Miss Kissable & Mr. Strawberry

Mama And Om Vino

Just as this happy family finished their breakfast, suddenly the house bell rang. The two little girls seemed to be engrossed in their new toy bought by the brother yesterday, they hear the bell ringing but they are not interested or concerned because the new toy they unseal is more interesting. Seeing the preoccupation of her twins, Vanessa who was busy washing dishes, did not have the heart to tell them to move to open the door for guests who squeeze the bell. Vanessa cleaned her hands, but then the son attacked.

"Let me be Ma" he said as he moved from the dinner table.

"Thank you son." said the mother smiling.

A few minutes later, Alex returned to the kitchen to call her mother. Alex didn't say anything until he stood next to his mother who was still washing dishes.

"Ma." That's all Alex said, he didn't continue his words while looking fixedly at the mother.

Vanessa looks over, "Who's Al?"

"Emm. he said his personal assistant Om Vino." Alex replied rather.

Vanessa's activities stopped. His face changed instantly, his heart rustled to hear the name of the man he loved was called. Whether what makes Vino's personal assistant come to see him, Vanessa's feelings start to get bad.

"What did he say Al?"

Alex shook his head, "She said something important, she just wanted to talk to my mom."

"Temenin mama ya!" Pinta Vanessa with an anxious tone.

Alex smiled warmly, comforting the mother. "Yes. Relax with ma!" he said while putting his hands on his mother's shoulders.

Vanessa, Alex, and his guest, Vino's personal assistant, were sitting in the living room. Once there was awkwardness and a little tension between them, the atmosphere was started by a man named Yadi who was Vino's personal assistant, the husband who had left Vanessa for no apparent reason. Vanessa doesn't seem to want to start a conversation, Alex doesn't feel entitled to talk first. So it was Yadi who opened the voice.

"I came here to please Mr. Vino's mandate, ma'am."

"Faith?" vanessa's birthday doesn't understand.

Yadi handed over an envelope she had been holding to Vanessa. Vanessa accepted it with a strange feeling.

"What's this?" ask Vanessa.

"Please see" she replied briefly.

Vanessa glanced at Alex, and Alex, who understood her mother's anxiety, turned to sit next to Vanessa, and accompanied her mother to open the envelope. It. a letter?

Vanessa opens the letter feeling more and more unsettled, making Alex who realizes the change of the mother stop her. "Take comfort in your feelings first, just look at the contents of the letter."

Vanessa nodded, sighed deeply then smiled faintly. He continued to open the letter.

..."***For dear Vanessa:...

Sorry Nes, can I still call you baby?

How are you doing? I miss you and the kids. So rinduu.

Unfortunately, things made me unable to meet you. But I'm not sorry, because I'm sure you can be happy without me by your side.

This is hard for me, Nes, I'm alone. Only my longing for you and the children will accompany me for the rest of my life.

Sorry, honey, I'm not being honest with you. I'm sick now, three years ago, the doctor said I had stage 3 brain cancer. I hid it from you because I didn't want you to be sad and worry about me. I fight my illness with passion, you and the children are my reinforcement. But after I got the bad news that the disease was running until stage 4, I started to get scared.

At first I was afraid of losing you, but then I realized you're the one who's gonna lose me. I will leave you because of my illness, I will make you cry for my passing, I will make the happiness of our family destroyed. And I can't imagine the sadness on the faces of the people I love. I can't accept the fact that it will happen.

Therefore, I take this path Nes. I took the hard road of leaving you and the children before I actually left this world. So that you do not weep for my death, so that you may remain happy even without my presence. You may be angry and disappointed with me, because I was stupid and chose to be considered a coward who is not responsible. Children may also hate their papa who can leave him as if he does not have affection. But Nes, your temporary sadness and disappointment is better for me than having to accept the fact that I am the reason for the loss of happiness in your life.

So, even though I'm alone in my life, I'm still calm hearing you guys are happy. Yadi my loyal assistant, the one who accompanied me and took care of me, she always told me how you were doing all this time.

I was devastated to hear your condition after my departure, but now I'm happy Nes. I'm really happy for you when I hear your relationship and Alex are getting better. And I was relieved to hear Sita and Fita always cheer with the people around them who always love them. Nothing else makes it hard for me to leave this world, no more burden I bear after ensuring your happiness before I close my eyes forever.

Know that Nes, when you have received this letter and read it, means that I have departed from this world. Please forgive all my mistakes, baby! I leave our children, let them not weep with my absence to complete their happiness!

Know Nes, I still love you. I love you so much and always love you. Always happy with the kids, sorry I can't keep my promises.

