Anjani Darling
Miss Mother

The seventh day after my mother left home. I started going to school, my classmates especially Dino and Felli were immediately warmly welcomed. They invited me to play together, even Felli had prepared a chocolate bar as a gift for me.

During the break, Felli, Dila and Nasya took me on a swing together. Suddenly Dila opened the conversation.

"Anjani, said my mother, your mother has left the house, huh?" ask Dila. "Your nanny's aunt told me."

"Go how, Dil?" Nasya asked.

"Ayah and Anjani's mother quarreled, and her mother left the house forever. Looks like they're going to split up. Isn't that right, Anjani?" Dila asked back.

"If Anjani's father and mother are separated, then Anjani will soon have a father and stepmother" Nasya said.

"Why is that?" now Felli's talking.

"Adult people, if they have separated from their partners, it will be so. They will find another partner. Just like Om and Tanteku. When they remarry with a new person, their children will not be noticed anymore. They will be wasted even forgotten!" Nasya spoke enthusiastically.

"No. Mom and Dad will never forget me!" I said, rising from the swing.

"I didn't lie to Anjani. That's how adults are. That's why I always pray that my Mom and Dad don't fight!" Nasya.

"Let's just remember Anjani, your Mom and Dad love you so much." Felli calms.

"If you don't believe me, wait a minute. Look, Anjani, did your mom ever call after you left? He must have forgotten about you and your father would have!" Nasya continued to explain what he knew about the breakup.

"No Nasya, that's not true!" I'm really upset with Nasya. I left the three of them, then ran to the back garden of the school to cry.

Mom and Dad will have no other partner. They will always love me. Mom will be home soon too.

My tears were growing, afraid that everything Nasya said was true. Then how will I be?

Sitting there pensively, there was a sound of someone calling my name.

"Anjani!" a familiar voice in my ears.

"Mother?" I almost jumped to see my mother hiding behind a guava tree.

"Come, Anjani," called mother again.

"Mother where have you been? Why not go home? Anjani kangen!" I said, then docked in mom's arms.

"Anjani, mom's kangen too. Anjani's healthy, right?"

"Yes Ma'am, but Anjani lost her appetite because at home there was no mother."

"I'm sorry, dear Mom," my mom hugged me.

"Mother where have you been? Anjani's looking for Mom."

"I'm sorry new mom can see him now. From yesterday I was looking for a way to meet."

"Why don't you just go home?"

"Mom can't, baby,"

"Are you and Mom going to separate?"

"Anjani, listen to me. What is Anjani dear Mother?" .

"Hmm" I nodded my head.

"Then let's go."

"Where?"

"We're going to your grandfather's house."

"Yes,"

"Come on Ma. Anjani wants to see Grandpa!" I forgot about my father and mother's separation. My mind was on Grandpa. I just found out that I have a grandfather too. It means God has granted my prayers.

I can't wait to meet my grandfather. I wonder what Grandpa's face looks like. Whether later grandfather will be like his grandfather Dino who likes to buy toys, or like his grandfather Felli who likes to buy ice cream.

"Then let's go now!" mom took me away from school. We didn't tell anyone. Mom pulled a taxi a little way from school, and then we went to the airport.

"Mom, aren't we taking Dad?" my many.

"No need for Anjani. We'll just go alone!"

"Why Ma'am?"

"Later to talk, yes." mom rushed me down from the taxi when I got to the domestic departure gate.

At the airport, my mother asked me to sit in the visitor's seat, while she went to take care of everything related to our departure.

Thirty minutes later, we were on board Garuda Indonesia, a flight to Padang.

When the plane started flying, I had already imagined a meeting with grandfather later. Many questions have sprung up. If I had known for a long time that I still had a grandfather, I might have prepared this meeting for us. I can ask my father or mother to buy a gift that my grandfather likes.

The plane began to fly steadily in the air. My eyes began to turn to look at the blue sky. It's exquisite. Every time I take a flight, the thing that catches my attention the most is when we're in the air. How fun it is to play on top, the clouds must be very soft. So excited to enjoy the view of the sky, my eyes began to shut, deep in sleep.

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"Anjani, go home, son. Daddy misses!" call father from below as mom and I fly above the sky.

Dad's face looked gloomy as my mother and I didn't go down, instead flying further and further away. I also look at my father like that.

"Mom, let's go home!" I said, to mom. Although he likes to be in the sky, but it feels there is less when away from the father.

"No need Anjani, we're here!" mother said firmly.

"But Anjani wants to see Dad. Poor Dad, Mom. No one's accompanying me." whine me.

"If Anjani wants to go with Dad. Anjani can't see Mom anymore" said mom.

"Why is that? Anjani wants the same Mom and Dad. Like before," my whine.

"Can't be Anjani, you have to choose. Dad or Mom." now you're asking me to choose.

I shook my head. I can't answer my mom and dad's questions. It is not true that Nasya said, father and mother separated. Each one will have a new life, and then I will be left alone. My tears are dripping right away.

"Mother, Anjani wants to be with Mom and Dad!" my door.

"Can't be Anjani, you have to choose, son," Mommy repeated again.

"But Anjani just wants to be with Mom and Dad!" I'm back whining. "We've always been together, why not just continue forever?"

"Then you stay here!" mom took her grip off me, then slowly left me.

"Mom, don't go!" my yelling.

While below, the father who had been waiting, went away. The longer you stay away, the more you are not seen again.

"Don't leave Anjani. Father ... Mama!" I started to panic when my net couldn't find my father and mother. My tears are getting louder, confused who to pursue. Mom or dad?

For a long time, the blue sky turned dark. I was getting louder calling for father and mother, but none of them showed up. Pacing back and forth I ran towards my mother, going down to where my father was standing. Result nil. The two of them had really left, they left me alone here.

How'this? I have to do what? I don't know my way home, while it's perfectly dark.