The Mother Connect
Chapter 57

"Do you know who that is?" maki asks her twin brother, Taki.

The twins pretend to focus on their toys. In fact, they continued to pay attention to Kinara who was talking to a man who accidentally collided with his mother. Kinara and the man sat on a long bench that was not far from Taki and Maki playing.

"Looks like mama's friend. The proof is that they are familiar when they just met," replied Taki.

"But, I don't like it" Maki said.

"Either."

The two identical twin boys looked sullen.

"Do we need to report to you on this?" ask Maki. She really did not like to see Kinara talking to men other than her papa.

"Don't!" prevent Taki.

"Why? Do you want your mama taken with that?"

"Of course not! But, if papa even misunderstood how?" Taki's answer certainly makes Maki a dilemma. She doesn't like Kinara being close to other men besides her papa, but if she reports and her papa misunderstands then gets angry with her mommy? It's going to get worse.

"Do you have any ideas for that guy to leave quickly?" ask Maki.

Taki seemed to think.

"Where? Did you get the idea?" cerocos Maki who feels impatient wants to see men immediately move away from the mama.

"Ah, I have an idea" Taki tweeted a few minutes later.

"What-what?" maki asked impatiently.

"Here I whisper!" Taki told the twin to get closer to him.

***

"I thought you'd forgotten me, Nara. And won't recognize me when we meet again" Reno said.

"Where is it possible, Mommy. We were friends when I was in 5th grade. Since then we have always been together. You always comfort me when I'm sad. You are also the one who always stood up for me when my om and tanti scolded me. And all those memories I will always remember forever" Kinara said. He smiled as he recalled the times spent with Reno.

"I used to think about catching up with you overseas after I grew up and had a lot of money. But man can only plan and remain God is the Determiner of destiny" Kinara continued.

"Is the thought still there?" reno asked as he looked at Kinara.

Kinara. "No. I even forgot about that," replied Kinara.

"May you know the reason?" ask Reno again.

Kinara stared at Reno for a while before finally staring straight ahead. "Now I think about how to make my husband fall in love with me. I want him to accept me not just as a connecting mother to his two children, but his wife" Kinara replied later.

"So, you mean. Didn't your husband marry you because he fell in love with you? But, because she needs a mother figure for her two children? That so?" Reno concluded.

"I can't dodge it."

"So, everything that om and your aunt said is true? Your husband married you because he only needed a nanny for his children?"

Mata Kinara.

"So om and your daughter came looking for me and told me why you got married. They say it's all because of them. You were forced to marry Tama Wijaya to redeem your house mortgaged by them and pay all their debts. And they say you're not happy with your marriage. Moreover, the nanny of your husband's children also said that he was fired because Tama wanted to use you to be a nanny for his children." Reno finally told her all the things Reni, Susanto, and Mirna told her when she came to her house this morning.

"And you believe, Mum?"

"I believed it, but after seeing you. I doubted their words" Reno replied honestly.

"Everything that om and my aunt said wasn't entirely wrong. I did marry Tama to be able to redeem the house left by my late parents and pay off all my debt to the loan sharks. But, it wasn't Mas Tama who forced me to marry her. I want to marry him myself. I also don't know since when, I started to love him."

"Did he love you too?"

"I don't know. Sometimes I feel like he loves me, but sometimes I feel the opposite. I don't know. But.... " Kinara paused her sentence.

"But, what?"

"Are you happy?" ask Reno again.

"I'm happy and very happy. Thanks to that marriage, I have a family that loves me. Mas Tama's parents, younger brother, and nephews. They all love me, even though I'm not from a distinguished family like them." Kinara's eyes glazed over as she said that.

"Thank God you're happy. I'm happy for you. It's a good thing I met you before I went to Tama. If it's not possible now this company is going to break ground because I hit your husband."

Yes, actually the first thing Reno wants to do when it comes to Wijaya's company is to break the legs and hands of Rangga Wijaya's eldest son. He was so on the black when he heard all the stories about Kinara. Luckily he met his childhood friend first so that the unwanted things did not happen.

"Mama," call Taki and Maki. The two boys ran up to Kinara and Reno's seat while playing with water pistols. I don't know where they both got the toys. Both of them shot each other with guns. And predictable.

Taki deliberately stands right in front of Reno and when Maki will shoot the water gun. He squatted down as the water coming out of the gun hit Reno's face.

"Gosh, baby." Kinara was a little surprised. He knew the two boys were doing it on purpose.

"Mas Reno, I'm sorry my son. They were not on purpose" Kinara said.

"It's ok. No problem," Reno replied as she wiped her face with a handkerchief.

"Taki, Maki's. Here, baby!" exciting Kinara. Taki and Maki.

"Let's apologize for Reno!" ask Kinara.

Taki and Maki are still silent.

"Nara, it seems your children don't like seeing you with me" whispered Reno.

"I know."

"If you tell them to apologize to me, won't it make them feel that you don't love them for being with me?"

"I understand. But, I don't want them to be irresponsible children. They were wrong, so it was only natural that they apologized" Kinara explained. "Maki, you don't want to apologize?"

"I'm sorry Maki, Om," Maki said unreservedly.

"It's okay. Om knows you're not on purpose" Reno replied. He ruffled Maki and Taki's hair.

"Yes, I said yes. It's time I met your husband."

"Lho... for what?"

"Business. I actually had a meeting with your husband at 11. And I came early because I was eating your talk and your talk" Reno replied.

"Kids, say goodbye. Next time buy you ice cream." Taki and Maki did not answer. "How can I go ya."

Kinara nodded. Reno immediately left the park and walked to the Wijaya company car.

"Taki, Maki, here baby!" call Kinara. "You're mad at Mom for telling you to apologize?"

Taki and Maki are still reluctant to open their mouths.

"Mom knows you don't like your mama's friends. But, accidentally spraying water on Reno's face is also not true dear. That's called disrespectful. Om Reno and Mama did nothing, right? We were just talking because we hadn't seen each other for a long time." Kinara is trying to give understanding to two sons.

Kinara brought her two twin sons to sit down. "Are you really mad at me for that?"

Taki and Maki still did not want to make a sound.

"If you're angry because it's mama asking ma.... " Unfinished Kinara said, Taki and Maki had already hugged him.

"I'm sorry, Ma" said the two.

"We did it because we didn't want it to take our mama away from us. We don't want to lose our mother anymore. We love Mama very much."

"Mama knows. Mama is also very dear to you," said Kinara. He returned the arms of his two unborn sons tightly.

From inside his study Tama stared at the cctv tape with an expressionless cold face. Footage showing Kinara and her two children in the park. He had already seen the recording even while Kinara was conversing with Reno.