Why Should I..?.!?

47. Peace

The atmosphere of the house that I miss so much I can finally enjoy again. Clinging with mom and dad in front of the tv, seeing an enthusiastic Fani ask what food and snacks he was taking out all from the paper bag I brought.

"Onde-onde turns out not as good as Devan and Naya said brother. Still good fried chicken mom's cooking." His comments when he had spent half a burger in his mouth.

"Grandfather, eat right come on, don't talk first if you're still chewing.." Mommy said while changing her sitting position.

"Mother tired? Still routinely check the same health sister Dewi right mom?" I asked while taking a packet of snacks in front of Fani.

"Still brother.." My mother replied, smiling at me.

"Sister ihh, it's Fani sis! I took it anyway..!!" Fani complained with a pouting face and looked so upset.

"There's only one deck.." My reply while opening the snack in my hand.

"Dad. big brother yeah..." Whine Fani on a father who is seriously watching the news on tv.

"Why deck. If there is no brother in tanyain continue, now there is even a brother fighting mulu..." Said the father in a soft tone while stroking softly Fani's head.

I stick my tongue out at Fani. It made her frown even more and look at me sharply.

"Sister.sudah dong do not disturb your sister continues.." I grinned at mother's words, while Fani instead stuck out her tongue mocking me.

"You two should always love each other... So later if father and mother are not there you stay in harmony, protect each other, can not fight, can not be enemies. Okay?" Said my father while looking at me and my sister with a big smile.

"OK dad. As long as you bring good food every time you go home, Fani will definitely love you more, brother." Sahut Fani origin, then open a snack of potato chips in front of him.

"Well, is that it? Mom and Dad will be able to get us old. Don't talk like that anymore, yeah..." I said while lying on my mother's lap.

"Yes son, God willing we will always be together. But you have to promise me that whatever happens next you have to keep together and strengthen each other." Said mom while tidying my bangs to the side.

"Yes ma'am, I promise you." I closed my eyelids, holding back my tears from falling. I don't know why I feel bad when mom and dad say this.

"Sister, didn't you come here?" Fani asked suddenly, making me instantly open my eyes and glance cynically at her.

"Who's the handsome brother of the deck?" Ask dad curious.

"Anya's boyfriend, who else. Hehe.." Answer Fani plain.

"Oiya, why didn't you stop by earlier sister?" Ask mother.

"It was late at night ma'am, at home she said there was a distant brother coming, so she hurriedly went home." I was without looking at my mother.

"Oh yeah, I remember, last month when you came home with him, too, son." Father said as he looked at me, confirming my expression when talking about a man who had begun to stop in my heart.

"Yes yeah.but Anya returned to her own work Monday afternoon, Anya entered the night. If Arya's brother comes back tomorrow afternoon." I said while sitting back. Do not want if until the mother tingling because tired of her thighs I continue to make a bed.

"You seriously like him, son?" Ask dad carefully.

My face was red in shame because of Dad's question. I don't know, I don't usually show my feelings on this one to my mom or dad.

"Here you are, sister is already shy cat, so it certainly likes it right?" Mom smiled broadly as she said that, making me feel even more wrong in front of them.

"Sister's cell phone sounds tuh..." Fani suddenly said.

"Please take it on deck,..." I said with a big smile towards Fani.

"OK, brother..." Fani walked into my room for a while, then appeared with a cell phone in her ear. He smiled mischievously at me before I turned my hand to ask for my phone back.

I say goodbye to my father and mother to go to the living room, answering Aryan's phone.

Hey baby, said Fani you already miss me...

It was Mah Fani who missed, not me.

'Ah, it sucks this Chibi Maruko Chan. Why wear say kangen anyway? I'm badmood again.' I muttered a little.

We just chatted for a minute. Then I went back to the living room with my mom and dad.

"Yeah....! Forgive me brother..." Shouted Fani when I arrived and immediately tickled her waist.

"Already..Anya.. Fani's..Duh.. feel watch Tom & Jerry mom here...." Complain mom.

"It's night, let's go to bed, son, sleep..." Father say.

"I want to sleep with my sister? Yeah, yeah yeah?" Fani said when I stopped tickling her.

"May, but I can't be ignorant anymore, okay?" Reply as I step into my room.

"Every boss...!" Fani walked following me with the position of the right hand finger parallel to her temple, grak respectfully.

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The morning I missed the most came. We had breakfast together peacefully and jokingly.

Mother told me that all the debts in the stall she had paid off with the salary I sent yesterday.

Dad is still busy in the rice field, but now plans to trade fruit if the capital has been collected.

Fani chatted about school and her friends.

I told my work, my co-workers, also about the cost, the boarding house, and Ms. Ratmi. The story I've been straining in such a way that it's fine that I've been telling them.

