Dusk And Suffering

70. Bickering

Akmal waited for the arrival of the Coral in the living room with a pacing near the chair. His emotions were a little puffed up when he got a report from someone, that the guy saw a Coral motorbike parked in a nightclub.

That made him suspicious, Karang often stay at his friend's house. Is it just an excuse for him to spend the night at the club?

After a long wait, finally the Coral motorbike sounded parked in the garage. The man immediately approached the main door with his fierce face, a face that was never shown in front of the Coral.

"Where from?"

"Temen's house, yeah usually. Papa, you also know the habit I often nginep at home temen if the weekend." Coral had not yet realized the wrath of his father.

"Good night at a friend's house for getting drunk, huh?"

"What the hell, Pa?" Reply Coral passed from before Akmal.

"STOP CORAL!

In that second, the young man who served as the head of the motorcycle gang stopped his steps. His heart was dressed so quickly, How not? He had just heard such a loud crack from his father. He was so surprised, because he was so surprised, the Coral was completely silent on the spot, not moving.

His ears were still able to hear the footsteps of the father who approached him. At the same time his mother came from the room, approaching the two. I saw the confused face of the woman.

"What's up, Pa? Why yell?" clara protests.

"Your son goes to the club, you ask what's wrong? Ask your son now why is he at the club?"

The shocked face could not be hidden from the face of the one-child woman. She looked at Karang as if asking for an explanation and asking for certainty that what her husband said was a mistake.

How long has the woman been looking at Coral's face. The face of a child he raised with affection, the face of a young man whom he rarely noticed, because of his busyness which began to be dense as a student. He saw the face of his son who looked different.

"Now what Papa said isn't true, is it?"

The one asked silently lowered his head. He could not see his mother's face that must have been soaked by tears.

Sebeandal-brandal Karang, he still keep his mother's feelings, he still care about the woman's feelings. He did not want to make the woman sad or cry about it. Her mother's tears were a ruin in her heart.

"It's a silent answer, Clara. Tell Papa, tell us the same, why did you go to the club? How long has it been, since when have you been hanging out in a place like that?" Akmal has lowered his tone. The man was indeed weak in front of the Coral, he could not behave as fiercely as he had behaved to Clara. No matter how angry he is, Akmal can still hold back his emotions.

"I was there last night." The coral replied with a still look on the floor.

"I was there last night." Coral raises there talk a little.

"If you answer to see Papa!"

"What matters is that I answered Pa. I replied I just went there last night. Why does Papa keep going?"

"If Papa keeps asking, it means Papa knows you're lying. Answer honestly! Don't make Papa angry at Coral! Papa never taught you to be negative like that. You must have been wrong, you chose the wrong friend, that's why you went into the black valley. Papa is sure you are not only going to the club, but you are also doing other negative things. If you have dared to go to that place, it means you have also done something negative before. Papa won't be angry if you answer honestly."

"Well, what do you know about me? What have you taught me too? Papa just taught me how to make money, regardless of the affection and attention needed for his wife and children. That's what I learned from Papa. Papa knows what the negative is? What I'm doing now is not much different than what Papa did before. We both did bad things. In fact, Papa's behavior is much worse than mine."

The coral paused for a moment, scrutinizing every inch of the father's face. The man was still silent as if waiting for the next word now.

"Now try to talk to me, what should I follow from Papa? All I know from Papa is that working hard all night, making a lot of money, having children from other women and.... "

Akmal flung his hand into the air and moved it quickly towards the cheek of the Coral. It was the first time he hit his son.

"So talk about you Coral! Never bring the mistakes of others when your mistakes are known by others. You are Papa's son, the successor of the company and also Papa's efforts, if you are still young it has been destroyed like this, what will you be? Destroying Papa's name?"

"Papa's name was destroyed when I didn't do anything."

Coral grew bolder, he was so angry when his father hit him hard on the cheek. His current anger is a form of disappointment that he has been craving for a dozen years.

During this time Karang vented everything behind his parents. And he felt this moment was the right moment to express what he felt, even though he realized he was doing it the wrong way.

"Papa was destroyed by Papa's mistakes in the past, but Papa has returned to repair and clean up. Now you want to destroy it again? You think building a good name is as easy as spending money at the club?"

"The new father knows my mistakes have been discussed continuously from earlier. It was like my biggest mistake, a criminal act, a depraved act. Do you remember Papa's mistake? The big mistake, a mistake in which Papa has made me and my mother disappointed, by hiding the status of Papa who once raped a woman to produce a child and Papa left just like that. Was that not a mistake? Look at me and my mom, Pa. Mama and I still accept Papa as he is, not leaving Papa when Papa is poor even though he has nothing, Mama and I are still there for Papa. Have I ever discussed Papa's mistake? Now answer my question, Pa! Whose fault is bigger? Me or Papa, even if I make a big mistake, it's the result of what Papa shows. What I am now is the result of what Papa did first."

"ENOUGH CORAL!" Akmal held up his index finger in front of the Coral's face.

"You've gone too far to talk, this time let Papa do the talking. What do you know about Papa's past? All you know is that Papa's past mistakes made mistakes and went abroad. If you don't know the whole story, don't speculate yourself. You were not old enough for Papa to listen to the story of Papa's life in the past before marrying Mama. That's why Papa is silent, not because Papa does not want to tell a story but not yet. And now that you're an adult and understand the past that Papa has experienced, you don't ask Papa. You keep speculating with your mind when you were a kid. Do you realize that you are wrong? Your thoughts to Papa are wrong."

"Where's the fault?"