Contract Marriage of Cassanova.
El's Refusal.
El walked quickly out of the room towards the back garden where her brother was. Little running, and sometimes a little jumping from one step to another in front of him. El looked so radiant and happy, even his eyes seemed to sparkle happily.
His wry eyes continued to pay attention around, where people passed by looking busy. Busy with activities. Even El several times had to stop his steps so that some people could pass in front of him. His usual quiet situation, now increasingly crowded.
His wide smile rose as soon as he saw the beak women who lately El often met. Rahayu. Even his steps became stopped in the middle of the door, as if waiting for Rahayu to step towards him.
"El." Sapa Rahayu warm. Makes El's smile wider.
"Mama." Call El spirit.
"Where are you going?" Rahayu stopped right next to El. Squatting equates his height with El's height.
"You want a sister's place... El wants to go to brother's.. Mama." El sounded happy. Still with her smile on her lips.
"Have you had lunch yet?" Tanya Rahayu reached out her hand. Which was immediately greeted with enthusiasm by El.
"Yet.... El wants to eat with brother."
"What if El ate first with mom.. I'll eat out... El can go to brother..... How, you want to?" Rahayu looked straight at El.
El seemed to be thinking about the invitation from his new mother. "Later brother so no temen.. Call it kasian." Said El slowly.
"Sister let me eat with Rafa's sister... Now El's eating with mama, yuk..." Persuak Rahayu stood up.
"Yuk... Mom will eat it.. Mama is ready too." Rahayu led El into the house again. El was silent neither protesting nor refusing. What else to hear if his mother is going to prepare a meal, making El feel happy. Because if you are the mama who prepares meals, surely El can get a lot of good food.
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El ate voraciously as Rahayu's wrinkled hands fed her painstakingly. Even El did not stop smiling looking at Rahayu, her heart was happy to get such sweet treatment from her new mama.
All this time, El had never eaten in a bribe. El always eats alone, although long but El always try to be independent. Even sometimes eating them often messy and messy, but El continues to try to be independent. Not to add to her brother's burden.
"Eat a lot El." Rahayu smiled widely.
Yang El replied with a nod of obedient head. And keep taking bribes from her new mama.
"El doesn't live here?" Tanya Rahayu rubbed El's head full of affection.
"Zinc... Here's lame... El much temen."
"Oh yeah?? Is it where El is?"
"Yes... Brother Naya kelja... El in the house sendili.."
Rahayu could not blame Kanaya. Karna Kanaya also definitely had no choice. He should be the backbone for his family. "How do you eat it?" Rahayu asked with teary eyes.
"could.. Brother ready to eat it at the table... El if lapel take sendili... There is a table."
Rahayu's eyes were increasingly teary hearing the plain words of El, this little man in front of her must have felt very lonely. I think of El who lives alone at home. Without anyone, without an adult accompanying. It makes his heart ache and also hurt.
"El don't have a brother? Or family? Why is El home alone??" Rahayu rubbed El's head full of affection.
"Big brother El at home, Ajhuma Kim. That brother kelja night-night... But if it's early in the morning.... No. no..."
"Why not?"
"Ajhuma Kim if it's late morning too...."
"So there's no brother?"
"Know... El doesn't know..... Saudala?...What the hell is that brother?"
"The brother was like an El family... Aunty, uncle, grandfather or oma..."
"No... El did not meet..."
"That's yeah? But not papa. From now on, El's got a mama, same papa. There is also Rafa and Naya.... Who will always take care of El.. So now the El family is a lot... El won't be lonely at home... What else will it be if Rafa's sister is married to Naya... El will have a new... It's gotta be rame..."
"Haw? What's that wedding?"
"Well, two people who will live together like a mother are equally poor... After that will have a child like El gini?" Rahayu explained patiently.
"Why are you with dad?" Ask El slowly. His face was immediately overcast and moody, as he saw Rahayu's smile and nodding his head approvingly.
"Yes that too." Rahayu made it clear.
"Not.... Brother Naya can't marry.." Excited El suddenly, to make Rahayu jerked in surprise made.
"El-" Rahayu did not finish her speech.
El got down from his seat and ran away. Leaving Rahayu who was staring confusedly at El.
Even when Rahayu called him to stop, El did not want to hear Rahayu's scream. Makes Rahayu's feelings anxious.
"Did I make a mistake." Rahayu muttered slowly. And trying to remember all the words, and his chatter all this time with his son-in-law also El. Rahayu is increasingly convinced that there is something hidden by her son and prospective daughter-in-law.
