The Not To Be Regrettable

16. Pick up Restu

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Lidiya's body instantly collapsed on the sofa. His side reflexively patted his cheek hard enough, hoping that what he had just heard was just a dream. However, as he felt the stinging sensation, he began to realize that all this was real. Oh, my God, this is bad. Inner Lidiya began to panic. If this is real and not a dream, can he hope that he hears wrong?

"Mom, are you okay?" tanya Lingga started to worry.

Lidiya immediately glared sharply towards his eldest son. "Which mother would be fine after hearing this news?" emotional shouting. His view then shifted to Vallery. "You're not really pregnant, are you? You guys-"

"Mom," interrupted Lingga cutting Lidiya's sentence. He then reached into the pocket in his suit and took out a photo of Veryery's usg from inside the wallet. "Be careful if you lack trust" he continued.

With her face of shock, Lidiya received a piece of the photo that Lingga had proffered. It seems like he still can't believe it.

"Mom once said, right, if you want a daughter-in-law and a granddaughter. Both can also be directly. Well, now Lingga bring it as you wish. Mom happy?"

"You're out of your mind? Bring an underage girl and you acknowledge as the wife-to-be and mother of your child? You want to be arrested by the police for understanding underage girls?" Lidiya sneered at her dizzy temple, "Good! Just make it dizzy," he complained later.

Lidiya sighed, glanced at Vallery who was now nervous to death.

"Aren't you thinking of suing this old man?" Lidiya asked Vallery in a soft tone, with one hand pointing at Linga.

"Mother!" lingga protest was upset, "i am not that old to be called an old man." The man looks offended if it is related to age, especially if it must be compared with Very.

"Now I ask, how old are you?"

"34 years," replied Lingga sounding reluctant.

"Then this girl?"

Linga suddenly tight. Lidiya immediately smiled disdainfully at her own son.

"Mom doesn't want to be racist, it's just-"

"Mom just need to give us my blessing, Mom," said Lingga again cutting off Lidiya's speech.

"Then what about your parents? Already know?" Lidiya asked Vallery.

With a nervous feeling, Vallery nodded slowly.

"His response?" ask Lidiya. Before Vallery replied, Lidiya said again, "Mom sure your parents would have wanted to kill my son" he added later.

Inwardly, Vallery justified Mother Lingga's guess. Although Mother Lingga's guess is not entirely true.

"Therefore the Linga needs Mother's blessing and help."

"So, you think that if Mom, being the mother of the pregnant woman, I'd be willing to marry my daughter to a man as old as you?" Lidiya immediately shook her head firmly, "obviously not. I'm not that crazy, Lingga."

"Why do you talk like that?" lingga protest upset.

"You'd better take the legal route" suggested Lidiya.

"I mean Mom?"

"Let Nak Very sue you and you take the punishment. I promise I'll-"

"Just right mom, when do you give such advice? Linga wants responsibility, Lingga-"

"You think because you want responsibility it can all be that easy?"

"No," answered Lingga quickly, "Lingga is well aware that this will not be easy for Lingga or Vallery. Yes, Lingga understands. Therefore Linga needs the help of Mother, to convince Papa Vallery. Plis, ma'am, help the phallus. Mommy didn't get along with us?"

Lidiya back on her temples. "Mom's gonna talk about this with your dad first."

"But, Mom." The phallus was about to protest.

"There's no buts. Mother's decision is unanimous, your fate depends on your father's decision."

Linga was disappointed. His fate is on the edge of the horn. What if his father forbade him to marry Vallery?

"It looks like we are in trouble" Lingga said resignedly. He stomped his temple in frustration, everything did not go according to his plan.

With his calm face, Vallery smiled faintly. "No papa, I said no, if I didn't ask for you" he continued, Lingga turned to him with a sharp look.

Angry phallus. It was clear from his eyes. And that obviously scared Vallery.

"Do I look like an irresponsible man?" tanya Lingga offended.

Very shakes firmly. With his head slightly bowed he said, "Sorry," he softly said.

