Under The Rain's
Chapter 22—Mama

“Reva ..”

“Sayang ..”

“Come, wake up, Darling ...."

"Wake up, son ...."

***

A fluorescent fluorescent beacon layered directly on Reva's bed sharply pierced the girl's eyes, as her petals slowly opened after she suffered a sudden loss of consciousness. Silhouette paintings? Reva understands. Someone had laid him on his own bed.

The sound of the three people around Reva sounded more like a painful grin than a riled call. The faint face of her lover caught the eye, who was holding her hand next to him. Then, there was Rafael who was standing not far in the corner of the room. Then, Mama Ina?

Oh, ja. The memory of the brief breathing with the middle-aged woman rippled through Reva's mind, before finally the absolute consciousness began to fade and disappear into the black hole in her nerve center. Reva remembered her entire body trembling at the possibility of Kris and Rafael's quarrel. After that, Reva fainted.

“Va, it's drunk, yes.” Vienna offered a glass of warm sweet tea to help Reva recover her condition.

Reva who was still lying down was then helped by Kris to sit down. The man held his back so he wouldn't stumble backwards. The heavy load on Reva's head seemed to work together with gravity to pull him down. It hurts so much to keep him upright in a sitting position. So, Kris had to keep her up with her own pillow and arms.

“Drink first, yes, son. Come on, let's recover quickly.” Vienna smiled bitterly. It was by no means the scenario he had envisioned to meet again with his little girl. All that lies between longing and pity, haru and question marks, Vienna can feel them tucked away in a glimmer of happiness in its reunion with Reva. Why did her little daughter look like that?

“Sorry, Mom. I think Reva needs a break. He just got home from the hospital.” Krishna reminded firmly. He did not understand what he saw at that time and began to question reality. Raphael. Rafael lives next door to Reva. Rafael and his mother both knew Reva well. He could feel something twitching in his heart. Something is very wrong with all that.

Vienna and Raphael looked at each other, then gave a small nod to Kris, before finally begging Reva's farewells who kept bowing holding a warm cup of sweet tea. No. gabe. Vienna really does not want to get out of there immediately. Her maternal soul was really excited to see Reva's condition like that. However, Rafael immediately gave a code that it was not the right time. They should leave immediately.

***

“Let's El leukain all, Ma,” promised Rafael as he walked to Vienna to find a taxi.

“You didn't say the same Mama? Reva lives close to you, and you didn't say anything to Mama?”

“Ma ... the situation is not like it first. Please understand, yes, Ma.”

“Om Adi how? Tita Bi? Do they know?”

“It seems not. Mama also don't tell Papa just yet. The problem should not be revealed first.”

Vienna capitulated. He caught the look of confusion on his son too, which made him stop wondering. The man also seemed to understand nothing, it was useless to investigate him to find answers.

“Ya, already. Mom is waiting at home, yeah. Mom says goodbye, Kak.”

“Iya, Mother. Careful.”

***

“So you're with Rafael just a regular classmate?”

After Reva began to be able to do normal activities at night, finally Kris was powerless also to stem the curiosity that had churned in his heart since noon. He could not ignore the visual expression of Vienna that continued to linger in his head. For Kris, the way Vienna touched Reva's face was unusual. It was like there was an incredible old story implied at his fingertips. However, Reva never once wanted to discuss anything that happened in his past.

“You never said you lived next door?”

“Because it doesn't matter.”

“Aneh. I don't think his mother treated you like an ordinary friend.”

“Fine,” Reva rough grunting, “we are neighbors.” A bowl of cream soup that he was devouring immediately he put it on the nightstand. His appetite is gone.

“Oh ... his status started to rise from just a regular friend. Now, he's also a neighbor.” Kris lifted his hand into the air, sitting on the edge of the mattress while looking blankly at the starless dark sky.

“That's important, Kris? How important is it who is a friend or neighbor?”

“Entah, Va ..” Kris turned to look at Reva who was leaning on the bed divan. “Sometimes I think, will be until when you close yourself like that. I never really know, which is important and which is not important to you.”

“Kris .. I'm still tired. Please,” sela Reva softly while massaging her forehead. I don't know why the pain point in his head became moved. And it felt even more crazy when Kris just kept talking about the past.

“Ya, already.” Kris immediately brushed off his stolen feelings and began crawling closer to Reva on the bed. Until finally their faces close together, Kris landed a soft kiss on her lover's forehead. “Sorry, Dear. I didn't mean to make you depressed.”

Reva who did not want to worsen the atmosphere immediately put her arm around the man's neck, until finally they embraced and Reva was washed away in it. Usually, Kris would only come home after Reva was completely sleepy and almost asleep.

“Sayang ...” said Kris while continuing to lightly massage the head of her lover.

“Ya?” reva replied that his body was completely immersed in Kris's arms.

“I think we don't have to wait much longer. I want us to get married quickly.”

Reva who still did not want to answer raised her head to look at Kris more clearly. In the lying position next to each other, they looked at each other for quite a long time. Fingers are linked to each other and caress the face. It seemed, only then did Reva really look deep into Kris's soul, permeating her presence and feeling the love inside there completely. Jesus ... That man really did everything for him.

Kris is very good. I don't know what Reva was thinking so she postponed the marriage until that long. Kris did the things that husbands should do. Protect, protect, listen to all complaints and solve problems together. Nine years and they actually went through both. Kris belongs to Reva and Reva belongs to Kris.

What is lacking is only the spark of love in Reva's heart that never grew, even though it was warm. Reva only never realized it because the world around her felt so cold, that it made her numb to the recesses of the chest. He was not aware that he had been saved during that time by a small incandescent fire that was nourished by his feelings for Kris.

“Sayang .. I know getting married is a big decision. But, really, I've been living for you. Work and be responsible, all for your sake.”

Sure do. Reva knows that. He realized that Kris was second to none. He remembered how the man sacrificed everything to keep him alive. Depression had made Reva look at the world only as an empty space. However, thanks to Kris, the dead forest returned to flowering. And without Kris, maybe Reva will forever depend on sedatives.

Long before the rant about the wedding took place, Kris was already the only family Reva was leaning on. The family? Hold still.

That day, Reva met again with Vienna. Vienna feels even more like a mother when compared to Tita, her own birth mother. Vienna took good care of her when her own parents were unable to attend to her. Vienna takes care of her as Tita looks after the other man she's been having an affair with. Vienna accompanied her night as Adi spent the night out of nowhere. What Vienna gave to Rafael, he also gave to Reva.

Vienna was the fairy godmother in Reva's childhood. Mama Ina. Mama Ina who is very loved.

When the case of fraud committed by Adi sticking, Vienna did not come to give Reva peace. Didn't come to just embrace him and say that Reva is innocent. That's where Reva feels she's lost herself. That's where Reva feels her Mama Ina already hates her. In fact, what really happened was that Mr. Pram fell ill, and Rafael tripped the case with Nadia. By the time Vienna finally came to look for Reva, it was too late. The little girl was gone, gone as far away from home as possible.

“I love you, Darling. Would you marry me?”

If Reva hadn't met Vienna that day, she probably wouldn't have thought much more about accepting Kris' proposal. However, her Mama Ina has finally returned, and it is clear that she still loves Reva very much.