HERBS

Mistakes

Dharma was running around like crazy when Kavyana was not at school. She had just returned from college, and her mother Maya told the young man to pick up her sister at a Kindergarten.

"Where are you, boy?!" hisses.

He asked everyone in the school, but no one saw him.

"Vya's gone home with her bespectacled uncle, Uncle." A girl who has excessive weight everywhere informed.

Dharma's eyes are wide open. Not because Kavya went with the bespectacled uncle according to the information of a small, fat boy in his shirt written the name of Sita, but the boy's call to Dharma was the cause.

"Uncle?!" Dharma asked.

"Yes. Looks like Vya knows that uncle too."

Dharma thought about the uncle Kavya knew. About who? No uncle in their family would accept Kavya. For whatever reason, only his mother knew.

Uncle? Is it possible ...?! Akhs!

Dharma pulled out her phone. Contacting someone. Not answered by what he will call. A moment later, however, a message entered his phone. When he finished reading and the letter, which consisted of two words, Dharma smiled.

"Stupid name!" his Dharma smiled.

***

"Assalaamu'alaikum~"

A small voice sounded from outside the house. Followed by other sounds, heavier and more authoritative.

"Wa'laikumussalaam," replied the middle-aged woman with long black hair the color of her eyes. "Mother's son has come home" he greeted later.

Of course the welcome is for little girls whose cheeks are like Pao cookies. A girl of about seven years old ran up to the woman and she was hugged when she got in front of the woman. Then take the sweet girl to the room that paints the door light blue.

"If you want to take Kavya, you should tell me!" Dharma protested to Naratama.

"He's my brother too. Not just your sister, don't be greedy!" dharma Reply.

"Are you stupid or what?! I wouldn't be such a lunatic to think Kavya was kidnapped by a pedophile if you told me before!"

Naratama. Then the twenty-three-year-old man ruffled the hair of his younger brother. "I'm sorry, Dharma."

Dharma sneered, but his heart was happy, it had been a long time since his brother had behaved like that to him.

"But don't be jealous of Kavya. He's your brother, remember?"

The Naratama warning is not yet fully understood by Dharma. What this jealousy means, he doesn't know. Jealous of Kavyana how?

*

Maya describes Kavyana as a flower. Beautiful and fragrant flowers. Lavender is a flower that is suitable for her little girl. Lavender is also very good. The high love. Thus, Kavya is symbolized by Maya as high love.

At times, Dharma and Naratama feel their mother loves Kavyana more than she was born later. However, they do not know why Deva, their mother's husband and father for the three of them even seem to keep a distance on Kavya.

As of now, Deva did not respond to the little Kavyana who asked to be invited to play together. He kept avoiding the little girl.

"Dad, let's play!" exclaim Kavyana enthusiast.

Deva who read the newspaper ignored the little girl at all. He instead called Maya and said, "This little girl keeps whining no crazily! My head is about to break!"

Maya smiles at her husband. Smile, then bring Kavya to play with her brothers. After she gives Kavyana to her two older sisters, Maya again approaches her husband.

"Kavyana just wants to play. He doesn't know what it's like to play with his dad."

Newspaper in Deva's hands, slammed to the floor. Ruthlessly, he said filled with emphasis, "I'm not his father! He's nobody in this house!"

"But I'm his mother. You're my husband!"

"Whatever!"

From there, Dharma and Deva concluded something. The conclusion of their relationship. Same conclusion but not the same.

*

When Kavyana was ten years old, five years later, Maya died. The more the dislike of his father's family on Kavyana, especially his own father. He strangely accused Kavyana of being the cause of his wife's death.

"Stupid!" it was Naratama's comment as his father attributed Maya's death to his youngest sister.

Dharma himself clenched his hands tightly. He and Naratama already knew about the truth of their mother's Lavender flowers. This fact makes the two brothers stronger determination to protect Kavyana from anyone. Including their families and fathers. Also included is keeping Kavyana away from her biological mother, Sherly, who is their father's mistress.

"This is all because of that bastard!"

The glass on the table, Naratama. Make the glasses break on the floor, like his heart. Destroyed when his sister was accused of inappropriate designations.

"Every child born into the world is holy. If anything is unholy or haram, it is the deeds of his parents! I thought you were teaching, didn't you?"

"What kind of rules is that?! In the laws of the world society, if born not because of the bond of marriage then the law for the child is haram!"

"Rules? It is the law of Islam. I don't know what this would be like if my mother didn't teach me a religious lesson. Surely we are as immoral as you."

Deva emotion. His face reddened due to the innuendo of his eldest son. Almost he said another word, Dharma is already cornering. "Who would want to be born that way?"

Wasn't it your fault that our sister was born? Isn't it because of your stupidity that our mother is sickly?"

Isn't it because of you, that vile woman wanted to kill her own biological child? Ah, what's his name? Yeah, Sherly."

Deva fell silent. He gritted his teeth. Bravely his children defected to him and defended Kavyana, the reason for his wife's cry.

"Go." Deva said coldly.

Both Naratama and Dharma grinned faintly. Indeed, they will move from the house that always makes a mere wayang sister feel depressed.

Maya also wishes to leave Deva's house if he is no longer in the world, so that Kavyana's security is maintained.

*

Naratama already works as a cashier in a super market. The money was enough to contract a house for her to live with her two younger siblings.

Kavyana is still often moody due to the death of her mother, Maya. Naratama often comforts the little girl. Sometimes he takes his youngest sister to the playground or eats sweet foods to make the child's mood better.

Luckily there are two of his peers who live also next door to their house, Sita and Mahila. They are also sometimes the place where Kavyana moans. Sita, who used to call Naratama and Dharma with the greeting 'uncle'.

five months later, Kavyana was able to display her long-lost smile. He's back in school.

"I think Sita and Mahila would fit in with Kavyana." Naratama opens a conversation with Dharma in the living room.

"I hope so." Dharma.

Away from where they lay the old man covered in blood all over his body. He committed suicide because of guilt that he could not bear. Next to him lay a piece of paper, saying:

I know suicide is a sin. I know my place in Hell. I despise my Maya, my children and myself. Maya, can we be a couple again? I promise I won't betray you again.