
"What happened to you, until you did all this?" Ask Lisa.
Rafi.
It was clearly visible on his face, if he was holding back sadly remembering what happened to him in the past, to make it this way.
Lisa invites Rafi to sit on a long bench under a large barren tree.
"Tell me everything, I'm ready to listen to you."
Rafi fell silent, her memories for years ago came back crashing.
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"Basic! Son H*r*m unlucky bearer, we just drive this child from our village, if it continues to be let our village will be constantly hit by bad luck."
"Father, just throw this child out, his mother is a p*l*c*r who is pregnant and giving birth without a husband."
In the midst, the mockery and blasphemy of the citizens are mutually simple.
A boy, who was about 10 years old, was tied up in a large tree in the middle of a crowd of people whose gazes and muscles stood out when cursing at the child.
He is Rafi.
"Please let go of my granddaughter, don't treat her like this." An old woman, begging and protecting Rafi from the rights of the citizens.
But instead of pitying with the old woman's cries and Rafi who began to break, they actually dragged Rafi's grandmother away from there.
While Rafi, she still cried because she was afraid of the anarchist attitude of the citizens.
"Quick! Take a rope." Shouted one of the citizens who was more dominant than the others.
The rope reached his hand.
When he was about to torture Rafi, it was fortunate that someone came to his aid.
"What are you guys doing? Don't be a vigilante, it's against the law, what else do you do to a child this small." Shouted an old man.
"But he's a son of a bitch!" Sahut one citizen.
"No one, whose name is the son of the unlucky bearer!"
Forcibly, the old man removed the rope that tied Rafi's body to the tree.
Rafi was sobbing in the old man's arms.
"Remember! Never do this cruel deed, what else to a child who knows nothing." Strictly the old man.
After saying that, the old man brought Rafi from the crowd of humans who lost their minds.
The old man drove Rafi home.
"Rafi!"
Grandma who was crying sobbing thinking about the fate of her granddaughter, hugged Rafi who turned out to be able to return to their home.
"Thank you for helping my granddaughter!"
The old man smiled.
"If, citizens still act like this, take Rafi away from here immediately." His speech.
And the old man passed away soon.
This is just one of the atrocities the citizens committed on Rafi.
Rafi was always intimidated with intents she didn't know.
What he knows, residents will turn it on if their village has a crop failure, stricken by disaster or stricken with disease.
Of course, the residents also have a reason why they treat Rafi like that.
The reason! Because Rafi was born without a father, Rafi's mother wandered into the city with the aim of changing her fate, although her parents forbid, Rafi's mother always went to the city, the shadow of his fate will change after migrating to the city, Rafi's mother was precisely stricken to Malangan.
He returned to the village with a pregnant woman, a man he trusted until he was willing to give up his honor, regardless of responsibility, until all the disgrace he bore himself.
After giving birth to Rafi, she returned to her ambition to return to the city to avenge her suffering during this time.
After his mother's departure to the city of Rafi was the one who bore all the anger of the citizens on his mother, although he was not yet an adult he was always the greatest shield for his mother.
Being ostracized, being despised in the maki, being sworn in, was a daily meal for Rafi.
He was used to it all, not even one child wanted to play with him, they were afraid that it would be unlucky.
No problem for Rafi, at most he will only cry if the citizens torture him, as long as not his mother who is treated like that, Rafi will accept everything.
But all the treatment of the citizens, Rafi keep well in the memory of his life, because he vowed someday he will avenge all the treatment of the citizens, to him and his beloved mother.
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"When will mom come home? It's been a long time since mom's never been home?" Asked the boy, with a gaze that led to a wooden window that was open wide, hoping he saw his mother's arrival.
"Have, never wait for your mother again, she won't be home, your mother already has a new family." Grandma's law.
Grandma would always say that, if Rafi asked her when her mother came home.
Rafi was silent, actually she already knew the news of her mother who was married in the city, but she did not mind that it was important that her mother was happy and still went home to visit her. It comes to Rafi's mind, if her mother takes her to the city and lives with her mother's husband, she will be very happy to have a father.
Rafi remembered when her mother left for the city.
Mom will change our fate, you keep waiting for mom here, mom will come back after everything is accomplished, mom will definitely come back.
Those are the words that Rafi's mother said before going to the city, and Rafi will always remember the word (mother will definitely return).
Before the news of his mother having married, Rafi's mother often returned to the village to visit her son but after he married let's not go home sending news was very rare he did.
and his son waited every day for his mother's return, across the street where big cars dropped off passengers from the city.
With a happy look on his face, Rafi noticed one by one the women who got off the Bus, hoping for her mother there but the look on her happy face faded away, when it came to the end and the bus was back on its way there was no figure of his mother there.
But he kept doing the same thing every day for months.
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Until one day.
The day Rafi arrives, her mother returns home.
"Why are you going home Julia?"
Rafi's mother is Julia.
"What do you mean mom, of course I'm going home, because there's my son here." Julia said, to the grandmother who took care of and accompanied Rafi.
"Your son! do you still remember him as your son after you got a new family there?"
"It's up to you to tell me what, now tell me where Rafi is?"
Grandma did not answer, she still seemed annoyed with Julia.
Without waiting for an answer from Grandma, Julia passed looking for Rafi, it turns out that the boy is in the backyard of the house, he was feeding the rabbit who had been his playmate.
"Rafi!" Call Julia.
Hearing his mother's voice, a sparkling smile adorned Rafi's face.
He turned to the source of the voice he so longed for.
"Mother!"
Rafi immediately ran over to Julia, with a smile growing on her lips.
"eeeh .... Stop.!" Julia held Rafi who was about to hug her.
Rafi's confused.
"Why Ma'am?"
"Rafi, your hands are dirty, if you hug mom with hands like that, you'll dirty mom's clothes." Julia.
Rafi.
"Sorry Mom."
"Well, wash your hands there, I'll wait inside." And Julia went back into the house.
Rafi pecked, looking at her mother's missing back behind the door, and she immediately ran to the water source next to their house, to clean herself up.
"I have to be clean and fragrant, so that my mother will embrace me." Mumbled Rafi, who immediately washed her hands even her entire body.
He changed his shabby clothes, with the best clothes in his weathered closet.
A happy smile, with a flowery heart accompanying his activities, seethed in Rafi's mind, if her mother came home to pick her up, she said, he takes her to town to meet someone he might call dad and ask her to live with.
The simple desire that Rafi always dreams of every sleep.
After looking good, Rafi came out of her room and sat down in front of Julia, who was talking to her grandmother.
He looked at his mother's face which looked very different from before.
Mother looks very beautiful, like the angel that my grandmother often told me, mother has not suffered anymore, no one insulted and demeaned mother, thank God for making my mother happy.
"This is for you," Julia said, putting a wad of money on a wooden table that had been rotted, in front of Rafi and her grandmother.
The smile on Rafi's lips, now fading again, seems like he will always swallow disappointment in his life.
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