Aunt Melinda

Seeking Support

It turns out Linda was awake until the hour had pointed at two in the morning.

He is confused as to what he has to decide tomorrow, for his relationship with Ferry.

"Ck! Perhaps this is also a rebuke from God, for what I have done before. But either way, I should be able to make a decision."

"At least, have to talk about this issue first as Ferry. Before I take him to the notary's office."

Linda took a deep breath for the umpteenth time. Trying to make his chest feel more spacious than the tightness that just kept coming from earlier.

Added with the messages delivered by mbak Nana. And read by Linda herself directly.

But the moment his eyes wanted him to close, it was impossible. Because word for word Nana wrote for her message, it looks very clear and memorized Linda. With one read.

"I'll ask Ferry. If she claims to know nothing about her pregnancy and her plans mbak Nana, then she is only used as a seed carrier to get Nana pregnant."

"Or don't-don't..."

"Arghhhh.. Why am I thinking this weird thing!" Linda banged herself on the forehead, thinking about the thing she just knew.

Until half-time three in the morning, Linda's eyes can only be closed. Though actually his mind drifted far away somewhere.

*****

"Ma. Mama!"

"Mama, wake up Ma!"

Erli tries to wake up his mother, who turns out not to have woken up either. He had awoken earlier.

"Ma. It was morning Ma. Wake up!"

Linda rubbed her eyes, then squirmed for a while. So that the muscles of his body that feels stiff a little weak and can be invited to compromise to wake up this morning.

"Why eyes?" erli asked confusedly, when he saw Linda's blackened eye bags.

In addition to lack of sleep, Linda also cried several times a night. While rereading the messages from mbak Nana. Which was sent to her husband.

Linda did all that, when her eyes could not be closed. He didn't know what to do, so he wanted to convince himself. In order to make the right decision, for his marriage to Ferry in the future.

"What's? Mama's eyes don't why-why dear," Linda's great-grandson, winked her eyes a few times.

Linda felt his eyes, and pretended that nothing had happened to them.

"It's okay, sweetheart. This is her eyes mama urinated on cockroaches maybe," Linda said, giving an excuse to her son.

"In fact, if urinated on cockroaches his eyes can be swollen so, Ma?"

Erli instead kept quiet, after hearing the explanation from Linda. He asked again and again. Because the curiosity of a child like Erli is also great.

"The word symbol Mama, the mother of Sewahan Putri, used to be that. Don't know, too, darling."

Erli narrowed both his eyes, looking more clearly into his Mama's eyes.

"But no traces of Ma's cockroach pee. No wet or... puffy and black is the former urine of cockroaches?"

"Udah Erli get out of the room first! Let Mama clean the bed first, only after that go take a shower, let her eyes not have to pee cockroaches again."

Erli nodded obediently, then went outside from inside the room.

Linda walked towards the mirror. Looking at his own face that looks awful. He shakes his head, looks at his face, especially at the eye bags.

"Ck! hiks.. because you can't sleep last night, so you get a lot of questions from Erli."

After finishing cleaning the bed, Linda rushed out of the room. He went straight to the kitchen, intending to help his mother who was cooking for breakfast

"What cooking is Mom?"

Linda just nodded, without making a sound.

He saw his mother who was draining yellow noodles. Maybe I'll cook some fried noodles this morning.

"You want to make some fried noodles, ma'am?" linda asked, guessing what she saw now.

"Yes. It's pretty there's noisier noodles. From there is a jamuran made fried noodles only for breakfast later."

"Make father what? still got to be porridge, huh?"

Linda was worried that her mother would give her a fried noodle breakfast to her father who had just recovered and came home from the hospital yesterday.

"So. Make me steam his food."

Apparently, for his father's food that had just healed. His mother prepared stew or steamed food. So the food is free from oil content.

Linda tried to open a boiler used to steam food for her father.

It turned out that it contained soft rice that had been formed in such a way by his mother. With tofu and tempeh that bi cook by steamed way too.

Maybe for healthy people tongue will not feel good. Especially for the sick, whose tongue feels bitter to eat food.

But for the sake of health, his father Linda could not protest with the food provided by his wife. Because that's the advice from the doctor who handled Linda's father yesterday.

"Ma, Mama..."

Erli was clamoring for Linda, from the front. Maybe he was sitting in front of the television. Because of this morning, there are many television shows that show cartoons.

"Ma. there's Papa. Hooray... Papa's home!" yelled Erli again, cheering.

Linda frowned, hearing Erli's exclamation. "Mas Ferry is here?" tanyanya muttering.

"There Lin, serve your husband. He just came from out of town. Must be tired of him. Make a warm tea or coffee drink too" said his mother. Ask Linda not to help him in the kitchen.

"Eh, don't get coffee! He just came. Must be sleepy too. Time in the coffee. Just make some warm tea!"

Linda's mother used her own words. Because he did not know if, his daughter-in-law did not go anywhere. Because Ferry also slept at home last night.

"Yes, Mom."

But Linda can only say yes. Two didn't want to explain to his mother the truth about Ferry.

"Ma..."

Erli yelled back to him, because Linda did not show up.

Finally Linda rushed to the front of the TV, where Erli was. She also brought warm tea for her husband who had just arrived.

"Dek" said Ferry in surprise, when he saw his wife's eye bags.

'Can Linda not sleep either? Just like I experienced last night?' inner Ferry guess.

But since Linda did not respond to his greeting, Ferry simply nodded. When Linda put the glass with the warm tea she had made.

Actually Ferry wants to talk to Linda a lot. But seeing the circumstances and the situation, Ferry also refrained from being free to talk.

He didn't want Erli to listen to all of their talk later.

"We went home this morning?"

Linda looked up at the face of her husband, who was talking to her son.

'Ck! Mas Ferry of course knew, if I couldn't possibly resist. When Erli had agreed to his papa request.' Linda grumbled inwardly, staring resentfully at Ferry.