GRUDGE (I'm Not A Shadow)

THE MARCUS MORREN

“Gosh!” shock Grace to make the person who threw the jacket on the table, look at her.

“Who are you?” the man rubbed his eyes. “I'm hallucinating or how?” He walked near to Grace. Patting Mercy's cheeks and her own cheeks in turn.

Grace that gets such treatment is just silent, he instead focuses on the face of the person is patting his cheek.

The smell of alcohol reaches the sense of smell Grace. “This is real or dream? I think I mostly drink deh,” the man went to leave Mercy. And walk to the couch.

“Papa.. Pa..” call the person while dropping his body on the sofa. “Papa sucks, children come home not welcomed,” the chaos.

Grace who saw it, ventured to approach someone she thought was her brother. He took off the shoes that were still attached to his brother's feet. After that, he immediately returned to his room.

In his room, Grace could not close his eyes. His mind drifted far away, his body inside his luxurious new room. But his soul drifted somewhere. He stared blankly at the ceiling of the room.

“Is he really my dad and my twin brother? What's the reason you left me and Mom in the village? Why is it that only one of us takes you away? Why?” his heart began to wonder.

“If papa was forced to leave me and Mom, why after he achieved success did he not pick us up? Even until mom breathed her last breath, papa didn't come back for us. There's a lot I don't understand here, why you left and why every time I ask you why you left us, you never want to tell.”

The flashback

“Rahmat, after mother no later. Find your father and twin brother in Jakarta,” said Rahmat's mother before she died.

“God still has a father and twin sister, Mom?” ask Grace with her surprised face.

“Iya, Son. You were separated when you were only 11 months old,” said mother Grace.

“But why, Mom? Why should we be separated?” ask Grace again.

“Mom cannot give you the answer, ask your father for an explanation when you have met,” said mother Grace again. “Now mom is relieved, because you already know that you are not born alone. And mom can go quietly,” continued mom Grace while smiling.

“Mom cannot say that, Grace still needs mother. Mother will definitely recover, we will find father and brother Grace together,” said Rahmat while hugging her thin mother's body because she suffered from pain.

“Mom's time isn't much anymore, son. Please get me the wooden box that I keep in the hole under the closet,” ask mom Grace to him.

Grace also took the wooden box that the mother meant. Then he gave the box to his mother.

Grace opened the box and gave it to Grace. “What is this, Mom?” two silver necklaces with pendants each like a crescent moon that if put together will be shaped into a perfect moon.

“Wear one of them, and if you meet your sister later. Give the other one,” said mother Rahmat with a voice that increasingly weakened. “Send her mother's apology to her, sorry if mom can't give her affection, can't help her. Forgive this mother's helplessness,” her mother said again.

“Rahmat will look for them for mom,” said Rahmat confidently.

“Begging your father for justice, he is Brahmin Widjhaja,” After saying so, mother Grace breathes her last. Grace sobbed, she was devastated to lose the figure of the mother she loved and loved so much.

“Mother, don't leave Grace. Grace cannot be without mother,” said Grace with tears in her eyes.

Flashback off

Grace soon rose from her bed, and soon sought her mother's silent gift, which was a crescent moon necklace.

“Luck is still there,” he said then saved the thing again.

“Tomorrow I must ask Papa for an explanation,” he said again. Then Get some rest.

“How about the boy, Li?” ask Lord Brahma to Li. That trusted man.

“Good, treat him well. Don't let him lack anything, if the time comes we will tell him,” said Mr. Brahma as he lit a cigarette and then inhaled the cigarette slowly. Enjoy every his*pan of smoke from the cigarette.

“But what if the boy refuses, Mister?”

“If he refuses, use another way!” said mr. Brahma.

“Good, Sir. I'll take care of everything.” Li said, after that Li left.

“Li..” call lord Brahma on Li.

Li, who had just arrived at the doorstep of Lord Brahma's office, turned back his body.

“Ya, Sir?”

“Tomorrow you take the boy around, buy him whatever he wants,” said Mr. Brahma.

“Good, Mr.”

“Then go,” said Mr. Brahma.

***

“The man was named Grace, grandfather,” someone told the old man who was none other than his grandfather.

“Where did the boy come from?” ask the grandfather while landing his ass on the sofa.

“He said he was from the village, came here to find his father and brother,” said the man who was none other than Dean. “But, Dean is like no stranger to that face!” keep Dean.

“You mean?” ask the grandfather.

“Look grandfather, did grandfather know the only son of lord Brahma? Richest businessman with list number 3 in the City,” Dean told his grandfather.

“Single son of Widjhaja Brahmin you mean?”

“True grandfather, it looks like Lord Brahma has twin sons. And one of them is the boy, who saved Dean,” Dean said. Dean smiled to himself as he recalled the words Grace said to himself as stupid.

“Why are you smiling, Dean? Is there anything funny that makes you smile at yourself like that?” asked the astonished grandfather to his grandson.

“No grandfather, Dean only remembers the boy saying that he called himself a fool,” Dean said.

Grandpa Dean shook his head to see Dean's behavior that often acted silly.

“You follow the boy in a discreet way. Don't let him go far, someday the boy will be useful to us,” said the grandfather, who had no idea what his purpose was.

“Do not peralat the boy grandfather, he is an innocent child.” Said Dean who deliberately did not allow the grandfather to take advantage of the person who had helped him.

“She's innocent because all this time she wasn't taught, grandpa was sure she had the ability. Because he is a descendant of Marcus Morren, his maternal grandfather.” Obviously grandpa's on Dean.

“Marcus Morren who? What does this have to do with us?” asked Dean curiously.

“Not yet you know, just follow Grandpa's orders. Always follow him, don't make anyone hurt him,” Grandpa said casually.