Between Me and Him
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David was silent, he kept thinking . "Maybe I'm too hard on her" murmured David .
And Aleta came to the front of Arsen's room.
" Sen, open the door, son... " Sahut Aleta while knocking - knocking on the door of her Son's room.
"Ngapain...? " Arsen replied to her Mother who was behind the door of her room by arguing.
"Mother' wants to talk to Arsen. Please open Mom's doorwell"
"Udah ma'am'! Mother's gone ajah. Arsen doesn't want to be disturbed"
"Arsenic... " Call Aleta again.
"Udah ma'am'!!! Go ajah there!!! " Snapped Arsenic.
Disappointed and sad, Aleta went from her doorstep and returned to the kitchen to cook.
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At night, all the families gather in the living room, except Arsen. He hasn't been out of his room since this afternoon.
Since the afternoon Arsen did not want to eat, Aleta was very worried about her.
"When does the kid want to be like that? " Aleta murmured in the heart.
Aleta keeps trying to get Arsen to eat, but Arsen always refuses her. He continued like that until morning.
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****Morning of the day in the field city****
That morning the sun was shining brightly, but Arsen's room remained dark. As soon as the curtains of his room window closed, until the sunlight could not enter his room.
"Tock... Geck... " The sound of knocking on the door.
"Arsenic... Wake son... It's morning... Have breakfast" Call Aleta from behind her son's door.
Aleta continued to persuade her son continuously, and until finally...
"Ciiit..... " The door of the room is open.
"Ih... I'm not hugging Arsen, Arsen is big"
"Mother's not mad about getting mad at Arsen"
"Udah deh bu', don't talk stale... "
Arsen immediately released himself from Aleta's embrace and rushed off to the kitchen.
He stepped into the kitchen and opened the refrigerator. Arsen did not want to eat at the dinner table. He just picked up a few snacks that were in the refrigerator and went back inside his room.
All the family can only be patient to see Arsen's behavior.
"You see when the child is like that, like a lack of upbringing! " Say her father who saw Arsen who seemed to ignore the presence of David and Aleta.
"Udah mas, Kasian also Arsen. We don't know how upset she is" Aleta said.
"The child is so really even in belain, later even to the same manjaan you loh de'" David said a little indifferent to his wife.
Every day just passed like that, Arsen who often refused to be invited to eat by Aleta, and David who just scattered to see the behavior of his child. Not to forget, Aleta often sets aside a plate of rice and side dishes on the dining table. He was sure that Arsen would come out with his own to eat.
And sure enough, Aleta's guess is not wrong. Arsen ate the food she had stored on the table. And even then Arsen will go out of the room only to eat if the time is near midnight, where the presence of 1 person may have fallen asleep. Because Arsen's needs are also only for eating, because in every bedroom there is a bathroom.
And in the morning before, Aleta just smiled to see the food that had been prepared last night, had been eaten by her child.
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After a few weeks,
the house is starting to be as organized as ever. But something has changed.
Now Arsen who is now, is no longer the self as before. His former self has now turned into a hard person.
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