Long River

Visitation

Aska thrust her hp at Runi. The children's song that was heard from Hp Aska attracted his heart. The little girl had tilted her head curiously to see what video was being played on the man's phone.

"Here" call Aska.

Runi just turned his head for a while and then focused on the phone screen. Aska waited for a moment while accepting his wife's bribe. He waited for Runi to drown with what he was watching and slowly carried her and sat her beside him. The girl is still hypnotized video in a cellphone rested onto a pillow by Aska. While rubbing her son's head, Aska asked him to speak. "Do you like this song, baby?"

Runi unmoved. He was busy listening to songs from Hp Aska. A moment later he was already shaking his head, then his body and started to move his hands. Aska clapped her hands slowly following the music of the song. Then the song was over. As Aska searched for another song, Runi looked at the man with a confused face.

"There's more." Aska put her phone back to where it all is.

The little girl went back to watching. "Uh .. uh ..." Runi pointed at Hp Aska and turned to the man. "Np ... Um ...."

Aska looks happy to almost cry. "Oh, you finally called me Om." He rubbed the boy's head.

Idiotically. Someone else has been called 'Papa', and you're proud to be called 'Om' by your own son? You are such a weird old man!

Aska saw his food almost run out in his wife's hands. "Leka, I want to add more. I'm still hungry, I haven't eaten last night."

"Yes, yes." Leka came down and soon she returned with the food that was already fully filled on her plate. She sat down on the edge of the bed and fed her husband.

"They later if I'm a little sad afternoon, we eat outside, huh?"

"No, lazy ah!"

"Lho, why?"

"Let's eat with other people again. Then why am I coming? Just go it alone!" Leka said annoyed.

Aska. "We'll just change Mal."

"What?"

"Mal in Jakarta is a lot. Want huh?"

Leka frowning. Aska pulled his wife's shoulder and kissed her forehead. "You want to, baby?"

Called so, also the heart of Leka. Finally he nodded.

"OK!" Aska looks happy. He opened his mouth to eat.

"Father!"

Aska was surprised and turned to Runi. Leka is like that too.

Runi pointed at Hp Aska.

The man confirmed his hearing. "What?" He looked at Leka. The woman was at a loss for words.

Runi pointed at the video she saw. Aska and his wife saw the video, a video of a man playing the piano.

"Oh, maybe that guy's singing papa." Bright Leka hid the panic.

"Oh, I think he called me 'Papa'." Aska looks relieved.

Yes it must be impossible, because you don't want it, right, Leka's mind is upset.

Meanwhile, Kenzo who was waiting across the market came back disappointed. Leka, why don't you go to the market today? Has Aska taken you to the supermarket for shopping? I wish I was lucky to see you again today. "Come on Dan, we go home."

Leka was busy in the kitchen when suddenly her husband ran downstairs.

"Leka, Mamap wants to come here" Aska explained.

"What?"

"Your stuff in the room, get rid of it! Move it to Runi's room."

"Oh, yes." Leka immediately turned off the stove. "Bang, keep Runi downstairs, okay?" Leka rushed up.

Runi who was walking around the living room while hugging her cloth doll saw her mother climb the stairs. She followed him but stopped to see Aska standing in front of the stairs.

"Eish, just play here."

Runi turned around and ran towards the living room. He hides behind the couch and peeks at Aska smiling at him.

Leka moved her cosmetic items and the comb that was on the dresser into a box. Also take a towel hanging. It seemed like there was nothing to move since her clothes were inside the closet. There's no way Aska's mom could have checked it into the closet. Leka passed by while carrying the box to Runi's room.

Aska opens the door for Reina.

"Lho said Papa you're sick?" Reina looked at her son's face that looked perfectly healthy.

"Yesterday raining Map, overtime keep the car wheels mired into a hole in the road. Oh, come home tired. Fever last night." Kill Aska.

Reina pinched Aska's cheek.

"Shame, Map ... pain." Aska touched her cheek.

"There are many reasons to work. How do you want to step up in office then?"

"Mr ...." Aska sulked while lowering her eyes.

"You must be diligent, right now again promoted? Otherwise, the post could drift to someone else."

"Yes, Map."

"Nih, Mamap bring Rendang. Mamap cook this yesterday." A sealed container is thrust at Aska.

"Well, thank you Map." Aska was so happy. For a long time he did not eat his cooking.

Reina went into the apartment. "Assalamualaik."

"Waalaikum salam" replied Aska.

Reina looked at Runi in the living room. "Eh, who is this?" He bowed and gave a smile to Runi.

