
"Why? Confused? Confused what I mean?" arkan's mother said in an intimidating tone.
"Already ma'am. Don't fight in front of children, not good. Mom talked about it, right? Me and Caca, excuse me." Arumi grabbed her son's hand and then slowly groped him.
"I'm serious about Arumi. You can't be this selfish. Ye know? Caca's at his friend's banter just because he doesn't have a father? You should have acted, introduced him to his father. Introduce Arkan as Caca's biological father. Caca is also mentally healthy. I'm sure you don't know about this, because you're not babysitting." The words of Arkan's mother suddenly made Arumi's steps stop.
The twenty-six-year-old woman silently digested Arkan's mother's words. A moment later he looked at the child whose hand was in his grasp. The eyes of the mother and child meet. The mother's eyes seemed to interpret what the socialite woman said was true.
"Arumis. I won't seize or forcibly take Caca if you agree to what I want." Arkan's mother walked closer towards the mother and the child.
Arumi simply replied with a breath with a look at the highway. He is fed up with Arkan and his family. He was tired and careless to face the family he thought did not know himself.
"You drop Arkan's demands and free him to meet Caca anytime and anywhere without any time and place restrictions. How's it?"
"I'm sorry, I'm not ready."
"That means you're ready to take this to court. Me and Arkan would easily get Caca. You don't care for him, you're a teledor, you make up stories so Caca doesn't know his father. Don't you understand that it's also against the law?"
"I think before you take this matter there. It would be nice if you look in the mirror and remember what happened five years ago and after you sent me home to my father and mother. Until now I was wondering how my parents were good friends with humans like you. You should be aware that the root of this problem is on you and your beloved child. Please if you take this matter to a higher table. I will serve, but if later at the trial my mouth said honesty and reality five years ago and after, yes do not blame me. You're the one who humiliated yourself by taking this matter there." Arumi felt quite talkative with the woman. He turned his body and walked away. Two steps away from the woman, she turned her back, "oh yeah, one more mom. I suggest you consider what I said earlier. Because actually this is a simple problem but you yourself are making it complicated. I'll wait for the invitation letter from the court to embarrass you." The last time before he actually left, the sharp and furious look he gave to the only woman who had broken his mind.
Arkan's mother could only stare at the back of her former daughter-in-law and granddaughter with a face full of anger but could do nothing. He had not expected, Arumi would answer bravely like that. Very different from Arumi when she was his daughter-in-law. Let alone to fight or refute every word, to look into his eyes he felt not brave.
"Caca, is there something you want to tell your mother, son? Is it true what the oma-oma said just now?" ask Arumi who pulled over the car after driving it for a few minutes.
"Where's mom?"
"You're almost as tight as a motor?"
Caca just nodded weakly.
"Couldn't you? You usually wait for your mother in school, don't get to the street."
"Delay the promise don't get mad if I tell you."
"Yes dear. Mother promises not to be angry."
"Promise."
"My friends often tease me bun. He said I'm a bastard who doesn't have a father. Though I explained to them that I had a father but had died as my mother said. But I don't know why they still say I'm a bastard. I did it again. I cry out of class. I didn't realize I was on the highway." Caca started to tell her what she was going through at school.
"Om Bari used to say that he was going to be my father. That's why I told my friends that I would have a father soon. I'm pissed bun, they always make fun of me. Now they're not mocking me as an illegitimate child. But they call me a liar and an imaginary craftsman because at the art show yesterday om Bari did not come. I told them I'd take my dad." Caca increasingly roared to tell his disappointment towards Bari some time ago.
"So this is the reason you're upset that om Bari has to come at that time?" arumi asked while giving her warm embrace.
A warm yet poignant embrace in his heart. He berated himself why this big problem he did not know. Even Caca's teacher whom he trusted to leave Caca with him never talked about this.
"Why haven't you ever told me about this?"
"I don't want to make you sad. Mother often cries silently. I don't want your mom to get sad when I tell her."
Oh, God my son. Sorry mother who can not be a good mother for you son. Maafin mom also thought that you are fine without a father figure.
Arumi carried Caca deeper into her arms. The guilt of course he felt and now filled the space of his heart. He was reminded of Bari's words that always chuckled with his opinion. He always said as strong as Caca, he was still a child who needed a father figure.
"Mother, who was the oma-oma? Why did oma just say that she lived with my father. Is it true that Arkan's name that kidnapped my mother was my father?" ask Caca who has started to calm down.
"Oma was Arkan's mother. Honey, don't listen to what people say. Just trust your mother. Later when you grow up, you will know a reality without your mother explaining it. So don't talk about this anymore. Caca only has mom, oma, abi and umi."
"Om Bari is also the mother. Om Bari once said that you can consider him a father. Can't mommy?"
"Originally you're happy, son. Mother will do anything for your happiness." Arumi kissed the child's forehead briefly just wayangnya.
"I'm happy that om Bari is my father. And I can call him dad. But said om Bari, I can not call father before the same mother married."
Arumi was a little dumbfounded actually, but he tried to hide it. It's been Caca and Bari's relationship.
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