Sorry, Ma!

Seeking Fabia

Due to not getting new clues about the investigation of the death of Arun and Hima's daughter, Tegar decided to go home. A short break seemed like it would be better to recover his sufficiently drained energy today.

Arriving home, the man rushed up the stairs where the second floor was his main goal. However, just as his feet were tracking down the seventh step, the voice of the mother suddenly interrupted his steps.

"Gar, Eri was here."

The words of the mother successfully created a scene in the chest of the man. Eri's looking? For a moment, Hardcore's heart had felt flying into space, but he suddenly regained his senses.

His body remained standing on the stairs, but his neck rotated towards the mother.

"Whose name, Ma?" tanyakanya.

"Self, he said he had contacted you repeatedly, but could not" replied the mother in her distinctive soft voice.

Hard-faced scratching of the head. "Oh, my phone's running out of power. Yaudah, I'm upstairs, ma." The man continued his steps in a hurry.

"Well, don't you eat first?" The mama until looked up because the body of Tegar increasingly invisible.

"Still full, Ma." A little stern screamed as his body had already entered the room.

Without lingering any longer, the man immediately took off his clothes, then immediately cleaned himself.

Satisfied refreshing the body under the water splash, now Tegar is ready with his non-formal suit.

The three contacts of the car and mobile phone, then back down the stairs. It was not until thirty minutes, the man was already on the ground floor.

"Where else are you going?" The mama who was sitting relaxed while enjoying the warm tea in the afternoon, again surprised by the son only wayangnya.

Rigid steps that almost reached the exit, now had to turn towards the mother. Next to the woman was also the husband who was busy carrying newspapers.

"I have to help Eri, Ma." Stiffly squatting in front of the mother who was sitting on the sofa.

Mr. Parno who had been cool with his newspaper, now began to turn his attention to the son.

"What about the child's death?" ask the grown man to Hardcore.

Hearing his father's question, inevitably Tegar had to take a moment to talk with his parents.

"Actually it's almost revealed, but the witness we had, both of them dead, Pa," the young officer said.

The father sounded out a breath. "Have you investigated her parents?" The question of the father successfully made Tegar frown.

The frown on his forehead looked so deep, as if it was hard to grasp the veiled meaning of the father's question.

Mr. Parno laughed a little. "The good step, before suspecting outsiders, is what's wrong with checking insiders" said the man, who is almost half a century old.

Hardy is starting to understand. Nodding his head in response to advice given by his father.

"Then, what about Eri?" That's the mother's voice.

Harder immediately replied, "She said her daughter was kidnapped. I have to help her, Ma."

"Whose eli?" Mr. Parno was interested to ask after hearing the conversation of his wife and son.

"Erianiza, Dad. Her ex-boyfriend's Hardcore." It was not Tegar who answered, but the mother.

"Oh." The short response was given by Pak Parno along with a change in facial expression. Who had been enthusiastic, became mediocre.

"Then I say goodbye, Ma, Pa." Tegar kissed the backs of his parents' hands before stepping out.

***

Because he could not meet Tegar, Eri finally decided to go to the playground. The park is a witness where his son became a victim of kidnapping. No one knows. No one is looking. It was even the most difficult point for him, when others did not witness the same event.

This is where Erianiza is now. Sit back on the swing with one hand holding onto the toy chain. His tears rolled from the beginning of his feet tracking the place. Can not be denied, the feeling of tightness always squeezes his chest cavity many times the pain.

Mama!

Ahaha!

Come on, push again, Ma!

The voice of Fabia who played with joy again flashed in Eri's mind. Until the presence of a small child sitting right on the swing next to him was not he realized.

"Aarrrrgggh!"

Erianiza was surprised when she realized the presence of the boy. The same boy he met at the time. Round-faced and beige-haired.

"Auntie why are you crying again?" ask the boy. His feet seemed to be moving pushing the swing.

"Ah, sorry." Eri wiped her tears. "Tante is just missing Aunt's daughter" he continued telling the truth. Unlike before, he chose not to answer.

