Ai, Love Me
Eps 1, Family Mahesa Johan

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The sound of Mahesa Johan's loud alarm made him wake up at 7 p.m. Johan awakens from his sleep and begins his nightly activities like a normal day. He took his wallet and then walked out of the house just to buy soda, snack, and instant noodles.

“ihhh, very cold parah” muttered Johan while hugging his own body.

He walked to the supermarket and bought whatever he wanted. The night breeze caressed the nape as well as blew away Johan's fine hair as he walked down an alley. After the purchase was completed, he returned home and started his ritual every day. He locked the door and started to turn on his computer and laptop. He also turned on music from earphones that he had worn before.

Starting from playing games with his online game friends. He turned on the discord connection and conversed with all his playmates. Together with instant noodles that have begun to mature, he played and sipped strands per strand of warm and sweet noodles.

After playing the game, he turned off the PC Computer and began watching streaming Anime and Drakor on his Laptop. Not to forget also he began to drink carbonated drinks that he had bought before.

That's how Johan's daily life in the room for months. Johan did that since the papah divorced the beloved mama, where he still did not accept if his stepmother lived one roof with him. Since his papa married again, he was increasingly rebellious and seemed to really not want to blend in with the surrounding environment.

The clock shows at 5 am, it is time for Johan to go into a dream world that is calm and comfortable. Johan picks up a manga book that is on his bookshelf and then throws it on the bed. Johan jumped on the bed and then laid down his body. He put his feet in the blanket while leaning against the wall behind him.

Johan read the pages of his manga book while waiting for drowsiness to begin to appear. At that moment, Johan listened to the sound of footsteps approaching his room. Sure enough, not long after that there was a continuous knock on the door that slightly disturbed the comfort of Johan.

“nak Johan, wake up! Now in the morning” shouted the stepmother.

“I bolos” replied Johan focus on reading manga.

“you stay up again?” ask the mother.

“gak” replied Johan lying with his saura jutek.

“then, yuk eat equally mamah below. Mamah have cooked your favorite food loh” said the mother while knocking on Johan's door.

“eat by yourself!” shouted Johan.

“kok you even tell mamah to eat alone anyway? Papah you also have been waiting for you at the dinner table below. And there are also things that want to talk about you” said the mother with a knock on the door that was getting louder.

“noisy old grandma!” johan shouted throwing one of Megumin's action figures towards the door of her room.

“sial, Megumin's head dislodged” Johan muttered when he saw his action figure lying on the floor.

“alah, if you are a laper, go down, mamah same papah is in the middle room” said the mother while walking away from Johan's room.

“cerewet terribly old granny” thought Johan continued reading the manga.

At that moment, Johan looked at the window outside his room. He stared at the window covered in semi-transparent curtains pierced by the sunlight. The still dim sunlight slowly revealed its existence. The sun welcomes the soul that is still fresh by providing air that begins to warm due to the heat he gives. At that moment, Johan was a little sleepy. However, Johan had already intended to end his manga right now.

By 7 am, in fact Johan's stomach was really rumbling. Forced Johan must admit that he wants to eat home-cooked food because he is too tired to eat instant noodles. He put his manga book on the bookshelf and then walked out of the room.

He went to the bathroom just to wash his face and brush his teeth. He wiped his face and then went down to the dining table. In the middle of his journey, he was called by his mother who was sitting in the middle room with the papah who was reading the newspaper and drinking a cup of coffee.

“nak Johan, can you come here for a minute? Mamah wants to talk to Joha-” asked the mother.

“aku laper, want to eat first” said Johan turned his eyes away.

“nak Johan, that's not polite!” bentak the papah.

“cih, noisy!” johan muttered away his sight.

Johan also walked to the dining table with a stern eye and limp. Her body was bent over while walking due to fatigue and faulty sleeping hours. He saw there was only a warm soup dish along with brown rice and eggs.

“hhuufftt, thank you for what there was” Johan muttered sighing as he looked at the mother's cooking.

He picked up a plate and began stirring red rice and soup. He picked up boiled eggs and chili sauce there. Johan began to bribe the food into his small mouth. In the middle of Johan was eating, the papah and mama also came to Johan from the living room to the dining table and then sat opposite Johan.

“what is good mamah cuisine?” ask the mother with a genuine smile.

“regular aja” replied Johan.

“padahat mamahmu cuisine is very tasty loh” sahut the papah.

“everyone has their own taste, and mamah cuisine is not my taste” said Johan.

“if not your taste, why do you still eat?” ask the papah.

“indeed a person cannot eat what he does not like?” ask Johan.

“then, you should praise your mama's meal” said the papah was provoked by emotion.

“is a person forbidden to be honest and forced to denounce the facts that are actually true? That's what you taught yourself when Johan was a child” throw back Johan with calm look on his face and tone of voice.

“already, you two don't fight. This is just ordinary home cooking” said the mother.

“aku drowsiness, want to sleep” said Johan while standing from the dining table without spending food on his plate.

“wait, son Johan! Where are you going?” ask the papah.

“mau bed” replied Johan with his jutek tone.

“sit for a while, papah wants to talk to you” said papah.

“cepet, papah want to say what?” johan asked, sitting in her chair.

“so actually, papah and mamah you are having problems in finance. We both really need money for now. If possible, can papah and mamah you sell your computer?” ask the papah with the connotation of a low voice.

“what papah discharged from papah job?” ask Johan.

“not so” replied the papah.

“what problem do you two mean?” ask Johan.

“you are still a child, so you do not need to know what we have experienced” said the papah.

“if you both look at me as a child, I will underline what you have just said. I am still a child, and children are also still considered to be selfish. So, I will never sell my computer to an old grandmother like you”, Johan said, glancing sharply at her stepmother.

“if that's all you two want to say, the answer is I will never sell my Computer to you two. And also that computer is a gift from my biological mother, so I will never sell it to you. Besides, I also have the right to be free to this computer even though I will sell it and use the money for myself”, Johan said as he walked away from the dining table.

“wait a minute, son Johan” said the mother who made Johan stop walking.

“apa?” ask Johan with his jutek.

“do you really want to go to school?” ask the mother.

“why arrive asking about school? what's up?” ask Johan.

“tomorrow you have a midterm exam at school. It will be very dear if you do not take the exam” said the mother.

“iya yes, tomorrow I will go to school” said Johan back to walk upstairs.

“smart” said the mother.

So, Johan entered his room and then poured his body into a soft and warm mattress. His eyes were no longer able to see and in the end, Johan fell asleep in his bed until he woke up when the night alarm sounded.