Married Three Breeding Widow
118. Must Always Go
Juwita pulls her suitcase, then looks down at Cetta who just stares silently.
The boy's eyes were wet. He seems to understand that Juwita wants to leave. Unlike usual she cried, Cetta instead looked restrained.
"Cetta wants to join Brother," he said as if he believed Juwita only wanted to play in the minimarket. "Wait for Cetta, yeah? Cetta get the shirt first."
Juwita rubbed her head. "If it's big, yeah."
"Now it is." Cetta. Holding the tip of Juwita's clothes with her small hands. "Cetta wants to come now. Same with my brother."
"Hm? You take care of Papa first. I'll buy you some chocolate for pinter."
Cetta's tears fell on her cheeks.
Juwita just smiled, pulled her suitcase to leave the house.
Juwita's hand was forced by Banyu, shaking her head in full supplication. She was crying in a sad way.
It actually makes Juwita a little happy, because it turns out there are still one or two people who consider it valuable in this house.
But Juwita smiled back, patting Banyu on the cheek as a farewell greeting.
"Fetch Abi, play a good match. I'm takin' you, Cahku."
"Jewith."
"Udah. Take Cetta to play."
Juwita is really gone. Completely out of the gate with his suitcase. Increasingly and further out of their compound, leaving silence in that house.
When the strong wind blew at a glance, Cetta suddenly fell. The boy suddenly put his forehead on the floor, yelling and crying hysterically.
Banyu blinked letting his tears fall without control, suddenly wanting to disappear.
Why should the people he cares about most always leave?
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From the time Abhimanyu was little, there were indeed most problems from the Papa family. Even Abhimanyu and Banyu were often fed up with themselves, and how they saw each other.
They will demean each other if someone who had money yesterday suddenly does not have. They will also sneer at each other if one has an education, the other is not too accomplished.
They just want to humanize who they want to humanize, and make some of it seem not human.
But Mama said that family relationships will not be cut off like whatever the nature of the person.
Cousin remains cousin, aunt will still be aunt, brother-in-law remains brother-in-law, and grandmother is still grandmother.
So said Mama.
But what about stepmother?
"Juwita went home."
Abhimanyu pecked when Papa came, telling him that.
"She said she wanted a divorce because you didn't accept her at home."
"I enggak—" Abhimanyu wanted to say that he did not feel Juwita should not be accepted. Abhimanyu wanted to say that he was just a little disappointed. But his throat was fastened, and Abhimanyu was blocked. "I'm not ...."
"What aren't you?" cut out Adji, but not in a challenging tone.
Just a piercing flat tone.
"You don't know if Juwita was wronged? You don't know if Juwita is cornered? Or maybe you don't see, forget to look, squirm Juwita in a bad-tempered?"
Abhimanyu.
"Papa doesn't care what people say. Don't care Papa. You think that if Juwita is talked about and Papa goes there, say 'heh, don't carelessly talk about my wife yah!' they're gonna stop? Dreaming. Not gonna."
"...."
"Mouth people will not want to stop commenting on the lives of people they want to comment on. Bodo is just as good as you are."
Abhimanyu kept his head down, pondering.
"You have made Juwita want to go home, so you should go home with Papa."
"...."
"You don't want to, get out of here. You hitchhiked here because of Papa's Ria family. Find your own house there, which has nothing to do with Papa."
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