The Thorn in the Family

Look at Mother

In accordance with his promise, Sunday arrived to coincide with the red date of Tari and Randi prepared to pay a visit to his mother's house in Jombang. They plan to leave early in the morning to avoid traffic jams.

Not to forget his mother-in-law also left some special gifts for the family of Tari, treat mama is so good and attentive to make Dance comfortable and already consider like his own mother. Dance is so grateful for her new life that feels so happy.

Before leaving the dance also took time to go to his bakery, Tari brought with him all the remaining bread in his shop to be distributed to the neighbors. This is not an ugly bread, just that the dance closed early here so there are still some bread left and still very worthy to consume.

Dance wrapped the bread so neatly and divided it into several boxes that are ready to be shared. In addition to bringing bread and souvenirs from her mother-in-law, Tari also stopped by to buy Ipul and Mother some fruit. Understandably Mother and Ipul howaya eat fruit when Dance who visited and bought it.

Throughout the journey, Tari was overwhelmed with happiness, impatient to meet her mother, wanted to quickly embrace her and tell her many things about her new family about her business as well as about her husband.

Two hours drive, came Tari and Randi at Mother's house.

Tin...Tin...Tin....

The sound of a horn entering the yard area of the house that is wide enough for a two-car parking lot, Mother is sweeping the front yard that looks grown in small bushes, and the, understandably the rainy period even though many times on vacation still the grass will easily grow there. Mom immediately turned her body to look at the car of the child who came.

His smile was floating perfectly.

“Alhamdulilah”, he said when he saw Dari get out of the car wearing a nice shirt, a more beautiful and fresh face and a slightly contained body than before.

Dari immediately walked over to Mom with a small run like a child who had not met his mother for a long time, not forgetting by stretching his hands to welcome a hug from loved ones.

“Mother....”.

Mother who is still so stunned to see the change of the look of the child is still dumbstruck staring in disbelief. Her eyes glazed over happily at the sight of her son's better life many times more than before.

“Mother...” call her again.

While Mom was still in place and did not realize if the broom had escaped from her grasp.

Mother and child are hugging to release their longing, five months already Tari did not come home to visit Mom, because of his new busyness open a cake shop and Randi who never got a holiday these few months because there was a new product launch.

“Mother Dance Kangen”, he said on the sidelines of the warm embrace.

“Mother is also kangen son, how are you doing son?”.

“See mom, I'm good, so good even”.

Mother took her son to enter her house, while Randi was issuing one by one souvenirs he brought from Surabaya.

“Pul....”. Shouts from outside the house to inside.

“Pul, go out and help your mas lift things”.

Hearing the cry of Mother who called her name, Ipul immediately ran out of the house to approach her.

“Mbak Tari”. Ipul also kissed the hand of the mas and his mother who had just arrived.

Lots of changes to Mother since this house was sold pakde first, now Mother has never again asked for money on Dari in addition to the monthly rations given by her. Mother also never again demanded to buy this to Dance, only that mother could not do a little firm on the pact and her family.

Sometimes for the sake of obeying the wishes of the mother and bude, must be willing more efficient than usual, he said, they still eat at the mother's house even though there is no Mbah there on the grounds that the family must share with each other, just that the mother no longer gives anything special to them.

Mothers will cook the same as what was eaten that day, sometimes to extend the life of the money that Tari sent mother to use some plants in the yard to be processed food. I realized that the school fees of Ipul are getting higher at this time so do not want to trouble Dance so deep.

All items have been brought in all, stored in the kitchen.

“Bu there is a deposit from mama for ibu”. Dari handed the parcel to her mother, which turned out when it was opened was a beautiful white dress.

“Send thank you mom to mom ya nak”.

“Bu, this is a lot of pastries from the Dance store, mother just share it with neighbors around rum”, Tari open a few packets of cakes in a box and cut them into pieces.

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Bude's house.

When it was nine in the morning, there was a noise coming from outside the house, Bude began to open his eyes and rise from his sleep.

“Duh noisy once still morning also”.

With an irregular face and wearing a large negligee shirt and shapeless hair, Bude began to open the window of his house, his eyes splashed when the morning light entered his house.

“Oh Dance comes, good, Marni later definitely cook tasty”.

Bude passed by to clean himself up to go to Mother Dance's house. Not ten minutes bude has come out with a fresher face.

“Tar when to go home?”,

“Newly bude”. Dance grabbed her bud hands to shake hands.

“You brought a lot of souvenirs-by”. His eyes sparkled when he found a lot of food and fruit arranged on the table.

“Iya bude want Dance share to neighbors around”.

Bude nodded his head like he understood the meaning of Dance and was planning something.

“Sini let bude who shared with them”.

Not cool to refuse bude's help, Tari asserted it, as his plan bude did not distribute the cake to neighbors but took it all home.

After competing to distribute the bude cake back again to the house of Tari to take his share. Bude glanced at a glimpse of a paper bag containing a robe from mom to mom, realizing it was a quick dance said

“That's for Mom, deposit from mama”.

Bude rotated his eyes.

“Eh Tar, have you filled yet?”

“But bude, just pray”.

“Be careful barren loh, cook already six months not filled yet, tuh see our neighbor Shinta a month married just now pregnant, beware if not pregnant-pregnant later your husband find another woman”.

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Bude's words were quite heart-piercing that morning.