Matchmaking
Abah's Request

"Mother don't worry, I have many friends in the shop, I'll try to borrow them" Aurora whispered to her mother.

How happy mother and Aurora to see the youngest dika eat with greed. He was so sure of the promise of his brother, would buy him fish as a side dish tomorrow. Though Aurora herself was still confused, to the friend to whom she would ask for her help.

After her sisters ate, Aurora looked at the rice bench in front of her. He saw only a plate of rice left, and he and his mother had not eaten that night. Immediately he took out a plate and filled it with the rice left in the stool.

"Mom, this is rice for me! at the meal yes ma'am," said Aurora gave a plate that had been filled with rice.

"Mom ate Ra this afternoon, it's for you!" mother refused the plate Aurora gave her.

"Mother don't lie to me, ma'am, after work I didn't see any rice in the kitchen so where you might have eaten,"

"Ra's really eating, you'll see the rice place is exhausted and empty, mother spent it this afternoon," said the mother reasoned, with full confidence in Aurora.

"Yes, then we eat together, ma'am" Aurora asked her mother.

"It feels like mom is still quite full Ra, so you're the one who ate the rice yes," refused mom back.

"I know you're lying, it's not the first time you've sacrificed for me and my sisters so we can keep eating" Aurora murmured as she looked at her.

For Aurora, her mother is the first person she is proud of, and she wants to be a mother as well as her mother.

"Ra let's eat it quickly spent, don't daydream like that!" reprimand the mother who saw Aurora eating by slowing down.

"Good ma'am," Aurora replied with a smile on her mother.

Aurora resumed her evening meal, while her three younger siblings had returned to their bedrooms. Suddenly Nova came back to Aurora and the mother who was still sitting on the floor.

"Sister, this afternoon my sister said there's something you want to tell Nova, what's the problem, brother?" tanya Nova was curious as to what her brother would tell her.

"Wait for your sister to finish her meal Nov!" said mom to Nova.

Aurora finished her meal, washed her hands and sat down next to her mother and first sister.

"Are the sisters in Nov's room?

"So, Bintang is working on PR, while Dika is engrossed in playing his robots" said Nova.

"Look Nov, I've been considering this carefully and I think you already need to know about the current state of our family so I decided to tell you and explain everything to you," aurora looks at her first sister.

"Ra." mother blinked at Aurora while shaking her head. Mother doesn't seem to want Nova to know everything, so she forbids Aurora from telling her about the problems that happened that day.

"Well, ma'am, I think Nova is old enough to know about our family problems" Aurora said, stroking her hand to calm her down. Nova, increasingly confused by the chatter of her brother and mother, finally asked curiously.

"Sir, Nova is curious! what exactly do you and your sister want to tell Nova?"

"Begini Nov, this afternoon my sister overheard my father and mother talking, my sister heard my mother asking for divorce from my father" Aurora told her sister.

Nova gasped in shock at her brother's explanation, her eyebrows wrinkled and her eyes seemed to be full of questions on what Aurora explained.

Aurora's mother did not answer anything to Nova's question, she fell silent and daydreamed beside Aurora.

"Sister, would you please tell me why you decided that to me?" tanya Nova returned curiously.

Aurora immediately answered Nova who was tugging at her sleeve.

"Dad cheated on Nov's mother, that's why she asked for a divorce from him" Aurora told her sister.

"No way, brother, I misheard you, right?" tanya Nova confirmed what she heard from her brother.

"That's right Nov, father has other women besides mother," replied the mother in a weak voice.

"That's not true ma'am, I have to find out the truth first! I believe father couldn't possibly have done it with us ma'am" Nova was so sure of her father that she couldn't believe her sister and mother's explanation that night.

"Nov, listen brother! everything that mother said was true, because it was the father who said it himself to mother in front of brother, so stop to continue defending father in front of mother and sister!" said Aurora who was a little upset at her sister.

"No, I don't trust my sister and mother! I want to hear it from you right away" Nova then got up from her seat because she wanted to find and ask the truth. Aurora, who saw Nova awake, immediately pulled Nova's hand and held her back.

"Where are you going Nov?" aurora asked as she held Nova's hand that was about to leave their conversation.

"Please put my hands on brother! I want to ask and hear the confession from my father" Nova said firmly to her brother.

"You don't need to find a father, because he's no longer living with us right now" Aurora said, releasing her grip on Nova's arm.

"Do you mean you're leaving this house?"

"Yes, my sister asked me to go and leave us all because I don't want to keep remembering the pain I gave my mom and all of us" Aurora said.

Nova was aghast to know that, her tears stemming. It was as if he had received so much bitterness that night.

"Sister kicked dad out? why sis? why would you want to drive me out of the house?" Nova half yelled at Aurora. Seeing the commotion, the mother tried to calm her two daughters.

"Nova, listen to me son! I need time to forget my father and his memories so I just want to be alone without my father on my side" she told Nova. Her mother hopes Nova can understand her brother's intention to ask her father to leave the house.

"Nova knows ma'am, but not by ngusir dad is also ma'am! now we don't know where dad is and how he is" Nova said sobbing.

"You still have time to think of a father who would betray you? don't you think about mom's feelings?" aurora's tone of voice was getting higher, she was getting annoyed with her sister.

"Yes but that's not the way, what's the way to get rid of dad all the problems will be solved? I also don't know what you're saying is true or not, now I'm really losing my dad because of you!" nova shouted as she walked away from her mother and sister.

Seeing her sister behaving so, Aurora was ignited emotions, she then called Nova to return to the room earlier.

"Nova.... Nov... brother is not finished talking! why did you just leave?" Aurora calls her sister back, but she shakes her head at Aurora.

"Here you go, I don't think she can accept this fact yet so let her calm down first huh," Aurora nodded her head at her mother.