Wife On Paper

Chapter 245

"Mr...!"

The little girl screamed loudly after getting out of Dani's car. Her hands hugged the big doll and some paper bags, not to mention the one that Dani was carrying.

"Darling? This is what ... Ye? Why so much?" Ara was shocked to see the number of paper bags in Dani's hand. The woman stammered until she said it.

"Sister Dani bought it. He got a lot of money from his boss, Ma," answered Merra innocently as she kissed the Teddy Bear doll in his arms. The little girl's point is, Dani gets a commission from the results of her work.

What the fuck. What commission? Isn't he the boss. The young man made up what story to his sister until Merra was confused and wanted to be invited to shop as much as that.

Her sister? Hpm ... Ara's tongue suddenly shriveled. Did Dani really acknowledge her sister Merra? But from the beginning, he had already mentioned my sister to the little girl. But to Ara? I don't know.

"Emmm ... It shouldn't be this much." Ara was wrong to remind. Of course he never taught his little daughter to behave consumptively and hedonously like this. He always taught Merra to be frugal and shop as necessary.

But today?

"Leave it ... Isn't it normal, if a brother wants to give his sister a gift." Adrian, who followed Ara behind him, linked his fingers to his wife's fingers.

"Come on, come on in!" Merra even passed the two of them just like that and only Dani was invited in.

"Merra!" call Ara who is a little restrained.

"Eh .. forgot." The little girl smiled at her smile. "Let's go in too, Mama too."

Ara shook her head, looking at her little girl's behavior. He seemed very comfortable with his brother.

"She's beautiful like you." Adrian steals a small kiss on Ara's chin. "And...."

"Everything looks like you, Mom."

"Hmmm...." The man grabbed his wife's waist and took her in after his two children. "It looks like you only remember me when I was pregnant. I didn't expect the little girl to be my daughter" Adrian whispered.

"I mean, Mas?"

"Let me tell you. Once the atmosphere is a bit relaxed, tell us immediately who we are. I can't wait to hug her, honey."

"Isn't it too soon, Mom?" Ara turned her head, looking doubtfully wobbling in the spotlight her eyes slightly dimmed.

"What is too fast. If for adaptation let him process it himself. I'll be patient. But to know who we really are, I don't want to put it off, honey. He seems very happy with Dani. Were they close before?"

"Merra often tells about Dani who came to school, she gave a lot of gifts to children. But I didn't know if it was Dani. He just called her Brother Dan, I thought it was someone else."

"God perfectly wrote the scenario of our lives? Dear."

"Mas ... Dani?"

"Later we'll talk to him, too. He's not the little teenager you knew. Dear. He's an adult now." Adrian calms the wife who is still too afraid if the events will repeat themselves.

Although Adrian was happy with the surprise given by his son. He remained vigilant and chose to prepare for everything that might happen beyond his will.

"Mama, let's get food ready." Merra had already put the doll in her room. It also looks like a paper bag, which he brought earlier.

"Is Merra not being eaten by Kak Dani at the Mall?"

"Say Brother pity Mama and Merra who have cooked a lot for you. So just buy a drink."

"Alright, Om is also hungry" said Adrian while stroking his stomach. "It looks like Mama and Merra's cooking, it's delicious."

Adrian approached his little daughter who really resembled him. Then sit next to him and look at him.

"Pastill Om. Mama's cooking." Merra was very excited to praise her mother.

"Come, Ma." The little girl went ahead of her mother to the kitchen.

"Just a minute, Mom." Ara's hand clapped Adrian's hand on her lap. Adrian pulled it.

"She's as chatty as you are" she whispered which made Ara turn her head and smile. The woman was still afraid that her little daughter might catch her before they told her the truth.

Adrian's looking for Dani's whereabouts that are nowhere to be seen. The man walked to the side of the house. Apparently the young man was there.

"Thank you for the special daddy gift, Boy," said Adrian, leaning his back against one of the doorposts.

"Daddy don't be happy just yet. This gift is not free," ketus Dani who seems interested in a small pot containing two different colored tulips that are still buds.

"Anything. As long as they're both happy, daddy will."

"Terms on condition?" The young man frowned at the father's words. Even he had not said his request to his father, but the man even asked for something else.

Adrian nodded. "Second-year-old daddy didn't take good care of your sister, not even daddy knew he was present among us. What else does daddy want, boy? Just their happiness."

"All right, let's talk about these three later" Dani said as he got up from where he was crouching earlier. "Also help me get these flowers, Dad! I'm sure aunty wouldn't just let it go."

