Call Me Rain
Shelter House

"Tomorrow, Lula wants to invite Dad to meet someone" said Alula when she had laid her body on the bed.

Dad's forehead frowned "Who ?"

"People who've helped Lula Dad without her help, Lula might not be able to get here."

"Why do you want to be introduced to me now?"

"All of you say goodbye." said Alula while smiling.

"Lula hasn't apologized in person, either, for Lula's mistake first."

"Yes, now sleep. tomorrow morning we go there." said the father while covering the body of his only daughter.

And in the morning, after they had finished the breakfast delivered by Mbak Sri to the pavilion, they set off for the place intended by Alula.

The Anugerah stopover house owned by Bu Indah is now their goal. Alula got down from the taxi first, because she saw Ibu Indah in the front yard, who was picking dry leaves on her flower plants.

"Good morning, Mom." said Alula when she stood before Bu Indah. her smile was bright, it was great to be reunited with the person who had helped her.

Beautiful Bu looked up, he was fixated on staring at someone who suddenly stood in front of him.

"Alula?" bu Indah's eyes widened, surprised by Alula's presence there.

"Yes, son, where have you been ?" Ms. Indah cupped both of Alula's cheeks, then grabbed her body into an embrace.

"I'm sorry Mom." I'm sorry to Miss Lovely for the escape she did three years ago.

"Why just come here now, where have you been ?" Beautiful Mom still held him in her arms.

Actually, he had long wanted to see Ms. Beautiful, but Risma's never friendly attitude to him made him feel hesitant to visit there.

He had promised in a letter that he wrote at that time, that he would introduce father to Bu Indah if he had found it. And maybe, this is the time.

Bu Indah let go of her embrace, she stared fixedly at Alula who was now bowing her head.

"Where is it now ?" apparently, Ms. Lovely was very worried about him. Guilt suddenly appeared in his heart.

"Me, stay with Daddy" he said.

Simultaneously, the father appeared behind his back by tote some plastic bags, souvenirs for the children in the orphanage.

"It's almost behind, you rush down .. "Abhi's father's words stopped when he looked at someone in front of him. Abhi's father was glued, his tongue suddenly twisted, it was difficult to continue his words.

"Abhi?" lirih Bu Indah, staring in disbelief.

"Without?" abhi's father's forehead looked cringing.

"You ... You're Abhi Sofyan right ?" tanya Bu Indah reassured.

But he was silent, not answering even one word.

Alula gasped as suddenly Mother Lovely grabbed both of father's shoulders.

"Jawab, you're Abhi Sofyan right ?" Beautiful Mom seemed to shake my shoulder.

Alula looked at the two with a puzzled look, then she saw Risma coming out of the house.

"What is this ?" asked Risma who also looked confused with Ms. Beautiful who suddenly became hysterical.

Alula shook her head quickly, she really did not know anything.

And he gasped more and more, when he saw the beautiful Mother sitting under the feet of the father while shouting, as she looked,

"WHERE IS INDIRA ?" shouted Bu Indah followed by a clear liquid that decayed from his eye pelup.

"Mother, please don't be like this." pinta Alula as she led Beautiful Mother to stand up.

Fortunately, no children play outside the home. So that they do not see the commotion that is happening now.

"Mom, let's get up. Dad, what's this dad ?" Alula alternately looked at father, whose face now looked even colder. Even the father's jaw appears to be hardened, signifying the anger that is now engulfing him.

Risma leads the beautiful Mother into the house, followed by Alula who leads the father to come with them.

Abhi's father was sitting on the sofa in the living room with Bu Indah who had just looked calm, after Risma gave him a drink.

"Where is Abhi ?" the question of the Beautiful Lady broke the silence between them.

"Mother .. recognize Father ?" but it was Alula who asked Bu Indah back.

"Thus ... This Abhi is your father ?" Bu Indah stared in disbelief at Alula who was standing not far from him with Risma.

Alula nodded in response, she glanced at Abhi's father looking still harboring anger.

"Yes Lord ..." cried Ms. Beautiful, covering her mouth with both hands.

