Don't Go Again !!!
Episode 4 of Aira (1 )
This morning, as usual, I did my daily activities. Wake up early, help Santi make breakfast in the kitchen, take a shower and have breakfast with Santi and her husband, Akbar.
Although their lives were very simple, eating simple dishes, I never saw Santi and Akbar complain about their domestic life. Akbar always ate simple dishes made by his wife with sincerity and a grateful look.
Yeah .. It can be said that Santi is much more mature than his current age. Before getting married, Santi was a very spoiled child. Every homework she never did. Starting from washing dishes to washing his personal clothes is still done by my mother.
My mother always defended and spoiled Santi. Mama said, it's my mother's guilt atonement when Santi was a child. My parents divorced when Santi was 8 months old and I was 7.
At first my family was harmonious like any other family. From my childhood to my teenage years, I lived in my grandmother's house in the suburbs not far from my father's house.
Arriving that afternoon, my grandmother invited me to visit my father's house. My mom and dad come to visit me every weekend. But it's been almost 3 weeks, they haven't come to visit me.
I missed my mom and dad so much. I had a chance to envy Santi who was a baby and felt put aside by my parents. During this week, many neighbors and distant relatives who arrived came to the grandmother's house.
I once accidentally stole their conversation. If my father had remarried in silence - stay behind my mother. I, who was 7 years old at the time, did not understand what the meaning and purpose of their conversation adults.
Whenever I wanted to get close to them and ask, grandma always smiled and looked at me with a look of pity. I saw Grandma's smile at that time filled with sadness. But I was too small and naive to understand everything.
When we arrived at my father's house, I immediately came rushing in the arms of my mother who was breastfeeding Santi in the room. Mama was a little surprised to see our arrival - arrived.
" Where's the baby, Aira Kinan's father?." asked the grandmother in a slightly taut tone to the mother.
" Aira's father still hasn't come home to sea, buk." replied the mother a little confused at my grandmother's cold and angry expression.
My father was a fisherman at the time. Our house used to be on the coast where the majority of their livelihood was a fisherman.
" What's buk really." asked the confused mama. Grandma took a long breath.
" Later if your husband comes, we'll talk" replied the grandmother.
I miss the atmosphere of my father's house that I did not visit for a long time, immediately running around here and there playing my old toys left there. I was stared at by my grandmother and when I turned my grandmother smiled again looking at me.
There was the sound of the crying of Santi who was a baby in the room. Mama tries to hold Santi, but Santi's cry never stops. Grandma came to my mom in the room and tried to hold Santi who was still crying.
" Kinan, Santi's body is hot. Has he been taken to the doctor for examination??" asked the grandmother in shock when holding the body of the hot santi. Mama smiled wryly and then looked down.
" Kinan doesn't have the money to take Santi to the doctor. Because the Bayu mas lately do not get fish in the sea." answered the mother hesitated - doubtful. Grandma immediately shed tears. And cry hard.
I was playing in the living room until running to the room to approach the grandmother who arrived - suddenly crying. Mama who could not see the grandmother who arrived - suddenly crying, also joined in crying too. Mama had been living a shortage in the house, but never dared to complain or complain to grandma.
Grandma sat quietly looking at her son and granddaughter. Her eyes were still puffy by the tears that had fallen earlier. Mama is still nursing Santi in the living room.
" Mr ... Aira hungry grandma. Aira wants to eat." Obviously I'm innocent. Mama looked at me and returned to tears. In the absence of warm clear granules it quickly.
" What are you cooking today Kinan." asked the grandmother. Mama just shook her head.
" Have you eaten??" asked the grandmother again. Mama still shook her head. Grandma choked and let out a long breath.
" When haven't you eaten yet?" asked the granny holding back her tears. Mama was getting more and more excited at the grandmother's question at the time.
" Foolish fool. Already know you're here hungry still just survive here." grunted grandma while crying.
" Are you not like your baby huh. He also needs nutrition. If her mother is hungry, then what's inside your Asi. Just the wind, it will cause your child to catch a cold later." granny scolded while looking at mama, her child was full of pity.
I just looked at my mom and grandma alternately and confused, why did mom and grandma cry all the time. Are they sick, I murmured. Grandma took the wallet in her bag. Then take tens of thousands and give them to me.
" Aira, please grandma buy me an egg at the quarter store. Same as buying instant noodles all together." said grandma to me. I was so excited when I heard the word instant noodles. Because in the past I ate instant noodles including special and luxurious food.
I ran a little while I was going to the store. When I finished I went home with heart. Afraid the egg I bought fell and broke.
Grandma was struggling in the kitchen cooking instant noodles for me and frying an omelet for me. Then from the back door someone opened, and it was my father. Dad was shocked to death to see me and grandma coming.
" Loh ibuk, since when did my mother come?" asked my father as he reached out to shake hands with his grandmother.
" No need to salaman. My hands are dirty with eggs." said grandma rough. I smiled wryly hearing.
" Yeahhhh .... I got a lot of crab." I cried when I saw the crab in the tub that my father brought from the sea. Dad smiled at me.
" Daddy take a shower first, I'll make you a nice sweet sour crab." replied the father. I cheered too.
