “Excuse me, Mother, Darling.”

RAfardhan gasped to find Risa's condition now. Soon he grabbed the mother's shoulder and guided her to sit back.

“Pardon mom, son,” pinta Risa once again.

RAfardhan was still silent, without taking a look from Risa's puffy pair of eyes. Until then.

“Mother and Dad should keep that story forever, don't tell me what it is,” Rafardhan said.

“Nak ..”

“Let me not know the real story. Let me stick with what I've been feeling all this time.”

“Mother is wrong, Son. Mommy should have told you from the beginning the real story. Mother apologize.” Risa's back can't hold back her tears.

“I understand what you feel, Mother is angry at the departure of mama, angry at the departure of grandfather. I understand all the reasons, Mother. But by not telling the truth, I already hate my own biological father, Mother. Not just hate, I'm angry, even I grudge him.”

Rafardhan clenched his hands tightly. Remembering all the atmosphere of hatred so inherent in his soul, in a man named Alaric William, who had been considered to have abandoned him, and his mother. He was reluctant to acknowledge the existence of his son on this earth.

“Not only that, Mother, I intend to avenge all my heartache to him. I want him to lose a loved one. Even I have the intention to separate him from his wife now,” Rafardhan said in a trembling voice.

“Rafa!” Rendi exclaimed in shock. While Risa is only getting more and more bowed with a deep sense of guilt. “You know your papa's wife now?” ask Rendi slowly.

“Yes, I saw them in the Mall, two days after I was in this city.”

Rendi rubbed her face slowly and scooped her breath faintly. He did not realize, if as deep as this anger Rafardhan on Alarik. If only, Rendi and Risa did not immediately tell the truth, then the young man would have fallen into sin, wronging his own biological father.

The story begins with Rafasya who finds an old photo in the drawer of Risa's desk. A photo of Kanaya and a handsome young man who are still both wearing white-gray uniforms. Feeling very curious about the photo of the young man who felt very similar to his face, Rafasya, who was 17 years old, asked Risa and Rendi, whom he knew as his mother and father.

At first, Risa was impressed with the cover-up, and did not want to tell who the person in the photo was. But Rendi, who assumes that Rafa is an adult and it's time to know the truth, codes Risa into telling the truth.

That's when, Rafa just found out, if he is the son of Kanaya Risa's younger sister who died while giving birth to her. Risa also tells that the man in the photo is Alarik, Rafa's biological father who left Kanaya when he found out that his lover was two-bodied.

Risa did not tell the truth about Alarik, about how the man tried and struggled to marry Kanaya.

In Risa's story on Rafa, Alarik was cast as the antagonist who had made Kanaya die, and caused Risa's father and Kanaya—Rahman Malik— also died. Their families were expelled from Jakarta and so on.

Until the seeds of anger and hatred are planted in Rafasya who then turns into Rafardhan. Meeting Alarik was something he did not expect. Even then that hatred and anger turned into a grudge that had to be vented immediately.

“So deep I hate my papa, Mother. And it's all because of Mother who didn't tell her the truth. Your anger and your hatred have misled my feelings, Mother. Now what can I do, after everything has gone as it is now,” said Rafardhan with a vibrating voice. Even almost, a speck of clear already floating, rolled on his extremely handsome face.

“Let's meet your papa now, Rafa. He will understand your situation. He really hopes for you,” take Rendi. However, Rafardhan only replied with a sledgehammer.

“No, dad. I don't know now, to whom I should trust more.” The handsome young man immediately got up to leave.

“Rafa.” Risa immediately held back her steps.

“I'll be back to Jakarta now,” break up Rafardhan.

“Rafa, Mother please, Son,” isak Risa expectantly.

“I've forgiven, Mother. But I need some time alone. It's not easy for me to accept all these realities,” concluded the handsome young man and a haste passed.

Rafardhan immediately called Adam who had decided to return to Jakarta this afternoon. The handsome young man who was supposed to come back tomorrow, so changed all his plans and chose to come back to Jakarta right now.