The Second Ring
Chapter 55

Raisya sat down uneasily, waiting for the couple in the room who were chatting.

Actually, he wondered what his foster brother was talking about with his wife. After the tragic incident that befell Alvin, their son, honestly there is fear and guilt that supports his soul.

Raisya realized, yesterday he was too dramatic in responding to the attitude of the mother who forced herself to marry Vino.

Meanwhile, Raisya is well aware that a forced marriage will doom herself. However, the mother remained adamant on the grounds that only she was able to make Vino happy.

I don't know what kind of happiness there is in the shadow of the mother. Because, Vino seems to have been happy with his wife.

Yes, even Raisya has tried to go far by taking a lecture outside the city far from home. At that time, Vino was also betrothed to another woman. However, the man still insisted on being able to live with Olivia. They married without the mother's blessing.

Complicated. Of course it's very complicated. When a child must choose his own happiness, but hurt a mother's heart or choose the happiness of his mother, but destroy his own happiness.

Raisya exhaled violently. His head suddenly dizzy thinking about all these problems. If he had not involved himself, he would not have thought. After all, Vino is also an adult, can already take a stand.

However, because it is owed, Raisya feels to be as wrong as now.

It is true that people say that the debt will be carried to death. That's how Raisya feels.

The love he did not get from the man he loved, precisely the catastrophe that now befell the man. It is tragic that their lives are now.

The sound of the clattering steps broke all the thoughts in Raisya's head. He looked up and found the two adoptive parents walking in a hurry. Their faces looked worried. And, the mama looks nagging for nothing.

"What did Mama say? That Olivia's bringing havoc to our family life, Pa. Vino who ran away and married without blessing, then had a child who could not walk and talk. Uh, now what? Vino's son is wretched."

The scolding reached Raisya's ears. He immediately stood up, welcoming the arrival of the couple. His smile was engraved to tell them that he was fine.

"Thank God you're okay, Raisya?" The mother approached and immediately hugged Raisya in her arms.

Raisya returned the embrace, stroking the mother's back up and down. "Raisya is nothing, Ma. All right," he explained.

"Let's go in. Look at Olivia and Vino." The father touched the mother's back and pushed slowly to get into the daughter-in-law's ward.

Door opens. Raisya immediately turned her face to find Vino and Olivia hugging each other tightly in silence. His tongue was twisted, his voice was stuck in his throat, his legs were glued to the hospital floor.

It would be a lie if he said he wasn't jealous. Meanwhile, inside his chest as if there was a blaze of fire ready to devour anyone around him. However, Raisya is self-aware that he is not who they are. Raisya is just an adopted child who is very lucky because the Vino family is willing to adopt him from the streets. At the time, his own parents threw it away in the middle of the night.

"Where are you, Vino?" ask the mother. Nope. It wasn't Olivia who was clearly lying in the hospital bed she asked. Except for the child he noticed.

I don't know where the conscience went. Though he was able to raise a child who incidentally foreign and without having a clear origin, but to accept the existence of the son-in-law is so difficult.

"I'm good, Ma. Olivia was unconscious." Both of them break the embrace. Vino walked up to the mother, kissed the back of the hand of the woman who had given birth to him in reverence, and hugged her tightly. Then he did the same thing to his father.

"How are you doing, son?" It was the voice of the head of the family asking about the state of his daughter-in-law.

"I'm good, Pa. Thank you." Thank you." Olivia wanted to get out of bed to ask salim to the hermit father, but was prevented by Vino.

"You're in bed, honey. Still weak, right?" Vino immediately approached and clasped his wife's hand tightly.

It was the father who came closer, reached out to his son-in-law and patted Olivia on the shoulder.

"Basic for attention" his mama sighed sharply with a cynical look. His hatred for Olivia grew even higher. He felt that Olivia was only looking for attention, no sincerity was emitted from the look of the face.

"Don't think about it anymore, Alvin's been quiet there. You must be sincere and patient." The father-in-law gave advice that only earned Olivia a nod.

Olivia's tears are back. It felt, he did not have the effort to hold back those tears from flowing. As if, his self-defense embankment had broken through with grief.

"This is because she's the one who doesn't act like a mother. But good, Alvin is not tormented anymore. At the age of a year, he could not talk or walk. Though other children are already well," ketus the mother. His eyes stared at the sinister pale face. He doesn't care. He was just thinking of shedding some frustration. A mother may neglect to look after her child.

If so, the woman is not worthy of being called a mother. Does she think she just gave birth without taking care of her?

"Ma, keep talking to you" said the father reminded.

"Papa just keep on buying him." My mother said with teary eyes. Collapsing was already his pride in front of the child and the son-in-law did not know himself that. Her husband reminded her not to know the place.

"Ma ...." Raisya approached, reaching for her hand to calm down. "Everything is fate, Ma, you can't blame anyone. Forgive Raisya yes, Ma, for not being able to look after Raisya's nephew." Raisya spoke with trembling lips. I am so sorry for everything that happened to Alvin.

If time could be repeated, surely he would not invite Vino to talk let alone argue until the man left Alvin alone. And everyone knows how active Alvin is even though he can't walk.

Alvin went anywhere by crawling. The boy could also climb whatever he wanted to climb, until a terrible tragedy struck. Who can stop destiny? There aren't. All that can be done is, prevent a bad event. However, if it has happened no one can dispel . There are only endless regrets.

Before getting runyam, Raisya invites the mother to go out. They leave the papa who still survives to comfort Olivia who is still very hit.