Me Gustas Tu's
He's My Father

...Part 39's...

...Happy reading...

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...MGT by: VizcaVida...

...39...

Nolan took Caca to sit in a pharmacy. Nolan has also bought several drugs that he can use to treat Caca's injured face and palms.

With painstaking pain, Nolan rubbed Caca's face with the drugs he had just redeemed at the pharmacy. The price also he chose the most high for the good of Caca. What should she tell Julia if Caca comes home like this?

Nolan showed a little regret for being late to help Caca. He also blames himself, why let Caca sit there alone to get the bad treatment of such an unknown man. Oh naw. Did Caca also receive indecent treatment from the man earlier?

Nolan widened his eyes. He examined every inch of Caca's body movements, then asked because he could not hold the curiosity in his throat.

“That guy doesn't do you, right?”

Caca snorted at Nolan's question. It was obvious that he was hurt like this, still asking that?

“You've treated my wounds, right? So it seems I don't need to answer.” ketus Caca with a lazy face.

“That's not what I mean. Did that man do another bad thing to you?”

Caca stared at Nolan's beautiful round netra.

“You mean pele-cheer?”

Nolan hesitated. He was afraid to hurt Caca's feelings. But a moment later, he gave thanks with a heart of relief instead of playing when Caca shook his head.

“You know that guy?” nolan asked curiously as he cleaned up some gauze, Rivanol, and the red medicine he had just used to treat Caca's wounds.

Finding Caca silent, Nolan did not force and chose to take Caca back home. I swear, only today Nolan feels so guilty to a woman, of course other than her mother.

“We go home. Udah malem also, later Miss Julia worried.” said Nolan a little joking so that the atmosphere changed more conducive. Caca nodded in agreement to Nolan's invitation. There's no reason to stay here any longer.

***

Lucky Ms. Julia believes in the reasons expressed by Caca. Caca's main goal is to keep her mother from panicking and worrying because she is again the victim of her own father's cruelty.

Now, there's only Nolan and Caca sitting in the house. Waiting for the time to change and the sound of fireworks filled the sky.

“Did your father ever hurt you with a punch, Zero?”

Nolan. He caught a wist in Caca's bead. A feeling of guilt towards his father, once again reflected in Nolan's memory.

“No.”

“You're lucky.” says Caca. He wanted to make Nolan melt on Hendra by utilizing his current situation. Not fair enough, but Caca wants it all to end soon because Caca can also feel the attention Nolan gives her, very different. He didn't want to fall into a deep, deep feeling for a Nolan. Or he will be heartbroken and unable to move on for a very long and torturous time.

“Papa scolded me often, but he never once hit me.”

“That's a sign he loves you, Zero. Then, why do you hate him so much?”

Nolan. Usually, he would be furious if someone were to talk to him like this. But strangely enough, he was listening to Caca right now.

“Maybe your papa is also sorry for doing that. He may also try to make up with you in various ways, including giving freedom to you.”

“I choose my own freedom, Ca. It wasn't papa who gave him.”

“Yes. That's probably what you think. But, have you ever asked her that?”

Nolan is struck by Caca's words. All this time he never wanted to listen to what the father was trying to say to him.

“Maybe you are not aware, that is how he can see you happy because of it. He let his money make you happy.” continued Caca, now see the look of Nolan's eyes that look dim. “Without you realizing, maybe he is also trying to show you something, and that way, he shows his affection for you.”

Nolan looked down, he smiled wryly. Why had he never judged that far. Maybe what Caca said is true. Or, it could be wrong. Everything has become a dilemma.

Caca snorted loudly. He looked at the sky with a sad and straight look.

“I have also loved someone, admired him because he was like a helper to me even though he never tired of insulting me in front of my own face.”

Nolan lifted his face, he looked at Caca who now looked sad.

“We live in simplicity, there is nothing valuable we have other than each other.

That all changed when I was in elementary school. My Super Hero turned evil. He betrayed us and became a terrible monster for us.”

Nolan knew Caca was telling his father.

“And until that day. The day you heard from me, we decided to leave her life.”

Nolan makes an uncomfortable move that catches Caca's attention.

“Ca,”

“And we succeeded, Zero. Me and mom managed to get away from dad in a long time.”

Nolan is at a loss for words and just wants to listen to Caca express what he has not known.

“You, is a lucky child to have a papa like him.”

