The Love of the Master

Episode 73

After Nindya closes her phone, she turns around because Andra came to see her. Her husband sat down next to her. The man seemed to hear nothing, he wanted his own wife to say it.

"Still angry?" ask Andra.

Nindya shook her head in response. Andra finally pulled his wife's body, he clenched as if giving strength.

Nindya looked up at her face, actually she wanted a story. But he hesitated, finally he chose to harbor his disappointment in that person. That person was none other than his real father. Yes, the sweet arum seller is his father. The man who had left him for 5 years, without news and without clarity the man of half a century left.

And today, Nindya saw the figure of the father she missed but hated so much. The man's departure makes his life change 80 degrees. Humiliated, reviled, even driven out of his own home by his aunt who is none other than the younger brother of his father.

Nindya has a crush on her father, but when she saw him, the figure changed. The man was a little thin, wanting him to approach him. But the disappointment and heartache made him undo it. His aunt once said that the father went with another woman, preferring to live alone and left her and her toddler sister.

"You why? Tell me, ", said Andra. Andra wants his wife to be honest and open about her life in the past.

"Am I selfish if I can't forgive someone?" ask Nindya.

"You mean?" Andra seemed not to know, but she heard the conversation earlier and made her quite understanding.

"So I saw dad."

"Dad?"

"Yes, that sweet arum salesman was my father. She left me, my mother, and my two sisters since I was a baby" Nindya explained.

"Are you mad at him because he left you? Without knowing what you really hate?"

"He left without news, not even looking for us after we were kicked out of the house. My mother and I fought together, survived to live."

Rahayu's mother had to work hard to support her three children, from washing workers to onion collectors. Nindya herself spent her teenage years at home, looking after her two younger siblings after school. After graduating from school, he moved to the city to help his family's economy. Until he was lucky to meet the Wiliam family.

Much of Nindya went through without a father figure, naturally he slightly hated his father. What else did the aunt say that she said her father went with another woman.

"Then, once you know of its existence, you have no intention of regrouping? Everyone has mistakes, baby. Maybe your father was looking for your whereabouts, weren't you kicked out by your aunt? Why would your aunt throw you out? Are you not suspicious?"

"You mean?" Nindya doesn't understand.

"If your father goes with another woman, I don't think that's possible." Andra can judge Nindya's father by his appearance. The man looked shabby, even bearded like he was unkempt. Plus his aunt kicked him out after the departure of his father.

"Where do you think he's been missing for 5 years?" ask Nindya.

"Have you never asked me this question?" Nindya shook her head, after the departure of her father, Nindya no longer wanted to know with the man's life. His aunt made him hate his father.

"Find him, give him a chance to improve. Even if your father really went with another woman, would you not feel sorry for Nisa and Panji? Maybe he's just like you, wants to meet him."

Nindya was silent to her husband's words.

"You've seen it, and you know its existence. Didn't she see you just now?"

"No, when I saw him I went right away."

"Pity your father" Andra said again.

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While Rahayu's mother, the middle-aged woman cried after knowing the news of her husband from his son. He cried even more when Nindya was disappointed in her own father.

"Mas, don't you miss me too your children? Why did you leave us?" lirih Rahayu's.

When Rahayu cries, Panji comes to her. The 5-year-old boy wiped away his mother's tears.

"Why did Mom cry? I miss my sister, huh?" ask Panji.

Rahayu did not answer, because she was crying not because of it. Panji and Nisa never ask where her father is, because Nindya will be angry if they ask her father.

As for Nisa, the little girl always reported what she knew to her brother. Including this incident, the little girl hastily retrieved the mobile phone that Wiliam gave her. Then he contacted Nindya via vidio cal.

Nindya saw her mother crying, she knew that her mother was crying about her telling her about her father. He could not see his mother like that.

"Sister, hurry up here. Mother kept crying," Nisa said after switching her phone screen.

"Yes, I'll go home now" Nindya said. Before long, the vidio cal connection was over.

* * *

"Mas, take me back there. You wau'kan?" pinta Nindya to her husband.

"certain." Andra smiled as she opened her heart. He wants his family to be whole, he wants everyone to be happy. And it's time for everyone to come together.

Andra and Nindya soon depart, they will meet the sweet arum seller.

Upon arrival there, they did not see the existence of the sweet arum seller.

"Mas, where's dad?" ask Nindya to her husband.

"Maybe go around" Andra guessed. "We're looking around here."

Andra and Nindya started searching, until half an hour later. Nindya saw the figure she was looking for. A man was sitting while wiping his forehead with a cloth, wiping his sweat.

Then the man took something in his pants pocket, he calculated the income today.

"Is this money enough to search for their whereabouts?" say the man himself. Day after day, he inserted money for the provision of his family search. Being apart for 5 years made him lose track.

"Nindya, you must have grown up. Nisa and Panji must have been big, too. Where are you guys? I miss you guys." Unfeeling, his eyes shed tears. How much he misses his wife and children.

While Nindya, her body trembled when she heard her father's words. All this time he had been wrong to think of his father, he thought his father had completely forgotten him.

"Dad ...," call Nindya.