The Gem of the Heart of the Former Thug

the secret of susi

Adel came home escorted by Budi. Budi felt the need to make sure, if Adel did not experience anything unwanted. Given the road from the multipurpose building, there are still many covered in mud. Not until home indeed, only up to the village border.

Lazily, Adel propelled his bike. The shadow of the destruction of his relationship with Budi still lingers in his eyes. That smile and attention, he felt it was not a guarantee, that tomorrow would be fine.

There is a half hour difference, between Mr. Fajar and Ms. Lusi, with Adel, to get home. And both, get ready at the door. Prepare to spill all anger over Adel's attitude which they think is a grave offense.

But something else happened when Adel got home. Mr. Fajar got a call from his business partner. He left his wife to talk about the business that his partner offered.

“PUAS?” shouted Miss Lusi, the arrival of Adel on the porch of the house.

His voice blaring, to make the woodworker surprised. Adel did not answer.

“Ngapain anyway, you to the motorcycle taxi driver? From dawn until mau magrib has not returned home” continued bu Lusi, no less tight than before.

“Bu, Darmo was flooded, mother please, no?” ask Adel in a soft voice. Bu Lusi gasped. For a moment he was silent.

“Hormits to be people. Asked instead change nanya” comments bu Lusi, divert the conversation.

With ease he entered the house. In the living room, Madina looked fresh out of the kitchen. In his hand were three glasses of warm drink. The steam is still seen dancing on the surface.

Adel asks for one of them, before being put on the table by Madina. Bu Lusi was still looking at him sharply.

“This Adel is just an ordinary human, does not have superpowers. Adel just wants some kindness, ma'am. Let's say later Adel old, someone wants to take a trip Adel” said Adel after sipping ginger wedang made by Madina.

“You are yes, in high school still gobl*k” comments bu Lusi.

“Kalo you marry Luki, until you die also you are many who ngerawat” continued bu Lusi.

“Emang, mom went back and forth to the hospital, there is a nurse, besides father?” ask Adel. Bu Lusi gasped.

“Pakde Narno, pakde sadewo? Bulek Dinar has never been a mother negokin, you know. Though adek ibu” continued Adel. Ms. Lusi still did not answer.

“But if you mbah Sarmi or mbah Yono who is sick, mother who is enslaved. The mother was the wife of the youngest child. So it is mandatory to obey his brothers. Sampe-sampe, Mbah Tin derelict. Are you sure Adel will be considered a son-in-law? Don't-don't just be a maiden” Adel said again.

“You think, told the motorcycle taxi driver that clean mud until the straws rich gini, not be made permbantu, ha?” sahut bu Lusi's.

“Enggak” replied Adel briefly.make Bu Lusi's eyes tickle.

“Gusti, my son is gobl**sthat's so?”

“Yes, maybe Adel's a block. So, how's your own mother?”

“You mean?”

“What's the life of Adel, mommy felt so be a maid same father?”

“Ya, no, lah. You are the same Madina is the fruit of the same father's love mother. Mom's dream. Yes there is no story of the mother felt being a helper of the same father”

“Adel also feels that way, bu”

“What's the same nduk, cah ayu? Can you see are you the same kere guy? not to be sultan. Now I am blangsak so. Not looking bright at all. You've been there all your life with him. Different story if you are with Luki. Born into the sultan's family, will inherit his father's property, will be happy for the rest of your life, nduk”

Adel was silent at the words of his mother. He put down the glass he was holding. Then gently, he grabbed her mother's palm.

He gently held both palms. Then she gently looked at her mother's face. Bu Lusi was confused. In his heart he wondered, what was it that his eldest daughter suddenly became this calm.

“Bu” call Adel Ogre. Sometimes he looked down, then looked at his mother's face again.

“What is a happy mother, same household father, from the beginning of marriage?” ask Adel.

Bu Lusi scrunched his forehead. He did not expect that he would get a question he had not thought of. Not the usual question a child asks his mother.

“Happy, Del” replied bu Lusi. His tone was low, not shrill as before.

“If mom is happy, why do you always get angry?” ask Adel again. His tone is getting softer.

Again, Miss Lusi gasped. The question was already at the level of the questions often asked by his mother.

“Should, with all that you receive from your father, just make your mother calm, smile cheap. Because I don't think about what to eat tomorrow, if you want to try where. Angry that, it should be the same Adel aja” continued Adel.

A sentence that feels very deep in the heart of Ms. Lusi. Her memory wanders back to the early days of her marriage to her father Adel.

In the past he was often satirized, talked about by neighbors, because he still lived in the parents' house, and sometimes hitchhiking to eat also the parents.

Indeed, he knew, if there was much to tell Adel about him. But that was when Adel was a kid. But he did not expect, that Adel still remembered the stories. And start to tell that story.

“Which child is mom, who doesn't want to be happy with her parents?” said Adel. Makes her mother flinch from daydreams.

