Don't Call My Name
Dikerjain Sama Mami's

Chapter 45

“Close to Century pharmacy, first, Pi,” Miranda told Ruben one day on their way home from work.

“You bought what?” Reuben asked.

“Regular, kinds of drugs to stock up. Stock at home has been thinning.”

“No other way, besides?”

“I can only control everything with medicine, Pi. If not, I've been in RS from the first.”

“Measuring him do not be too stressed, because all diseases start from here.” Ruben pointed at his head.

“How not to stress our child's thinking. She is 31 years old, but not married,” she said with dewy eyes, “how could this be my fault in the past, so she has to bear it?”

“Don't always blame yourself like this,” Ruben rubbed his wife's back, “no relation to her to our past. Our mistakes will be our responsibility later. It is .. Our task now take care of health, so that we can accompany them even longer. Especially Mike who still needs us badly.”

Miranda no longer spoke.

He just opened his voice when the car had arrived in front of the intended pharmacy, “Before, yes, Pi.”

“Do I need to accompany?”

“Neventless. Just a moment, kok.”

“All right.”

Miranda fixes her scruffy hijab and tunic shirt. Then take his bag and go down into the pharmacy. Take out a piece of the doctor's prescription, then hand it over to the pharmacist on duty.

“Okay, this is it, Mom? Is there anyone else who doesn't use the recipe?”

“Vitamin ...” Miranda mentions some of the supplements and vitamins that are needed.

“Good, Mom. A minute, yes.”

Miranda. He was about to turn around, but was snuffed at the sight of the young man he knew handing out a prescription to the other pharmacists. Right next to him stood.

“Ustaz Ray,” he said made the man look confused.

“Iya? Me?” ray pointed to himself.

“Iya, You. How many names do you have?” asked Miranda astonished because she saw Ray confused by his face, “dah do not want to know you again with Auntie? Forgot who you're famous for?”

“Em, excuse me, sorry, Mom. Did my son do anything wrong?” ask a woman to come closer. He is almost the same age as Miranda. That woman is Vita Anggraeni. She just took her son to occupational therapy. Then stop by to buy a drug that is not available at the hospital pharmacy.

“No, just so arrogant now,” reply Miranda did not hesitate.

“Before Mom knew my son?”

“Know. It's very familiar, though. He used to come to my house to study. I'm Zara Angel's Mommy.”

“Zara Angel, mean Mother ..?” Vita wonders.

“Yes, Zara is one of his students. We were very close, before. I also wonder, why, now Ustaz Ray so like this. Try, ask her son. He's arrogant, now. Check out my son first ...” bla... bla.... bla... Miranda explains when Ray changed.

"Eat him do not just believe the same news is not true. Your aunt is not a person with a lack of experience. But anyway, could be the same ...." Miranda kept nagging. She's the kind of woman who hasn't stopped talking if all her grunts are done.

Ray was confused.

“Angel?” reload Ray make sure. Did Angel deliver it yesterday? His head suddenly throbbed as he tried to force himself to remember something.

But it seems that the question is ignored because now the mother and aunt are even talking to themselves and planning another meeting on the spot. I don't know what they're going to talk about, Ray doesn't know.

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“Honey..” call Miranda to Zara as soon as she gets home almost late at night.

Zara who was accompanying Mike was studying in the middle room turned her head, “Ya, Mam?”

First Miranda put the plastic bags of medicine, before then joined them.

“Udah, ah. Mike tired.”

“But tomorrow it will be collected, so you have to work on it now. Until it's done, okay?”

“No, tomorrow. My brain cannot think. Later can be a brain gag,” answered Mike then hugged his mother after that.

“Say dah males. Huh, ma so what are you?”

“My friends just want to be a good husband.”

Miranda then laughed, “The good husband is not stupid like you, Michael mukson! A good husband's time can be worth the eggs constantly.”

“Mike mah males learn his man. How could be a good husband,” Zara responded, “lagian is still eleven years old already have marriage ideals. What will his wife eat? Love?”

“Let's eat rice, lah,” answered Mike gratuitously.

“Not yet know him that the same price of rice oil is expensive.” Miranda kissed her son with anxiety.

"Why do you keep going, when don't you go?" mike asked, "take dong, this handsome boy to the Mall."

"Mommy's busy, make money for school. Mike's going to the Mall with Devi's mom, yeah."

"Males, ah," Mike disagrees.

“Tadi, Mam call me what?” Zara interrupted their conversation.

“Besok Mam has a client meeting in Ampera. You're busy, aren't you?”

“Why? Mami asked for payment?”

“Iya, because Om schedule is solid. So I can't go through with Mami. But if you want.”

“There is a photo shoot, but it can be pending, really. It doesn't have to be tomorrow.”

“Okay,” Miranda smile. But a smile that is hard to understand. Only he knows. Zara did not realize it.

Until the next day, they went to their destination.

At first there was nothing wrong. Zara felt all was well without any awkwardness. They met up with some people to talk about work.

But by the time the meeting session was over, Mami left it near the fish pond. From his permission, he wanted to perform the prayer of the Zuhr. Zara did not follow because she was an idol. But until ten minutes passed, Mami never returned.

She realized that this was already planned by her mother, after she found out, there was a man standing behind her. Men are well-built, wearing gray shirts and semi-formal pants. It obviously shocked him half to death.

“Zara Angel,” she said looking at him for sure, “but yesterday you only introduced yourself as Angel.”

“People who completely forget the memory will not bother with it,” Zara replied to Ray's words just now. “Why are you here? Where's my Mami?”

But it seems Ray doesn't care about the question, “I don't remember anything, Ra. But here ...” Ray pointed at his chest, “I feel it. Coupled with the stories I heard from everyone nearby, that you are my past that was once left behind due to a misunderstanding. So we have to end up like this.”

“No, you are wrong. I don't have a past with you. When we were close, you had your own wife. So don't make it up.”

“No matter what it is, I will still fight for you.”

“Funny. After you're not happy with another woman, you keep asking me to be her backup? No shame, you?” emphatically.

Zara did not know that Ray was alone. He was just wondering, because it was impossible for this man to approach him while he still had a wife. She also knows Mami is more selective than she is. So, the old woman would not be able to allow a man to approach her with an uncertain status.

“With you talking like that, I'm becoming more and more convinced that we have..”.

“Believe yourself too much,” sela Zara shines a sharp spotlight, “I still have pride even though you consider me cheap!” again full of emphasis. Then Zara moved from her place. But alas, he was held back by a sturdy hand that held him firmly.

“If I ever failed, this time I will not let you loose again,” whispered right in the ear that makes his body bristled, "I will propose to you to the house."

"So the man must be gentle, unyielding, do not be afraid of rejection, must move quickly so as not to go first with others. Failing to try again, falling, rising again. Pepet continued until he felt he had no choice."

Ray remembered Umar's words a while ago.