Mastenges

12. Follow Pongki

Pongki Susilo's family's personal doctor had just finished examining Berta's limp on the bed. Bella corrected the blankets that covered her body. Then she came out of her mom's room with the doctor.

"How's doc?" Bella asked with concern.

"Mrs Berta was just in shock. Slowly will improve, just need to rest," explained the doctor.

Bella nodded in understanding and drove the doctor to her front of the house.

"I'm sorry first mbak, I've given the lady vitamins that must be consumed regularly. Don't mind much yet."

"Good doc" said Bella.

The family doctor got into his car and left the residence of Pongki Susilo.

Bella walks into Berta's room. As he opened the door to Berta's room, Berta was soundly asleep. Bella would not bother her mother. So, he decided to go back to his room and rinse his sticky body.

An hour later, Bella came out of her room. His face looked fresh and his hair still looked wet. Bella goes to the kitchen, and makes a cup of warm tea for herself and Berta. After that, he brought two cups of tea to Berta's room.

Berta had woken up, the middle-aged woman was seen silent on the edge of the bed. His gaze was empty and tears kept flowing down both of his cheeks.

"Mom, man,"

Berta turned his head and looked at Bella, then he wiped his tears and tried to smile at the child.

"Yes," she said in a trembling voice.

"It's tea for mommy" Bella put the two cups on the nightstand, right next to Berta's bed.

Berta just nodded and returned smiling. There was a deep wound on the face of the middle-aged woman who still looked beautiful at her age who had stepped on half a century.

"Mommy wants to eat? If you want to eat, I'll tell the mbok to get her ready and bring her here,"

Berta shook his head weakly, then he bowed and came back crying as he pleased. Until now, he has not contacted Pongki and has not discussed Pongki's marriage with any other woman, other than himself.

"Mam," Bella also felt the pain that Berta felt. Tears also flowed from the corner of her eyes.

"What should you do after this? Twenty-seven years together, there is no true love. Men are not enough with one woman. No one really respects marriage. When it's hard, it needs us, but, when it's good, the taste changes" Berta said.

Bella was silent on the edge of the bed. He could only rub Berta's back, to appease the woman who had given himself so much love, ever since he was born in this world.

"Mom, is it true that all men are?" Bella asked in a hoarse voice.

Berta turned his head and gently stroked Bella's hair. Without a word, he lowered his face again.

"But why do so many people survive with one man after he has been hurt? Or... some are loyal to one partner only, even if they are betrothed, without love before?"

"Mami don't know, at first my mom always believed, if your daddy only loved my mom. Not really, all men are the same" Berta said. Then, he got out of his bed and rushed to his wardrobe.

"What did mom do?" Bella asked with a panicked face.

"Mommy's gonna leave me?" Ask Bella again.

"But mi..."

"You get ready, we go there. Don't forget, tell Paijo to drive us.

"Mi, shouldn't we just wait for daddy?"

"No, mommy wants to see what kind of woman your daddy has married" said Berta with vengeance.

"Mi. mami has to rest..."

"Bella!"

Bella was silent, she understood that her maternal emotions were out of control.

"I-i-iya mam," Bella got out of Berta's room, and rushed to her room to change clothes. Not to forget, he told the guard who served at the guard post, by phone, to call Paijo and prepare to deliver himself and Berta back to Pongki's second wife's apartment.

...

Geck! Geck! Geck!

There was a knock from the door outside the Typhoon room. Lazily, Typhoon got out of his bed and opened the door of the room.

"Jo, you're called non Bella, told to get ready to deliver non Bella," said the dark-skinned, tall-looking man, who was standing in the doorway of Typhoon's room.

"Oh, ngeh pakde," Sahut Typhoon with his Paijo style.

The man glanced into the room of Typhoon, then he nodded slowly and left Typhoon who was about to prepare to deliver Bella.

The typhoon looked at the man's back and closed the door of his room.

"It's a good thing to have a bath" muttered Typhoon as he grabbed his uniform and put it on in a hurry.

When it was over, Typhoon grabbed the keys to Bella's car and rushed out of her room. After locking his room, Typhoon immediately grabbed his work shoes on the shoe rack, right next to the outside door of his room, and wore them in a hurry. Then, he ran to the Pongki Susilo family's yard.

Long enough, Typhoon waited for Bella to get out of the house. Finally, Bella and Berta are seen walking closer to her who is waiting next to Bella's car.

"Take us to the apartment earlier," Pinta Bella as she went into the car with Berta.

Typhoon knows what Bella and Berta mean that will overtake Pongki in Pongki's second woman's apartment. The typhoon just nodded in understanding, then he got into the car and started the car.

"Paijo, you know this secret. I ask very, if possible, do not let it sound out. It's our secret" Bella said.

Typhoon nodded in understanding, without many words, he drove the sedan car to the apartment of Pongki's second wife.

Along the way, not a word was heard from the back of the car that was being driven by Typhoon. The typhoon also occasionally glanced through the rearview mirror of the car, and saw the faces moody back there.

"Well, there will be a world war. Why am I involved in such a family case anyway," he lamented in his heart.