^^^TTD ^^^

^^^Alvino Setiawan**" ^^

Vanessa drowned, her trembling hand holding a letter and then slammed to her side. His tears were unstoppable, too, he could not hold himself back even though he did not want to look pitiful in front of Alex and Vino's assistant. Alex who read the letter with his mother was carried away by feeling that he had to take a deep breath and defend it heavily to strengthen the mother. Alex hugged his mother who was crying bitterly.

"The letter was made by Mr. Vino 3 months ago" Yadi said.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Vino, who asked me to give the letter to Ms. Vanessa today. Had Mr. Vino not asked me to promise not to ngabarin Bu Vanessa at all. I would have been by Bu bhkabarin Bu Vanessa about the situation of Mr. Vino from long ago. But. I just run the mandate." regretted Yadi.

"You should think I'm the same as the kids! Mas Vino certainly will not be angry if you tell me about his situation, he will be happy if he can meet me with his children. But.. You're telling him to be alone at the end of his life?!" said Vanessa faltered on the sidelines of her cries.

Yadi.

"I'm sure I have a chance to meet Mas Vino one last time. It was as if the children could hug their papa one last time. Presumably.. Mas Vino wasn't lonely at the end of his life!"

"I'm sorry, ma'am." regretted Yadi.

Alex rubbed the corner of his eye, he was eager to comfort his mother with words, but he felt the time was not right. Right now what her mother needs is embrace and support, not condolences or comfort words. Alex was afraid to say something that might make her mother's heart heavy to accept this fact. So he just gave a hug and a caress of love to his mother at this time.

Vanessa sat pensively, with a pushy look on a gravestone she had been raving on. The name of the husband he loved was printed on a white board that stuck on a new grave that was still wet. Now he is with Alex and Yadi in a TPU in Semarang. This is where her late husband's wife is. Today also after Yadi brought news of his grief, she immediately asked to be invited to the grave of her husband. Vanessa hasn't told her twins, who are now orphans, anything but to tell them the bad news.

Vanessa and Vino had been divorced two years ago, but only from the word talak that was spoken from Vino's mouth before leaving him for no apparent reason at that time. The divorce was not officially taken care of in court, because it was after Vanessa's mentality.. Vino no longer saw the trunk of his nose. Not even Vino's parents and relatives in Semarang knew where he was going. But according to Vanessa, Vino's family was more fortunate than him and his children, because they had accompanied Vino on the last day the father of two children breathed his last. Vanessa and her twins were not given the chance.

"The day after Mr. Vino's mentalak, Mr. Vanessa, we went to Singapore for Mr. Vino's treatment. Only I was with him, only I knew about his illness. I feel that I bear a heavy burden, Ma'am, by hiding that truth from all of Mr. Vino's family. But Mr. Vino asked me to promise not to tell anyone about his illness. Mr. Vino does not want to make the family sad and difficult with his condition." Yadi pulled the liquid nose that felt abundant because it tried to resist crying.

"Actually Mr. Vino's mother was willing to contact Ms. Vanessa when they just arrived at Singapore Hospital, but Mr. Vino forbade. Mr. Vino misses Mrs Vanessa a lot, but he's not ready to see Ms. Vanessa cry if Ms. Vanessa is in front of him."

Vanessa's tears continued to flow but she was no longer able to whimper or make any more sounds. He just stared at Vino's headstone while remembering the good times he had spent with his lover so far. Alex was with her mom to strengthen her.

Vanessa also feels grateful because Yadi said that her mother Vino had wanted to contact Vanessa, because it means that her mother-in-law respects herself as a meaningful woman in her son's life. Actually Vanessa's relationship with the in-laws and the other Vino family is not good enough, because the marriage of the two was not sanctioned. The reason is of course because when Vanessa and Vino were in a relationship, Vanessa was still the wife of someone else. But the love of both who are blind and deaf makes the two remain united without caring for anyone and anything. Even two years ago when Vanessa came to them after the divorce, they also blamed her for the departure of Vino that they did not know about. They also do not give affection for their twins, but Vanessa knows herself enough because indeed she married Vino first without their blessing.

Now, Vino is gone. Inevitably Vanessa has to accept this harsh reality, she has to toughen up for Sita and Fita. Vanessa actually wanted to say a lot of things to Vino, wanted to be angry, wanted to cry in his arms, wanted to do many things that he had imagined, but fate was not on his side. The man he loved had gone before him, leaving behind many memories and pearls of life for him. Vanessa would have let her go, but for now.. Vanessa needs a lot of time. Because Vino means too much to him, too deeply to be in the depths of his heart, and too sickly Vanessa lost it even though their bodies had been far apart since two years ago.

... ________________...

One week later, Yadi comes back to Vanessa's house. This time he came with lawyer Vino, and Vino's younger brother Bian. They come to give up some of Vino's inheritance which is the right of Vanessa and her two children. Lawyers tell Vanessa that Vino's family is ready to take care of Sita and Fita, they want the twins who are Vino's last relics to live with them. Bian reinforces his family's intentions by telling Vanessa directly, of course Vanessa rejected him outright.

