ARETTAS

RECONNAISSANCE

On the way home from the night market, mom didn't say much. In addition to holding many questions in his heart, his eyes began to glaze over. Although as much as possible, the mother tried to be prejudiced against the father, but it is undeniable, if her feelings feel different things.

Mom would occasionally wipe her cheeks.

His right hand held tightly to Aretta who was asleep in his arms, while his left hand held Aretta's head. It is not easy to carry a sleeping child on a motorcycle. Even if only as a pigeon.

Not much conversation between mom and dad on the way home. Dad is more focused on driving, while mom is still busy with her thoughts.

The motorbike driven by my father had stopped in front of the house, indicating that they had arrived.

"Let's daddy's fat Are, ma'am." Said the father immediately after standardizing the motor.

I just kept quiet and let you hold Aretta. Mom immediately pulled out a key from her pocket.

Ceklaaa

Not long after the door opened.

I immediately brought Aretta in and put her on the bed.

Meanwhile the father rushed to change his clothes and continued by lying on the bed.

"What a tiring day." Father say.

Why not, because I work all day. Plus, you have to keep a promise to your daughter. But even though he was tired, he would not be able to resist the wishes of his beloved son.

While the mother did not say the least, even to glance at the father also did not.

Morning

As usual, she was always busy with her routine, while Aretta and Dad were still sound asleep. Since this is a holiday, the mother deliberately did not wake her husband and child.

Time has shown at nine in the morning. Mom is almost done with her work. Few buyers come if the day starts.

Because the mother sells vegetables and side dishes, it is not surprising that the stall is crowded in the morning. As for the daytime, sometimes the mother processes the remaining vegetables to be made cooking. The next one is for sale again or it could be for his small family meal. "Take a dive, drink some water." He said whenever someone asked.

Mother is a hard-working woman, so no wonder, if the mother sometimes gets tired. Even so, I do not want until someone knows about his fatigue. Including Aretta and dad.

"What's the cook today ma'am ?" Aretta said when she saw her mother who was busy cooking.

"Eh, my mother's son is awake. This, the mother cook vegetables asem, stir-fried kale, oreg tempe, the same pickled milkfish. It just so happens that it's left over, so mom cooks." Mother's words explained.

"Ooh, no salted fish ma'am ?" Ask Aretta again.

"Do you want some salt fish?" Ask a mom who is busy cooking.

"There are vegetables, it is better to use salted fish. More coveting that." Said Aretta playing her saliva.

"Yes, I'll fry. Now take a shower, keep waking up dad. Let's eat together." Say mother.

"Good buu." Aretta passes leaving mom busy cooking. He took a shower and woke his father.

"Are wants to be bribed to eat it." Aretta said when she was together in the face of food made by her mother.

"Eat alone dong, Areee. . . It's big." Say mom got rice for dad.

Such is the mother who has always been faithful to serve the father, from the past until now. Even since marriage with mother, almost never father eat without served mother.

"No, papa ma'am." Said the father defending his son.

"Now, open his mouth, a. . ." Say another word, putting a spoonful of rice into Aretta's mouth.

"Oh yes ma'am, I'll leave work early huh ?" Say it while chewing food.

"Why yeah ? How about tumben ?" Ask mother.

"Yes, because there was a meeting with the commander. About the custody tightening plan. Understand, the warehouse that I keep, has started a lot of eyeing. Yesterday too, the lock key was already loose. Fortunately nothing was missing." He explained a little about his work.

"What time do you want to leave ?" Ask mom again.

"Four hours at most." Answer the father briefly while taking turns to feed Aretta.

"Oh yeah, I'll iron my dad's clothes first." Say mother again.

"Mother go back first." Mother's words passed soon.

While Aretta and dad are still eating voraciously.

" Mommy, you're leaving first, aren't you ? Assalamu'alaikum." Said the father immediately passed by riding a motorcycle that has been a few days accompany every step.

The mother who was then ready, immediately followed the father with the help of his neighbor who happened to be a motorcycle taxi driver. Mom deliberately followed Dad, to vent her curiosity. Aretta accidentally left it to her grandmother whose house is not far from the mother's house.

Dad's motor drove through the highway, even through the alley of his own workplace.

"Maybe the meeting's out of work." Benak mom trying to think well.

Until finally the father's motorbike stopped at a food stall that was quite far from the father's workplace.

Before long came out a middle-aged woman who was no stranger to mothers. Yeah, that's the girl he saw on the night market.

The woman then walked up to the father and immediately got on the motorbike that the father was driving. The woman's hands were coiled around the father's waist.

It was broken that my heart saw the sight before him. How not, the man who had been accompanied at this difficult time, now began to show his unfaithful nature. But there is nothing you can do, you are still trying to be patient. Following dad's motor that drove back somewhere. Village after village passed through him, until the father's motor stopped at a large house without a fence, which was located in a narrow alley.

Mother also asked his motorcycle to stop a bit away from the father's motorbike, it was all so that he was not known to father.

The father and woman entered the house. While the mother is still waiting in a small shop while digging for information.

"Excuse me ma'am, I'd like to ask you. If the big house is who's the one ?" Ask the shop owner after ordering two sweet iced teas.

"Oh that. . . Whose mother is Rani, she is a rich widow with five children. But, I heard recently that he married a betel same as a security." Answer the ice seller.

DEG

The mother's heart was beating hard, but the mother was still trying to hold on to dig up more information from the ice seller's mother.

"Mom know the name of her husband Rani's mother ?" Ask the friendly mother.

"No idea, ma'am. Not yet known to me, after all her husband is rarely here." Said the mother.

"What was riding the motorcycle with Rani's mother was her husband ?" Ask me, I'm getting curious.

"Yes mom, the same Rani's mom was her husband. Even the motorbike that her husband made was also Rani's motorbike." Answer the seller.

"That's enough !" Mother impales. It was no longer possible for the mother to hear any explanation about her husband.

She also left the area of the house that her husband came to. He rushed home. His heart was completely crushed hearing all the explanations of the stall. The man he had loved, fought for when he was in trouble, had thrown the carcass in his face.

Aretta, the only one she's thinking about right now. I tried to put aside all my ego and pain. Sometimes tears can never lie.