My Son Is My Strength
Pregnant

After parting ways with Naya, Arini calls an ojek to drive her home. On the way, Arini suddenly told the taxi driver to stop.

"Left. Left, Sir." Arini stopped the motorcycle when she saw the pharmacy across the street.

"Wait a minute, sir. I want to buy something there." Point Arini, towards the pharmacy.

"Good, mbak." The carpenter said, nodding affirming Arini's words.

After talking to the taxi driver, Arini walked up to the pharmacy and went inside. He bought two test packs with different models. Then pay for it and get out of the pharmacy. "Hum. I hope my guess is wrong." Arini muttered while looking at the test pack on her hand.

"Street, sir." Arini said after he climbed back up the ojek.

The motorcycle driver also, re-directing his motorbike to the address that Arini had told him before.

Arriving at his rented house, Arini went down and paid the fare of the motorcycle he was riding, then thanked him.

He stepped near the door of the house with his shopping in one hand, while in the other, he used to knock on the door.

Arini knocked on the door, saying hello. It did not take long, the door was opened by Arumi.

"Wa'alaikumussalam." Arumi answered her greetings and opened the door for her brother.

Arini came in, when the door was opened by Arumi. Arumi offers help, to help her brother carry groceries and store them in the kitchen.

*****

Now that Arini was in her room, she was pensive on the bed staring at the pregnancy test kit in her hand. "Do I have to use it?" Arini asked herself. He still gathered the courage to use the pregnancy test.

"If I don't use it, I won't be able to prove whether my guess yesterday was wrong or right." Arini is still weighing.

For a moment she was silent, still staring at the pregnancy test. Then he got up and stood up while holding the test pack.

"I have to try it, to prove all this." Arini steps out of the room, heading for the bathroom to prove her conjecture. "Hopefully the result is negative." Arini muttered in her heart, all the way to the toilet.

Arriving at the toilet, he read the procedure how to use the test pack. Then start using it in accordance with the recommended procedure for using the test pack.

After waiting for a few minutes, a red line appeared. Arini breathed a sigh of relief, as only one red line appeared. Because of the corresponding she read, one red line indicates a negative result, while two red lines mean a positive pregnancy.

"Huft. I just catch a cold." Arini said she was relieved by the results that emerged from the test pack.

But, suddenly Arini's eyes widened. Never looked back at the results of the test pack, which now turned into two red lines.

"Ke...why did the results change?" Arini muttered small with a trembling voice.

He rubbed his eyes repeatedly, then looked back at the results of the test pack. There are two red lines there.

Arini also tried the other pack test, which model is different from the previous pack test. It's possible that the test pack he's using right now isn't working properly.

"A...what?!!!" Arini screeched, as she looked at the results of the pack test that she used the second time remained the same as the results of the previous pack test. "Ha.. the result is sa-ma." Arini said with a quivering and stammering voice.

A drop of tears suddenly came out of Arini's eyes, with a slow movement he held his flat stomach.

"What am I supposed to do, right, this baby?" Arini asked herself, with her tears constantly rushing down her cheeks. "Ti. there's no way I'm aborting him, in. he's innocent, he's still my flesh and blood. I. I can't kill my own son...." Arini said while crying with a slow puff.

"Ta.. but, what should I say to mother later.hiks." said Arini lirih.

Right now, he was very confused by the circumstances that befell him right now. He was confused about how to convey the truth to his mother later. He was also afraid that his mother would be angry and not assume that he was his son again. She is a dirty woman and no longer a good woman.

Tok....

The door was knocked from the outside by Syahra and Arumi's mother, because she heard Arini's screech. They were worried, something happened to Arini in the bathroom. So immediately Arumi, who first heard her brother's screech, called her mother to see Arini, the older sister in the bathroom.

"Wheel? What's the matter, son?" Said Syahra's mother worried still by knocking on the door.

"Sister? Is brother okay inside?" Arumi was no less worried. "Open the door, brother." Arumi again.

Arini gasped at the knocking of the door and the call from her mother and sister. He hesitated to open the door, because he did not yet know how to convey this truth to his mother and sister. Arini still daydreams about it.

"Sir is big brother okay inside? Let's open the door, brother!" Arumi again called her brother, while still knocking on the bathroom door repeatedly. He hoped his brother could open the door so that he could see the situation of the brother. He was really worried about her.

Arini who was daydreaming, realized hearing a call from her sister. Slowly but surely, he opened the bathroom door.

After the bathroom door in the open Arini reflexes rested under her mother's feet, crying as she pleased.

"What's wrong with you, son?" Ask Syahra's mother to crouch down, trying to wake her son by holding his shoulder. But stopped, hearing the words of Arini.

"Ma. I'm sorry, Arin, ma'am. A-Arin is dirty...." Arini answered the question, still holding her mother's legs.

Like being struck by lightning in broad daylight, Syahra's mother was stunned to hear Arini's words. He retracted his hand and reflexively stood up and took a few steps back from Arini.

While Arumi who heard that, immediately hugged the brother. He could not bear to see his brother slumped like this. He was sure it wasn't his brother's fault, it must have been an accident.

"A... What are you saying, Arin?" Syahra's mother asked in a trembling voice, hearing the word 'dirty' coming out of Arini's mouth, she wanted to make sure that her hearing was wrong.

"Hiks... Arin's dirty, Mom. A... Arin has been stained, A... Arin is no longer a good woman." Arini said she tried to explain to her mother.

Arumi who was hugging her brother further tightened her embrace, hearing those words.

His mother fell silent, her tears just shed and quickly wiped them away. He tried to deny all the words that came out of Arini's mouth, turning his eyes away from the child.

*****

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