You're My Antidote
Dark Stories 2

Rani does not know what to say or respond to her husband's story. He did not think, the journey of the King's life was so trivial.

He thought, living without knowing the parents who brought him born into the world, was sad enough.

But as it turns out, knowing who our parents are, knowing that we were not expected, is more painful.

He could only quietly listen and occasionally clasped the King's hand to channel his spirit. Giving her husband strength.

He could clearly see the face of the King's fear when telling a story. But he also wants the King to open up to him. There was no secret she did not know about her husband.

He also hopes that by telling the story, the King can be a little reconciled with the painful story. Because making peace is the best medicine for a King who wants to heal.

"I don't know.. Have you ever hugged and kissed me." The King's voice grew louder. More tormented than the way the man told the story that the man had only heard from others. Because now the King began to tell what was stored in his memory.

"I doubt even my mother ever touched or looked at me when I was a baby."

Rani's heart was very sad to hear it. When he wants a baby. There was a woman who abandoned her child. Including her birth mother who knows where she is.

"Mommy never once yelled at me. Not even angry with me." The king looked at him with a bitter smile. "Because mom never thought I existed. I never saw my mom's eyeballs on me, even though I sat in front of her every time I ate breakfast."

"I'd rather mami yell at me. Scolding me. Or even scolded me for being present in his life." again. The king smiled which made Rani sick to see him. "Because with my mom treating me like that, it means she still thinks I exist."

The King's right hand stretched out and gently rubbed the falling tears on his cheeks without Rani noticing.

"I tried so hard to be a good boy. So the school's champion and I just wish that my mom would see me." King chuckles. The laughter contained wounds that increasingly made Rani's tears flow more and more. "But it turns out, until the last day of our meeting, my mother still did not see me. Never thought I existed. Mami doesn't know what kind of kid ruined her life."

Rani nodded in disagreement.

No child is born to destroy the lives of his parents. Children are a blessing to those who are trusted.

The king calmed down. Take a deep breath before continuing the whole story. "Papi's life after moving abroad again improved. Because we know for ourselves, scandals like mami and papi, it's pretty common out there. So it's not that hard to rebuild his career." The King's sight returned.

"I was born on my mom's birthday." Rani smothered her mouth. No more power to resist the sobs that the more he held, the more stifling it felt. "But don't make mommy remember if it's dated too, she gave birth to a baby boy."

"Boy always tried to be a good father and husband even though mom never thought we existed."

"Bapi always prepares two birthday cakes every birthday. But on every date, she never came home and chose to celebrate her birthday with her friends out there... Until my sixth birthday, papi bought only one cake."

"The fire never covered anything. Papi told me everything. Because I used to tantrum every time I approached mommy but she didn't respond."

"The papi said everything except the mistake that made me born. Which I know after they're gone."

The king chuckled amusedly at me as he swallowed a cry that never ended. Her husband took her in a warm embrace and patted her back gently trying to calm her down. What she should have done to her husband. Now it's reversed.

"I want to be like a papi. Papi took care of me alone except while working.... I want to be like a papi in the eyes of our children."

Rani nodded in her tears. His mouth can't say anything. The King's story was too painful for him to hear. But he would not let the King take care of their son alone. They will take care of their children together.

"But I don't want our children to grow up with a broken abnmental like me. The mental that every day hears his parents' quarrel."

"Home, it used to be hell. As I remember, there is no day without a mami papi shout, even since I was a child. Either because of trivial things, or even a big problem that makes the objects in the house float and fall apart filled the floor."

"When they fight, they don't care if I feel scared then. They only care about their own ego. Even Papi, who loved me so much, apologized when my mother slammed the door and left... Although sorry it only applies to that day and tomorrow it will be repeated again."

The king distanced himself to be able to look at him. "Do you want to end the story?" asked softly while wiping back the tears on his cheeks. "It seems you're not ready yet."

Rani shakes. "Rani wants to hear everything. But Rani's tears won't stop" he said.

The king laughed and took him back in a fist. Kiss the top of his head and immerse his face long enough there.

"That day. The day my parents died, they fought as usual." the King's voice grew heavy.

"I guess just fighting as usual. I, who was not done with my dinner, put up earbuds to dampen their cries. Although it's faint, I can still hear what they're shouting."

"Ha-day of death?" the question could not guess where the King's story went. Because he did not know the reason for the death of the King's parents. He only knew the King's parents died abroad.

The king nodded and went back to telling. "The fire was furious because she was pregnant."

Rani scrunched her forehead. Is pregnancy not good news?

Is not from the story of the King, papi Raja is the person who receives the presence of the King?

So papi Raja should be happy, right, with the presence of the second child in the family? that might bring the family together.

"Mommy and papi sleep in different rooms" said the King. Explains confusion in his face. "I didn't understand papi's anger either. Why is papi angry. But when I grow up, I get it. Maybe during the wedding, papi never touched mommy. Until the question that came out of papi's mouth at that time was who the father of the baby mami."

Rani again smothered her mouth in disbelief. Can't imagine what kind of life the King and the two King's parents lived.

"Mommy claims to have a boyfriend she's only known for a few months. An angry Papi asks mami to abort the content and promises to forgive mami."

"Mommy refused?" guess Rani the King replied with a nod.

"Mami says, mom loves her boyfriend and his future son. And mami wants papi to divorce mami so that mami can marry her lover."

Rani could feel the King's jaw hardening. Also the heart is racing faster.

"The angry fire is not for itself. But papi was angry that she loved her second child, but she never thought I existed."

"The fire survives the wedding, not because papi loves mami. But because papi didn't want to take away my right to have a mother."

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Very sorry for the fate of papa Rasya's son this one 😭 Rafa who was once adorable.