I Don'T Want To Be Cinderella #1
51. LEGITIMATE!

LEGITIMATE!

I was still silent between believing and not when I heard the information from Aileen earlier, making my appetite evaporate, even the noodle lontong that has been finished concocted and presented in front of me complete with dried fried shrimp now I just stirring it up I have not eaten a single bit.

“What might Mamah be wrong yes, should say Mojokerto not Surabaya.” I looked at Caraka who was eating lontong noodles voraciously.

“Mojokerto and Surabaya are close, your father may have told you that he lives in Surabaya instead of Mojokerto.” Caraka sat half-sloped facing me. “Like Bekasi, Depok, or Tanggerang that surrounds Jakarta. It's the same with that.” I nodded in understanding. “Now eat first lontongnya.”

I turned my gaze towards the plate then bribed a spoonful of lontong noodles.

“I'll get Mr. Supri to find their exact address in Pacet. After the address meets new we who go there, let us not be confused anymore have to find the address.”

I stared at Caraka. I think right now we're going to Pacet, but what Caraka says is true we don't know the exact address, if we force to go to Pacet instead will just go around looking for H farms. Joko whose address we don't know yet.

I really can't think right now, it's a good thing that Caraka helped me make the decision.

How can I not be confused, after 20 years I will finally meet my biological father and my sister. Not only them, but maybe my father's extended family will definitely not accept me considering they are the reason my father left me, Mamah and Oka first.

“Not to be afraid.” I looked at Caraka who was now holding my hand. “I'll be there later when you meet your father's family. You are not alone.”

I smiled while nodding. “Tomorrow you have to go home right? It's okay later I delivered Mr. Supri, no need to worry.”

“Most likely Mr. Supri takes time also to find his exact address, it may take several days. Tomorrow I go home first to Jakarta, make up the work there so that when Mr. Supri has found the address I can return here. So ... we'll go together there, okay?”

I actually do not want to trouble Caraka by interfering with his work and having to go back and forth Jakarta-Surabaya, but I also do not want to be alone when it comes to facing a family that has been dumping me all this time.

“But if you're really busy, I don't want you to push yourself. I will contact Oka and Siska so they will accompany me to meet my father's family. Oka's big enough and it's time she found out the truth.”

Caraka was silent for a while while bribing the last mouthful of lontong mienya.

“OK!” I nodded with satisfaction at the answer, but it turned out. “I and Oka will accompany you, the more the better right?”

I can only sigh. If it's like this, it means no more bargaining, so I better be quiet while continuing my actual meal is no longer tasteful and as a result I can not spend my noodles because suddenly my stomach feels full.

We decided to go back to the apartment because my mood for going out for a walk was completely gone, my mind was now filled with various possibilities that occurred when I met my father's family, moreover, it seems that when I am about to meet them, it is one step closer to making my heart beat erratically. Fortunately, Caraka understood my condition, without asking too much, and she immediately took us home.

Arriving at the apartment, Caraka immediately contacted Mr. Supri to give orders to find the exact address of the H farm. Joko di Pacet's. I decided to contact Mamah

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“Pak Supri can only go to Pacet tomorrow, because today he already has an event with his family.”

I nodded in understanding while waiting for the video call to be picked up Mamah.

“Assalamallaikum, Tea.”

“Wa’alaikumsalam, Mah.” Looked at the smiling face of Mama on the phone screen. “Mah, the father was not in Surabaya, but Mojokerto.”

“Whose word is Mojokerto? In Surabaya, Teteh.”

“Om friend Kirana here knows farm H. Joko, but in Pacet, Mojokerto is not Surabaya.”

“Well that's Pacet! Finally Mamah inget now.” Mama smiled broadly making me sigh.

“Iya, Mah, Pacet it in Mojokerto instead of Surabaya.”

“Oh that? Yes, right Deket, Tea, from Mojokerto to Surabaya mah except from Puncak to Surabaya new far.”

Caraka who heard my conversation with Mamah looked giggling from earlier made me sigh.

“So Teteh has met H. Joko?”

“Not yet, just now Kirana was told that H farm. Joko is in Pacet, Kirana has not had time to go there because the address is also still uncertain.”

Mamah nodded.

“Teh, remember yes whatever the result will want them to accept Teteh same Oka or they do not admit you two do not be sad. Teteh seeks Father only to fulfill Teteh's obligation as a child to ask permission and blessing from Father as the legal guardian of Teteh.”

