Heaven Under Husband's Foot

Childhood Trauma

“ Mas.” The orange had just touched Arkana's shoulder and made her sober and began to open both her eyes.

Arkana was surprised to find herself shedding tears, then she realized that the place was empty and there was only her and Orange there.

“ You are okay mas.?” Ask the orange one more time.

“ Show.?” Arkana made sure of the surroundings, then Jingga told her that the show had finished twenty minutes ago.

“ Why don't you tell me.?” Lontar Arkana was getting upset.

The orange wipes away Arkana's tears first, then they stare at each other.

“ How do I want to tell you, if you look very fond of listening to audiotherapy just now.” The orange speech made Arkana immediately turn his face away from him.

Arkana then got out of her chair and invited her to come home, but at that time the Orange held her captive and wanted to take her to meet someone.

“ Meet who.?” Arkana seemed confused to hear it.

Shortly after that figure Gilang just appeared from under the podium, he had been waiting since then until Arkana realized. Now that the man had walked up to the two of them, Arkana who saw him was even more confused for him.

“ Hello, I am a friend of Orange High School. Looks like I don't need to introduce any more name.” Said Cross while thrusting his hand.

“ Arkana, husband Orange.” Reply Arkana also shook Gilang's hand.

“ Thank you for coming to this seminar.” Gilang.

“ Equally.”

“ How about the seminar today? does my explanation of the inner child make you feel interested in consulting? Maybe you two want to know what kind of inner child you two have.?” Clearly Crossed.

“ I don't think necessary, my wife and I are fine kok.” Arkana was seen smiling in front of Gilang at this moment.

“ It's afternoon, Orange may be tired and she has to go home for a break.” Continue Arkana while embracing the Orange to his deck.

“ Alright then, this is my business card. Whenever need help, please contact me.” Gilang gave his business card to Arkana for failing to get him to consult together.

**

Upon arrival at home, Arkana pulls an orange arm towards the woman's room. He pushed Orange down on his bed and began to stare at the woman's eyes sharply.

“ Now explain, exactly what is the reason you invited me to such an event.?” Ask Arkana.

“ Make me.” Reply Orange.

“ You don't even need to be in cementin no problem, I just think that you deliberately invite me there because you think I have a mental problem right?”

“ Is not so mas.”

“ You do not have to lie, all this time I was rude to you and you think I was crazy right.?” Arkana began to raise her tone which made Orange feel afraid.

“ You are getting sassy since we came home from Thailand yes, do not think because I have been good means I started to love you. “ Continue Arkana.

Orange could only lower her head at that time, and after Arkana left her room she raised her face while staring at the door of the room that had just closed.

**

Arkana covered her face with both hands, her cries growing more and more. The trauma that had not been so he thought in fact made him more disturbed, all because of today's seminar that makes all bad memories return one by one.

All the sentences that his mother had spoken were so clear, from all the piercing sentences that Arkana could not control her emotions if she kept remembering the events in the past.

“ All wrong you.”

“ You are a useless child.”

“ You will not be rich Bima, forever will not be able.”

“ Naughty yes you, want mama brackets in the bathroom.?”

“ Your value should be perfect, mama do not want to see any bad value in any subject.”

Arkana went berserk inside her own room, she went back to making a mess that eventually the room fell apart in an instant. Then Arkana fell on the floor, she re-thought everything with her uncontrollable emotions.

**

20 Years ago

The ten-year-old boy had just heard the noise out there, he already knew who made the noise and decided not to come out of his room.

Arkana hugged her favorite pillow that was round in green very tightly, the voices made him close his eyes tightly until both hands of a person managed to close his ears and make him no longer hear the sound.

“ You have to close your ears, not your eyes not to hear papa and mama quarrel.” Said Bima Arkana's brother who was then 15 years old.

Bima and Arkana live in a very simple wooden house in one of the villages called Sukalarang. Both their parents continue to fight every day and make Arkana and Bima must be witnesses to the quarrel they both had.

“ Starting today I talak you.”

“ No mas, I don't want us to split.”

“ I do not care, and about child custody I will also fight for it even though only one of them can join me.”

Mama Widya cried so much that she got such a speech from her own husband, after building a household for almost 17 years they finally had to separate.

Arkana was so young at the time that she did not really understand what happened to her parents, unlike Bima who already understood the problem.

That night their father left the house, he said he would return after the divorce was done. Mama Widya was still crying in the kitchen, then her two sons came to hug her and tried to calm their mother.

“ Mama don't cry on.” Arkana wiped away Widya's mother's tears with the back of her hand.

“ Mama is not hurt anymore right.?” Bima then checked Widya's mother's body and made sure that the woman did not get a blow from their papa.

“ You two should be the same mama keep ya.” Said Widya's mama as she grabbed them into her arms.

“ We will never leave mama.” Reply Arkana embraced her mother affectionately.

“ Mama break yuk, it's night.” Bima helped her mother get up and escorted her to the room.

Arkana and Bima compactly helped their mama to the room and rest, all the chaos that happened today was enough to make them sad too. Especially when they see their mother they have to cry because of their own father.