"A...."

"Think that Daddy's thanks to me." Dani cut off the words of her father who almost refused.

Adrian just grimaced sourly hearing it. His son was always good at using opportunities.

"Sister, Om, let's eat! Everything is ready" cried Merra. The typical cry of children who excited when calling his friends to gather.

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"Taste good mama yes," said Adrian who glanced for a moment at the wife who looked at him with love.

The compliment is sincere. So many years of not feeling the wife's cooking makes the man very greedy at this time.

"Yes dong Om. Mama's cooking is a champion." The little girl held her thumb in front of her mother. "Add more, brother." Without waiting for Dani's answer, Merra brought some more rice for the young man.

"Don't much Merra, later big brother. You want if the brother is fat and not handsome anymore," asked Dani to his sister.

"Leave it. Even though Fat Brother is still handsome to me," praised Merra as he put the final mouthful into his mouth. "The...."

Joking or serious. Merra's words made Dani stuck. Even the little girl who does not know if she is her brother is so admired that she does not look at the physical. But more because Merra is comfortable.

"When everyone stayed away because brother became ugly. Does Merra still want to be sister's friend?" ask Dani who is also finished with her eating activities.

"of course. Brother is good, Merra and Teddy Bear always want to be friends Brother," said the innocent little girl, reminding Dani of the beginning of the arrival of Ara first in the big house owned by his family.

Ara smiled looking at Merra's cherry today. Did her little daughter really expect to have an older sister like Dani? Hopefully, Dani accepts his presence.

Finished with dinner, Dani and Merra are in the living room. The two brothers saw each other clop. Watching TV, joking around until almost nine in the evening.

Even until Merra fell asleep in Dani's lap, and the young man carried her into a room full of shades of light purple Merra's favorite.

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"Ehem...."

The husband and wife turned to hear that Deheman was none other than Dani. They were sitting in the front yard of Ara's house.

Dani sat next to her father. As for Ara, she just silently listened and waited to be asked.

"Will you tell daddy anything to do with today's surprise?" adrian asked the boy.

Adrian thought, there is no way Dani prepared it in a short time. He knows how Dani was against Ara. And of course to make it happen today, it is not an easy thing for the young man.

"Daddy happy?"

"Daddy is happy we are together like this" replied Adrian wise. Because it was a fact, if he couldn't choose one of them.

Dani looked down for a moment. Then raised his head back to see his father. "I'm happy if Daddy's happy."

That's what came out of Dani's lips. I don't know when he began to understand the nature of a family and the word happy. Does he understand what Carla is saying? Or it was all the result of his own thinking all along.

No one knows.

"Initially, I never knew who Merra was. I thought she was just an ordinary, attractive little girl. Until after I got home from school, and Leo told me that Merra looked like me, and Daddy. Leo is the one I told to take pictures of us there. And he also showed me a picture of me with Merra to convince me. Until I finally admitted that he looked a lot like me and Daddy."

"I keep thinking about it, Dad. Although at that time I replied if indeed in this world there are many people who are similar even though they are not blood-bound. But the resemblance between the three of us is no coincidence. Until I returned to Bandung for the second time. And I feel, there is an inner bond with Merra. I don't know what that looks like, I can't explain it."

Flashbacks

One night when Dani's eyes couldn't be closed at all. The young man just stuck to himself in the corner of the balcony next to his room. His heart churned as he received the DNA test results from Leo. He was afraid he could not accept the reality that was happening.

He took the initiative himself. Taking hair samples from his father and the little girl he had met several times.

Ermerra Safior, a 6-year-old girl who stole her attention for having a face and jawline that closely resembled her. Especially with the father. And as a result, ninety-nine percent matched.

Dani hit his own chest until he coughed and finally sagged limp to the floor.

He thought that the woman had remarried after leaving her father. The feeling of hate is increasingly becoming, let alone seeing the father who slumped here.

But everything disappeared when he recalled the figure of Merra. The innocent little girl who had no idea at all the tempest that was hitting her family. The little girl who, when asked what her greatest wish was, replied innocently, "I want to see my father" when her friends talked about her ideals.

Dani's heart aches. Will he let the fate he once experienced repeat itself to his sister? Can't meet the father because of him, his own brother.

He would definitely feel very stupid and evil later, if all that happened.

Why his wife and mother are so different. If mama Andina even uses all means for personal gain, Ara sacrifices herself so that she and her father can be together.