My throat choked at Mamah's words, imagining 20 years of neglect and now imagining them rejecting me and Oka who was born without ever knowing Dad made me feel sad.

“Later if you want to meet Dad, Teteh tell let Mamah same Oka to Surabaya. Teteh go together Oka, later if Dad does not want to be a guardian Teteh ask Dad to represent him to Oka.”

I nodded back understanding.

“Quietly, Tea, if he does not want to be your guardian, I will be your guardian, Teh.”

Oka's face now appeared beside Mamah.

“Mamah has told everything to Oka.”

Again I can only understand.

“Just want him to accept us or not, you don't have to worry, Tea. You will still be married, but ... the payment to be a marriage guardian is not cheap, Teh.”

“Hahaha.” I laughed knowing it would end up like this. “Quiet the red so it belongs to lo ntar.”

“Seriously? You're a witness, Teh.”

“Serious!” I even held my two index and middle fingers up to the front of the screen making Oka immediately smile broadly. “Si red make lo, plus the rest of the bill.”

“No, the edges must be rich gini.”

“Hahaha, yes you have to accept the red one for what dong is, including the condition of him who has not paid off.”

“Sorry if for such a business, I only accept the paid off.”

“Basic guys matre.”

“If this problem is not the name matre, but realistic rather than having to pay installments every month.”

“Hahaha.”

“Quiet, later the problem is the same description I.”

Caraka joined in front of the phone to make Oka's smile again rise.

“Truly, Kang?”

“True.”

Oka's eyes now look sparkling.

“Serious?”

“Serious.”

His mouth was getting wider showing his teeth.

“But the installments remain lo who paid,” my words that made Oka smile disappear and her sparkling eyes now dim, making me laugh again.

“Aaaah, lo mah, Tea, make ilfill aja.”

“Hahaha .. don't listen to him.” Caraka stroked the tip of my head that was still laughing at Oka. “People ... paid in cash!”

“SAH!” oka made Caraka laugh.

“Hahaha.”

“Eeeh, but now mah not yet legal,” said Mamah while steady me and Caraka with round eyes. “Rear from when in Surabaya?”

“Barin, Mah.”

“Astagfirullahaldzim! Teteh, Kakang, it's not legal yet!"

“Astagffirullahaldzim, Bu Mega, don't start deh.” I shook my head, knowing exactly what the Drama Queen was thinking. “Raka, nginep at hotel, Mah.”

“Oooh, dikirain nginep in apartment.” Mamah giggled, but again looked serious while saying, “This is also not really you can be alone in a rich apartment gini, can cause slander. Continue later if in the store how?”

“Yes it's okay, Mom, I'm staying married to Kirana, so she won't run anymore ... ouch!”

I pinched Caraka who immediately complained.

“Oka is ready anytime, Kang, to be a guardian .. anyway paid tu-nai!”

“SAH!”

“Hahaha.”

"Had it then. This is problem H. How's joko?"

"Yes, Kirana will tell you again, Mah, if it is certain when to meet them, Kirana contact Mamah, so Mamah same Oka can go directly to Surabaya."

"Gue the hell males should meet the same men who have left us since before."

"When he was rich, how? You'd often imagine that our father was a rich businessman."

"Gue doesn't need a rich dad, but he's irresponsible. Make what?"

I was silent and saddened to hear the anger and disappointment of Oka's words. But Oka's idle smile immediately returned to view, while looking at Caraka.

"Quite a super duper brother-in-law who is rich and kind."

"Haha." Caraka laughed at Oka's words. "Simple, just choose from now, which one."

"Seriously?"

"Seriously."

"Paid in cash, right?"

"Yes dong, the important thing is legitimate first."

"Hahaha, it's easy later Oka tell the security guards of the two of you in the apartment so you can't run away again."

"Some have been missing for a long time."

"Haha."

Talking to Mamah and Oka really restored my mood. Once, with all the fear of meeting my father's family, my feelings have returned to how they were. What Mamah said is right, if they do not want to accept us. Yes, we have, after all, we have lived without them, let's just say this is my last service as a child seeking his father to fulfill his last duty to me as his biological daughter, which is to marry me.

Even if he refused, there was still Oka who would happily become my guardian later. Yes ... although the payment is quite expensive, but it is worth the happiness I will achieve later.

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