The Heart I Choose

Episodes 2.3

The man kept looking at me, making a mistake, there was a radiance of affection that he was trying to transmit through his eyes and I hadn't felt it for a long time, I needed it, I needed it, but not from him for now.

I avoided her gaze, I remember now, this man who once offered her love, promising to make me happy, but I refused him, preferring to continue with the household with Mas Wandi.

"You're Tian, right?" I asked, the man nods his head with a smile, he seems very happy, I can get to know him.

"Yes Mia, I'm Tian who used to play at your house."

"Sorry.I didn't recognize that."

"What's wrong, I look more handsome right now? hahhaha." He laughed happily

"Haha......What a PD!" I also try to forget my sadness.

Back I looked back, still no one from the Mas Wandi family tried to catch up with me.

"Would I take you home?" ask Tian once more.

"I don't want to bother you."

"No Mia, I feel so lucky to see you again."

Her lips were smiling attractively to the end of her eyes, she was not lying, her smile was sincere.

"All right, but don't ask for a fee! I don't have enough money to pay for a taxi like this, hehehe" I said with a laugh.

"Hahahha..no, even if I could treat you to eat!"

I just smiled, Tian opened the car door for me, a black car with full accessories, I feel like the king's daughter inside. During the trip Tian did not want to ask me at all the problems I was facing, he always told me funny stories that comforted me a little.

"So you want to?" suddenly tanyanya.

"You what?"

"I am buying food" he replied.

I had forgotten his invitation earlier, which I thought was just a small offer. My stomach is already hungry, from yesterday I have not eaten, since Dika was brought by Mas Wandi, I only think of Dika. How's Dika doing? Are you still crying because you saw me?

"Hey.....Daydreaming again?" Tian surprised me, "Want ya? Let's just say it's a celebration of friends who haven't met in a long time" he said trying to persuade me.

His face was deliberately made funny, I laughed again, Tian was always able to divert the sadness I was feeling.

"OK..but not far around here!" sahutku accepted his invitation.

"Ready Bus!!!!"

"What about the bus?" ask me wonder.

"Yes dong, if the boss is for a guy, if the bus is for a girl, hahhaha."

He made me laugh again, I didn't laugh like this for a long time. Tian turned his car into a house that had been designed into a place to eat, on the terrace of the house there are small ponds, on top of which there is a saung made of wood that roofed with straw, very thick rural atmosphere in the middle of a hot city.

After parking the car, Tian almost pulled my hand, which I quickly pulled.

"I'm sorry..not intentionally!" he said, looking regretful on Tian's face.

"What's wrong!" I lowered my head, indeed looking Tian unintentionally, perhaps too happy to be able to bring me here

"Want to eat inside or outside?" ask Tian.

I looked inside the restaurant, there were only tables and chairs that had been filled with many visitors, it seemed like this room was more used for official events.

"Outside of course!" take me.

The saung was a little high, there were three steps that had to be climbed to get to the top. The scenery was so beautiful and cold, making my stomach grow hungry. Not long after the waiter came to ask for our order.

"What message do you want?"

"Whatever you buy," I let him choose the food he wanted.

I saw Tian seem busy, several times he excused me to pick up the phone. After waiting for quite a long time our order came, all the food that came according to my taste that likes spicy.

"You work where, Mia" asked Tian while eating.

"Store guard," I replied.

"Would you like to work with me? it's been two days now, the warehouse admin quit because I got married, so I'm so busy."

"Aren't you working as an employee in the same office as your father?" many wonder.

I just smiled and quickly finished eating, it was afternoon I did not want to go home. After we finished eating, we immediately went home, Tian spurred his car while continuing to call, it seemed like there was something very important on the other end.

I asked Tian to just drive up the intersection of the house alley and indeed Dad's alley could not be passed by the car.

"Thank you!" I deliberately didn't want to take Tian down, not nice to my neighbor and stepmother.

"Can I borrow the wine? ask Tian.

I hand over the phone I bought with my own sweat, there are wallpaper Kiyah and Dika. Tian quickly typed in some numbers on the phone call and made an outgoing call.

"That's my number, don't forget to keep it! I've saved your number, I'll call tomorrow."

Tian excuse me to go home and immediately turn his car around, the twenty-seven-year-old man is gone from sight.

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This morning I'm going back to Mas Wandi's house, Dad forced me to accompany me, but I don't want Dad's Vertigo to relapse, see my struggle to get Dika, Dika,

"Dad, it will be between Mia until the front of the alley! let Mia try to solve Mia's own problem, pray Mia find the best way out of this problem well!" I said while kissing Dad's hand.

I rubbed my head with a sad look.

"Why should the fate of your marriage be the same as your mother." Dad muttered to himself, but I heard it quite clearly.

My father drove me to the front alley of Mama's house, from afar I saw Dika play with his cousin, he immediately ran and hugged me. We hugged in a day,

"Where's Ma?" ask Dika

"Adek wait Dika at home, Dika want to go home with Mama right?"

Dika nodded her head and invited me to meet her grandmother.

"grandmother.....Wanna go home!"

"Don't you remember what Papa and Grandma said?" asked Mama while taking Dika into her room, no matter what Mama said to Dika, she came back to see me and said, ''What did Dika say,

"When you want to be here, Ma! school's here."

Mama seemed to smile victorious, no matter what they poisoned my son's mind, I tried to call Dika to come closer to me,

"Chere!" call me.

When she did not get out of her place, I tried to catch up with her, Mama's voice stopped me,

"You heard, right? What is Dika's choice."

"Why would Mama instigate my son?" I asked, my tears started to fall.

"Wandi has said that if you want to go back to him, he will give up Dika, why don't you just refer to him?" mama said, has Mama not been aware of her child's behavior?

"Mas Wandi is not a good husband, if he does not change, Mia will never want to refer to him" I replied firmly.

"Halaahhhhhhhh....Wandi has told me everything, you wife who is never grateful, husband works day and night, even the money you stole, for what? to send it to your poor parents?? or to tease another man???"

"Mama do not insult my family.hiks...hiks..we are poor, but I never steal, hiks, because Mas Wandi very rarely provides us, hiks.hikss." My heart was accompanied by sobs, did not expect Mama so heart to hurt my feelings.

Dika tried to hug, but Mama immediately pulled Dika's hand and told her to enter the room.

"Go home! the choice for you is just a reference, or will your fate continue to hang? since your marriage book will never be handed over so you won't be able to take care of the divorce," Mama's remark really hurt, why she didn't have any feelings as a fellow woman.

"I don't care about my fate, I just want Dika for now, Mama.Let Dika choose!'

"You didn't hear his choice?"

"Mama and Mas Wandi must have poisoned his mind! I know my son, there's no way he didn't choose his mother.." I cried for mercy on this family.

"You may see Dika, but not to be brought, now go home! take care of Kiyah, she's a disabled child needs special handling," said Mama, sounding soft in the ear, but piercing the heart.

Mama and her family left me alone, they all went into their rooms, no matter what I kept crying to Dika.

"Mama...return Dika Ma....!" I kept begging.

Kriiiigg.

My phone rang, there was a Septian name on the incoming call.