Mother to My Children
Chapter 36

"Not working today?" syafira asked when he saw Bara was still busy with his motorcycle, but it was 09.00 WIB.

Bara silently smiled hearing Syafira call him that name since this morning. And this is the third time the girl who always looks cute called him mas.

"Mass? The feeling was not he listed last night, but it's no bad" he said in his heart at dawn when Syafira woke him up and called him Mas for the first time.

"Mas, I'm sure you're talking, don't look like this big body here?" syafira's protest is now standing next to him.

"Don't you see I'm here either? If here means not working," replied Bara.

"Why not do om, eh Mas," Syafira is not used to her new call to Bara.

"Like me, the office belongs to me" he replied indifferently.

"Mas can dong sometime ajakin road use motor gedenya. Or if I don't borrow it once,"

Bara just kept silent not to deny it, he continued to wipe his favorite motorcycle. Since Olivia died, the big motorbike is more often parked in the garage than in use. In the past when Olivia was alive, Bara often took her out of town with her mogenya community.

"Whose bike is it?" Bara pointed to Syafira's matic scooter parked right next to his motorcycle using his chin.

"Oh that, mine Mas. Why?"

"It's okay, just ask. You don't have a college?"

"There is, but ntar bangan. This is going to do the same job as a friend" replied Syafira.

"Who? Mia?"

"Ih Mas Bara started kepo huh?" syafira Goda.

"Not to be answered, then,"

"Not Mas, I'm the same as different majors. My name is. uh that's why he came to pick me up," Syafira looked at the man riding the ninja motorcycle.

"Good morning om, I'm here to pick up Fira om there is a task that must be collected this afternoon. Can you walk with her?" said Roni, a friend of Syafira's department.

Hearing Roni call him om and think Syafira his nephew, Bara immediately threw a kanebo cloth that he was holding to wipe his motorbike.

"Whatever!" he said while holding back his annoyance.

Syafira held back her laughter, surely in Bara's heart to curse out, he thought.

"In the meantime, I'll take the same bag of books first" Syafira told Roni.

"Hem," Roni nodded.

"Cool about the bike, like touring?" ask Roni.

"It's none of your business, the other one I'm not the omnya Syafira," Bara said.

"Continue ready? Couldn't be his father, right? It's not that old, though,"

"I'm her husband!" emphatically Bara. He did not like the young man, as a fellow man, Bara understood if Roni admired or even liked Syafira.

Roni was quite surprised to hear, because he had never heard of Syafira getting married. Yes, he admitted, he and Syafira were not too close, he did admire the figure of Syafira, but the girl always kept her distance. This is because there is group work and Syafira does not know the address where they will do so Roni picked her up.

"Do I look like I'm joking? There's no time!" bara sarcasm.

"Mas, later I continue to go to college, the needs of the children I have prepared if they go home to school later," Syafira told Bara after getting out of picking up her bag and book. Interrupting Roni who seems to want to talk but does not so.

"Hem," said Bara briefly.

"Eh Ron, I use my own bike, so that later the return will not be difficult" Syafira said.

"Bonceng is okay Fir, I will take her home," said Roni.

"Ehem!" I was beating hard without looking.

"No, Ron, I'm on my own bike,"

"Yes, if so, I'm sorry first," said Roni to Bara and only answered hem by a man who was not aware if he was jealous.

"Go first mas, assalamualaikum," Syafira salutes and kisses Bara's hand.

"Wa'alaikumsalam" Bara replied.

Syafira approached her motorbike and pulled out the key from inside her bag. Not forgetting he was wearing his helmet.

"Ck poke in the boncengin the wills, but if there were no I would have stuck" murmured Bara, without realizing it, Syafira was still beside him trying to pull out his motorcycle and heard Bara's speech.

"His name is Roni mad, not William. This is what William is," said Syafira patting his motorcycle.

"I don't care, want Roni or Wiliam. You need to know your limits as a wife. Don't get too close to hanging out with men" Bara recalled.

Syafira pursed her lips restrained by Bara's words, as if she was caught committing crimes in the household with other men, but she only wanted to do the tasks given by her lecturer. He was upset when like this, Bara always cornered him in the name of his position as a wife.

"Esteemed Mr. Bara, I know what I'm doing, and I know which limits I have to go through to keep the good name of the family, especially my SU A MI," syafira said by pressing the word husband.

"Don't you say that I just need to be a good mother to my children, not a good wife? If I'm still being sane and think of you as a husband, consider it a bonus!" syafira. He turned on his motorcycle engine.

"I leave first, when I finish college will go straight home. Assalamualaikum," said Syafira and immediately left Bara who did not even have a chance to interrupt his speech.

"Sorry, I don't mean to be rude, I just want to respect this marriage. Even if there is no love, at least be wise in living this household. I wouldn't expect more from our household either. Unless you really want more," inner Syafira while continuing to look straight ahead until passing the gate of his house following his friend, Roni who has gone first in front of him.

Bara stopped his activity, he remembered the words of Syafira earlier. Somehow he did not like if Syafira said only need to be a good mother is not a good wife, but clearly he himself said that. Lali where is the fault of Syafira by saying the right is only to parroted his speech?.

"Shit!" his curse that felt his feelings were now being toyed with by the situation. The girl he thought was still the boy, managed to frustrate him.

"Why should a man, a girl friend not exist?" the upset. Either really because for the sake of the good name of the family or actually because he felt jealous and afraid if Syafira really did not care anymore about his status as a wife?

it looks like Bara is starting to lose the identity of her who always prides herself on the loyalty she has to Olivia's late house. Even though he denies it. Denying that he actually needs a figure like Syafira, who colors his dark world with the cute nature of the girl, stupid, even though he is always indifferent and cold to Syafira, who is not, but always a smile returned by his wife. His wife always managed to hide what she really felt in her heart.

"Give up who you want to go with, which is important not to make a tantrum," he murmured by gritting his true teeth to cover up his disappointment. Yes, he deliberately put himself off today because he wanted to teach Syafira to drive a car.

Bara went straight into the room and took his cell phone, he contacted om Jhon who must be in the office.

"Om jhon, bring my work today home, and please prepare a bouquet of flowers. I'm going to Olivia's grave" he said, turning off his call.

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