The little girl looked confused. Leka who was about to go down the stairs saw Reina enter the house. Rushing he came down and took Runi. "Ah, sorry ma'am, my son played here."

"Ah, that's okay" Reina said with a smile.

"Mom's gonna have some tea maybe."

"Oh can."

Runi was dropped near the dining table, while Leka went to the kitchen cooking water. It turned out that Reina was sitting at the dining table with Aska.

"What's this called?" Reina asked Runi.

"Come, here's Runi. Greetings to Oma," call Aska.

"Omma? Just like your son!" Reina laughs.

Aska who had already spoken, confused herself. He tried to divert the conversation. "Eh, would you like to have lunch here?"

"Is it not too long?"

"meaning?"

"Well, you don't pray Friday, it's Friday."

"Oh, yes. I forgot."

Leka placed the tea cup on the dining table. Before he could speak, Runi hugged his feet. Soon the woman carried him.

The sound of azan.

"Eh, it's azan, don't be late." Reina glanced at her watch.

Aska glanced at Leka. He desperately does not want to leave his wife and mother for fear that Leka mispronounced him but the timing is urgent.

"Fast Aska, don't be late" urged Reina.

"D-yes." Finally with a heavy heart, Aska ran upstairs to prepare for prayer.

"Let's sit here, I want to see your son, shall I?" Tanya Reina was friendly.

Leka was confused because Aska had climbed upstairs while she could not avoid talking to Aska's mother anymore. "Yes, Mom." He pulled the chair beside Reina.

"Oh, that's funny. Her name is Runi?"

"Yes, Mom."

"How's it?"

"What about Ma?" Leka was confused again.

"Package?"

"Oh .. That's what Mom sent me?" Leka breathed a sigh of relief.

"Yes, we're concerned to hear the story about you so-this is my husband's initiative anyway, sending you the package."

"Oh, I'm afraid ma'am because there's no sender's name, thought someone was spying on us."

"Oh." Reina laughs.

Aska came down from the top floor in a hurry. "Assalamualaik."

"Waalaikum salam."

Aska had already reached the door and exited.

"How about we eat now."

"We?" Ask Leka again.

"Just accompany me to eat because I can't stay here for long. I have to go back to the flower shop."

"But if uh, Ask what about Ma'am?"

"So Mom told him."

"Eh, yes Mom." Leka finally prepared the food at the dining table.

After Friday prayers, people one-on-one come out of the mosque. Aska often met Kenzo in the mosque but they did not greet each other unless there was Arya there.

That day Arya went to the mosque with Kenzo and returned at the same time. He met Aska and talked for a while, then they separated. But from the very beginning they set out, Arya noticed that Kenzo was quiet. Even when I came home from the mosque.

The car gets to Arya's house but Kenzo comes down and crosses back to his house.

"Ju ...."

Kenzo doesn't hear his father's call. Just this time Arya was confused to see her attitude. Kenzo was thinking of something.

Kenzo was thinking of something. He went into the house but went straight to the piano. He opened the lid and played it slowly.

Shadows back the cute face of Runi who was looking at her with her witty moving eye bead. Also his little lips are calling him 'Papa'. Then Leka's face, her beautiful-eyed mother, also did not escape the shadows that followed her continue these few days. They are the shadows of the future he wants to achieve. Can I reach it?

Kenzo stopped playing the piano. He immediately closed the piano and stood up. He rushed to his parents' house.

Arya was just about to pick a meal when Kenzo came in. "Oh, Jo. You want to eat?"

"Well, I want an operation."

Arya and Mariko were shocked. This is something that has never been discussed for a long time because Kenzo is very sensitive about this and always refuses to be operated on. They never talked about it again.

It's about the night Kenzo's life changes as he witnesses his parents being murdered. He was also hit by a prick but only on his clothes he was shocked and frightened so he fainted. When he woke up, the house had been burned by intruders, but he managed to save himself with great difficulty and his body had been injured in the upper abdomen at the time of the incident.

Kenzo had surgery once, but since then he did not want surgery. In order to restore his body to its original shape, he needed several more operations.

Arya and Mariko looked at Kenzo with astonished faces.

"You really mean Jo?" Arya tried to confirm her hearing.

"Why indeed?"

"Because of Leka?"

"I just want to look normal."

"You are normal."

"But I ...." Kenzo looked at his own stomach with a hint of embarrassment. "Feels like a zombie."

Arya showed off her big smile. "What matters is that you want surgery now."

"Yes." Yeah."

"Alhamdulillah."

Kenzo pulls up a chair and eats together.