The Bond of Our Love

CHAPTER 1 - Family Debate

"The thousand islands, kei islands, kebali, Raja Ampat, Pulo love. Or maybe you prefer overseas vacation spots like Seoul, Phuket, Switzerland, Norway, or Melbourne or where? just tell me where you want to go? let me tell the big master later so that he immediately takes care of everything.." the waiter named Toto asked persuading.

"Wait" Rahul raised his right hand towards his loyal servant, a sign telling him to be quiet.

"What do you mean? Why promote tourist attractions and abroad?Who wants a vacation?" rahul asked confusedly.

"Of course Mr Rahul"

"Me?" Rahul frowned "When did I tell you I wanted a vacation?" tanyanya cold.

"Euum..sorry Master, this is actually the command of the great lord.he wants Tu......"

"That's right! Papa told him to!" Toto had not finished talking when a voice suddenly snatched and broke their conversation.

Sontak Rahul and Toto immediately turned to the source of the voice. Although Rahul's eyes could not see after the accident two years ago, his ears could clearly capture the direction of the source of the sound.

"So how's Hul?" asked Helmi who had just entered the bedroom of her youngest son.

"where do you want to go on vacation? islands, out of town or out of the country? Just tell me, let papa take care of all your needs. You can go three more days with the pilot and the private co-pilot of our family.Toto will be with you for there....."

"Is this Pa?" not yet finished Helmi spoke, Rahul had already cut her off in a sharp tone.

"Why did Papa suddenly want me to vacation out? what does Papa really mean?" rahul asked, negative thoughts began to approach him.

While his mother and brother are only witnesses of the tension between him and his father. Madam Lesti and Gala, her eldest son just stood in front of the entrance and listened to the conversation of the father and son with nervous and anxious feelings.

It seemed like they could already guess the scene that was about to happen next. Helmi and her youngest son are both stubborn. And that is always the trigger for disputes between the two.

They just hope that Rahul does not have any thoughts about the plans of those who want to send him out of the house for a while.

"Papa doesn't mean anything, Papa just wants you to refresh so that your mind can be a little calmer. It's been two more years you've been like this.Not going anywhere and doing nothing. So Papa thinks you need a bar atmosphere....."

"Is that sure why?" Rahul hatch.

"You mean?"

"Papa wants me refreshing because Papa cares about me, or because Papa cares too much about your reputation and good name? That's why Papa has to get rid of anyone who can cause the destruction of Papa's reputation including me?"

"The first!!" sergeant Helmi

"Why Pa? is there something wrong with my words? Isn't what I said true? Is not for Papa nothing more important than reputation and good name that Papa must always take care of in front of his business colleagues? That's why Papa intends to get me out of this house on holiday grounds?

In order for the day of Kak Gala's wedding that you will be titled three more days, I am no longer in this house. So the fact that an Air Helmi who has a blind child like me will continue to be tightly closed, and will never be exposed to the public. Wh why? because right now my blind and useless condition has begun to sniff out the media?"

"Rahul, listen......" Helmi tried to stay calm so as not to be provoked by emotions against harsh words thrown by her son. But Rahul did not give him the opportunity to open his voice. He kept rebuking his father.

"If it is for Papa and everyone here that I am only a disgrace and a burden, you can drive me out of this house. There is no need to go on a show pretending to care and love me. All you care about is your reputation and good name. Because it's called hypocrite!"

"The first!!" Helmi raised her hand to slap Rahul. The emotions that he had been holding back could no longer be contained. His patience was over with the attitude of his youngest son.

"Papa's enough!" Lesti who had just stood at the door and became a spectator of the drama father and son, could not stay silent anymore to see her husband who was starting to flutter.

The middle-aged woman who still looked young and beautiful was spontaneously running towards her husband. And he immediately pulled and held firmly Helmi's hand that was about to land on their youngest son's cheek.

"What did Papa do?!"

"Let Ma! I have to teach him a lesson! This kid is really testing my patience !" Helmi looked at Rahul with anger. The middleman who was stared at Just a cynical smile.

Groping Rahul gently put away his mother's hand. Then change him himself who holds his father's hand and pats him on the cheek.

