My Hate, the Water of His Eyes (The End of A Taste)
That Little Boy

Between confusion and anxiety Leo walked down the aisle of the hospital into a room. From a distance he saw his mother standing on the back of a man his papa age who was none other than Mr. Ferdi. Both of them stood in front of the operating room.

Not until and a moment will call his mother, two men dressed in doctor uniforms came out of the operating room which was immediately greeted by two people who had been waiting with anxiety and worry.

One of the doctors said something that Leo could not hear and soon a scream filled the waiting room.

Aaaa...!!

Hearing the screams of his mother he ran with an empty mind. The doctor who spoke to his mother passed after conveying something.

"Mama," call Leo.

The sound of screams and cries made Leo become upset.

"Leos... Why it's like this, son." Isakan mama Mila sounded so Pilu plus the voice was so raucous because it had been crying too much. "What's wrong mama, why is it like this, ma-mama dream right, son? This isn't true, is it Ferdi?"

Mama Mila looked at Leo and Mr. Ferdi alternately while shaking their hands.

"Calm down, ma. What was? Why was Leo sent to the hospital?"

Leo who did not understand the situation was looking at Mr. Ferdi asking for an explanation.

"Sorry before, son Leo, it's better for Leo to go inside first." Mr. Ferdi took Leo, led him into the operating room where a body was stretched rigid on the operating table.

Mama Mila interrupted first into the operating room. His heart was broken to see the man who had accompanied him for so many years lying helpless.

Mama Mila is back hysterical.

"Aaaa... What's wrong, pa? What's wrong with my mom to be like this?"

Leo followed his mother in followed by Ferdi behind him.

"Papa?" Leo's voice shrank as if swallowed in the room smelled of the drugs. His body collapsed instantly. Seen by his mother shaking his body but of course there was no response because the man had died when the operation had just lasted five minutes.

"Sorry son Leo, Mr. Bayu is no more. Leo's son has to be strong for Leo's mother."

As vigorously as Leo rose with tears that began to flow rapidly but a word did not come out of his mouth.

Bruk!

Mama Mila fell and drowned on the floor until a few seconds later she fainted. The nurse who was still in the operating room immediately helped lift up Mama Mila's body and took her to one of the nursing rooms to be handled.

Only tears keep pouring out of Leo's pelvis. He collapsed again, seeing his mother carried by Ferdi and the nurse. His gaze turned back on the stiff body in front of him. As if Leo's absent-minded person doesn't know what to do and first he does. Two nurses were busy in front of him preparing for the return of his late father.

..........

Fifteen minutes later Ferdi returned to meet Leo, who was still sitting on the floor leaning against the wall of the operating room.

"Let's get up, son." Mr. Ferdi helped Leo up and led him out into the waiting room. "Son Leo sat here. Mila's mother is getting treatment."

Leo's lips moved so heavily when he asked Ferdi. "What's the matter, why is papa like this?"

"Hem... Actually..." Mr. Ferdi took a breath and began to tell her what had happened.

Before the accident happened...

Last afternoon after lunch, Mr. Bayu invited Mr. Ferdi to meet. Mr. Bayu came along with a teenage girl in Junior High School uniform to one of the parks where they had promised to meet. There was not much he said because he seemed to be in a hurry by something.

Mr. Bayu asked to bring the child home. Before parting, he also advised to take care of the teenage girl and whatever happens, do not let her leave the house.

Mr. Ferdi took the girl to the Bayu family residence, initially meeting the girl and Mila was ordinary but after Mila asked the name of the girl's mother Mila was surprised and there was a feeling of dislike.

Coincidentally, a phone call from the police told him that Mr. Bayu had a single accident and was taken to the hospital.

..........

Mr. Ferdi finished his story and again calmed Leo's heart even though he knew it was not easy.

"So because of that kid?" Leo's memory returned to the Junior High he had seen at his home. He frowned. "What's your relationship with that kid?"

"If I don't know about it yet but when I asked Mr. Bayu just smiled at me."

"Sorry, son. For now we focus first on the funeral process of Mr. Bayu. Mom wants Leo to be so shocked by this."

After all the hospital processes and procedures were completed, Mr. Ferdi brought Leo and mila home in an ambulance in front of them, carrying the body of Mr. Bayu to the funeral home before being buried.

Arriving at the funeral home a servant from the Suntama family helped Mila down and brought her into where many people were waiting.

"Son Leo, for a second," intercept Ferdi's sir before Leo descends to follow his mother. Mr. Ferdi handed a photo to Leo.

Leo accepted it and looked at the photo for a moment.

"I'm not sure what relationship Pak Bayu with this woman but at the time of the accident this woman was also in the car Pak Bayu."

"Not Ferdi the confidant papa, did you never tell me about this woman?"

"Sorry son, Leo. Although people trust but not all things need to be told. There are some things we only know for ourselves."

"Then this little boy?"

Leo again observes the woman's face in the photo in his hand that may be the same age as his mother. A woman smiled as she held a small child wearing a red bando.

"Not that papa and Mr. Ferdi have great people investigating people, I want information about them as soon as possible. If necessary before papa is buried, at least there is a little information that I should know, the rest can be looking for Ferdi sir again afterwards."

Thinking for a moment finally Mr. Ferdi assented Leo's wishes.

..........

After the funeral of Mr. Bayu one by one people leave the funeral. Only Leo and Ferdi are left. Mama Mila has been brought home by the waiter to the house.

With a nanar Leo stared at the red, flower-studded ground above him.

"Is there anything I should know?" leo asked Ferdi who was standing next to him.

"The woman was named Wulandari. From the information obtained by the female informants was once the lover of Mr. Bayu but their relationship was not approved by Mr. Suntama, grandfather son Leo. Mr. Bayu finally married Mila's mother because of an arranged marriage."

"Then the little boy?"

"Syera Hanindy," said Mr. Ferdi mentioned the name of the child in question. "It's about thirteen years old. Probably the same age as the kid Leo met yesterday at home."

"Is that his son?"

"For that to be ascertained, it's just that the name of the little boy in the photo is the same as the name of the teenage girl that Leo wants to meet at home."

"Is the child the result of papa's dark relationship with the woman in the photo?"

"Sorry again, we can't confirm that at this time."

"Ck, I just watched the girl I love belong to another man, now I'm standing at papa's funeral. Haha... Funny thing is there are still a lot of surprises to be received."

Leo looked up at the sky, laughing with unstoppable tears.

"Sheera Hanindy."

Leo clenched his hands together and called out the name of the girl in the photo, who he believed was the same person he had met earlier at home.

..........

Dert... Dert... Dert...

"What's wrong?" ask Mr. Ferdi to the person who contacted him.

From the phone call she could hear the screams and hysterics of the woman who had just lost her husband.

"We'll be home soon."

Mr. Ferdi disconnected the phone after hearing what a servant of the Suntama family had told him.

"We'd better go home now. Mila's mother, Mama son Leo is in a bad state right now at home."