The phallus turned towards Vallery. "You don't have to apologize, I'll find a way out. You don't have to worry. I promise to keep my promise. Just trust me enough. Okay?"

Inevitably, Vallery nodded, assuring.

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"Gue needs an explanation, Valle," Patricia said suddenly. The girl suddenly stood in front of Vallery.

Vallery frowned in confusion, then sat back on his stool. Nick sat next to him, who was busy with his phone. I don't know what that guy is doing.

"What's the explanation, Pat?" ask Vallery while holding back any upset.

Patricia reached into her bag, then pulled out her phone. Tinkering for a bit and then showing it to Vallery.

"Lo needs an explanation, Pat. You know everything." Both of Vallery's eyeballs surrounded the classroom, when he found no one other than Nick and Patricia, and he said, "he's the father of the baby I bear. What else do you want to explain?"

"But why are you so?"

"meaning?" Veryery's forehead frowned, not understanding.

"Yes, yesterday when he brought you to campus also lo umbar-umbar. What does that mean, Valle?"

"Let's just know, Pat. Try you think, strange not later if I suddenly want to get married and no one knows who I am. Well, mending I tell the clue through sosmed so as not to shock if later I want to marry," said Vallery explained.

Patricia let out a long sigh, then looked at the Very Instens. "So you really want to get married? You're 19 years old, Valle. And you're still in college. Are you sure of this decision? Not afraid of money?"

Veryery's face turned sour. His memory returned to the rejection of the Papa, even with Mother Lingga. Ck, is it possible that he and Lingga will still be able to get married if no party approves of it? Or maybe Lingga will invite him 'married run'. Oh, my God, that sounds terrible. Unknowingly Vallery shook his head while shuddering in horror.

"Why did your expression change so?" ask Patricia astonishment.

"Gue suddenly hesitated, whether I could actually marry Lingga or not" I Vallery honestly. His view was bright, imagining his fate and their children if if Lingga failed to marry him.

"Why?" This time Nick opened his voice. He is not busy with his phone anymore, already fully interested in the chat of his two best friends.

"Papa has not given permission, Ibu Mas Lingga is also not sure whether can love blessing or not." Vallery stared sadly at Patricia and Nick in turn.

Very shakes. "So I'm gonna go berserk when I say he doesn't have to marry me. Ah, just really, really serem. If I was, we have not received my blessing, but Lingga insists on my marriage."

Hearing Vallery's words, Nick smiled with satisfaction. Another with Patricia who was just a faint snort.

"Keren is also Babeh's candidate lo's son," Nick chuckles. And managed to get him a spoiled blow from Patricia.

"Where's it going, Nick?"

"Cool from the sonnae times, like me," retorted the original Nick. He then stood up while holding his backpack, "kuy, to the cafeteria. Laper. Worms in my stomach already on jog Korean song."

Vallery. "Kayak knows Korean songs, lo" she stood up.

"Significant. Gegara, it's." Nick points at Patricia blatantly, making her get a sharp eye shot from Patricia.

Vallery looked at the behavior of the two. Then take them to the cafeteria immediately.

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Linga entered her yard feeling tense. The shadow of his father's angry face suddenly greeted, making his hair bristling suddenly. What if he can't marry Vallery like he promised? Is it possible that he should marry the girl without the blessing of his parents? Jeez, just imagining it makes Lingga cringe. Especially if it happens? He could have killed himself. Oh, okay, that might sound like an exaggeration.

"Assalamualaikum," said Lingga as he entered the central room. Her parents were sitting and watching a television show.

"Wa'allaikumsalam. Already arrived? Alone only? Which father-in-law candidate did your mother mention?" berondong Ayah Lingga with its distinctive Javanese dialect.

The phallus grimaced then nodded and shook his head. He sat down on the sofa, joined by his parents. Nodding to the question that he has arrived, while the headband answers if he does not take Vallery with him.

"At home, Dad."

"Why not invited?"

"Well, sometime."

"Don't tell me sometime, I'd also like to know what your future daughter-in-law is."

Both eyelashes were shocked. Wait, whoa! What Lingga did not mishear, if his father was calling a prospective ghost. This is what his father called a potential ghost, Vallery right? Not another woman?

