Dear Mr. Brutal Mario

Old Wounds

Mario dyed to find his wife's whereabouts. The woman had just been left for a while to wash her hands but had gone somewhere.

"Where's mom?" Ask Mario.

"Again in front of Dad. I'm out of there too."

"Hm. Ok." Mario said straight there.

"By." Call Mario to see Val chatting with one of the waiters.

"Dad. I'm gonna go out for a second."

"Where?"

"You're buying tempe chips."

"What do tempe chips do?"

"dong dibakan. What else."

"You're eating weird food."

"Yes Dad." Val asked as she shook her husband's arm.

"Tell Aunty."

"No ah. I want him to buy it for himself."

"You...Yaudah let's go, we'll go to Mommy's house."

"Yes. Thanks Dad." Val said as she kissed her husband's cheek.

"The same." Mario said he was kissing his wife.

Val and Mario leave for Mommy's house.

"Where did we buy it, By?" Ask Mario on the way.

"We're going to the market."

"Gamau. Odors. I don't like it."

"Come on Dad."

"Don't buy it at the supermarket?"

"There really is?"

"Find it there first. I don't want to be in the market."

"Jude to the supermarket first. If we don't go to the market. You're in the car. Let me come down later."

"No." Mario refused his wife's will.

"What would Mom buy?"

"Tempe chips."

"In the supermarket there's a wealth."

"That's horrifying."

"Jude, there's a supermarket in front. We'll buy it there."

"OK."

Val and the children are busy choosing food while Mario pushes the shopping trolley following them.

"By. I'll take a call for a second."

"Ah. Yes Dad." Val says.

The woman put two packs of ramen in her trool with the child and her husband off guard.

"Mom pay first."

"Yes Mom." They said they were waiting at a place not far from the cashier.

"It's all By?" Mario approached them.

"It has. Come on."

"Let's take Mom."

"Yes." Yeah."

The child carries the groceries and then puts them in the trunk of the car.

"Assalamualaik."

"Vaalaikumsalam. Well you guys arrived too. How long?"

"Mom asked to stop by the supermarket to buy Oma tempe chips."

"Oh pantesans. Comein. Oma is ready for lunch."

"Ok Oma."

"Why did you come to want tempe chips?"

"You eat that Mi. Same with anget rice. It's good."

"You. Eat vegetables. From childhood until now I don't do vegetables."

"He is so Pi." Mario said to his father-in-law.

Val ate voraciously using white rice and tempe chips.

"Eating vegetables By. You're eating it just like that."

"No ah. It's good."

"Mom habit. Her body looks so thin."

"Yes dear. Chicken, meat, vegetables. Why the hell did you eat just that peke."

"Mom's Son."

"Excuse me. This is Non's tomato sauce."

"Thank you Bi."

"Same as Non."

"It's not like you." Tegur Mario saw his wife began to eat with a lot of sambal.

"Don't eat it."

"Why?"

"Cabies are so many. Must have been a pedes."

"No, no."

"Yes Mom. Don't eat it. Eat the others."

"No papa." Val said he wouldn't listen to everything.

"Val Thompson." Papi Tegur.

"Look at Pi." Val replied not to give up.

Mario was chatting in the living room with his father-in-law.

"How company?"

"Current Pi. There's no obstacle whatsoever."

"Good."

"How's frans? you don't want to find another wife?"

"Now Pi. Life with Ladit is enough, he said. He doesn't want to marry again."

"His ex-wife never asked Ladit?"

"Not at all. Ladit doesn't want to be with his mom. He was disappointed from childhood never taken care of."

The voice from the kitchen caught the attention of the two people who were chatting.

"What's up?"

"I don't know Pi. Mario go there first."

"Yes. Come on." Papi Val said walking followed by his son-in-law.

"Darling you eat all ramen. My mom is banned. This is not healthy. It's hard to tell." Omel Mami on Val.

"Val wants Mi. Val hasn't eaten ramen in a long time."

"What the hell is Mi?" Tanya Papi just came.

"This is your son. I told you not to eat ramen even ngeyel."

"By. You eat ramen? where'd you get?"

"So I bought a bag in the supermarket."

"You were left to pick up the phone for a while already bought a macem macem."

"Not eat anymore. Dump." Said Mami took Val's bowl and gave it to her husband.

"Mii. Mubazirs. That Val just ate half."

"No more. Enough already. Don't eat vegetables eat unhealthy foods."

"Ih Mommy. I haven't eaten ramen in a long time."

"Udah. Don't protest. All for your good." Mario hugged his wife so she would stop complaining.

After dinner, they gather in the family room to talk. Val suddenly felt pain in his chest. Slowly his breathing also began to shorten and came out with cold sweat.

"By." Panic Mario aware of his wife's circumstances.

"Dear." All of them come around Val who can't answer their questions.

"sick." He said while holding his chest. Without thinking, Mario immediately carried Val to be taken to the hospital. After years, something like this happened again. Val's lung is back in trouble. Mario feels guilty every wife feels this kind of pain.

They paced back and forth anxiously waiting for Val who was still in the ER room. It was midnight but the doctor did not come out.

"How's doc?" Ask them to see the doctor come out.

"Alhamdulillah. We've handled it. The Madam's condition isn't as bad as it used to be. Pneumothorax due to the accident suffered by Mrs Val this time is mild. We've done air drainage to handle it."

"Can we please doc?"

"We'll move it to the ward first."

"Good doc. Thank you very much."

"The same." The doctor smiled kindly.

In the morning everyone gathered in Val's room. The woman was still using an oxygen hose so that her breathing was smooth.

"Breakfast first."

"No need to porridge Dad."

"What's the way?" Ask Mario gently to the Wife.

"Just be sure."

"Just so." Mario quickly helps his wife to drink warm milk.

"Remember the doctor Mom. Don't get any more sauces."

"Yes. Mom's feelings aren't too big either. Time to relapse again."

"Yesterday you joined the service."

"Well. Maybe because of that." Said Ladit agreeing with his Papa.

"You want apples?" Ask Papi.

"You."

"This. Mommy I got it."

"Thank you Mi." The man immediately fed it to his wife.

Mario is accompanying Val to rest after all saying goodbye to come out. The man always clasped his wife's hand and was unwilling to let go.

"You haven't slept all night, Dad?" Val asked seeing her husband looking pale.

"Come to sleep." Mario's lies don't want his wife to worry.

"liks. Your face is so tired. Sleep here." Val said as he shifted his body so that Mario could sleep beside him.

"You'll be interrupted by his rest."

"Not really."

"All right." Mario answered happily then lay down next to his wife. The couple hugged each other.

"Don't hurt anymore." Mario said as he gently patted Val's back.

"I'm worried. I also feel so guilty whenever you're like this. Reminds me of the incident. I hurt you. My own wife. I'm a bad guy. I can't forgive myself." Said the man while shedding his tears.

"Not remembered. It's all over. I'm fine." Val said convincingly.

"Now sleep Dad. I'm going to sleep too."

"Yes." Yeah." Mario clasped his wife's body with his heart and began to close his eyes.