
"forgive me, son, I was very young. Mom is still childish, I don't understand why she married mom to your dad. At that time, my mother was still in school. I still want to play like my friends, free to do anything. At that time our lives were very sad. Mother often starved, and your father could not do much. There is a mother friend who offers a job and a short story of a mother leaving you with the father. I know you're wrong but being silent doesn't solve the problem, I think that by leaving, maybe your life will change."
Marisa cried again she kept feeling guilty. Hendri only heard and did not respond to an apology from his mother.
"Please forgive me, if time can happen I won't leave you."
"But why didn't you ever come back, why did you want to see me now?"
"That's how man, when he was hit by a new calamity he realized. Mom just realized now after mom's time soon. I'm sorry but it's better to be late than I'll never see you again. Next week mom will go to Singapore mom will undergo treatment there. Mother lived there all this time following her mother's husband, but she had already left her mother for all eternity. I just want to introduce you to someone."
Hendri looked astonished to see a woman coming to his mother. He saw the woman was fixed, there was a resemblance to her mother but who was the woman. Why did his mother introduce him to her.
"We're sitting here, son!" Marisa asked the woman Hendri had just seen to sit next to her.
"Hendri is Mita's mother's son by name. Even if you don't want to know mom's business, but for this one, I have to explain. Even though you are not one father but you have a string of brotherhood because you have the same mother. I just want to introduce you to your own sister so that someday when mom is no longer in this world and you meet your own sister you don't like each other. You should know that you're brothers."
Mita and Hendri compactly quiet each other. Mita had only met her half-sister for the first time. He felt that Hendri did not like to meet him but Mita chose not to take the dizziness that is important for him now is the health of his mother.
"It's impossible that we like each other, ma'am Hendri is already married. When he glanced at another girl, didn't he?."
Hendri just kept quiet, he did not hear the words of his half-brother. It's not important for him to answer that ridiculous question.
"Hen, how are you quiet?"
"Didn't mom come back?"
"Maybe yes, I came here to see you on purpose. I've been here for almost two years, but I don't dare to see you. I went back and forth from here to Singapore for treatment. Lastly, the doctor said that the hope to recover is very small so that the mother ventured to meet you. First meet your father and finally I can meet you. I am so happy that finally my wish can be realized. If I may want to leave Mita with you."
"What are you talking about, where are you going?"
"Mita, I told you, your mother's age is soon. You girls can't live alone. I want you to stay with your sister."
"But ma'am?"
"Emm...., what are you guys really fighting about? Did I ever say I was gonna take care of him?."
Marisa and Mita looked at each other, they were dumbfounded.
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