The Sweetest Feeling's

Mother #3

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"Don't take it all!!" It's too late, because Hendrik has taken all the money Mirna has saved in his bag which is the paycheck the result of working as a washerman in the inn over the past week.

"I told you I needed this money. You're senile, aren't you?" The man raised his hand as he almost reclaimed the money inside the envelope which was nothing much.

"But I need it too, Hendrik. Our needs are many, not to mention I have to visit Sandi in prison. Can be battered later if he does not pay security money" said the woman.

"All right, Sandi's all you think about! He should be able to keep himself in there instead of relying on you. He's a grown-up."

"But in prison it's not like that! Last time he was beaten for paying security late."

"That's the result if he's careless. You stupid kid! Just trouble." The man quickly left, intending to leave if all the money he had not taken.

***

"Baby, I have to meet someone first. Can you wait for me for a minute at school?" Daryl's message came in when Nania had just dropped out of her class and finished her semester exam that day.

"No longer?"

"Just for a minute."

"Who did you meet?"

"People from clothing brands. He wants to advertise and put his products in Fia's Secret." Daryl.

"Why did you meet him? Can't anyone else?"

"For this kind of business to be direct with me."

"Oh …."

"It's okay to wait a minute?"

"okay."

"Don't go anywhere? Wait till I come. Remember, don't talk to strangers let alone leave." 

What does he think I'm a Kindergarten boy? Inner Nania.

"Babies?"

"Yes, Dadd I understand." Nania retaliated.

"All right, just wait at the security guard to keep you safe, okay?" But the peia sent back a message.

"Yes." Yeah."

"Good girl." Followed by emot smile.

And after half an hour the man did not come, making Nania bored. He was just pacing around in front of the guard post even though the officer inside told him to enter as the drizzle started to descend.

But Nania still refuses because if she goes inside it is afraid of causing dislike from her husband. The woman of course remembered that Daryl was very jealous, and she didn't want to cause any trouble for now.

"Nenice?" The female voice interrupted her daydream.

He looked up and Mirna was standing under the thickening drizzle.

"Mother?"

"Oh, Nania! Thankful you are still here!" He immediately approached and suddenly hugged her.

Of course Nania was surprised. This is the first time that my mother has done this.

"Where are you from? Mom not working?" Nania immediately asked.

"Today I have a day off." Mirna followed as her daughter pulled her to the seat.

"Oh ... Why did you come here? Intentionally looking for me?"

Mirna did not answer immediately, but she stared around. No one was found but the security guards pacing in front of the gate.

"You ... haven't come home yet?" And he asked back.

"It's my husband's waiting, he said there was a need first." Nania looked at Mirna's situation which didn't seem too good.

"Mother healthy?" Finally he asked again.

"Healthy, just a little tired." Mirna answered.

"Mother's job is tired?"

"Lumayan. Where is there work that is not tired?" The woman chuckled bitterly.

She thought maybe this was what Nania felt when her daughter was still living with her.

"Mom wants to visit Sandi." And finally he spoke again.

"To the detention house?" Nania looked at the mother's sad face.

"Yes. It's been a month and I haven't visited again. He's gotta be waiting."

"Why did you come here?"

"Mom doesn't know where else to go because …." Mirna hung her words.

"To come there you have to bring ... something."

"Food?"

"Yes, and .. money."

"Why should I bring money?"

"To pay for security, Nna."

"Why is that? Isn't it safe there? There are a lot of officers on guard, right? Why pay for it?"

"If not your brother will be the target of beating fellow prisoners."

"Kok that?"

"Mom doesn't know, but usually it's late for a visit."

"Well, why is there something in prison?"

Mirna fell silent.

He was actually embarrassed to beg like this, but what could make him have no choice. Especially if Hendrik knew his success approaching Nania would cause the man to force him into extortion the way he wanted.

"Mom needs money, Nna." And finally the sentence slid also from his mouth. Nania thought about what the woman was going to say.

He sighed softly.

"Actually I don't want to be like this, but I'm forced to. I promise you this is just this once."

Nania has not answered.

"Nna, help mom. This time it's just."

The woman clenched her mouth tightly.

"Miss?" Mirna touched her daughter's hand.

"If for example my position is like Bang Sandi, you want to work for my safety like this?" He then asked.

"Would you do the same if I were in prison? Even when I'm going to be sold, I don't believe." Nania reminded him of what caused her to experience what she was currently experiencing. And that left Mirna at a loss for words.

"And do you know how it feels to be different when I am also like Bang Sandi who was born from the mother's womb?" 

"Don't you think I have the same rights as a mother's son? Are you loved, or treated well? Or because I'm a daughter so my mother's treatment is the same I'm different?" All those words just slid from Nania's mouth.

