If You Love

Eps. 31. Go home

One afternoon, on Sunday, Aunt Isye had just returned from an event. After self-cleaning aunty sits casually in a backyard that is not too spacious but has been made into a slick and beautiful dry garden. Armando's not home yet.

“Rill, have Sister Dina take oma out of the room, auntie wants to chat with oma but out here aja.”.

“Good aunty..”

Rilly went into the room. Oma was sitting on the bed. With good care and also attention and affection, oma Betsy looks healthier now it turns out that the old body can still recover even though it was a long time ago helpless and must be helped completely by others, nothing is impossible under this sky. Although he could not walk yet, he was able to get up to sit on his own bed.

“Isye has gone home?”

Oma Betsy immediately asked when she saw Rilly's smiling face.

“Already oma... oma asked aunt to go to the back porch.. kak Dina here help move oma to the wheelchair.”.

The task of two people who daily care for Betsy's oma, it is no longer difficult for them, especially oma has begun to be able to rest on his feet even though they still have to support both of them.

“It looks like not too long ago.. oma can walk again, loh...”.

Rilly tidied up the oma shirt before pushing the wheelchair out of the room.

“Oma hopes and prays for that Rilly, and God still loves oma, thankfully if Ima can have more strength when said doctor impossible oma can be cured, this is really His generosity for oma.”.

“Iya oma... it's amazing..”.

Rilly pushed oma slowly.

“Titip oma ya Rill, I want to shower..”.

Sister Dina said for a moment before she opened the room door.

“Please brother Dina.. after sister Dina finished Rilly's turn to shower..”.

“OK..”.

Outside, Isye's aunt is on the phone. Rilly brought the oma in the direction of Isye's index finger who wanted the position of Betsy's oma wheelchair closer to her. Although still talking the hands of Isye's other aunt immediately welcomed Betsy's oma, set the top of the oma shirt that was somewhat sagging due to greatness.

Aunty was talking to her son. Shortly after that…

“Ando asks to stay here again.”.

Aunt Isye opened a conversation either with oma or Rilly, Rilly was already sitting in a chair not so far away with Aunt Isye, he sat there because he thought that maybe at any time you need to take something.

“Good, she is not married, it is better to stay in this house so that someone takes care of her..”.

Oma Betsy replied.

“No problem for him if he lives alone Mi.. he can take care of himself.. which is a problem we do not have more rooms, rooms in this house are only five, all have been used.”.

“Oyen room is empty, in Oyen room only, Is..”

“Oyen comes every week with children right, even if Ruben out of town or abroad they must be here, so he was lazy to move to a wider house. Ando also did not know why suddenly rent his apartment... used to whine for an apartment, now even want to come back here.”.

“Let it be Isye.. someday after marriage, she will definitely return to choose to stay with her family just like Oyen..”.

“Iya... I actually do not mind kok mi, just think about the room aja...”.

“Your guest room is too big, so is the garage.. Why dismantle the other rooms below here..”.

“That's mi, our consideration because the children already have their own place and the Armando car increases, sometimes there are events we want to have a room that is more relieved for it… while the rooms above are already a pity to be overhauled again.”.

“Looks like the living room above is not too often used, make a room only in part, it is spacious and allows to be made one more room.”.

Oma still remembered the layout on the top floor even though it had never again climbed to the top since her arrival due to her condition.

“Maybe can not mi, children if here do not have a place to play, above the doang whose room is relieved for them to run around.”.

“Tante... Rilly moved to room oma aja... or to room mbak Atun and mbak Eta, so brother Ando can occupy room brother Ando again.”.

“Ehh... don't.. don't be so, the small oma room is only 3x3 where you can add another bed... and when you sleep in the maid's room anyway, aunt does not permit Rilly.”.

“Gak papa kok, aunt. sometimes Rilly likes to sleep in the room oma also with sister Dina. no need to add a bed kok..”.

“Aduh... it's narrow dong, not comfortable... have not papa you stay in your room it, it's already so your room is not Ando's room anymore.”.

“But aunty... no other room, right, pity that brother Ando sleep outside again.. every time here brother Ando sleep on the sofa.”.

“It's okay, he's a boy.. Let's just later he wants to sleep where it's up to him, he already knows the condition now...Freak also he, does he keep needing a lot of money huh? All this time if he needs money he just ask.. he said his apartment he rented two years.. ah I forgot to ask the reason he..”.

“Tante... Rilly is not papa if you move to the room oma, I think you can still add a small mattress if the table is out, like that aunty... Rilly is comfortable really.”.

