
Boy saw his little daughter was bowing languidly in her seat. He knew that Aurel must be sad because he was late to pick her up.
"Hi, honey. Forgive Papa yes! Papa had an urgent job, so Papa was late," Boy crouched down to see his daughter's sad face.
Without answering, Aurel immediately hugged Boy. Boy gasped as his daughter hugged him tightly.
"It's okay, Pa. Aurel was happy that Papa had come. Let's go home!" Aurel took off her embrace and grabbed her father's big hand. He held it tight as if he did not want his father to leave.
Arriving at Avicenna's residence, Aurel is greeted by his two grandmothers.
"Oma's grandson is home!" greet Lian who immediately hugged Aurel.
Not wanting to miss, Riana also welcomed Aurel.
"This is Grandma making Aurel's favorite chocolate pudding."
Aurel's eyes sparkled happily.
"Well, this must be delicious, Grandma. Thank you." Thank you."
"Either. Let's change your clothes first." Riana takes Aurel to her room, while Lian meets Boy.
"You're going to have lunch at home, son?" ask Lian.
Boy looks at his watch.
"I think I should get back to the hospital, Ma. I said just go for a minute. Sorry!"
Lian sighed. "It's okay. The important thing is that you keep doing your job as a father. Unlike your wife who seems to have no responsibility to take care of Aurel."
"Ma, please don't talk about this right now! I gotta go. Love you, Ma." Boy pecks Lian's cheek.
Lian could only shake slowly. "Until when do I have to pretend to hide all this? You're too good, son. You should get a woman who can take care of you and your daughter, too" Lian murmured.
"Don't talk about something that happened. Boy's destiny is with Natasha. Let them solve their own problems." Lusi suddenly came over to Lian.
"Mother..."
"Your son is an adult, son. Let him decide what is good and what is not. Lunch is ready. You better call Aurel and Riana."
"Yes, Mom." Lian immediately passed and headed to Aurel's room.
In the room, Aurel who had changed his clothes, told Riana about his friend who he had met at school.
"My friend was picked up by her mother, when was I like that too, Grandma? I want my mom to pick me up at school. Poor Papa if you have to pick me up every day. Isn't Papa very busy at the hospital?"
Riana looked at the little boy softly.
"Little children also know which people really love them or who just pretend." Lian walked into Aurel's room and interrupted the chatter of the grandmother and granddaughter.
"Lian! Don't say anything bad in front of Aurel. He's too small to understand adult problems."
"It is not the child who must understand the problems of adults, it is the adult who must understand the feelings of children. You better tell that to your daughter. Go Aurel!" Lian brought Aurel out of the room.
Riana still stared at all of Lian's words. What Lian said was true. But Riana did not want to blame everything on Natasha. Her daughter was only doing what could make their family equal to the Avicenna family.
Riana did not want her daughter to be looked at one eye just because she was an artificial man.
"Hopefully one day Natasha will be able to realize all of this and be able to improve her relationship with the Avicenna family" Riana said.
......***......
...Life won't always go along with what you want,...
...I want my heart to hold the moon,...
...But the hands will not come, though,...
...Even though you can fly to the seventh sky,...
Aleya looked at the moon shining brightly tonight. Want the heart closed eyes, but the soul still wants to be awake.
Aleya recalled the incident earlier this afternoon when she went to the campus to fill out her advanced study form. The one who called him was a father who wished happiness for his son.
"Aleya! You haven't slept?" ask Zetta who just got home from work.
"Yes, Brother. I'm still not sleepy. Brother just came home, huh? It must be very tiring to have to work alone like this. After this I will also work with brother to ease brother's burden."
"What are you talking about? You are a guest here. I won't let you work like me either."
"I'm a doctor, brother. Of course I want to keep working to help my patients."
"So you have a plan to find a job? How was? What study did you choose?"
"As you suggested, I chose to be a pediatrician."
"really? Does Rion know?"
"Yet. I haven't told him. I don't know if I can act ordinary in front of him later."
Zetta frowned confused. "What do you mean?"
"I just met Brother Rion's father."
"Eh? You mean Doctor Maliq?"
Aleya nodded.
"What did he tell you? Did he forbid you from having any contact with his son?"
"Ish, this brother. Why is my sister so excited to know everything?"
"Eh? N-not so. I was just wondering if Doctor Maliq accepts ordinary people like us."
"We?" Aleya felt that Zetta was asking about herself and not about Aleya.
"Ah, that ... I mean ordinary people. You know if the Ibrahim family is a family that is quite influential in the medical world. They have as much influence as the Avicenna family."
"I don't even know much about them, brother. Brother knows about them?"
Zetta was wrong. "No! I don't know much about that family either. I only ever arranged events for them and it turned out that they were an influential family. Just like that. There's nothing else." Zetta waved her hand.
I don't know why I feel like there's something that Brother Zetta is hiding. Butwhat?
"That's it, there's no need to talk about it. I'm sure you must be tired. Better get some rest. Andra's been sleeping since."
"Ah yes. You better rest too. Don't think of anything other than your goals, your dreams. Brother will support whatever your decision." Zetta patted Aleya on the shoulder.
Zetta passed into his room while Aleya was still faithfully sitting on the back porch.
The words spoken by Maliq were again ringing in Aleya's ears.
"My son left home because he wanted to pursue his love. I hope you don't make her dreams go to pieces. He had already felt the pain of being abandoned by the person he loved. I don't want all those bad memories coming back to him. I hope you can make him smile again like he used to..."
Aleya closed her eyes.
"Really, Uncle. I don't want to hurt anyone. If I'm with your son, it will only add to his heart. Because I'm not ready to fall in love anymore. I myself am also afraid that I will have to get back hurt just because of love."
Aleya went back inside the house and headed for her room. He broke his tired body and heart.
"Hopefully my decision to come here was not a wrong one. I'm afraid that everything I've hoped for doesn't match the fate that's happened."
After many monologues in his heart, Aleya's eyes finally closed as well by carrying a million dreams.
...B E R S A M B U N G...
Sweet thursday let's grimace...😀😀😀