Loving my Best Friend's Mother

Episode 23

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It had been a few days Bara had stayed at his apartment, and today he intends to go home because he always called by his mother.

"Bara, Mama wants to talk!"

The coals stop at the rungs of the stairs when they hear a fairly distinctive sound in their ears. He turned around and followed his mother's footsteps who walked towards the sofa of the family room. "Yes ma, what's wrong?"

"It seems like it's time you had a companion who could take care of you."

"What does mama mean?"

"It's time for you to get married and you already have a suitable candidate for you, after all, you have never known your girlfriend to mama, either" Mala said, holding her hand.

"Mom want a mate Bara? Maa..., it's not the age of play-match, Bara already has his own choice."

"Good, then take her to this house and introduce her to our family."

"Bara will definitely introduce him to our family, but not now."

"What's his name?"

"Yes...."

"Let's guess what her name is Raisa? Is she the mother of your friend?" Asked Mala with a sharp look.

Bara was speechless unable to deny, while thinking how could his mother know all that.

"Reflade!?" This time Mala really looked angry. "Is your mother right!?"

"Ma, uh,"

"So he came here to return your stuff." Mala pulled a box from behind her. The phone he bought for Raisa the other day.

"Ma.., Bara can be clear-in- "

"Have you been chasing him all this time? Is that true? Bara, answer mama!?"

"Yes that's right! And Bara wants Raisa to be the companion of Bara's life later!"

Plaaq!!

A slap from Mala floated on Bara's cheek. "Mama disappointed in you! Mama's been lecturing you all the way until you became like this, but what's your reply to mama!? You even have a crush on a one-child widow who turns out to be the mother of your own friend!"

"Did you forget, if you were the one who forced Bara to go to college so that Bara had to cultivate Bara's own ideals? All this time Bara always follow what mama wants, but this time Bara please let Bara choose Bara's life partner."

"With the widow bearing that one child!? Mama would not agree! Mama will decide which candidate is more worthy of you!"

"Ma.., this is not a matter of merit or not, this is a matter of feeling Bara...."

"Your feelings are unfounded, when you get married later will also disappear, you see mbak Tari, proof that he is happy with the choice of mama."

"That's because mom was too selfish, so

you can't see your own child's suffering!"

"Bara..., mama's not done talking!" mala shouted at Bara who went from there to the stairs.

"Mama should ask Mbak Tari, if she's really happy, that's if mama cares." Bara turned around and he continued his steps towards his room.

"You've been blinded by the widow!" Mala Furious.

The flashback

Raisa comes to Bara's house.

"I want to meet Bara's mother" Raisa told the maid who opened the door.

"There, I'll call you madam for a moment" the maid came in to call her master.

"Sorry---?"

"I am Raisa, the parent of Ricky, one of Bara's friends," Raisa introduced herself.

"Oh, I'm Mala Bara's mother," greeted Mala then let her guests in and sat on the living room sofa.

"What do you want to drink?" Ask Mala.

"No need to bother, I only need a moment" replied Raisa.

"Okay, please."

Mala crossed her legs and looked closely at Raisa. "I know you're beautiful and attractive, but I'm sure my son is unlikely to do that, he's very well educated and even a graduate abroad, why he should choose a woman like you, you are the mother of her own friend."

"Just like you, I didn't believe him at first, and even yesterday he came home and confessed his feelings in front of Ricky."

"Well, let's just say your words are true, even though I still don't believe them. So what is your real purpose?"

"Actually Bara was more mature than my son Ricky, because indeed they were a few years old. It's good if you find a companion for him, and I think Bara is fit to get married."

"You don't have to teach me that, I know how to take care of my son, and I'm sure Bara will get married soon, and you're the first person I'll invite!"

"Well, I'm happy to hear that, and I'll try to come. Oo yes, this is I want to return the Bara goods that had been left behind," while putting down the HP that had been sent Bara at that time. "I'm sorry then."

Raisa leaves Bara's house.

The sooner the better, there will at least be a barrier between us before we sink any further.

On the way home with great difficulty he curbed his tears that almost spilled. He wanted to get home and pour it all out.

Flashback off

Bara paced back and forth in the room while squeezing her hair with both hands.He stopped in front of the mirror and punched the glass until it cracked before finally falling into pieces. The wound re-adorned Bara's hand a second time, a wound that was deliberately made to defeat the taste in his heart.

He came out of his room with blood dripping from his wounds. Mala was surprised to see drops of blood on the floor that turned out to be from a wound on Bara's hand.

"Baraa..., what the fuck is this!? Did you hurt yourself for that woman!?" Pekik Mala's.

Bara ignored his mother's words and continued to walk out of the house to his car.

He returned to the apartment to reduce the burden of his mind. He felt depressed if he continued to be in the house.

Until night Bara continued to confine himself in his apartment room, until finally he heard the doorbell ringing. Actually he had ignored her, but it seemed like the guest was also reluctant to leave from there.

"Mbak Tari, what's the matter here?" He said when he found out who rang the bell from earlier.

"Why don't you like coming here?"

Bara went back inside in the accompaniment of the Dance that had closed the door. "Are you angry, too?" Said the Dance that was sitting next to Bara.

"So Mama told you?"

"That's how..," replied Tari. "Let's treat your wounds first."

then Tari took the medicine box, then after treating and bandaging Bara's wounds he sat back to his position. "Didn't you want to talk to me?"

"What should I talk about? Mama must have told me everything."

"So it's all true? I wasn't believing it yet, come here, "Tari grabbed Bara's body to hug her.

"Sir, I'm an adult" Bara let go of Dance's embrace.

"Well, then you just don't seem to like you're here!" Dance wants to move.

"Not so, Bara just does not want to bother mbak with the problems that Bara is facing right now."

"If you can share your problems with me, why can't you share your problems with me? Are you not thinking about it anymore!?"

"The story is also of no use mbak," Bara stared blankly.

"Then will you stay here until you talk?" Dari put down her bag and went to the kitchen, after a while she returned with two cups of coffee. "Here, drink first," gave one of those coffee cups to Bara.

"What about Alina if I don't come home?"

"You will decide," replied Tari while sipping her coffee.

Bara finally relented and told her everything from beginning to end. Dari was shocked to hear, he did not think Bara could do such a thing.

"Bara.., according to mbak, what he practiced was correct, if mbak was in that position then mbak would also do the same thing. But.., you're also not wrong, because loving is a human thing."

"Sir..., has Bara ever been against your wishes?" Dance only tablewab with her head. "Bara has only one wish, and that's what mom wants to take away."

Dance as if you can feel the pain that you experience when you look at Bara's frustrated face.

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