The Love I Don't Miss
Part 76 (Did Clarice Have a Mom? )
A very sad night felt by the Kenzo family. That night, the two deliberately drove Clarice to sleep in her room.
Clarice who is accustomed to the fairy tale before going to bed, that night will be given a real dongen that is expected to make Clarice able to understand who the new person was introduced last afternoon, it's about Papa Zio.
Apparently Kenzo and Calina are smart enough to string together words that Clarice can understand. The 5-year-old girl may still find it difficult to understand adult problems.
But apparently Clarice has a great soul to accept whatever reality her parents explain.
"So Mommy got married twice?" ask Clarice who slept right in the middle of Calina and Kenzo.
"Yes, dear.." replied Calina softly. "And Papa is Mommy's first husband, while Daddy Kenzo is Mommy's second husband."
Clarice turned to her right, where Kenzo was on her right.
The man tilted his body towards Clarice. To be able to easily hug and stare fixedly at the face of the little girl.
Kenzo never differentiated between Galen and Clarice. Galen is his biological son, while Clarice is his stepson.
"But even though Daddy wasn't Clarice's real father, Clarice had to know that Daddy loved and loved Clarice very much" Calina said, stroking Clarice's long hair. "Clarice sure knows, doesn't Daddy really love Clarice?"
"Yes, Mommy! Clarice knows!" clarice replied while tilting her body. Then tightly hugged the neck of Kenzo who had been waiting for the hug of the princess.
"Daddy loved Clarice very much." said Kenzo kissed Clarice's white, smooth cheeks.
"I love you, Daddy." said Clarice kissing Kenzo's cheek.
"I love you more, my baby girl." replied Kenzo with a warm hug. "Daddy hope you will never diminish your affection for Daddy, when you feel the affection of Papa Zio.." pinta Kenzo sounds quite heartbreaking.
"Never!" clarice replied smilingly by showing all her rows of white, small and neat teeth. "Clarice will love Daddy!" he continued kissing the stepfather's cheek.
"If Cla's with Papa don't forget Daddy, will you?" pinta Kenzo again.
"Hm!" Clarice nodded confidently.
"From tomorrow, if Papa takes Clarice on a walk, Clarice will, will she?" calina said to her eldest daughter. "So Papa wasn't too lonely..."
"Yes, Mommy!" clarice looked at her mother. "Oh yeah, if Clarice has Papa, does Cla have Mama?"
Calina stared at her husband before answering Clarice's very sensitive questions about the past.
"Cla actually has a Mama, too" replied Kenzo, choosing to tell her what she is. "Mama Naura's name."
"Wow!" clarice feels surrounded by a lot of family. "Then where's Mama Naura? why didn't there exist?"
"Because..." Kenzo hung up his sentence before continuing the explanation.
"Because Mama Naura died a few months ago." said Calina continued her husband's sentence.
He spoke with a trembling voice. He remembered how Naura had treated herself so well. It was much different from Zio who was very indifferent to him.
Even so, he was once fed up with the couple. Because his position is like a useless person in the household circle under the leadership of a Zio Alvaro.
"Have died?" ask Clarice.
"Yes, Honey... Mama Naura is dead." replied Kenzo.
"If Clarice was invited by Papa Zio to her house, you would know how beautiful Mama Naura is."
"Is Mama Naura as beautiful as Mommy?"
"Of course not! because Mommy is the most beautiful!" suhut Kenzo with a smile teasing to his wife.
"Haha!" gelak Clarice and Calina together.
"Obviously Mama Naura is as beautiful as Cla. And Mama Naura is also a very gentle and kind person."
"Oh, huh?"
"Yes! Mama Naura is very kind and graceful. Like Clarice!" answer Calina. "Different from what Mommy is."
The little girl was just a mangosteen hearing the Mommy's explanation about a Mama, who was the partner of her Papa.
"Well! great idea!" clarice replied innocently.
Of course, because he does not know what love is growing in the heart. Isn't it easy to find a partner?
"Cla will ask new Mama for Cla!" cheery screech.
Calina and Kenzo exchanged lyrics with a smile.
***
Time continues to run in Kenzo's apartment, walking also in the apartment of the sister. Where if Kenzo is giving understanding to the little fairy. So the younger brother is stirring the appetite of a girl who is considered crazy by most people.
Not to change it with his own sister, before that day.
Kayla has refused to eat since arriving at the apartment this afternoon. But it also does not show if the girl will rebel or rampage like crazy in general.
"If this? will you reject it too?"
Gilang showed me a small bowl of homemade fruit salad. With cheese grated topping and slices of citrus and kiwi fruit.
"It's my own making" he explained again. "You'll love it! come, try! just once!" Gilang thrust a small spoon right in front of the girl's natural pink lips.
Kayla refused, however. The girl was consistent to shake her head. It does not matter if after that Gilang will be angry or hurt himself. He was tired of being in a life that seemed to lock himself in at one painful time.
"All right!" concluded Gilang put a bowl on the table with a sigh of disappointment. "If you refuse all the food that I even make myself especially for you, will you also refuse my question?" tanya Gilang turned into a serious pitched chatter.
Kayla remained silent. He was still looking at the window. Seeing the flickering - flickering lights of the Capital that looks so beautiful when viewed from a height of tens of meters.
"What makes you like this?" ask Gilang again despite not getting the first answer from Kayla.
"Did anyone hurt you? hurt you? or did something upset you in the past?" ask Gilang with serious fashion.
Kayla remains silent a thousand languages, but her wishful thinking seems to be carried back in time. The gaze that originally led to the lights on the street, now looks empty even though it remains out of the window.
"If anyone has ever hurt you, tell me, Kay.." whispered Gilang seriously. "If you will, I will repay the wound he gave you."
Kayla looked down at what Gilang said. Then suddenly the girl's breath felt faster and even gasped. There were emotions that made Kayla like a breathless person.
"Kay...?" call Gilang lirih while touching the back of Kayla's hand on the girl's lap.
As a psychiatrist, he knew what happened to Kayla. A very reasonable response when remembering something that he had a meeting - a meeting.
"Honestly, Kay.. Why do you have to pretend to be crazy?" asked Gilang directly at his goal to invite Kayla to chat since noon. The girl did not say a word.
"Kaila?" call Gilang again. "Speak to me, please.." pinta Gilang in a heartfelt voice. "You must still remember, about the one word I said to you before."
"We don't know who we're going to fall in love with. We also do not know what kind of partner God has prepared for us" Gilang said in a hoarse voice. "All you need to know is that I love you for who you are. Even when I didn't know you were just pretending to be crazy after a long depression.
"Remember me, Kay. I love you.." said Gilang as he gently squeezed the girl's fingers.
But unexpectedly, Kayla actually brushed off Gilang's hand that touched her with a very rough movement.
"GO YOU!" kayla exclaimed standing from her seat, staring intently at Gilang who was still sitting on the sofa in astonishment.
Since this afternoon I have not spoken a word. After saying that, ask him to leave his own house. How'this? Inner Cross.
If Gilang doesn't have a heart for the girl, maybe Gilang will drag Kayla out of her apartment. But this is Kayla. The girl he had so much trouble bringing home to the apartment.
Kayla who had just gushed Gilang with a sentence of expulsion, tiiba - suddenly ran into a room door. Closing the door so tightly that it could be heard squealing in the ears of anyone who heard.
Fortunately, the only one who heard that moment was Gilang. The man who took her to that place.
And unknowingly, what Kayla did made Gilang actually smile widely.
' Didn't I say? you remember exactly where your room is.. '
Saying Cross in the heart.
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