Love Among Family Hostility
Families

Dinner time is almost here, but Rama hasn't even come home until now. Meethila—his wife waits anxiously for her husband's return. Because Rama could not be contacted at all, usually Rama did not come home this night, he would always go home 1 hour before dinner began, he said, but this everyone had gathered at the table to eat but Rama did not come too.

"Why the hell is Ma?" Vishnu approached Meethila who looked anxious. "Mama is not papa dear," replied Meethila.

"Udah, mama just sit down, soon papa will go home mama don't worry ya," said Vishnu, bringing Meethila. to sit on the dining table chair.

"Wis, you didn't make any trouble on campus, did you?" ask Meethila suddenly. Vishnu who was about to take the rice was stopped because of his mother's speech.

"Oparent, nothing. Mama don't kayak papa deh," tepis Vishnu, back to take rice and side dishes for him to eat.

"The mother was anxious, papa you didn't come home" Meethila replied. The distance of the dining table and the main entrance which is quite close makes Meethila unceasingly look towards the door. She hoped that her husband would come soon.

"Rama's coming home soon Meet, you're calm, yes" said the middle-aged woman who is Rama's mother. Meethila stared at the listless plate that was still empty. When the other had dinner the woman could not bear to eat first without waiting for the husband.

Meethila's eyes immediately fell on the main door as she heard the bell ringing. He stood up, walked to the door and opened it. And sure enough Rama who came home, Meethila who had been waiting anxiously now his anxiety disappeared.

"Sorry I'm old." Rama kissed his wife's forehead.

"Yes Mas is not papa, but next time you can be contacted dong I'm anxious here."

"Yes, it just so happened that I was lowbat so can not be contacted," replied Rama. "I took a shower for a while, you ate there first." Rama walked to his room to clean himself up.

Meethila went back to the table, sat down to eat with the others after serving her husband's unaccompanied meal.

The atmosphere of the Aksanta family dinner was so calm, even when Rama joined everything was silent and focused on each other's food. This is one of the things that makes Vishnu not like his own family. They are too busy in their own affairs, there is no harmony, there is only busyness. No sharing of stories after a full day of activities, watching shows together, going on vacation together. Everything does not exist, the Vishnu family is too rigid to do it all. Whereas when he was a child, Vishnu really hoped his family could go on vacation together but no one could, his father was busy with office affairs, his mother was busy with business in boutiques, and his family was busy with business, his grandfather was busy with his other businesses and Vishnu's grandmother was busy with obscure lines.

When Vishnu was small, he always cried when Rama refused his invitation to play together, but gradually Vishnu began to get used to all of that. Not understanding the busyness of Rama just mengikhlaskan moments together with his missing father.

"I'm really this family, my boss," inner Vishnu, glanced at every family member who was eating, Vishnu, hope someone will open the chat but in fact no one wants to open the chat including his own papa. Rama did not explain why he was late. Eating with them is just a formality, because there is no fun in it.

This huge house is so quiet, Vishnu is alone. Since childhood no one gave Vishnu the attention that made Vishnu amazed. Only the attention of Meethila is what Vishnu remembers.

"In this house that is sane only mama, others do not exist" murmured Vishnu. The man threw his body into the bed, staring at the ceiling of the room. Recalling and replaying his childhood memories.

Vishnu remembers when he was sick, only Meethila panicked and looked after Vishnu all day. Rama was still busy in the office, his grandparents were just asking about the state of Vishnu instead of helping Meethila keep Vishnu who was at that time in a high fever.

You could say only Meethila who really loves Vishnu with all her heart. Meethila still tried to take the time to play with Vishnu even though he was busy in his shop, even every school event only Meethila who came. Though the event requires the presence of both parents but still Rama did not want to spend a little time for the child alone puppet it.

Vishnu even thought that he was only Rama's adopted son. It is possible that Meethila was actually a widow and Rama married his mother out of pity so Vishnu was never given any affection by her. But it was Rama's mind when he was a child now he doesn't think like that anymore. Because not only his family who experienced something like this, his friend family—Arfin also experienced the same thing. There was no harmony in her family when Arfin was their biological child. So it is not stepchildren that are the reason, because biological children can be isolated.

These rich people they are too busy pursuing their careers to abandon their own families. The family that Vishnu envies so far is only the Gilang family. Gilang is not the son of a rich man like himself, but the attention and affection given by the Gilang family is better than what he can get. That is the reason Vishnu does not like to linger in the house of Gilang, because seeing the harmony of the Gilang family, envy arises in the heart of Vishnu.

Tok

In the midst of Vishnu's daydream, the sound of knocking on the door was heard to his ears. Vishnu got up to open the door of his room. And there was Meethila who was carrying food in her hand.

"Why what?" ask Vishnu. Meethila did not answer, instead sitting on the sofa of Vishnu's room and told the boy to sit next to him.

"Mama masakin' cake for you, son. You said the same Gilang if you want to eat a cake made with Mama Gilang, right? Why not just say the same mama, mama will be made immediately," explained Meethila, cutting the cake he had made.

Meethila fed Vishnu with a big smile. "Son, you can't feel yourself, don't feel like you're not loved either, mama loves you too much." Meethila stroked her son's head. "You're mama's most dear son, you're mama's luck. And dear mother with Vishnu." Vishnu opened his mouth again to eat the cake from Meethila's hand with teary eyes.

"Mama...." Vishnu hugged Meethila tightly which involuntarily dropped his tears.

Not all families have something special in them, and not all families have any attention in them. There are many families out there who have the same fate as Vishnu or even worse than that.