A Sugar Baby
A Conversation
This was his first time sitting comfortably in Daniel's car without being awkward. After almost a year ago, he always felt riding an online taxi whose driver was not good at pleasantries. When he was in the car with the man.
But today after a heart-to-heart talk the other day, and after Daniel admitted that he liked Lea. Lea can now feel how to sit in the car, with a pleasant atmosphere.
"Of."
"Hm?"
"Have you ever been married?"
Lea asked when they had been halfway through the journey.
"No, not yet." Daniel replied still focused on the road.
"Why not get married?. Age is enough." again Lea said.
"I'm getting married tomorrow, are you okay with me staying married?" Daniel said with half a laugh.
"That's not what I mean?" Lea riled. Like an SD child who wants to convey the intent, but the response of the interlocutor is not connected.
"I mean why the hell, om the same Ellio, om Richard on not want to marry. Even though it is capable, well established, what else."
Daniel took a breath.
"Lea, marriage is not a matter of being able or not able to. Many aspects are related and must be thought of."
"Example?" lea asked not to understand. Because in his understanding, married is just married.
"For example, who we married to. That should be thought about too. Do not just because you feel old enough, able, continue the origin of marriage. Mistake stress itself later, let alone we do not know the person well."
"Grace, don't you know her well and love her?"
This time Daniel fell silent, there was a piercing pain when he heard the woman's name. But he was not wanting to be angry, especially Lea is not yet an adult and there are still many things he wants to know.
"Well, I'll have my papa divorced with Grace. I keep marrying her, how?" Daniel asked, laughing and giving a naughty glance at Lea, again Lea sewot.
"That's not what I mean, om. I mean that's why I didn't marry Grace. He said, baby, I know you well again."
"I'm going to marry her soon."
"Not that, you know ah."
Lea was really upset, she was now crossing her hands on her chest with her lips bent. Daniel laughed at the girl's behavior.
"Gini Lea, not necessarily a marriage that can make us happy. People who are dating seneng, romantic, marriage partners so bland, a lot. Because marriage is a different atmosphere."
"I mean, like the earth?. Any atmospheres?"
"Married people automatically live in one house."
"No, there is a separate if suppose her husband is wandering for work."
"This is what I'm saying in broad terms" Daniel said.
"Hm, continues?" ask Lea again.
"Most who feel bonded, already married, they feel like they have each other."
"Yes nice dong, om. They have each other."
"But over time the sense of belonging turns into a sense of wanting to master. Wife so should not this and that by her husband, the husband so hampered everything because it should not be this by his wife. Because the feeling of "Having" that was. Sometimes it makes us take away the rights of our spouse, which is what I fear from marriage. I'm afraid the contents are just a glimpse of each other trying to master each other. So over time the atmosphere of marriage itself becomes uncomfortable, sickening, and there is an affair or divorce. I'm afraid of marriage, because I have parents who failed in marriage."
Lea fell silent, trying to absorb what Daniel said just now.
"I'm actually just as scared, um. Because I come from a family that is also arguably a bit chaotic." said Lea later.
"Your parents are divorced?" ask Daniel.
Lea shook her head.
"They still are, but my father. He's not my real father."
Daniel looked at Lea this time.
"Your biological father, divorced?"
"No idea who" Lea replied.
"Mom said I accidentally met my dad in a party. Love continued for one night, and my father disappeared. I don't know where she lives."
"Never tried to find out?"
"Once, but my mother said it didn't work. People who come to the mother's party, on average, do not pay much attention to others. They just focused on having fun that night."
"Continue now, your mother remarried?"
Lea nodded.
"Yes, twice already."
Daniel looked over for a moment, before returning to look at the streets.
"The first divorce?"
"Yes, and he's back in his country. Though the man is good, the mother has one child with him. Which was almost a hit."
Daniel remembers Leo.
"Yes I want to." he said later.
"They divorced because my stepfather was bankrupt and had to return to his country, while my mother did not want to accompany him. And I'll see you again, same father now."
"None of the people?" ask Daniel.
Lea shook her head.
"People are a bit perverted, if I squirm I like kayak ganjen that is."
Daniel looked at Leah again, even for a moment.
"She's also very stingy, my mother has twins with her. Well whenever he buys anything, say food. She rarely goes to me and Leo, all for her twin. Sometimes even our side dishes are different."
Suddenly Daniel's heart was squeezed, he didn't know if it was such a life out there. He thought his life with his parents was the saddest life in the world. His father likes to play women, his mother replies with men. But there was something more sad than what he was going through.
"So if they eat meat?"
"I'm the same Leo ke part tempe or vegetable doang. That is if suppose the meat is bought with his money, but if you use mother's money. I can still get Leo to eat."
"Why is your mother not angry with your stepfather, is she a mother. He shouldn't be able to discriminate against such a child." Daniel starts to look angry, he becomes sorry for Lea.
"Mom can't do anything, om. She thought she had been given a ride in her husband's house, still lucky to be fed."
"It can't be dong, Le. Marrying a widow, you have to accept her child. If you don't want to have a stepchild, don't marry a widow. Just heard I had someone like that."
"There may be a lot, maybe even. Just not exposed."
Daniel sighed, it was worth Leah when she was at the party. He must have eaten a lot, no matter what anyone saw. This is because they rarely eat well.
Daniel's heart also seemed to be hit, because all this time he often ignored food. Sometimes when he is in a bad mood, he does not touch his food at all. Sometimes they are bought.
"That's Rangga, right?" Daniel asked as they were about to get to Leah's school. Rangga happened to pass by their side without a helmet.
"Yes." Lea replied later.
"Why aren't you the same?"
This time Lea breathed.
"Over the story, if told can be as many as Indian dramas."
Daniel laughs.
"This means that Rangga's parents do not want their children to be poor" he said later.
Their car arrived at the school gate a short time later. Lea said goodbye.
"Today I think I'll go home soon, I'll pick you up." Daniel said.
"Om really?" lea asked, but still a little in disbelief.
Daniel nodded, before long Lea got out of the car.