VARSHA
SEASON 2 PART 71

The gray cloud came again this afternoon. No wind, no rain, erratic weather crashing the capital.

Warm Eve often greet accompany every person who began back and forth to their respective homes after a day of activities.

Just like everyone else Zahra also clean up the stuff in his room.

Just now that he finished his duty and was about to go home to meet the younger brother who was still there, a pair of beads looked at him fixedly from the front.

Someone was standing right in front of the hospital building with warm eyes. A gentle smile was on her lips.

Instantly, Zahra stopped her sneaker-wrapped feet. The moon bead was wide with the heart too tight.

He did not expect if someone valuable in life was still in the hospital area.

"Dad?" Call again.

Zahra thought Aditya was gone, considering his real father was on vacation in the country.

Knowing about it Zahra's feelings as the oldest child who had not been noticed by parents for a long time, was very hurt.

When he was in trouble to survive, out there his parents were busy with a new family building happiness.

His heart really hurt like there was a slowly slashing dagger.

"Steak."

"Zahra."

Another call from the left side pulls his attention. Zahra's head turned to see two people staring at him. He couldn't believe he had a day like that.

"Laluna? Appa? Why?" Zahra looked at them in turn, not believing the three were coming at the same time.

"Who are they, Zahra? Is the woman next to the stranger a...your sister?" aditya asked as if she was familiar to the young lady beside Lee Dong Hyuk.

"He who?" It was her stepfather's turn to ask.

"Teach, who is he?" Laluna asks each other whereabouts.

He was also curious when he heard his name called by a man not far from the existence of the brother.

"In-he, she-"

"Laluna? My kid?" Aditya turned to Laluna making the twenty-two-year-old woman move back a few steps back.

He avoided Aditya who smiled bitterly at him.

"It's Dad, honey. This is your real father" Aditya explained, making Laluna shake her head several times.

"No... All this lies, right, Tea? He's-"

Laluna had not yet finished her sentence, Zahra gave a short nod to make her stare.

"No!" Laluna went from there running away from them.

Zahra who saw her sister slumped was sad. He knew what Laluna was feeling right now.

The confusion within, the pain in the deepest recesses of the heart, ravages the feeling.

"Let Appa catch up with Laluna" said Dong Hyuk running after Laluna.

Zahra only nodded briefly and returned to Aditya. He breathed a rough sigh and snorted softly.

"Sounds like there's something you want to say? We'll talk somewhere else" Zahra walked out from in front of her father.

Aditya followed her where the princess went.

Laluna arrived at the park near the hospital. He sat on a bench facing the fountain.

He cried out all the emotions in his chest. The feelings are mixed, between anger, hate, disappointment, and so on into one.

He doesn't know what to do. Everything came at a time he never expected.

"Laluna?"

"Are you okay?" dong Hyuk asked sitting next to him.

"I'm not okay, Appa." Laluna was crying loudly knowing that her biological father was also in the same country.

Seeing that Dong Hyuk felt pity and embraced his shoulders slowly while patting his back gently.

"All will be well. You don't have to worry, it's all gone" he said, trying to calm down.

Laluna just nodded and continued to sob.

Not long after that, he stopped his crying. The bloodless father and son were staring in the same direction.

The fountain in front of them was large, in the middle of which was a swan-shaped statue that was spreading its wings.

The white color of the goose statue is so sparkling with water radiating in the middle and sliding just down.

The light of the sun shining makes it more sparkling like a diamond stone.

"Beautiful right? Colorful rainbows were visible from the fountain's shower," said Dong Hyuk smiling happily.

"Appa does not know what you are currently feeling, but. what the man was-"

"He's my real father," cut Laluna fast.

"What's? Your gynecologist-father?" Laluna nodded slowly.

Dong Hyuk dropped his gaze down looking for the end of the tangled thread befalling his stepchildren.

"Oppa, have heard everything from your brother, Zahra. It must not be easy not to live life without the presence of parents? But you are not alone. You have a reliable brother and sister. Appa was in your position."

"However, Appa alone cannot share his grief with anyone. You're lucky you still have brothers who care about each other."

"Maybe your real father's coming here, would like to apologize? You have to give them a chance. Is not Allah Most Forgiving? Then forgive those who have hurt you, so that there is no more burden in your heart," said Dong Hyuk made Laluna fixated.

He realized his stepfather was a convert three years ago. His mother who had made Lee Dong Hyuk adhere to the same beliefs as him.

He was happy to hear and receive advice from his stepfather.

"Em, Appa's right. Thank you so much for reminding me," Laluna replied making Dong Hyuk develop a smile again.

...***...

Zahra and Aditya were in a cafe. They sat face to face in the middle of the room accompanied by some dishes.

Zahra kept looking closely at her father. He did not say a word waiting for Aditya to start.

It feels like he is still overwhelmed by the reality that befalls.

"Dad, see you again this time... Because I want to apologize."

"Dad's really sorry for causing you trouble. I realize that seeing you so hurt makes Dad hurt too."

"If Dad hadn't left you that day, maybe we'd still be together. Dad-"

"Here you go, there's nothing to be sorry about. It all happened, and it cannot be repeated. Regret or not will not be able to restore the tears that we have shed in those days" Zahra said with serious eyes.

Aditya was very surprised to see the change of the baby. He did not expect to have incised a deep wound.

For many years not even one year but seventeen years he left his four children without giving any news.

The wounds incised at that time were widening and deep. Aditya realized so much disappointment that his children received.

He was a father who could not guide his son well. Let alone providing a decent life, education was never given.

Naturally, if now Zahra, Laluna, and his other two children are very disappointed in him, it is the fruit of his own actions.

"Not here who is wrong, but who cares about us. I do not need your possessions or your luxuries, but your affection as parents. But we never felt that. So, just let it be like this never give any more burden to us," said Zahra excited.

Aditya could do nothing but agree with the words of his first daughter in silence. There was a pain in the chest that kept greeting him strongly.