I Don'T Want To Be Cinderella #1
78. Forgiveness

Forgiveness (forgiveness)

“You are growing very well.” Bu Mega rubbed Anggi's face again, wiping away her tears. “Cantik ... very beautiful.”

At this time they were much calmer, tears had not been adjusted earlier, even a smile now appeared on the faces of Bu Mega, Anggi and Kirana, while Oka and Andi Santoso were still silent.

“Forcuse Bi, Mah.. Bi just remember mamah now.”

“Already! Do not think again, the important thing is now that you have remembered mama, also teteh. Oh yes!” Mom mega like remembering something. “Oka, here ... This is Bi, your sister.”

Oka who had just been silent watching the family reunion, now stood up and walked closer to the bed where her mother and two brothers were.

“This is Asoka Danubrata, your sister. We call him Oka.”

Bu Mega introduces Oka to Anggi who is now standing and hugs Oka with a big smile, but her eyes are glazed.

“Sorry brother, sister does not know that sister has a sister this handsome.”

Oka just smiled a little at Anggi's words.

“Dear whatan, you don't know yet, if he is annoying.” Kirana said when Anggi released a hug.

“Syrics!”

Kirana just shrugged her shoulders while smiling broadly at Oka who was glaring towards her.

The room was silent when the eyes of Mega maam finally berirobok with Andi Santoso who was still standing staring at his sons with a warm heart, but also guilt that again gnawed his soul. Many sentences if it rages in him .. but all has happened, if only it would be a fantasy and a dream that could not be real.

“How are you, Mas?” ask Mega ma'am.

“Good,” replied Andi Santoso after being silent for a while. “You ... are the injuries severe?”

“No, just a little wound.”

The room came back silent, awkwardness completely filling the room when two people who had once lived together and loved each other but circumstances made them separate. And now after twenty years they are reunited in a condition bound by fleshly blood that demands an explanation.

“You've met Kirana, right?”

Andi Santoso looked at Kirana then smiled proudly.

“You managed to raise her to be an amazing woman. Exactly you when you were young.”

“I mean, Mas, now I'm old!”

“Hahaha .. yes, now we are both old.”

“Enak only, mas alone old. I am not ... My soul is young.”

“Hahaha.” Andi Santoso could only laugh at the words of his ex-wife.

From the past, he never could fight Mega's words and now it seems his ex-wife bequeathed his eloquence to their eldest daughter.

“I will always lose if I argue with you.”

“Hahaha.” This time Mega who laughed heard the words of the man who was once the figure of the man she loved the most.

Kirana, Anggi and Oka who had seen the interaction of her parents could only stare in disbelief, if both parents who have separated because of the selfishness of the two families who interfere in their household relationships, they can now laugh like that.

“And you, Mas, still like to blame yourself and end up making everyone have a wrong perception of you.”

Andi Santoso fell silent and smiled.

“Even after we separated for twenty years you still gave me the task of explaining to them.”

Andi Santoso smiled again. “As the saying goes, leave it to the experts. And you're an expert at it.”

Bu Mega clucked, but her lips displayed a smile.

“Mas, that's Asoka Danubrata. Your son,” said Mega after realizing that he had not introduced Oka to his father. “The Danubrata name that you wanted to be a boy's name I have pinned on him. And as the meaning of the name ... a leader .. Oka has become a leader in our family.” Bu Mega looked at Oka affectionately, her lips revealing a gentle smile to her proud son. “He's an amazing son, you'll find out later what he's amazing.”

Andi Santoso looked at Oka no less, his eyes glazed over. It felt like he was hugging the son he had just learned of his existence, but maybe later when Oka had started to be able to open up and accept him as a father. Right now, as a man Andi Santoso knew that his son had built a fortress that he would find difficult to penetrate.

“He was exactly like you, Mas, when he was a member of BEM and an idol on campus.”

Andi Santoso nodded his head with a proud smile looking at Oka who was just speechless.

“Don't be proud first!” said Mega bu makes Andi Santoso again turn his gaze towards Mega. “He also made me a subscription called to the BP room because often truant, even sometimes fight.” Bu Mega sighed while shaking her head.

“It's okay, his name is also a boy if the bandits are a little reasonable it.”

Although a little, but Oka's lips rose to show a happy smile because there is someone who defends her. What is it like to have a father who always defends us?

Andi Santoso cleared his throat while scratching his head that did not itch after getting a plot from his ex-wife.

“I see you have also raised Bi well .. I mean Anggi.” Bu Mega glanced at Pak Andi sharply. “I forgot that Bi has changed her name, date of birth ... even her birth mother.”

