
"Sir ...!" exclaimed Alika while running towards her papa was.
Syifa and Antika immediately followed in the direction where the boy was going.
A handsome man caught Alika running towards him, then carrying her. I don't know what they were talking about, but a few seconds later the father and son looked at Syifa and Antika at the same time.
Syifa immediately turned her gaze in the other direction.
"Eits bye, what a handsome bokapnya!" decak Antika was amazed by the good looks of papa Alika.
Syifa took out a piece of tissue and wiped Antika's cheek with the tissue.
"Not muhrim. Look, don't take that dong, Tik!" kelakar Syifa chuckled.
"Yaelah .., just doang deh, Fa!" katilah. "That's why they're gone!" his grunts when he saw the father and son passing away.
"Are you interested in being her mother?" tawar Syifa's.
"Eh, you mean the boy doesn't have a mother? seriously widower's papa?" ask Antika curious.
"He said he didn't have a mother. It means single father, right?" syifa said guessing.
"Really, Fa? if the widow is young and handsome so .. I also want to be a surrogate mother is a boy!" seloroh Antika with great enthusiasm.
"Yes, if you are interested in pursuing. Looks like he owns the hostel where I'm boarding now, Tik," Syifa said.
"really? well then I will often play to the boarding house, Fa!" hatch Antika.
After the show was over, Syifa and her mother came home after helping out at Nafisa's house. Right at that moment, from a distance away Alika seemed to run towards him.
"Sister!" call the boy.
Syifa looked over and smiled at the boy. Alika seems to have changed clothes with a home dress.
"Alika, I got a cake. The cake is the same as the one you loved yesterday," Alika's great-grandson.
"It was yesterday that made his mother Brother too" Syifa said.
"Alika likes. It's yummy!" he said with a smile, then followed Syifa's steps towards his room.
"Alika .. isn't tired? why don't you just play here?" syifa asked out of fear that her father and grandmother were looking.
"Alika can't be bobo. Alika has said the same papa, if you want to play with Brother," he said.
For a moment they both seemed to be chatting and laughing. Rosa had already laid herself on the bed.
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"name ...! Alika ....!" there was a scream from outside.
Rosa got up and went outside the room to open the door.
"Sorry, is Alika here?" ask papa Alika.
"There, but she's sleeping with my son. Do I need to wake up?" ask Rosa.
"May I make sure!" hanif asked to make sure that his son was really sleeping, because he knew that they were new hostesses. He was worried if his daughter was why.
Rosa nodded then retreated slightly from the doorway.
Hanif stuck his head looking towards the bed. It appears that his daughter was asleep with a hug by Syifa who slept with a sideways sloping back to her. Complete with her hijab.
"I'm sorry if my daughter is a hassle. Please, if you wake up, tell him to come home soon!" hanif.
Rosa nodded.
After the man left, Rosa closed the door again. He looked towards Syifa and Alika who were sleeping soundly. Apparently they were tired of playing until they fell asleep.
Rosa patted Syifa's arm softly as it was already afternoon. "Fa, wake!"
Syifa immediately opened her eyes, then looked at the clock on the wall that had shown at 16:00 WIB.
"Udah afternoon yes..," he murmured as he sat down.
"So, papa Alika came here nyariin. He said later when he woke up told to go home," said Rosa.
"Oh, yes Ma. Syifa pray first, Ma!" Syifa immediately got up and went into the bathroom to take ablution.
When Syifa finished praying saw Alika was awake, but the child had not yet moved from the bed.
"Eh, uda wake up!" syifa exclaimed from her prostration while smiling.
The boy seemed silent as if he was scared.
The boy just nodded his head slowly.
Syifa immediately folded her face, then approached her. The bottom of the dress looks wet. Apparently Alika wet the bed.
Syifa looked towards the boy who was still silent not daring to look at her.
"Alika peed on the bed, huh? yuk Brother bathein!" talk to Syifa gently.
"So angry, isn't it?" ask Alika lirih.
"No. Take a shower!" take Syifa again.
"Sorry, Brother!" he said while sitting.
Syifa smiled and then nodded. Although he was confused later that night had to sleep where if the bed was wet to bed wet, but he tried to be patient so as not to make the child afraid.
After bathing Alika, Syifa looked confused. "Well, what's it like, huh?"
"What yes?" Rosa was confused too. Because obviously there is no child clothes or something that is right for the child to wear.
Syifa finally took one of the tank tops that he used to wear for the interior of the game. After Alika's use, Alika looks like wearing a dress without arms.
"Well, that was okay too. You take her home so she can change her clothes. Poor cold rush!" rosa says.
"Yes, Ma."
Syifa carried him and took him home to the mansion next to the yard where he was boarding.
Tok to tok.
"Assynnya!" syifa.
Alika asked to be taken down from the sling. Alika opens the door to her own house.
"Sister, let's go play to my house!" bring Alika.
"Em, Alika went in alone yes, keep changing clothes first. I'm going home, I haven't had a bath!" syifa said reasoned.
Alika looked to nod.
There were footsteps from inside the house. Syifa hurriedly went home while bustling drugs on Alika. He hesitated to explain how Alika could wear her tank top.
Arriving at the boarding house turned out his mother had already cleaned his old bedwetting. Then turn on the fan and direct it right on the wet part hit by Alika's bedwet.
"Dry stuff isn't it, Ma?" ask Syifa.
"Hopefully aj. If not, sleep on our floor" Rosa said with a smile. "So when you were a kid. Same as Alika. Like to lick-nump if bed-wetting, afraid to get angry ...," said Rosa while chuckling.
"Yeah, Ma? thank you, Ma. I've been patient with Syifa!" he said while hugging his mother from the side, then kissed her on the cheek of his mother.
"It doesn't feel like you're this big right now. Mama fantasizes that you are married and have children. Nafisa was married at a young age. Do you also want to get married at a young age?" ask Rosa.
Given that Syifa had several times received a proposal, it did not rule out the possibility that his daughter would propose again. Remembering his daughter was much glimpsed by the young man in the neighborhood where he used to live when in the arab village. Rosa silently watched. Although he actually wanted to see Syifa go to college and successfully work and enjoy his youth happily, then get married at a sufficient age.
She hoped Syifa was not like her who had to conceive at a young age even without a husband. Especially with the suffering he experienced to adapt to living in this city. He hopes his daughter's fate is not like his.
Not long after someone knocked on the door again. Apparently papa Alika who came with Alika and one of the men.
"I'm sorry that my daughter has been troubling you. I have provided a clean replacement mattress from an empty room!" hanif.
Rosa and Syifa looked at each other.
"Em, it's actually okay if it's not replaced. Later if dry can also still be used again," said Rosa.
"I don't want you guys to feel uncomfortable. It will take a long time to dry. Especially it's late at night." Hanif looked at the man behind him. "Man, please change the mattress with a new one!" he told Maman the gardener and his housekeeper.
"Good, Den!" Maman immediately obeyed the orders of his employer.
"Alika let's go home!" hanif's Decree.
"Alika wants to play with Brother. Beautiful sister, Alika wants to be like Brother!" the boy's words made Hanif reflexively look towards Syifa. His gaze was flat looking for a moment towards Syifa whose face was covered in niqob.
Syifa immediately lowered her gaze so as not to meet the man.
"Tomorrow again, beautiful. Look ... The sky is getting dark. Tomorrow Alika can play here again!" talk Rosa to the boy.
Alika nodded. Then go home with his dad.
"That child why can stick to you at all ..," Rosa murmured as she glanced at Syifa.
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