Mother is Not a Night Woman
The panic!!!

"It's not so, honey. You can ask anything from me. Sorry, I was wrong, I shouldn't have said that. All right, tomorrow we're going to Singapore to buy that ice cream, "let's talk without taking off a hug.

"I don't want ice cream anymore."

The hero took off a hug, then wiped off Via's tears with his finger. "Say he wanted that ice cream..."

"Not anymore, Mas," he answered, shaking his head, and so did Isaac cry in restraint.

"Come, Honey. I accidentally made you sad by refusing your request to buy that ice cream. I was wrong, I'm sorry."

"I'm not sad because of the ice cream" said Via rubbed his tears again.

"Then?"

Via ventured to look at her husband's face. "This is the first time I've asked Mas Wira for something, and I didn't know it was excessive. In the past if Sister Shera wanted something, Mas Wira fulfilled everything without asking. I am not jealous and asked Mas Wira to treat me like Sister Shera. It's just that I feel my position is meaningless in my own husband's eyes. I knew and realized, I was just an orphanage girl, whose origins were unclear. To this day, I don't know who my parents are and why they dumped me. I felt like I was dreaming of being part of this family. And it's true, it's too much if I ask for something again."

Every word spoken from the lips of Via is like incising a wound for the Hero. He hugged back. "Don't think so. You mean a lot to me."

Via no longer says. Even though he tried to convince himself that it was natural if the Hero did not consider himself important, but the instinct of indulgence as a woman who was two-bodied still dominates.

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The morning begins with breakfast together in the dining room. However, that morning the atmosphere looked different to the absence of a Via figure among them. A chair in which the woman usually sat seemed empty.

"Via didn't come down for breakfast?" ask Mr. Gunawan to Aunt Arum who is serving some menu.

"No, Mister. He said he wasn't feeling well. He just asked to bring juice and fruit to the room" replied the middle-aged woman.

"His mother is sick, Opa," Lyla interrupted in the middle of the conversation.

The hero who is the main suspect also gets a gift of cynical gaze from the father. However, the man only responded with a bitter smile, realizing he was the one at fault.

After breakfast Aunt Arum went upstairs with a tray of juice and fruit that Via requested. In a hurry, the hero offered himself.

"Auntie, let me take you to the room" he bargained.

"All right." The woman handed the tray into the hands of Wira, and immediately Wira headed upstairs where Lyla's room was.

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Via sat leaning back on the bed watching the tv show when Wira came in with her breakfast menu.

"Good morning, dear," he said excitedly, with a faint smile. "I brought you breakfast." The hero put a box containing pieces of fruit and also a glass of juice on the nightstand.

"Mas ... Why bother? I was asking Auntie for help with that."

"It's okay... Auntie said you weren't feeling well." The hero touches the wife's forehead with the back of his hand. "Indeed a bit warm, your face is also very pale. Going to the doctor?" the tanyanya is followed by the trunks by Via.

"It doesn't matter, Mas. I'm fine."

"Want me a breakfast bribe?" bargained for.

"I can do it myself, Mom. You have to get ready for the office." Via grabbed the box from the hand of the Hero, as well as the fork that the Hero had pointed into the mouth of the wife.

With a sluggish-looking movement, Via fed piece by piece of fruit into his mouth. Realizing his wife's unusual attitude, Wira was only able to smile strangely.

"You still angry?" tanyanya while stroking the hair and also the face of the wife.

"Why is it angry, Mas?"

"On last night."

"No," he replied as he chewed the piece of fruit. "why should I be angry?"

"I know I've gone too far. And I'm sorry for that."

"I'm okay, Mom. Forget it."

"Then here I am a bribe!"

"No need, I don't want to trouble Mas Wira." He put the box back on the table. "Oh yeah, I've got office clothes in my room."

Wira smiled, even though the sadness was clearly visible on his face. He kisses his wife with affection. Although Via was sick and angry, but still carried out his duties as a wife. And that made the guilt in him even greater.

"All right, get some rest."

*****

The day passed by Wira with a bad mood and in a state of lackluster. Even during the meeting he only daydreamed about his actions to the wife.

The twilight arrived. The hero sat in a chair looking at the crowded streets of the capital when the sound of cell phones rang out. There is the name Bima.

"What's the boss? I'm sorry, I was busy" Bima said shortly after the call was connected.

"Please prepare for my departure to Singapore in the near future!" her door.

"Singapore?"

"Yes. Me and Via are going there, all for Lyla's treatment. Please prepare everything."

"Alright, Boss. When are you leaving?"

The hero seemed to think for a moment before replying, "Next week alone. Now Via's not feeling well."

"That's easy. I'll prepare everything."

"All right, thank you."

The call is interrupted, Wira again dissolves in her daydream. Until a moment passed, he glanced at the direction of the clock on his wrist. No time has shown at seven o'clock in the evening.

"Geez, it's night." He grabbed a suit hanging in the corner of the room, then grabbed a cell phone and a car key on the table.

*****

"Dad ..." Lyla's passionate customers welcomed her upon entering the house. He stretched out one hand, bringing the little girl into his cradle.

"Good night, dear," he said, then kissed his forehead.

"Dad why did he come home so long?"

"Dad's busy in the office, son." He sat Lyla on the sofa, then squatted in front of her while taking out the small box that had been hidden behind his back. "Look, what did you bring for Lyla."

Instantly Lyla's face sparkled, while staring at the object inside the box. "Well, crown plinsyes. This is for Lyla, isn't it, Dad?"

"Yes, honey."

"Thank you, Dad. The crown's good, it's like Lyla's doll's crown." So happy, he kissed the cheek of the father several times. "For Lyla too, huh?" tanyanya pointed at a flower in her father's hand.

"This is for you, baby. Which mother?"

"Bobo's mother in kamal. Mom's sick again, Dad. It was teyus vomit."

"What, sick?" asked the Hero and answered a nod by Lyla. "Then I want to see you first, yes ... Lyla wanna come?"

"You're playing with aunt duyu."

"Yes already. I saw Mommy first, huh?"

"Yes, Dad."

Wira quickened his steps to climb the stairs one by one. Until we arrived at the door of the room. He knocks first before entering.

"Darling .." call him, as he turns his head inward. The bed looked empty, there was no Via there. And, his eyes were perfectly rounded when he found Via lying on the floor.

The hero immediately grabbed the wife's body and tried to wake her up. "Via ..." call him as he patted the pasih's pale face. "Darling, wake!" Via did not budge, making Wira hug his body, even with a clear liquid that fell soaking his face.

Panic ensued when he saw blood stains on the wife's back.

"Via ..." cried Wira in panic.

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