Nolan nodded despite the hesitation. Because what Caca said, now feels so right for him.

“If you can't forgive him for making your loved one leave the world, at least just appreciate him. It's gonna be okay. Your heart will also feel calm seeing your papa presence at home.”

Nolan squinted his eyes. Why does Caca sound like he knows so much about it? But all that he ignored. Maybe it's just his feelings.

“I tried so, Ca. But everything is very difficult because of papa's proof of error, in the form of a human.”

And one other thing that came to Nolan's mind. The old man in the nursing home was again. Painting someone's face again. And now Nolan's brain goes a little bit further about the face in the painting. He found something that made his heart beat quite hard in shock.

The woman's face is the face....

Nolan shook. He had to come there again to make sure once again. The man was like storing a lot of things in every paint that he scratches on his canvas.

“Try listening to what your papa says. That way, you will know the intentions and reasons that he might want to convey to you all this time. But all held back because you always stay away even do not want to see it.”

Nolan is back in the doldrums with reality. What Caca said was absolutely nothing wrong. Everything was true, and this was all because his ego was too high to not want to listen to his papa side to give an explanation.

“OK, I will try.” said Nolan like just a phrase, but it has no seriousness. Caca knows that clearly.

“You know who that guy was?”

Nolan shone back to Caca's face. This time with a curiosity that he could not cover up on his face.

“Name Joko Suseno.”

Nolan increasingly did not understand why Caca even knew the name of the heartless man.

“And he, is my father.”

***

Nolan put his motorcycle keys on the nightstand, took off his Jeans jacket which slightly smelled of vehicle smoke and fireworks that he had just lit with Caca.

For a while he was happy to see Caca's cheerful face back when playing fireworks earlier. But all of Caca's stories go back to making her heart feel wistful.

Caca, a girl who can accept her father despite his physical and mental harm. That girl is amazing.

Unlike her who always runs away like a loser. He always avoids his papa for no relevant reason. She always gets her papa cornered with her sarcastic words, and she who never appreciates her hard-working papa gives her the luxury without ever complaining to him.

Nolan's footsteps now turned. He walked out of his room, down the stairs and walked to his father's room downstairs.

Arriving in front of the thick door, he stood like a statue. Paying attention to how the classic-style ornaments in front of his papa room were engraved at the request of his mother, first.

Without realizing it, his palm moved to touch the door handle and pulled down until the room opened.

It was dark, because his father was not home. Benak Nolan is still thinking curiously by guessing that his papa is meeting that woman out there. Ask for love from other women besides their mother. Yes, it's a cynical thought, but Nolan doesn't want to throw those bad memories away because Leonard is real evidence of his papa's cheating. And she deserves to hate anyone who comes into contact with people who have hurt her mom, including her own dad.

His steps moved hesitantly entering the room. His hand touched the wall to find the location of the switch as he remembered, not far from the door leaf was. And sure enough, this room is still the same from the last time he saw it four years ago. His papa did not change the contents of the room, including a photo of the three of them on the head of his papa bed.

Nolan smiled at the fact. Then, he went back deeper and deeper, and stopped in front of his papa's desk. There are some files that laugh neatly. The desk drawers were locked and Nolan couldn't figure out what was in there. Until his eyes caught a photo lying on the table just like that. Nolan grabbed and picked it up, then stared fixedly at the faces in the photo.

Very familiar because there is a figure like ... Leonard.

A middle-aged man, a woman his mother's age, and a young Leonard there.

O God. Nolan remembered the features of that face. The facial features of the man in the nursing home, is the man in this photo.

Nolan's jaw hardened instantly as the face in the canvas was now recognized unexpectedly. That face, is the face of a woman who has made her family's happiness ruined. He must find out the problems that have made everything chaotic.

Yep. Nolan must return there, gaining the truth and the bright spot for his endless enmity with his father out of hate.

Amidst all these wishes, Caca's sentence was heard on his boat.

Without you knowing it, he might be trying to show you something, and in that way, he shows you his affection.

Nolan must know immediately what the father is trying to say. And what the old man in the nursing home knew about his father's relationship with the woman named Tiana was the main cause of his death.

...—Connect—...

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If anyone still remembers Leonard's mother's name, please take it or write her name here. As the author remembers, her name is Tiana. Forgetting to write in the draft. 😔

The author is looking for the name of his mother Leo did not meet. Puyeng is.

Sorry to confide sambat🙏