The Heart of Old Menjakaka
375. Aa Gantengku
"But who is this Grandpa? How do you know Steven?" atta asked who was looking back at Old Grandpa's face.
"Attas. Who are you talking to?"
Someone suddenly called out, and made the boy turn his head as the person stepped towards him. It turns out he is Tian.
"Eh Papi Tian." Atta smiles. "This, Om .. said this Grandpa, tomorrow his twin Om Steven asked to be taken and reunited, before Om Steven was buried," he explained.
"Which grandfather is this?" tanya Tian was astonished.
"This grandfather." Atta pointed towards the front, also with her head. However, he himself did not see anyone there. Then immediately, Atta turned to his right and left, looking for the whereabouts of the Old Grandfather. "Lho, where is Old Grandpa, Om? Was the feeling here?"
"Since then, you haven't seen Grandpa-grandpa here, and you've talked to yourself."
"In time, anyway? Serem very." Atta looked at Tian with a face that looked terrified. His hair suddenly stood up. He had thought, that Old Grandfather was a ghost or demon incarnation. "What a ghost, huh, Om? Or maybe it's Om Steven's ghost?"
"Where are ghosts." Tian shook his head. "Om Steven won't be a ghost, either."
"But the movie .. The dead man continues to be a ghost, Om. Atta go home first, then." Atta quickly grabbed Tian's hand, then kissed the back of his hand. "Tell Atta's father if Atta comes home first. And leave an apology Atta also to Juna, Om, for having spoken wrongly to hurt him. Assalamualaikum."
"Yes, greetings." Tian nodded. He stared at Atta's back, which began to drift away until it was lost behind the gate. But suddenly, he came to think of the boy's words earlier. Who carried the twins. "Find the twins with Steven tomorrow, before they're buried?" muttered.
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Next day.
At around 6am, Steven was bathed and wrapped in a shroud. He was ready to be taken to his final resting place.
Angga, Juna and Sofyan also helped with the process, though many times everyone saw the three sobbing.
It felt like almost no one was not crying, all of Steven's relatives were crying. Remembering the departure of the man who just turned 36 years old.
"Oe! Uh! Uh!"
From the direction of the gate, Tian stared at a middle-aged woman holding two crying babies. And the woman moved her head, as if asking Tian to come closer.
"Who is he?" Tian stepped quickly closer to her, and it turned out that the babies in the woman's arms were Vano and Varo.
Both of them look like they've taken a bath and are so handsome, wearing yellow and red jumpsuits.
"Lho, is this Vano and Varo? How can I be the same mother? And whose mother?" Tian immediately held the two together, then cuddled so that his crying subsided.
"When you forget me? I'm Gita, Rizky's Mama" said the woman, snorting.
Before long, Guntur her husband Gita got down from the car then approached.
"Oh yes, sorry, Mom .. I forgot," Tian replied with a smile and bowed slightly.
"The crying twins kept on, Ti, from last night. I think he misses the same Mother and Father," said Guntur while staring at a coffin that will be put in an ambulance.
Tian looked at the two handsome babies in front of him, then kissed his forehead in turn. His eyes also glazed over, looking at the sinless baby as if he understood what situation they were currently in.
It's totally unfair according to him. The image has been left by his father, at the age of 20 years. Now, the twins actually left his father at the age of not one year.
Just 4 months, just learned to lie on his stomach.
"You must have felt it, Om know it, my dear," said Tian sadly, his tears powerless not to flow.
"Even though your father is no more. But there's Om here, or Opa ...." Tian patted his chest, as if the two babies understood with all his words. “Whatever it is up to you to call by what name. The obvious ... Om will try to make you happy. Because you and your Mother .. must be happy."
"Patient, yes, Ti. It's fate." Thunder embraced Tian's shoulder, then stroked him slowly.
"That Steven wants to be buried now, Ti?" ask Gita.
"Yes. But the disholatin used to be, ma'am, to the nearest mosque here," Tian replied quietly, still moving his hand, cradling it. "The twins have been drinking milk, right? How come the crying doesn't stop, Mom?" Tian was suddenly worried, because the baby's crying had not subsided.
Ambulances and other cars were driving out of the gate.
Tian himself did not go to the funeral, because asked Angga to go to the hospital. Check the condition of Sindi and Citra which is only accompanied by Maya and Jordan.
"Udah, the twins have eaten" replied Thunder. He also took care of the twins. Even he and Gita deliberately came because they wanted to take the Twins, maybe their cries subsided when they came to the house of Angga. "They're full, Ti. But if it's up weeping again. Even all night they do not sleep because they continue to cry" added Guntur.
"Where is Citra going? There's still no ASI him? Try milkin for a while," suggested Gita then stare around, looking for the whereabouts of Citra.
"Partner's still in the hospital, ma'am, he ...." Tian's words came to a standstill when suddenly seeing Citra coming in from the direction of the gate, she ran over crying and yelling for her husband.
"Aah!!"
He went home alone, ran away from the hospital and got into a taxi. Her heart was deeply broken when she woke up and remembered her dead husband.
His world is really collapsing.
The image ran into the house with staggering steps. Her clothes looked so shabby with her long, messy hair. There were even a few drops of fresh blood coming out from the back of his left hand, flowing as he stepped foot.
The blood was due to the infusion needle he had forcibly removed. So his blood didn't stop to keep coming out. However, it seems that Citra has not thought about her condition.
"Partner!" Tian immediately ran after. Feeling worried about his condition.
And sure enough, the girl was struggling crying on the floor, when she saw the house was empty no one. But there was a photo of Steven on a large frame that was splashed on the mat, and there were also some white roses that adorned the corner of the room.
"Aa handsome! Don't leave me, A!" jerit Citra fast.
"Nl ...." Tian slowly crouched down, then approached Citra and kissed the top of her hair. He wanted to hug the girl, but Tian's hand holding the Twins made him unable to do so. "You must be sincere. It's fate, dear."
"No! This is wrong, Om! The handsome oms won't be able to leave me!" firmly Citra while looking. His face was so red and filled with tears. I don't know how many tears she shed, making her eyes look so puffy. "Now where is my Aa Ganteng? I have to meet him while carrying the twins!" Quickly Citra grabbed her two children in Tian's hands, then kissed her second forehead. The twins were still crying, even though they were in Citra's arms.
"She was being sholled in the mosque next door. Ayok, Om between you to meet him," invited Tian who immediately pulled Citra's body to stand up. It seems that indeed, the mother and son had to see Steven in his final moments.
...Prepare tissue for next chapter 🤧...