BRAVE LOVE'S
MOMMY LOVES YOU

"I congratulate you, Cel. Now your two daughters are married. Looks like you can repeat your honeymoon with Gemma," said Azka slightly teasing her best friend.

Marcello breathed heavily. He closed his eyes for a moment then leaned back his body. He looked at Azka and shook his head.

"What's really going on?" tanya Azka who is currently with Marcello in her study at the Archer company in Berlin.

"I did marry my daughter, Jesslyn. But for that I must make my other daughter a widow."

"I don't understand."

"Jesslyn is married to Hansen, Jeanette's husband," Marcello said.

"Whatt's?! Don't joke with me, Cel," Azka said.

"I'm not kidding. I was forced to do all that because Jesslyn was pregnant and it was Hansen's son."

Azka did not expect the Marcello problem to be so strange. He also did not expect Jesslyn could do that to her own brother.

"Then how's Jeanette doing?" ask Azka.

"At first he did not accept, but the next day, he came home. Maybe he wants to talk to us and tell us everything. He just went back to hearing what he shouldn't have heard. I've been hiding this for a long time, and I even asked Gemma to be quiet."

"You may not know because I'm silent. Jean is not my daughter. I found her at a bus stop when I came home to change clothes."

"My heart, which was upset that the baby Gemma had conceived died at birth, immediately took it and declared that she was my daughter. At first, Gemma didn't know. She loved and loved Jean like her own daughter. Until Jean is injured, he learns everything is due to blood type matching. Luckily, she loved Jean, so I wasn't too scared."

"However, when Jesslyn was present among us, there was a change in Gemma's attitude, although she was not like other stepmothers" Marcello fell silent. He looked at the window with a blank look.

"Maybe right now he just needs calmness. Leave it alone first. I'm sure Jean will come back and see you. He must know very well and can feel how you love him" said Azka.

"I don't know, Az. In the depths of my heart, I want him to be here. I wanted to hug her and say that everything would be fine. But ....," Marcello couldn't continue. He was silent and breathing heavily again.

For now Azka can only strengthen her best friend and be a good listener. He did not want to interfere too much in the affairs of his best friend's family, unless Marcello himself asked for it.

*****

5 Years later, though,

"Mom! Mommy's! Mommy!" Alex, who had just returned home from school not far from their home, only about 30 meters away, ran home and immediately hugged his mother.

"You're home, baby. How's school?"

"Mom, back at school, there was a big computer. I want to, I want to!" Alex jumps up and holds Jeanette's arm.

"You want? What are you gonna use it for, baby? Playing games? Just use Mommy's phone" Jeanette said.

"Do you like computers, honey?" jeanette asked while stroking her son's hair. Alexander Ellard, thus Jeanette named her son. Jean hopes Alex will be a protector to her and a brave man.

"Likes, likes! I like!"

"If we go to town, Mom will buy it for you. But now you wash your hands and feet first, after that we eat."

"Ready Mommy!" Alex put a hand on his forehead, saluting.

Jeanette lives a simple, not excessive life. But he always met Alex's needs, so that his son did not feel any shortage.

When night falls, Jeanette will be storytelling for her son. He told me about a cotton gatherer grandfather. Alex asked, asking,

"Did Alex have a grandpa too? Like Abla?" ask Alex. Abra is a close friend of Alex who also often visits the house. It just so happens that Abra lives only with her grandfather, while both of her parents work in Java Island.

"Yes, honey. Alex has a grandfather too."

"I want to see my grandfather, Mom," Jeanette's heart suddenly hurt again because it remembered the past. He didn't want to lie to Alex, but he couldn't tell the boy everything either.

"When is it, baby. Grandpa lives very far away, so if we go there we need a lot of money" said Jean.

"Ouu, Alex glanced, Mom. Later I'll help Mommy dig up the money, so we can get to see Grandpa" Alex said with a smile on Jeanette.

"Let's just Mommy who's looking for money, baby. Alex just needs to play and learn. Don't think of anything else, hmm ..," Jeanette hugged her son.

"Alex mengelti, but ... If Mommy cali is alone, how long can we wait to see Grandpa?"

"Fastly, baby. Now go to bed, tomorrow you have to go to school."

Alex closed his eyes and Jeanette gently rubbed his back to fall asleep. After that, he came out to clean up some things that had not been finished.

*****

Jeanette sipped a cup of coffee. When Alex is asleep, he usually starts his job playing stocks. But tonight, his mind wanders back to a time a few years ago, when he had to leave Berlin.

Dad, how are you? Are you healthy? - even though Jeanette has feelings of disappointment, she misses Dad Marcello a lot. Since he was a child, Dad Marcello has always cared for him and loved him. Mom Gemma also loves him, only Mom Gemma will always defend Jesslyn than she is.

He lifted his coffee cup and stood by the window. The sky of Ubud tonight is so full of stars, making him long to climb the mountain again in the world.

But Jeanette looked at her son, smiling. When Alex turned 1 year old, Jeanette took him around the island of Bali, to Lombok, by motorcycle. Now, his son had started to enter Kanak Kanak Park, so he never did it again.

"Mommy loves you" Jeanette put down her coffee mug, then closed the window. He laid his body right next to Alex and kissed his son's cheek. Jeanette tried to close her eyes, wanting to sleep and forget her problems.

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