
For some people, being left behind by grandchildren too long to play, is common. But that is not for Fatma. The woman was quite anxious waiting for the presence of the grandchild she cared for since infancy, because she went to play from the day before this afternoon until dusk almost arrived.
He said he only played at the house of a neighbor's son, whom Fatma used to visit. But until almost evening, Gavin did not go home.
"Where's Gavin, Maya? Why hasn't he come home from playing? Did he find a suitable friend for him, until he forgot to go home?" Fatma walked back and forth in the living room, waiting for Gavin to worry excessively.
"May don't know, Mom. Just wait here, Maya will try to find it," replied Maya, rising to her feet.
The evening sky was clear as Maya exited the house. The sky of the village is wrapped in light blue color by combining with orange color, which appears around the hills of the village. Maya can't wait, to bring Gavin home before it turns bright afternoon.
"Gavin, let's go home. Grandma's waiting for you to come home," asked Maya to Gavin, when she found her son eating a bowl of meatballs by himself, at the patrol station befriended the meatball salesman's brother.
Maya approaches Gavin, asking the traveling meatball seller to pay for the meatballs Gavin had eaten.
"How much is it, sir?" ask Maya.
"It's been paid for everything, ma'am. Even the change has been bagged" replied the meatball seller with a smile. Maya frowned, feeling she had not given Gavin any money before leaving to play.
"The father who gave me the money, Mom, before leaving for the city" Gavin said as he placed a bowl of meatballs on the front desk of the meatball salesman's brother.
"All right, it's done, right? Let's go home," asked Maya while reviewing a smile at the meatball salesman's brother.
Gavin nodded and approached Maya. The boy smiled happily, feeling that his mother was not angry this time.
Gavin just does not know, even though he does not look angry, but Maya keeps her discomfort alone. Gavin, don't let the son know.
"Mom not angry?" gavin asked quietly, in a cautious tone.
"Anger. Mom was very angry. But want to be angry whatever, the money you have eaten, so useless," replied Maya with a slightly raised tone.
"All right, Gavin's sorry. If thrown away or rejected, also free, ma'am. Money is dear if rejected. Mother said, rejecting the windfall is tantamount to insulting God," replied Gavin, recalling his mother's advice while both were still living in the capital.
"Tell Mom, how much money did you give you to buy a bowl of meatballs?" ask Maya, leading Gavin and continuing in his footsteps. The woman looked straight ahead, without taking off her hand on Gavin.
"Five red money. For the first time, Father gave money to Gavin," Gavin replied with a crisp laugh.
Maya is not finished. This is not a joke at all, however, Gavin laughs happily to make Maya hold her own. Good, Maya can still hold back her emotions. Gavin was really good at testing the patience of the mother-of-one.
"And Gavin's happy to take it?" ask Maya while stopping the step, to make Gavin also stop the step.
"Happy, very happy," replied Gavin, opening his eyes several times.
Once again, Maya exhales violently. Maya is tired and doesn't know how she should wake Gavin up this time.
"Gavin once remembered, no, that Mom once said, if Gavin don't get too close to Dad. My family is not equal to us. We're nothing to them, Gavin. I don't want you to talk to Dad much, let alone his family" Maya reminded.
The sky looks red. The dark slowly greeted, when now Maya almost arrived in front of her house. The woman didn't want to say hello to them first. Then, Maya resumed her steps after advising her son.
Gavin's age shouldn't interfere in adult affairs so far. But look at the child from Aditya's seed, too smart and often cornered Maya under the pretext of 'mom said first'.
"Guess up to you, Gavin. I'm tired of having to argue with you. You're always right and you're wrong" Maya said.
The two arrived home, and Fatma greeted them in an anxious manner. For some reason, Gavin and Maya have been crossing each other for the past few days.
"Gavin, where have you been, this afternoon just came home?" fatma asked her grandson.
Just as Gavin was about to open his mouth to answer, the mother interrupted first by saying, "look at your grandson, Mom. He just came home to buy meatballs from the ones he gave. The child really did not hear my advice," Maya replied with a hint of emotion.
Fatma frowned when she heard Maya's exasperation.
"really? Gavin, you shouldn't have received anything Aditya's doctor gave you, son. That's not good. You and your mother, not Aditya's doctor's dependents," Fatma explained as she led Gavin to sit on the living room couch. The woman's voice gently advised Gavin.
"But Gavin didn't ask for it, Grandma. The father gave it to Gavin himself" the boy replied in denial.
"Next time, don't take anything from Aditya's doctor, without your mother's permission, do you understand?" fatma asked as well as advising her somewhat wayward grandson, lately.
"It is said that to reject the windfall is to insult God. The mother who said it a moment ago," replied the child, still refuting what the parents said.
"Look, Mom, I don't think. Why is his father stubborn, passed down to my son. I hope I don't experience prolonged dizziness in the future" Maya said, before then looking at Gavin with a sadistic look terrible for Gavin, "because you've come home this late, take a quick shower, and then take a bath, clean yourself up and learn. I don't want you to be lazy to study and stupid like Aditya the stone head!" maya Arrow .
The woman then went into the room. However, his steps had to stop because Gavin chimed in his sentence, making Maya increasingly angry.
"Mother is right. I'm the son of a doctor. How could a stupid brained person be a doctor like Dad?" gavin's voice, as if it could make Maya almost high blood at this time.
"Gosh, God. Strengthen me," Maya surrendered.
The woman's steps came to a halt, when the sound of knocking on the door, was heard by her clumsiness.
"Grandma will open the door. Now, Gavin quickly takes a shower before I get mad at you" Fatma orders Gavin.
Gavin nodded and passed towards the room.
Fatma's steps swung towards the door, opened it and saw someone, standing with a pitiful appearance in front of the door.
"Sherla's? What's up here?" ask Fatma then.
Instead of answering, Sherla clenched her hands together, begging to meet and talk with Maya.
"Please Sherla, Miss Fatma. Help Sherla to meet and talk to Maya, just this time. Please," Sherla asked with a wheeze and a hoarse voice.
That uninvited guest, somehow made Fatma suspicious.
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