The Love of the Duda

TCSD 37: Dismantling the First Plan

The young girl seemed to be asleep under a fir tree. His body he rests on the trunk of a tree and his feet slipping on the beach sand. The typical breeze of the beach atmosphere seems to increase the girl dissolved in her dream cradle.

"Mara!"

"Mara!"

"Mara!"

The sudden vibration of a person's voice flows through the flow of auditory sensory nerves, making the comfort of the sleeping girl a little disturbed. His consciousness seemed to be forcefully drawn by the slightly deafening sounds.

Mara's eyelids opened little by little. And when his eyelids were fully opened, he was immediately surprised to see who was in front of him.

"You...?"

Tanti approached the stepson. Without a second thought, the middle-aged woman suddenly shed her body before Mara and lowered her head.

"Mara... Forgive Mom. Forgive me for all the bad behavior I ever did to you. I'm so sorry Mara, so sorry."

The middle-aged woman's tears flowed profusely from the source of her spring as if spilling all the flavors mixed into one. Regret, guilt and guilt ..which only he knows.

Mara was still stunned to see this scene that might look so heartwarming that was in front of her. The middle-aged woman, resting by her feet with her head lowered like asking for a pardon for all the wrongs she had committed.

"Mara... To make amends for all the wrongs Mother has ever done to you, will you return to our home? We're reopening a new life page." The middle-aged woman wiped the tears that soaked her cheeks. "Everything that was given by the Karta boss has been returned by the mother. And now you can live in peace, for the master of Karta will never again force you to marry him."

Tanti extended her hand. He grabbed Mara's hand and held her tightly. "Home home, son, we'll start all over again."

Mara stunned. After many years of living with her stepmother, only this time she heard Tanti calling her 'Son'. Perhaps, for a girl who so longs for a mother's affection, this will be a very moving moment, hearing the stepmother call him affectionately. But it seems that it has absolutely no effect on Mara.

The girl still didn't seem to flinch. The pain that the stepmother had incised since entering her life seemed to doubt if the middle-aged woman had really changed. Although there was a little bit of pity, it was completely unable to touch the inner corner of his heart.

"I also want to apologize to you Ra. I'm sorry if during my time as your brother, I often did something bad to you. I'm so sorry Ra, so sorry."

Not only the mother, the only daughter of Tanti who has always been bad to Mara also shed her body. He also nodded with his head down. What a show that looks so dramatic. But unfortunately, it was not at all able to touch Mara's heart.

Mara slightly glanced at Tanti's bead which had been filled by the densely descending roar of tears. But in Mara's eyes there is absolutely no implied sincerity. It was actually an act that he played perfectly. Slowly, Mara pulled her hand from Tanti's.

"I've forgiven you. So you don't have to go out like this anymore."

Beyond Tanti's expectations. Tanti who thought her stepson would greet her with warmth, just sounded so cold like a chunk of ice in the middle of the ocean. Standing firm does not melt at all.

Tanti tried to smile knots even though in her heart, she felt so upset that she did not get what she wanted. But he had to try desperately to hold back the resentment, for the success of his plan.

"Mother is very grateful to you, son. Right now you and your father would want to go back home, right? We start over as a family?"

Mara stared cynically at what this stepmother in front of her said. The family? What kind of family did that middle-aged woman mean? Even Mara herself has lost the meaning of a family word, since the presence of Tanti, and now she returns with the word family? He really could not believe it at all.

All these years little Mara had always strengthened herself by forming a shell to protect her heart from being torn apart, now the woman came to him and tried to crush the shell? One thing that until anytime will not be done by Mara.

Tanti and Puspa were both flabbergasted at Mara's words. Both mother and son seemed to not believe if Mara had the determination not to easily believe with the charade that she had made as perfect as possible. Apparently, in the eyes of Tanti and Puspa, the girl was not easily fooled or deceived.

"But Ra, for the rest of Mom's life, I want to make amends for all of Mom's mistakes by coming back to live with you and your father. Please fulfill Mother's request, son. Come back home, and we'll start over."

Tanti has not given up. He again pleaded, of course with the roar of crocodile tears are increasingly flowing. While Mara, she shook her head again while smiling thinly.

"No, I don't want to go back to that house. If you want to make amends for all the mistakes you've ever made, there's no need for you to persuade or force me to come back to live with you. Just live your life by being a good person, that's enough to make up for all the mistakes you've ever made." - WEB."

Mara started to rise from her position. Slowly, he patted the dress he was wearing to remove the attached sand. He looked back at the two women who were still sitting together. There was a little bit of pity that managed to penetrate the shell of the heart belonging to Mara, but really at this time he understood the so-called sincerity and the so-called deception.

"After this, both my life and my father's life will be much better. And let the life that we will live later, we go through alone, without you or Puspa. Just like before you came into our lives."

Mara let out a long sigh and slowly exhaled. "And at any moment, nothing will ever be able to replace my mother's position in my own heart or in my father's heart. Excuse me!"

Mara swung her legs to waltz away leaving Tanti and Puspa. After the girl's shadow is no longer visible in the eyes of Tanti and Puspa, the two mothers and children throw views at each other. From the look on his face, the two are very clearly implied a deep disappointment because their first plan failed miserably.

"Breng*sek, it turns out that the damned girl is not as weak as we thought Pus was. He seems to know that what we're doing is just a charade."

A swearing escaped from Tanti's lips. Yes, Tanti is still Tanti. Someone so ambitious who is willing to do anything to achieve everything he wants. Maybe if Mara had asked the middle-aged woman to kiss her feet so she wanted to be invited to return to live together would have been done by Tanti. But apparently, the reality that happened was not in accordance with his dreams. The middle-aged woman was rejected outright by Mara.

"Then, what should we do now, ma'am? I can't wait to get rich. I'm tired of living poor like this all the time Ma'am" Puspa said with a miserable intonation.

Tanti smiled obliquely. The failure of this first plan, did not make the middle-aged woman run out of ways. Because, he already has a myriad of plans to be able to bring back the stepson in front of the boss Karta.

"You calm down, Pus. At this time the existence of Mara we already know, therefore do not let it escape again." A grin rose on Tanti's lips. "If we can't persuade Mara in a good way, then we have to do the dirty way."

Forehead Puspa slightly shriveled. He did not know anything that became the plan of the mother. "Dirty ways? What do you mean dirty ways?"

Tanti approached Puspa's face and she whispered something in the child's ear. Instantly Puspa eyes perfectly rounded with a sparkling face. The words of the mother are like a spark in Puspa who had extinguished because of the failure of this first plan.

"Hows it? Do you agree with my plan?" tanti said asking for opinions from the child about the next plan they will do.

"Hahahaha Mom is really smart. I'm sure that way will work."

"Haaaha don't call me Tanti, if you can't get that damned girl to the front of the Karta boss."

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