
"Nia, sister can't take long. My brother has to work. Brother just got accepted here. This is for my mom."
The woman handed the letter to her sister.
"What is this, brother?"
"Udah yes. Brother hurry."
Copy immediately left the restaurant.
Yes, the meeting they had arranged a few days ago should come to an end. Not to mention Stephania's story, not to mention Stephania told that their mother was sick, in the hospital, eh Salin had to go.
With a gaping mouth Stephania could only let go of her brother just like that. He looked at the letter that his brother had been offering with sadness.
****
"Sepharina's mother's family?" the voice of a nurse in front of the ER room. It just so happens that there's Ardan, Stephania, and Papa Sande.
"Yes, sister. I'm her husband."
Reflexes, the three of them approached the nurse.
"Mother Sefarina is conscious. The family can also visit, can already go inside."
"Good, Sus. Thanks." Thanks."
Without lingering, the three of them directly entered the room. Stephania, hugged her mother.
"Mama is okay? Where's that sick?" stephania asked so sincerely, scared and panicked.
"Mama's okay, baby," said Mama Sefarina softly. He broke his embrace, then rubbed his youngest daughter's cheek gently.
"Why cry, baby? Hmm?"
Immediately Stephania wiped her tears with her tiny fingers.
"It's okay, ma," he said. "Mama can't be sick. Mama has to be strong, please. Nia needs mama." Instead of stopping crying, her tears were getting worse and faster.
"Mama's not going anywhere. Mama will not leave this whiny mama's daughter, this shabby."
"Promise?"
"Yes, baby." They both link their little fingers like lovers who are promising to be loyal to each other and will not leave.
"He's got something for mama....."
Mama Sefarina raised her chin.
"From Brother Lin," he continued.
"Lin? You met Lin? How's things? Where is he now?"
Suddenly mama Sefarina panicked. He again realized that he was here, in this whitewashed room, with the distinctive smell of this medicine because it received unpleasant news from Salin.
"How's your brother doing, son? Where's she? Can you call her for mama?"
Ardan also papa Sande was certainly surprised by the panic of Mama Sepharina. They wonder in their hearts. Why after remembering Salin, Mama Sefarina became panicked. So worried. They know, as a mother, although far away but the mother will feel something in her child can be true there is indeed a painful incident for her child.
"Big brother, ma."
Stephania took out something from her small bag.
"Here, make mama."
Stephania just shook her head. To be honest, he did not know what the letter was about. What is clear is that he is very sure, something is not right with Salina, or Setu.
Weakly, mama Sefarina received the letter. Ardan had raised Sefarina's mama's cage almost in a sitting position.
Slowly he read the letter.
Ardan, Papa Sande and Stephania could only watch, mama Sefarina read the letter. They didn't blink for a second, watching over Mama Sefarina's attitude.
Hiks hyks
Until suddenly, the tears of Mama Sefarina flowed like a rushing river. Mixed with a whimper and shoulders that go up and down, a body that vibrates.
"Copy my daughter .." she left.
It made the three men wonder. What was the content of the letter so that Mama Sefarina cried as much as that. What happened to Salina.
The three of them did not know at all about the divorce between Salina and Setu Sandoro. I don't know, if they will be as shocked as Mama Sefarina when she knows the news later, or just plain. Or will the regrets arise? Or just anger? If angry, angry at whom? If wrong, blame who? If you regret it, who regretted it?
The three men are hiding. Confused what to do.
"Already, mama. Don't be booed, please. If the contents of this letter make mama cry please don't read it again."
Stephania tried to calm her mother. He even tried to snatch the letter from the hand of Mama Sepharina.
"Salin is a brash kid! Can't she see her parents calm down? The boy always does it. Always looking for trouble. How many times have I told you, don't pamper him. Butwhat? Huh huh? He hurt you, didn't he?" hardik papa Sande's.
"What the hell is that? Why did you turn on Brother Copy?" stephania's reply was unacceptable.
"You don't know anything. You were a kid. School was right."
"I'm upset with papa. Every problem, not solving, blames others. Please change that old-fashioned papa's mind."
"What did you say?"
Plaques
"You said papa's a colot? Huh huh? What kind of child are you?"
"Papa, Nia, how come it's a storm? It's in the hospital. We are worried about aunt. Why even argue?" Ardan tried to break up the heated debate between Stephania and Papa Sande.
Papa Sande was silent.
"Obviously papa distinguishes between a female and a male child. As Nia spoke, papa was angry. Even slap me. What kind of papa is papa? Not even worth calling papa!"
"What did you say?"
Plaques
"Papa?" exclaims Ardan and mama Sefarina together.
Stephania's tears flowed hard. Crying is not due to the additional holding pain in his left and right cheeks. But he let out tears of sadness because again, his father was unfair to him and Salin as a daughter to Ardan was always a boy.
The son whom he always glorified, the son who would inherit his intelligence, the son who carried his good name. Uphold the boy as the successor of the class if he is no longer able to work.
"Papa! Papa heart!" exclaim Stephania. He ran out of the room with his mouth shut. His tears are still flowing.
"Not to be pursued. Leave it!" hardik papa Sande when Ardan was about to follow Stephania's steps.
"He's not a kid!" yell again. He forgot that he had said that his daughter was still a child and did not understand anything.