The Love of Luke
Grief

Just then I was about to close my eyes and rest but suddenly the sound of my mother's screams boomed so loudly at the door with a knock that was quite strong.

"Vivia.so....Vivian out you!" Shouted my mother in a voice that was filled with emotion.

I immediately got up from the bed and tried to stand up with difficulty, I walked slowly until I opened the door to my mother.

"Yes ma'am, what's wrong?" I asked in wonder.

My mother suddenly pulled my hand firmly and I still felt the pain in my leg so that I could not equalize the pull of her hand and she kept pulling me until I fell to the floor quite hard.

"Mother pain.please take off my hand, my leg just sprained..bruk, aaaawww..." I fell to the floor quite hard.

Mother turned out to take me to face my father in the living room and he did not feel sorry at all to see me falling in pain, I was holding my feet that were getting sick but my father told me to get up immediately, even though I said that I could not stand up quickly, my father still yelled at me and asked me to stand facing him right then and there.

"Vivian what else you're waiting for quickly got up on your feet, didn't you hear father's words!" My father dominated.

I immediately tried to get up until Ida came late and he helped me stand up and defend me in front of Cecil my mother and my father.

"Oh my goodness, Miss Vivian, let aunty help me stand up" said bi Ida and immediately lifted me up,

"Quite, Ida what are you doing how dare you help her in front of us openly do you want me to fire huh!" Snapped my mother threatened bi Ida, I immediately detained her.

I don't want Ida to be fired from here I don't want to lose the only person who has loved me and cared for me sincerely since I was a child, maybe if there was no bi Ida I would also never grow as good as it is now.

"No mother, please please don't say that, I promise bi Ida won't help me anymore please forgive her" I said as I bowed to my mother,

"What do you hear, now you're back in the kitchen!" Shake my mother again.

I know at that moment bi Ida shook her head and she held my arm tightly, he didn't want to let me go and he wanted to keep protecting me there but I immediately smiled at him showing that I was okay.

"Bi, hurry up and leave before mom changes her mind I don't want to be away from you bi, go away I can face them myself" I assured her.

Bi Ida also left with a sad and forced but when bi Ida just left Dad immediately spoke to me and asked me to prostrate apologizing to Cecil for ruining his birthday party earlier.

Before even though my father was angry with me he never asked me to bow down or humble myself like this to Cecil but this time he really has completely changed he is not on my side anymore, even he could see me being treated so badly by my own mother in front of him directly.

I really can't do that, though, I am not at all guilty even though I did come to Cecil's birthday party but I did not make such a fatal mess on his party that to me apologizing to Cecil in such a way was very it hurt me and it only made me lower in front of them.

Because I could not accept it, I stood still and did not obey what my father ordered, I tried to hold back the emotions inside me by clenching my arms tightly and then I ventured to refute my father's words for the first time.

"Dad...I'm innocent do you think it's appropriate to apologize like that?, even if I'm wrong I'll apologize to Cecil in the right way instead of what you said" kataku.

My mother came up to me and she slapped me on the cheek so hard that it left a very clear red mark next to my cheek.

"Plak...basal child less taught, you're we grew up like now why do you act ignorant like this?" Snapped my mother after throwing slaps at me.

My lips began to shake and I tried hard to hold back my tears from spilling I held my cheek that felt numb because it was very strong slap by the mother, then I looked at him with courage and threw a slight smile and answered his words.

"Mother I wanted to say this question a long time ago, now I'm 17 years old and your treatment of me is very different to Cecil, now I ask if I'm your daughter or not?" I asked myself to vent my courage by enduring all the pain in my own chest.

The three people were silent, none of them answered my question, as well as the father and mother who just looked at each other without giving me an answer.

Looking at those who were instantly speechless as I asked the question that had always stuck in me since childhood until now, I also understand now that I may not be their real child so I just smiled a little and re-expressed what I should have said a long time ago to them all along.

"Why are you quiet?, why don't you answer me if I'm your son or not?, Cecil I ask you, am I your sister or not?, Please answer me Cecil I need an answer" I said while shaking Cecil's hand because it could not bear to see those who kept silent.

I kept trying to urge them to give me answers or at least explanations because I also had the right to know all the truth, until my mother spoke up and she looked at me with hatred and eyes so sharp as to push me away from Cecil.

"Let go of my daughter you can't hurt her and push her like that, just so you know you're not my daughter you're just a pick-me-up kid my husband took off the street, until whenever you're different from Cecil you're nothing compared to him!" My mother snapped my heart to pieces.

I feel so broken and weak now my body feels so limp and I can't bear all this harsh reality, even though I had expected it a long time ago but when I heard it directly from my own mother's mouth, I still felt very sick and disappointed.

My body collapsed onto the floor and tears just broke through without excuse even when I did not allow it to come out, my mother went to take Cecil back to his room while my father started to approach me and he apologized to me at that time.

"Vivian forgive me, I know I've been lying to you all this time please forgive me, and this father found these earrings in your ears when you were a baby you can have them now and you have to take good care of them, I'm sure you can meet your family, I'm sorry Vivian's father" my father said while hugging me tightly.