DAD CONNECT
Chapter 26 - FILL THE HEART OF RATNA

After Elen's death, the atmosphere at his parents' house was suddenly quiet. Ratna went straight into the room and locked her up. Not her room and Roy's, but Elen's.

"Hiks, Elen forgive me! Forgive your wicked mother." Ratna was crying in silence.

Covering both of his faces with palms, his thin body was sitting limp on the floor. Ever since Elen was a teenager he's been acting bad, not without Ratna's reason for doing it, he just wishes Elen was a strong person out there.

More than that, Ratna wants the Shain family to find her daughter. Ratna knew, before dying, Shain Arkan the grandfather had ordered someone to browse through life and even watch over his every activity.

"What the Shain family hates is Roy, not you baby! You must earn your rights as the granddaughter of the Shain family!" muttered.

His memory wandered far into his youth. For the sake of marrying Roy, he was even thrown out of his extended family.

Now Ratna feels for herself, what kind of life she was when she married Roy. Drunk man and gambling hobby, but one thing that makes him stay with the man, Roy loved him more than anything.

Rubbing his face rough, he immediately approached Roy who was still pensive in the living room.

"Let's go to sleep" Ratna asked.

"Hm, yeah!"

"Ratna, do you love me?" roy asked when their bodies were both lying on the bed.

"Hm, huh!"

"That means you're stupid!"

"Indeed, I've been a fool for a long time! It can't even be good to my own child" Ratna said in a soft tone.

"We're really a pair of stupid humans!" roy's whisper changed his position to embrace Ratna.

"Mr Alexan, lately your sister and her husband are getting outrageous. Shouldn't we go get Miss Elen?"

"Ck! Do as I tell you, early in the morning you pick them up from the little house and bring them here! I will marry my daughter myself to her lover. Ratna and that trashy man, even asking for fifty million pay just to marry off his daughter, is outrageous!" maki Alexan on the phone after hearing an explanation from her confidant.

Brakk!

Alexan kicked the table in annoyance.

"What's wrong?" Mayra, who heard her husband angry, approached.

"It's no big deal, it's just that I want to bring Ratna's son to this house. Do you mind?" ask Alexan.

"No, isn't that good news!"

"Yes, Ratna and her husband have wasted our spears!"

"It wasn't Ratna's fault, it was your Papa's fault, Mas! Didn't Papa at first never consider Ratna's son to be a descendant of the Shain family?"

"Papa only... Oh, that's it, it's hard to explain! Tell you what, we'll sit down!" alexan Pinta.

"What only?"

"You know Roy, right? He's a gambler and a drunk" Alexan explained.

"Hm, but he loves Ratna so much!"

"Are we going to live enough just with compassion? Think realistically Mayra, there are many widows out there who are divorced because their husbands are unemployed!"

"Hm" short Mayra.

"Papa behaved like that also for the sake of Roy and Ratna, he wanted to see the extent of his responsibilities as a man and also a daughter-in-law. And hya..."

"Already, Mas. The point is, you're all wrong!" pissed Mayra. He passed into the room leaving Alexan in the study.

'Ratna, your plan has worked. After Mas Alexan brought your son here, go as far as possible!' mayra's Message.

'No, I have to marry Elen first, I'm her father! That's all I wanted to do before I disappeared from my son's sight, I've already made his heart and life ravaged.'

'Hm okay.'

After the news, he immediately deleted the message so as not to be discovered by Alexan. Mayra knew all this time her sister-in-law always tried to get her son rights in the Shain family.

***

"Div, how long are you gonna be here?"

"Until you share a little of the burden of your shoulders with me. Elen, I want you to be honest about what you've been through all this time, why are your parents like that?" ask Divine.

Sighing a long breath, he had already tried to strengthen his heart not to cry from earlier in the presence of Divine. But what happened was that man did not want to go home at all!

"Nothing!"

"Divine framed Elen's face so that she would no longer look down, "your face is lying! I saw it, Elen. What else do you doubt? Can we not be this old me or at least you tell me a little!"

The palm of the Divine hand loosened as Elen's body began to tremble. A moment later, the woman shed tears with her lips still mute without a word.

Pain, maybe that's how Elen felt. Divine could see it, Divine could feel the pain that Elen felt. Only, he did not know what all his beloved woman had experienced.

"I'm ashamed, really ashamed of you! Hiks, I.." looked down again, the sobbing got louder. Divine could only embrace him in a hug, gently rubbing the black mane and letting the broken cry of Elen wet his clothes.

"From now on, share everything with me! You and Satria, I love you! I love you Elen!"

Deg.

Elen subsided, his hand raised back to the Divine embrace. He found his peace of heart there, in the arms of a Divine.

Is this what we call love? He asked in his heart, he had never felt this warm feeling.

"Yes, I promise from now on I'll share it with you!"

"Sure, and must!"

"Div," call Elen.

"Yes, Honey?"

"When did you like me?" elen asked, still comfortable in the embrace of Divine.

"Have you heard of Dave's name at your school?"

Deg.

"I don't know him" Elak Elen.

"But you know who that man is? Try you remember? A while ago I looked at your application file in detail."

"Div, yes! High School period is only massalu," said Elen.

"Yes, like my story with Cassandra! She's just a shame, don't be jealous!"

"Who is jealous?" elak Elen's.

"You are who else. In this world, there was rarely anyone who claimed to be jealous. Like the time I saw you coming home with Rafael back then!" obviously Divine.

"And you're a jealous man" said Elen.

"Yes, how else. Time, can not be jealous of his own future wife," muttered Divine who was able to make Elen's cheeks meet red.

"Go home."

"Kok so do not want to go home, if nginep will be in grebek residents no anyway?"

"Back, Div!"

"Where's the good night kiss? Let me sleep well and not dream of another angel!" divine Pinta.

"Hm." Elen pouted, at the same time his Divine behavior made him slightly comforted especially when the man pointed at the cheek. Elen could only obey, so that the man would come home soon. Just as his nose touched the cheek skin, Divine turned to make their two lips meet.

Divine did not waste the opportunity by remaining silent, she softly smelled the thin lips of the opium tub.

Until slowly Elen began to reply with the same thing.

"Good night, Elen."

Even the timid Elen could only stare at the faint smile of Divine departure from his home. After making sure the car disappeared, Elen entered to catch up with Satria who had fallen asleep first.