Father's Status On My Son's Deed
50. I'm your papa

Aji invited Khairi to sit in the park after being tired of driving around by car. The boy looked sad, when offered where to go, Khairi did not answer and just remained silent with a blank look ahead. I don't know what's in his head, but he's still a little kid, but it's like a lot of burden to face.

"Not yet to speak?" tanya Aji broke the silence making Khairi take a deep breath and throw it away violently.

"I don't want to go to school there anymore. They are evil like mama, I just want to change schools" replied Khairi without looking at his interlocutor.

"If you do, you should ask both of your parents. You can't make your own decisions. Try talking to your mom and dad slowly, they will understand. No parent would want to see their child treated like this. Nor do you know your parents."

"Om, please help me talk to Mom, okay?"

Seeing Khairi's sad face, Aji could only nod, nor did he know what Khairi's parents were like. Whether you can negotiate or not because he knows, everyone must have their own character.

"So you said that Om should help you talk to your mom, you don't need to talk to me?"

"Papa's not home, Om. He went to work far away. Mama said, now papa still can not go home, but I really want papa at home. Don't work all the way."

Aji nodded, in his mind must be the father of this child working out of town. Instantly his feelings become sad, wishful thinking if his son Khairi is extinct just like that.

"You stay with your mom? There's no one else?"

"I live with my grandmother, sister and aunt."

Aji's doubts are growing, whether Khairi is his son or not. Especially now that there are other people who live with him or maybe it is the person who helps them when they leave the house. The man tried to think what he should ask again without making Khairi depressed.

"May I ask what is your full name?" ask Aji with a heart that beats faster. He was afraid to hear the answer from the boy.

Khairi immediately turned his head. "Why, um want to know my full name?"

"Om just curious and wants to make sure of something."

Khairi's forehead shriveled, not understanding what the meaning of the sentence uttered by Aji was. However, since the man had already helped him, the boy also mentioned his full name.

"My name is Ahmad Khairi Al Fatih."

Instantly Aji was sculpting, she held her breath and asked again. "Who is your mother's name?"

"Hisbanda Nur Apriyanti?" asked Aji who Khairi was referring to hesitantly for not expecting the man to know his mother's full name.

True what became Aji's premonition, it turns out that what he felt when he first met Khairi was indeed the truth. The man's heart stopped beating for a moment, unknowingly the tears streaming down his cheeks made the boy wonder, had the answer hurt the man who had helped him? He didn't say anything strange and only mentioned his mother. It was because Aji asked.

"Om why are you crying? Is there a problem?"

"Is that your mother's name?" ask Aji again without answering Khairi's question and again the boy can only nod in response.

Without saying much more Aji immediately hugged Khairi. He sobbed in the arms of the child he had been looking for. After a long time, the boy was in sight. During this time Aji exerted all his abilities to search for their existence. But who would have thought that fate would say something else.

It is precisely he who first finds the son than the great people he has paid for. Khairi who was in Aji's arms felt confused, why was she suddenly hugged by the man while crying. Moreover, the apology that continues to be spoken from Aji's lips increasingly makes Khairi confused. Although he was still a child, but very smart in dealing with adults and apologies can not be said for no reason.

"Om why are you crying? Why apologize? We will never know so, Om is also not wrong with me," said Khairi with a confused face.

Aji broke down a hug and looked at Khairi deeply. "Om going to tell you something and you can't interrupt it before you finish the story. After all Om tells you, it's up to you to be angry or not, but a promise to listen to the story from Om."

Although Khairi hesitated, but still nodded his head. The boy continued to stare at the face of the man in front of him, all the questions he had in his head he was trying to endure.

"Do you believe this Om is your papa?"

Instantly Khairi glared, he did not expect with the question from the man. All this time he was waiting for the arrival of the papa, but when Aji said that, somehow there was a sense of wanting to reject him. She felt her father did not want her whereabouts because he did not return home. His mother once said that his father was away, while the person in front of him was even here in good health, even said to have a lot of money.

"No way! Om must be lying, my papa went to work and mama said papa promised to go home after a lot of money. There's no way Om is my papa. If Om was my papa, there's no way papa would just leave me and meet me at school. Moreover, Om is also rich, will definitely find me at home," said Khairi makes Aji confused how to explain to the child.

He did not blame Asha for the answer given to the son. Precisely the man was happy because the wife still considers her existence. It could have been that the woman said that if Papa Khairi had died, but it was not done, there must have been something going on.

"There's something Papa can't explain, but if you want Papa will explain it and Papa hopes you'll listen to it all until it's over."

Khairi actually hesitated to listen to him or not. In the heart there is another side that wants to listen to Aji's explanation. However, the other side refused because it felt unwanted by the father. She is afraid that the man is lying about what really happened, but there is no harm in listening to Aji's explanation. Not harming himself either.

"All right, I'll listen to him. I'm telling the truth."

For a moment Aji was flabbergasted by the boy's reply. How could such a small child have such an answer. However, he was proud to have a child like Khairi.