Not the Dream Palace
Chapter 28. Past Mom Fatonah (1)

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Chapter 28

Flashbacks

60 Years ago ….

"Ona, are you ready?" a beautiful woman asked her young daughter.

"Already, Mom. Dad and grandpa, where?" little Fatonah asked as she walked towards her mother while carrying her small bag and her beloved teddy bear.

"Dad and grandpa are waiting in the car, honey. Yuk, we have to hurry!" Fatonah's mother's hand held her child's small hand.

A handsome-looking man was waiting for the two people he loved and loved. His smile immediately expanded upon seeing his son and wife coming.

"Dad." Fatonah ran towards the man with a big smile.

"Daddy's daughter, it's been a while, anyway!" Kissed Fatonah's cheek.

"Mas, we'd better leave now before it's too late" Fatonah's mother's son.

They all got into the car.

"Loh, Mum. Where's that chauffeur working today?" ask Fatonah's mother.

"Sudden need of sick permission. And others are on holiday" said Fatonah's father.

Fatonah family consisting of both parents and grandparents was about to go to the capital at the invitation of famous international entrepreneurs who have many subsidiary companies in almost all developing and developed countries.

Fatonah's grandfather and father were businessmen. They have a lot of plantations. The delivery of rubber, oil palm, and clove plantations in Sumatra. Meanwhile, tea, vegetable and fruit plantations were at the top.

They moved to a house in the provincial capital because of the condition of Fatonah's body, which was still a baby, at that time was not suitable to live in a cool and humid place.

The business of Fatonah's grandfather who had tea factories and vegetable plantations for several provinces made him famous as a master. Developed again by Fatonah's father into other fields.

"Dad, how many days will we be in Jakarta?" ask Fatonah who is sitting behind her grandparents.

"About three days" replied Fatonah's father.

"I want a vacation to the beach first" Pinta Fatonah.

"It seems exciting" said Fatonah's mother.

"Well we'll have a vacation before we go home" replied Fatonah's father.

After attending the invitation of the foreign businessman, the Fatonah family vacationed on the beach. At the invitation of someone the Fatonah family also sailed to the islands of one thousand are famous beautiful at that time.

They all go to a place that is notoriously beautiful and has always been a tourist destination. By the time of Ashar, they intend to return. To be able to go home that day. 

"Dad, I'm scared!" Fatonah hugged her father's body.

"Don't be afraid, honey. There is a father and a mother, and there are grandparents here who will take care of you" replied Fatonah's father.

The storm gets bigger and the wind blows harder and visibility gets narrower. Nothing looks there. There was only a thick fog and a very heavy rain. The fierce waves made the small boat bobbing even stronger, until the boat capsized and disintegrated. Everyone who was riding on the boat was hysterically screaming and falling into the ocean. 

Fatonah was still in the arms of her father who was very close. The man did not want his daughter to slip in his arms. He was afraid that he would lose his only princess in the middle of this sea. He did not forget his wife and parents. At least the adults know how to save themselves while Fatonah is still 5 years old and does not know anything. He was also a child who could not and did not know anything.

Fatonah's father swam to the surface of the sea to breathe. Especially in feeling that Fatonah is unconscious. He was afraid that a lot of seawater would enter his daughter's body. The moment he managed to come to the surface, there was no one he could see there. Maybe because the storm was still raging strongly. Even he and Fatonah sometimes drowned again by the waves were very big and hit them.

I don't know how long the storm lasted. His father Fatonah felt his cold body begin to stiffen and numb from the cold. However, he still tried hard to find land so that his daughter could survive. In the middle of the ocean when the storm had stopped, he saw there was a board that was quite large and could hold Fatonah's body. His father laid the little princess in the broken boat they were riding. 

Although his father Fatonah continued to swim not knowing the direction. There was not a single island or beach that he saw.

"A-yah," call Fatonah softly with eyes open slightly.

"Thank God, honey. You finally realized." Tears of happiness glide from the round eyes of men who always spoil him.

"Where's mom?" ask Fatonah who is still lying weakly on the flake of the board.

Hearing the question from his daughter, made him remember the fact that his wife and both parents. The other passengers were also not seen at all. There were only two possibilities that happened to all of them. First, if they die because of the waves in the middle of the ocean. Second, they were all scattered because they were carried away by the very strong waves earlier and were somehow where they were now.

"Mother is separated with us. That's why we have to hurry up to the island because mom is waiting there" replied Fatonah's father.

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The news of the boat being boarded by the Fatonah family that capsized in the middle of the ocean, was already known by the other party. They also asked the SAR team for help to find the victims.

"Request additional assistance to the TNI naval side. If there were about ten people who set out on a boat heading to the Thousand Islands already drowned in the middle of the ocean!" 

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"Darling, listen to me. You have to be a good and great kid. Love the people around you. Especially your family," Fatonah's father said as he rubbed the little girl's chubby cheeks.

"Yes, Dad. I will be a good and obedient child, also a great child so that Dad is happy. You will also love your friends, the people who are on the plantation, and the people who are at home" Fatonah said in a quiet voice.

"Especially your family, the workers who are devoted to us, they must also be dear to you" continued his father.

"Good, Dad. Uncle Jono's family should be loved too, right, Dad?" The voice of Fatonah is weakening.

"Yes, Son. Because they are the only family you currently have" Fatonah's father replied with tears.

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How did the little story of Fatonah survive? Wait for it to go, yeah!

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