Pamite

34. Losing a Child

"This address is your father's new home address. She just got married to another woman prettier than your mother, better and less evil than your mother."

"Mother is not evil, grandma is evil as mother. Grandma hurt mom" cried Alif.

Alif's shout made some people who passed around the road turn their attention towards the angkot.

"Your mother hurt me. He's been rude to me, like you! Shouting when talking to an older person. This must be the result of your mother's upbringing. I'll take you to this address. Ask your father to eat there."

Shamed for being noticed by many people, Anang's mother decided to go up to the angkot. He himself will throw away the little boy.

Yes, Anang's mother doesn't like anyone related to Ayu being nearby. The blind hatred made Anang's mother darken her eyes and heart. Already the woman had not liked Ayu for a long time, because according to her the origin of Ayu is unclear.

After about half an hour of travel, Anang's mother took her granddaughter down in a small alley. With legs slightly limp because it has not healed properly from the pain, Anang's mother took Alif to walk into the alley. Alif just followed in his grandmother's footsteps with a feeling of fear and anxiety.

"Grandma, where's dad's house? Is it far away?" tanyanya ventured.

"No, we're going through this plantation of people here. Well, we're through the garden we're at dad's."

"Why didn't my grandmother take me to my mother's house?"

"I hate your mother. He has made my life suffer. Because he was a neighbor so my enemy and finally I was sick. You don't have to ask too much. And one more thing, don't call me grandma! I'm not your grandmother!"

Alif was silent for a moment, unfortunately, the little boy had to hear a rude speech and he should not have heard it.

After a long walk, they finally arrived in the middle of the plantation.

"Lif, my wallet fell like that. You wait here first let me find."

"Come, grandma. I'm scared here alone."

"Oh, no! The most fall is also deket. Sit here quietly! Don't go anywhere, I'll have a hard time hearing it."

"That's why I'm coming, Grandma," Alif once again.

"Don't! Just rest here first. Your father's house is also still far away, later if you soybeans me who was angry with your father. You want me to be angry?"

Alif shook his head slowly. The little boy obeyed his grandmother's orders. He sat under a banana tree that lined up in large numbers there.

Meanwhile, Anang's mother tried to walk quickly despite having to endure the pain in her legs and body that was getting tired.

"Your train, Ayu. It's good to have my son take care of your son. And now feel the retribution from me for being so presumptuous." Anang's mother grumbled while displaying her sly smile.

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"Aliff! Lif, where are you? Dad's coming home, I'm bringing fried chicken!" yelled Anang around the whole house.

Already since Anang looking for the child but never met. He had looked for him to the neighbors around his house but there was no nose there. The friends who played with him were nowhere to be seen either.

Finally the man went to his mother's house, maybe his son was playing there. Even though he knew it couldn't happen, there was no other choice.

On the way, Anang passed by his mother who looked tired of walking.

"Just walk around, let's lemes his leg."

"See Alif no, ma'am?"

"No. Is he not home? The child's pastime hobby, just like his mother before leaving here."

"No need to talk about it, Mom. Don't hate people too much! Later fear of the universe reversing the situation continues mother needs him, and only she can help mother. I say this because I love my mother. I don't want you to be a sinner, Mom. Ayu has given birth to my children, mother's flesh and blood too."

"Mom doesn't care! For mom, Ayu is still a woman who does not know herself, since you know her you become brave as parents. So like to fight," murmured Anang's mother and passed from there.

Anang only let out a long sigh, it was very difficult to open his mother's heart that was already as hard as that stone. He continued walking down the street, maybe he found his son who was out of nowhere.

"Where are you going, Nang?" ask a neighbor who was with him.

"Find Alif, did you see her?"

"So I saw your mother ride in an angkot. Not yet back like, do not know where it was taken."

"What?" anang asked in surprise.

The man immediately turned his body and walked quickly towards his mother's house. He could no longer think anything. Even just swallowing it feels difficult.

"Mother!" yelled Anang entered the courtyard of his mother's house.

"What's wrong?" ask Anang's mother with her comfort.

"What's wrong? Where'd you take Alif?" Anang asked in a tone that tried to hold back the anger.

"Yet not."

"WHERE'D YOU TAKE ALIF?" Anang asked in anger. He screamed as hard as he could on his mother's face. This was the first time he had dared to speak in such a high-pitched manner with his mother.

"Mom take her away. I threw him away from here!" Anang's mother replied loudly and firmly. Yeah, no fear from the look on his face.

Anang's tongue felt stiff, his throat felt choked, no words came out of his mouth. His body suddenly went weak without power.

"Gosh, mom. Mom actually has no feelings, right? Hurry up and tell me, where did you take Alif? Alif was a kid, he didn't know anything, ma'am. If mom hates her mother, Alif don't take her. Tell me where is Alif or mom going to jail? I know Ayu is a brave and decisive woman. I saw what he did when I hurt him. Why do you still dare to act, ma'am?" said Anang sitting on the floor in frustration.

Hearing the name of the police there was a change in the look on the face of Anang's mother. There was a trace of fear on the face that was no longer young.

"Where'd you take Alif?" ask Anang who has not known how many times. "Quick tell me before Alif goes far away from there, ma'am!" pinta Alif melas's.

"Mom brought her here." The old woman handed him a piece of paper that read the address where she left Alif. "On that road was a small alley leading to the plantation. The garden is very large, ta...."

Not yet after Anang's mother finished her speech, her son had already cut her off quickly, "mother is indeed outrageous! Don't expect anything more from me, after this you won't see your firstborn. Don't expect me to come here again. I've lost one mother's child!" he said as he threw the paper he had received in any direction and passed away from his mother's house.

The mother was, of course, surprised by the words of her eldest son. But in his heart he won himself by positivity.

"Anang is not serious, he said so surely because it is still controlled by anger. Anang had no one but me, only me by his side. Even Winda left her out of nowhere. Yes, Anang is only angry with me, not leaving me," Anang's mother muttered with a frantic look that could not be hidden.