Is Love For Me
The Birthday Day
Alika's eyes reddened when she saw the smile of her stepbrother when she got the shock from her mother.
During this time he always patiently faced injustice that happened to him, he was a biological child, but his mother loved his stepbrother more.
Her two daughters are currently having birthdays on the same day. However, his mother did not give him a single gift. But, unlike his half-brother, Dena. Her stepbrothers get a surprise that Alika herself is surprised by what her mother gave her stepdaughter.
The sports car that had been dreamed of by his half-brother was now in front of him. Not only Dena, but the car was the dream of everyone including Alika, he also dreamed the same thing. However, the dream seemed impossible to him.
"Mother, is this a gift for me?" tanyanya who immediately ran to the luxury car that had just come and parked right in front of their house.
'Mom, why did you call me here? Is it just to show off the gift you gave Dena? While you were just saying happy birthday to me, without giving me a single gift,' Inner Alika, a drop of tears fell down the cheeks of the beautiful girl. He tried to shake off his pain. The pain was gnawing on his body, he rubbed the tears violently and wanted to leave from there. However, his steps came to a halt when he heard his mother call his name.
"Alika, wait!" he said Alika turned around trying to keep smiling, there was hope that if her mother called her maybe to buy her a gift.
"Alika, please prepare the food inside, soon Dena's friends will come in to eat. Oh yes, do not forget to arrange also the gift that was under the garden of Dena so as not to mess up, do not let any gifts are lost," said mother made my heart feel slashed.
His eyes are back heating up. However, he immediately turned away not wanting to show the tears that had now fallen back dripping from the corner of his eyes.
Alika walked away from her mother.
However, he did not do what his mother asked him to do. Alika went into the room and locked her up.
For 15 years, Alika lived in her grandmother's house. The simple house and his mother lived in a two-story mansion. Alika has a room there, she can come whenever she wants, that's what her mother said. However, every time she came to her mother's house, Alika was just suffering and heartache.
Her mother always loved Dena and compared her to them. Dena's a beautiful child, Dena's a good person and she's smart, you have to be like Dena. Those words continued to be heard in his ears from he was small until his current age had already stepped on 21 years.
Alika approached a small gift that was on her dressing table, she took the gift and opened it, a smile rising on her lips.
"Grandmother," lyrics.
Yes, all this time only his grandmother always gave him gifts on every birthday on time, Alika felt overwhelmed when she saw the gold ring in the small box given by her grandmother this morning before she left for her mother's house.
A sense of regret enveloped him, why he had to leave his grandmother alone on this happy day and come to his mother's house. He wants to go home right now, but it's night, he doesn't have a vehicle.
Alika always asked her mother to buy a motorcycle. However, his mother always reasoned if he would give after getting money from his stepfather.
"Tok-tok-tok," a knock on her door awakened Alika from her daydreams over the injustice she had gotten from her mother.
"Yes, Mom. What's up?" alika asked after opening the door and seeing if her mother was behind the door.
"Son, you're in the room, let's go down and celebrate your birthday with Dena, the cake will soon be cut" said the middle-aged woman, who is none other than Alila's real mother, Alika did not answer. However, her mother immediately scowled Alika out of the room, making Alika inevitably follow her mother's steps down the stairs, even with a pouting face.
Sure enough, as soon as he got to the bottom, Alika only saw one cake. The cake was large and Dena was standing in front of the cake with a knife that was quite long in her hand.
A happy birthday song echoed in the room. Alika did not sing the song at all, she chose to be cool with her phone and send messages with her friends. However, an incoming message distracts him from the message he is waiting for. My father's name is there. Alika again exhaled a rough breath.
Father and mother alike, they both dissolve into the happiness of their new household without thinking about whether she is happy or not.
Unlike his mother who was married to a single widower and his son was the same age as him. His father married a girl and a year into their marriage he gave birth to a son and also became his father's favorite son.
Unlike Dena who had always ignored him and sometimes insulted him, her sister named Irsya actually loved him and it slightly reduced the tightness in her heart because of the treatment of both parents.
"Happy birthday, may you live a long life, son. Tomorrow morning come to Daddy's house, I have a gift for you," Alika's father wrote in his message.
"Okay, Dad," replied Alika replying to her father.
If his mother married someone richer than his father. His father only married ordinary country girls, keeping their economy the same as it used to be. His father worked as a regular employee in an office. Every year his father gave him gifts, even though sometimes it was too late. However, still the gift given by his father must be much cheaper than the gift his father usually gives for his sister.
"Alika, please get the plate for Dena's friends, son," said Alika's mother made the child just nod and give what her mother asked, she said, serving his stepbrother friends with a bent face.
