
Risda had never met her father in person, but her Grandmother always said that her father was in an empty house in front of her house. Risda hesitated to look for him, as she never saw her father out of the house.
Now Risda is standing in front of the house in question while holding a paper and pen in each hand. He stared for a long time at the house, looking like there was no sign of life in it.
"He's gone from there? Very quiet," Guman Risda while wailing.
The house that looks unkempt also looks very gloomy and scary if lived in, Risda felt unsure that her father was in there. Long enough Risda stood in front of the house, but there was no sign of someone being active in it.
"Rapaine, Son?" Asked the middle-aged woman who accidentally saw Risda sculpting in front of the house, the woman was none other than her Grandmother.
"Dad left already?" Risda asked her Grandma.
"Your father's inside, what's wrong?"
"Inside? Why so quiet, Grandma? I don't think there are any inhabitants,"
"Come in, he's inside."
Risda slowly stepped into the terrace of the house, looks quite slum house because rarely cleaned. With a softly he opened the door of the house, the figure of a skinny man with his seedy clothes was lying on a chair in the guest room.
Seeing the figure immediately made Risda's feeling torn apart, why did it become like this? What really happened to that guy? It looked different from the last time Risda met him. Risda also held her chest that hurt, it felt like she was being hit by something very hard.
"Why did all this have to happen? What happened to my father? What did that woman do to him?" Inner Risda screamed, there was an inexhaustible feeling in her heart when she saw the figure look like that.
Risda was slowly approaching the sleeping man, a very tired face was clearly on his father's face. Risda had absolutely no heart to see it, she was not even able to control her own feelings.
"Well," Call Risda crest.
Hearing the call immediately made the man slowly start to open his eyes, he also got up to sit in the chair that looks quite old. He also looked at his son who was staring at him, Risda's gaze as if he was going to be glassy looking at it.
"What's going on?" Risda asked softly as if her tone contained a deep sadness.
If it were not for her punishing Afrenzo to ask for the signature of her parents, Risda would not have entered the house and would not have known the condition of her father at this time. Whether this was a coincidence or how, so Risda entered the house.
"This is fate" Sandi said with tears when she saw Risda's eyes glazed over.
"Is it because of that woman?" Asked Risda who was a little bit as excited.
His father nodded slowly to Risda as the answer, Risda closed her eyes when she saw the nod. The feeling of disappointment as well as injury became one, to make both hands clenched tightly.
"Where is he now? I'll never let him live!" Shouted Risda with both hands clenched so tightly that it turned white.
"Rise! No need,"
"But he's already made your life like this! Risda couldn't just stay still, she had to feel what Risda felt."
"Never hurt them,"
"Why is Dad still defending him anyway? He had the heart to Dad like this. But why still defend him!"
"It's Risda, already! Don't talk about this, what's up here?"
"Forget it, Risda's mood isn't good right now."
Risda immediately rushed away from the house, he actually did not accept if his father was treated like that by his new wife. However, his father still defended the woman, and it made Risda very sick.
With mixed feelings, Risda entered his house, he threw the object he had brought before it in any direction. He then laid his body firmly on the mattress in his room.
Risda buried her face in the pillow she used to sleep on. He was sobbing softly behind the pillow he used, really hurt what he was feeling at this time.
Even at times like this, his father still defended the woman who had ruined his family. Even the woman has gone somewhere, her own father does not know where the woman is now.
"Gue will never forgive you until then, you wicked woman! I hate you!" Risda shouted behind her pillow until the sound of her scream was not heard clearly from outside.
*****
"Da, why are your eyes so swollen? You were crying last night?" Tanya Mira the next day at school.
"Gue ngak papa," replied Risda as if she would be holding back that cry.
"Lo any more problems with your family?" Septia asked and immediately got a nod of the head from Risda.
"Write, Da. Once after you tell us the same story, you will feel relieved and not sad anymore," said Rania while rubbing Risda's back slowly.
"Gue ngak papa really,"
Risda turned to the class of Afrenzo, he had not found the man parked on a motorcycle, and his motorcycle was not visible there. At first glance he saw the figure of Afrenzo was walking in the hallway and was about to enter his class.
"Gue go first," said Risda and immediately hunted to get out of his class.
"Da!" Call the three at the same time but be ignored by Risda.
Risda then went to approach the figure of Afrenzo who was about to enter his class, seeing the arrival of Risda immediately made Afrenzo stop his steps and immediately turned to look at Risda.
"Lo why?" Afrenzo asked when he saw Risda's eyes glazed over.
"Gue's sorry about the signature, Renzo. I haven't asked my parents for an autograph yet" Risda said.
"Because of that you cry?" Afrenzo asked with a question mark in his head.
"Yes, I can't ask them for that signature, Renzo. I accept any punishment from you now, just don't ask for it,"
"Gue know, you must have seen the condition of your Bokap right?"
The question posed by Lorenzo immediately made Risda's eyes round, he did not understand what was said by Afrenzo. Whether the punishment had anything to do with Risda's father's condition, but why did Afrenzo tell him that.
"What do you mean? I don't know at all, Renzo. You purposely told me that?"
"Gue knows without lo story, Da. Whatever it is, he's still your dad anytime, you can be mad at Kedia, but you can't hate kedia."
"Lo've met my Bokap? When?"
"Lo told me that time, did you forget?"
