Half Cinderella

Back to the Village

Villages on Samosir Island.

Uhukkk,, cough and body lying, he's none other than Ardella's father. Ardella's indigestion left her father with a minor stroke. From Ardella's father's room, looking out the window at times, his memory returns to when his first wife was alive, and the guilt he felt in her heart caused her tears to fall. He calls her son Niko with Sherlin and tells her to go to Ririn's house to find Batara and Ardella's contact.

The boy who is now a teenager walks towards Ririn's house.  She innocently met Ririn.

"Sister Ririn." Call Niko out loud.

Ririn hears Niko coming out of the house and asks what made her come. Niko tells Ririn her father's message.

"Next brother call." Said Ririn with a smile stroking Niko's head.

After a long time, Ririn never thought about contacting Robin and Ardella, but seeing Ardella's ailing father. Ririn decides to contact Robin and deliver Niko's message.

Tuttt,, Robin's cell phone ringing.

"Hallo." Robin who saw on his cell phone screen there was a new number that he did not know.

"Hallo Rob." Ririn.

"Rilen." Robin is happy to hear the voice of his best friend.

Long conversation between Robin and Ririn, In the end to the ketopic about the condition of Ardella's father.

"Can you tell Batara that her father wants to meet." Ririn.

"I'll get Rin." Robin was not sure.

Ardella's condition has not been told to Ririn, Robin who was standing in her room began to think of a way to tell Batara.

Will Batara want to go home. Robin ingrained.

"Try it first." He muttered to himself in the room.

When he started to move from the room, Robin saw Batara and Lisa sitting in an outdoor chair enjoying the afternoon atmosphere. Robin came closer and sat down.

"Sir, I have something to say." Said Robin slowly.

"What, why do you look so nervous." Ask Batara.

"The bone (Call of robin to Ardella's father.) in the village is sick, said Ririn Bones wanted to meet with Ardella and Batara's brother." Robin Said.

Hearing that his father was sick Batara felt nothing, he was silent and did not answer, the atmosphere became silent. His wife Lisa starts to direct his hand and persuades Batara to look at her ailing father.

"Mas must be able to forgive father-in-law, no matter how he was your father who had given you his affection and raised you, now he is sick not good to ignore it." Say Lisa softly.

"Alright, but what about Ardella." Ask back.

The three of them were both silent and thought about Ardella's condition. Even so Batara still decided to take Ardella along with him to meet his father in the village.

Semester holidays are coming. Ardella was invited by her brother Batara back to the village on the grounds of wanting to make a pilgrimage to the tomb of his parents.

All preparations Batara, Ardella and Robin return to the island of samosir.

Prummmm, the sound of the ship going to the edge of the harbor, from the ship Ardella stood, looking at the edge. Ardella felt claustrophobic like something was making her want to scream and cry.

"Hiks." Unaware Ardella is crying.

"Dec, you're why." Ask Batara.

"Don't know brother, seeing the edge getting closer it feels sad Ardella." Ardella was confused.

"Maybe you miss the deck village."

"Yes, brother, like it hasn't been back for a long time." Ardella is smiling.

Mama, Mama. Robin's home. Robin ingrained.

As Ardella and Robin both drift into unspoken memories, Robin looks over the edge and begins to feel an inescapable longing.

"We've arrived." Batara broke the silence between Robin and Ardella.

When he was about to go home, Batara told Robin to take a short walk with Ardella, while she wanted to go back home first.

"Why don't you go to the big brother's house." Ask Ardella.

"Maybe our house is dirty because it is not long lived, I want to clean it first, you have not returned long how good you would be to breathe fresh air from our village. Robin was here once, he must have known the area." Batara Reason.

"I know a good place here, I'll take Ardella for a walk. " Say Robin understood Batara's intentions.

"But brother, K,,." Not yet had time to say Robin pulled Ardella's hand and took her for a walk.

"Just be calm, maybe Batara's brother wants to be alone first, he has not come home for a long time, must be a lot of memories that want to be remembered and do not want Ardella to see it sad." Robin smiled.

Ardella turned her body, saw the back of her brother who was walking, she was silent and wanted to say something, but her voice seemed to be restrained.

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At home.

Batara until the house he saw around his house, put his bag then knock on the door even though the door was open. He heard voices from inside the house.

Niko who ran from the direction of her father's room saw an unknown adult male.

"Who." Ask Niko.

Batara knows a glimpse of Niko's half-brother.

"Where's your father." Batara asked again not to answer Niko's question.

"Righted." Niko answered.

"Tell him here, tell him Batara's coming." Said Batara putting a scary face against Niko.

"Dad." Shouted Niko towards her father's room.

Tap,,, no, no, no, no, no footsteps and the sound of a cane were heard simultaneously.

Batara who was still standing at the door saw his father walking on his fist and assisted by a stick, his body that used to look stocky now became thin. Deg,, as sad as Batara's heart to see the state of his father, strengthened his heart to be invisible to his father that he was sad to see the situation.

"Batara, my son." Still 2 words said his father cried bitterly.

Batara silently did not respond, waiting for her father to stop crying.

"Come in, son." His father said softly, still looking like he wanted to cry.

Batara stepped in with her carry-on bag. Niko glanced at the lyrics Batara wanted to ask him who. Niko who was still standing was told by her father to go inside the house or play outside for a while.

"Which ardella, isn't she coming." Ask father.

"Ardella's coming, but for now she doesn't remember you." Said Batara with a little tart.

"I mean don't remember me." Ask back.

"In his memory you died with my mother." Still not explaining.

"Why can that be."

"You should have better understand Ardella's condition after what you did to her, the little girl was tortured by your wife and ignored by you, do you think my sister would be fine." Batara said showing a face of anger.

"I'm sorry, I'm guilty of your mother, you and Ardella." Sorrowed speech.

"Now it's too late, Ardella is depressed because she remembers what you and your wife did, so I made her think you were dead and forget you, at least this way she would forget her father who ignored her, for now don't show up in front of him. Let him be happy now." Batara warned her not to approach Ardella again.

Batara's father cries, her guilt towards her daughter makes her recall the times she ignored Ardella. In the middle room, Batara and her father who was sitting there were only the sound of her father's cries, the cry of deep desolation, the unforgivable cry for her, the cry that was meaningless now.

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