Slander Fruits of Karma
Broken Wing 2

The Part 86

Mama .. mama .

Adiba and Emir ran around calling his mother who was in the kitchen, hearing the screams of his son Novia rushing out.

"What's up, son?"

"That .. ituu, bobo system under the chair," pointed Adiba towards Pak Wahyu's room whose door was wide open

Without thinking much, Novia threw the napkin in her hand in any direction and ran into her father's room.

Arriving in the room, Novia found her father lying on a prayer mat with his legs crossed and his head under the chair.

Slowly Novia felt all over her father's body that was still wet because of the ablution water even her body was still warm.

"Pah .. Papa wake up."

Novia tries to move her father's body, Pak Wahyu is still motionless.

Novia wakes her father up again and again, but the result is nil and then she palps her father's hand to make sure the pulse and Novia realizes that her father is gone for good.

Novia got up and took a step back, looking at her father's body while squeezing her hair

A second later Novia immediately remembered her mother.

"Mah ..., mamaa!!" shouts Novia

The next screams of Mrs Ratih have not yet appeared, apparently she is praying in the prayer room.

After removing his face, Mrs Ratih was shocked to come to the origin of the screams from her room.

"What's Novia?" asked Bu Ratih who was not yet aware of the situation in the room.

"Mah." Mah." Novia pointed to her father's body lying on the floor.

When looking at Novia's index finger, Ms Ratih's body immediately fell to the floor and she crawled closer to her husband.

"Well, why is this? what happened Vi?"

Bu Ratih raised his head and looked at Novia asking for answers, but Novia only shook her head while covering her ears with both hands.

Mrs Ratih kept trying to shake her husband's body, hoping that he would just faint or maybe just fall asleep.

Seeing her mother's reaction, Novia approached and whispered to her mother.

"Well, papa's gone. Mama's okay, right?"

Ms. Ratih did not seem to believe what she witnessed, not even willing to take her husband's hand off.

"Well, why did you leave without saying goodbye? mama's alone now."

Hearing her mother's speech so bitter, Novia hugged her mother.

"Well, mama is not alone there is still me and the other mama's children," comforted Novia while stroking her mother's back gently.

As much as Novia's energy comforted and calmed her mother, but she herself was so devastated even though there were no tears dripping but, Novia's heart felt shapeless.

Novia leads her mother out of the room, taking her to sit on the sofa in the living room. Then Novia went out to seek help to remove her father's body.

Hearing the shocking news of Pak Wahyu's death, neighbors flocked to fill Pak Wahyu's house.

Some people lifted and moved Mr. Wahyu's body to the living room, while others lifted chairs and held a mat.

From a distance Irwan saw his house-in-law look crowded, his heart pounding full of question marks.

"What's going on, why are people there?" muttered Irwan then drove his car faster.

Irwan parked his car, then got out of the car and ran through the crowd.

"What's this, what's going on?" irwan asked in panic

"Your father-in-law is dead" said one neighbor.

Irwan immediately rushed into the crowd, until he finally witnessed the stifling sight of his chest.

For some reason, this time Irwan felt a deeper sadness than the death of his own father.

The calm, simple, caring, and loving figure that existed in the personality of his father-in-law he never found in his family.

Novia was speechless as Irwan came over and hugged her, her heart breaking into pieces her crying screams held in her heart.

"Oh Allah, if I may ask you not to take papa from us I am not ready yet" said Novia

"Vi, be patient, if you want to cry cry, do not be held back" whispered Irwan softly in the ear of his wife

Novia only glanced at a glance then her gaze returned straight to the body of her father who was lying stiff.

Irwan invites his three children out, so that Novia feels a little comfortable and can rest.

"Millah and the sisters have eaten?" ask Irwan

"Not yet pah?" sahut Camillah's.

"Why do you have a reward?" ask Camillah who did not understand the situation that happened.

"Tata is dead, we can no longer meet tata," Irwan explained to his son.

"If tata dies, who looks after Diba's sister with the Emir who if mama works?" camillah's question was heartbreaking and she even thought about the fate of her two sisters.

Irwan fell silent, not finding the right answer to the question of his eldest son.

"Come, we eat at first pity your brothers starve," said Irwan distract Camillah.

Irwan led his children to the kitchen through the crowd, food is still stored in the storage cabinet because no one in the house has eaten.

"Mama was cooking grilled fish favorite tata," said Irwan slowly to Camillah.

Irwan takes food for his three children, then feeds Adiba and Emir.

"Dedek Diba and Emir don't fuss, mama again sad. Later bobo is equally papa in the room," said Irwan to his son while feeding the two to the food on the toilet plate.

After finishing feeding his son, Irwan asked Camillah to take his two sisters to play in the room and he approached Novia.

"Vi, ask mama to eat later mama limp," he whispered to Novia.

Novia nodded and obeyed her husband's words, Novia got up and walked up to her mother and whispered.

"Well, I'll get you some food, mama's got to eat."

Madam Ratih just nodded.

Novia rushes to the kitchen to pick up food, while opening the closet Novia sees the sighting of a grilled fish her father requests. His heart was sliced like slashed sembilu.

"I'm sorry for the reward, unable to fulfill papa's last request," he murmured softly

Novia then took food for her mother and went back inside and handed the plate containing the food to her mother.

Novia does not want to show sadness in front of her mother, let her sadness and tears she keeps to herself.

While chewing, Mrs Ratih told Novia to eat because she knew Novia had not eaten anything tonight.

"You also have to eat, son" said Mrs Ratih

"Later on, I'm not hungry yet" Novia replied

"Have your kids eaten?"

Novia turned to her husband, Irwan spoke without a voice saying, "already."

"said Irwan, they had eaten mah" replied Novia

"Mama doesn't think about anything else, let us take care of everything" Novia continued

Mrs Ratih nodded and finished her meal on the plate, then handed the empty plate to Novia.

Novia brought the dirty dishes to the kitchen, Irwan followed her from behind and asked his wife to talk about the chronology of the incident that befell his father-in-law.