THE SANDWICH
Receive father back

Ara looked at the dining table full of Mom's cooking. Mom cooked a lot of vegetables and side dishes, not as usual.

Maybe this is all Mothers do to welcome the arrival of the Father.

Tonight was the first time you had dinner with us again, after years of not meeting you of course it made us awkward.

If you see Only Mother who is happy with the arrival of the Father, even the senile Grandmother was not happy with the arrival of the Father.

Mother prepared dinnerware for Father and Grandma.

If other people who do not know our family story, surely think that our family is very harmonious.

Huhhhh..It's been a long time not coming home and coming like a person who has nothing wrong Ara wrote in her heart.

Ara saw her sisters and grandmother were not comfortable with the presence of the Father. If the father himself seems to want to show that after all he is the head of the family here and is still their Father, it is not shameless.

Our view during dinner was of a mother who was busy serving the father, and we who looked at each other saw it all.

Mother did not even notice the look on our faces that were uncomfortable with the presence of the Father at dinner.

Usually after dinner, I take the time to chat with my sister and mother.

But not today, I was too lazy to chat in the living room.

From inside the room I could hear Mom and Dad chatting and laughing a few times together.

I don't know let's not see the face of the Father, just hearing his voice has made Ara very uncomfortable, but he can't do anything because after all Mother and Father are still in a marriage bond.

While playing a mobile phone, the door of his room was knocked by his sister Ima and Ina.

" Tea I have a math PR that I can't, can I help you? "

" Where to try to see" Ima gave her task book to Ara.

Ara paid attention to her sister's duties, now the curriculum of 2nd grade Elementary School children is like a 6th grade Elementary child.

Ara remembers once He learned about root calculations when entering the beginning of Junior High. But now his sister who is new to Grade 2 SD has learned about square roots.

" Didn't you learn about roots in school?"

" It's Tea but Ina also forgot how to "

Ina is my first sister who is 12 years old and five years adrift of her sister Ima.

However, because they often play together, they are both like friends.

Ara helps her sister Ima to do her math PR.

Back when Ara school was one of the smart students in her class. From SD to SMA he is always ranked 1 or 2.

Although he was busy during the day to work, but He always took the time to study when he came home from work, that is what makes his academic value is always good.

" How do you know the same thing that Teteh Tehin taught? "

" Yes, I understand that tea "

"Same mother Ina do not forget again what Teteh taught ya, so later if there are questions like this again You two can already do it yourself"

"Yes Tea" The two answered together.

" Yes already if the pr is finished you sleep tomorrow morning school right "

" Yes Tea "they both came out of Ara's room.

When she was about to go to sleep, her bedroom door was knocked by her mother.

" No ma'am" Mother opened the door to Ara's room and went straight into her room.

After mom sat on the bed with Ara Mother also opened the chat.

" Neng must be surprised to see you suddenly come back to this house"

Ara just nodded her head answering her mother's question.

" So the Father again hit by Neng's disaster, the contractor's business went bankrupt because the cash office under run by the employees of the Father"

Ara had expected it, if not for not having money it was impossible that his father would return home.

" Not only that the young wife of the Father also does not accept that the Father is now bankrupt, he then asked for divorce to the father and drove the Father from his home.

Pity neng Father already has no family, only we are a family that still Father has "

" But for many years you had the heart to leave us, ma'am, the only family He had "

" That's because you were seduced by that woman Neng"

" You are not a child, Mom, why you can be seduced by others"

" Have Neng Ibu On behalf of you apologized to Neng and the sisters if you have never come home and the responsibility for school and daily life "

" But I beg you completely Neng to be able to accept you back. Because if we're not who else can help you"

No matter how many words you put out to defend you, you cannot make Ara understand.

He remembered the beginning of the incident when his father never came home.

The mother who had just given birth to Ima always cried every night.

His little sister will not remember how much suffering this family condition after you do not go home.

Even we have to hear from others if you have married again with bandung people.

All the neighbors heard the news, we were the subject of conversation for months.

Ara who was already in High School became the subject of bullying by her friends.

Not only that, They had already started to find it difficult to eat, if not for his grandfather's not much pension maybe they could not survive.

Mother began to be a traveling laundry laborer and brought a newborn Ima.

You can imagine, a newborn child should get an abundance of affection but the little Ima must know the rigors of life.

Until finally his schoolmates whose parents have a business ayan geprek offers a job for Ara, their lives are somewhat improved.

They do not have to eat with tempe every day but can also be with other simple menus.

During her time at work, Ara had forgotten her Father. For him his father was dead and would not come back.

Every day he had to learn while holding back his sleepiness in the middle of the night in order to still have good grades.

He had to endure his hunger so that his little sister could drink milk.

At that time Ara will not forget and forever He will consider his Father dead.

The mother who saw Ara did not budge hugged her child and cried while apologizing many times.

It's not your fault, ma'am, it's all that man's fault that even I'm ashamed to call him Father.

because of Mother's request, Ara must accept the man in her family.