Tucked In Both Hearts
58. Jeon's Mother

"I'm sorry if my arrival surprised you a little bit.Mom probably wondered in advance if we'd ever known each other or maybe met. Maybe we don't know each other, we haven't met before. To be more precise, I know Mom secretly. Before I tell you anything, I want to show you something. Maybe you can remember this thing I'm about to show you."

Ms. Mita reached into her little bag and looked for something there. He took a bracelet and also socks that are not a pair, more precisely the socks were only in one part. He showed the two things in front of Ms. Merlin.

Ms. Merlin who saw the two things immediately rounded her eyes. His gaze was directed at the woman who claimed to be named Mita.

"Where did you get this thing?" Bu Merlin finally asked after a moment of silence.

"Mom remember this thing?"

"Of course I remember these two things. Even still I keep it because I realize one thing, surely one day someone will come here to explain something and look for his son."

Ms. Mita lowered her head, there was pain in her chest that was difficult for her to describe with words.

"Originally, I've been waiting for this moment for a long time. The moment where I met a woman who had the heart to throw away her own child. I don't know what problem you had until you did this one. Even animals never do this, ma'am."

Ms. Merlin suddenly felt a slight emotion when recalling 26 years ago. He found a baby in his trash can with only a cloth bed and also socks next door. There was a letter and also a bracelet engraved by a name there. However, he did not use that name to be the name of the baby he found.

"Yes Ma'am, I know I was wrong, I will explain first how the story is and what causes me to do this. 26 years ago, I did this because I had to. I am just an overseas woman who works for a living in this big city. I was just getting engaged when I found out that I was pregnant after the rape a few months before my engagement. I love my husband so much, I don't want to lose him. I don't want to just because I'm pregnant, our marriage will be void. I finally decided to let my son grow up in my womb. But I have no choice but..." Mita could not continue her story. He cried bitterly remembering 26 years ago by wickedly throwing his son in the trash.

While Bu Merlin who listened to the story from the woman just shook his head slowly. She could not believe that a woman and a mother would sacrifice their child for a man who would marry her.

"If indeed you are more concerned with your husband than your own flesh and blood, than the child you have given birth to by betting your life. Then why are there now here, for what?"

"I just want to meet my son, 26-year-old Mom, I want to be alone. I couldn't see him, even just to say hello or see. Mother is a woman, Mother must have children..."

"Don't compare me to you. I'm not the one who would throw his son in the trash. Even if I am in the position of Mother, it is better to fail to marry than I have to throw away the hard-earned child I gave birth to. Straight to the point, what do you want now?"

"Allow me to meet my son, Mom. I have no intention of taking it just want to meet it."

"Where have you been all this time? Why do you want to see him now? Why is it that now that he's a grown man, you just want to see me?"

"during this time I didn't have a chance to come here, Mom. I was just asking for Mother's mercy to allow me to meet my son."

Ms. Merlin who was furious with the woman immediately acted decisively by driving her out of the house. Not intended to be rude or disrespectful, but he felt that this Mita Mom made a big mistake by throwing and after 26 years later just came back to see her son. It was the most ridiculous thing that Ms. Merlin had ever encountered in her life.

"Already Ma'am, this is my home and I want you to leave here and never come here. I know you're the mother, you have rights over the Mother's son. The pregnant mother, who gave birth, I know that. But don't forget you threw it away too. Who cared for me for 26 years, who gave me education, love and attention, I am Mom. I'm the guy. I also have rights over my mother's children. Mother's child I have included in my family, have used the surname of my husband, I have adopted Mother's child. Don't ever think that you can easily and freely meet her."

Ms. Merlin has long harbored hatred and anger for her mother Jeon. Although the two never met each other, but the two flavors had already fused themselves to Bu Merlin. Finding a baby intentionally leaving something that one day can look for is very unforgivable for Ms. Merlin.

Ms. Mita was still banging on the door when Ms. Merlin closed it forcefully and locked it. As if unwilling to listen to the crocodile tears released by Bu Mita, the woman immediately returned to her grandson's room. While the woman who had given birth to Jeon was only able to cry over her past. He had guessed that to meet his son was not as easy as when saying it.