Past Errors

Chapter 32. The Heart of a Child

"Tell me again if Mami, Oma, Opa and Uncle won't do anything to them" Gerald said. While staring at Mami, Oma and Opa and his Uncle.

"Yes, we promise" they said, raising their hands.

then Gerald fell silent his eyes straight ahead, not feeling his tears dripping, remembering the incident where his schoolmates insulted him by saying illegitimate children and mommynya cheap women.

"Am I wrong to say that I don't have Papi?" gerald asked, looking at his mother.

Kanaya who heard her son's question stared in disbelief at his son's handsome face.

"At that time my countrymen asked me about my Papi, I answered that I did not have Papi, and some of my friends heard our conversation, and they told me, that I was an illegitimate child and an illegitimate child meant that her mother was also a cheap woman" Gerald said.

Kanaya who heard the words of her son Sontak was shocked and then hugged her son tightly, her eyes were teary.

"I'm very angry mam, but I can't say anything because in reality I don't have Papi, so they stay away from me and don't want to be friends with me, only my countrymen would talk to me" said Gerald.

"Tell Mami is it your friend Budi who spread the story?" ask Kanaya.

"Yes mam, that's why at school, I hit him because I couldn't stand his taunts anymore. Especially her mockery of mami, by saying that mami is a cheap woman, I can't stand to hear the words mam," Gerald said as he sobbed.

"My heart hurts to hear it, Mam" Gerald said again.

Daddy Ded and Mommy Lingga and Richard who heard Gerald's words enraged them, their hands clenched in anger, their faces reddened, their eyes giddy, in their hearts had a determination.

"Why don't you ever tell mom about all your friends' treatment?" ask Kanaya.

"I'm afraid my mom is going bankrupt" Gerald said, staring at his mom and saying again.

"Like my friend Clark,"

"Who's Clark?" ask Daddy Ded.

"My classmate in France was Opa, and he pushed me to the ground, and I was hit in the head by a rock, and I was put in Jewer by Clark's mother" Gerald said.

"Oh he deserves it" said Daddy Ded.

"Therefore the incident at school I did not say to my mother, because if I said it then mami, Opa and Uncle would make their parents have no job, because, then my friends pity they won't go to school anymore because their parents don't have jobs anymore" Gerald said.

"Jeez what's your son's heart made of Nay?" said Mommy Lingga.

"He who is treated arbitrarily by his theme but he is also the one who defends his friend" said Mommy Lingga as she looked at her grandson with a look of admiration.

"Then what about the woman who met you when you came home from school?" ask Kanaya.

"He came to see me, just hugged me, and said I was handsome like his son" Gerald said.

"And the second time he said he was my Oma too, and he also said I was very similar to his son as a child" Gerald said.

"Then what else did he say?" ask Kanaya.

"No mam, when she met me the third time she just said to let her hug me, then she cried and left" Gerald said.

"Can I ask you a question?" ask Gerald.

"Am I wrong if I hate that guy?" ask Gerald.

Hearing the question his son Kanaya looked at Gerald.

"Before you answer your question, tell your mom, how can you steal our conversation?" ask Kanaya.

"I'm sorry mom, I overheard the talk of mommy, Opa and Oma, aunty Cintya and Uncle Richard, too,I just want to know why my mom is always sad and always crying when I fall asleep and stare at me" Gerald said, staring at his mom.

"I wasn't sleeping, sorry mam, I just wanted to know what my mom was crying about, I once asked aunty Cintya and aunty Cintya only answered someday when I was an adult I would know," said Gerald again, lowering his face, not daring to look at his mother's face.

"And ever since I found out I hated her so much, mam" said Gerald again, his face still lowered.

Hearing all the conversations of Kanaya and Gerald makes Daddy Ded, Mommy Lingga and Richard speechless in deep sadness, the child who has just turned 10 years old must be a victim of the past of both parents, a past that raises grudges in the heart of his mother and incurs the hatred of a child.

"Humans have shortcomings and advantages, no human being is perfect, sometimes humans make a mistake because of the human ego itself, you have the right to hate anyone, but it's best not to hate that person but hate what he's doing" Kanaya told Gerald.

"Sometimes humans have to learn a lesson first in order to realize their mistake. And there are also people who realize their mistakes because they realize that they have made mistakes. Basically all human beings are born good but for some reason they assume their wrong actions are right" Kanaya said again, staring at Gerald's face.

Hearing her mother's explanation, Gerald pensively thought of her mother's words and said.

"I don't hate that guy, but I hate what he did" Gerald said.

"And it's a pity that I'm the boy" Gerald said.

"Listen to my mom, don't think about it anymore, you're not the time to think about it all, if you're an adult you'll understand everything" Kanaya said.

"Now it's better we have lunch, aren't you hungry?" kanaya asked as she looked at the watch on her wrist that had shown at one o'clock in the afternoon.

"Your mother is right" said Mommy Lingga.

"Let's eat" he said again, then they got up from the sofa he sat on and walked to the dining room.

Meanwhile, Edward who had arrived at Soekarno Hatta International Airport.

"Are we not calling Mr and Mrs Kusuma to send someone to pick up sir?" ask Assistant Edward.

"No need to take a taxi home, you find a taxi I wait here" said Edward.

"Okay sir" said Edward's assistant, Luke, who then passed by Edward and looked for a taxi.

"After 6 months of leaving Jakarta I finally came back again" Edward said in his heart.

"Hopefully everything goes according to plan" Edward said again in his heart.

Soon a taxi came and Edward entered the taxi while his assistant went out and took Edward's suitcase and his suitcase and put it in the trunk of a taxi assisted by the taxi driver. after he finished putting the suitcase into the trunk of the taxi, his assistant entered the taxi, then the taxi drove to Edward's house.