Love Language
Grandma's Story
The day was getting late, the evening minister had been present to replace the hot sunlight that will soon be replaced by the night.We also say goodbye after chatting at length times wide to the circumference we chatted,😂.
Medina and I are now friends and by chance it turns out that my mom used to be friends with her aunt Medina before they were forced to be separated by time and space.
There really is no coincidence in this world, for all is destined by the Supreme Being as we were meeting with the Medina family this time.
It was late at night, after dinner I went to my grandmother's room because she said there was something she was going to talk to me about.
After knocking on the door I was immediately invited in by Ms. Sum, my grandmother's assistant.
As soon as I entered the granny's room, everything in Grandma's room immediately came out of the room, leaving the two of us glued together and silent.
"Sit down!"
Grandma said in a soft voice.
I immediately sat down on the chair that was near Grandma's bed.
"You know everything about who you are and ......."
I was silent waiting for the continuation of Grandma's interrupted sentence.
"Grandmother never agreed when Diana brought you into our family, because I didn't want you to just be a burden to her and would make things worse for her all along."
Grandma let out a long sigh and threw it away slowly, and then her eyes glared at the ceiling of the room which was pure white.
I saw Grandma's eyes glazed over, I just fell silent listening to stories about mass history that I never knew about.
"Until Diana finally meets Pratiwi,a young girl whose future was destroyed either because of the actions of a depraved boy like the story of Diana or indeed because of her own mistakes.Since long ago I never liked the children or grandchildren in my family, I have never liked the children or grandchildren in my family,because of the tradition of my husband's family that does not allow girls to choose their own life partner.Our family has a tradition that girls must want to marry a man chosen by the family to be betrothed to him, he said,aki did not want such a tradition to continue."
I gently held the fingers of the grandmother who began to wrinkle with her age.
"Rara understands what grandma means."
"Because you are not the flesh and blood of this family,but already a part of this family.You can choose to remain part of this family by continuing the tradition in this family or go far to find your freedom out there."
My tears as if I can't contain, I embrace the weak body of grandma who is lying on the bed.
The grandmother I thought I never liked me and was so indifferent to me was so concerned with me.
A lot of things my grandmother told me, even things that my mother hadn't told me in the past, I know a lot about my grandmother.
The day so quickly passed that the grade-level examination was over,with gratitude I went up to class with a fairly satisfied score even though not as good as the test scores before.I am grateful even though some time passed by with various problems in my family, I was grateful,but it doesn't bother my school.
Now that I was sitting in the twelfth grade, I felt closer to the word mature.I was sitting quietly on my bench alone during break time,I deliberately refused Medin and Jesi's invitation to go to the cafeteria.
Lately, a lot of time I spent daydreaming about the choices that grandmother gave, staying as a family and having to continue the tradition or choose my own way of life out there.
Seriate.....