HANARIA the Woman of a Million Race
177. I Missed Brother
Firlita did not reply immediately, she smiled slightly at Hanaria, then hugged her foster sister's body tightly. "I miss you big brother" she said while crying in Hanaria's arms.
Hanaria returned Firlita's embrace tightly, and rubbed Firlita's back gently to calm her down. For a while he let Firlita release all her negative energy through her cries.
"Firlita, let's sit down first." Hanaria finally loosened her embrace. He brought Firlita a dinner shirt just a few steps away from where the two were standing.
"Sit down here, sister will bring you tea," Hanaria pulled up a chair and let Firlita sit there, as she headed back to her mini kitchen a few steps away from the dining table to brew tea.
Not long after, Willy came out of the room and was well-dressed. He passed the dining table to approach Hanaria who was busy in her kitchen.
"Let me finish the rest of Hana, you change your clothes, working hours will start soon" Willy told reporters.
"Alright, thank you Willy," said Hanaria with a faint smile looking at her husband's face, he passed by carrying a hot pot and three empty tea cups to the dining table where Firlita sat watching the motions of the couple.
"Firlita, sorry big sister stayed a while to change clothes. Drink this tea first" said Hanaria, after pouring hot tea into a glass cup for Firlita.
"Yes, thank you sister." said Firlita. After Hanaria died, Firlita noticed Willy who moved Hanaria's dishes from the pot into the pring dish painstakingly.
She began to fantasize that if her husband Mahendra could be like Willy, treat her well and attentively, just like Willy treated her foster brother, of course her life would be more pleasant, her inner self.
Willy started carrying plates and bowls serving dinner shirts. Firlita stared at him, as if hypnotized by the man's charm. Besides being rich and handsome, it turns out that Willy is the type of ideal husband, inner Firlita. Ah, Firlita was back in a fantasy that was not, her eyes would not blink even a bit to look at the almost perfect man in her eyes, while cupping his chin with both palms.
In the midst of his busy life back and forth from Hanaria's mini kitchen to the dining table to move all of Hanaria's cooking to the dining table, Willy realized that Firlita kept watching him.
Although he was a little uncomfortable getting the attention of Firlita's gaze, Willy chose not to care, for him Firlita was nothing, nothing more than Hanaria's adoptive sister his wife, was, and that was the reason for him to be nice to the little lady.
Hanaria walked out of her room, then sat down in front of Firlita. Willy, her husband, sat next to her.
"We have breakfast first Fir," Hanaria asked, she then scooped up food, side dishes for Firlita, and placed it in front of her sister.
That's how Hanaria, even if it's just breakfast, she always provides heavy meals, because she has been used to doing it since childhood with her family in the village, while Willy just follows her without protest.
"This is for you, Hana" Willy gave the plate in his hand that he had filled with the menu he had taken from the table.
"Thank you Willy" said Hanaria looking at her husband's face. A warm smile emanated from his face, Willy's day-by-day attention to her made him feel happy. He immediately received the plate from Willy's hand.
All that little attention did not escape Firlita's gaze, nor the response Hanaria gave her husband. Seeing all that, Firlita wondered if he was in the position of his adoptive sister.
Before starting breakfast, the three of them both gave thanks to the Blessing Giver, then began to enjoy their breakfast.
"Where is your son Fir? Is he in good health?" Hanaria repeated her question that Firlita had not answered when she had just arrived.
"Baby Elvano, I left him to sleep in the room after he fell asleep this morning sister" said Firlita on the sidelines of her breakfast.
"Baby Elvano, he's also very healthy" he told a bit of a lie.
Spontaneous Firlita's face immediately changed to hear it," Is it not too late to work if you stop by the house.
"Calm down, sister Hana not long ago, just stopped by for a while. Sister Hana misses baby El, she must be more contained and bigger," said Hanaria again smiling considering the tiny baby she had timang on the day of the birth of the baby.
Willy did not chat, he was just a good listener, while still enjoying his breakfast.
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Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!
"Where is Bi?" mrs Sundayana asked, when she saw that Aunt Narsih was busy calming the crying baby Elvano with a shrill voice.
"Do not know madam. I left Miss Firlita and the baby to prepare breakfast, after I returned Miss Firlita was gone." said aunt Narsih as she continued to hold the baby to silence her.
"Give me Bi," asked Madame Sundayana to aunt Narsih as she extended her hand.
"Give me the ASI Bi, let me feed it to baby Elvano" said Madam Sunday again to the Aunt.
"That's madam, her ASI doesn't exist" said aunt Narsih with a worried face.
"Is there nothing? The woman, whatever she did, did not provide her breast milk when she left her baby, she was really useless," said Madame Sundayana.
Aunt Narsih was silent at her nagging nagging at her daughter-in-law, while baby Elvano continued to cry with her increasingly shrill and heartbreaking voice in her grandmother's arms.
"Madamma, give baby Elvano to me" said Firlita who suddenly walked in from the door in a hurry to approach her mother-in-law.
"At last you came back too, where did you come from, early in the morning have left your baby?" said madam Sundayana with a sharp look at her daughter-in-law.
"I'm looking for a breath of fresh mistress" Firlita said.
"Many reasons! You are not a clear woman. What kind of mother are you, leaving your baby without ASI," said madam Sundayana upset.
"I'm sorry ma'am" Firlita said with a flushed face while looking down. Just now he calmed down, now he had received blasphemies from the in-laws who did not care at all about what he felt.
"Here, suck on your baby!" mrs Sundayana handed the baby Elvano in her carrier to Firlita who looked down in front of her.
Firlita immediately accepted the baby and suckled him, but the baby did not want to, she even firmer let out a shrill cry, making Firlita shocked.
"Look, your baby just doesn't like you, you're so useless" said Ms. Sunday.
"Enough madam! All your words are too harsh! And so the ear hurts," said Hanaria on the doorstep of Firlita's room, since she was just silent, trying to refrain from hearing all the harsh words that madam Sundayana threw at her sister Firlita.
Madam Sundayana gasped, she recognized the voice that was reprimanding her loudly, she quickly turned her head, and saw Hanaria who was looking at her with her flat face.