Drrtt...Drrrttt

Cellphone's ringing.

Video call from brother Vero.

"Assalamu'alaikum Anya..." Sapa brother Vero cheerful.

"Wa'alaikumsalam sis.wah brother cheerful this morning..." My comment changed my sitting position.

"Hello brother..my name is Fani. I'm Anya's most cute and funny sister." Fani's voice suddenly appeared and sat on my lap.

"Fani. darling.here son.no manners to interrupt brother chat Anya with his friend." Mom called Fani while piling up the dirty dishes from our breakfast earlier.

"Hello, too, baby. Well, you're so funny. How could I not know your mother?" Said Vero suddenly.

I glanced at my mother. Raise my eyebrows as a question signal if you want to talk to brother Vero.

Mom nodded, then I handed my phone to mom.

"Assalamu'alaikum Anya's mother.How are you?" Vero said as soon as his mother's face appeared on his phone screen.

"Wa'alaikumsalam son..good mother's news..kak Vero himself how? Anya says Vero just healed ya..."

"Yes mom..."

Mother and sister Vero chatted for nearly fifteen minutes. Brother Vero said that he wanted to come here, wanted to step on the ground in a new city, wanted a peaceful atmosphere, also wanted to feel a whole family.

Me, dad, and mom were moved by Vero's words. Even my mother was teary to hear it.

"Can. Whenever Vero wants to come here, please son, your mother's door is always open for you." Mother said before ending their conversation this morning.

"Kak Fani buyin new socks dong. Fani's socks have stretched, cook every day should be wrapped in rubber bands first so as not to go down if Fani wear..." Fani grumbled, approaching me who was sweeping the courtyard of the house.

"Yes, just a second deck, this is brother finish first"

"Asiankk...!" Shouted Fani happily, while jogged ria ran into the house.

Half an hour later, Fani and I left the house for Mr. Amin's shop.

This store is adjacent to the warung mak Yah, so people can directly shop for vegetables to warung mak Yah, then buy groceries and other household needs to the store Pak Amin.

"Hey Anya, how are you? What are you buying?" Ask Sarah kindly after coming out of the store.

"Hi too brother. Good news. What's your own brother? It's about to buy socks for Fani."

"Don't buy skincare? It's already working. Or still can't afford expensive skincare like mine." Brother Sarah started to speak sharply to me.

"No. Aja beautiful sister, Anya like this, later if Anya follow using expensive skincare Anya worried later sister Sarah lost competitiveness, hehe." My reply as I walked away from Sarah's sister who was agape at my words.

"Let's stay away from Anya. Last night I saw him among the guys, definitely not really Anya right now." Nurma said to Sarah.

I still hear them talking about me. Expanding my family's ugliness that wasn't all right.

With Sarah, I still dare to answer. But with Miss Nurma? Better I shut up, talk was useless, he would be even more aggressively insulting my family.

"This brother is good, brother! Fani wants this one yeah..!" Shouted Fani from inside the store. He was standing in a row of socks on the wall of the shop on the right.

Fortunately, Fani did not hear what they were gossiping about... My inner.

I approached Fani, then agreed to what she chose.

"Two yes brother. let if it rains, wet, there is still a reserve instead.hehe..." Said my sister expectantly.

"Iya Fani dear. but the learning is more active yes, if you can be a class champion again, okay?"

"OK Brother.." With the spirit of Fani brought two pairs of socks to the front of Mr. Amir.

"Eh, Anya's home... How's it going, son?" Greet Mr. Amir when I see me standing behind Fani.

"Alhamdulillah good sir. It's the same one kilo of sugar, one kilo of eggs, five thousand sausages sir." I said as I took the wallet in my pants pocket.

"Ready. Just a minute,"

When we finished, we walked back home. Passing through the Kindergarten building where I and Fani used to go to school. There were still some traveling merchants on the sidelines, and Fani was very enthusiastic to take me there.

"Let's buy ice cut, we haven't eaten ice for a long time..." (Es cut\= Ice with a rectangular shape with several flavor variants that can be cut into three to five parts, depending on the buyer wants to buy at what price, then put a puncture on the end of the piece so that buyers can easily eat it)

We sat on the rocks on the sidelines. The old stone remains of the construction of the TK building that has long been hidden there.

While enjoying the ice cut, Fani told a lot about the happiness of mother and father when receiving my gift money. They look so bright and so proud of me. They immediately used it to buy kitchen necessities and pay their debts in the stall.

"Bu Wati same bu Nurma has been silent sis. I've never been angry again." Fani said at the end of the story.

I'm relieved. I am so grateful to have Fani. Although he was a child, he understood our family's condition. Fani can make us happy again. And Fani always said all the things to me, which even my mom and dad couldn't say.

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