He's my son, not my brother
What disturbs his sleep?
"Actually..mangun..."
At midnight, Naina who is still sleeping comfortably in her sleep must wake up because of a small disturbance from her daughter who keeps patting her face.
"Zeline... What's wrong? Why are you waking up at this hour?" Naina's voice sounded hoarse. His eyes were red, staring at his daughter, who was now sitting next to him.
"Zel was afraid of this.. inda want bobo.." Zeline's voice began to sound raucous. Although still vague, but Naina can see the face of her daughter who wants to cry.
Naina sat her body. Stare at his daughter who really wants to cry.
"Well..." Zeline finally cried. Making Naina who saw him start to panic.
"Zeline... What's wrong? Why crying?" Naina clutches her daughter's body trying to calm her down.
"Fear this.. inda want bobo.." he said in between his tears.
"Tumben once Zel wakes up at night like this..." Naina kept stroking her daughter's back to calm down.
"Well..." Zeline was still crying. I don't know what made her cry for no reason.
"Zeline.. don't cry. There's Brother Nai here.. let's drink first..." Naina also handed a glass of drink that she usually prepared on the nightstand to Zeline.
Long enough Naina tried to calm her daughter who suddenly just cried and frightened it.
"Bobo again yes... Brother's gonna hug Zeline..." Naina again laid Zeline's body on the bed and hugged her tightly.
Zeline just complied but kept crying. His eyes seemed to have begun to close with a small stuffing that was still coming out of his tiny lips.
Naina keeps trying to get Zeline back to sleep. Fifteen minutes passed, the sobbing of Zeline's tiny lips had already begun to diminish. Naina looked at her daughter's face that was starting to settle down with her face still wet.
"What happened to Zel? Why is he suddenly like this?" Naina muttered and then kissed her daughter's forehead.
"No Niel.." The small mutter that came out of Zeline's tiny mouth made Naina's body stiffen. Naina sharpened her hearing. And again Zeline muttered the same word again. "No Niel.." he muttered again in an increasingly quiet voice.
Daniel's? Naina stared in disbelief at her daughter's face. Is it true that Zeline just called out her father's name? Is something that makes her little girl feel uneasy in her sleep the cause is Daniel? Her real dad? Considering they just met a few hours ago.
"But Niel..." The mess was again with the hand that had been perched on Naina's cheek.
Naina let what her daughter did. But his heart and mind became more and more unsettled after hearing the chatter of his little girl's tiny lips.
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In a very spacious room, a handsome man suddenly woke up from his sleep with his breath going up and down.
"Zeline.." he muttered a name that began to fill his heart and thoughts. "Why can I dream of Zeline? Is my son okay?" The man's feelings were suddenly not calm. Though he had just slept two hours ago after long enough to imagine every meeting with Zeline— his biological son. And at this time he had to wake up again because Zeline's innocent face and various funny behaviors entered into his subconscious.
"Did I want to be so close to him that even in my dreams I expected his presence?" The man muttered, none other than Daniel.
Daniel immediately grabbed his phone on the nightstand and watched with sadness the face of his daughter who was playing on the porch of Naina's parents' house which is now a photo of his cellphone wallpaper.
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