
Kia Pov's
I looked at my mom who showed me her serious face. For some reason, I immediately had a sixth sense. He has the power to pierce his mind and guess things.
“Speaking aja, Ma.” I poured the tea from the pot into the cup. While waiting for mama to speak, sip a little tea that tastes.
“This ... your sister, she will be married soon.”
Just sipped some hot tea, my tongue slightly blistered and reflexed. “See your son! Talked instead of mocking!” The man I called papa.
I wanted to make her sip the hot tea so she would know what a blistering tongue feels like. But in the end, I was willing to follow his words.
“He wants to marry, what does that have to do with me?”
“Fang-fang boy, he needs a house as a dowry. You — can help a little, can't you?”
Apparently so. All this time, Mama's with if I wanted to ask her to look after Jenny, even if it's only been a few hours. Yesterday was a good thing. I guess, our relationship can go back to being as familiar as before. The reality I got, it was like this.
“Not much, mama there are two hundred thousand. You — can add seven hundred, ngak?”
Immediately my eyes rounded, violently placing the cup on the table. “Why don't you tell me to buy him right away? Who wants to marry her or me, anyway?”
“You heard first.” Mom tried to ease my emotions. “Fang has been accepted to work in a well-known company. Two hundred ... no. five hundred. Five hundred angap aja debt, of which two hundred you can angpau as an angpau for your sister-in-law.”
I really don't think the same thing my real mama thought. Maybe he's royal with his stepson like that. He never even royal with me.
“I have no money!” My firmness.
“You are a lecturer at a well-known university, where might there be no money? Your life is too wasteful!” The man added gunpowder to the oil that approached the batter. Obviously I immediately stood up and explained all the problems that the man accused.
“Look, my monthly salary is only 12 thousand dollars. Just rent a house, I'm looking for a cheap one for hundreds of dollars. Still got to send your wife four grand. Seven thousand dollars, what do you think I live like?”
Nadaku rose up when he explained. I want the three of them to know how I am doing there. Work is not just so easy when asked for money. You want to be happy yourself, so you have to think twice.
“You can sell the car, also take your apartment deposit!” he said it so lightly, like it all seemed easier for him.
“Your father is right, you can move here. The house is also near the stop. Transportation can use the bus first make to campus.”
Now I just realized. Here, I'm like a chess piece. All my steps are arranged by them. Most painful, my mother defended her husband's ridiculous request.
With a cynical smile and looking down, I asked, “Well, I am not your son anymore?” I can no longer hold everything. My heart ached when I heard my mother defending the man and his stepson.
“Kia, Son ...”
“Mah, I'm 26, there's a kid too. You never asked me about my relationship. Do I want to get married, or when do I introduce my future husband?” I bowed in lethargy, letting tears drip as I pleased.
“Since long ago, salted baskets were my favorite. What else if the contents of minced meat mix spicy mushrooms. That sweet one, Fang who likes.” I looked at the middle-aged woman who was sitting while holding the teacup.
“Nak, you girls, it would be better if you stay at home.”
One corner of my lips rose, my eyes glanced sharply, looking at the expression of his face that was still flat.
“Better? Mah, my house and apartment are only ten kilometers away. While from here almost 70 kilometers, and the car .. it's from papa. Sell that, is mom not ashamed? It was a gift from a father to his only daughter, why should he give it to his ex-wife to buy her stepson's house?”
They were silent, one was downcast and the other indifferent. I just focused on looking at the two people's expressions, not interested in seeing the expression of my half-brother who had been working all this time just eating sleep.
With a heavy heart, I ended the conversation and went to the room. The room that accompanied me for almost twenty years. I've decided by then, just stay in the room until tomorrow morning.
But the truth ....
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