My Old Star
#108 Vegetable Reality
Arfan swiftly caught Steven's body slipping from the top of the tree. Everyone was tense with the incident.
Arfan takes Steven inside the club and tells Sania to bathe him in warm water so he doesn't catch a cold.
"Now take a shower, put on some warm clothes!" arfan's orders.
"I'm sorry uncle.." Steven's sorry.
"We'll talk later, yes, take a shower!"
Sania steps up to Steven to take him to take a shower.
"Let me Sa, you take care of yourself first you can get sick!"
Zaki takes over Sania's task of bathing Steven because Sania is also soaking wet. Sania felt that if Zaki really had changed, he was much more caring than the Zaki he used to be.
"Let's take a bath together!" Tomi deliberately said so in front of Zaki because Sania's view was not separated from Zaki when he was also among them.
Zaki's heart was struck by Tomi's words, only that he tried to be calm and focused on Steven.
"Come Stev, Papa will bathe you!"
Zaki walked hand in hand with Steven into the boy's room. Zaki let Steven soak the warm water longer so that the child's body was more relaxed after all the tension that occurred while Zaki was busy choosing warm clothes for his son.
Arfan and Mentari are also bathing at this time, they bathe together to make it faster because the rain water has succeeded in making Mentari's body shiver. Finished changing clothes, Mentari went into the blanket because he could not stand the cold he felt.
Luckily Mentari found his warm clothes that he deliberately lived in the closet of his old room in the club, if not possible he had to borrow clothes to Sania.
"Why were you standing under the tree baby, when the rain was heavy and lightning continued to strike?" Arfan lay on the side of Mentari and hugged her, feeling that his wife was experiencing hypothermia.
"Didn't you think about how our son is, if anything happened to you, dear?"
Mentari could not answer Arfan's question because opening his mouth just felt stiff.
"You're sick, baby, didn't you eat at school this afternoon?"
The mentor simply nodded, "It's worth your body shivering like this!" Arfan looks for eucalyptus oil and smears it in Mentari's body to make it warmer.
"Wait here, I'll make you some warm porridge!"
Arfan came out of the room, rushed towards the kitchen to make some porridge.
"What are you doing?" Ilyas' mother asked Arfan.
"I want to make porridge for Mentari Bu," replied Arfan who was still busy washing rice.
"Mother has made son, complete with vegetables and side dishes. I put it on the dining table, just waiting for the kids to come out of the room to eat together."
"Creally Ma'am?" Ilyas' mother nodded.
"Thank you Mom, I'll take it for Mentari."
Arfan was very grateful for the existence of Ilyas' mother in his club, he felt helped by the half-life woman.
Arfan brought a bowl and filled it with warm porridge made by Mother Ilyas.
"Thank you again, Mom, I'll go upstairs first. Don't forget to eat with the kids!"
"Yes, son, don't worry about Mom. Now I'm gonna call them to eat."
Mentari was asleep when Arfan went into the room, his body temperature had also started to rise unlike before when he just finished bathing.
"So, baby, eat first." Arfan patted Mentari's right cheek to wake her up.
Mentari gnaws her eyes at being disturbed, she takes a sitting position and smiles at her husband.
"Eat first, I'll take a bribe?"
"Let's open your mouth!" arfan's orders.
Eat slowly, "Sister why not eat?"
"I will, you first pity the one in the stomach." Arfan pointed at the stomach of Mentari that still looks flat.
"Tomorrow so take me to check my sister's contents?" Mentari asked because she very much hoped that she would soon be allowed to go out of town to complete her research assignment.
"I'll take you, baby, he's our son where I might let you go alone."
"What time is the examination schedule, dear?"
"Well, let's eat again!"
"I'm full, Brother, it's Brother's turn to eat!"
"All right, I'm eating!" Arfan feeds the food from the bowl of the former Mentari into his mouth with the same spoon that Mentari used.
"Sister is my ex, I'll get you a new one." Mentari lifted his blanket.
"Where are you going?" Arfan prevents Mentari from going anywhere.
"I'll get you some new porridge, brother!"
"It's more delicious than the new baby!" Arfan continued to feed the porridge into his mouth until the toilet was not left.
"I'm sure I'll miss our togetherness like this when you're not by my side, baby." It was Arfan who made Mentari feel guilty because he was going to leave Arfan for a while. Arfan himself sauntered toward the door to return the bowl of porridge to the kitchen.
The sun breathed a rough breath, "I will definitely miss you too Brother!" he said slowly withstanding tears that felt flowing rapidly without being able to be dammed.
Arfan met with Ilyas' mother again in the kitchen while washing the bowl, "Mom rest, do not spoil the children. Let them do their own work." Arfan forbade Ilyas to do what his own children should do.
"Once in a while, son, I don't mind."
"Mothers live here not to be their caregivers or maids, but Mothers become their parents to be able to advise them to be strong and mature individuals, because out there life's a lot heavier."
"Yes, I'm so grateful to meet good people like you. So, I don't mind just washing the bowl like this, son."
"Okay, ma'am, but you can't be too often ma'am!"
"Beres...no need to worry, son!" Ilyas' mother gave her thumb.
"Son... Can you visit your child?"
"Of course you can, Mom, whenever you want please look at Ilyas. Poor thing he must miss Mom."
"Thank you, son, tomorrow I'll ask Sania to help us take you to see your son's wayward mother." Ilyas' mother smiled faintly behind the shock of reality she had to face due to her disappointment towards her own son.
"Sama-sama Ma'am, greetings to Ilyas ya Ma'am. We'll see him sometime too."
Arfan left Ilyas Mother who is still busy with her work, Ilyas Mother is indeed a wise mother figure is also loving, she also does not want to stay silent if she sees the people at the club are being bothered, he said, he tried to help as much as he could.
The children have great respect for the old man because of his good deed and wise speech. Although Arfan who had made his son into the bars but not the least woman held a grudge.
Zaki was playing alongside Steven when Arfan flashed in front of them. While Sania and Tomi are not seen with the two of them, it seems that both Sania and Tomi want Zaki to have more time playing and chatting alone with Steven.
"Can you join Stev?"
"By uncle, this is so exciting. Stev's playing unloading."
"Uncle wants to talk to Papa Zaki for a second is Stev okay?"
"By Uncle, I'll finish this myself."
Arfan invites Zaki to leave Steven for a moment to talk together.
"Za why have you been so hard to contact lately? You almost hurt a lot of people because Steven misses you!"
"I'm sorry Fan, I really don't know if it's going to happen like this. Actually I went with Marryana and her family to a place far enough Fan, I ran out of battery until my phone I stayed at the hotel and we played on the beach."
"Marryana and her family?" Ask Arfan.
"You guys are that close?"
"Don't get Fan wrong, it's not what you think it is."
"I support you, Za, but make sure Marryana loves Steven too. Even though you didn't inherit from each other, the child still needs the full affection of his biological parents."
"I understand Fan!" answer Zaki steady.
Sania hears all of Arfan and Zaki's talk of accidentally passing by after warming her body with Tomi.
"May you get your happiness Za!"
Sania passed with a heart of pain, her hatred towards Zaki turned out to unconsciously still leave room in her heart for the man that made her have to lose the future, she said, even the people around them had to bear the consequences of what the two of them had done to be destroyed along with them.
Sania felt a great vibe in her heart, because the truth between hate and love only had a very thin difference. However, Sania now realizes that she belongs to Tomi and will forever only belong to Tomi, not Zaki or others, Zaki only becomes part of the past and dark history of her life.