Look at Me, My Husband
S2 Mother of my son 12
“Vienna, Mother comes.” Naina dropped her handbag on the floor. He walked closer to the little girl in his nanny's arms. Vienna was timid, hiding her face in the recess of the neck of the young girl who had been guarding her for the past year. Together with Mbok Sumi, the young nanny is the one who accompanies the daily life of Vienna.
Tears broke, Naina couldn't hold back haru. She wanted to hold her daughter, but the little girl refused. Even Vienna cried loudly as Naina's steps drew near.
“Do not want,” Vienna sobs tightly around the neck of his caregiver. The toddler was scared.
Dennis and Mbok Sumi who watched can only stroke the chest, save his mother. They can't do anything either. This can be read since Naina decided to go far from Indonesia.
“Already, Nai. Slowly Vienna would want to be approached,” said Mbok Sumi calming. The old woman who looked more wrinkled and skinny than three years ago was tightly hugging Naina. Removing her longing all this time.
Since they lived together, Naina asked her former maid to throw away the mistress's call. He already considers Mbok Sumi like his own mother. There is no longer any distance between the two.
“Bu...” Naina spilled all her feelings. Crying in the arms of the elderly woman.
“Already, Nai. Everything will be fine.” Mbok Sumi rubbed Naina's back gently between her arms.
There was compassion mixed with guilt in the old woman's heart. All of Naina's tears at the moment because of her mistakes and Dennis. He wanted to admit everything, but he felt unbearable. If Naina knew everything now, this beautiful woman in her arms would be shaken. I don't know what happens when it's all revealed right now. One day he will ask for forgiveness for his prayers when Naina and Vienna have become strong figures, not as weak as now.
“Win, follow Daddy, yes.” Dennis grabs the tiny body of Vienna and holds it close to Naina.
“This Mother. What Vienna often sees on Daddy's phone.” The man is still trying to persuade. Although the Vienna cries had subsided, but the little girl still did not want to see Naina. For her, Naina who introduced herself as Mother was a foreign figure.
A year passed, there were no memories left. Vienna only knows Mbok Sumi, Dennis and his nanny. Naina's tears flowed more and more, Mbok Sumi was further stoned guilt. His lips wanted to tell the truth. I can't bear to see them both suffer this kind of fate. The old woman looked towards Dennis. He can also catch the guilt of his adopted son as Naina's crying becomes more and more.
“Bu, please hold Vienna. Take her to the room,” Dennis's pinta. His hands stretched out, handing Vienna into the hands of his adoptive mother.
After being left behind by the two of them, Dennis immediately hugged Naina. Close the woman tightly. “Everything will be fine. Vienna just needs a little more time to get close to you. You're her real mother, Nai. At any time, your daughter will love you. Don't force it,” persuaded Dennis to try to muffle Naina's cries.
The man's shirt was soaked by tears, Naina spilled her grief in Dennis' embrace. “Mas, will Vienna recognize me again like it used to?” naina said in between the sobbing.
“Hahaha .. Of course he recognizes you. He just forgot for a moment, after being together again .. slowly Vienna will be close again to you, Nai.” Dennis gave distance, unraveling his embrace.
“Don't cry anymore. I guarantee you, tomorrow the boy will stick to you like a postage stamp. He just hasn't gotten used to it, Nai.” Dennis wiped away the traces of tears on both of Naina's cheeks with his index back.
The man smiled warmly looking at the face of the beautiful woman he had been guarding for three years with all his heart. Trying not to fall in love, Dennis steeled himself so as not to put more feelings on Naina. However, Naina belongs to Wira, although admittedly she feels something different when with Naina. The same taste when he was with Kailla.
Yes, when his father told him that Kailla was the girl he had been betrothed to since childhood, Dennis just stared expressionlessly. Kailla was no less beautiful, it was just that she couldn't lie. When the heart speaks, half the logic is lost. There is no reason, the feeling comes by itself.
“Truely so, Mas?” The line of questions sounded beautiful, able to resuscitate the handsome man from daydreams.
“Yes. Break now. I also have to go home, Nai.”
“Mas, don't stay here?” naina asked confusedly.
“No, I don't live here. I live in my house. And I have no reason to stay with you guys.” Dennis gave an excuse.
