
Anita fell silent and she looked at Rima's mother in disbelief.
"Bude, tell me what happened to mom and dad first. Why can you just leave mom?" anita asked impatiently with the silence of Rima's mother.
"Relax Anita, Bude will tell you the story of your mother and father. Why until your father left without news and did not come back again" said Rima's mother comforted Anita.
"Bude, I can't wait to know. During this time too much silence, in fact, the mother kept a lot of secrets. I don't mind my own mother not telling me about my father. But now I want to know a lot about dad, bude." said Anita.
Mother Rima let out a long sigh, she looked at Anita with pity. He felt sorry for his nephew, since childhood did not know his father. It is stubbornness makes his son did not get the affection of a father, but so Sugara also did not deserve in the defense at that time.
"Yet your father went wandering, he wandered there in Kalimantan since you were two years old to find a decent life for his wife and son, he said, after a year working as a coal miner there. He married secretly to Rasti. For two years your mother didn't know your father was married there. So during those two years your father hid his second wife, your father came back to the village to see your mother only once every four months. Unbeknownst to your father, his second wife also came to your village and met your mother. He said he was Sugara's wife. Of course, Yuni, your mother couldn't believe it but as soon as Rasti gave her wedding photo to Sugara, your mother was shocked and she took you away without your father's permission when he was visiting your grandmother's house. Until your father came home, he was shocked to find a letter from Yuni leaving your father's house, Yuni also told me that he had met with Rasti Sugara's second wife. And since then Yuni and Sugara separated without a divorce agreement.
When seven years of living with Rasti, Sugara returns to the village and has divorced Rasti. But Rasti keeps looking for Sugara, Sugara himself does not want to go back to Rasti, he wants to go back to your mother, but your mother does not want to. He was too sick and disappointed in your father. Until your father drank a lot. You know that your mother used to stay at the bude house, because she didn't want your father to know you and couldn't meet you. Yuni always threatened to end her life if your father wanted to see you. Eventually your father relented, but your father and mother before he died met often, and your father is now married to my best friend and Yuni. Now your father is sick, unable to walk. He came to your mother's funeral, but he said he didn't dare to come near you. Sugara is sure you will definitely look for it." said Rima's mother at length.
Anita's crying is no longer unstoppable, she was crying as eager to make Kevin her son wonder and join in crying.
"So, you're still alive bude?" asked Anita in her tears.
"Yes, he is still alive and now lives with Bude's best friend and your mother" replied Rima's mother.
"What is the woman in the photo of the three bude?" anita asked while pointing at a photo on the wall.
Rima's mother turned her head towards the wall that Anita pointed at, she then nodded.
"Who is he bude?" ask Anita again.
"Name Rika, she's now your father's wife. Rika is also a widow once, your mother asked to marry your father. Silly is our friendship. But Rika did not mind marrying your father who was sickly at the time. Yuni paid for your father's treatment, but Bude felt strange about your mother. If he didn't care why he would help your father's treatment. He's also very strange, why have the idea of having Rika marry your father" Rima's mother said.
Anita was silent, she also did not understand why her mother did that. Isn't returning to be husband and wife better? They love each other when they hear Rima's mother's story.
Or maybe because Anita was down with her problem. The problem with Rendi was also with the former Arga. All suspect, but Anita will not dispute and blame her mother, she still admires her mother and remembers her as a strong woman.
She doesn't know much about her mother's past. It's fitting that her mother always worried that Arga's husband would hurt her again. It is only fitting that his mother gave the message and asked his daughter-in-law earnestly and vowed not to accept if Arga again hurt him. It turned out that her mother had a bitter past and could not take back her father.
"Bude, where did you live with Aunt Rika?" ask Anita.
"What are you going to do Anita?" ask Rima's mother.
"I want to see you, bude. I want to meet a father who for years could not see me." replied Anita.
"Are you angry with your mother?"
"Tidal bude."
"Do you hate your mother?"
"No bude, for me mom is a very tough and patient woman. So tidal there's a reason I hate mothers who have hidden the truth."
"But your mother forbade your father from seeing you?"
"Maybe you have a reason why you're forbidden to see me."
Anita's answers are all the more certain that she never hated anyone. Either his mother or his father.
"Anita, bude asked once more. Would if you met your father would scold and hate him?"
Rima's mother was stunned, so widened Anita's heart? He was wrought with a bitter life from childhood, until his thoughts made him more mature than an adult or even an old man.
"Your father is not far from the village of Bude. But he is now going to the city for treatment" said Rima's mother.
"Where's bude?"
"Bude didn't know, but he said it was only two days. So maybe the day after tomorrow can go back home" said Rima's mother.
"Bude asked for Bude's phone number? I wanted to make sure that Dad was home and could meet him at his house. I want to meet my father with my husband and my children bude." said Anita again enthusiastically.
Rima's mother smiled, that's right Yuni said. Anita was very patient and airy. Even if he gets hurt, he'll forgive. May you always live happily, Anita. According to your mother's prayers and wishes, Rima's mother in her heart.
Rima's mother got up from her seat, she went inside her room to pick up her phone. Then he came back again and thrust a cell phone at Anita
"Bude will let you know if your father has returned from the city" Rima's mother said.
"Thank you bude, I'll see you when I get there" Anita said.
"Ma, hungry." whine Kevin.
"Oh, I'm hungry." asked Anita to her son.
"Yes, you just eat at the bude house with your son. Pity her to starve" said Rima's mother.
"Yes bude, thank you." said Anita.
Rima's mother then went into the kitchen to prepare food for Anita and her son. Today she feels guilty for her cousin because she has promised not to tell Anita about her ex-husband, but nevertheless Anita also has the right to know where her father is.
"Well, let's eat. But I'm sorry, just potluck bude food." said Rima's mother.
"It's okay bude, this is also grateful to be able to eat" said Anita.
Then he scoops rice and side dishes for Kevin. He also ate a little, although his heart was relieved to know the secret of his mother's story. He'll meet his father later.
It was late afternoon, Anita said goodbye to Rima's mother to go home. She also can't wait to tell her mother's secret about her father to her husband.
"I came home first bude, two days I wait for news from bude about father" said Anita.
"Yes, but if Bude hasn't told you that means Bude hasn't met your father" Rima's mother said.
"Yes bude, I'm just waiting for news from Bude" said Anita.
Then Anita left, she took a motorcycle taxi from Rima's mother's house because she felt sorry for her son had to walk again from Rima's mother's house to the front of the alley.
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