CHASING ILLUSIONS

ENOUGH ALREADY!

...“Enough for all the wounds. Enough for all the tears. Go then! I have the right to laugh.”...

...~Lia Anindya Wulandari~...

...~0~0~...

Sundays. A holiday that everyone loves. And so is Anindya. This time, the girl chose to spend her time off at home, continuing her abandoned manuscripts due to her busyness. Indeed, being a student who also works, is not an easy thing. Especially in the final semester like this. Anindya barely has time to read a book or enjoy the twilight. Even the girl had no time to talk to her mother, just asking for news. The time is up for tasks and work.

Anindya smiled looking at her laptop screen. After a long time, he was finally able to return to dating the script. He hoped that no one would bother him this time. His fingers skillfully danced on the keyboard, stringing the alphabet into a beautiful sentence.

“Argh! Release me!” A voice managed to shift Anindya's focus. It was his mother's voice. Without a second thought, the girl immediately walked out of her room. No longer cared about the bunch of ideas running around in his brain.

Brak!! Anindya kicked the dining table chair that was right in front of her room. His emotions overflowed at the sight before him. How not, a girl who he knew as his half-sister is now trying to drag his mother. Anindya's hands clenched tightly. His anger burned to see what the girl was doing.

“Detach my mother, Stupid!” anindya Pinta.

Yolanda, Anindya's half-sister, immediately releases Rita. His body trembled violently as Anindya walked up to him. Fearful. That's how that girl feels now.

Plaque! A slap landed on the girl's pretty face. For a long time, Anindya tried to be patient in dealing with Yolanda's behavior which was very ignorant of manners. For a long time he resisted the urge to slap and finish the face of the girl who was the reason her family was destroyed because of the kindness that Rita instilled since childhood. But not this time. The girl's gone too far, though,

Yolanda touched her cheek which was hot because of Anindya's slap which was quite hard. The girl looked down. Not shame, but fear

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“Basic stupid girl! Didn't your mad mother's treasure teach you manners? Is it just money and money that he gave you all this time? Even I who was fed up with your parents was still trying to hold back my anger from doing something stupid like this! But you, who are just hitchhiking, dare you touch my mother like that!” anindya shouted in a very loud voice. He no longer cared about the neighbors who would hear his quarrel with his half-sister. It was enough that he was patient and accepted everything all along.

“Yes Lord ...! What is this?!” asked Bram who had just come out of his room because he heard Anindya's scream.

“Anin, what are you doing my son?!” joked Salma, her stepmother who also came out of the room.

Anindya pulled out her sunging. The girl stared intently at the frightened Yolanda. “It turns out mom and son are the same, huh? Haha! How can I forget that you are both stupid! His son made a mistake and his mother shamelessly asked, what have I done to his stupid son, what a beautiful drama,” said the girl underestimated.

Hearing his wife and son being humbled, Bram growled. The man's hand raised was about to slap Anindya, but unfortunately Anindya's hand quickly held the man's hand.

“Basic stupid man!” he cursed the girl while throwing her father's hand.

“Anindya! Don't cross the line, you! I'm your father!” remember Bram.

“Dad? Did ya? What kind of father would let his children be abandoned, while he lived in a luxurious building? What kind of father lets his son starve, while he eats with his fill? What kind of father, who let his son work hard to live, while he instead lives two despicable humans who have no blood relation to him? Answer me, Dad! What kind of father? Ask yourself, father! Should you be called my father?” ask Anindya.

Anindya's shoulders shook violently. All the pain he had endured, all the words he had tried to hold back from getting out of his mouth, and all the betrayal of a father he was trying to forgive, now everything was revealed. On the one hand the girl felt guilty about what she said to Bram, because after all she still loved her father very much. However, on the other hand he felt very relieved, because what he had been holding up all this time he managed to express.

“I always try to forgive dad, but dad ..., I only hear the voices of these two women,” Anindya said.

Anindya felt her legs tighten. Her chest was tight, considering all that her father had done. The girl went to the floor. Her tears flowed so hard. He knew he was guilty of a terrible crime by speaking harsh words to Bram, his father. But he was also tired of everything. He was tired of having to be patient and hold back his anger. Especially after the man brought his stepfamily to live in his house.

Yolanda covered her face looking at all this, and so did Salma. They did not expect that Anindya was so tormented with everything. All this time, the two of them only thought about the treasure, without caring about the family of the girl who was now burning with anger.

~0~0~

“What is this?” ask Rafi who just came.

“What's up, Nin?” ask Rafi again.

Anindya did not answer. The girl immediately rushed into Rafi's arms. Her tears were spilling back there. His crying sounded so clear. The pain and injuries that he had endured all this time, he spilled there. Actually, he was embarrassed to cry in front of so many people like this, but what could he do? He is no longer able to do everything.

Rafi rubbed her sister's back lovingly. Trying to give the girl some calm. He doesn't know what happened, but the man knows if what happened again hurt Anindya.

“Do we have no right to be happy, Brother?” ask the girl on the sidelines.

Rafi let go of her embrace, then gently wiped away the girl's tears. “Who said that, Nin? Everyone has the right to be happy.”

“Tell me, Nin, what happened?” ask the man again.

Anindya looked at Rita's face which had fallen silent earlier. With Rafi's help, the girl got up from her seat, then approached Rita with her giant steps.

“Mafin Anin, Mom. Today, I crossed my boundaries as a child. Today I forgot everything that my mother had taught me,” said the girl weakly

Rita hugged her daughter tightly. Pecking repeatedly the heads of Anindya. He knew that his daughter was weak.After feeling that Anindya was calm enough, the woman took off her embrace

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“You are not wrong, son,” said the woman.

“You're just angry,” he continued.

Anindya's gaze turned to Yolanda and Salma. His eyes looked back at the two women. Given the way Yolanda treated her mother earlier, her anger burned back.

“No want to know what happened? Big brother look at the despicable woman who hugged her child who did not know the manners! I know, the kid almost pushed mom if I didn't make it on time! That stupid kid, dragging mom while mom was eating!” anindya.

“Anindya! I warn you about my son!” salma did not accept her son being humiliated like that.

“Dear your manners to my wife too, Anindya!” added Bram.

Anindya laughed heartily. Really, he was fed up with this drama before him. He was fed up with this foul defense of the people in front of him. Really am! If killing people was not a great sin, perhaps the girl had already killed Bram and two women whom she considered to be despicable women.

“Anindya will maintain her manners, if you do not exceed the limits,” said Rafi did not accept her sister being cornered.

“Mr Bram, I remind you this is my home, my mother's home and my sister's home. You and the two******that are just hitchhiking here. Understand?!” shout Rafi. The man began to get angry. Hearing what Anindya told him and remembering what happened to her sister earlier, made her want to expel these three humans from her home.

“Already, enough!” rita Pinta.

“Already, enough! We are family. Don't hurt each other like this. Mr. Bram, Ms. Salma, and you Yolanda, you better get into your room. Please, don't add to my children's anger,” he continued.

“Anin, Rafi, that's enough, son! Don't talk about anything that hurts you or them. Yolanda is just an immature child. Forgive her,” advice Rita on her two children.

After hearing that, Salma, Yolanda and Bram went back inside his room. As for Anindya, the girl tried to calm herself down. This morning, he had gone through many things that drained his tears.

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