The Child Of A Maid

Chapter 2

That afternoon passed quickly, until time separated them to play, after hearing the adhan magrib Rilia immediately rushed to take her face and left for the nearest mosque from her home.

After returning home from the mosque, Rilia immediately rushed home, she found that her parents were fighting and her mother was crying, Rilia immediately hugged her mother and joined in crying in her arms.

"Mom, why are you crying". Rilia said as she pleased.

"You go to the room first". His mother answered by rubbing Rilia's head.

Rilia just nodded in response to her mother's words, she then rushed towards her room, Rilia laid her body while hugging her beloved doll, her tears continued to flow to wet the pillow she used to sleep on.

In the family room his mother and father were fighting, hearing the quarrel made Rilia feel so scared, because the character of her mother was harsh while her father continued to defend himself and did not want to be blamed.

Brakes... Cyarr...

The sound of objects thrown can be heard loudly from Rilia's room, making Rilia's heart feel slashed, can be heard sobs from behind the pillow.

Rilia was so devastated because of that, the quarrel of a family made her heart so hurt, no words were able to express her heart, she said, he covered himself with a blanket that layered so that his cries could not be heard by anyone.

Soon his grandmother came to his house, his house and his grandmother's house were next to each other so that the quarrel could be heard from his grandmother's house.

After her grandmother advised so much, finally the quarrel began to dissect did not feel Rilia was asleep inside while hugging her beloved doll, since Rilia was 4 years old, Rilia was used to sleeping alone in her room.

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The next day, Rilia's father was accepted into a mobile bank so that he did not sell chili again, actually it was a good thing for his family but it was inversely proportional to what the family expected.

The more days the more his father changed, who was just plain dressed now became so neat, who had never used perfume now one bottle would run out, he said, his father also bought a new phone and often used his free time to chat with the phone.

Sometimes Rilia borrowed the phone because she was so curious how to use an original hp, because Rilia never held the original phone usually she would play with toy phone.

One day in the village of Kembang afternoon held a night market along the street in the village, Rilia was so happy and walked alone to enjoy the sparkling lights of the night market, and, he accidentally passed a stand where people sell toys.

Rilia looked at the direction where the barbie shoes were neatly displayed on the stand, Rilia immediately approached her and looked at her carefully, Rilia was festering with the toy.

"How much is this?". Rilia asked with her spirit.

"That's fifteen thousand children".

Rilia kept quiet when she found out the price of the toy, she immediately told the seller that she would go home to buy it, after which Rilia rushed to her house.

Rilia searched the entire room, to find the money she had been saving, the money she had found in her room was only ten thousand, Rilia asked her mother for money, but only given his mother for three thousand rupiah, because his mother did not hold any money at all while his father had not yet returned from work, usually his father will arrive at home before the adzan magrib but this time until after the adhan isya' has not returned home.

Rilia received the money happily, after which she collected it into one, the money was not enough to buy the toy barbie shoes, finally she ran towards her grandfather's house.

"Sir, do you want a massage?". Rilia asked with her spirit.

"Eh why is this? why did you come to offer a massage?". His grandfather smiled at Rilia.

"But there's a condition cake".

"Grandfather's hunch arrived unwell, what's wrong with Rilia?".

"Grandpa will have to pay two thousand". Rilia said while grimacing.

"Hahaha, a child can negotiate". Grandfather laughed out loud hearing the terms spoken by Rilia.

Rilia just smiled awkwardly because she did not know what a negotiation was, which she knew every time her mother told her she would get money from her mother, that was what made Rilia look for her grandfather to give her wages because of the results of massaging her.

His grandfather was also happily massaged by Rilia, although the massage was not felt for him, with his spirit Rilia massaged so that he got the toy he wanted, after finishing massaging his grandfather immediately gave him the money.

Rilia immediately rushed to the place where people were selling, but it was a pity that one of the coins in her hand was lost somewhere, somehow, Rilia looks so sad because of the loss of money so that the money in her hand is now back is not enough to buy the toy.

But fortunately, the seller was so kind that he received the money with pleasure after that the seller gave the toy desired by Rilia, Rilia received the toy and ran for joy to her house.

Her mother was happy to see her youngest child so happy, but her heart was so sad because her husband had not yet returned home, just at 10 pm Rilia's father had just returned from work, his two eyes were so very red and like a dazed person.

At that time Rilia had not slept because she was so happy to get a new toy, so she found out that her father had come home.

"Sir, why did you turn ugly like this?".

"What did you say mas?".

"You changed deck".

Rilia listened to the words of the two, Rilia really did not understand what her father said, which Rilia knew that her mother still remained as beautiful as ever, but why her father said that her mother was ugly.

Not long after the two returned to quarrel as usual, Rilia threw the toy to scatter on the floor, Rilia joined in crying when her mother cried like that.

"Look at your son!! from waiting for you to come home, he wants to buy a new toy!! you just go home this late until your eyes turn red".

"Shut up!!! I'm tired of hearing your obscure rant".

Rilia's father immediately left the house, seeing that Rilia immediately chased after him and asked her father to carry her, Rilia cried in the sling because she wanted to invite her father to go see the night market, because there is still one toy that interests him.

