The Father Boy
ALA18'S CHAT. Travel chat
"Ati-ati huh? Call Dad, if you're having trouble solving your brother's problem. For that three-kilo thing, just take it in the suitcase, Dek. I don't think it's possible to eat a lot of money."
Ceysa turned to her sister when she had just kissed her father's hand. He only realized, if his father suspects his brother who has a problem. After all, he would not take the option to put his son in the suitcase.
"Let Hadi take it, Dad." Ceysa has another purpose about it. He forgets that if Hadi's innocence, will answer according to what he knows.
"Why is your brother? That's just three kilos." Givan squinted his eyes at his son.
"Buy the ticket, Dad." Chandra always has no excuses.
"Yes think Dad anyway, rather than ngerepotin kids people. So you're carrying around, just to carry a three-kilo load. You can too, Bang!" Givan held his eyebrows together glancing at his son.
"Yeah, I bought a ticket, Dad." Chandra repeats the classic reasoning.
"It's about your stuff over there, isn't it, Dek? I thought those two suitcases were enough to get your stuff." Givan recalled the return of his stepson who was carrying two large suitcases. Because he asked Ceysa to stay here, gather with him and enjoy his affection for the song closely.
"Yes, Dad. Yes, that one left. It's really important to me." Ceysa put on her smile.
"Yes, yes. Ati-ati huh? Look for what is left behind, so that no one is left behind. Now miss the three kilos, there will be another five kilos and ten kilos." Givan was tired of guessing what item weighed three kilos.
They all chuckled lightly. "We're saying goodbye, Dad. Assalamualaikum." They stepped into the car that Zio was about to drive simultaneously.
"Wa'alaikum salam, ati-ati. Let me tell you when I get there." Givan nodded, then stepped back to distance himself from the car.
Hadi scratched his head, he looked confused as he saw the wide smiles of Ceysa and Chandra. They look happy, because they can finally bring Hadi to meet his flesh and blood.
"Don't call bang Keith first." Chandra's looking for her cell phone.
"Hallo, Bang. I'm on my way, brother back to my house huh? All bring…. Eummm…."
Hadi was obviously curious about the obscurity of the phone call.
"okay." Then after contacting someone, Chandra turned back to show her smiles to Hadi and Ceysa.
"Cock thumping huh? What the hell is going on?" Hadi rubbed his own chest.
"Secret…." Ceysa formed a rainbow with the movement of her hand.
"Patience huh? I'll know the truth." Ceysa pokes Hadi's chin.
"Bang, according to Abang…. Why was I asked to get married so quickly? I'm just about to take the third semester, still a long time graduation. Don't you think, how will I bother working, take care of the household, invite children to play, as well as set time for college?" Zio turned Chandra's attention away from glancing at the center rearview.
"Dad can't take his hands off, you believe that." Chandra actually understands that his father prevents his children from performing acts of abuse.
He and Zio actually know, what the story is about his father. Only, Zio preferred not to listen and did not care about it. He closed his eyes and ears, so that he would always be devoted to his father without hesitation.
"I'm afraid I can't make time, Bang. I went to college full day, because there was another course I took." Zio was worried that his household was tenuous because he was too busy with his world.
"And your wife is still in college, right? He's busy all day, too, but night can be donkey too." Chandra glanced at her sister who was focused on driving.
"Tillah just passed MA, Bang. He's not going to college." Zio also accidentally knew the woman, because he routinely bought a shallow iced tea cup in front of his college. At that time, it was Mardhatillah who stood guard at the iced tea cup tavern.
"It's okay, let's have a friend. Try asking him, ready not to be the same you who still bother to set the time." Chandra also thought about how he discussed this with Izza.
"He said it, yes he's ready because he's always hard." Zio occasionally turned his head towards his brother.
"The problem is not about hard life, but time together. Labor even had time with the family a lot, the morning before leaving for work, he still saw school children. They come home in the afternoon, see the kids play, see the kids take a bath, yeah still can. At night, they have time for family. Even these successful people, whose time is consumed for their efforts. Dad occasionally goes out the night, to check this check it out. Although work can be from home, but mantengin laptop for hours. The time is erratic, sometimes it can be to take care of the child, sometimes not also." Hearing Chandra's words, Zio immediately remembered the daily life of the people around him.
"I'm in college and I'm in a full day. Evening, do chores and check the driver's report. Holidays, full time in the garage. Although not LDR, but the prevalence of LDR cake is the same as this Tillah. He is not the brother of Izza, who dared to play himself here even though there is no brother as well. Tillah wasn't picked up, yes she won't come. Yesterday just as mak meugang I will pick him up first, go home yes delivered again." Every now and then Zio glanced at the rearview mirror to see the riders around him.
"Well, how do you keep going? You promised it was a girl, right?" Chandra doesn't have the right solution, because he needs a solution for himself.
"Insha Allah, I said it. Cake really, Bang. Because in my view, this marriage is not about love, but about my ability to take responsibility for the next phase of life. There was a sense of trepidation, unprepared, because look around like this. There's just this worry, that worry."
Chandra turned his head and looked at his sister's face from the side for so long. The next phase of life, Chandra underscored his sister's words.
"You've never thought about your sisters, when you're getting married like this?" Chandra wanted to know the views of his only younger brother.
"There's a thought, too, just what the word will be. Especially about Cala and Cali, who are still third grade SD. The important thing is that we take care of them in their infancy, we protect them when they start to feel a lot of curiosity. We guide them, when they determine their soul mate. Who always makes trouble, how will the sisters get married. It's still a long time, if we wait for sisters to marry, do we not expired first?" Zio understood his brother's thoughts, only he thought of himself and his own fate if it had to be stuck in place. He is unlikely to progress and he is unlikely to succeed, if only to worry about his younger siblings. Even he thought, how he helped his younger siblings if he did not have the material.
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