"Mommy knows, actually I don't want to care anymore about the situation of mother or Bang Sandi if you remember your treatment all along. I like to be sad when I remember all this time I fought alone for you but no one ever cared about my situation. I want to just want the situation of mother like how too. Moreover, my husband has forbidden me to do anything for mother."

And it looks like this time he has to step up.

"But unfortunately my heart is not like that." But Nania got up from her seat.

"But promise yes, the money is used to make Bang Sandi, do not be given to Om Hendrik? I don't want that mom." 

Mirna.

"Come on, Mom, my husband hasn't been here yet" she said, taking Mirna to a nearby convenience store.

***

One large bag of crackles contains several types of food that he intended to supply his mother to gulp the sister Nania gave. Surely after he paid for the item at the cashier and took the money at the ATM.

Not much, just to help the mother pay for what she said a moment ago.

"If it's about food, you can call me. Come to school or to the house to read, but if about money I can not help much for fear of being discovered my husband. I don't know what the reason would be if he asked. Because I'm not as free as you see. You just use the rules and I can't just use whatever I have right now." He gave up the money he had taken just now.

"Thank you, Nania. I won't forget this." Mirna accepted it with a feeling of relief.

"Mother's the same as Hendrik?" Then the boy asked.

"Who else is she with?"

"Keep what he's working for mom? Still relaxing while mom slamming bones like gini?"

Mirna just fell silent.

"I now know that if we live with someone, at least we are both struggling to be better and not each of them is like gini. Shouldn't the couple go through it all together? Difficult to be happy, happy just as sad, have and do not have it. If you're like this mother, then what's the point of having a husband?" Nania is still talking about her mother's current situation. And I feel like he wants to say what's on his mind. 

But the arrival of Daryl's car in the parking lot shortly after he sent a message of course stopped him right then and there.

"I'm sorry I can't make it, my husband will definitely not give permission" he said later. And Mirna understood that.

"Then is mom saying goodbye?" he said he was preparing to leave when at the same time his daughter-in-law came down and came over.

Nania nodded her head.

"It's over?" greet the man as soon as their distance is close enough.

"Udah." Nania answered and then she pulled the two corners of her lips together to form a smile.

"Mother go, Nna" said Mirna again who left after nodding at Daryl, though the man ignored her completely.

"Yes, Mom. Be careful." replied Nania who was immediately immersed in Daryl's arms when her husband pulled her like he was saving her from danger.

"I feel like I've been struck by lightning in broad daylight when you sent a message with your mother?" The man whispered in his ear.

"Huu lebay." Nania laughs.

"Seriously, that's why I'm in a hurry here." And he had no intention of letting go at all.

"Don't I tell you to stay in school? Why are you even here?" He tied the previous message.

"Have I told you I'm thirsty?" Nania is looking for an excuse.

"Is the drinking water you've brought out?"

"It's just a tumbler. From there also where have you been …."

The man laughed softly.

"Do I also have to provide gallon water at your school? But isn't there a canteen?"

"No need, and I'm lazy when I have to go to the cafeteria? It would be a way here. I met my mother."

"Is he alone?" Daryl stared at the path Mirna had just walked.

"It looks like it."

"What a coincidence did you meet him? Did he ask you for anything?" The man looked suspiciously.

"No. I went in and I went shopping."

"Continue?"

"There is no continuation. Yes, I paid for it, so the groceries met."

"Hm …." Daryl doesn't seem to like it.

"It's just a little, Dadd. Consider it alms."

"It could be you." He rubbed the top of his wife's head.

"Well, if you don't see me."

"Yes, I hope you don't see him often again so you don't have to give him anything else."

"Ahahaha, how cruel is that?"

"Your giving to him was enough, and now it's time for you to think of yourself."

"Yes, Daddy."

"Where does the drink go now? What did you buy? Why don't you bring anything?" Then Daryl looked at Nania's two empty hands.

"City …." And his brain was spinning fast to find answers. "Udah. Just buy some juice?" answer later.

"Masa? Not buying milk tea?" Daryl glanced at the beverage merchant on the other side of the parking lot.

"No. Am I not drinking milk tea now?"

"really?"

"Yes, I'm sick of drinking su*u, remember?"

"Hm …."

"Have your meeting finished?" Then Nania shifted the subject.

"That's why I can pick you up."

"Well, shall we go home? I was hungry." she asked, grabbing her husband's hand and pulling him towards the car.

"Don't want to buy snacks first to share?"

"Today was a holiday?"

"To the house read how?"

"There's a team that's gone."

"Seriously?"

"Yes. There are a lot of people there."

"Related?" The man opened the car door for her.

"Yes." Yeah."

"All right then."

They immediately left the place.

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