"You want to call my kids?" vanessa said without thinking, she felt hurt by the wishes of the Vino family who want to take Sita and Fita after all this time they ignored them.

"Not Ma'am, Sita Sama Fita is my niece too, they are part of our family. They're both our responsibilities after Vino's absence, we're thinking about the children's future" Bian replied while holding back emotions.

"They're my children, I can support them myself. If you and your family are thinking about the future of my children, why are you talking about responsibility now, why do you admit my children are part of your family? Wherever all this time, instead of you never care yes, Sita same Fita does not know you. They're not going to want to go with strangers anyway." Vanessa was upset.

"Sir, I know you can support them now. But we do not know later, Sita Sama Fita will grow big and certainly need a lot of costs for their education. And it's my responsibility to charge them too. Me, mother, father, and other families will treat Sita as Fita as our children too. The two of them will not lack anything, they also have many brothers and other family members to complete their lives. Thought it was for the good of your own children."

"I'm his mother, I know what's best for my children. So far they never lack any kind of living expenses, they do not just need money for their future, they need more love. Will you love my children like your own? I'm sorry Bian, but I can't believe that you guys have wasted them all this time. Until whenever my children will remain the same as me."

Bian was heard snorting, "We are worried that Sita is the same as Fita Mbak, we also love them. Anyway if Mbak wants to find them, Mbak can find them anyway whenever Mbak wants. What matters is that their lives are better, their education will also be guaranteed."

"No way, Bian. Sita same Fita not going anywhere. They need me, and I need them. They are small, they can't be far from me. If you care about them, you can play here anytime, I won't stop. But to take them away from me. I can't love."

"But me and my father remain their guardians Ma'am, they're our responsibility."

"You guys feel that way, point it at me! But not in their misahin way from their mother." stressed Vanessa.

"I've been trying to get to know you guys, but what? Am I wrong? You become strangers to my children because you yourself do not want to open opportunities for them to enter your family. Now.. You want them to stay with you? That can't be Bian. If you want Sita same Fita nganggep you family, you own business! It's not how."

Bian began to get angry, he clenched his hands together so as not to lose control. "It's so that the court that has failed, Sita's custody with Fita falls into whose hands."

Duaarr.............

Vanessa jerks. "What the fuck?! I do not involve my children in any problems, his mind should not be contaminated with adult problems like gini. There is no court! I'm his mother, I guarantee my children!" gertak Vanessa firm.

"But they're Ma'am's daughters, they need a guardian for their future."

"They'll understand when they grow up. I'm not going to tell you about any of their childhood problems!" vanessa's voice began to tremble.

"I'll keep bringing this matter to.."

"Enough!" bian's speech came to a halt with the rush of the young man who suddenly stood up from his seat.

Alex, who had been listening, now raised his voice. He was caught off guard and angry, this man in front of him continued to suppress his mother by wanting to take Sita and Fita. Until the mother began to look afraid to worry about losing her children.

"There's no custody battle. Sita Sama Fita is not going anywhere. Regarding guardians and their living expenses, I guarantee. I can change Om Vino to take care of my mom and my sisters. No need Om same Om family bothers to engage lawyers let alone the court." Alex told Bian.

Bian, the lawyer, and Yadi cast glances at each other. They appear to be discussing in silence, while Alex notices them and Vanessa looks increasingly anxious.

"You guys don't have any more needs, please!" Alex raises his conditional hand towards the door, asking them to leave.

With little force they moved on and said goodbye to Vanessa and Alex. Alex's long breath was clearly heard in his mother's ear. Alex sat back down and calmed her.

"Mama is afraid of Al. Mama did not expect her family Mas Vino would ask for custody of Sita with Fita. Mama doesn't want to lose them, mama doesn't want them depressed and their childhood." said the raucous mama.

"No ma'am." Alex. "That's not gonna happen. I wouldn't let Sita lose their childhood."

Alex clasped his mother's hand. Alex then remembered his childhood shattered, distressed by the messy relationship between his parents. Alex lost the childhood that kids his age should have enjoyed. It is natural that even the mother should be anxious at this time, the mother would not want to repeat her big mistake by destroying Sita and Fita's childhood. Although the case is different, but the pressure they will experience if there is a custody struggle later, both will disturb the happiness of their childhood.

Alex is the one who guarantees it and makes sure it doesn't happen. The next day Alex met Vino's family in person to discuss the matter, he managed to get them to agree with his words and appreciate Vanessa. Now there is nothing more to worry about, Alex only needs to accompany the mother in her grief of losing Vino. Also make sure the mother is fine despite having lost the man she loves. About Sita and Fita, Alex now takes full responsibility for them.

... Seriate...