“Must not Ril, your belongings are brought to the room ifa added narrow room..”.

“Later Rilly's clothes and books save in laundry room..”

“We'll see you later huh? Ando seems not to be willing to use his room again, he does not mind if you use his room.we ask him later.”.

“Eh yes Ril, where do you want to go to college? Have you thought about it? Graduated soon, right?”

“Hahh?? That... that Rilly hasn't thought of, aunt.. Rilly doesn't know what college wants either..”.

“Ehh... it should be, it's one of mami's requests loh.... really right mi?”

“Iya Ril... oma wants you to change his fate... oma wants Rilly to go home with success,”.

Oma answered while grabbing Rilly's hand.

Rilly was silent, he never thought about continuing his education, he was very grateful he was at this point, soon able to finish his high school which had been delayed by a year. There is no ideal that he thinks, not wanting nothing but himself being so hard to imagine all the things about his desires because he is fully aware of who he is, that every second of his life because of receiving the kindness and mercy of others, do not want to aggravate the burden of others for him.

“Rill... You must lecture..”.

“But aunt...denger tuition fees are expensive..Rilly does not want to be a burden aunt Isye constantly, aunt has spent a lot of money for Rilly, has twice lip surgery Rilly. Rilly has enough to go to high school.”.

“Aduh Rill.. can not think like that, can not think low for yourself, you are never a burden for aunt, well your child must have a good education, aunt money is more than enough to finance your college...aunty has promised to pay for your college, so aunt must keep the promise of aunt.”.

Rilly quiet. He never forgets about Armando, until now Armando's om is consistent with his unfriendly attitude to Rilly, if you think about it, it is not much capable or interact with other people other than with his wife and children and grandchildren only. With oma Betsy was very rarely involved in chat. But still, the words of Armando at the beginning he was in this house attached to his memory.

“Ril... Did you study in Manado? Mami whines to ask to go home especially when she knows aunt Irma was assigned in Manado.. mami is very happy.

“Iya... mami has longed for home, mami is happy here but this is not the village of mami, Isye... And God granted mami.” request

“But oma is getting healthier here right..”.

Rilly related the words oma Betsy.

“Iya indeed.. precisely because the oma is getting healthier so that the oma actually so the more want to go home to the village.”

“But oma, home of oma in Amurang, if Rilly lectures means Rilly lives in Manado.

“There Irma..”.

“Tante Irma must work oma..”.

“Iya also anyway, aunt Irma will later serve as vice president of Tomohon..”.

Aunt Isye hooked up in the meantime thinking about the mother who had often asked to go home and Rilly who had no other wishes about her life, this makes Aunt Isye emotionally attached to Rilly. The pity that developed into affection because he knew Rilly was always trying to keep his attitude, he knew all this time how Rilly was trying not to mess around, too obedient even. He sometimes felt sorry for this child too hard on himself.

“Means different city aunt, with the position must be aunt Irma is very busy.”

"But oma wants to go home, Rilly.. You come home and you have to continue school? Isye.. arrange how anyway mami must go home. There's Ben at the mom's house, right, bring Sister Dina too... Mami prays that mami is healthier so mami won't make you worry about mami..."

Oma Betsy adheres to the principle of golden rain in the land of people can not give happiness to him, still the memory for the hometown makes him always want to go home.

"Later to talk to Irma again mi, who knows she can stay at our house, toch Tomohon and Amurang only one hour drive. I can just calm down to let my mom come home if Irma can be with my mom. I'm still worried about Ine, Mi. She must have had many ways to stay home again, she's still contracted, she's afraid to disturb Benjamin but if there's a mother she'll be brave..."

"She's your sister Isye too, don't be so hard on her."

"I don't like him abandoning mommy, taking advantage of mommy a lot. If he changes I'll forgive him."

"But remember he's your brother..."

"Yes Mi, I can't possibly forget. Just give him a little lesson so he doesn't want to control the family assets."

"Yes, but you have to make up again..."

"Yes, later..."

Sister Dina came closer with a neat look sign that she had finished her bath.

"Auntie, oma... Rilly's gonna take a shower..."

"Yes. Start to find out what school you want to study at? Find out what you like at Sam Ratulangi University."

"Ehh?? Yes aunt..."

Sam Ratulangi University

Remembering Brill Ratulangi

While remembering the name, Rilly's chest hurts a little, the likes are hindered, and he once dreamed of the guy, in his dream Brill was walking with another girl...

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