THREE MEN AND THEIR PAST
Sibling Relations
"Keep, Mbi, are you in the village also going to live with Sandi?" ask a sister to her sister. The question was quite shocking, until all eyes immediately looked towards the woman who had just released her embrace from the woman who had given birth to her.
The woman named Arimbi smiled and her eyes returned one by one the gaze of the person who was looking at her. "If I don't live with Sandi, what about Reyhan, Ma'am?" Arimbi's calm answer made all eyes fixed on the little boy who was currently only silent in his father's arms. "Since meeting with Sandi, Reyhan could be that close to his father. Every day that his father seeks."
"Well, his name is also a child. If it's big, where would he meet people who had not admitted it," his brother Arimbi's satire was so loud and very poignant in Sandi's ears. But how else, the man was indeed unable to refute a reality that was indeed done by the man.
"Whatever his past is, yes, let it pass," the father again let out his voice. "The name of a mate, to be rejected like anything, God will lead him to meet. Who knows just by looking at Reyhan's figure who looks like his father, make Sandi aware and immediately repent to become a better man."
"So you accepted my proposal?" ask Sandi as soon as her father Arimbi finished saying the word. The man was quite stunned by the words coming out of the old man's mouth, so he ventured to throw the question to get certainty about Sandi's proposal yesterday.
"Yes, it all depends on Arimbi. Who wants to live his life. As a parent, I was most just advising. To make a decision yes, it remains Arimbi who determines. Whether there are children among you," Dad's answer is enough to make Sandi a little relieved to breathe. Now Sandi is just waiting for the decision from Arimbi.
"Where, Mbi? Do you want to accept the application of Password?" ask Mother.
The woman who was thrown a question immediately looked at the mother and looked at her father and older brother. "I'm sorry, if my decision disappointed you, but for Reyhan's sake I have to make a choice. I'd like to accept Sandi's application, ma'am." Sandi's smile immediately developed perfectly.
It's still the same night, but at exactly different, though, some people who are currently in the living room seem so surprised after hearing the words of the woman who has been away from the house for more than three years. The woman who left was forced to just win herself and avoid the wrath of her parents because they were consumed by slander from the young man who had brought her home.
The woman who was the oldest there immediately looked sharply, the old man who was none other than her husband, so he heard the honesty and fear that came out of his daughter's mouth. "Does you hear yourself, right? Eliza deliberately did not tell you because she was afraid of Papah's attitude? Surely Papah's self-esteem immediately fell, because his son could last a long time at his sister's house. It will be angry soon."
"Well" said a man. "Have it, don't mention it. What matters is that Eliza is home. It's with us again."
"What do you mean, Za? You just go home for a second?" ask Mamah.
Eliza smiled while nodding. "Right, Mah, I want to stay in the village with Uncle."
"Why, Za? You still mad at Mamah?"
"No, Mah" Eliza answered, holding the hand of the woman who had given birth to her. "In the village I'm calmer, Mah, I'm more independent. Mamah knows, Uncle Iksan taught me many things that I did not get during my life in this city. I'm more independent, and of course I can get my own money, Mah."
"But here you can still find the warmth of family, son. Don't have to be in the village anymore?" Mamah still seems not to accept the decision of his son.
"But there I found tranquility and peace, Mah. The warmth of the family, the warmth of neighborly life, gotong royong, and also let me be the bridge connecting the friendship between Papah and Uncle Iksan, Mah."
The last word Eliza spoke immediately made the Papah gasp. His eyes were staring at his son who preferred to stay away from him and close to the brother he had long been enemies with. The man's chest rumbled, but his mouth was locked. I don't know what's in that man's mind, until he can't get his voice out.
"So, in the village later, you will live with Randi too, Za?" the brother's question made the atmosphere in the room tense again.
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