TRAVELLER LOVE

Stories of the past

" you evil zahra! you getting married doesn't tell me" cried my best friend Sari.

"sorry Ri. I was in the fog at the time, too. Well, because I got an impromptu marriage."

" you mean?"

" long story Ri, by the way you can know my home address from whom?" tanyaku later.

" from your neighbor Ra's in, oh yeah. Turns out your husband's a tangy twisting yah. His house is this big"

I just smiled in response to my best friend's chatter. I saw Furqon just bowed without a word.

" hmmm Furqon. How are you?"

" uhh, I'm good zahra. you?"

" Yes as you can see. I'm good!?"

I enjoy the moment of our togetherness, our past stories dissolve in the increasingly turbulent weather.

" If we remember it was very innocent" said sari later.

"what the hell are you saying Ri? you're an innocent . Aren't you Furqon?"

" Tau tuh sari, just realized the next time he"

" yes I know it was innocent, so funny I chased after someone who did not glance at me at all!"

" haha, start!"

" So the story of love clapping one hand!?" Furqon.

" that's it, but I'm sure one day he'll be devastated by my struggle!"

" hmmmm, how's your own Furqon? is the space in your heart filled? or maybe you enjoy being alone?" I tried fishing. I'm curious about him.

" I am still the Furqon of old, still with the same love" short but pengena, that's what furqon said. I began to feel bad about my best friend. As it turned out all this time, he had not managed to conquer Furqon's heart. Is it so cold that furqon's heart cannot open its heart to Sari??

" eeeh, it looks like it's cool again. Until the husband himself is forgotten" Space walked towards me.

" no koq Mas. How could I possibly forget my own husband!"

" cie cie ... Who already has a husband. We singles can only bite fingers like her" Sari started to tease me

" Therefore, hurry up.." I chimed in.

" How to follow. My love alone was still denied.." he glanced at Furqon.

" you Ri, have started barbarians well" I said.

" yeah, it's better that way, than he doesn't feel at all"

I see Furqon just busy with his dress. There's a bad taste to him. Not long after that they broke up.

" Lo.. why rush, son!?" my mother suddenly came to us.

" sorry Ra, who is this?" sari said half-whispering in my ear. It was natural when Sari asked like that, because all this time she did not know my real mother.

"hmmmmm, oh yeah, this is Arini's mother, my real mother" I said later. My mother's eyes began to tear. Maybe it was because only this time I introduced her as my real mother.

" oh. aunt, Arini's birth mother? koq I never saw? adddduhhhh.. Sick know not?" sari's barbaric attitude began to recur, when Furqon stepped on the sari's foot...

Evening came, I laid my body in bed. I have been getting tired lately. My husband Space came a while later.

" Want me to pinchew her legs?" tanyanya.

" maybe" I said. But I haven't been touched by him. Nausea strikes again, I move away into the bathroom.

" dear.you why?"

" your body, Mas,,,"

" huh? what's wrong with my body?"

" Bau Mas, I can't stand it! oeekk.." Looks like he's starting to smell his shirt looking for the source of the smell I'm talking about.

" Scented like this, he said it stinks... Why the hell do you love?" trying closer.

" don't.don't come here.." I saw my husband's face begin to turn irritated.

" what is this storm?" My mother suddenly came.

" this is Zahra's mom saying I stink! "

" that's normal, kid! for pregnant women?"

" huh? you mean the baby in Zahra's stomach? just weird!" he seems to be getting upset.

" Space, may I have some time with Zahra? there's something I need to talk to him about"

" all right mom"

I began to wonder what my mother wanted to talk about.

" Zahra, I'm sorry son! that time I left you" My mother sat on the edge of the bed and began a conversation with me.

" yes, ma'am.. But why? do you know how I felt for decades? life without parents, how tormented am I ma'am.." I started sobbing as soon as my mother started hugging me.

" I'm sorry mommy son, who always makes you suffer?!"

" Why mom? I'm a mother's son why did you give birth to me then just to leave me"

" Daughter, listen to mother's explanation..."

" What other explanation ma'am, I don't think there's anything to explain" I saw my mother's tears drip.

" I'm sorry mom.."

" hmmmmmm, that's when my mother fell, son! I got pregnant when I was young, and..."

" And what's mom?"

" you know your father was lying to you, it turns out he was a married man. On the eve of your birth your father's first wife came and hit mom in front of a crowd. The neighbor's blasphemy at the time was very painful for the mother. Even after you were born, your father never met his mother until I was finally expelled by the villagers. " My mom started sobbing. It turns out that my mother's burden has been carrying a very heavy cause of life. I never thought her past story was so painful.

" For that, son, I'm sorry"

" yes ma'am. huuuuhuuu "I started to cry.

" Where is Dad, Mom? What's name?" I asked in my tears.

" Your father Revelations Permana, the man who ruined my mother's life . And I don't know where it is now either. Last I heard, he went with his wife to Kuala Lumpur"