My dear Siomay

Street court

The reporters were already swarming in front. I waited for Tio restlessly. I can't think anymore, confused as to what to do. Finally, Tio entered from the back door.

"Actually what happened between you and Mr. Zein?", Tio wanted to be sure.

"There was nothing between us, he just came here too often and his wife stalked him, then uploaded the video he recorded to the internet" I explained.

"Why did Mr. Zein know that you opened a shop here?", Tio continued to investigate.

"His office is in this corner of the store, so maybe he ate here accidentally".

"He already has a wife but why is he here so often?did you give him hope and not tell us about our relationship?", Tio looked upset.

"I didn't give him hope. I told you I already had someone", I kept convincing.

"Tell him clearly that we've been dating so he doesn't keep hoping!", Tio still looks upset.

Seeing that I smiled. It's good to be cheated on by someone.

"Why are you smiling?", Rio felt strange.

"You're jealous huh?", I'm in a seductive tone.

"Let's learn that I'm jealous, you're my boyfriend!", Tio pouted.

"Is this how it feels?", I asked myself with a smile.

"Why are you talking to yourself, smiling again?", Tio still looked annoyed.

"Already, now all we have to think about is the reporters outside, what do we have to do so that they can get out of here and I can sell?",I pointed Tio's body at the reporters.

"We leave them alone, and then we get bored" Tio argues.

"Keep I can't open dong's shop?".

"How about we go to the amusement park?", Tio with passion.

"Keep you want to skip work?".

"It's okay once in a while, right?the boss is me".

"You've been truant a lot, take responsibility for your work, even if you're the boss, but you also have an obligation!", I pushed Tio out of the tavern.

"So you kicked me out!", Rio protested.

"Don't drive away but support you to be a good boss!".

Tio finally left and I went back alone. The reporters kept knocking on the shop door, but I didn't care. When should I be like this?.

A week had passed, but the reporters were never desperate. Until I had to stay here for a week because Bibi's house was also full of reporters. I saw the television, the news about me becoming more and more so. They started looking for my identity, the news that I was an inmate as well as Sofia's best friend when High School had spread to the public. Sofia is also increasingly famous for being invited to various television stations. I cannot sell. There was no income this week. If this continues, my business can go bankrupt because no one will want to buy my siomay. As nice as any siomay that I make, will not make people want to buy if in their minds I am an actor who is also a friend of the legitimate wife and is a former prisoner. My image shattered instantly in front of everyone. I will be hated by all mothers in Indonesia, because usually they do not like actors.

My stomach is ringing. I ventured to get out of the tavern when it looked lonely. I don't forget to wear a mask so people don't recognize me. I immediately went to the food stall to buy food. At the food stall, my mask opened because I felt stuffy.

"Mom, it's a pack, what's it!", I'll order some food soon. The mother of the owner of the food stall was watching television. When he saw my face, he kept watching as if trying to remember someone.

"You're the actor on the television, right?how could you snatch your best friend's husband, let alone you are an ex-con who killed your dark boyfriend's younger brother!leaving you from here I would not have my food eaten by someone like you!", the mother's voice sounded so loud that it invited other mothers to come to the place.

"What's up, Bu?why, in the morning already angry?", a mother arrived and greeted the owner of the food stall.

"This is ma'am, this man is the actor who is now being talked about by people, who is the siomayer!", the mother pointed at me.

"What's?basic shameless yes, already wear a veil but shy shy, why not be afraid to be punished ya, aware neng!realized!", the new mother came and scolded me.

"Mother mother, try to look here, there are actors who on tv you know, who are booming because they snatch her best friend's husband", they call other mothers. Over time I became a spectacle of people, such as watching a monkey mask, they also swarmed me, but the difference was no money, which there was a blasphemy against the hatred of mothers because of the disappointment they felt. I tried wearing a mask and ran away from the place, but a mother grabbed and threw away my mask so I could not cover my face.

"Huuuuuu, then find a husband in the right way, don't take someone's husband!".

"It feels like I just want to grab her veil, let's be ashamed!".

"If he's my son, I'll drive him far away, to think!".

And hundreds of blasphemies from mother's mother continued, making me want to cry. They spoke without knowing what was really going on.

"Mother mother, I am innocent and did not take people's husbands!", I tried to explain in the middle of the siege of caci maki

who continue to corner me.

"Have known wrong, just keep defending yourself, repent dong!".

"Then dong is the same veil, the time does not reflect a good person".

Once I defended myself, a thousand times they cornered me. What am I supposed to do?Oh God help me!Tio come and take me from this place immediately. I can only hope while crying.one person against many people, really not a balanced resistance. Suddenly a man wearing a head covering, glasses and a mask and a black sweater, entered the crowd, he then pulled me and immediately took me out of the crowd.

"Hey, who are you?it's good to haphazardly take people without permission!", a fat mother challenged the man.

"This woman is innocent, and the mother of all here does not know the true story, do not accuse me!", the man stood up for me. What is he Tio, but his voice is not so clear due to wearing a mask.

"Don't this be the man, mother lest they escape, we take them for wine to let them be ashamed and deterred!", the fat mother provokes people.

The man immediately pulled my hand and took me away from the place. The power of my mother is amazing, we continue to be forced to run until it feels sore legs. Actually they are innocent, the wrong one is I who just keep quiet without explanation and defense. If I talk maybe that guy's gonna know what the real story is. This time I can't just shut up and have to tell you what really happened.

The man got me into the car and we were finally able to escape. I feel relieved to be free from this incident. I feel better prison compared to the crowd of mother mothers with their myriad of condemnations. If I continue to be there it seems like I can go crazy because of all their words. It is a boneless tongue, but it is sharper than a sword if it makes a painful word, cutting the heart without bleeding.