For My Brother and Mother
Regrets can be late, rather than not at all.
Nara and Azam are growing up.
Nara is busy with her work as a teacher.
He was given the opportunity to teach in one corner of the village who desperately needed a teaching figure.
While Azam is still busy with his college majoring in marketing.
Azam is like me, he likes to do business without abstinence.
He dared to interact and mingle with many people since he was still on the bench smp.
My mother was not strong anymore to live far away from me, she decided to stay with me again.
Nara was actually a biological child even reluctant with her own father.
He reflected on his father's life all along.
Life without relatives, friends, even neighbors.
In his old age even his own wife was not strong to live with him.
One day he was just daydreaming and silent, as if he was sorry for his past which he had wasted.
He is more concerned with his ego in every way.
He who spreads, he will also reap it.
"Assalammualaikum mbak.!!", exclaimed Nara running from the courtyard into my house.
"Walaikumsalam, Nara..!!, so God you go home", I hugged my only sister.
"I also miss the same mother, let alone quarrel with Azam" he said.
"Emmmm, you've got it.!!, love your sister's plunge" I said.
"Mbak, as mbak said, lucky I have a sister, so I can't be in vain.in dong same moment he, kayak mbak momong I used to be, thanks ya mbak", he said while kissing the back of my hand.
I didn't feel like my eyes were full of tears, I really couldn't believe that my sister who I hoped would not be like her father turned out to be a reality.
"Barakallah", I said stroking Nara's pretty face.
My eyes fell on the side of the road not far from my house.
My stepfather secretly watched from a distance the arrival of Nara.
I had hurt her, but I also knew what it was like to be a parent away from her child.
"Sir, which mother...??" said Nara clingukan into the house.
My mother came out of her room.
"Ehhh my son is coming home" exclaimed my mother hugging and kissing Nara.
"Yeah buk, I miss the atmosphere of the house, the money-making period" said Nara began to spoil in my mother's arms.
"You're healthy, son.??" said my mother.
"Alhamdulillah buk, oh yes I bring food, yukk eat together", exclaimed Nara pulled my hand.
"Bent on Nara" I said withholding the pull of her hand.
"Why mbak.??" said Nara wonder.
"We don't miss you.???", I said at once removing the smiles on my mother and sister's faces.
"Why not talk about it anyway.!!, yukk ahh we eat.!!", exclaimed Nara did not want to hear about her own father.
"Waitu Nara...!!, look at the road ahead...., I looked at your return from afar, you did not kasian..??" I said.
Nara and my mother glanced at the road, they saw the figure of a man who was not sturdy anymore as before.
"Why do you still care about Kin.??" said my mother.
"Yet, he was also Nara's father" I said, though I realized I was a child that my stepfather had never considered and never appreciated.
"Sir, he is evil with our family, even his own biological children" Nara exclaimed.
"He was so because he did not want to lose his only biological child Nara" I told him.
"By keeping me away from mbak, forbidding me to meet mbak, and making me almost hate mbak and his small family mbak..... mbak....!!!, p....!!!, I already know all about the suffering mbak mbak when he was still a child and needed the guidance of parents, even he made mbak his enemy, mbak, and keep the mother of the mother and her only sister mbak mbak" said Nara shed tears.
"It's difficult to move here, because Nara has grown up Kin, which we were afraid was not going to happen now because Nara was an adult and could protect herself, I always wanted to be with you, she said, let him bear his own sins" said my mother stroking my hair to persuade me to forget my cruel stepfather.
"Mbak not want pain mbak......??" said Nara.
"Remember Nara, remember very much, but I don't want to be like her first, and finally in her old days there are only regrets that are useless, lest you regret Nara, mbak already felt how not to have a father during this mother's life, you don't.", I cried in front of him.
Nara and mother hugged me, and Nara was willing to meet her father.
My father stood by the side of the road for so long, only to see his biological son and the wife he had so far wasted.
"Stupid me.!!", he turned around and wanted to step home.
"Well..??" exclaimed Nara stopping her father's footsteps.
With tears in her eyes, she turned her body again and looked satisfied Nara in front of her.
He could not help but cry, seeing his only son calling him father for the first time after several years apart.
"My son.!!", he cried tightly to Nara's body.
My mother who saw it from inside the house cried bitterly holding my hand.
"If he could be so much better for you, mother and your sister, we would be happy with you" said my mother in her tears.
I can only stroke his shoulder.
That's what I've been yearning for all my life buk, but maybe God didn't grant it in my present life, I murmured inwardly.
"Let's go to mbak's house" said Nara wipe her tears and pull her father's hand.
My stepfather remained silent where he stood, as if it were heavy for his feet to step into my house.
"Dad couldn't look at your mother Nara" said my stepfather lowered his head.
"Bak is good, he has been sorry father for a long time" said Nara.
"Could it be.??, after what you did.??" said my father looking deeply into my sister's face with doubt.
"If you don't like your dad, you can't ask me to meet you, and you can't meet all your dad's needs all this time" my sister said to surprise my stepfather.
"What do you mean Nara.??", cried my stepfather.
"Dad thought who sent dad monthly money every month.??, not me yah but mbak, mbak can not bear to release a father kara alone in old age", nara's words made my stepfather cry even more.
"Daddy is useless nara", he said beating his own head.
"It's been well, we better go home first yes, I can talk to you there" said Nara stopped the fist of my stepfather who beat his own head.
Finally he agreed and went home with Nara to my house.
At first he was embarrassed to be right in front of me.
But after I hugged him.
Finally he smiled and confessed to his caliphate.
"I'm sorry Father kin" he said, holding my hands tightly.
"Have well, then let it pass, I and the family have forgiven the error of father, now let me take care of Nara father and mother in your old age, yes...??", I looked at his wrinkled face and his completely white hair.
Finally from then on, I want to go home with me again, apologizing to my husband and my son.
He apologized for not being able to be a good father-in-law and grandfather to my husband and son.
The next day he got closer to Azam, even every time they spent together.
On the sidelines of his football game with his grandfather, he came up to me and hugged me.
"Why dear.?" I said in wonder.
"True mother, just be a good grandson, and in the end grandfather loved me and invited me to play together too, thanks to ya buk", he said running again kicking the ball towards his grandfather.
"Alhamdulillah", saying.
That's all I can say this time.
My happiness cannot be described with words.
Thank you god...
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