Turning Hell into Heaven

30. Skillful Lukman

"Neng, that's .... "

Mbok Inem hung up his sentence. His eyes were on the kitchen. Dara followed the direction of Mbok Inem's gaze.

'Hhhh. Old song!'

Ledek Dara in his inner. Lukman, who returned to action with his expertise using kitchen tools in creating delicious food, realized being seen by the host.

Lukman who is still using an apron left his per-apuran activity. Although wrapped by a cloth with a rope tied behind the neck to protect the front of the clothes he uses, in order to avoid various types of stains due to cooking activities, do not make the body burly Lukman become covered. It just makes a mature man look sexy.

In the past, if you see the appearance of Lukman like that will definitely make Dara wrap his two smooth hands to the waist of the husband. As an expression of admiration for the actions of men who please the family through his cooking. As well as the evidence when Dara bewitched with the charisma of the ex-boyfriend, Lukman.

Different from now. One hundred and eighty degrees, the appearance and behavior of Lukman who seemed to want to repeat the past made Dara's entrails seem rebellious to be taken out all. Dara's sick of seeing it.

"Sorry Dara. But let me make breakfast for our children yes, after that I will leave here soon. I've also made you your favorite hot lemon tea,"

After asking permission to report, Lukman turned to the dinner table to take a glass filled with liquid as he intended for Dara.

Mirisnya, not to mention Lukman had time to hand over and hand over the drink in his hand to Dara, who was concerned had gone away just leaving him alone with warm lemon tea in hand.

"Mother .. Adek and Sister are ready Mother"

Dara nodded, smiled widely and then pinched the chubby cheeks of her bontot daughter, Alsava.

Rani appears to accompany Azkia who follows to meet Dara and Alsava in the living room of their house.

"Lho's? Rani, do you want to come too?" ask Dara.

Dara noticed Rani's neater look than usual. The small bag hanging on his thin body confirms the impression that Rani will also travel.

Rani who was asked immediately nodded and then answered Dara's question,

"Yes Mom. Rani will come too. Let's help Mbok Inem take care of Miss Azkia and Miss Alsava"

"Look at your wounds yesterday. Shouldn't you just rest at home?" ask Dara back.

"The wound is okay, Kok Bu, after being treated by Ms. Nailah, continued yesterday I brought treatment again to the hospital, making the wound really no longer felt. Just a little bit impregnated, ma'am" Rani softly explained.

Dara confirmed the girl's speech. He looked closely at some of the former areas of Kiki's slap on Rani's face. He synchronizes with the condition of Rani who does seem to be fine even quite fit.

"Yes already. You're coming too" Dara broke up.

"Yeayyyy" Alsava cheered cheerfully.

Apparently Alsava is already so sticky with Rani. So that the presence of Rani in the members of her routine makes the little girl happy.

"Son, Brother Azkia, Deck Alsava. Where are these going? let's have breakfast first. I've made breakfast for both of Dad's favorites"

Lukman who had taken off his apron approached their two daughters.

"Dad ain't coming with us, Bun?" ask Alsava plain.

"Don't darling, you have to get out of our house. Because I have to take care of the other family,"

The answer to Alsava is full of satire from Dara that makes Lukman resist emotions.

"Oh that. Sorry Dad, Adek, Sister, Mother, Mbak Rani and Mbok Inem can not have breakfast with Dad. Because we want to go. I ate the breakfast that Dad made."

The utterance of the Alsava as it is makes Dara cheer in the bottom of his heart.

"Yes, if you don't want to have breakfast here with Dad, I'll just pack up the breakfast. Eat it on the road. So that the kids of this beautiful father don't starve"

Lukman does not want to give up from pestering Azkia and Alsava with a treat of his cooking that usually feels good.

"Mbok Inem, please help in the wrap and breakfast" Lukman told Mbok Inem.

Mbok Inem, who heard the request of his future employer's ex-husband, just stayed on the spot, sculpting. Without giving a response through an answer let alone action on Lukman's speech.

Lukman, who realized that, looked back at Mbok Inem and called him in a questionable tone.

"Mdude?"

"Mas, you can't ask for something all you want in a place that isn't your residence. Moreover, ask for it to the person who has nothing to do with you. You must give the right example in front of the children"

Jlegggs.

Again. Not sure how many times Dara attacked Lukman's self-esteem through innuendo. The contents of Lukman's chest had rumbled to vent annoyance. But for the sake of taking the sympathy of the children, he again endured, trying to be patient.

"But what if your trip even makes the children late for breakfast Dara, pity them. Aad ... "

"Dad, we're going for breakfast. If you bring breakfast from home, do not have breakfast outside its name but bring provisions."

Gosh darn. Such was the expression with the same intention in their minds there, hearing the spicy words of Dara's eldest daughter, Azkia.

"Yes already. We have to go now. Let's have the kids say goodbye to Daddy"

Dara gave a small smile as she gazed triumphantly at Lukman. Rani and Mbok Inem also put on a smile, rarely getting a funny spectacle in the morning. Moreover, offerings from people who hurt their employers.

Azkiah and Alsava followed their Mother's orders. Starting from Azkia who reached out her right hand to shake hands with her father. But ...

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"Azkiah, Alsava. I want to say something to you and I have to tell you now because after this your Mother forbids us to meet."

Without confirmation or further ado, Lukman took the two children into the living room, sitting across from each other.

Seeing that Dara followed. Also behind him are Mbok Inem and Rani who faithfully accompany the employer.

"Darling, Mother wants to separate us. Mother wants to be separated from Dad forever. And will also separate Father from Brother Azkia and Alsava. Do you want that to happen, son?"

"Ck. Crazy man!" mummified Dara.

