Being a Mother to Your Child
Chapter 99. Moped
Chapter 99. Moped
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The latitude awakens when the clock shows at half-twelve p.m. She glimpsed Mom's face asleep on the thin mattress beside her. He heard a noise from the west side of the wall of Yanti's house.
Latitude woke up and apparently saw the woman with the semi-hair shave the man was struggling with plastic bottles under low-wattage lights, at this late hour.
A small bulb with a dim orange highlight now fills the tired-faced woman, among the useless wreckage for some. Poverty in fact often makes people forced to ignore their tired bodies.
" Buok!" Call her to the woman with the skin. Makes him look at it instantly.
" Well, why wake up? No noise about that? I'm sorry mbak, because tomorrow morning I must deposit into the besieger!" Answer Yanti who is now scooping the mountains of used goods that became the source of his livelihood.
Stunned latitude. He was actually not bothered by Yanti's activities that night. She has been awake every night since she became pregnant. Yanti who accidentally saw the belly of the latitude that was bulging, now became curious. He had not seen it because Lintang was wearing an overstretched jacket.
" I am pregnant!" Said Lintang who understood Yanti's shock. Lintang spoke with a flat face and puffy eyes due to tired crying, he knew if Yanti would want to ask that.
Yanti was stunned and somewhat shocked by Lintang's words. The woman answered before she even answered. So thought Yanti.
" Will it be a problem if I get pregnant here without a husband?" His speech was flat in order to remember the reason why he was in that place.
Yanti immediately stopped her activities in sorting the used bottles. Staring at the latitude that is now crying tears.
" Why are you talking like that?" Yanti's eyebrows crinkled to her astonishment.
Lintang sighed deeply, then exhaled. " I am the victim of rape Ma'am!"
Yanti. He was really shocked . " Rape victim?" Money Yanti with a surprised face.
Lintang nodded weakly as he shed his tears. The woman finally told me everything she had experienced. All, without responsibility. It will be up to Yanti to think about her. He just wants to be honest so he doesn't get in trouble again later.
Yanti was seen shrinking her eyes many times while Latitude continued and continued to reveal what she was experiencing. Not expecting if what he experienced as a young man before, now befall the person he helped.
" You really remind me of my old self !"
They ended up exchanging stories. About what seems like an unfair life, about why men easily hurt a woman.
The latitude that helped peel the plastic skin of the mineral water glass, now also filled each other that night with chatter containing their lives.
" Where is my mother's son?" Ask the curious Lintang. Holding Yanti even a stick of kara at the age of the five heads.
" My son died of illness at the age of three months. She was born prematurely because during pregnancy I never checked the womb. I kept scavenging to be able to buy food regardless of my baby's health!"
Lintang swallowed his saliva when he saw the discordant smile from Bu Yanti's face. He also did not check the content at all during this time. Fear suddenly attacked him. Moreover, he had once beaten his stomach for not wanting to carry the son of a bastard.
The 50-year-old woman said she did not want to marry again because of the trauma of being abused by men.
" So I'm like this, let no one look at me. Let it go to death like this. Says the saint, my son could be my helper in eternity. The important thing is that I can eat. I don't think that's so bad!"
Unsatiated.
A piece of the heartbreaking story of a poor woman who was generous for being her helper angel made her think a little sane.
" The boy knew nothing. Better let him cringe (stay) in the stomach!"
" That baby can't have been born out of which womb!"
The latitude seemed to be slapped with Yanti's words. The woman's thoughts were exactly the same as her mother's.
" I was told I was crazy when my son died. I cried for days. Sometimes think, really my pride in the love of life like gini!"
Latitude also shrank his eyes many times, when Yanti also did the same thing while telling stories.
And that night, he promised to repay all of Yanti's kindness if her fate changed later.
Yanti nodded. His accidental meeting with the two humans, became the starting point of Yanti's new life.
The warm night he had just passed with the tough woman did not last long.
Ahead of dawn, Lintang who woke up because his urinary was full, intended to go to the bathroom. He looked at his mother's back who was behind him. Latitude smile. He could still see the regular breathing from his slow-moving back.
However, he who had just finished from urinating saw the strangeness on his mother's face. Her mother was very pale and her position had not changed at all from earlier.
" Buok!" Call her trying to turn her mother's body around but it feels weird.
" Mom!" Deuteronomy to see his mother who did not react, when he said a little.
The latitude while touching his mother's cold and stiff hands.
" Your mother!!!" He spoke once again with a trembling voice and a sudden heartbeat.
Yanti who just woke up and was about to start her work again, was surprised when she saw the body of Lintang vibrating hugging the body of her mother who was lifeless.
Innalilahi wa innalilahi.
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Burying the body is the duty of all people. After Yanti reported the incident to the local government in this case the chairman of the community, and told them that Lintang and his mother were distant relatives, finally Ibu Lintang buried in TPU which is in a densely populated residential area.
Lintang who has not sincerely accepted the reality, is now staring at the crowd of people who carry a coffin containing his mother's body to the pit without saying anything.
He never thought and never expected, if his mother would die in the house of someone they just knew. From then on he could only remain silent with a blank look. Her tears won't even come out. His soul was completely shaken.
Yes, now he must accept the fact that God has called his mother back to eternity.
The inability to buy medicine, as well as her now pregnant state, makes things even more difficult. Lintang hates the man. Really hate. Hence, he had lost a lot of things. Work, self-esteem, chastity, especially the only parents are now also lost.
If the man had not done all this, surely he could have worked and worked so that his mother could be healthy.
I really hate you!
That afternoon, when he was alone in Yanti's house. He cried so much - in order to remember his mother who was now dead. She kept crying and kept crying. Letting the thing that stifled his chest be forgotten.
New latitude can cry when silence now attacks him. Good Lord? could it?
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Two after the death of my mother. He who was aware that he had troubled Yanti, the poor woman who rose his heart, ventured to speak.
Lintang intends to find a job. Although Yanti is good, but the woman is still someone else for her.
" Buok!" He said as Yanti hung clothes in her yard.
" Live here!" Yanti replied turning around with a sad face that implied a deep sadness. Making Lintang surprised.
" If you believe in destiny, then you must also believe that God brought us together because I have to help you. Or.. Could be later you'll help me!"
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