AYRAFKA (Dream Fool)
Chapter 12
The atmosphere of the living room suddenly tense after Aira said that he was more comfortable with Rafka. Something that Mama Sofia and Papa Thomy had been worried about, finally happened. Aira who they just found and just gathered for a while, must disappoint their hearts by choosing Rafka. The 'Delinous Child' who for many years has been an enemy of their son.
"Why are you comfortable with Rafka who likes to make trouble, aren't you afraid that your future will be ruined with her? Isn't Revan more promising for your future?" asked Papi Rizal who was still trying to act ordinary, but in his heart he was very eager to explode.
"Om, isn't Rafka also Om's son? If I'm the same Rafka also Om, I'll be Om's son-in-law, Mama Papa also be made by Om. What difference does it make to me with Rafka or to Sister Revan?" Aira tearfully said so, she could feel how favoritism Rafka's parents were, differentiating their two sons. "Ma, Mum. I'm gonna take a break, sorry Om, Auntie, Brother Revan I'm sorry." Aira got up from her seat, then walked away from both parents and their guests.
Revan was speechless, he lost a step to his own sister. Why Aira chose Rafka instead, is not in any way he is much more worthy with Aira.
"Your son may still be unstable, Rafka must have influenced his mind. Give Revan a chance to be close to him, he will realize that Revan is the best for your son" said Papi Rizal, who continues to try to match Revan and Aira.
"Yes, it's possible, let Aira calm down, Ma." Papa Thomy also confirmed the words of his best friend.
Abi felt lazy to hear the chatter of parents who like cornering his sister, he then say goodbye to his room.
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Rafka was on the phone with Aira, when suddenly the door to her room was knocked very hard. The man was forced to end their call, and open the door of his room.
*plak*
A slap landed on his cheek as soon as the door he opened. The heat radiating on his left cheek, made Rafka close his eyes to endure the pain.
"Children don't know how lucky you are, how dare you seize the girl your own brother likes" said Papi Rizal, who could not hold back his anger.
The temperamental man was used to doing this to Rafka, his biological son.
"I never took Aira from anyone." Rafka defended himself.
"But stop Pi." Mami Dinda who just caught up with her husband, immediately embraced Rafka who was still pecking at the doorway. "Well, are you okay?"
"It's okay Mi, it's normal, isn't it?"
"Pi, Rafka is also our son, please do not treat him differently to Revan," cried Mami who has now turned her back to Rafka.
"You should be fair too, Revan is also your son, why love more Rafka, the child who ...."
"Enough, don't say anything, Pi. Mami loved Revan, just like Mami loved Rafka, mami raised them both if Papi forgot." Mami Dinda yelled again, the woman who has been married to Papi Rizal for more than twenty years, for the first time dared to shout at her husband.
"I hate him, because every time I see his face, he reminds me of that ja*lang!" Papi Rizal's face became more red, his neck muscles were clearly visible, his jaw was hardened. "We shouldn't have taken care of her, if in the end she had that woman's blood, which took Revan's happiness." Papi immediately left Rafka's room after saying something that sounded painful and confused in Rafka's heart.
Meanwhile, Mami spilled all her tears. Things that have always been closely guarded, finally revealed as well.
"Rafka, don't listen to your papa honey, he's just another emotion." Mami Dinda tried to wipe her tears, then re-captured her son who now grew much taller than her.
"You want to know everything? Maybe it's time you knew the truth, Rafka."
Mami invites Rafka to sit on the edge of Rafka's bed. The woman who had raised Rafka from the baby, actually still hesitated to tell everything, but she could not be selfish. Rafka deserves to know everything.
"Just like Mi, what's the matter, am I not your real child?" rafka asked as she clasped the hand of the woman who loved her so much.
"Actually, Revan was your papi's son with his first wife who died after giving birth to Revan. Then, papi is betrothed to a mother who has been sentenced to be barren because the mother's uterus must be removed, at that time, Revan's age is about one year. Mami raised him lovingly like her own daughter." Mami is unable to hold back her tears for too long, and Rafka immediately hugs her still sobbing.
"Who am I, Mi?" rafka asked, now in her heart, a lot of doubts about who she really was.
"When you were born, the hospital called home and said you were left alone by the woman who gave birth to you. After examining everything and doing a DNA test, it turns out you are your baby born from another woman's womb," explained Mami who re-hugged Rafka.
Rafka's heart was torn apart when she heard every word that came out of Mami Dinda's mouth. He did not expect, since birth he had been banished by both parents. His presence was never expected by anyone.
"So I'm a bastard, huh, Mi?" Rafka summed it all up, and those words were coming to his mind.
Indeed, not wrong. Rafka was born by mistake one night. Between Papi Rizal and someone who has left Rafka since birth.
"No Honey. Don't talk like that, you're a mother's child, you're a mother's child raised with affection and warmth, even if you're not a mother's biological child, Rafka. Mommy loves you very much."
Two different generations of people embrace each other, it is not important for Rafka to know who her birth mother, because all she has is her mother who has always defended and loved her.
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Abhimanyu entered Aira's room through an unlocked balcony door. As a sibling let alone a twin, he could certainly feel what Aira was currently feeling.
"You want chocolate?" Abi held out a chocolate bar right in front of Aira who was leaning her head on her study table.
The girl looked up and received the chocolate her brother gave her. "Thank you" he said lazily.
Abi just rubbed his sister's hair and sat leaning on the head of the bed that belongs to Aira. Observing deeper the sadness in Aira's eyes.
"The Goat Congek said what are you so that you like him?" abi asked that made Aira wake up, then glanced at her while pouting.
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