
Nicholas pulled over his big motorbike after the man arrived in front of his house. After getting off the motorbike, the man immediately ran into the house.
The state of the house looks quiet, and the light of the lights also looks dim because the lights are not the main lights. The man looked up and immediately ran up. Not that he ran to his room, but the man went to his parents' room instead.
Tok tok tok tok
Nicholas banged on the door of his parents' room. But there was no sign that anyone would open the door for him.
Tok tok tok tok
Nicholas again banged on the door that looked very sturdy.
"Ma, open the door! it's me Nicho!" nicholas shouted from outside.
The door that bound her to her parents was finally opened from the inside. Naura appears with her sleepy face, followed by Rehan from behind Naura.
"Nicholas? why are you here? not you ..." Naura had not finished talking, Nicholas had rushed to hug a woman who had given affection like a real mother for him.
"What's wrong with you, Nicho? come-come why directly hug mom?" Naura frowned, confused.
"Ma, mama will never leave me right? mom will love me anytime, right?" instead of answering Naura's question, Nicholas made Naura even more confused. Not only Naura, Rehan who saw the behavior of his eldest son was also seen creying his forehead.
"What the hell are you, son? who's gonna leave you? my mom will never stop loving you. Even though you were born from your mother's womb, but you are still your mother's child" said Naura while stroking Nicholas' shoulder.
Nicholas tightened his arms and began to shed tears, causing Naura and Rehan to look at each other, even more confused.
"Nicho, please let go of your embrace first! mama wants to ask why you can ask like that?" Naura tried to let go of Nicholas' embrace.
"Don't let go, Ma! let me hug mom in a minute!" pinta Nicholas's.
"Nicho, don't confuse mama and papa! explain why you can be like this?" Rehan opened his voice in a very firm tone.
Nicholas wiped his tears and broke his embrace. "There's nothing, Pa, Ma. I just had a bad dream. In my dream, my mother left us and found another happiness" Nicholas said. The man finally decides to comply with Nathan's request not to tell him the fact that Nathan is Naura's biological child, for the sake of the middle-aged woman's health.
"Yes, geez! it was just a dream, son. Usually if such a dream, it means the opposite.So, you don't have to worry huh?" Naura smiled gently as she stroked Nicholas' back.
"But what if you could recall your past?will my mother be there for us?" nicholas asked very carefully. Nicholas' question certainly raises suspicion on his papa Rehan.
"Why do you remember the past, while your present is so happy? mama never intended to remember the past mama, Nicho," replied Naura firmly, whether it was really from her heart or just limited to words only she knew.
"Is mom really happy? is there no burden in your heart at all, when you don't remember your past in the least?" nicholas said, making sure.
"Nicho, it seems like your question has started to run everywhere. You better get some sleep now. It's just as late, mama and papa are sleepy," Rehan finally opens his voice, trying to stop Nicholas.
"But, Pa ...."
"Nothing but, but. Now you go into your room, and sleep! maybe your nightmare affected you too much." Rehan quickly cuts off Nicholas' speech, before his son continues his protest.
"Mama, don't want to remember my mama's past anymore, Nicho! why remember that painful past? it's better to remember the present and focus on the future" Naura said suddenly.
"But what if you used to have a child? did you not want to find that child? do you really want to forget it?" Nicholas is starting to look emotional.
"Nicho! you go into the room now! stop talking weird!" Rehan is also starting to look emotional. Meanwhile, Naura was stunned to hear Nathan's words
"Pa, I'm __"
"Papa said, get into your room right now!" Rehan pressed the word 'right now' in his words. The eyes of the middle-aged man were also clearly visible that now, he was already indisputable.
"All right, I'm going to get into the room," good night, Ma, Pa!" nicholas concluded, as it passed leaving his parents.
"Good night!" hiss Naura lirih.
"Darling, let's go to bed again! you don't think about Nicholas' words. He is only influenced by the fear of losing you, due to his nightmare," Rehan persuaded, to Naura who was still silent.
"Yes, Pa. Maybe because of that. Let's go back to sleep, Pa!" Naura seemed to be smiling again, making Rehan feel relieved.
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Rehan swung his foot towards Nicholas' room, after seeing Naura sleeping. What a middle-aged man, really very curious, why could his son ask such a question.
Rehan turned around Nicholas' room door task and pushed slowly. The boy did not lock his room from the inside.
"Nicho, are you asleep?" rehan asked as he patted the shoulder of Nicholas who was lying on his stomach.
Feeling someone calling and patting him on the shoulder, Nicholas turned around and looked at his papa Rehan.
"Why, Pa? didn't papa say that papa was sleepy? why not go to sleep?" nicholas said with annoyance.
Rehan exhaled heavily, and sat down on the edge of Nicholas' bed.
"Papa just wants to cut your talk. Otherwise, you'll keep asking your mama. I don't know what's going to happen to your mama, if you let you keep talking" Rehan said, hoping that his son would understand his point.
Nicholas took a deep breath and exhaled it back, throwing away his sense of regret.
"Thank you for stopping me, Pa!" nicholas finally said.
"What actually happened? papa's not sure, you had a bad dream. Papa is sure, if you haven't even had time to sleep, papa's guess is right?" hatchlings. Rehan with a demanding look.
Nicholas shook his head and stared blankly ahead. The man really did not look excited.
"Nicho's? did you hear papa?". Rehan asked back.
"Nathan turned out to be Mama's real son, Pa!" nicholas replied without further ado.
Rehan looks not too surprised, because in fact he is very sure that the 18-year-old young man is his wife's biological child.
"Why be a silent Papa? aren't you surprised and worried that Mama will leave us later?" asked Nicholas with a frown.
" Papa was sure from the beginning, son. But Papa tried to dismiss that belief before there was any evidence. As for the matter of mama leaving us, I'm sure that won't happen. What Papa is worried about is the condition of your mother later, if you know the reality of Nathan. Your mother may try to take back her past. You know for yourself what happens when your mom forces her memory?" rehan said, lirih.
"Nathan begged not to tell mama the truth, Pa. He said he willingly and sincerely called mama with the name of Aunt, which is important mama is fine. But, I really feel bad, Pa. I feel this is very unfair to Nathan. For a dozen years she lived without the love of a mother. The woman he considered his birth mother, never gave the affection in the least, while I .. I, who was not the biological child of the mother, felt it. Until when, Pa? Until when does Nathan have to live calling his real mama Aunty? can you imagine what it's like to call your own mama aunty?"
Rehan flinching, can not argue Nicholas' words are true.
Tbc.