
"We go home tomorrow morning Pa?", asked Gita.
"Heum!", said Arya while playing her phone. He was sending pede Surya who said that he was on his way to the Lingga house.
"Pa?", Gita pokes her husband's arm. Arya also looked.
"Is there something you've been hiding from your mom all this time?" asked Gita. Arya snorted at a glance. Lazy! That's what Arya felt. He refused to say what his wife should know.
Let others taste themselves men who have no heart. At least, his prestige would not go down.
"Sleep ma! Papa's busy!", replied Arya. Gita shook her head slowly and hugged her husband from behind who was no longer a sixpack.
"Thank you!", said Gita. Arya who did not know the meaning of thanks from her wife did not respond. He put his cell phone on the study table.
"Papa wants to rest!", said Arya while taking off his wife's embrace that was as old as her.
Inevitably Gita also lie on the bed with Arya who backs him.
"Mom knows, papa is good! But I don't know what made papa like all this time. Only papa knows the reason!", said the sleeping Gita staring at Arya's back. Arya herself is not sleepy at all. The words of his wife, of course, he heard well.
Arya tried to ignore what Gita said. But since he had slept for quite a long time this afternoon, he had not been sleepy until now.
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"Dek?", call Sekar to the sleeping Sham while rubbing his head.
"Yes Ma'am?", asked Sham without turning his head.
"May I ask you something?"
Syam changed his position so he lay down.
"Ask what Mom?"
"Ehemmm!", a moment's worth of pangs.
"May I know what makes you...is close to Mr. Arya?"
"What is the reason for Mr Arya?", asked Sham.
"It's okay. Mother was just astonished. You rarely talk to people you just meet. But..why with the new Aryan master you met...you can be very close?", asked Sekar.
"Mother! I know not if Mr. Arya who has helped sister Galuh when she wants to give birth to Sham?", asked Syam to look into his mother's eyes. Just nod.
"Yes, I know Sham. Because of mom's expensive operating expenses, your sister sold her kidneys."
Syam looked down for a moment and looked up at his mother.
"Syam knows, Syam may not be an adult. But...I understand everything that has happened so far. Syam can accept if the mother used to hate sham because of the presence of Sham that I did not expect. But.from there Sham 'forced' to learn to mature by circumstances."
"Syam never hated or was angry at mom at that time."
Sekar clutched his son and kissed the yams of Sham affectionately.
"And as for Mr. Arya, Sham knows that he is a good man. Even if he speaks, his voice is loud and rough but he is good."
Just slowly nodded.
"Mother can imagine not if at that time brother did not meet with Mr Arya and then help him?"
He lowered his head but answered nothing.
"Maybe.mom was beyond help and I never was!" said Sham.
"Mr Arya has given me a good name and has also wronged me, Mom! That's also.. a father's act right?", asked Sham. When it comes to father, Syam is quite sensitive.
"Abang already you consider brother and father at once right?", asked Sekar. Syam.
"Yes. Great brother of a man. Sham wants to be like Brother!", Sekar rubbed the head of Sham again.
"Syam has been almost eleven years Ma'am. It's not a kid that can be lied to like this."
Just take a long breath. Yes, the youngest child is indeed smart and much smarter than children his age.
"If asked, does Syam want to have a father? Sham said yes, Mom, with Brother, Syam feels affection that may be more than just like brother to sister. But it's still different, ma'am...."
"When he was with Mr. Arya, even though his voice was so fierce.", Sham stopped his sentence.
"Is the affection of mother, brother and brother not enough deck?", asked Sekar.
"Enough! Sham is happy to have you!", replied Sham. Smiling quietly. If Sekar wants to, in fact many Lingga business partners are trying to approach Sekar. Unfortunately, Sekar prefers to be alone until this age.
"Yes, bobok deck. Tomorrow at school?", Pinta Sekar. Syam nodded slowly. He didn't sleep right away, the boy's mind drifted everywhere.
In the eyes of Sham, Mr. Arya is still a good person who meritorious in his life. Slowly, Syam wants to try to make Mr. Arya melt down and willing to accept his brother as a daughter-in-law as worthy as his mother Angel received.
Over time, the flickering eyes of Sham also began to shut. Feeling the son was asleep, Sekar rubbed the head of Sham again.
Feeling guilty themselves. If he had not denied the responsibility of the father of Sham, maybe Syam would not feel bitter since in the womb. Who even Sekar himself does not know if there will be Sham in his womb.
The forty-year-old woman could only sigh. It all happened and cannot be changed.
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