Forced to Marry a Rich Widow
Punishment

"You don't teach me that, Axel. Why are you beating up people's children?"

Clara yelled at Axel when they were home. Arvel and Anzel had just returned home and Ferdi had just arrived from work. The three of them already know the problem that occurred, because Clara had time to notify via WhatsApp.

"How many times do you say that martial arts are not for great pretentiousness or pretentiousness in front of others."

Axel.

"You didn't make Mama know."

Clara swung her hand and was about to hit Axel. Ferdi quickly caught his wife's hand.

"Clar." He said as he stared intently into Clara's eyes.

"He's a messelin, Fer."

"It doesn't have to be hit either."

"He beat people's children, to the brunt."

"You're asking him why?" Ferdi's voice rose and Clara was now silent.

"As a parent you should ask first. Why did he do it like that. There is no smoke if there is no fire. Don't just get angry and want to be heard, without you listening."

Clara was silent. Arvel and Anzel threw their gazes in the other direction, while Axel now kept his head down.

"He's in the bully, Clara."

Ferdi's words succeeded in making Clara flinch. He looked at Axel and then looked back at Ferdi. Arvel and Anzel were as surprised as their mother, because they knew nothing of it.

"You don't know, do you?" said Ferdi again.

"She was in the bully all this time and she just kept quiet. He obeys your words, that martial is not to act pretentiously in front of others. He never volunteered, until I told him to."

Clara completely froze this time. The woman's chest was tight and her heart was racing.

"I told him the other day to avenge his enemy's treatment. This is the second time he's done that."

Clara continued to be flabbergasted to watch Axel and Ferdi as well.

"If you want to be angry, be angry with me. I just taught him, so that as a man he had self-esteem. Because if he stays quiet, until whenever he will continue to be a victim. And it's not good for her mental health."

Ferdi then passed. Clara slowly approached towards her youngest child who was still silent.

"What did Ferdi say?" ask her later.

Axel nodded, but still looked down.

"It was Ferdi who told you to hit your opponent?"

Again Axel nodded.

"But it's not Ferdi's fault entirely. Axel has long been willing to reciprocate their treatment. But Axel is not sure yet, because still thinking of the words of mama who forbid Axel to be rude to people."

Clara took a deep breath.

"What do they often do to you?" ask her again.

"Most often hit." Axel replied.

Clara's heart is now as in shreds. He really did not expect if his son became a victim of bullying. At school, he remembers how Gibran's parents vehemently cornered Axel.

Clara was silent because she felt that her son was naughty. Now it's grudging and it feels like it wants to prolong this. Because it turns out that the badder one is Gibran.

While on the other hand, Anzel is now following Ferdi. Ferdi, who found his stepson, has now stopped his steps.

"What's wrong?" ask Ferdi later.

"I don't like my mama's anger, especially in front of children who are trying to educate her. Om shouldn't do all that. Om omit mommy's authority in Axel's eyes."

"From the first moment your mama was angry to the moment she hit Axel. At that time, your mother lost her life. Especially in Axel's eyes."

Ferdi looked at Anzel deeply.

"I don't have children yet, I don't know what it's like to be in my mom's position."

"But om was once a child, just like you, Arvel and Axel. You don't have to have children to learn to be parents. Just as we do not need a turnaround first, to be able to be vigilant against the perpetrators of theft."

Ferdi was still staring at Anzel and vice versa.

"Om was once a child and om know what it feels like, when parents just nyerocos and blame, without knowing what the cause. Why did we make a mistake." he said again.

"You as her brother, did you ever know anything about that?"

Anzel was silent this time.

"As brothers you should be paying more attention to each other. Moreover, your relationship is very close. You should be a protector and a comfortable place for your brothers and sisters, and vice versa. Your brothers should be the most comfortable place for you to tell any problem. Because that's what family's for."

Ferdi just left that place. While Anzel and Arvel who heard from behind the wall are now both silent.

***

A few moments passed.

Axel walked towards a room, accompanied by Clara. At that time Ferdi who was passing by accidentally saw this.

"Let's go in, it's a punishment for you" Clara told the child.

"Your mother knows how the problem is. Koq Axel is still in the law too?" Axel protested against his mother.

Clara took a deep breath.

"Mama's gonna talk Gibran's parents back. Mama will expose her son's behavior towards you all this time. His parents are embarrassed too. But this time you still have to serve a disciplinary punishment from mama."

"Yes, but why?. For what reason try?" Axel still protests.

"For reasons because you've acted with violence."

"But there's a reason."

"Mama knows. But as a mother, you also cannot normalize the abusive actions you make. It's the same thing that means you let your son be a criminal."

Axel was silent, he could not win an argument against Clara. Only Ferdi could currently keep up with that woman.

"Lake in!" clara said later.

"What's inside?" axel asked doubtfully.

"There's nothing, people are just empty rooms. There's AC again. Still mending than you mama brackets in the back shed a lot of cockroaches."

Axel then entered the room. Clara looked at Ferdi.

"You came in too, Fer." he said later.

"You want to punish your own husband?. Sin, Clara."

Ferdi spoke while holding a smile. Clara wanted to laugh, but she tried hard to hold it back.

"Come, Fer. You taught our son to be an anarchist."

"Yes but it's."

"I know." Clara interrupted Ferdi's words.

"But as a parent, you want to be a good example for children. You have to be responsible anyway. You taught him to punish people, he was the only one who was punished. It's not fair to him."

Ferdi took a deep breath.

"OK." she answered later.

"You can't have dinner either" Clara said.

"OK, you can eat at dawn" said Ferdi.

The handsome young man then stepped into the room, while Clara continued to hold back her smile.