The World In Other Hemisphere
The Part 21
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Day after day Aruna passed with a heavy burden on her shoulders. There was no beautiful day on his journey.
Morning to work, afternoon to work. Arriving at the boarding house and just daydreaming on the balcony of the 3rd floor of the building.
No night without tears for Aruna. Unrelenting problems Ike haunt him.
How do I explain it?
What if her single parents reject Adi and Ninta?
What if Ike gets kicked out?
What if before they explain his mother will hear from someone else?
What haunts Aruna the most is what if the extended family of her late father finds out. Since Aruna's father died and her mother remarried to another man and gave birth to her two sisters, no 1 person from the family cared for them even after her mother's household was destroyed any more.
No one cares if they have school fees. Do they still have rice to cook tomorrow. Do they have clothes to use tomorrow when the family background of his father including middle to upper class.
Aruna's father had 2 brothers and 4 siblings. But until Aruna now works can be counted with the finger how many times the family visited her. No more just to make sure they're alive and breathing.
Aruna's father's extended family is reluctant to help in matters of material things on the grounds of fear which is helped even his half-sister.
But they 4 managed to be raised and schooled by a woman who hated her father's family.
Now what if they find out what happened to Ike. It can be guessed that the person who is most blamed and in the corner is the poor woman herself.
There will be many hurtful scorn from his aunt and uncle. Definitely and guaranteed.
Until that night came. As Aruna was sitting hanging her legs on the balcony staring down with a blank look. Suddenly the ringing of his cell phone broke the silence of the night
"Hallo mak, "greet Aruna because the one who called was her mother.
" Tell me what's going on, what you're trying to cover from me" the voice from the end there sounded very sad and heartbreaking considering his mother was a figure who was rude in the words and amazingly chatty then the tone of his speech at that time could already describe the destruction of his feelings.
"What's going on? " Arya asked back trying to cover up her feelings.
" Ike called me this afternoon, he said he wanted to have a serious talk with me but I was working in the coffee garden so we agreed to wait for the afternoon. But until now he didn't call me and ignored all my calls. Why is he like this? What I don't know, did I make a mistake? Does he think I'm gonna ask for money?
Please tell her to pick up my phone, I didn't ask her for money" explained the middle-aged woman almost crying
Dannn... Bbbaaarrrr Aruna's heart was like glass falling onto a formless shattered rock.
His cry broke until it was sobbing that even his lips could not speak.
Hearing her daughter cry, the woman on the other end of the phone cried as well
Hikkkkss hikkkss
"I beg you, calm down. " Aruna tried to take a breath to tell a story.
" Ike actually already has a child. As I restlessly waited for her in Depok, she was struggling to give birth to her daughter" Aruna's voice faded in her sobbing.
"Haha? Have a child you say? Last time we met in Ciputat he didn't say anything, he's fine how now to have a child? There's no way that" his mother was a little bit of a bully in disbelief.
Hearing that reaction Aruna was getting injured until her hands shook her head felt hot as if she was about to erupt.
