Imperfect Heaven's
I. Crack
Dinner became tense when the grandmother asked me for my unbelieving attitude for hiding the fact of the contract between me and the village founder through Miss Kirana. I'm still looking for answers when everything is clear, but I don't want to admit it.
"No, Grandma, I was planning on telling you. But first grandma asked" let me bow. "Grandmother is not a problem you want to work or make money from any path, grandma will not ask really. Just so you know your responsibility to look after Kaif" Grandma turned out to say what I was afraid of all this time. "But grandma"
"Don't let you reason that you are reluctant because he is just your father's cheating son, Ayfa. He only has us here. If this old grandma all the time looking after the baby, Grandma will quickly meet God because of Fatigue. After all your father who ordered to keep your sister for a while, grandma was only asked to watch you in the village. Later if they come back you can come back free" said grandma cut my words.
My mouth is tightly clenched. There are still many objections in the contents of my head want to come out with the prefix "why should I?". But I refrained from continuing the debate. In the future, this baby will continue to be in my hands. After dinner I entered the room carrying Kaif and changed her clothes, cleaned up the rest of her meal and let her play in her bed. I worked on some PR and prepared a textbook that will be brought in tomorrow.
When I came out of the bathroom, I saw Kaif asleep in her bed. Sometimes I feel cruel to this innocent child. Sometimes I wonder why he was born as proof of my father's depravity. But I also thought "Is he really my sister? it's possible that auntie inarah begged the father" repeatedly the questions were set automatically in my mind.
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"Good morning sultan candidate" Axel's tease that greeted me in the hallway of the classroom. "What the hell" I replied, annoyed. "What will our first salary be for? Coincidentally I need Canvas to paint, ask for help check outin dong" he whispered.
"Well? Yeah well my package I've never checked into the village hall has it not been?" I just remembered it's been weeks. "Is there food there?" Axel went into a panic. "There is, but instant noodles are the same fruit chips. Besides items such as cosmetics and baby clothes" I replied again. "Yaudah will be returning to our school to the village hall to pick up your package" I just nodded slowly assuring him.
Lessons are peaceful, quiet classes sometimes make me sleepy and want to sleep. Although the quality of my sleep is not bad, but still not soundly that will make my body fit to face school.
Gradually my school life was running flat. I've been trying to get classmates to talk, but they choose to stay in the library rather than being invited to the cafeteria or to the toilet together like a normal friendship.
"Go back to school and come with me to the main square! Today around thirties he said the cattle ranching would come. I'd like to see the latest village farm, too. Yesterday was the chicken and goat farm. Now the cows are prepared two types of tablets, peranakan to be slaughtered and dairy cows for the consumption of residents as well. Next week start operating deh fresh milk delivery officer, kece not like in the western film" Cheer Axel excited.
"May" I replied briefly.
"No exclamation, I explained at length I only answered one word" annoyed Axel did not accept.
"Yes Axel, we'll be there, those five words" I said. Axel whines out of class. Some girls followed him from behind and looked at me glimpsed with a cynical look, I counteracted by raising my next eyebrow and a mocking look.
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When school came home, I walked to the Paud building with Axel casually. We had a disagreement with the Headmaster who was reviewing Sarana Prasarana with some teachers. Sounds like there are some familiar words like Warehouse and Sports Building. Without ever expecting the Headmaster to stop his steps and greet me.
"Where are you going?" back, the Headmaster asked, now I'm the one who wonders in my heart why friendly gini?. "Fetch brother sir, excuse me sir" now I'm twisting the way down the Paud building.
I saw Kaif and the nanny teacher playing stacking blocks of wood. When her teacher noticed my presence from the entrance, she let me in and invited me to join, but I just shook my head while sitting in the waiting room. The nanny teacher finally picked up Kaif and handed her to me. I pulled a wet tissue in my bag and swept it along Kaif's hand and face. The teacher also asked for a little time to talk to me so I left Kaif to Axel to take a walk on the porch to see flowers.
"Miss Ayfa how is Kaif's development and attitude lately while at home?" the teacher asked me while linking his hands to the consultation table. "Good, cheerful and ordinary" I replied casually.
"Just the opposite here, Kaif increasingly lost interest in playing and increasingly avoid contact with her friends. He also did not cry or laugh. What has happened to this boy?" This time the teacher looked seriously at me.
"I don't know buk, I don't understand about the development of children and such, maybe if this is worried about mother can call grandma. I'm going to tell my grandmother to come tomorrow" My reaction was like something no teacher could have predicted, there was a face of disappointment there and it was like disbelief. Before we go, the teacher added, "Please talk and play with this child, trigger the motor response and maybe take time like a walk so that he can develop" the advice of the teacher who eventually relented and let us disappear left the door of Paud.
When I got back to Kaif, she was already asleep in Axel's arms. The sight of a handsome young man carrying the baby I wanted to capture in the frame, but I did not dare to show my pity to Axel. Until we were in the field some cows had taken down a big truck and grazed in the field. Kaif woke up to the sound of a cow. And he was enthusiastic until jumping from Axel's sling.
"Well deck, it's a cow. Pi sa! It reads mooo .. Try moo again"
"ooo. Moo" Kaif repeated Axel's words. I smiled with relief it turns out that with Axel he can develop more than with me. Although not too long, we finally decided to go home first and plan to visit the farm when the time is off.
"Seru yah" Axel said when he got to the front of the house and gave Kaif to me. "Dad" I replied briefly. "I went home first well" said Axel leaving us with a forced smile. Because before we planned to go to the farm play for a while, but I decided it was better on the holiday we played there, not while still wearing school uniforms.
"Ayfa's grandma dropped Kaif for two days this weekend well, grandma has activities with the leadership outside the city" said the grandmother opened our conversation at dinner. "Yes Grandma, but tomorrow can you pick up Kaif? the teacher's mother wants to talk to Grandma about Kaif" I replied. "Alright, tomorrow at lunch Grandma picked up Kaif. Because tomorrow we're only half a day" considering Friday's working hours are a little accelerated due to the preparation of the outside service of some employees.
The city hall is not only the workplace of government people, because on the 2nd and 3rd floors is the office of Marketing, Plantation and Livestock administration divisions. The outside service that Grandma meant was Vocation under the guise of meeting. How good the village founder is to provide a pleasant rest for the employees.
"I am everyday too usually also take care of Kaif more often without a grandmother" I murmured myself. "Yes, how else, after all, she's your own sister" replied the grandmother as well as a grumbling tone. Now my grandmother can grumble or complain. Although more is not actually heard.
"Grandmother contacted Pakde but he couldn't accompany you that Sunday night because his wife had been sick lately. So grandma asked her sister Axel Aqela for your neman. He said Axel also wanted to stay to take care of you, after all the same ponakanya Tamir" said grandma to me. I just nodded along.
"What kind of sister is Aqela?"
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