
Mother Alya walked over then sat down in the chair next to Bella.
"Wah seems like a serious chat," said Mother Alya.
Bella sighed softly then tilted her body so that now she was facing towards her mother.
"So Bella's the same father said a lot of things" Bella began to talk.
Bella hopes this conversation goes smoothly and she will get the answers she has been looking for all along.
Her father's version of the story Bella has heard and now Bella wants to hear the story of the parent version.
Bella hopes that after listening to both versions of the story everything becomes clear because Bella feels something strange in the events that happened to her family first.
"Oh..continue?" ask Mother Alya.
"Bella asked me about the reasons why my father and mother divorced."
"Dad told me everything."
Hearing that, Mother Alya looked surprised but then she quickly tried to calm her heart.
"Dad admitted all of father's fault."
"The father who had unconsciously cheated on her with his ex-girlfriend."
"Even though father had no feelings for the woman and no intentions other than to be friends but he had let the woman approach him."
"Father too late to realize that closeness to women who are not mahramnya is a bad thing and can cause slander."
"Dad also felt guilty for allowing the woman to make him her confiding friend."
"Dad regretted giving help to the woman without the mother's knowledge and permission."
"Dad is also sorry because of the father's mistake, mother had an accident so we lost sister."
Mother Alya continued to listen to everything Bella said. Memories of past events appear.
"Dad also said that I still love my mother very much."
"From a long time ago until now I still love mother very much."
Bella's last successful words Mother Alya was surprised, as if she did not believe what she heard.
"Your father said that?"
"Yes Bun."
No, there is no way Mas Aiman said that, Inner Mother Alya.
"Bun, does Mommy still love you?"
Mother Alya did not answer. He was confused as to what to answer. If he says yes, he feels so pitiful, loving a man who does not love him, who only takes it as his responsibility.
If he says no, Bella will believe it. Apparently not, Bella is not a child anymore, Bella can certainly guess how her mother feels about her father.
"Yes."
"Bella, what happened in the past let pass yes, it does not matter how your mother feels to the father," said Mother Alya.
"Does Mother still love Dad?" ask Bella back.
"Bella.." suddenly the words that Mother Alya wanted to say were stuck in her tongue.
Mother Alya remembered her determination not to let Bella know something was really going on.
Mother Alya does not want Bella to hate her own father.
"Mother please answer, this is important for us" Bella said.
"It's important because this will determine the future of our family, so please answer honestly, tell me the truth."
"Why do you insist on wanting to know, everything is over, your father and Mother, we have our own lives."
"The happy mother lives alone with you."
"Mother believes your father has found his own happiness."
"From where you know you're happy, for years you've suffered" Bella argued.
"Dad woke up alone trying to rearrange his life."
"Dad tried hard to steady himself in order to get back to us."
"Dad loved Mother very much and really wished he could come back with us."
"That's your father's word or it's just your assumption because you expect us to be together again."
"That's the words of my own father and Bella was very sure the father's feelings for Mother were sincere."
"Bella, you're an adult, Mommy hope you can tell which is reality and which is wishful thinking."
"Mother knows you desperately want our family whole back but that's impossible."
"Why can't Mother?"
"Father and Mother still love each other, there is no one else in the life of the father and Mother so far, so what is impossible?"
Alya's mother fell silent again, she could not argue the words of Bella who stated that she still loved her father Bella.
But to get back together, it looks like this is just Bella's wish.
"Bella's...Mother please stop expecting the impossible, you are an adult, Mother please you understand the state of Mother."
"Which situation must Bella understand, the state of Mother who still loves father but continues to deny it, the state of Mother who still always misses father but always tries to stay away from father."
"Bella is not a child anymore Mother, Bella often sees Mother daydreaming when Mother herself, Bella knows Mother still keeps photos of father and sometimes Mother look at the photo and cry."
"You..."
"Bella knows Mother, whatever Mother keeps the feeling of Mother, sometimes unconsciously Mother shows what Mother feels."
"Mother..."
"Your father never loved Mother!" before Bella continued her words, Mother Alya spoke in a high tone.
Mother Alya took a breath and slowly let it out.
"Mother thought you already knew that the marriage of father and Mother because of arranged marriage, right?"
Bella nodded in response.
"Your father accepted our betrothal as his blessing to his parents."
"Therefore, your father was forced to give up his lover, the first love of your father who had been with him for many years."
Bella's forehead frowned confused, why the story is different but Bella tried to hold her mouth to not interrupt the story of the mother.
"Your father is very kind to treat Mother even though she does not love Mother."
Repeatedly Mother Alya said that Bella's father did not love her even though Bella repeatedly also said that her father loved her mother very much.
It seems that her mother's hearing rejected the words that her father still loved her so much that this information did not enter her brain, Bella theorized in her mind.
"You ask me if Mommy still loves your father, the answer is yes, Mommy still loves your father."
"Initially the feeling does not exist but over time the feeling of love grows in the heart of Mother without Mother can prevent."
"Until then Mother hopes your father will be able to love Mother also later."
"But hope abides hope, your father never loved Mother."
"Your father is just trying to be nice to Mother."
"Then you are present among us, it makes your father more attached to Mother."
"But deep in his heart, your father still loves his ex-lover."
Mother Alya's tears flowed down her cheeks without her being able to hold any more.
It was too painful for him to remember the event.
Seeing her mother crying, Bella's heart ached but everything must be revealed now.
Bella still feels sure something is wrong here. Why the story of the father and his mother is different. Who is right, who is wrong or there could be a misunderstanding here.
Mother forgive Bella, but Bella must know what exactly is this, inner Bella.