ARETTAS

TIME TO CHOOSE

Time shows at eight o'clock the night when mom has arrived home. There's nobody home. Because Aretta was deliberately entrusted to her mother-in-law.

His mind remembered the reconnaissance result this afternoon. He never imagined that his family would be on a road like this. Not happiness, but betrayal.

Mother's cries broke upon entering the house. The place that was supposed to be the source of the family's warmth, now turned into a hell that was ready to burn him alive.

"Aretta !" Her crying stopped immediately when she realized that the existence of her child was still left.

Soon mother pedaled her bike and walked down the dark road to her mother-in-law's house, because that's where she left Aretta.

Tok, tok, tok. . .

Pintupun.

Before long, the old woman came out of the ground-based room.

"Eh, you're Wati. Come on in here, Aretta hasn't slept either. I can't sleep he said." The old grandmother invited her to enter her house.

Mom just fell silent and entered the house, then sat in the corner of the room.

"Ma'buuu." Welcome Aretta who knows of her arrival.

"Not sleeping yet, baby ?" Ask your mom with her special smile.

Because mother is a great woman, she is able to hide the deep wounds in her heart.

"Are can't sleep, ma'am. Are my mother's thoughts continue. Where the hell is mom ? Why not Are ?" Said Aretta with a myriad of questions.

"Mother there is a need, Iyaang. And can't take you, that's why I'm sending you to grandma." Answer the mother while rubbing her son's hair.

"But Are doesn't bother grandma, does she ?" Ask mother.

"No, Wati. . . Grandma was even grinning, if Are was here often. Let grandma have her friend." Grandma said.

Understandably, after the death of grandfather, grandmother lived alone. No children or grandchildren would accompany him. Although the age of the grandmother is quite old, but the grandmother is very principled. If he doesn't want to trouble his son.

"If so, Are would like me to take it home, ma'am. It's malem, you have to go to school tomorrow."

Say mother.

"Cock rush ? Grandma still misses this grandmother's favorite granddaughter." Grandma tried to hold back.

"Madmama can come home tomorrow." Aretta.

"How about you guys just go in here "It's late at night, every once in a while grandma's here." Grandma persuaded.

"Can't, ma'am. Tomorrow morning I have to go to the market. Later when shall we get it. Or if not, just go to our house how ?" Said mom not to lose.

"You know, if you can't leave this house. There are too many memories of Grandpa here. That's why grandma can't leave this house even if it's just last night." Grandma turned sad.

"Sorry Grandma, we don't mean to make Grandma sad." Aretta said while holding her grandmother's hand.

"Yes, I'm not papa, grandma just remembers grandpa. If you want to go home, no papa. Be careful in the street." Grandma wiped her cheeks.

"Yes, we go home first, Mom. Afraid of getting darker in the street." Said mother while thrusting her hand to invite her mother-in-law to shake hands.

"Yes, be careful. . ." Grandma's speech.

Mom and Aretta hurry to leave Grandma's house back on the bike. Aretta, who was sitting behind her, did not know that her mother shed tears.

The bitter reality will always incise a wound if remembered, even if only at a glance.

Next day.

Mom deliberately discouraged herself from selling. Whatever the power, his heart has not improved with the treatment of father. I really wanted to ask my dad directly.

But the time is turning, the person he is waiting for does not come.

The clock has shown ten o'clock in the afternoon. I should have been at home by now. Until I finally decided to find my father.

By using the services of a neighbor's motorcycle taxi, the mother began looking for a father. From work, food stalls, nothing. Until then it crossed my mind to find a father to the last place.

Braaaaaq. . .

The door of the house is broken

"Who are you ?" Ask the owner of the house.

"Who are you ? Ask your husband !" Said the mother immediately occupied the chair even without being invited.

Yes, it was Rani's mother's house. The woman you know has become your new wife.

"Who is he, Mommy ?" Rani asks the man she considers her husband.

"Cute, you cheap girl ! How dare he call like that in front of me !" Inner mother.

"She. .dia. . ." Father's speech stammered.

"Better you two sit here, and prepare a drink for this guest of yours. Is this how you honor your guests ?" Said the mother who suddenly became creepy.

Just Kontan Rani and her husband immediately sat facing the mother. And immediately ask Rani's son to prepare a drink.

Rani is a wealthy widow with five children, one of whom is not far from her mother. Naturally, he could ask his son to make a drink

Tension approached them. No talks for some time, until finally. . .

"Please explain to me, what exactly is the purpose and purpose of you coming to my house ? Who are you ? Why did you enter in such a disrespectful manner ?" Rani broke the silence.

"Bare this woman too ? I want to tear it apart." Mother impales.

"It's not polite you say ? Huh, really no people !" Said mom holding back her anger.

"Please explain, what really happened ?" Rani turns to look at her husband.

While you can only bow without a word. His body looks like it's petrified.

"Please explain right now, Dad !" Mother's words put emphasis on her last words.

Deg !

Rani's heart was pounding at the last word the woman said in front of her.

"Dad ? You call my husband by the word father ? So it turns out you. . ." Rani could not continue her sentence.

While the mother just nodded answering Rani's question.

"What does all this mean, Mom ? Please explain right now ! Don't make this any more complicated !" Rani began to despair.

Father still petrified a thousand languages. Still trying to string the right sentence, so as not to hurt the two women who were nearby.

"Jawab Mas, answer me !" Rani hit Dad's arm.

"All right, I'll explain everything." Father suddenly raised his face.

"Please !" Mother said still being polite.

"So he's Wati, my first wife." Said father after sighing.

"Huh ?!" Rani was shocked and could only cry.

" I am your husband's first wife. And we already have a child. Never forget that, Dad ! Because there's no such thing as an ex-child." Mother added.

Rani and Dad can only be quiet.

" Now don't talk at length, I want you to decide ! Choose me or him !" Said the mother who began to rise.

Father was still silent, he was so confused if he had to be told to choose. Wati who has given him a child or Rani who has made him comfortable ?

"Please don't be like this, Wati ! You two are the women I love." Said father.

"No woman wants to be combined ! I just want clarity from you !" Said the mother who had not paid attention to the limits of her manners.

"Please, give me some time to decide this. It's not an easy thing." Say father again.

"It's like you're really rich. What you think, I want to be a victim of your selfishness !" Mother impales.

"I don't care who you choose. What's clear is, don't let you abandon Aretta !" Mom's speech passed and immediately went home with a motorcycle taxi that had been waiting for her in front of Rani's house.