He, the Unacknowledged
100 One Package
"Gean, does Gean want to have Daddy like the other kids?"
"No, Gean just needs mommy." Khea looked at Gean with a gentle look.
"Gean, do not keep your own feelings, there is a mommy who will always listen to Gean's complaints. If Gean wants something, whatever it is, tell mommy directly. Mommy will try to give it to Gean, no matter how hard it is, tell mommy."
Gean just looked into Khea's eyes. Her lips were still tightly shut, perhaps in her heart, wanting to ask for this, but afraid of incriminating Khea.
"Listen, mommy this is mommy Gean. Everything Gean has is mommy's responsibility. Gean's happiness, Gean's sadness, whatever happens to Gean and whatever Gean feels, mommy will feel it too. Mommy doesn't want Gean to be sad, just like Gean who doesn't want to see mommy sad, right? Whatever mommy feels, Gean will feel.and vice versa. Rightly so?
"Yes." Yeah."
"Why is that?"
"Because we're a package, Mom."
"Fail, because we're one package. Like a pair of hands helping each other, a pair of legs that both succumb, a pair of eyes that both see and a pair of ears that both hear. If one gets hurt, the other gets sad."
"Mommy doesn't want Gean to be sad. Gean, mommy really loves Gean."
Khea hugged Gean's little body. Swiping the boy's back. Khea knew and was very aware, she was not able to give her all for the child. Not only the material that the child needs, but also the affection of both parents are complete.
Gean closed his eyes, remembering the words of the mother who wanted him to say whatever he felt.
Mother and child both keep their feelings.
Gean knew that Khea was actually fishing to say, "I want to have Daddy."
The mother and daughter are really a package. Living alone for years, makes them more sensitive to each other. Can understand each other even though the mouth is locked tightly.
Containing for nine months with dire circumstances, raising with economic hardships and insults, made Khea of course more sensitive.
But people, as he knows, still think he's selfish. Separating a child from his father. He no longer intended to take Ken from Vara. Let the man be for Vara.
If people consider him a secondhand because of the events of the past, isn't that man also a second-hand item?
A victim and a perpetrator, what can be put together?
Khea wants to start a new life, but they always bring up her past. Whenever he saw Gean, he always looked with a look of pity, and that certainly made Khea dislike. Should his son be pitied in such a way?
Iba but meledek.
Khea opened one of her cell phones, which many messages came in for a meal together.
Elsewhere
Ken is setting up a tent. He has arrived at his destination. Camping alone. It is not only prayer itself that is here, because there are still many other climbers. The mountain air he inhaled deeply, then exhaled slowly.