The room was quiet for a moment.

Anggi smiled while bowed.

“Maafin Bi, Mah, all this time Bi never looked for mamah because Bi really did not know the existence of mamah and sister Nana.” Anggi was silent for a moment before resuming his words. “No one ever told Bi about mom or sister Nana.” Anggi looked at his father with a look of disappointed eyes as he said, “Including father.”

Bu Mega realizes Anggi's disappointment with her father for having kept her true identity a secret.

“What matters now we've reassembled.” Bu Mega tried to calm Anggi. “Should have told you to make nyari first, because it seems like you are smarter in finding people than your father.”

Anggi smiled at the words of the Mega circus bu that made Andi Santoso can only sigh resignedly.

“Mamah misses you very much.”

“Bi also.”

“Many things you want to hear from you and many we will talk about,” said bu Mega makes Anggi smile. “But now, can you leave your mother alone with your father?” Bu Mega looked at his three sons who were now looking at each other. “There's something you should talk to your dad about. Just a moment.”

The three of them looked at each other before Kirana finally nodded then left the room followed by Anggi and Oka.

As they left, the three rooms were filled with silence. Andi Santoso walked over to the bed of Mega's mother and then sat on the chair that Kirana had been sitting in.

“Kaki mas has healed completely?”

Andi Santosa smiled then nodded. “Just be stunned still like to get sick if tired.”

“That's due to age factor.”

“Hahaha.” Andi Santoso chuckled at the words of Mega.

They fell silent again with smiles on their faces and eyes staring at each other. Yes, however they once loved each other, and the end of their relationship was not due to the loss of love between them, but because each ego is also because their parents are too meddling in the affairs of the household of their children.

“Your head is okay? Has a thorough examination been done? What is the CT scan? No blood clots inside?”

“Hahaha.” The turn of the laughing Mega bu heard a series of questions Andi Santoso who looked at him worriedly. “No, all is well. It's just that the kids were too worried so they asked me for hospitalization until it was completely healed.”

Andi Santoso mangangguk. They fell silent again, looking awkwardly for a moment.

“Bapak ... healthy?” tanya Bu Mega tried to break the awkwardness.

“Yes. I just got back from Singapore. Lungs, effects of cigarettes after decades.” Bu Mega nodded in understanding. “Father wants to meet you also kids to apologize.”

Bu Mega was silent for a moment.

“I thought I said it was too late, Mas.” Mega Ma'am smiled smirkily. “We have been separated almost twenty years and almost twenty years also children separated, too many things have happened due to the selfishness of our parents.”

What Mega said was right, there was a lot of sadness, misunderstanding, disappointment that they felt so far as a result of the selfishness of two families.

“But, better late than not at all right?” Mega smiled making Andi Santoso smile while nodding. “Say to father. I have forgiven you, no need to think about it anymore. Everything has happened ... this has become our destiny and fate line, Mas.”

“Thank you.”

Mega smiled again while nodding.

“I will not forbid or force children to see the father. They are adults, can already make their own decisions.”

Andi Santoso nodded in agreement.

“Before my father died. You told me everything .. Even though it was too late, I wanted to apologize to you, Mas. I'm so sorry to have asked you to divorce me when you were really down and in need of support, forbidding you to meet Kirana, and hiding Oka's whereabouts. Please forgive mr.”

Andi Santoso smiled as he said,

“Without you telling me I have forgiven you. I know you did it because you were disappointed in me.”

“Thank you,” said Mega while smiling sincerely. “I have also fulfilled my father's promise to you, by sending Kirana to look for you and ask you as his guardian. And you also have kept your promise to take very good care of Anggi.”

“It's my duty to take care of Anggi. Like you who have taken very good care of Kirana and Oka.”

They returned with sincere smiles. The problems of the past that were not yet over are now completely over.

The promise that used to be said has now been fulfilled.

Sorry that had not been said before has now been deleted.

Parents and children who were once separated have now been reunited.

Two brothers who were separated, have reunited.

Two people who used to love but were forced to separate now meet again but that does not mean they will return together.

Man, if it be the place of all error, and the caliph. But with that mistake we learn how to correct it, and with great confidence we learn the importance of the meaning of an apology.

Forgiveness does not mean forgetting, because by not forgetting we learn not to go back to making the same mistakes.

Forgiveness does not change the past, but forgiving makes the future easier.

...Forgiveness is the best victory....

...(.(.Ali Bin Abi Talib)...

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