My Father is Not a Criminal

The Part 50

The rice stall business that is cultivated by Bu Bakir is increasingly crowded. People began to forget the status of Bu Bakir as the widow of an inmate who died while serving his sentence. Nabila's grandparents are old, not enough to help in the shop. So Nabila will start helping from school until the stall closes at eight p.m.

"Bil, are you looking for someone who can help you in the shop, huh? Your grandparents, if you have to help me, they're old."

"Is it necessary, Mom? Find people need payment, too."

"Yes too, Bill. How then?"

"There are people who can help Mom. If you're young, you're still strong, not like Grandpa and Grandma are old."

"Is your learning not interrupted, if you help me continue? Don't let your values go down, Bil!"

"Please calm down, Mom! Nabila can still set the time, to learn and help Mom really."

"Tell?"

"Yes, Mom, really."

"Certainly? What time for a date?"

"Who's dating, Mom? Nabila doesn't have a boyfriend."

"That's it, Rio boy?"

Nabila sighed. Surely Mother thought she was back with Rio again, because Rio returned to play at home several times. Nabila also still felt, that Rio still harbored feelings for her. But given the talk circulating in the school about her relationship with Rio, Nabila becomes reluctant.

"We're no longer in a relationship, ma'am, just friends. Nabila quite know yourself, who is Nabila and who is Kak Rio."

Mom also breathed. The woman understood the heartache her daughter had experienced at school, because Nabila's friends liked to gossip, Nabila just used Rio.

"In that case, forbid him from coming here too often! It's nothing, I'm just scared, it happened again."

"It's not forbidden, ma'am. Emang Kak Rio is a wayward, he is used to his wishes being obeyed. And he doesn't like being banned either."

"Honey yes, Bil, Rio's parents like that, even though his son is very good."

"Fruit doesn't always fall near the tree, ma'am. If the fall into the river will become the current, far fall."

"It could be you, Bill. But said Dessy, Rio's mom wants to hear you?"

"That's because of Aunt Anna, Mom. Aunt Anna ngnanya Nabila is her niece, so her mother Kak Rio thought, Nabila ex-boyfriend of her son, different from Nabila's niece Aunt Anna."

"Can it be, huh?"

"Yes can dong, Mom. Kak Rio's mother must have thought, there's no way Aunt Anna has a poor ponakan, right from a tajir family who has many business ventures."

"You said so, Bil. But I'm worried about this."

"What worries, Mom?"

"Worried you haven't moved on from Rio, afraid you're disappointed, Ndhuk."

Bu Bakir became sad, considering that Nabila, from a very simple family, had to accept insults from mama Rio.

"Please calm down, Mom! Nabila has moved on. In the past, if you felt that you were not really in love with Kak Rio, just sympathy and unpleasant, when he shot. Nabila is self-conscious, if our social status is indeed much different, so I like pungguk miss the moon, if Nabila hopes to last the same Kak Rio."

Bu Bakir seemed to sigh, then hugged the girl. The trials of life they have been through together, make her once very spoiled little girl, turn into a strong and reliable girl.

"Said Dessy, Kak Rio's mother wants to invite us to dinner, Mom."

"Huh? Then what, Bil?" Bu Bakir took off his embrace, and observed Nabila's face.

"What reason?"

"There are events in the big family, so automatically can not meet the invitation of Mama Kak Rio. If Nabila is still ponakan, it includes a large family, Mom."

"Well, anyways there's just Dessy's mom. How exactly like his son, like a prank."

"If the prank goes down the gapapa, Mom, still mending, weigh the bad nature."

"Yes, Bill, you said. So, this is really Mommy doesn't need to add people to help at the stall?"

"Yes, Mom, there's no need."

The mother and child smiled, they had to be smart to scavenge the fortune, because there was no longer Pak Bakir who became the backbone of the family.

At Rio's house, Rio's mama still grumbles, as Dessy's mama refuses her invitation to have dinner together. Papa Rio who could not bear to hear his wife's scolding, decided to go into the study, and locked the door from the inside.

Rio who did not want to be the target of venting the Mama chose to escape into his room, but the Mama pulled his hand.

"Where are you? Let's sit here, Mama said!"

"Annu ... Rio wants to do the job, Ma. Tomorrow it's collected."

"Not to make it up, Rio! Tomorrow is Sunday, where there's a kumpulin assignment. Anyway here, listen to Mama talk!"

Rio snorted angrily, if Kanjeng Mama had told him like that, the address would have been a continuous lecture.

"What the hell is it, Ma?" Rio threw his butt onto the sofa next to Mama sitting down.

"Would you, if Mama was a match with Aunt Anna's niece? Let you move on from that inmate!"

"What the hell, Ma? How to play all match-making, is this no longer the era of Siti Nurbaya," Rio complained.

"Yes gapapa, that's good Aunt Anna, beautiful, polite again. Different from the prisoner's child, it's black, curly, dirty again. So how can you love to die with him, anyway? You must have been saved with that prisoner, Rio."

"Mama-Mama, modern era gini kok still believe the same that. Mama said, Nabila is poor, where is the money to pay the shaman pellets?"

"Well people like them, they will use all means to achieve their goals. Including borrowing money to loan sharks to pay shaman pellet."

Rio chuckled at the allegations of his mother who was considered very ridiculous.

"Oh, the more unclear this Mama is. Emang, what kind of Aunt Anna would you like to be betrothed to Rio?"

"The beautiful, white, polite, pinter and tajir, Rio. Mama heard that her father was dead, her mother continued to have a restaurant business. Surely you won't be lazy, if you want Mama to match with him."

"But Rio's never met the guy, Ma. I'll see Rio think."

"You've met him before, and Mama sees you like him too."

"Well, which one is it, Ma?"

"That, who was invited here yesterday with Aunt Anna, when you saw you were sick."

"Well, if that one is, Rio's very willing, Ma" said Rio who was immediately cheerful.

"Udah Mama guessed, you would have."

Aunt Hesti smiled, while her son Rio just grinned wide.