Falling in Love With My Brother

Della's Story

Like everything that happened that day will never disappear from your memory.

"Let's bang, don't let our night get home" a touch of Rani's brother's hand reawakened brother's daydream.

They left the family cemetery. They got back in the car, and then my brother drove his car away from the village and hoped to find El as soon as possible.

In the car, only Axel's babble makes the contents of the car crowded, until the boy was exhausted himself and finally fell asleep in the lap of his nuns at the side who sat next to his om.

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"For aunty." said El politely when the three of them were at the dinner table, coincidentally when papa Della was on duty abroad, he said, I looked at Della's older brother who was in college.

"For El... Let's eat" said Mama Della, then flipped her own plate.

"Thank you aunt" El said with a smile.

"How are you El, you haven't played here in a long time... How come Mita and Cindy didn't come here?" ask mama.

"El don't make a deal with them aunty, El came straight here aunt" replied El while looking down.

"Ma, please take vegetable dong" Della who read the situation, immediately switched the conversation. Mama Della thrust a bowl of vegetables at Della, then turned towards El

"Let's eat it" Della's mom smiled.

"Ga aunty, full, thanks" replied El while showing her dishes that still had a lot of rice.

"Geez, until I forget, sorry aunt, El. aunty said sorry to mourn the death of El's daughter, Della yesterday the same story of aunty" the hand of Mama Della stroked El's hand.

"Thank you aunt..." El fell back sad.

"El is yes, don't be sad anymore, you still have family, still have friends who can be invited to confide" said mother Della smiled at El. El nodded slightly pulling his lips upwards.

***

"Yes aunty, thank you for breakfast" said El politely, then left the two of them.

"Del, what happened to El? Mama saw, El's face was sad, and she was like crying?" Mama Della interrogates Della, after El is no longer visible from their sight. Della was surprised that her mother noticed El.

"But.... Mama promised don't be mad at me" said Della hesitantly.

"Why should you be angry for no reason?" Mama Della stroked her daughter's head.

"Ma... El ran away last night from his big house..." Della took a deep breath, as Della's mother was shocked, until her mother's mouth gaped at Della's words.

"Every night he heard his mother and brother talking again, his brother said if El.... no.....eehhmmm no... Her mother's child." stung up the feeling of fear in Della.

"Del... Mama didn't hear wrong, did she? You don't give any more money to mama, do you, Del?" ask her mother not to believe.

"Maaaahh... Mama knows how El is now right?" Della tried to convince.

"That hurts El more..." Della looks at her mom for a moment.

"Say a.bangsaaa.... El a..nak.. wa.nita peng.. entertain ma" chest tightness Della told her mother.

"What?!.. Kasian El, he's down right now... Del, you take care of him lest he confide in the wrong person" said the mama closing her face, she looks very worried about El's condition. And it makes Della relieved, because she's afraid her mama will forbid her from being friends with El again because of her current status.

"So.. So mama's not mad?" della asked, which actually made Della's mother scrunch her forehead.

"angry? Angry why? About El? Precisely mama kasian dear, mama wants to talk to El" said her mother then walked to her daughter's room.