Dream Smile
Episode 55's

"You can definitely get through it" said Vina trying to calm me down, repeatedly patting my back.

"Mbak there's actually a solution for you, and you can think about it first, it fits the gun."

Immediately I pulled away, wiping my tears. Staring at him. "What solution is Ma'am?" askaku full of interest.

"In the Bar." Sounds a bit hesitant when Mbak Vina in expressing it.

I was speechless not to cause any reaction, because Mbak Vina will indeed continue he said. "Where there is more profitable work, I mean to be a beverage delivery to customers. What I heard from some waitress people I know is quite high pay and only done a few hours," he explained.

"Aisst. don't look at me so seriously," connected again by flicking his hand towards the front of my face. "I didn't mean it badly. His job is just delivering drinks, cleaning the guest table. Don't think I'm asking you to fall into my job. Just so you know, I admit the life path I chose was wrong. And I'm not going to ask anyone else to do the same thing" she explained again and I nodded.

"Then why did you choose such a job?" I don't know which courage I got to say these words.

"That was my choice" he said straightforwardly.

"There must be a reason?" I know my question is too annoying, but it's a question that's been undermining my mind all along. What pushed Mbak Vina into a job that I could call so despicable, what might be the reason like me being squeezed into money problems?

"I'm already dirty. And how else would it be to live a good life, without burden," he said, so cliched to be heard in the ear. But finished saying himself just smiled wryly. His head looked up with glaring eyes staring at the ceiling of the room.

"You know—," he said this time looking at me, but I remained silent looking back at the look in his eyes that showed the sadness he had been quieting for so long. And this time I saw him. "After I left the man, I was declared pregnant."

Vina's Tears instantly broke. "But I don't want to go back to that guy—"

"Why, then where's your child?" my question immediately because it has seen the look of regret, disappointment, hatred also sad in the look of his eyes.

Vina closed her eyes as she took her breath in an attempt to normalize and control her, and she was lucky to continue, saying, "I wanted to raise her alone at first, with all the love I had, she said, I also try to work to survive. But nothing was easy, I started saving to prepare all the needs for the child in my womb by working hard. But it's definitely impactful for the kid I'm carrying and I only found out about it when he was born."

Vina's mother began to sob with tears that could not be dammed. He said, "The baby can only last a few days, there are abnormalities since the time he was in the womb. And at that moment, I felt like a useless person. Reminiscent of the initial incident until it reached my son—my flesh blood entered in the pit. Along with that my life seems to have no meaning," explained Mbak Vina can no longer muffle her tears.

I was about to embrace Mbak Vina, but she quickly brushed me off. "And why did I get stuck in a world that others despise, do you know?" she said with a rough rub of tears on her cheeks, a smile slanted at the corner of her lips.

"The life you are living is like me, long ago. Difficult to eat, even to get a place to stay it feels difficult. Even you know, I lost my son. And if your thinking continues straight, do you want, forever your sister will be a victim in her environment. With your life circumstances continuing at a difficult point?" said Madam Vina who seemed to hit me.

Apa Ayu will follow in the footsteps of Mbak Vina, just follow ya...