The boy looked smothered. It seems a little confused.

"Then, why didn't Auntie meet him?" The boy finally asked too. The girl's clear-eyed bead really made Eri recall Fabia.

The woman did not answer directly. His eyelids are back heating up. He could no longer speak.

The boy was increasingly confused, seeing the response Eri who instead returned to crying until a hiccup.

"Tante couldn't meet her because-" Eri returned a hiccup. Both of his eyes were deeply closed. It hurts to keep telling. However, he did not want to make this boy beside him disappointed. But how does he tell stories? Does this kid understand 'kidnapping' language'?

"Hiks .. hiks." The woman tried to resist the thunderous roar of the storm inside her chest. "Aunty-Kids"

"Is he dead?" the boy nodded with his cute voice. His gaze was not distracted in the slightest from Eri.

"No, Honey." Eri forced himself to smile.

"Have he been kidnapped by bad people?" The boy asked again.

Eri looked anxious to see it. He nodded in response.

"I'd love to help Auntie find Auntie's son, but-" The boy's face turned cloudy. His head was bowed, while his hands reflexively held his stomach.

"I'm still sick, Auntie. And I can't go anywhere" he continued, looking back at Eri.

Feeling sorry, Eri then grabbed the child's hand and grasped it. However, the woman's facial expression changed instantly as she felt the temperature of the boy's hand. It's chilly.

Eri did not discuss this. He thought that the cold temperature was caused by the wind alone. Moreover, the weather is indeed cloudy.

"If you're still sick why are you playing outside, honey?" Eri stared fixedly at the boy's bead eyes.

"I'm bored inside, Auntie."

Eri smiled hearing that answer.

"Yaudah, now Auntie will accompany you to play here."

The boy smiled broadly at Eri's words, then they played together.

Unbeknownst to Eri, from outside the garden fence there was someone who noticed his movements. A fruit seller. Both of his eyebrows looked intertwined. While waiting for the buyer, he shook his head in disbelief. His gaze was occasionally fixed on Eri, occasionally also fixed on people walking on the side of the road.

***

Tegar was seen putting up posters of missing children on some shop walls, electricity poles, telkom poles, even at all points that could be touched by the eyes of the crowd.

"Sorry, have you ever seen this kid?" ask Rigor to a man who at that time passed him by the roadside while thrusting a piece of poster with Fabia's face.

The man shook his head.

Steady continued his steps.

"Have you seen this kid?" The man asked again.

The person in front of him shook his head again.

So again and so on. However, Hardcore is not easily discouraged. He kept looking and searching. Driving cars. On foot. Then drive another car. He keeps doing that.

Until finally, when the sky began to dim, his car stopped in front of the fence of a luxury house. It was Eri's house and her husband's.

Rigid still holding the wheel, when his gaze was fixed on the super magnificent residence. I don't know what he's thinking right now. This time he really wanted to help. Not just because of Erianiza, but because it has become her duty.

However, there was one thing that suddenly plagued his mind. Something that should have been found from the beginning.

"Eh, Sir!" Stiffness flinched when his gaze saw an adult man walking past his car.

The man stopped his steps, then turned his head towards Tegar. "Yes, what's up, son?"

He got out of his four-wheeled vehicle.

"Do you live around here?" ask the guy.

"Yes, that's my house." The adult man nodded while pointing at a house next to Eri's house.

Rigid seemed hesitant to ask, yet he had to find the answer to all his assumptions.

"Do you know Erianiza and her husband?" ask carefully.

"Of course, son. They are a very good couple and also .. harmonious," the man replied with a smile towards Eri's house.

DEG

Hardcore's facial expression changed slightly, but it was no longer a problem for him. As long as Eri is happy with her husband, why should she bother?

"Then, about princess mere-"

"Whose daughter, son?" The man immediately slashed out a loud speech.

"Daughter Eri and her husband?" Hardcore began to wrinkle his forehead.

"They never had children" said the man, whose body had been pushed back against the body of the car.