Married Three Breeding Widow
121. After Mama Must Juwita
"You know, Sweety, I can go back and take care of your kids" Mama said by phone. "So you can go and fix anything that you need to fix with her."
She's what Mama meant, obviously Juwita.
The offer may not be bad. If Juwita leaves, Adji can follow her home, staying with them for a while to talk about the matter calmly and understand each other.
Perhaps if Adji moved briefly to Juwita's house, he could better understand his wife's point of view through the daily life she lived as a single daughter.
But Adji has his own opinion.
Adji wants to do it his own way.
"No need to, Mom. Just enjoy your trip."
Mama breathed across there. "Everything can happen and well, no one knows the future. But I know one thing. You are the same Juwita, Mama sure did not meet to split this piece. Trust me, Mama."
Adji wasn't too desperate because he believed that. From the beginning Adji believed that and until now has not changed in the slightest.
Especially since Juwita managed to make her two most troubled children become extraordinarily affectionate towards her. From then on, Adji was convinced that his life would be spent with Juwita.
After a little pleasantry with his mother, the call was interrupted. Adji put the buttons on his shirt, changed it before coming down.
The house suddenly deserted again, as when Melisa had just left. The kitchen was empty, the food that could be said to be breakfast was non-existent, and everyone did as they pleased.
Yesterday Adji did take Abhimanyu away, but Banyu moved to another room with Cetta, and did not say anything about Abhimanyu.
It seems that Banyu was angry with Abhimanyu because he was indirectly the cause of Juwita's departure. Adji also did not know that Banyu was the most crying because of Juwita's departure.
The color of the house suddenly faded again.
Cetta's voice was not heard, anyone's voice did not color the air. Everything's empty.
"Role." Adji felt like he had to see his youngest son. "Cetta, Son. Here first."
There's no sound.
"Cetta, Papa calls. Here first."
Still no sound.
Adji got up from the chair, carrying the cereal he brewed with cold milk for his son. Worried that he was hungry, though he would stay home with Abhimanyu and Abhimanyu was used to taking care of his sister's food.
Turns out Cetta's in the pet room. The boy sat looking at his frog aquarium, which Adji still remembered clearly making Juwita scream hysterically.
"Cetta, come eat first."
The boy was intentionally unwilling to answer.
"Role."
"No way." Cetta shifted away even before Adji squatted nearby. "Papa just go."
"Why you?" ask Adji gently.
He knows how to cry. Crying almost without a sound but clearly visible on his face. "Mama's gone, Brother's gone too. Papa doesn't take care of Mama with Sister."
Adji's heart feels pierced. Though not Adji deliberately let everyone go.
"Sister just went home for a little while. He'll come back here."
"Well, why bring a suitcase?!" cetta shouted, refusing to be lied to.
Although Cetta's voice is high, Adji still controls his voice to calm down. "That's a gift for Juwita's mother."
"Papa lied. Papa's a liar." Cetta was crying more and more. "Abang Banyu doesn't cry if Brother comes home later. Brother left because Abang Abi is evil."
"It's not like that."
"Cetta doesn't want to be with Papa." The boy got up, ran away from Adji.
The cereal was left behind, not even glimpsed though he might be hungry.
Adji finally sighed, got up and went again to the still-empty dining room.
Put the cereal in the refrigerator, then Adji went up to Banyu's room.
"Banyu, tell your brother to eat. Papa lives cereal in the fridge."
"Hm."
If there is a problem in the family, like men will always be the target of blame. Abhimanyu did not want to talk, Cetta ran away from him and Banyu did not want to turn around.
So that Adji still leaves the house to work, ask the best agency he knows to send a temporary housekeeper to the house, take care of his children who definitely need help.
But when Adji gets home, Banyu bothers to wait for him just to say one thing:
"Papa don't bother to hire people. The one who ran out of the house was Mama Juwita."
He did not want Juwita's job taken over by anyone, which gave the impression Juwita was no longer there.
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