My army my Hero

Episode 2

"Do you know son?" Aunt Diana's question I only answered with a nod.

"Say aunt, there's nothing to cover up" I put on a serious face, hoping Aunt Diana was no longer convoluted.

"Ma'af son, it's not that Aunt won't answer your questions, but you don't feel like you have the right to explain everything"

"Isn't my mother's best friend aunty, then why can't" I asked in surprise.

"Intan, you go in the kitchen make a drink for Brother Arsyad, there's some cake on the table, you can bring it all"

"Yes mah"

Intan entered his mother's command, I saw at a glance Intan's view that hinted 'our conversation is not finished' and I responded with a smile.

"How's Auntie?"

My face turned serious, since childhood I always miss a father in every step of my life journey, but all that must be held back bitterly because mother always said father was gone.

"Aunty is your mother's best friend, but for this one story, aunt never fully knew what happened"

"Then where should I look for Auntie, mother let alone to tell the story, when I called the name of the father, mother immediately turned her face and left me just like that. I endured the pain of the heart, why did everyone cover up my father's whereabouts, I know, from my mother's note, it was my fault, he just left us, but I still need a complete explanation"

"If your mother doesn't want to tell you a story, then only one can explain it all"

"Who's aunt?"

"Your father"

"Dad?"

"Dad, aunty always listens to what is written in your mother's notebook without knowing from your father's side of the story, aunty does not know, because your father is not a random person, because your father is not a random person, not everyone knows his true identity let alone his life story, or what really happened to him, everything is still pseudo, still closed, that's why your mother wrote the MYSTERIOUS MAN on the cover of her notebook"

Aunty Diana's words paused, before resuming.

Iyah, I understand what Aunt Diana meant, the mother also wrote in her notebook, that my father is the descendant of the founder of Modern Singapore State, and the mother, the mother, I do not even believe that the mother is one of the descendants of the Nusantara kingdom.

"Only you son, only you can restore your mother's happiness"

"With what aunt?"

"Just one, go see your father in White Lion Country, you'll get what you want"

"But..."

"Your mother won't allow it?"

"True aunt"

Tente Diana was my best friend. He knows my mother's character.

"But remember these words, son, you are a TNI soldier now, how can you always protect the peace of this country if you can't keep the peace in your family, don't sacrifice yourself for the happiness of this country before you sacrifice yourself for the happiness of your mother, mother is everything, everything even from this country"

The words that came out of Aunt Diana's mouth, suddenly able to make my heart beat faster, my body vibrated violently, Aunt Diana was right, she said, why do I get the title of a TNI whose purpose is to maintain the peace of this unitary state, if I cannot keep my own family peace. And mother, I promise, I will give back what my mother should have, a happiness.

"Thank you aunt, aunty does deserve to be a lecturer, aunty can motivate anyone in need, and Arsyad is proud, aunty is the best friend of mother"

"By the way, go, this is what aunty has been waiting for, your mother deserves to be happy before she ends, everyone deserves to know that your mother can be happy"

Aunty Diana's tears began to drip, I was also moved by this talk, my holiday was still one month away, I would not waste this opportunity, my mother deserved clarity, she said, deserve to have happiness.

This is what I have to do before reaping my duties as a state soldier, I have to be a soldier for my own family.

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