
"What are you thinking?" steven asked when he saw Rimba was not focusing on his food. "Eat first! you'll get sick later" he said.
Rimba just nodded back. She obeyed her husband. A mouthful of rice had entered his mouth again.
"Rim, do you need to accompany me tomorrow?" asked Vania suddenly, and made Rimba again stop insinuating the rice on his plate.
"Bun, let Rimba eat first. Don't talk about it anymore!" reprimand Galang who was both eating dinner at the dining table. He felt sorry for his sister.
How Rimba can be shocked when he finds out he is not the biological child of the woman who has been called Mother. Even more so with the fact that he and Rimiko are twin brothers.
"OK-okay, mother apologize," Vania muttered. "Come on Steve, add the side dishes!" he said he immediately shifted the subject.
They continued their dinner in silence. Although Rimba in fact not appetite, but Steven still forced him to eat, and Rimba can what.
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Tonight Steven was forced to obey Rimba's desire to stay at Vania's house. And tonight Rimba also asked to sleep with his mother. Steven again relented, he could understand the current condition of his wife.he ended up sleeping alone in the Jungle room, while Rimba slept in Vania's room.
"Akiyo's mother will return tomorrow to Japan, if you want to see her first mending morning. We don't know what time the plane leaves" said Vania, combing the hair of Rimba, who is now sitting in front of a dresser mirror.
Rimba's empty gaze staring at her reflection in the mirror invited a thousand questions for Vania. What is Rimba thinking? Why didn't Rimba cry when she found out her true story? even though the habit of crying is the best way for every woman in general, to express feelings when she is not able to express them in words. Don't all women have a soft and more sensitive feeling?
"Since you've been married, your mother has rarely combed your hair again rich gini Rim," murmured Vania smiling behind the mirror. His fingers were still busy tidying up Rimba's black hair.
Rimba was silent. That's what Vania is worried about now. He prefers the rebellious and chatty Jungle in the midst of such a situation. But why since the dinner table was the voice of the Jungle seemed to disappear swallowed by his own sadness?
"Rome!" call me softly Vania.
Rimba looked to blink, then looked into Vania's eyes behind the mirror without saying.
Vania was not satisfied, she then turned the dressing chair that was occupied by Rimba. The mother and son are facing each other.
"Rim, are you disappointed in me?" asked Vania, holding both of Rimba's shoulders. "You're disappointed, say it all. Don't hold it yourself, okay?" said.
The jungle just shook back.
"Sorry mother if all this time Mother cover everything from you. Mother is just afraid, mother is afraid that eventually you will hate and go ninggalin mother," said Vania lirih. "Mother is very dear to you Rim. You and everything made Mother," Vania's tears now she can not be contained anymore.
Rimba looked up, then he stood up from his sitting position.his fingers protruded through the tears of Vania who had reached both cheeks. "Until whenever my mother remains my mother," he murmured softly.
"There's something I want to ask you a little bit. Why did we have to exchange identities? I was him, and he was me" asked Rimba.
Rimba's question made Vania sigh, feeling heavy and quite stifling. But this time there must be nothing else that Vania must cover up. The jungle has to know everything.
"It should be clear that this is all Akiyo's mother. He knows better. You only know what your father said" said Vania.
Vania then walked towards the window of her room. He closed the curtain that was still open. While Rimba moved to sit on the bed.
"What did dad say?" ask Rimba.
Before telling the story, Vania sat on the bed facing Rimba. "Since you were in a coma due to the accident, Akiyo's mother was so depressed. Especially after you realize it turns out you are amnesiac and have a broken bone. He has done everything for your healing. He then took you to a clever man like that monk. The monk doesn't know you're a twin, but he says there's another soul in you. And it is the other soul that will return you to a better life. Finally Akiyo's mother confessed that you have a twin. Then the monk asked you to exchange. Because the monk believes that if you exchange souls, you will live a long and safe life."
"So all this is because of the monk's talk?" tanya Rimba interrupts Vania's story. "And assume that Rimiko saved my fucking life?" he added.
"Either Rim, it's according to the beliefs of the people there. But for Mother there is no such thing as an unlucky child. All the kids are a blessing. And at that time your medical expenses were quite expensive there, so your father finally brought you to Indonesia," said Vania.
"Then make me as his figure? rimba's real figure belongs to him?" ask Rimba.
"Father and mother apologize for obeying what Akiyo's mother wants. At that time we were only focused on your recovery" replied Vania lirih.
Rimba was silent, he even spread his body and turned his back to Vania while hugging the bolster. Vania thinks Rimba is angry and disappointed, but she is not. The jungle is hiding its own tears. The jungle needs a little time to accept everything in tomorrow's life.
"Rim, what happened let it happen. The past let it pass. We can't change it. We don't have a time machine to go back in time. The only thing we can do right now has to do with the past, which is to take wisdom for a better future" Vania said.
There was no response from Rimba, Vania then pulled the blanket covered the legs to the stomach of the Jungle. "Sleep, mother here with you," he murmured as he gently rubbed the hair of the Jungle.
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In simplicity one is kept the glory of the heart. No matter what others consider it to be non-existent, it still passes in its simplicity.
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Sorry yes slow UP, because there is a problem that must be resolved by the author first in the real world 🙏😁🥰