GROWINGS
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"Where are you going early in the morning, Kinno?" Asked the man with his glasses, with his gaze sharply probing.

"I have a practice at school." Reply to the boy who was rubbing bread with his favorite nutella jam.

The little-eyed man folded up the newspaper he was reading. "Where were you last night?!"

"Not anywhere.."

"Don't lie to you!!" The man's voice was rising. "You forgot that last night, you had to attend Aunt Anindita's birthday party?!"

Kinno leisurely continued to devour his bread. "Yes I forgot. It's not important either, is it? It's just a birthday."

"That attitude of yours is totally intolerable, Kinno."

"Tolerate how, Dad?!!" Kinno stared intently at his father. "Every night, my friends and I are in the pre-elebration stage of next week's cooking tournament!"

"Cook -- cook - cook!! You know who your parents are, right?!!"

Three domestic assistants who have worked for years in the house, to peek from behind the dividing wall between the dining room and kitchen.

Usually, if early in the morning there is a noise between the father and the child, the commotion will continue, until there is no end.

"Give all your credit cards, debit, motor keys, and cars as well!"

"Dad!!"

"Daddy won't hear anything from your mouth!! Quickly surrender!"

"Dad is not fair!! I am an adult! And I have the right to determine my own life!"

The man nodded with his deadly gaze. "You're saying you decide your own life?"

"Yes! I am 17 years old! And I'm an adult, Dad!"

"Well then. Now you're out of this house, and please do whatever's out there!!"

"Listen to Daddy-Kinno Liem Setianto-" Danu brought her face closer to the child's face. "If you still want to stay, you have to listen and obey every rule that applies in this house. But, if you have any objections -- please leave your feet, and ask for help with that man named Martin Luther!"

Kinno felt an enormous tightness in his chest. He knew and realized that the man he was talking to was now his own daddy. Her biological father had been taking care of her from infancy to her present age, without the intervention of a woman by her side.

"Never insult Mr. Martin!!"

Danu straightened her body. Then he took all the belongings of his son from the table. Starting from the car keys, cellphones, until the entire contents of his child's wallet he emptied. And left only a piece of paper of ten thousand only.

"Bok!!" Danu's voice sounded blaring.

"I, Sir.."

"Starting this morning, the boy was no longer able to get any pocket money until next month..."

"DAD...!!"

"So, prepare a bag and a bottle for him."

The old woman, who was commonly called the mbok, seemed misbehaved. Because he had been taking care of his employer's child since childhood, so he did not until the heart saw and thought about the fate of the teenager.

"DADDY...!!"

"Daddy wait for you on the porch."

"I don't want to!!" Kinno's voice grew louder and louder. As if, he really was not afraid of the threat of his father.

"OKAY. If you don't want to be ushered in, then you won't be able to go anywhere!"

"Arrghghhh...!! I HATE YOU, DAD..!!" Again, he's still yanking.

"Who cares...!?"

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