ARETTAS

PINK COLOR

The morning did not look like usual.

Mom no longer goes to the market with her rickshaw motorcycle, now mom pedals a bike from dad's work.

Early in the morning while Aretta and dad were still fast asleep, mom was ready to pedal her bike.

At exactly 05:30 a.m., Aretta got up and rushed to take a shower. He will be very angry if one minute just woke up late. Maybe because it had become Aretta's habit during her entry into elementary school education.

Not to forget Aretta woke up her father to get ready for work. Because today Aretta will have more duty, which is to deliver her father to work.

"Good morning, ma'am !" Aretta and dad said at the same time when they saw her mother coming from the market.

Aretta and dad were compact in this, they were ready before her mom came from the market.

"Good morning too. . . Tumben is ready at this hour ?" Ask the astonished mother while parking her bike.

"Yes dong, ma'am. Right now Are has to take father to work, only after that Are left for school with Tati." Aretta answered while helping to hold her mother's bicycle.

"Dad also would not want if later ojek father angry, because the father woke up bad luck." Said the father mocked his son while helping the mother lower the groceries.

"Ih, dad. Gini's beautiful time is called ojek anyway ?" Said spoiled Aretta.

"Already, already. Is it still early in the morning?" Said mom trying to mediate.

"Dad nih ma'am, disturb Are aja." Aretta.

"Cieee, maraah's father's son ." I am still disturbing the girl.

"Yes, we better have breakfast. I bought rice for breakfast today." Mother said to enter the house while carrying a small package.

"Kok tumben rice uduk bu anyway ? Usually chicken porridge ?" Ask Aretta.

"The chicken porridge seller is not selling, so I buy rice just sit. Than hayo breakfast ?" Mum says while preparing breakfast for her husband and son.

"Yes yes." Aretta gave up.

Aretta and dad immediately ate the breakfast that mom provided, while mother as usual arranged her merchandise.

"Come bu ojek, anter dad used to go to work." Father hurried after finishing his breakfast.

"Ready boss !" Aretta spoke like an aide who was always ready to take orders from her master.

"Let's goo." Said the father after making sure there were no items left for him to carry to work.

Both of them passed, of course not to forget after shaking hands with mother

"Are, if it's big what would it be ?" Ask my dad on the way to work, and keep pedaling a bike.

"You're a doctor." Aretta said, sitting behind her father.

Dad deliberately chose a bicycle that has a part of his puppet. It was all done, so that it could be used together.

"Why Doctor ?" Ask dad.

"Because Are does not want, if one day the father is sick, the same father cannot seek treatment because he does not have money. Let Are the medicine. And if you can, later people who treat Are, free." Aretta said innocently.

How excited my father was when he heard his little daughter. Until it makes father not feel to put out a clear grain at the end of his eyes. Moreover, the condition of their families is not from the family of people who can afford it. Even to watch television, they have to go to a neighbor's house.

"What a noble ambition, son. Father doain, may what Are aspires be fulfilled."

"Aamiin's." Answer Aretta.

"At last we got to Dad's place of work. Studying hard, so I can be a doctor." Said the father while rubbing his son's head gently.

"Yes, go home. Later Tati keburu dateng again. . ." Saying Father.

"Yes, Are leaving first. Assalamu'alaikum." Aretta said while kissing her father's hand.

"Wa'alaikumsalam." Father say.

Meanwhile, Aretta soon leaves her father, who is still standing in front of her workplace.

He pedaled his bike fast enough, because he did not want to make his best friend wait too long.

Day

"Assalamu'alaikum." Said the man from outside the house who was none other than Aretta's father.

"Wa'alaikumsalam." Say mother.

"Dad home what's up ?" Ask mother.

"So come along with the bike, ma'am. I don't want our son to have to pick me up at night." Say it while taking off his shoes.

"Ooh, anyway, Aretta's sleeping. Maybe all day ketapean bike ride with Vani." Say mother again.

Time still shows at 19:10.

It was indeed father's working hours, for twelve hours. Go to work at seven in the morning, go home at seven in the evening. Likewise, if the night work section.

Dad took off his uniform and gave it to Mom, who he took back to wash. But how surprised my mother was when she found out there was a pink mark on my uniform. Mom's mind at that time was not careless, her heart was broken. She could not imagine what her husband was doing until he got a pink lip on his work uniform.

"This is what is yah ?" Mother's words tremble.

"What is what ?" Answer the father who does not know about the mind of the mother.

"Dad see for yourself !" Mommy replied while throwing the work uniform at me.

"Ooh, this was at work there was someone who gave soft drinks to dad, it happened to be red. Keep dad even careless, so stick to the shirt." Say dad with his cool.

"Dad don't lie, mother is not a child you can lie to. You think you're that stupid ?" Mother said with a tone starting to rise.

"What do you mean mom ? I don't understand !" Answer me still in a relaxed tone.

"Honestly, it's a former female lipstick, right ?" Said the mother increasingly upset to see her husband's behavior that began to be unusual.

"Yes, mom's lipstick this morning." Father's words are still evasive.

"Originally, I know I don't have pink lipstick. This is another woman's lipstick. Don't-don't for this long, I've been playing crazy behind mom ?" Mother's words are rising.

"What do you mean, mother ? I don't understand anymore !" Said the father who began to rise.

"Remember well, the immeasurably father covered the carcass, long will be smelled also the stench !" Mother threatened.

"Just mother. I don't care ! Husband comes home instead of being fed, even in omelin ! If this is the way, I'll just go !" Said the father immediately leaving the mother and slammed the door hard.

Meanwhile in the room.

Aretta tears up her eyes. He heard all the conversations of his parents. His heart was so broken without a head. He did not expect, if his parents who he had been proud of so far, to have a big fight.

"hiks. . hiks. . ."

His cry was still sobbing, even though he tried to hide under a pillow. But his heart wounds could not be hidden.