My Son Is My Strength
Not Wanting to Eat Vegetables

Satisfied playing in the park, Azzam invites Bian and Arini to go to the mall immediately. He was very impatient to try all the games that were there with Bian and his mother.

"Let's hurry, mah." Azzam enthusiastically pulled Arini to the playground that he first wanted to try to play it.

"Dear, slow down. The game won't run." Arini's words follow the small and fast steps of Azzam.

"Hehehe, yes, the game won't run mah, but Azzam can't wait to play it." Azzam grinned, slowing his pace.

Bian smiled at the behavior of the two people in front of him, he had just returned from buying coins for the game later.

"Come on. Come on. Let's play." Azzam ran closer to the game that was in front of his eyes.

"Om, the coin." Azzam asked for a coin that Bian had bought.

"Om, sit here." Azzam's orders, telling Bian to sit in front of the steering wheel of a toy car game. Bian said it because it was a holiday he had prepared for Azzam, so if Azzam wanted something he would buy it and if Azzam told him to do something then he would do it.

"And my mom is sitting here." Azzam orders again, telling Arini to sit in front of the steering wheel of a toy-car game next to Bian.

"Eh... Mama's coming too?" asked Arini who got the nod from Azzam.

"But--"

"Don't ask your mama boy, 'cause she's scared of being defeated by, um." Said Bian, making Arini sit in the steering chair of his cars.

"Whoever fears being defeated by you should be the one who fears that I will defeat later." Arini said defiantly, staring fiercely at Bian. How dare he take for granted an Arini.

"Hum.. okay, let's prove it." Bian nodded, accepting Arini's challenge.

"OK.. now it's a coin for om, it's for mama." Azzam inserted coins alternately in the game Arini and Bian, then he inserted coins for himself.

"Everything is ready." Azzam gave a cue and improved his sitting position. Arini and Bian looked at each other at a glance, then clutched the steering wheel of their game strongly.

"Youlula...!" Azzam said making the cars on the screen began to move.

The three of them started playing, driving forward their respective cars at high speed. And accidentally Bian nudged Arini's car made the speed of his car hampered.

"Eh... What are you doing?! Don't cheat, yeah...!" Arini warned Bian firmly.

"Not intentionally." Said Bian, but his car still nudges Arini's car. The speed of the Arini car continued to decline and almost fell in the abyss of the game on that screen.

As for Azzam's car, he continued to drive leaving Arini and Bian's car behind.

"What are you doing?" Said Bian panicked because Arini had turned things around, Bian's car was now on the brink. If hit by Arini's car once again it will completely fall in the abyss.

Arini glanced at Bian's panic, she smiled as often as possible. Then prepare to move the steering wheel of the car to re-zip Bian's car.

"Tidaaakk." Shouted Bian stirring himself, restraining Arini's hand movements. He moved the steering wheel Arini to the beginning so that his car was not knocked.

"Eeh. This is cheating." Arini said scrambling to move the steering wheel of his car with Bian. Move left and right, and automatically the car on the screen is moving unguided.

Now that Bian's car has escaped the brink, he starts moving the car normally and speeds up with one hand. While the other hand is still holding the steering wheel of Arini's car.

Seeing that Arini did not accept, he released one of his hands to hold the steering wheel of Bian's car and made the car also move irregularly like his car as well.

Be them back in a fierce fight, the car they play drove at high speed. However, the direction is irregular. The hands of the two of them are close to each other because they move their respective opponent's car.

Starting to be annoyed with Bian's treatment, Arini turned to look at Bian to shout to release his hand from the steering wheel of his car. It was also done by Bian.

Making their faces close together, roughly five centimeters apart. Arini and Bian were both silent, looking at each other in the silence of the two. Azzam's voice shocked both.

"Yeiii. I won...." Azzam pranced himself out of his chair and jumped up and raised his hands up.

"Eh...." Arini and Bian are misbehaving, distancing their faces.

"Om same mom sucks, time is beat with me as small as this." Azzam walked up to the adult he had just defeated so easily.

Azzam stood in the middle of Arini and Bian's chair, then held Arini's hand and Bian's hand with both hands.

"Come, now we're changing games." He said, pulling Arini and Bian's hand.

Arini and Bian's faces look tired, while Azzam's face is still cheerful and enthusiastic to try to play other games.

True said his friend, it turns out playing with both parents is more fun than just playing with one of them. And Azzam now feels it, he is very happy to play with his mother and Bian. Yeah, even though Bian's not his papa. Think Azzam.

Azzam was already very happy, finally he could now feel how to have a complete family as his friends told him.

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After trying many games and feeling tired, Azzam invited two loyal adults to accompany him to play since then to fill their stomachs in the restaurant that was already in the mole.

And here they were, sitting in a round table with three chairs around it.

"What message do you want?" arini asked Azzam who was sitting on his head on the chair. And he holds the restaurant menu.

"Whatever mama." Azzam enjoyed his resting position.

"Hm... What message would you like?" Dehem Arini asked Bian who was also leaning back resting in his chair.

"I'm up too." Bian glanced at Arini.

Arini started calling the waiter of the restaurant, and ordered one serving of food and drink each for the three of them.

"Good meal." The servants nodded their backs, after delivering the food that Arini had ordered.

"Well, I don't really like this one, this one, this one either." Azzam pointed to some vegetables that were on his food plate.

"Darling..you've just finished playing and drained a lot of energy, so you have to eat vegetables so that the energy quickly recovers and full back to play." Arini said to give understanding to Azzam.

"But, mah. Azzam doesn't like it." Azzam shook his head not wanting to eat those vegetables. "So I ate this one...." Point it at the cow's eye egg that he really likes.

"No way dear, you should still eat vegetables even if only a little." Arini is still trying to persuade her son to eat the vegetable. Hm... Azzam is very difficult if asked to eat vegetables, it takes extra persuasion new he ate it, it was just a little.

"True boy, you have to eat vegetables even if only a little." Bian persuaded Azzam. "Here let's have a bribe." Bian said again, preparing to feed Azzam.

"Let's...." Bian brought the spoon closer to Azzam's mouth, which was already filled with rice and vegetables he had taken on the Azzam plate.

Instead of opening his mouth, Azzam instead turned to stare at the slanted food Bian.

"That's it too, why are the vegetables inserted? Must not be eating either, right?" Guess Azzam saw the vegetables that Bian put between the rice.

"Eh.. Who said it? Eat it." Bian.

"Then let's prove it, Azzam wants to see. If you eat vegetables, then Azzam eats too."

Bian took his drinking water, gulped it hard. Try to buy time and get a miracle so as not to eat the vegetables. Because really he really does not like the food in the form of vegetables, which he thinks like eating grass.

"Come on. What are you waiting for." Azzam, wanting to see Bian eat the vegetables.

Bian's face was now pale passive, he looked at the spoon in his pen to feed Azzam earlier.

Seeing the passive pale faces of Bian and Azzam who continue to force her to eat vegetables, making Arini try her hardest to hold back her laughter for fear of disturbing other customers who were also eating at the restaurant.

Without the three of them noticing, it turned out that there was a figure who was looking at them from a distance. The man did not take his eyes off, he rubbed his eyes repeatedly timidly he saw wrong.

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