After I finished taking a shower and changed clothes, my grandmother told me to sit in the living room. I who was sitting in the living room again eating instant noodles was immediately told grandma to go inside. I followed and went inside.
" How was your catch Bayu??. Can be a lot." asked grandma berbasa.
" Yeah ... Thank God, as I saw earlier. Sometimes a lot, sometimes a little." replied the father. Grandma took a long breath.
" Pay. May I ask???." asked grandma. Dad nodded his mark.
" This week many of my mother's neighbors and distant relatives came and talked about you." explained the grandmother. Mom and Dad were surprised to hear Grandma's statement. Mom and Dad listened carefully to Grandma.
" They said .... If you ... Have another wife and have a daughter" said the grandmother trying to hold back emotions. Like in a lightning strike. Mama was so shocked and shocked to hear the words of Grandma. Mom's tears were unstoppable again. In his eyes father clingy - clingy by mom. I just looked down and closed my eyes. Trying to calm down and looking for a defense.
" Mr ... !!! Is that true!!! What she said was true!!!" asked the hysterical mother. Father let out a long sigh and his head was a mangosteen.
" That's right." replied the resigned father could not give. Mama who heard it was directly emotional, then hit the body of the father, grabbed the hair of the father, even mama slapped the cheek of the father.
I speak only a thousand languages and do not reply. Grandma tried to calm mom. In his hand pull mama and in his hug mama into the embrace of grandma. Dad still sat silent.
" How long have you betrayed my son." asked the grandmother while hugging the mother who was still crying hysterically.
" How long has it been *******." snapped the grandmother began to run out of patience and it was hearty to see her biological child get such treatment.
" It's been five years" replied the honest father.
Psqb ....
Grandma slapped my dad's cheek very hard." You're brazen.******* you well. Tega - how could you hurt my son like this. What less my son has been all this time huh. Less what he is !!!. He's given you a cute, healthy kid. He is willing to starve and live in deprivation to be with you. And this is your reply to my son hah!!." maki grandma.
Grandma's voice was very loud when berating father, in addition to earlier mama who had cried hysterically made the neighbors scatter out to see. Now our terrace is full of people. It became an interesting spectacle for those who would later gossip.
I who had just peeked out from behind the mosquito net in the middle room became shriveled and scared. Seeing my mom cry like that. Seeing the grandmother who arrived - arrived fierce like a magic grandmother in my opinion. The instant noodles I ate, I put them on the table. I no longer want to eat it.
" Now you choose which. Leave the bitch or stay my son." asked the grandmother in an emotional tone.
" I'm sorry buk. I can't leave him. And I can't part with Kinan either." replied the father. Grandma laughed at my father's answer.
" So you mean, you want to be with Kinan and double with him, so." said grandma.
" Oohhm ... It's so sweet your mouth's talking huh. Got what you got, want to beat up my son huh. You just don't look handsome, money doesn't come together, and now you want polygamy. I as her mother Kinan strongly objected if my son should be honeyed by a man ******** like you." obviously grandma belittles dad.
" Kinan, quickly pack your clothes and your son. From now on you and your children will live in my mother's house. I'm not willing for you to be harassed by ****** this one. And you Bayu. You do not need to bother to dig up Kinan. Because Kinan is not your wife anymore. I don't want to have a ghost******* like you. And one more me and Kinan will sue you in court. Because I know, you can't afford Kinan's divorce papers. Eat a meal a day - you are confused. Especially to buy divorce papers." explained grandma.
Mom went into the room and packed her clothes and clothes. On the rubbed Santi's cheeks are still sound asleep. Mama was still crying as she put the shirt in the bag. I approached mama.
" Mama ..". "excuse me at the door. My mom looked towards me. In her arms my body was tightly - tightly held by my mother. My mother cried while hugging me.
" Mama why do you keep crying. Is mama sick." I asked plain. Mama still hugged me. And my mom nodded, too,
" Yes dear. Mama's sick son. Mama was very sick .. "my mother replied still crying. I was silent to my mother's answer. Mama wiped her tears and smiled at me.
" ira ... From now on Aira don't be naughty. Aira gk can ask for toys and snacks. Aira can't find me - find me again. Because we're going. And don't see me again. "mama obviously.
" Ayah gak ikut kita pergi ma." tanyaku. Mama menggelengkan kepala. Lalu menciumi pipiku lembut.
After she packed her clothes, my grandmother, my mother and I left my father's house. Dad just sat there staring us out of his house. The neighbors looked at us who came out of the father's house with a sharp and pitying look. Grandma and mama don't care when a neighbor asks us where we're going.
Grandma stopped a taxi for us to ride. I sat in Grandma's lap. Mama holds Santi. In the taxi mom was still crying as much as she could and holding Santi tightly. I saw my mother's face, she looked very sad and chaotic. I looked back at Grandma's face, Grandma was seen sighing a long breath repeated while taking time again.
Grandma's tears came out again. My tiny hand suddenly touched Grandma's cheek and rubbed the warm clear details. Grandma held me tight and kissed me clingy. Everything looks so bad in that taxi.
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