Mbok Inem and Rani who listened to the sound of Dara's voice simultaneously nodded.

"Yes" they answered without asking.

"There is a Father" Azkia responded to Lukman's words.

'Dara's blood is really thick in you, son of Monologue Lukman.

Lukman, who had shaken his heart and body to hear the words of the child, tried to return to his initial intentions, annul the divorce by taking sympathy through the hearts of children.

"Sir Azkia, not so dear. This time it's different than before, son. This time Mother will truly separate us for good," tears began to flow down Lukman's face.

"Dad apologized yesterday-yesterday is rarely with you because Dad has a business that can not be left behind. But, from now on I promise I'll be like your old dad again. We will always have fun together as we have. You guys want to, right?"

Both of his daughters nodded. Lukman starts above the clouds. He wiped his tears slightly to reinforce the impression before his two daughters that the father was truly a friend of regret and was in deep sorrow.

Until a while later the tears were back Lukman released while continuing his speech,

"Ta .. but if Daddy and Mommy separate, Dad can't keep that promise. Not because Dad does not want to, just because of the desire of Mother who must separate us. Hix.. I don't want to part with you, dear beautiful daughter of Father Hiks.."

Dara is no longer able to stem emotions. Dara did not think how could Lukman could rattle the deception to his children, his own flesh and blood. Are his ego achievements and ambitions far more important than the psychological health of their child?

Until Lukman's heart tried to poison the children's own thinking by bragging with tears.

Dara will open her voice, refuting the wind chirping from Lukman. But not to mention the sentence thrown from Dara's mouth, Azkia had preceded to express her argument, Azkia,

"Ahl. Looks like you don't understand, do you? that's not what Mother Father means. So look, Daddy and Adek listen to Brother's explanation! Mother and Father are indeed going to be separated forever as husband and wife, so Dad can not stay one more house with us. But, Mother will never forbid us to stay on good terms with Father. Because Dad was our parents. The duty of the child is to respect the parents. That's Dad,"

"Does Brother want us to live like that? not one more house? Brother wants?" lukman without diminishing her tears. With an increasing sadness.

"Sister said it already happened, Dad. Since I've had Aunt Kiki, we've not had one more house, right Dad," perfect answer from Azkia. With a soft but on target tone.

"Yes. Don't cry and be sad anymore. We'll still meet. Already yes, Adek aja no cry cook Daddy already so cry" Alsava gently rubbed a trace of tears on his father's cheeks.

'Ahh Son, after the big one, Mother hope you are not fooled by false tears like today'

Dara looked pityfully at Alsava, her little girl who knew nothing, so she was scratched by the recesses of her birth father. Dara is determined to educate and nurture her children especially Alsava to be anti in male club.

"You smart children who love and are close to their father, cannot be separated from their father. Mommy must be the one who told you to say this to Dad. Aye right?"

Lukman still insists on applying his deceit.

"Mother never taught Adek to say anything. That Brother?" Alsava looked at his brother.

"Sister was also never taught by Mother to say anything" Azkia's response to the naive babbling of the Sister.

"So you want to separate from Dad? Brother and Adek want us not to go home anymore?" Lukman began to let out a firm tone leaving a tinge of his sadness earlier.

"You." Answer Azkia and Alsava compact.

Lukman clasped tightly to the side of the sofa where he was sitting. Trying to channel for a moment the emotion called wrath in him. The words of his children made savings of word choice in his brain vanishing evaporate just like that. Lukman is no longer able to quibble.

"Dad, haven't you? My brother is hungry. We'll have breakfast outside."

"The worms in Adek's stomach have also started singing"

The whining of his two daughters made Lukman nod his head in resignation to end the conversation.

Seeing that, Azkia and Alsava rose cheerfully from their seats. Approaching the father, shake hands, then wave and step lightly out of the house. Approaching Mr. Saleh who is ready to drive, take them to their destination.

"It looks like you should also come out of this house. The owner and all official residents of this house will leave. You can't be alone in someone's house. Already a licker, a ruse, do you want to be called a robber too? it's just robbers who enter people's homes without the homeowner's permission."

"Become!" Lukman growled at the subtle commandment in other words expelling the one delivered by Dara.

Instead of being silent, Dara even more so pierced the inner Lukman with the sarcasm that He threw,

"Oh yes Mas. Remember not? just last night I told you about child custody in your hands it was like a dream in broad daylight. So, how does it feel to dream in broad daylight? sometime yes,"

Lukman who felt the pain in his heart with the prick of every sentence Dara finally could only be silent. Lukman resigned, although not willing, with a heavy heart He came out of the house Dara.

He stood in front of the fence of Dara house watching the car that drove the departure of the owner and the occupants of the house go for breakfast outside.

'Shit! I should have eaten the breakfast I made earlier' Lukman told himself.

Lukman, holding his stomach which began to rumble, stepped footly leaving the area Dara residence. Hoping there is a free ride that he can use considering his wallet and pants pocket nil the existence of a sheet of money even in the form of coins.

The phone also cannot be used. Because it has been days since the last time it was used, no longer filled with pulses let alone data packets.

Lukman had to accept to be quite content, to accompany footsteps, with a failed ruse that he regretted.

While in the car, Dara embraces her two daughters. He stroked the hair of his two daughters gently, with a calm heart, and deep gratitude.

'Thank you Lord, among the afflictions that have been afflicted, with Your power and mercy, I have been given the gift of kind daughters. Guide me to be a good and righteous single parent in keeping your trusts God, so that they can feel a happy life in the world as well as the hereafter'

Thanks to that hope, Dara plunged into his heart and with hope and hope He space right to the owner of the universe.

He also includes with all hope to the almighty so that every effort He plans to achieve heaven for his beloved family can become real.

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