“Mother just wants the children of mothers to live happily, nduk. Especially you. I don't want you to live poor, miserable. Enough for me to know, how it feels to be insulted every day every night. Mother just want mastiin, no one who insulted the children of mothers. And mothers will not let their children, the obscure guys who are around us, the same grandchildren of mothers. I just want the right soul mate for the children of mothers. I just want to silence their mouths, nduk” replied bu Lusi with a growling voice holding back anger. Her tears rolled down her cheeks.

*Yes Alloh. It turns out that my mother has the same grudge as the neighbors around here. It turns out that mom still feels pain in the past. How bad are their words, until the pain in the heart of the mother still feels until now? Yes Alloh, please servant*!

“Kalo is the problem, can Adel ask for one thing with mom?” ask Adel.

For the second time, Adel's voice jolted Bu Lusi from his reverie.

“Mother can submit Adel request, Adel will participate in mother” request continued Adel.

“You want a friendly mom?” sahut bu Lusi's.

“Mother is not sure” he continued.

Adel looked into his mother's eyes with a questioning look.

“Udah character rich mom gini” said bu Lusi replied the eyes gaze of her eldest daughter.

“Start with no swearing, ma'am!” sahut Adel's.

Her gentle tone made Miss Lusi look back at her. After a moment ago, he turned his gaze away.

“Mothers want to anger Adel every day, please! But please, don't curse, ma'am! let alone insult people” continued Adel. Susi did not answer immediately. He was still staring into Adel's eyes.

“People said, so the child should be able to mikul duwur, mendem jero against his parents. But Adel is a girl, ma'am. Adel will have a husband, whoever the husband of Adel later” said Adel.

Bu Lusi scrunched his forehead. Increasingly do not understand what Adel wants to say.

“Adel's upper maternal command line, will break up when Adel is married. But her mother, Adel's husband, still has a line of command over her son. Adel is afraid of mom, if you are sick, Adel can not take care of mother because it is forbidden husband or in-law Adel” continued Adel.

“Bu Susan is not such a person” said bu Lusi.

“Yes, I hope so. But the future, who knows? In fact, I am not given anything, the same Yono mbah. Just a car, right? His wealth was squandered to manjain his other son-in-law. Because his other son-in-law's a rich man's son. And from them, Mbah Yono can keep his business continuity. Her sisters mas Luki, it's all girls, bu”

“Neg. Imam Pratama is not a rich man. I also know Mr. Imam, when he was in school. He is not a rich man so” said Bu Lusi.

“Adel please also gotu” suhut Adel.

They looked at each other, but they did not say a word, for quite some time. Bu Lusi understood Adel's last sentence, as an expression of resignation, which means he wants to marry the man of his choice. But to really want to, he must obey first what Adel asked for.

“Adel does not want to worry about mother suffering twice” chirped Adel.

“Hem?” ms. Lusi did not understand.

“West said Adel had to suffer for the sake of obedience to mother, Adel willingly, ma'am. As long as I do not find what Adel is very afraid of until now”

“What is it?” ask mom Lusi.

“Karma” reply Adel briefly.

Bu Lusi was stunned to hear that answer. Adel's face changed drastically. Such as harboring sadness and also anger mixed.

“Bu, if Adel goes to jail, do you want to?” ask Adel. Bu Lusi was surprised to hear the question.

“For whatever, nduk. I will never want you to go to jail. Even if you are wrong, your mother will defend you desperately. Everything will be done so that you do not go to jail, nduk” replied bu Lusi with a tone of anger.

“Adel will also do the same thing bu” said Adel.

“What?” bu Lusi was confused.

“Adel never dream, mom. Mom is sick, dad is out looking for medicine. Mom was alone at home. And those whom my mother had hurt her heart, came home. But not nengokin, ma'am. They all wear mothers. They were all joggers excited to see the weak mother could not say anything. Adel's heartache, ma'am. Sick” said Adel while holding back tears.

Bu Lusi's eyes were wide. As far as his memory goes, three times Adel told him about dreams, and the three incarnated into reality.

“Adel wants to evict them, ma'am. Adel Rich can't. Adel rich is held by many people. And the sound of adel is not nyampe to their ears” continued Adel. She still held back her tears, even though she was already in tears. Ms. Lusi has not commented.

“And Adel promised, Mom. For the sake of Allah, if Adel's dream really happened, Adel will kill them all” continued Adel again.

Bu Lusi was stunned to see his son's eyes bulging and blushing, filled with anger. Adel's teeth rattled so much that the anger peaked. All his life, from Adel was born, he had never found Adel showed great anger. He immediately hugged the body of his eldest daughter.

“Don't do it nduk! Don't do that. I will not see you in jail. Mom tried to change, right? I'll try to be friendly. Let you not need to find out the reality of your dream is”

Adel's teeth are still grinding. And his eyes are getting red. Madina got scared, saw it. It took a while for Adel to ease his emotions. And the length of time, is a clear marker for Ms. Susi, if the dream Adel told me, really exists.