The Sugar Mommy

Citizen's Reproach

“It is true, yes, that Elsa likes to steal food at Mak Ratih's house? It's appropriate, anyway, because she, right, doesn't work so well with her husband. No begging, no busking, no work, yes you think you will get money from where else if not steal.” A middle-aged woman speculated to justify the gossip that was crowded among the surrounding residents.

“Truly, ma'am, said it was always handed over to the one above, but he himself stole. His mouth alone is religious but his heart is really rotten, ” said another.

The atmosphere in the village has been rife with unproven speculation. The rumor had really spread widely without Elsa and Rian knowing. Those who are always in the house do not know that the residents are gossiping it all out day and night. While their families just enjoy life as it is in the house with the child as well.

“I go out first.” Rian was seen wearing his shabby jacket when Elsa was cooking kale vegetables for lunch and later in the afternoon.

“Where to, Mas?” ask Elsa.

But before being answered, Rian had already come out first. The man walked out of the house in a very hasty step like never before. Elsa, who was originally in the kitchen, followed her husband's steps forward, but Rian's footsteps were too fast that Elsa had not seen him again, because the man had been lost in the altercation.

“Hei Rian,” scolds a man his age who is hanging clothes in front of his home page.

Rian stopped his reflex steps, then turned his head. “What's up?” ask her a little bit. He seemed impatient with what the man was going to say, but perhaps something was important so he waited for him for a bit.

“When do you want to be unemployed, Bro? Did you not know that your wife is now a gossip of the citizens because she has stolen a lot of food at Mak Ratih's house?” he said in a condescending tone. The man put his empty bed and put it on the porch.

“What do you mean? You can't just spread slander, because our family never steals, what else Elsa. Watch your mouth, damn it. You are not aware of what you are saying? Are you drunk? But it is impossible this afternoon you are drunk.” Rian raised his voice in disbelief with the accusations that led to him. He thought they were a good family and slander that led to him like firecrackers being directed before his eyes.

“For whatever reason I slandered you and your family, Rian. I've never talked a lie to you, ‘kan? What I say is true, if slander is what is alleged there is no evidence, but if there is evidence, it is not slander but fact. You should know the difference even though your education is low,” cynical friend it.

Rian felt unacceptable. His emotions grew fiercer because he felt that his pride had been trampled by his friend. The man is seen clenching both hands until it is seen that the raw hands are whitened. “Stay slander because our family never steals,” jolts.

“Yes, that's exactly what you can't make a wife and child happy. If you are not ready to get married, do not get married. Look, it's finally like this, ‘right? Your distress is contagious to your child and wife, so to eat alone she must steal,” her cynicism again.

This time Rian really could not hold his emotions, finally the man raised his fist on the right cheek of his friend until the man in front of him fell down. Not only that, his friend immediately got up and gave a raw bogeman on Rian's cheek felt unacceptable with the actions of the man who hurt him.

“Sials. I really told you, you hit me instead, bastard!” His friend was blindly seen and beat Rian's stomach repeatedly.

SERIATE....