I Don'T Want To Be Cinderella #1
65. Bi Identity

Bi Identity

The room was no longer as beautiful as the first time they met. Pakde Bayu who already knew the status of Kirana and Oka now looks enthusiastic to ask their news.

“So this year you graduated SMA?”

“Iya, Om, uh Pakde,” replied Oka who is still not used to calling pakde Bayu by the name of pakde.

“Hahaha, it's okay, call as you like.”

Oka just smiled at Pakde Bayu's words.

“Where are you going to college?”

“Not yet to know,” replied Oka briefly who got the nod from Pakde Bayu.

Pakde Bayu was now staring at Kirana.

“Dan ... Do you want to get married?”

This time Pakde Bayu looked at Kirana and Caraka alternately.

“Iya,” Caraka who answered and got more attention from Pakde Bayu.

“Your name is Caraka?”

“Iya, Pakde, Caraka Continent.”

“Work or business?”

“Work, Pakde.”

“Where?”

“Hotel M.”

“What part?”

Caraka smiled at the series of questions from the man she just met. All this time he had always heard that facing the future father-in-law was very terrible. There would be a thousand and one questions to prove whether or not he deserved his daughter, and now he feels the interrogation.

“Your parents are still there?”

“Alhamdulillah is still there.”

“Hired or ..”

“Papah small-time business.”

“Hffftt!” Oka held back a laugh at Caraka's reply, while Kirana just sat confused to see her uncle suddenly raise a question to Caraka.

“What Pakde offended you?”

Seeing Oka's reaction, Pakde Bayu understood that the small business that Caraka said must not be a small business, it was also seen from the cars they drove and the appearance of Caraka which was far from simple words.

“No, Pakde .. please if Pakde has anything to ask about me and my family.”

Pakde nodded his head while smiling with satisfaction.

“Sorry that Pakde doesn't know your family business. Pakde is not like Andi, Kirana's father, who is in the business world. Pakde just continued the family business. So, what Pakde knows is only about livestock.”

Caraka nodded in understanding.

“Pakde also rarely watch TV, if the word children now pakde it gaptek, mobile phones are also used just for the phone or send messages only so pakde not very understanding about the news - business news. If the matter of goats, cows, or livestock any of that you can ask sirde. If about business later you ask her father Kirana, she quite understands about business.”

Caraka smiled and nodded back in understanding.

“So when will you get married?”

“We are still waiting for Kirana's father.”

Pakde Bayu raised his eyebrows, then nodded in understanding.

“Therefore I am looking for a father to ask for his blessing at the same time ask him to be my guardian and Caraka later.”

Pakde Bayu looked at Kirana then smiled while nodding.

“If father is not ready, I will marry my sister.”

Pakde Bayu looked back at Oka, he could see the disappointment in his nephew's eyes, making him smile because he deeply understood their anger and disappointment.

“Your father will surely be happy to be your sister's marriage guardian. All this time your father has always been haunted by guilt.”

“Taste of guilt why?” Oka asked with a cold face. “Because of leaving us? or for never looking for us all this time?”

Pakde Bayu simply fell silent letting Oka let out her anger.

“We still live in Indonesia really, not in Antarctica or Mars until it can not be reached.”

“Oka ..” Kirana touches Oka's hand trying to warn her because after all Pakde Bayu is not the right person to accept their disappointment.

“It's okay, sirde understand that you are angry and disappointed .. pakde can not defend anything, everything let your father explain later.”

Oka sighed still looking annoyed.

“When did you come home from Singapore?”

“The plan is the day after dad and your eyes come home from Singapore, but later let me ask if he can go home tomorrow so that he can meet you soon.”

“What does Bi come with dad to Singapore?”

“Bi?” Pakde Bayu furrowed his brows looking puzzled.

“Bi .. Sagita Bentari, my sister.” Kirana looked at Pakde Bayu expectantly.

“Ah!” Pakde Bayu clapped his hands while laughing. “Pakde almost forgot that your sister was once called Sagita.”

“Then?” Kirana looks confused with furrowed eyebrows staring at pakde Bayu who nods his head.

“Iya .. when you just came here, your sister often cries calling you mamahmu, until she fell seriously ill and must be treated.”

Kirana's heart trembled considering Bi who that day shouted to her.

“But your eyes are quite believing in myths, he said that Sagita's name is not suitable so your sister is often sickly and fussy, until finally we decided to change her name.”

Kirana often hears mothers when talking about babies who are often sick they will say the name does not match or the name is too heavy so they have to change the name. She couldn't believe that her own sister was experiencing it now.

“Either coincidentally or not after changing your sister's name so rarely sick. Maybe in addition to being very small so that he is easy to adapt even though it is difficult at first, plus he also found the figure of a mother of someone, until finally slowly he began.

