Father's Status On My Son's Deed
45. Refusing to go to school

Aji knocks on the door of her parents' second room, and she wants to tell them something about her departure tomorrow. The ticket was there and he had to leave early in the morning. Mama Tia who was not asleep immediately opened the door. The woman frowned when she found the son standing at the door.

"What's up, kid? Do you need anything?" ask Mama Tia.

"I want to talk to Mom and Dad for a second."

"Just get in." Mama Tia opened the door as wide as possible so that the son could enter.

Aji sat on the sofa next to her papa who happened to still not sleep. Papa Harto was reading a book and immediately closed it and looked at the son. She knows something is important because Aji doesn't usually come to her room.

"What's wrong? What do you want to talk about these nights?"

"Tomorrow morning I have to get out of town, Pa, Ma. There's a problem with my project that's there."

"What problems? Why should you go out of town? Can't your confidant handle it?" ask Mama Tia.

Since Asha's departure, Aji had too many jobs outside the city. It's not that Mama Tia and Papa Harto don't know if it's just the son's wits in order to find Asha directly. They just pretended not to know so that Aji did not get angry and do things out of bounds. Now both of them seemed tired of his son's habits.

"Aji, haven't you paid people to look for Asha? Why do you have to step in and look for it again? They're more experts than you. They alone can't find Asha, how can you now look for her yourself?" sela Mama Tia who can not stand the attitude of her son.

"I really have a job out of town, Ma, and this is very important for our company. I can't just let it go because this is my project. I'm in charge of everything" said Aji in self-defense.

"You don't think Mama knows? All this time you said the same thing, there was work outside the city, but in fact you just wanted to find Asha there."

"I admitted that I always lied about it, but this time I told the truth. Project work outside the city is indeed a problem. If you don't believe me, you can ask the person in charge outside the city or the person you told to watch over me. They must know too. It is also impossible for Papa to intervene alone because surely Papa does not know the ins and outs of this project."

Mama Tia looked at the son's face, she could see the honesty there. The woman tries to ask again so that her heart is completely sure that Aji is not lying. "Are you going out of town for a job, not for anything else?"

"Yes, Ma. I only go for work. I promise once the project goes well and there's no more problems, I'll go home."

Mama Tia looked at Papa Harto, trying to ask her husband what to do now. The man took his cell phone to contact someone to make sure. However, it has not been implemented there have been several messages that entered on his phone. He had already installed the phone in silent mode so he did not know if any messages were coming in.

When reading one by one the message, Papa Harto finally nodded to his wife. It is true as Aji said if the project outside the city is having problems. The problem was quite heavy, so Aji had to intervene directly. Papa Harto who has long been in the business world also understands the situation of the son now.

Mama Tia who heard the answer from her husband was finally able to resign. Papa Harto must have known what happened. The woman hopes that, no matter what the problem will be, Aji can handle it quickly and the problem can be resolved easily.

"What time are you leaving tomorrow?" ask Mama Tia.

"Flighting's about six, Ma, but I have to leave at five because I have to meet with my secretary first to discuss the work here. I'll leave everything to him, hopefully there's no trouble later when I'm not around."

"Well, tomorrow Mama will prepare breakfast for you early in the morning."

"Thank you, Ma. Then I say goodbye, go to the room."

Aji immediately returned to the room, while Papa Harto who understood his wife's feelings immediately embraced her. She knows that Mama Tia is still not willing to go. However, this was all also for the sake of their company.

***

This morning Asha was troubled because Khairi refused to go to school. The boy was even still on the bed pretending to be asleep, but the woman knew that Khairi would wake up early and would not be able to sleep again. His friends had even gone to school. I don't know what made that kid not want to go to school.

Usually Khairi is the most diligent child among all the children in this village. Even Khairi always received praise from the teachers who taught him. Although he was still Kindergarten, but the boy was already good at reading writing and counting, even in English was quite clever because it was taught from Asha.

Asha had not stopped persuading the son to wake up and go to school. However, the boy still kekeh refused and said if he was having a fever. It was obvious that nothing had happened, not even his body felt the slightest heat.

"Come, dong, honey! All your friends have left, your own lives are not yet. Later if it is too late to get punishment from the teacher how?" persuade Asha.

However, Khairi did not care at all, even the boy further tightened his embrace on his bolster.

"Here you go, Asha, a day off is okay. Maybe Khairi is tired," said Bik Ika who felt that Khairi was hiding his feelings so that the mother did not know.

"Can't be so dong, Mom. If he's let go he'll get spoiled."

"Once, let it go. Let me talk to Khairi later," said Bik Ika who gave the code to Asha to get out of the room.

Since living in this house, Asha did change her call to Bik Ika to become a mother like Amira because she was like a child if in this house. For the rest of his life he would not be able to repay the kindness of this family.