"Come Pa slap....ayo slap!! why is Papa quiet? Didn't Papa want to slap me?Then wait especially? Come on slap me!!" Rahul is getting worse.

Lesti holds Rahul's arm with his left hand. While his right hand stroked his son's cheek gently

"Rahul, Mama knows you're disappointed with us. But believe me, son, no one in this house thinks of you as a burden. Mama loves you so much, please don't misunderstand me, baby." she said with teary eyes.

"Misunderstand? On what basis did Mama call me misunderstanding? Isn't everything I think and say true? Do Mama and you all think that I'm a little kid that you can lure with a playful walk? Mama says you all love me and never feel ashamed of my condition?"

"Well, two years I've been living in a slump after doctors sentenced my eyes to permanent blindness. Two years I isolated myself by shutting myself in my room, and severing all interactions with the world. And what did you guys do to me? have you strengthened me once? Gave some spirit so I could get back up?!"

Rahul said emotionally.His words made Lesti so hard on her heart, that the woman who had given birth to her shed tears.

Rahul shook his head and answered the question he had asked his family

"No, instead you feel relieved and happy with my attitude. Because then you do not have to bother to hide my condition from the public. My eyes are blind, I cannot see. But my ears are not deaf at all. I could hear clearly whenever anyone asked me where I was, you always told them I was abroad"

"So every time you hold a party in this house, it is the moment where Papa will be very attentive to everyone in this house, especially the servants *you take good care of Rahul. Don't let him out of his room while the party is going on. Remember, if Rahul leaves his room let alone appear in front of the invited guests, I will immediately fire all of you*"

Rahul mimicked his father's dialogue while commanding, tears already streaming down his handsome face.

Helmi was only speechless with a reddened face holding back the anger of hearing her son's ravings. Honestly, what Rahul said is true. His blindness made Helmi feel disappointed and embarrassed to admit his existence to the public.

Because for him it could ruin his reputation as a well-known conglomerate whose life is known to be perfect.

he tried hard to cure his youngest child. Dozens of doctors even from abroad have been brought. But nil, their verdict is the same, Rahul suffered permanent blindness.

"And all of you, including Mama and Brother. Like the buffalo that shakes his nose, you can only obey whatever Papa commands without thinking about my feelings!" with a sinister smile on his face, Rahul gently removed his mother's hands from his cheeks.

"But take it easy, what you want will happen.And why only for a while? I don't even mind leaving this house and all of you for good"

"The first!! what are you saying, son?! why are you talking like that?!" shouted Lesti, there was fear that enveloped his chest hearing his son's words. But Rahul was too stubborn, his mother's clasping did not make him waver in the least.

"Toto!"

"Yes Sir"

"Done all my stuff! make sure there's nothing left! for the vacation spot you recommended, choose the most distant place! three more days we leave, so that everyone here can breathe with relief!"

"Good sir" Toto's waiter replied with a nervous and unwell feeling.

After being content to argue with his family, Rahul finally decided to leave his bedroom. Without caring for his mother who kept calling and was about to catch up with him but was blocked by his father.

Rahul walked with his hand holding and knocking his staff on the floor.While the other hand fumbled around him.

PRAAAANG.........!!!!

Whether he was intentional or indeed the effect of his blindness, his fumbling hand landed on a display on the table.

As a result the table decoration made of crystal material fell and shattered into pieces on the floor, making everyone there surprised.

Helmi could only clench her teeth with her eyes bulging, holding back the anger that had already erupted in her chest seeing Rahul's behavior. He knew his youngest son was deliberately doing that to provoke his emotions.

*****

Gala and Amora's wedding feast filled with luxury and excitement, and became the happiest day for both the bride and the family, immediately turned into the most grieving day for the Aerospace family.

After they got word that, the jet belonging to their family who was riding Rahul while traveling abroad, had an accident to cause casualties.

Just contact bad news that made one big family in a fog, and immediately met the police to find more information.

Police said they had found three people who were victims of the accident. Two of them were killed and became corpses. According to the identification, the two bodies were none other than pilots and servants working in their extended families.