"Dad just said what? Prospective son-in-law Dad? This means?"

"No need to pretend not to understand," said Lidiya pretending to put on the face of his judges. Looks like his mother is still upset with the age difference of Veryery with Lingga that is adrift quite far.

Still with a confused face, Lingga turned towards the mother. "You mean you give me your blessing?" tanyanya tried to make sure.

"You're too old for me to forbid marriage to someone's child, especially if the girl gets pregnant. Do you want time to ban? Yeah, can't it?"

The Linga Smile. His fear did not happen, and he got his blessing.

"What about our age difference?"

"Yes, not how. The important thing is that the person wants you to marry, Daddy doesn't matter" replied Father Lingga casually.

In the heart, the Linga exclaimed in excitement.

"What matters is how to get the blessing of the girl's family," said Dad Lingga back imbuh.

The look on Lingga's face turned grim. Right, the blessing of the Vallery family is most important. Moreover, Papa Vallery seems to be strongly opposed to their relationship. Jesus, what should the Linga do?

"Can't you help?"

Father Lingga shook his head. "You did it, why should Dad be in charge? Just yummy. Sury itself. Later if you're going to ask the girl, then I help."

In this case, it's the same lie. Inner Linga grumbled in the heart. But yes it is, quite, at least his father did not oppose his relationship with Vallery. So he is not too dizzy to get blessing from both sides. Enough of Papa Vallery alone he is difficult to get blessing, his father did not.

"Well, if so, Lingga will pay." The phallus stands up immediately.

Lidiya looked disappointed because Lingga immediately wanted to go home. Padah his eldest son was only up until a few minutes ago, but already wanted to leave just like that?

"Pamit? No dinner here? The Mbok already masakin your favorite vegetable loh. Eat first, just go home," said Lidiya suggesting, "Mom don't ask you to stay here, at least have dinner here. Mother has asked Mbok masakin loh, cook do you eat? Tega you?"

Sighing, Lingga glanced at the Father. Bayu, Lingga's father seemed to nod, telling the son to obey his mother. This of course makes Lingga finally resigned and obey his mother.

"Yes, Lingga had dinner here" he said in the end.

Lidiya immediately exclaimed in excitement and immediately got up from the sofa. "You sit down first, talk to your father. Let me get ready for dinner." He patted Lingga on the shoulder, telling his eldest son to sit back while he prepared dinner for them.

"Your mother was lonely after you moved into each other's homes" Bayu said, "if Dika Ayah understood, Ga, she was married. You haven't, should you be here more often?"

"Once again, Dad, I like to chatter about the future wife. Linga males nanggepinnya," I Lingga honest.

"Your mother is only worried because you're going to be an old virgin."

Linga snorts. "That's not virgin since graduating S1, Dad."

"That's not what you need to tell me. I didn't ask." Bayu slightly scowled angrily while sipping his herbal tea, "how is your company doing? There's no obstacle? Or do you need an insvestor?"

"Why? You want to invest in Lingga's company?"

Bayu shrugged both his shoulders simultaneously. "Now you need. Dad's no problem. Lha how are you? What's it gonna take?"

Lingga glanced at the suspicious father. "Why would you suddenly want to invest in a Lingga company?" the question is a little surprised, "Dad plans to make Lingga company a subsidiary of Father?" accusation later.

Bayu laughed then shook his head. "No, I didn't really mean that. But it seems possible too. How about-"

"Uninterested, Dad," cut the phallus quickly.

"Why?"

"Because this is the Lingga company. The results of Lingga's hard work and also Lingga's team, I can't dong buy at will."

"How's the afternoon?" reply Bayu not accept.

"Honey, Lingga! The food is ready, let's hunt! It's gonna be cold."

Lidiya's voice suddenly sounded between their debates, Lingga immediately stood up.

"Come, Dad, I called. And never buy shares in Lingga company. Point. I don't like to deal with Dad's business" Lingga said, leaving the living room.

"Oh my God, whose son is that?" hiss Bayu then followed them to the kitchen.

Tbc,