In the end, the young man made a firm decision. He will create happiness on the same day Ara leaves her father. To his father, his sister They and the woman he had for no apparent reason hated, Ara.

Until all the sadness that was remembered every year by his father will be erased, eroded little by little by time.

Flashback off

"Hey!"

Adrian patted Dani on the shoulder when he realized his son was daydreaming.

"I deliberately did a DNA test. To convince myself that Merra is really my sister and of course Daddy's son. Because I was also afraid that if I found out, Auntie was married again, and had a new family. I definitely won't be able to comfort Daddy, no matter what I do." The look of regretful eyes was clearly visible on the swaying black bead that belonged to the young man.

"What are you talking about, boy. Does daddy look so pathetic in your eyes?" Adrian looked at his unusual looking son.

"Very. Daddy's like a man who lost his identity. It makes me feel guilty, Dad. If I had realized everything sooner, we'd have met Merra when my father's little daughter was a baby and wouldn't have understood this confusing situation."

"I'm sorry daddy. You and your daughter are life in daddy's body. And now plus your sister. You guys are everything. If asked to choose one, daddy would never be able to. Better daddy sacrifice himself."

Adrian smiled faintly. Today's event is the special gift of all the gifts throughout his birthday.

Ara's finger grip on Adrian strengthened. Just like Adrian. He will act the same, and he has proven it.

"It's just me being selfish, Dad. I can't understand you guys." Dani dared to look at Ara. And always like that from long ago, a shady look of eyes without hatred remained on the woman.

"Nothing's wrong, Dan." Ara wiped her nearly dripping tears. "We are just living out His destiny. While aunt also only does what it has to do."

"But Auntie left because of me!"

"Maybe that's the only way a aunt would think. Because it is impossible for aunty to let your daddy dizzy determine who to choose. Auntie can't bear it, almost every day your daddy doesn't stop thinking about you."

Adrian took a deep breath hearing his wife's confession. The man imagined how hard it would be to make a decision that was completely undesirable but had to be made. Especially during this time their relationship without any problems at all.

"Darling...." He hugged Ara's shoulder and brought her closer to him. Adrian could say nothing more. Only his long breaths were heard several times.

Adrian leaves them both. The man gave a reason to want to go to his little daughter's room who had been sleeping since the afternoon. But the truth is, he wants to give his son time to apologize or just talk from heart to heart with his mother.

"Did Auntie hate me?" dani asked the woman in front of her.

"If a aunt could, Dan. But the fact is, the love of your daddy and Oma Lina makes aunty can't even say hate to you," said Ara honestly. All this time, he was indeed sad because of the bad relationship between them. And as much as possible does not make the child uncomfortable.

"Is that love, Tan?"

"Rem ... You will understand if you have found someone who loves you sincerely" said Ara sage.

The young man clucked. A sincere love? Himself? It seems like it will never.

"May I ask Auntie something?"

Ara nodded. "Ask me anything you want to know."

"Oma loves Auntie very much. I am even very envious of him. Aunty is just another person but oma considers aunt like her own child. Is it true that oma died because..." Dani hesitates to say it. But he must put an end to this misunderstanding now. Because he really wanted to love Merra sincerely without any strangeness.

"You believe I'm the cause of oma's departure, Dan?"

Dani was silent, then shook her head. He did not believe it from the beginning. But he was already disappointed. Oma Lina was sick from being shocked by the shocking news back then. How could a sacred marriage turn out to be just a promise on paper for her father and the woman.

"I heard it was Mama Andina who made the health of the oma who had been hospitalized deteriorate. If that's the case, why are you hiding it?"

The truth that was covered up over the years must finally be straightened out as well.

"How guilty Andina's mom is, she's still your real mama, Dan. The one who risked his life to present you in this world. Aunty can't have you hating her knowing everything. He was indeed guilty, but let him leave peacefully without the excessive hatred of his son."

Everything is finally open. A protracted misunderstanding that made their relationship worse.

Dani got up from her seat. Approaching Ara who was sitting not far from him.

"Go home, Tan. Dad loves you so much, and I ... I have loved my sister since we first met. It feels good to have it. That cheerful little girl." Dani is now standing next to Ara, the young man touching the woman's shoulder to say his request. "I'm sorry for all my mistakes, Tan."

Ara placed her hand on the back of the young man's hand. "Auntie is sorry too. I haven't been a good mother to you, Dan."

Dani rubbed the small shoulder gently, holding a small hand that once cooked food for her first. Then he walked away after his father.

"Sorry, I forced. Tulip aunt I brought ya."

"Huh??"

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