I'm Sorry to Throw You Out

Finding the Port

Nadine walked down the crowded street with a heart full of emotion and annoyance as well as unspeakable shame. His steps were wide with clenched hands holding back the anger.

Anji who was crying was not ignored until Nadine finally decided to stop because the rain began to wet the earth.

"Even the sky wants to make me unlucky too!! Can't it rain just yet???!!!" he was facing the dark sky.

The frustration was more and more spilled with the rain which was not more subsiding but even more rapid. Nadine began to get cold because in addition to heavy rain was also accompanied by strong winds. His clothes did not stop getting wet even though he was sheltering because the wind was too strong to make rain water as if flying to and fro.

"Damn it!!!" annoyed screams.

Tiiin tiinn,,, A taxi car stopped right in front of him and honked its horn as if calling out to him. Nadine grew increasingly upset and waved her hand a sign of rejection. The taxi driver must have thought he was waiting for the vehicle.

"Yesterday!!! Here in!!"

Nadine squinted her eyes trying to penetrate the darkness of the night and the minimal lighting to know who the driver who recognized her was. And because it seems Nadine did not recognize him, the taxi driver decided to go down.

"Come." take the driver as soon as he stands right in front of Nadine.

Nadine gawking. I can't believe his own vision. The taxi driver in the typical uniform of a taxi driver who began to emit the smell of sweat made him think hard.

"Dad,,,dy???" nadine's lips are twisted.

"Yes. Let me take you home. Poor your son. Where is your home?"

The taxi driver who turned out to be Papa Gunawan offered to drive Nadine home. Papa Gunawan seems to be not questioning his last meeting with Nadine which ended with his expulsion and his exile in a forest.

"No." rejected Nadine who felt suspicious and afraid even though Papa Gunawan did not seem to hold a grudge against her.

"Why?? Poor your son. You must be cold, right? Where is your husband? Why don't you pick you up? Why let you guys get rained down and cold in here??"

Papa Gunawan took off his slightly smelly jacket to cover Nadine's body that had begun to shiver. Nadine wanted to refuse but she had a hard time admitting that the jacket was capable of giving her a little warmth.

"Come Nadine. Don'tbeafraid. I won't do you any harm. I will not repay your crimes with evil either. I don't want more sins." said Papa Gunawan.

Nadine frowned hearing that. It sounds like her husband's ex-husband's self. But Nadine still did not want to believe it just like that. She remembers how badly she treated her ex-husband. So how could the old man be so nice to her if there was no other intention??

"How, how,, Bag,, various, how, how," Nadine's lips were so twisted as to be able to solve her own question.

"How am I supposed to survive what you mean??" papa Gunawan.

Nadine nodded and gulped with difficulty.

"I pray to God and ask for forgiveness for all my mistakes. I also promised that if anyone could help me that day, if God was still willing to give me life, then I would go on living in repentance. God heard my prayer. In the midst of my despair, and the breath was almost broken, and the throat was dry, and the good man came and helped me. Take me home, shelter me and share my meager fortune so we can eat the same." recalls Papa Gunawan without any intention of explaining who the hero was.

Nadine silently listened.

"That's where I went on with my life, Nadine. Throw away all hatred for you and your husband. Giving up everything you took because that's not really my right anyway. Start a new day with a cleaner heart. And thankfully, even though I only worked as a taxi driver, I was no longer a manager, but I was happy. Gratitude for what is without wanting to belong to another."

Papa Gunawan ended his story with a smile. Left Nadine who remained still frozen and only watched from toe to head.

Papa Gunawan looks different now. Far from classy but looks simple. Two black marks rounded on his forehead indicate he became a figure who diligently prostrated. The beard that filled his chin and the screeched head also further added to the powerful aura of faith.

"Ak, I, I," Nadine stuttered again.

Heart rages. Inexplicably meeting with papa Gunawan made him afraid and feel protected. Somehow it feels like he has walked a long way through the hot and scorching desert that makes him thirsty and now in front of him there is an oasis.

"Why are you Nadine?" back papa Gunawan's soft voice teased Nadine's soul.

Eventually Nadine was destroyed. His soul tidied up and his prestige fell. Nadine was sobbing while sitting on the wet floor where she was sheltering.

"Nadine why are you?? Stand up. It's wet in here. Pity your son." papa Gunawan was shocked and tried to help him get up but Nadine's body was boneless.

Very weak and lethargic to make it difficult for Papa Gunawan to be able to help him stand. Finally papa Gunawan crouched in front of him. Staring intensely at the woman who once made him so crazy crazy to dark eyes.

"What's Nadine?" the tananya gently while rubbing the top of Nadine's head.

Suddenly his actions made Nadine scatter to him and back crying bitterly.

"Sorry Nadine,daddy. Sorry, sorry, sorry this bad woman." said Nadine in between her tears.

"Nadine, don't apologize to me. Because inshaallah daddy forgave you from that day. Apologize to HIM." Papa Gunawan's index finger pointed up.

"Daddy want to guide me?" Nadine asked so softly that she was barely heard.

"meaning? Your husband??" papa Gunawan was astonished.

"He threw me out daddy. Nadine has no place to live and no destination right now. Nadine has nothing. Nadine has received punishment from God. Karma's been running daddy. huhuhu,,,,"

Papa Gunawan was surprised and stroked the chest to hear it. Not feeling happy on the suffering and karma that Nadine received but miris.

"You want to come with me?" ask papa Gunawan later.

"Where's daddy?" nadine's face looked up and her eyes looked so wet with tears of regret.

"To my hut. I can't give you a palace like Nadine used to. But inshaallah that place will make you more at peace with yourself. At least the place is able to protect you and your child from the sun and rain. Do you want to study religion with me?" ask Papa Gunawan with a shady look.

Nadine could not resist anymore. This time he felt comfort and tranquility. Who would have thought that all the bad events that happened to him at the end of this end had finally led him to his last port that had ever been missed.

"Nadine wants daddy. Nadine wants to repent. Nadine was tired of walking around aimlessly. Take Nadine home daddy."

The request was greeted with a word of thanksgiving spoken from the lips of papa Gunawan. Nadine let herself carried Papa Gunawan into her taxi. Crossing through the arriving rain subsided after he found his life umbrella.

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...The story of Nadine and papa Gunawan lupaan ya up here,, tired of the author tuh discussed Nadine mulu 😆 time to focus on the main character of this story,,,...

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