"Are you ... his son Indira ?" alula nodded again.

At that time, Alula came with a worrisome condition.His eyes looked puffy, like crying all night. At some points of his face were bruises, such as punched scars.

I can't bear the feeling of Lovely Mother letting Alula live hanging on the streets. He received Alula with open arms.

Especially when Alula says,

"My mom just died, a week ago." There was a sudden pain in Bu Indah's heart.

"This injury .. my stepfather ..." Alula seemed hesitant to say the cause of the bruise on her face when Bu Indah asked her why her face was full of cuts.

But what came out of his mouth was precisely,

"I'm looking for a father here. May I hitch a ride here with the others until I find my father ?" he switched the conversation, not wanting to until Bu Indah knew his personal problems.

And Bu Indah came to the conclusion that Alula's stepfather was the cause of her injuries.

Beautiful Mother was aware of her daydreams, she was now approaching the father who was still silent.

"Say that Indira is still alive Abhi !" exclaimed Beautiful Bu with tears that returned to decay, he sat down under the feet of the father.

"Say Abhi, say it!" repeat Miss Beautiful because Dad is just her.

"You've made a mistake, for driving out your own sister Laras." Abhi's father's voice sounded creepy in Alula's ear. Dad looked at the beautiful Mom who was now sobbing under his feet.

Well, it is Indah Larasati.which used to be called Laras by the people closest to him. A deep love for her husband made her distrust Indira, her own younger sister.

Several times Indira said that her brother's husband often seduced her. But Laras did not believe what his sister said, he trusted her husband more.

Until one day, Laras made a big mistake because he had expelled his own sister. She trusted her husband more, who obviously often did things that were not commendable to her sister.

Still vividly remembered in Abhi's mind, the day that Indira came to the boarding house, she cried sobbing in his arms.

His heart was so wounded, when the brother he respected half-dead did not believe him anymore.he took Abhi away as far as possible, to treat his wounds, until finally they married and forgot everything.

"I'm sorry Abhi." said Ms. Beautiful who now sits on the sofa again. Risma who led Mother Beautiful to sit back.

"Your apology will not bring Indira and my daughter back to life" implied disappointment and pain from the eyes of the father.

Alula rubbed my father's arm, trying to give him some peace. Although he himself is still confused by the direction of the conversation of the father and Beautiful Mom.

Bu Indah cried bitterly at the words of his father, his guilt was getting bigger for his sister.His hope to meet again with Indira is now extinct.

"Dad?" Alula stared into the father's black-eyed bead as if asking, what is the relationship of Mother with Ms. Beautiful.

He took a deep breath before saying,

"He .. is your mother's older sister Lula" Abhi's father reluctantly said.

"Also the wife of the person who has destroyed our family." continued the father by emphasizing the word 'wife', and again staring intently at the beautiful Lady.

Alula gasped, hearing the truth that my father had said. So, Miss Lovely is Uncle Leon's wife ? really ?

He remembered a piece of wedding photo in Leon's wallet.well right, the photo was the same as the photo he saw in Bu Indah's room.why did he realize it now?

"Ma..you mean what is Abhi ?" bu Indah's forehead seemed wrinkled.he looked at the father and Alula who put on a confused face alternately.

"Leon." said Dad.

One name that returned to make the heart of Bu Indah throb pain.

"So, the stepfather that Alula meant was ... " Beautiful Mom could not continue her words.

"Yes, Leon.your beloved husband." Abhi's father smiled cynically.

It was broken that the heart of Beautiful Mom, when she knew the man she loved wholeheartedly, did things she never expected before.

Why Leon to the heart did that to him. Abandoned himself also the child he was carrying, and chose to live on the wrong path.

And what he did not expect, why should Indira. the only sister he had kicked out just because of his blind love for Leon.

"I'm sorry Mom son," Ms. Lovely pulled Alula into her arms. Alula was silent, she was still digesting the information she had just heard.

"Where is Abhi now ?" Beautiful Mom turned to look at dad.

"The place where he should be is responsible for his own actions."

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