“Mas live where? Whose home is this?”
“This was my home when I was a kid. It used to be the late papa who occupied. Now empty,” said Wira, rubbing slowly the head of Naina.
“Why is your home everywhere, Mom? Surely you are a rich man's son,” Todong Naina half joking.
“Hahaha, at least I'm richer than your ex-husband. I'm saying goodbye now. If there's anything, call me 24 hours. For you and Vienna, I will always be there,” said Dennis winking one eye.
Not wanting to stay close to Naina for too long. Dennis was worried, unable to control his feelings. He just wanted to take care of Naina and Vienna, not expecting any excess in the heart.
“Nai, can you call Mom? I have to say goodbye to Mom,” Pinta Dennis, walk away.
“Wait a minute, Mas.” Naina rushed towards the room, the place where Mbok Sumi had taken Vienna just a moment ago.
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One-story house with a spacious yard filled with ornamental plants that look beautiful. Although not very well maintained, but the simple house is still very worthy to live in. Some of the walls have begun to peel, the white paint color began to fade and requires a touch of brush.
“Den, what's up?” Suddenly an old woman's voice greeted from the main door.
Dennis turned. “I have to go home now, Mom. I'm signing Naina and Vienna.”
The man's blue eyes were seen storing something. Mbok Sumi knew there was something Dennis was harboring.
“What's up, Den? Is there a problem?” ask Mbok Sumi.
“Bu ..” Harsh sighs rang out, Dennis was heavy to express what he felt.
“Tell me. Mom ready to hear.”
“The more I get here, the more I feel guilty. Every time I see Naina and Vienna, I feel like a criminal. I've done a lot of evil all this time, but what I did to Naina and Vienna really made my chest tight. Every time I see Naina crying, I feel her pain. Even when papa died I didn't feel this much pain."
“Since when?” ask Mbok Sumi.
At first there was no taste. I only sympathized with her pregnancy and was hit with guilt for being cruel to her.” Dennis expressed his feelings.
Mbok Sumi listened in silence. Word for word Dennis was being digested in his brain. He took care of Dennis as a child, he certainly knew what his son was like.
“I first felt it while accompanying Naina struggling during pregnancy. I know how tough pregnancy is."
Mbok Sumi nodded.
"Nobody thought Vienna would survive this far. The bleeding was terrible. I slip my door in every prayer. I hope Naina and her son can survive until the day of birth."
"I feel guilty for my sister until her son cannot be born into the world. That's what I was thinking at the time. I promised the Wira." Dennis bowed. The sound is getting weaker and vibrating.
"In company with Naina during pregnancy though not all the time together, the sense grows on its own. His helplessness and dependence on me made me feel valued and needed. I may have started to love her then, but I refused to admit it."
"That feeling became more and more real when accompanying Naina was struggling to give birth to Vienna. I saw the struggle of a mother, I saw the shadow of my mother in Naina. From then on .. slowly I began to learn to forgive my mother."
Mbok Sumi walked over, hugging Dennis tightly. "Mom sure, God will open the way for you. God has a way to expand your heart and slowly make you forget your mama's mistakes. Forgetting revenge on mom. You have seen for yourself the struggle of a mother giving birth to her child, you must understand why heaven is under the soles of the mother's feet."
"Whatever your mama's misdeeds, she fought for you. For nine months to keep you in her womb. Ever shared your breath with you, fought life gave birth to you."
Dennis nodded.
"And the more I forgive my mother, the more I feel guilty for Naina." Dennis's voice grew quieter, his eyes heating up. Trying to resist crying.
"Naina's struggle gave birth to it was truly terrible. For the first time ever I was afraid of losing Naina. At that time I even hoped that Naina would not have to give birth again, there was no need to fight life anymore." Dennis broke out in tears as he recalled the process of Vienna's birth. Remembering Naina who was in a coma a few days after giving birth.
"If the baby is conceived, I will choose Naina. I don't have the right to make that decision."
"Now, don't remember anymore. Now Naina is fine. A mother's struggle to give birth to her child is like that." Mbok Sumi tried to calm down.
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TB
Dennis' punishment is just about to begin, so please be patient. I also changed the Viennese call to Naina huh.🙏🙏
