
"Joana wants to know who the teenage girl in this photo is. Why take a picture with Mom and Dad?" joana asked while showing a piece of photographic paper taken earlier.
Alea was shocked, her eyes were bulging. He split his gaze between the photo sheet and Joana.
Alea's hand was raised wanting to take the photo sheet, but Joana's hand quickly lifted the photo sheet up.
"Why did Mama want to take it? Explain it to me and I'll give it to you" said Joana, who was upset by her attitude. It was like not wanting to admit anything.
"Joan, give me that photo now and go back to your room!" speak with a cold voice.
Joana did not budge, she still continued to look at her mother who was still silent and pursed her lips.
"If you follow Mama's orders, you can assume it never happened. You better move now!" he continued to threaten Joana without seeing her son's flat face.
"Then, can you erase the story of the past that still haunts you today? Can Mama apologize to Amanda for the cruelty of your attitude as a mother?" joana asked deliberately provoking Alea's anger. Let today he be an easy target for Alea. Provided Alea could open the story and tell it all.
Alea turned, looking at Joana fixedly. But still not budging one bit. He was very sure, Joana had known something that he had been covering up for a long time.
Alea let out a long sigh, her son is already an adult. Can easily catch the strange girly of her overly suspicious self, there's no point in her covering it all up. He must indeed open this veil from his own mouth. Although the consequence he would receive later was hate speech from his own daughter. However, she doesn't want to lose Joana like she lost Amanda.
"You sure you want to hear everything, Joan?" asked Alea who did not change her face.
"Yes, Mama. I want to hear everything. Actually I could have heard all those dark stories from someone else's mouth. But I don't want that, I want to hear that confession come out of your own mouth so that I can trust it completely," Joana replied leaving Alea shaken inwardly.
He let out a long sigh again, closing his eyes tightly as if he was recalling the dark memory he was about to recount to his son.
"That girl's name is Amanda, she's your real sister!" said Alea. "And now, Mama doesn't know her whereabouts because she escaped from the prison and the restraints of her parents who always imposed cruel rules on her," Alea continued.
Joana's face was still ordinary, she already knew about this one. Now, what he wants to know is why Amanda can run away from the house that looks comfortable, why has she never known that she has an older sister? Why did Alea choose to keep all of those things from her? Actually, where did the mistake lie until Alea acted that way to him?
"That's it?" joana asked because looking after saying that Alea just kept quiet.
"You know, you want to know why Amanda chose to leave and we're keeping her presence a secret from you, right?" said Alea and got a nod from Joana.
"It was all our fault as parents. Our expectations are too great for him, our ambition makes him feel constrained because we just want the best results without wanting to hear his complaints in achieving the dreams we want," said Alea while looking ahead.
"Because he seemed unable to comply with our wishes, we considered him a foolish child. At that time, she was only two years old. So Papa and Mama are planning to start a pregnancy program, and stay away from her during pregnancy so that you, the child you were born with at the time, don't catch Amanda's stupidity!" aela explained again.
Joana seemed to shake her head in disbelief, why could her parents be that cruel to their own biological children. Having big ambitions is not impossible. However, must know the limits of the child's own abilities and should not be too forcing children to be able to. And again, separating Brother and sister in a house far away, for fear of contracting stupidity? What kind of strange reason is that? It really disappointed him.
The old man whom he had always considered perfect, turned out to be harboring a cruel secret that was unexpected.
"So, does Amanda know that she has a sister?" joana asked along with her sobs.
And Alea nodded.
"He never came to you, Joan. We didn't deliver it to you. He always asks where is my brother? And we always answer, your sister doesn't want to meet a stupid brother like you!" alea said with regret.
Joana is getting sick of hearing it. He can already guess why the fate of his life and Amanda is so much different. Of course because he was considered smart by both parents, but Joana was not liked because she could not give what her parents wanted.
"that, huh? And now ... do you regret having treated Amanda that way?" joana asked in low tone.
Alea simply nodded in a deepening sobbing. He knows that regret cannot change anything.
"How long did Amanda get out of the house?" joana asked while wiping away the trace of tears on her cheeks.
"Sixteen years!" reply Alea.
"And you never looked for him? You feel enough with me that you can always boast of from time to time? Never thought about Amanda's feelings in the least? I'm sure, after I was born you would rarely meet Amanda, accompany her to play, rarely invite her to talk and never even hug her. Right, right?" joana is accusing.
Alea nodded, her crying voice getting louder.
"That's all true. We did all of that. Until your father who had been sickly and wanted to meet him but never managed to pick him up. We tried to find, but the results were nil! And until now, Mama had never heard from him again" he said with deep regret.
"You really are stone-hearted parents!" great-grandson Joana.
"Then, why is it that you're still hiding this from me?" ask Joana again. He just wanted today everything to be revealed clearly.
"Mama's too afraid you hate Mama. That's why Mama chose to keep it a secret from you, Mama thought everything would be fine. But apparently, you already know better," he replied.
"Does Mama still want to see Amanda?" joana asked and got a nod.
"Mama searched everywhere but found nothing. It has come to his little friend's house but the house has been empty uninhabited for a long time," he said.
"When at the mall, Mama saw a girl who was holding a baby and her face was very similar to Amanda's. But Mama's late to see if the baby had anything to do with Amanda or not."
"And I have the girl's address, Ma!" joana's words made Alea's eyes instantly tidied to her. He cupped Joana's face and clasped Joana's hand tightly.
"really? Please give that address to Mama, Joan!" pinta Alea was prying and crying.
"Joana deliver, Ma. Joan also wants to meet Amanda." When imagining he had an older brother, his heart warmed. Feeling happy because there will be someone else who will embrace him and be a place to share. Moreover, he was convinced that the baby that was seen by Alea the other day was Amanda's child. Surely this house will be more crowded with the presence of a baby.
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