My Soul in Grandpa's Hands

Return of Maurin

Maurin and Lastri were happy to take a baby out of Husein Sastranegara airport. The baby boy who has a sharp nose, looks slumbering and comfortable in his grandmother's arms. They did not tell the baby's grandfather, as they did intend to give a surprise. After the car they ordered through the online application picked up, immediately asked to drive them home.

"Tok a lonely house ya ma." asked Maurin to Lastri.

"Maybe your dad hasn't come home yet, let's just pull the bell in. May aunt be inside." said Lastri.

"Sir, please put his things on the chair ya."

"Well Mom." said Driver who then lowered their luggage.

Not long after, the door opened from the inside.

"Mrs, Miss. Auntie's cleaning up in the kitchen. So the door is Aunt lock, oh God this is the baby who is the Madam." looks Aunt Siti who has long been an ART in this family, looks confused to see the arrival of the Madam and their Miss.

"Have, you just pick up the stuff first. We want to go in first, for Maurin's room is clean or dirty Bi." asked Lastri who went straight into the house.

"Clean Mistress, because you tell me to clean it every day. Coincidentally this morning bed linen and new equipment aunty change."

"Okay.., Maurin we put Axel to bed in the room. Later if your papa has come, later in the afternoon we will go to the house of the Cokro family." said Lastri.

"Yes ma, Bibi will make Maurin hot sweet tea ya Bi" said Maurin as he stepped towards his room.

"Non Good."

Lastri went into her husband's room, smiling as nothing had changed from before she left for Singapore. During his time in Singapore, Lastri never once returned home. But her husband visits them every Saturday in Singapore. Then every Monday morning, we will return to Indonesia. He sat on the bed, then took his cell phone.

"The number you're calling is out of reach." Lastri frowned, for trying to make a call to his friend Rengganis, getting such an answer.

He tried again, and got the same answer. Then he contacted another Arisan friend, who knew he had news of the Rengganis.

"Hai Jeng Lastri, eight months old no news. Just now contact me Jeng." Rina's words came from the other end of the phone.

"Yes Jeng, yesterday my son and I were living in Singapore. It just arrived in Bandung again." said Lastri.

"How can Jeng help me, knowing that I'm in Singapore I stopped by Jeng" said Rina.

"Yes Jeng, this is I want to talk about Jeng Rengganis. I've been trying to contact him since, why is there an answer beyond his reach."

"Oh, yes, Jeng Lastri. Jeng Rengganis has been with us for one month. He's not joining us anymore, and the number's off."

"Nobody of our friends has his cell phone number right now."

"Sorry Jeng doesn't exist. Because of the last news, I heard that Jeng Rengganis has officially obtained a divorce certificate from her husband. He now lives outside the city of Jeng" said Rina who surprised Lastri.

"Yes, Jeng, I won't try to find Jeng Rengganis's phone number. Thanks to Jeng for the information. Good day." without waiting for his friend to answer, Lastri immediately closed his call.

He immediately sat on the bed, he was confused, how to tell the news of his grandson's birth to his papa's family. He finally went out of the room to tell his daughter.

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"Pa, have you heard from the Jeng Rengganis family? Mama tried to call her phone number, but she seemed to have changed her phone number." Lastri asked Rengganis to her husband.

They were both talking in the room. Her husband smiled in response to his wife's question.

"Had ma, if indeed without Miss Rengganis, mama and Maurin could not demand recognition from the family of Mr. Cokro, yes already. Point. There is no need for us to demand anything" he continued.

"But pa, papa has no pity for the status of our son Maurin pa. She has children, but no husband. Mama is not sincere pa, that status is owned by my daughter."

"Lha keep what we can. Moreover, the incident of Maurin's pregnancy, is also not the only one on the male side. The woman who can't take care of herself."

"Why the hell, papa's attitude was like this. Maurin's our daughter pa, we have to protect her pride in society."

"If you are ashamed of your daughter, your mother and Maurin have moved abroad. Mama wants in which country, papa's gonna take care of the immigration office."

"Why have you never supported us before" cried Lastri.

Papa Maurin was just speechless to see his wife had started to rise. Then he came out of the room, lazily responding to the anger of his wife.

In the living room he saw his daughter holding a crying Axel. He stepped over to Maurin, then asked his granddaughter for him to carry.

"Here let papa who is carrying Maurin, you rest first."

"Yes pa, don't know why you're crying all of a sudden."

Maurin gives Axel to his papa, then he sits watching the way papa holds Axel.

"Your mother is sleeping, pa, how not to leave the room" asked Maurin.

But his papa did not answer, he patted Axel, and not long after his son was silent. Then his papa sat on Axel's seat. Seeing Axel silent and the henchmen with his papa, Maurin thought to himself.

"What Axel kangen same papa ya." inner Maurin.

Then Maurin allowed his papa to search for Lastri, and he walked to his papa's room. As soon as he pushed the door, he saw his mother making a call.

"Again calling who's ma." she asked.

Seeing his daughter's arrival, Lastri stopped the call.

"Mama again looking for information on the phone number of Aunt Rengganis. Turns out he changed his cell phone number, and decided to have a friendship with his other mama's friends."

"And we stay come to the house of the family Cokrodirjan ma, later there we will also meet Auntie "

"Tante's been divorced from Om Atmaja from last month, that's news you got from friends Arisan. So our move to sue Devan, to have him admit Axel as his son is a bit hampered."

Hearing his mother's words, Maurin looked limp.

"Kok so this ma, then as soon as possible we have to get to where Grandpa Cokro ma is."

"Yes, tomorrow morning we'll both be there. Mama's sure that your papa won't take us. Later mama asked the Ujang to take us there."

"Yes ma" said Maurin as he hugged his mother tightly.

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