Has Been Hanged
04. Lady Bladder

Barbie-haired girl, long with ovale cut and wavy at the end, is folding her face after the dawn prostration. Move hastily tidying up a bag that has just been crammed with clothes and veils. Walking out of the room while tucking his thick hair.

"Where are you going, Rat,?" ask me, Lucia was amazed. The woman was still in a mood, just back from the mushola down there.

"Sir, I'm going to my mother's house. If not early in the morning, he went to the cafeteria first," said Ratria while she was pounding the door of the room.

"Tok a bag, too, Rat,?" mbak Lusi.

"I'll have an interview, ma'am. Departing from mother's house. So it's a proposing shirt." Ratria replied by patting the small backpack on the back.

"You don't wear a veil, do you,?" tanya mbak Lusi reminded. Ratria looked down at Lucia. Then shake.

"I'm in a hurry, madam. Chase my mother. Lazy if you have to go down to the canteen." replied Ratria. Sit at the dinner table, take some water and gulp it down.

"Lazy ngadepin your fans,?" mbak Lusi smiled seductively. Ratria.

"Yes, mom. They are unyielding. And rejected one grows ten. I want to get to work fast, Mom. Let it look busy, there's nothing to it" Ratria said and stood up.

"Egg fritters, breakfast first yes, Rat, "persuade mbak Lusi. But the one who was persuaded shook his head and kept going.

"No papa, ma'am. I have breakfast at my mother's house" said Ratria, who was at the door wearing her shoes.

"Rat, what time are you home? If Mr. Andi and Mr. Shahdan come, how?" tanya mbak Lusi with a huff.

"No idea, ma'am. I don't know what time the interview will be. But if the factory man comes, let him go, ma'am. Wong, I'm not the one who needs it. I'm not interested in this hanging marriage match. My future is still long, ma'am," Ratria said excitedly.

"But sir Shahdan is now the big boss of the factory, Rat. He's rich. You're not tempted, are you,?" mbak Lusi reminded at the door. Ratria was already standing outside.

"My soul mate's just a factory guy, mbak. Bored. Want to fall in love and date first. I'm not in school anymore. I want to have a girlfriend while working. Wanting to have a city-boyfriend, ma'am," Ratria smiled jokingly.

"Sir Shahdan is not here, Rat. He is also a city person. And you haven't met. If you meet, you may immediately like," seloroh mbak Lusi while smiling.

"Ha..Ha..Ma'am, I'm leaving first, assalamu'alaikum,!" Ratria chuckled and then said goodbye.

"Wa'alaikumsalam's chat. Careful, nduk,!" exclamation mbak Lusi.

Ratria has passed and reached the gate. The girl walked quickly to the mother's house. Stepfather's house more precisely. Not too far from the official house Ratria lived in. Just a few blocks. And Ratria's stepfather was a tea-picking foreman in the garden. His mother was an employee at the perhutani area cafeteria.

His mother chose to marry his stepfather after two years Ratria's father died. Leaving the little girl alone with her grandmother. Mother of the deceased husband aka mother-in-law.

The biological mother left the biological daughter to be taken care of by the grandmother of the father. Go with her new husband to a house not too far from the mother-in-law's house. And more sadly for Ratria, the biological mother chose to raise the stepson her new husband brought in.

And it's been stuck up until now. But Ratria felt grown up. Although sick and disappointed if you remember, trying to ignore for the sake of good relations with the mother. The only blood lineage Ratria had in mind at the moment.

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"I'm in a hurry here, so I don't have time to eat at home, buk," Ratria replied to her mother.

Fatimah, her mother's name, no longer speaks. I didn't ask him why his daughter came so early.

The rush to take a plate and filled with a lot of rice with various side dishes and vegetables. Laying near Ratria while sticking a spoon on the plate.

"Quick spend it, let the dishes all of you wash. After this mom went to the cafeteria, today's mom has to be quick. Reportedly the pay of factory and garden people have not entered. Usually they would relax in the cafeteria" explained his mother. The woman seemed to be bothered going back and forth in the kitchen. I don't know what he hastily done.

Ratria just silently swallowed. His mother always was, seems to be in a hurry in all conditions and situations. Not feeling that his daughter is being upset is amazing.

Intention to tell stories and ask some things, Ratria had to ponder temporarily. Better come again next time. It wasn't the right moment to talk to his mother this morning.

"Rat, it's been a while,,?" greet a hoarse male voice. Turns out Ratria's stepfather, just woke up and is going to the bathroom.

"Just now, yeah." Ratria replied without looking. And the man went into the bathroom.

"Is Edi's father going to the garden this early, ma'am,?" ratria asked her busy mother rubbing down the pot.

"Yes, Rat. Wake up if the tea pickers don't come today. Your father will come to their houses one by one." Answer the mother.

"Did they mean demo, buk,?" ratria asked as she gathered the rice on the plate. And it will be the last feed.

"Yes, they are most upset if the salary is not immediately paid" explained his mother. The woman was sweeping the kitchen floor.

Ratria was washing her own dishes. The sink was clean and without a dirty spoon there. Feeling sorry for her troubled biological mother.

Ratria has two younger siblings from her mother's marriage to her new father. A woman and sit in second grade Junior High School. There was absolutely no initiative to help mom in the kitchen. Also the younger brother was sitting in the fifth grade Elementary School, very spoiled.

And finally, an adult male who was three years above Ratria. Is the child that his mother's husband brought from the first divorce. Working as a freelance flight attendant at Juanda airport, Surabaya.

And Ratria could never get along with the three of them. It may also be because they rarely meet and are together. Ratria also chose indekos while still studying in Malang. Although actually very often go home and the boarding room will be empty.

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The girl sleeping on the sofa was agitated. It is like that if he misses his mother. Come to his mother's house and won't have a room. Segan to join room with sister. Because it was never given an invitation to room together.

The stepfather's official house only had three rooms. Inipun is already the standard house foreman. Bigger and extra one room. Better than an ordinary house that only has two rooms. While the three rooms in the stepfather's house, all already have and are being used.

And it turns out, Ratria's stepbrother is on vacation at home. It feels so disinclined. Like not wanting to linger if there is Rio, the name of his half-brother. Rio always stared intently and coldly at Ratria. Like very dislike and will swallow himself round and round. It feels very uncomfortable. Especially when the mother went to work. Makes Ratria want to quickly leave.

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