*Flash back on*
Risda and Afrenzo were in the martial arts, Afrenzo was busy to practice his kick in a samsak in the room. Risda was busy with her phone because the exercises had not started yet.
"Mother, Dad came home a few days ago. He was kicked out with his new wife, I haven't seen his condition yet, but he says he's not okay." Said Risda who was connected to the phone from his mother.
Lorenzo was listening to Risda complaining to his mother. If you look at it, Afrenzo seemed to care about him, but he was silent and began to digest the conversation.
Risda said that since her father came home, she had not seen him at all even for a moment. It made him not know how the condition of his father, according to his words as if he was going to say that his father was sick.
Afrenzo also thought that what was done by Risda was only because of his heartache when he was a child, so he felt indifferent to his own father. Afrenzo also sought a way to get Risda to meet her parents, and the idea came when Risda was being punished by the teacher.
"Gue will punish you, so that you will be deterred later. And for you, Da. So that you want to see your own father even if only for a moment," Inner Africa.
*Flash back off*
Risda was silent to hear the words from Afrenzo, it turns out that the punishment was planned by Afrenzo a few days ago. However, only this time he had the opportunity to punish Risda like that.
"Lo evil, Renzo. Lo planain this all from the beginning," said Risda did not believe what he heard at this time.
"Da, no matter how much you hate your parents, you can't hate them like that. Although they have hurt your feelings, forgive them" Advice from Afrenzo.
"Then what about Bokap lo, who has mukulin lo like that? Can you forgive him?"
Afrenzo at a glance looks silent when he heard the question posed by Risda, seeing that as if going to silence Afrenzo also immediately makes Risda look fixedly at the man's face.
"Why are you quiet, Renzo? Tell me, can you forgive that Bokap lo?" Said Risda long enough to see only the silent Afrenzo.
"Gue never hated him, Da. And forgive for what?" Ask Afrenzo back.
"Lo really doesn't hate it?" Asked Risda who did not believe in the answer from Afrenzo.
"What do I hate? After all, they are my parents. I just don't like the way he behaves, it doesn't mean he hates people,"
"Gue can't be like you, Renzo. I can't just forgive him, I can't do it! I hate him, too,"
"Lo can't hate it like that, Da. If he had not existed, you would have money later," Afrenzo also rubbed the top of Risda's head slowly.
"Gue ain't gonna fuck up, Renzo. All this time I lived alone without her presence, there and absence of her beside me, it was the same for me."
"Da, you're a good boy. Every human being must be wrong, there is no perfect human being in this world, Da. Not just because of the problems that have passed, you lose happiness in the future,"
"But I can't forgive him yet, Renzo. My heart aches to remember it,"
"Slow land, you will be able to, Da. It all takes process,"
"Renzo's..." Risda's tears trickled and was immediately wiped by Afrenzo using the thumb of his right hand.
"Zinc!"
Bhukk...
"Akhs..."
Risda then punched the chest of Afrenzo with a bang, Afrenzo felt pain in his chest and immediately held it with both hands. After hitting the chest of Afrenzo, Risda immediately ran towards his class with both cheeks flushed at this time.
"Lo ngak cool, Renzo!" Shouted Risda loudly.
Afrenzo just shook his head with a faint smile on his face. The hard punch from Risda was not enough to make him hurt, the girl was really brave to him at this moment, even she dared to hit him just like that.
Lorenzo then resumed his journey towards his current class, while Risda also did so. Risda immediately sat in his lap to join the others.
"After meeting the charmer, don't cry anymore lo?" Rania asked who saw the smile on Risda's face expand thinly.
"Gue needs a punching bag" Risda said.
"Damn lo, Da. No one wants to be your target" said Mira.
"Kan Renzo wants, the proof is I hit him hard earlier."
"WHAT!" Shouts of surprise came out from their mouths after hearing the words from Risda.
"Seriously lo, Da? How do you keep reacting? Is he angry? Or did he hit back?" Septia asked with excitement.
"Lo crazy, Da? Why is there anything after hitting people? Or you just get slammed by it. Only you dare to do that, Da. I was amazed by your courage," Mira also clapped her hands to hear the words from Risda.
"I don't know, I just ran away" replied Risda.
His friend seemed to not believe what they heard at this time, maybe there was something that made the man just like that when he was hit by Risda.
Not long after, a young man came to Risda's bench. The young man was none other than Rizal who participated in being punished yesterday along with Risda and the others.
"Where's your paper?" Rizal asked while thrusting his hand in front of Risda.
"What paper's?" Risda asked who did not know what Rizal meant.
"It's your penalty paper, he's already hooked!" He is called Afrenzo.
"My father gave it to him earlier, so I don't take it now." Said Risda lying to her friend.
"Why don't you say he's peak! You know that I also nitip the same lo earlier, fucking lo, Da." Bumpat Rizal with his wrath to Risda.
"Gue don't know if you want to nitip to me, I've been billed since then woi, so I'm not perfect waiting for you. Lo sih clock just set off," Now turned around, precisely Rizal made wrong by what Risda did.
"Yes lo lo wait for us we shall,"
"Yes, sorry, I've just taken it to him. Before he goes back to this class,"
Rizal also snorted annoyed that Risda, himself and the other convicted friend rushed out of the classroom to go to the class of the OSIS chairman, and left the class Risda.
Seeing their departure, immediately made Risda rub his chest while breathing a sigh of relief, fortunately his friend believed what was said by Risda, if there was no way there would be a fight between them.