Author And The Baby
Manja Adik

"Thank you Ka, you want to help Brother shopping," Marina said when she arrived at the apartment.

"Father, Brother. I'm glad I could help you out, brother." Anka walked into Marina with plastic shopping in hand.

Marina puts her shopping plastic first on the table then removes baby Farhan from the sling in the room on the bed. The baby moved his hands with his eyes wide open. "When you look around it looks like this baby is bule yes, even though his hair is black."

Anka went into the room and noticed. "Maybe it's because of his white skin, brother," the young man commented.

"Mk."

"Sister, lunch's burger yuk, sister!"

"Son't be able to go anywhere take care of Dede baby. After all, I want to write a novel so maybe lunch is a little late."

"Don't be late, you'll be sick! I brought her lunch here, how's Kak?"

"But you didn't go to college?"

"Later after lunch."

"I don't want to bother you, Ka."

"No, Brother. Yeah, accompany me, huh? I'll buy her lunch, "persuade Anka while touching the woman's arm.

Marina gazed at her hand that Anka touched making the young man awkward and retracted his hand.

"Ok huh?" The young man immediately passed to the door.

"But ...."

"Udah, done. I'll bring it here." The young man rushed out.

Marina could only take a slow breath.

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The bell rang while Marina was finishing her writing. He was forced to get out of bed while Farhan's baby was still asleep.

"What's up, Ka?"

But what came was not Anka. A young man leaned against the door frame, with a haughty look on him. Her eyes were red and her clothes were a little messy. "Who 'Ka' does Big Brother mean? Already have a girlfriend, so run away from home?"

"Alan, why are you here?" Marina looks worried. He looked out and looked left and right.

"Why? I'm your sister. Is there something wrong?" The young man stepped into the apartment with a slight stagger.

The woman noticed him. "Alan, are you drunk again?" protest when entering.

The young man didn't seem to care. He saw the condition of the apartment unit. "Huh, you're fancy here while we're dizzy there looking for money."

"Who did I say I was fancy?" Marina closed the door. "It's an office facility I haven't had time to use and I'm paying half the price."

"Huh, what kind of brother are you, thinking only of yourself?" said Alan with a ketus.

Marina immediately closed the door of the room, so that the baby was not disturbed by his sleep. He tried to emphasize his voice. "Alan, you're the one who dropped out of college when Brother is always on time to pay your tuition. You don't know your brother's bad luck and you hang out with the delinquents on campus."

"Just kid! You're a man, Alan. It's time you helped mom with her efforts."

"What usaha? You're broke, you know!"

"Alane. If you don't want to help your business, at least look for a good job. Whatever it is, I don't have to work hard and worry about you anymore."

"What the hell, Brother. What are you talking about? It should have been the older brother who helped me. Here, where's the money! I went to the bar and borrowed money from a friend. Quickly give it up, so that I don't bother Brother anymore." Alan put his hand.

"Alan, you're not changing? You've said that many times over and over again" said the woman slowly. He was disappointed in his sister.

"Alah .. too much nonsense! Quickly give or I scramble this place to make Big Brother aware," the young man's half-open eyes began to threaten Marina. He didn't realize he was drunk. It was easy to beat a drunk because his body was weak.

The sound of crying babies from inside the woman's room made Alan suspicious. It turned out that the sound of the quarrels they both woke the baby up.

"What's that sound? Whose baby?" Alan pointed his finger in a direction that was not straight.

Marina was forced to chase the baby out of pity. The baby was carried in a sling out of the room.

"What is this, whose baby? Mmhs? Your baby with your girlfriend?"

"Astaghfirullah. Alan ....."

"Just give me the money. I don't care who you want to live with if you can make me money!" Alan who leaned on the table, trying to balance his body, because he himself could not stand straight even though he was standing while holding on to the table.

Marina scowled angrily, but for the sake of peace the baby was sleeping forced Marina to take her wallet. "You don't come here yet, Alan. I'm afraid that Mr. Seno knows my hiding place. I told you anyway, don't look for me."

As the woman opened her purse, the young man grabbed her.

"Alan!"

The young man took all the money left in the wallet and threw the wallet down. "You're going to kick me out, aren't you? Get rid of that with a lot of money!" Alan put money in his hand.

"Alan, you wear that for a few days, Alan," Marina asked again.

"All right, just take what's hard again!" The young man left his brother.

"Organ." Marina pleads while trying to silence the crying baby in a sling but Alan brushes his hand and tries to get out of the apartment. Although staggering, he managed to get out of Marina's apartment.

Marina shed tears. Already only had a little money from the rest of his last salary, his sister could not be compromised. Though now he has the burden of a tiny baby who needs money that is not small to take care of it.

Soon those tears were wiped out. He didn't want the baby to know he was struggling. "I'm sorry, honey. Mommy makes you anxious. Yuk, we go inside, Mami don't do anything." He closed the door.

In the room, Marina puts the baby on the bed. Her tears are still flowing. "Oh my God, strengthen me." The woman wiped her tears with both hands.

After being perfectly erased, Marina brought her face closer to the baby with a big smile. "Mmh, whose child is this?" He tried to comfort the baby who was still crying, but he smelled something. "Mmh, Mami's son, how does he smell? Lots of pee, huh?"

He opened the baby's pants and peeked at the diapers. "Mmh, so not good? Mom change it up a little while."

Before long, Marina was sitting on the bed holding Farhan's baby, with her left hand holding a bottle of milk in the baby's mouth and her right hand typing. In front of him the laptop was open and he was surfing the internet. "Mmh, you've been eating it for a long time, Farhan. You can only drink milk" he whispered to the baby.

The baby was enjoying the milk while looking at the laptop screen in front of him.

"But it seems like you're big fast huh? Your cheeks are starting to fill and your clothes are getting narrow. Does Mami have to buy more clothes for Farhan?"