
"Zahrah!" call Papa Paris. Edward straightened his body.
Zahra turned to the source of the voice. His grandfather from Mother came closer. He hugged Zahra.
Zahra looked confused.
"Did he know?" ask Paris in a loud voice.
Edward looked the other way with a hardened face.
"What's going on, Grandpa? Is Mom here too?" ask Zahra.
Soraya's mother hugged her husband tightly and wiped away her tears. Paris crouched down and looked towards Zahra.
"Mother Soraya and Mother were in one car."
Time stopped turning for Zahra. He looked towards his father. Looking for an answer. Edward looked at the corner of his eye. While taking a deep breath. His chest felt tight and heavy.
After all the years he had lived with Aya, it was hard for him to hate Soraya wholeheartedly because there was the best moment they had ever spent together. Although he was currently disappointed and angry, but seeing Zahra he felt weak. Don't know how to tell this to the kid.
"What your grandfather said is true" Edward said in a choked voice. His breath sounds heavy.
For a moment, he thought of the right word. Zahra was looking forward to something bad that came to her mind.
"God loves your mother so much that it must be taken first." Finally the speech slid from the lips of**** Edward.
Zahra took a few steps back. Although he had expected it but this was also a heavy blow to him. Some time their relationship improved a little. His mother seemed to love him very much, not expecting this to happen.
Three days later
Zahra sat next to the bed where Deya lay weakly. His mouth was covered by a breathing apparatus while several cables, hoses and other life support devices were attached to his body.
Zahra held Deya's hand tightly.
"Will Mother leave me like mother? Is Mommy going to hate me for my mother causing Mommy to be like this? So Mommy doesn't want to wake up? Answer me Mother?"
Zahra's head was placed on the bed and sobbed. He then looked at Deya's face and rubbed it slowly.
"The mother who taught me love, happiness, laughter and sharing affection. Mother gave me a cute sister like Dafi, sometimes annoying because she likes to cry. Mother also accompanied me at all times, taking me to school and taking care of me like your own child."
"Now that I get used to the presence of Mother, will Mother also come along to leave Mother leave me? Zahra please, do not follow God's advice to leave Zahra, even though God says it was done out of love and wants Mother to be by her side."
"Zahra still needs Mommy here. Dafi too.... Fathering... Mommy wakes up and sees Dad can only be pensive and cry every time he looks at Mommy. Don't be like this, tell God that Mother still wants to be with us so that we can be together again."
The atmosphere of instant silence was only Zahra's sobs heard.
A drop of tears came out from the corner of Deya's eyes and flowed into her hair.
"Home home, Mother, Zahra longs, misses Mother's embrace. Zahra please..," said Zahra in a trembling voice.
Edward, who heard from behind the open door, felt a bit sore. She did not expect her son to love Deya very much. She was devastated when her birth mother died, but Zahra's daily arrival to the hospital signaled that she was more sad to see Deya lying weakly there
Soraya Zahra's funeral didn't cry. Somehow Edward did not know, maybe because he knew the real events of the news on television or the internet.