Arriving at the place that Rilia wanted to go with her father, it seemed that the night market was over and the street was already looking so lonely, his father invited Rilia to return home because there was nothing to see anymore.

Rilia felt strange, because the young men kept vomiting as if they were poisoned, her father invited her to approach the young men and ask them something.

"Well, what are they?". Rilia asked so innocently.

"Drunk son".

"Drunken? where are they from? did they take the bus too far to get drunk?".

The word drunken Rilia was created from a long journey, because Rilia was invited by her mother to take a bus so she was drunk and vomited on the way but as she remembered even though Rilia was drunk but never looked like some of the young men.

Rilia was scared when she saw the young men screaming as if they were in so much pain, she immediately hid behind her father's chest, Her father took a bottle that was close to her, the bottle contained a slightly brown liquid.

"Dad, I want that tea, I'm thirsty".

Because the color is almost similar to Tea, Rilia thought that it was a tea that was deliberately inserted into the bottle, Rilia thought that the young men brought tea from her house just like Rilia did when Rilia was invited by her mother to take a bus or long trip.

His father unscrewed the bottle and smelled the scent created from the bottle, Rilia kissed him and Rilia immediately covered her nose because the scent she breathed was exactly the same as the scent released by the young man from her vomit.

"Jeek". Rilia was disgusted to see the young man continuously spewing out a liquid.

"It's not tea, it's medicine son".

"Medicine?". Rilia was confused about her father's words. "Then why did they spit out the medicine? Mom says if the medicine is spewed it means the medicine can't get inside and they won't heal".

"It's a different drug, son".

"Cat for what?".

"To eliminate the problem".

"Emang yah, I want to try dong yah, let father and mother do not fight anymore because it makes me have a problem".

His father just silently heard his son's words, Rilia was curious about the drink, when he touched the bottle in his father's hand as soon as a young man grabbed it and drank it again.

"Well, why are his eyes red like daddy's?".

Rilia looked at her father's eyes and the young man's eyes in turn, as soon as the young man was lying near Rilia and also her father, and the young man vomited again after drinking it.

"Lady.. Rilia did not want to know, let's go home well, Rilia wanted to vomit to see them".

His father immediately returned to hold Rilia and invited Rilia to return home, after arriving at his father's house immediately dropped Rilia on his doorstep, after lowering Rilia his father again stepped away from the house.

"Where is Dad going?". Ask Rilia.

"Back to see them".

"Don't dad, I don't want you back, I want to sleep with you tonight".

Rilia continued to chase after her father and pulled her hand to enter the house by being forced to obey what her son said, after Rilia fell asleep Rilia did not know what happened next, his father came back to meet the young men.

The next day was Sunday, as usual his father would invite him to recreation in the nearest tour to where Rilia had lived all this time, Rilia invited her father to swim in a tour called Tirta Agung, Keplaksari, Jombang.

Rilia entered with her mother alone, while her father waited for them to be on the side of the highway, for some reason her father did not come inside to accompany Rilia to play water and slide in the tour.

But Rilia ignored this because Rilia felt so happy to play water with her mother, her mother also laughed when Rilia splashed water on her and vice versa.

After three hours of swimming, her mother finally invited her to go home, Rilia immediately followed her mother's orders because her body also began to freeze after swimming in that place, his stomach was also full because he continued to eat at the edge of the pool because his mother had fed him.

After Rilia changed clothes, the two immediately rushed to the place where her father was, from a distance Rilia saw that her father was chatting with someone through his phone, when Rilia and her mother began to approach immediately her father disconnected the phone connection and with someone he kept his cellphone nailed to his shirt.

"Why is it so fast?". Ask father.

"Quick? it's almost dhuhur lo yah". Reply Rilia.

Rilia looked towards the sky, she saw the sun was already on her head that was a sign that the dhuhur adhan will soon reverberate, he said, Rilia immediately went up for her father's motorcycle as well as her mother did the same thing as Rilia did.

As soon as the bike sped far away from the place, not long after the motorcycle stopped at a roadside stall, Rilia and her mother immediately got off the bike, his father invited him into the stall to fill their stomachs.

Her mother and father simply ordered meatballs, while Rilia ordered chicken noodles, the order soon came in their shirts, and, Rilia immediately enjoyed it because the length of the swim made it very hungry so that Rilia was able to spend a bowl of chicken noodles and also a glass of orange ice her favorite.

Rilia remained focused on her food as she cared about the situation around her, she did not care about the conversation between her mother and father, she said, Rilia preferred to finish it immediately and immediately go home because she was so tired today because she had finished swimming and also walked the road.

(Author: If I could turn back the clock, I miss him so much)

Rilia looked so happy because her parents got along again as before, as if there would be no quarrel between the two when they ate in the stall like this.

After finishing all their orders, they immediately rushed home, because the time was getting late and the road was getting hotter, so that made his father decide to continue the journey.

After a while later they finally arrived home safely, Rilia headed straight to the bathroom to cool her body with ablution due to the sunburn of the hot afternoon, which was so hot, after that Rilia went to her room and prayed. After that he immediately laid his body on his mattress by violating the electric fan.

Not long after, Rilia fell asleep quickly because of the cool air created from the fan and also the comfort of her bed.