
Mama Reni walked with slow steps towards her room, she carried a gift box belonging to Pineapple and her embrace.
The gamang footsteps walked slowly, visible from the look of his face harboring deep sadness about things that he could not explain.
[Happy Birthday Son, Thank you for choosing to be born in your womb, but the Evil World Son, they do not want your presence, forgive Mama son, someday Mama will pick you up]
Mama Reni's tears fell down reading the letter she wrote a few years ago, still neatly kept by Pineapple.
"Are you going to hate Mama when you find out that this Mama is your Mama Kandung?" mama Reni said slowly.
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Anthony and Nanas are now walking out of the Campus Board room, all the files for the Pineapple Student application have been completed and he will become a Student, and can start studying after running some tests later.
"Student learning, let you get away, in vain I pay dearly if you do not pinter," said Anthony who made Nanas annoyed.
"Yes!"
Anthony smiled, for some reason he liked the annoyed expression of his former employees, while they were walking Pineapple Phone rang which made Pineapple immediately hold Anthony's hand.
"Why?" anthony stopped his footsteps.
"Some, Phone."
"From who?"
"Or, there's no name, did I just pick it up?"
Anthony nodded in agreement which made Pineas pick up the phone, Pineapple pointed his phone at his ear.
[Hello?]
There was no sound, only a sobbing on the other end of the phone that made Pineapple raise an eyebrow.
[Hello, who is it, if it's not clear, I'm dead.]
[Don't, Pineapple, it's Mama.]
[Mama?]
[Yes son, this is your birth mother, how are you?]
Pineapple was silent for a moment, his tears slowly fell which made Anthony let out a puzzled expression.
[It's really, Mama me?]
[Yes baby, this is your Mama, you're big well now, I'm sorry Mama yah]
[Mama why dump me? What's my fault?]
[Pardon Mama, honey, Mama didn't mean to throw you away.]
[But why Ma, if I'm not wanted why should I be born, it's my fault, what?]
Pineapple covered his mouth with the palm of his hand, inexplicably the sobbing of his cry grew heavier, the clueless Anthony directly pulled Pineapple into his arms to calm his wife, he did not know what the conversation Pineapple was about, he did not know what the content of the conversation Pineapple was, but the one he caught, Pineapple was talking to his Bladder.
[I'm sorry Mama, you can't answer that yet.]
[But why Ma, why did Mama give me such a Destiny, why did Mama Tega?]
The crying on the other end of the phone was also heard, a heartbreak created from the flesh and blood between mother and child.
[Mama misses you]
[How can Mama Miss, the Child that Mama did not take care of for Twenty-Two Years?]
[False Mama, Pineapple, Wrong Mama.]
[We need to see you, Ma.]
[For now, No Can Son, Mama should hang up this phone, first.]
[Mk?]
The phone connection was closed unilaterally which made Pineapple directly drop his head on the chest of the husband.
"Are you Okay?" ask Anthony to Pineapple.
"My mom, Dad, why is my mom the same as me?" replied Nanas slowly.
His body trembled, Anthony immediately took the initiative of carrying Pineapple towards the nearest bench, where Pineapple just leaned his head on Anthony's shoulder.
"There must be a reason for Pineapple, which mother does not want to raise her child with love."
"My mom, my mom! She said she missed, but how could she miss a kid she never met?" it was obviously Pineapple that made Anthony tick. "Twenty-two years! It was not a short time, Just a Gift and a letter that came every year while I was busy longing, where was he? I'm taking all this pain myself."
Pineapple lowered his head, wiping his own tears, although his unraveled hair had already covered part of his face.
"Why should I, why should I be born from the womb of a mother who does not want me, when I miss and learn to escape from that longing, he said, he came by the phone saying he missed me, how could my reason accept this," Pineapple's voice was already hoarse and unclear due to sobs before the sound finally shrank. "How, can."
Anthony grabbed Pineapple's face then cupped him slowly. "Nanas look at me, I'm your husband, I'm here, I know it's hard for you, no child can hate his own mother and that includes you, it is you who once told me, whatever the circumstances, we must not put the situation on a pedestal of destiny, he said, because learning to accept is the best way to survive the onslaught of fate that we might not want to play, you're the one who said this?" Pineapple and Anthony were now staring at each other in seriousness.
"But how can it be, if that sincerity is not present in the heart?" replied Pineapple slowly but piercingly.
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TB