The Child I Called My Brother
Crushed

"Uncle, uncle don't misunderstand Anara, she's like that because Daffa is allergic to cow's milk." Clearly Jasmine, made the middle-aged man choke to a cough.

Seeing that, Ani immediately rubbed her husband's back, after giving Ray a glass of water.

" Slowly, why is papi surprised like that, isn't our son too." Ani said, the woman was still acting relaxed, as if it was not something they should think about.

" What does Jasmine's sister say is true, son?" Ray asked, the man ignored his wife's words and preferred to ask the boy directly.

"Yes uncle! I can't drink milk and eat anything made of milk. I'll be sick." Daffa answered, explaining what he should not eat, to the bayah man.

Ray wants to be ordinary like Ani, but his conscience rejects that! He seemed to have a strong bond with this little boy before him.

After getting an answer from Daffa, the man again wondered to Sena, from her college to her high school. The man wanted to know all the more details about the woman named Senara and if he did not remember the first Lian often called Sena's name, he might be Sena who Lian meant.

" My son went to the same school as you! You may know each other. Julian Aldrino Sandiego's name, he's pretty good at that school." The middle-aged man said as soon as Sena mentioned the name of his school, because it was impossible for him to lie by mentioning the name of another school with origin.

Sena swallowed her Saliva with great difficulty as Ray mentioned Lian's name." Pi," Ani deliberately admonished her husband not to continue their conversation. But it makes Ray increasingly suspicious of his wife and young woman who became his heart doctor.

" Do you not recognize him! He also graduated in the same year as you." Ray still demanded an answer from Sena and did not give anyone the opportunity to switch the conversation.

" Of course he knows Lian Pi! Because she's the woman Lian always calls when she's taken care of." Nelly said, the woman had appeared out of nowhere and was now behind the father, rubbing his father's back.

" Nelly, what the fuck are you?" Ani snapped, the middle-aged woman tried to keep it covered, not wanting to make Sena further away from them as well as Daffa.

" Mi, how long will you cover this up, pity papi! He also has the right to know his grandchildren, as well as Daffa.

" What do you mean Nelly?" Ray asked, the man looked at Nelly, Ani, Sena and Daffa.

"Nelly's intention was clearly pi, this boy named Daffa_"

" I'm sorry, I better go home and Daffa, excuse me." Sena then moved from her seat while holding Daffa, but she had not left the room Nelly immediately prevented it.

" Sister, what is this? Sena this is my best friend and I invited her." Jasmine said, The woman did not like the way Nelly treated Sena, for whatever reason, Sena did not deserve to be prevented like that.

Nelly did not care about Jasmine's words, as she felt she had to put an end to this lie right now. " You want to know! This woman was her ex-boyfriend Lian and Daffa was their child. Is it true Sena." Nelly answered while asking deliberately to corner Sena.

" Brother! Abel's mom lied, right? Sena's my sister, not my mother! Yes, brother." Daffa's words demanded an answer, while Sena herself was still silent not a single word came out of her lips, only tears explained how devastated the woman was at the moment.

With a teary face Sena looked at Nelly. " Say, what can I do by hurting me and Daffa. The truth is I admit Daffa is my son, I do not deny that. Are you satisfied now? now what else do you want." Sena's Challenge.

"Nothing, I just want Daffa to know who his grandfather, his grandmother and his father are as well as us, because Daffa is also a part of us." Speak without feeling.

Plaque.

Ani directly slapped her eldest daughter's cheek, "Nelly enough, you don't know anything! You better keep your mouth shut, don't make trouble by opening your mouth more than this." He said full of warning.

Making Ray who saw all that even more pain, the man did not expect that the son he was proud of closed a secret of this magnitude from them.

" No, Sena, not my mother! Mama I'm Mama Ningsih, Sena's not Mama I'm not." The boy shouted hysterically. While urging to get down from Sena's sling.

Sena who tried to hold it, was forced to give up with her son who had started growing up.

" So calm darling Daffa should hear Sena, please don't be like this." Sena said the woman tried to persuade her son but Daffa continued to refuse. " Dear listen to mom." Pinta Sena again with a face that has been filled with tears.

" No way! Sena's not my Mama." Reject Daffa while pushing Sena's body away from him. Which makes Sena's heart more sliced by invisible knives.

" O Lord, though I have prepared my Heart for this day, but why does it feel to be this sick." Sena said in her heart.

He was devastated by Daffa. " Mama, Daffa wants to go home, Daffa wants to go home." The boy continued to cry hysterically.

" Let's go home." Sena said, But Daffa shook his head.

" No way! Sena's not my Mama." Jasmine, who was still in shock at what was happening right now, tried to persuade Daffa, grateful that the boy would come with her while Sena sat down while crying sobbing.

Which mother's heart is not broken, when her son rejects her. Which heart of the mother will be ready if faced with the current situation. The pain of giving birth to Daffa alone was still very deep in his mind but now he had to accept the new pain of his son's rejection.

"If you didn't run away and say everything, you need to feel this pain." Nelly said again with so much stabbing him, as if his mother's slap and warning were not something he should fear.