He's Not The Best
44. Buluk Child Then And Now

Child Buluk. Then And Now

“What Mom does not cry?” Winsi asked while looking at her mother who seemed not to hear her words. “Yes, Dad told me to change schools.”

“Mother means ... Whose father do you mean, Winsi?” ask Runa.

“I ..” Arkan Sahut.

Runa looked at the two people before her with furrowed brows and her gaze was sharp towards Arkan and her child. Indeed, he did not know what had happened in the hospital and also before then, until they came home so that Winsi could call Arkan as father, he said, obviously, he already has a father.

“What do you mean, Sir?” tanya Runa full search. “my child already has a Father so he does not need Father anymore.”

“But I want Daddy, can you, Yah?” ask Winsi while whining.

“Bby.” Arkan said with a smile.

“Pak, I beg you, do not add to the problem.”

Runa, when he first met Arkan, called him you and me but, after the incident in prison, he became more polite by calling him Father, You and me. He used formal language to honor the man.

Although Arkan had asked him to call her name alone but, he still insisted to call it that because it felt bad if you had to call her by name alone let alone indeed they were different ages.

“Indeed, who wants to add to the problem?” Arkan asked back.

“But ...” Runa said with doubt.

“Instead, if I think this will help solve Winisi's problem. You don't know how your husband is to your son, so let me comfort him, hopefully he can get better.” Arkan said according to his own argument, hoping that Runa could understand.

Runa was only worried when later there was a problem because of this call. Including with Basri, because in the birth certificate it is clearly written there that Basri's name as the father of Provinsi. Moreover, he did not feel good with Erlan the teenager was so close and respected him that he was worried if Winsi called his father with the same name, even though Winsi was not his brother, but he was not his brother, there will be jealousy until Erlan is angry and hates Winsi.

*****

For two days Winsi did not go to school and only rest at home, even so the girl was not so worried because the next day she would soon change schools. All the school transfer business has been well taken care of by Arkan.

Now he is in the big house to finish his business. He would take out a new outfit, his uniform that was different from his previous school uniform.

That night she sat at the dinner table with Arkan and Erlan. He was invited to come and picked up by Hasnu from his mother's shop. Runa was forced to reluctantly release her alone to it. Even though he said he didn't have to move because he was worried about troubling Arkan and his family, he remained helpless.

The girl was nervous, this was her first time sitting together at the dinner table, even Erlan's old grandfather was taking part. Badri joined there, after Winsi had eaten almost half of the food.

Moreover, the girl was not used to such good and luxurious tableware as the one currently in front of her. But the food provided was too good that he ignored the awkward taste and still enjoyed it even though, he only used a spoon, without a fork like Erlan and his father. If not for fear of being told by a village child he would have eaten directly using his hands.

“Win, now you are my son ...” Arkan said, breaking the silence, after his father joined for dinner. “So, you can come to this house often and eat with us. “ Arkan said without any worries at all.

After Arkan said that, Winsi looked doubtfully and fearfully at Arkan and Badru and Erlan.

"Yes, Dad!" said Winsi later.

He observed the faces of the three men before him, they showed different expressions. Arkan showed a friendly and meek expression of his face while giving him a sweet smile.

Erlan looked at him with an ordinary, flat face, but she was anxious to know what was said in the heart of the man, knowing that the father made her brother. While Badri, the old man, looked at him with a complicated expression, the frown on his face was so deep that it was hard to interpret his gaze, whether it was like it or not.

But what was important to him was that the rest of the family did not get angry and agree on what Arkan decided for him.

Badri moved his own chair, as he passed through Arkan, he said, “He is not an orphan that you should be sorry for, just because you like his mother. Just look here, the woman never showed her affection for you.”

“Daddy ...” said Arkan gently as he approached his father's wheelchair and pushed him slowly towards his room. “Indeed Runa's nature like that, but that doesn't mean she doesn't like me, she's just looking after herself because she's still officially someone else's wife.”

“It is precisely you who are stupid, because you like married women! What's in it like that, huh? Saina is prettier, she's coming home from abroad soon I think she's better suited to be Erlan's next mother than that country lady.” Badri said in a loud voice as if he didn't care if Winsi or anyone else heard his words

“Dad, I won't like Saina and won't marry her until whenever I already know what kind of woman she is.”

“What kind of woman is she? You're the one who saw it wrong. All this time he was good ... otherwise, he might be willing to spend so much money to help my restaurant in Amsterdam.”

“Dad, please don't bring up that thing again I've paid all the money he spent, paid off! Even accompanied by royalties and thanks with an amount that is not less.”

“Means you are not good because you always count your gifts. Unlike Saina, she had never brought up what she had given me. You don't know anything about sincerity?”

“Yes, I won't bring it up again.”

“Good. And remember about that little boy lest he treat you with disrespect just for thinking you're his father, you're too kind to him! Arkan, lest he ruin your good name outside then, he ran for your protection because you're his father!”

Arkan is silent and only helps Badri to lie down on his bed, after making sure that his father is in a comfortable state, he leaves him out of the room. There was no intention to argue with the man as it would only add to his emotions.

Badru's words, which requested that Winsi be careful in maintaining the good name of the family, gave the idea to invite the little boy to move and live with them. He was thinking right, if Winsi suddenly called him Dad out there, but he lived in a place that was not worth it if he was his son. M Had Winsi lived with them in a big house then it would likely make Saina would not feel at home for long there.

Arkan smiled wryly as he clenched his hands together, hoping that his plan would succeed in making Saina undo the intention of wanting to be a companion even though, Arkan had repeatedly refused.

Badri's support for Saina so much that he insisted on his stance and forced himself to always take the heart of Arkan, the widower of one child. Later, the man will apply the conditions if he wants to be his companion then, he must also want to be an adoptive mother for the Province.

Meanwhile in the dining room, Winsi was still sitting opposite Erlan, the two teenagers conversing in a tense atmosphere.

“Remember, if you want to be my father's son do not play rain again do not play mud again.”

“Absolutely who likes to play mud the same rain?”

“Yes, you! That's why you're bullied, right?”

“No, no, I'm not bullukan!”

“Whose word are you not bullying?”

“Yes, I was the one who said .. My people have bodies, kok!”

“Heh! Your mother used to tell you that you have hives, your body is red-red because you play rain, play mud with Merry in front of the house, what is the name if not buluk?”

“What?”

Winsi recalled, the event had happened a few years ago when he was first or second grade in Elementary School. He had been hit by an itchy disease all over the body, but it was over and, now that he had healed there were no more marks on his body. How could Erlan know, even if she didn't remember telling him all that?

‘What mother told the same Bi Neni, huh? Then, how could Erlan know I ever had those hives? Ahc ... Just be right!’ batin Winsi was upset.

“Terus .. If indeed I still have hives, as you would say I bulukan, do you want to expel me from here, so?”

Seriate