Be My Bu ~ Be My Beloved
Chapter 2: This Fact

"Your biological brother is named Bening, he lives with your biological mother in Indonesia."

"Why did Papi separate us?"

"Nobody separated you, because Papi didn't actually marry the woman who gave birth to you."

"Why is that? why can?"

Dew stared alternately at the faces of Papi and Mami, when Axel wanted to convey what was in his mind, Jojo first squeezed the palm of the husband's hand that had been grasped tightly.

"Medical errors, all of which are due to medical errors" Jojo said

"Then, do my twin brothers know?" ask the Dew who seems confused by the facts that He just knew.

"Maybe, it's possible that your biological mother told your twin sister."

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Hugging his daughter in bed, Jojo stroked her loving Dew hair, though not her real daughter, but all this time she had been so affectionate with Dewun, taking care of him sincerely since the child was a year and a half old.

"How does Mami feel when she finds out that Papi's seed went into another woman's body and not into Mami's?" ask the sleeping Dew who turns his back on Jojo.

It may be wrong, but Jojo still can't tell Dewun that he's the son of his Papi rape another woman. It would be too painful for him if Dew had to know that fact.

"Sad, because it should be Mami who is pregnant with you."

Reversing his body, Dew rubbed Jojo's cheeks while bending her lips. "So Mami wasn't my real mother because of a medical mistake?"

"Hem .. but still you are a child mami, because you are a son of a husband mami," said Jojo who tried to withstand the tightness in his chest.

"Yes, Bening looks like his papa and you look like yours." Jojo's voice is getting heavy, he doesn't want to cry. However, her tears could not be contained anymore and dripped just so wet her cheeks. 

"Why is my mom crying?" Rubbing the cheek of the woman he loves the most, Dew said, "As my mother said, I'm still a child, right?" 

Poking his head into Jojo's arms, Dew hugged the woman's waist tightly, actually in his heart there were still many question marks left. However, she is a smart child, Dewun knows her mother must be sad and may be tormented hiding the truth about her all along. 

"You're a mother's child, until whenever you're a mother's child."

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Lying on the bed together, Jojo wept in Axel's arms, he poured out his worries to the husband, after leaving the dormant asleep in the room. 

Repeatedly Jojo said he could not if Dewun had to know the fact that he was a child of rape. 

"He didn't even ask her what her real mother's name was after learning this fact" Jojo said after her cries subsided. "Why should you tell him? we can keep it for life."

rubbing Jojo's arm with soothing intent, Axel repeated the explanation that he had often conveyed to his wife. 

"If until we both die and Dew doesn't know this fact, do you think he'll be happy? what if he finds out from others and hates us instead?"

Silently digesting her husband's words, Jojo insisted on keeping secret about how the birth mother of Dew named Rea, could conceive two babies belonging to different men. 

"Take my son Ax, he's my son" Jojo said. 

"Yes, he's your son, no one will take him away from you. Just look! He's even as stubborn as you are, as brave as you are and as funny as you." 

Axel jokes make his wife smile. Jojo even pinched her husband's back because he was too anxious.

"But what if the Dew looks for information on the internet?" jojo's worry resurfaced. "He's a smart kid."

"You seem to have forgotten that all digital traces have been erased."