Different Faiths But the Same Amen

27. Flasbacks

Flashbacks..

Small steps run around the kitchen. A 7-year-old boy was disturbing his mother who was cooking. Despite having household assistance, but his mother still went down to the kitchen itself.

"Gio don't just bother you, but here help you cook!" said the long black haired woman.

She was busy cooking in the kitchen. But his son always bothered him by always running around next to him. Of course, it makes him a little disturbed because often the child runs and hits him and then runs again.

"Gio is still a child ma, after all Gio is a man, Gio's time is cooking.." the protest then ran back in the kitchen area.

"Keep what if Gio's a boy? Papa also cooks a lot." said Mama Varen.

Varen stopped his small steps. "Papa cook for mama?" tanyanya polo's.

"Hmm," her mother just hummed while nodding her head.

"If so from now on Gio wants to help mama cook, so that Gio can be like a papa, a cook.." Varen spoke plainly. Varen idolized the figure of his father when he was a child.

"A man must not only be able to give money to his wife but also must be able to mengenin his wife. Mama likes to cook, so papa you also try to learn to cook so that you can cook with mama." said his mother.

Varen was too young to know how his mother and father knew each other and fell in love, and married.

Varen's mother is a chef's maid at the family-owned hotel of her father Varen. They met when Varen's father was carrying on a family tradition. That is, the heir of their family before getting his inheritance. He has to follow family traditions. He had to do all the work at the hotel.

The work includes, must help in the kitchen, one of which is cooking and washing dishes. Then in the housekeeping section includes cleaning hotel rooms and bathrooms. In the general section, it covers the cleanliness of the hotel area. And also the laundry part is washing bed linen and hotel blankets. And in the recipes section. All work related to the hotel.

The purpose of such a rule was in the tradition of the Varen family. So that, before becoming the owner of the hotel, they can feel the difficulty of working in these parts. So when they take the lead, they do not want to fire employees just because of a small mistake.

When Varen's father was doing his job in the kitchen. He met his mother Varen who was still a student who was doing fieldwork or often called PKL.

The introductions were also very brief. When Varen's papa was about to pick up sugar in the kitchen. He accidentally met his mother who was only two days PKL at that place.

At that time sugar was at the table near his mother sitting tired. "Please take that!" varen's father told his mother.

"Yes, mas.." Varen's mother replied awkwardly.

Since then. Varen's father started to get excited every time he went to the kitchen. Soon after, they finally dated and decided to get married after five years of dating.

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"Pa, said mama, is papa a cook?" ask Varen when he just got home from work.

"But is there a Bi Suti pa?"

"Bi Suti's job is only to clean up the house, if mama is sick, who is obliged to take care of it papa, and vice versa. If papa is sick, mama is obliged to take care of papa." replied his father with a small smile.

"If Gio is sick?" ask plain varen.

"Mama's obligation is equally papa dong who takes care of you sayank." answered his father while hugging and kissing the cheek of the puffer Varen.

"Gio also wants to learn to cook, so that Gio can masakin for Gio's wife, also care for papa and mama if papa and mama are sick" said Varen very innocently imitate the words of his father. And of course it makes papa and his mother laugh.

The next day, Varen began to learn to recognize some vegetables. He also learned to know the kitchen tools and their uses. Although he often forgets because it is still too small to remember all. But Varen did not give up on learning.

"Well, you're a cook, you used to work at papa's hotel?"

"Yes, my mother used to work at grandfather's hotel." replied her mother softly.

"When did you meet me at the hotel?" Varen is still very innocent.

"Yes, when you were in school, you were able to cook, papa you often asked to be taught to cook with mom. Though many others can cook, even more good than mama. But papa you want to be taught by mama." replied his mother Varen with a happy smile. It seemed to recall a time when she and her husband knew and were close.

"Later if Gio has a wife, Gio will also love Gio's wife like papa loves mama."

True people say, if the child is a very good imitator. Whatever his parents did, he would do it too.

"Little children don't talk about love, you just have to study diligently, and make papa and mama proud of your achievements!" her mother hugged Varen gently.

Perhaps because he often heard his father always say love to his mother. Varen wants to be like Papa. He wants to do what his dad does too.

Varen is very happy because he has a lot of love. Not just from his mom and dad. But also from Bi Suti, the person who helped his mother take care of him from the baby. Also from his grandfather and his mother who loved him very much. Maybe because he was his only grandchild.

Varen's childhood was very happy. Before finally his grandfather and his father died in the near future. And the most painful thing was my mother's departure from home. It was the hardest blow of his life.

Not to mention his father who began to change since his mother's departure. Papa who used to love and love him very much, has now turned into a very arrogant papa. Or maybe it was the true nature of his papa.

Varen lost it all in the near future. And for the last two years. He lived with deep disappointment. He should still have papa. But it's like he doesn't have it.

Since her mother's death. His father rarely went home either. He would rather stay at a hotel he managed than go home to meet his son.

And that makes the relationship between Varen and his papa tenuous.