Kirana sighed because she knew the true meaning of the received sentence and got used to us, which Pakde Bayu said.

“I mean sirde, Bi has forgotten me and Mamah, and considers you guys are his own family.”

Pakde Bayu stared silently at Kirana before hesitating, nodding his head.

“At that time your sister was a child, if not wrong not yet 4 years right? So don't blame your sister if she forgets you guys because she's too small to remember.”

Kirana fell silent then nodded, although she wanted to spit out all her disappointment not because Bi had forgotten about it. Nope. Kirana is very able to understand that because it is Bi's age which is still very small, but who she does not understand why her father is silent? Why didn't his father tell Bi when he was growing up, where could he begin to understand and understand, that Bi still had a mother and a sibling?

Pakde Bayu was not the right person for him to ask about it, so he would keep those questions later when he met his father.

“What Bi also does not remember his name first?”

“No, she also forgot her first little name.”

Kirana sighed. Too many changes experienced by Bi, so it was only natural that all this time he had trouble finding Bi.

“At first he had trouble getting used to his new name, but over time he became used to it and started forgetting his past name.”

“Don't tell me that his birth certificate was changed?” This time Oka asked. At first he only asked idly, but seeing the reaction of Pakde Bayu who was just silent made Oka, and Kirana widened her eyes in disbelief.

“You changed your birth certificate too?”

Despite the weight of Pakde Bayu nodded his head.

“After your father remarries, they change everything including birth certificate.”

“Change everything? Don't tell me your name has been changed?” Pakde Bayu just fell silent making Kirana wide in disbelief. “You changed your new wife's father as Bi's biological mother? Astagfirullahaladzim!”

Kirana could no longer endure her disappointment, her chest felt as if she could not imagine the pain her mother would have to feel when she found out that even her name was not recorded on the birth certificate of the daughter she was born with to fight her life.

“We decided to make it so that your sister does not feel confused, because she has considered your father's new wife as her mother.”

“Unreasonable reason!” peekik Kirana's. He could no longer hold back his emotions. “However Mamah is Bi's biological mother, who already conceived and gave birth to Bi by fighting life, and now just for fear that Bi is confused you changed it easily ... or that's not the real reason, is it? You just want Bi to have a new identity and forget about us, right?"

Pakde Bayu just fell silent unable to make a defense because he knew that what they had done was wrong. Seeing that Kirana returned istigfar because it seemed like the answer was correct. A moment he was silent, trying to calm himself down before he asked again,

“What else have you changed besides the name Bi and also the name of the birth mother?”

Kirana stared at pakde Bayu sharply making the half-white-haired man sigh and tell her everything.

“Date of birth,” replied pakde Bayu made Kirana, Oka and Caraka turn their backs in disbelief. “Yahmu said that your sister was born after magrib, while according to the calculation of the parents first if passing ashar then it has been considered a change of day, therefore your eyes changed it when making a new deed.”

“This .. isn't it a scam? How can I make a birth certificate like that?” I can't believe what he just heard.

“Previously making documents as we want it was very easy. Just need insiders and money, then all done.”

Oka gaping in disbelief hearing pakde Bayu's explanation.

“Dad agreed with the change of the deed?” Kirana asked trying to find a glimmer of hope that her father was not that asshole, and all of that was finally answered.

“No, your father didn't know about your sister's change of deed because it was you who made it and it was without your father's knowledge. Your father was very angry when he found out about your brother's new deed, but everything happened your father could not do anything more .. After that incident your father decided to move to Surabaya with his new family, he said, to be free from your eyes that always interfere. Even their relationship had been tenuous for some time before they could finally reconcile."

Kirana could breathe a little relieved knowing that it wasn't her father's brain behind the Bi deed change. It all seems absurd, but twenty years ago everything became possible when everything could be bought with money. Maybe if only changing the name on the deed Kirana will not be this disappointed, but even the name of the birth mother and date of birth were changed. That's outrageous.

Birth date? Kirana frowned remembering something.

“So sirde said Bi's date of birth was changed?”

“Iya, because according to the belief of the Javanese first after ashar it has been the turn of the day.”

“Then ... Bi was born on June 22, so now it is written ... June 23?”

Pakde Bayu nodded his head, making Kirana's heart suddenly skip a beat considering the report he received from Siska.

“Santoso's family, born in Surabaya, June 23, 199..”.

“Who's name Bi now?” Kirana asked expectantly that the current name Bi was not what she thought it would be.

But his hope foundered when Pakde Bayu answered his question.

“Fig .. Anggi Santoso, that's your sister's name now.”

At once Kirana really felt her world was turned upside down knowing that the woman she had met several times, several times they were insinuating each other, and a few days ago she managed to keep her mouth shut was Bi, Bi, the sister he had been looking for, he longed for, whose name was always present in his prayers.

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