My Mother's Tears
Part 46 Pick up Maryati in Jakarta
“Mother..!” tia shouted as she approached her newly arrived mother.
“Yes God son, Mother has taken pains to find your whereabouts there.”
“You go wherever Yati, I have been waiting for you for a long time, I was forced to take Tia and Leni, because I did not see anyone near them, I was so scared, if your two children will be taken away from others.”
“Thank you brother, you saved my two daughters.”
“And only This, your suitcase that I can save, the rest is no longer there.”
“Oh, it turns out that Brother Ani has saved our suitcase.”
“Only one can you save Yati, because only the suitcase is still located outside your home.”
“Oh thank goodness Brother can still save one very valuable suitcase.”
“Really?"
“Iya.”
Since all the houses in the station had been burned down, the entire population was forced to evacuate in places they could occupy including empty train cars and the outskirts of the train tracks.
News of the fire was heard in Tomi's ears, a sense of worry made him look so agitated.
“What's Tomi? why do you look so nervous this morning?” ask Mayar who was sitting in front of Tomi.
“How I am not restless Kak, my house in Jakarta has been burned, at this time somehow my wife and children are there.”
“Now you've just been worried about it, when all this time you yourself ignored it.”
“I was forced to leave them Sis, because there I had no job.”
“If you don't have a job, then why would you go back to Sumatra without them?”
“The plan was to go home just to find a job, but after a long time, I didn't get that job.”
“That's because you're lazy, try if you're persistent in finding a job, a lot of really, a job in a city as big as Padang.”
“But I've tried Kak.”
“Lying! every day Brother only sees you sitting pensively here, without doing anything. Remember Tomi, Mother is old, you should give her shopping money, not constantly depend on her.”
“Udah, Brother knows what about me!”
“If in nasehati, you always argue, when what you say is true is not it?”
‘Iya, I know. Brother is always right.”
“Don't, in Jakarta you're always like this.”
While they were talking, Leli came out of his room, Leli saw something that made the two argue.
“What's up? why are you fighting?”
“Mother, how is it, Bun?”
“What's Tomi?”
“Our house in Jakarta burned out Mother.”
“Burned? when did it happen?”
“Three days Bun.”
“But at the moment, Mommy has no money son.”
“Then I have to what else, Bun? because I myself do not know how is the news of my wife and three children there.”
“Do you have Mayar money, if you have money, please lend Tomi, later let Mommy will pay it to you.”
“Must have one, I won't lend it to Tomi.”
“Why is that?”
“Because I don't want to complicate myself.”
“What does Sister mean?”
“If you come here with your wife and kids, we'll be the ones who will be troubled.”
“What I said wrong according to you.”
“I'm not saying that Brother's words are wrong, but I don't accept that Brother says that the arrival of my wife and children makes you all difficult.”
“Yes obviously hard! you yourself do not work, then who will give your wife and children to eat, whether we, or maybe also this old Mother.”
“Close your mouth Brother! you have gone too far, you consider me in this house.”
“You want to know, what do I consider you? I consider you trash! know...!”
Mayar's speech was unmitigated, with Tomi's emotions directly beating him, until the two fought each other, seeing his two children fighting Leli just fainted unconscious.
Instead of helping their Mother who has collapsed, they continue to fight and fight blows until battered.
“Hei! why are you fighting!” snapped Inah.
“He who started first Kak.”
“Not me but you started first.”
“Not bad you all, look! because of you, Mother so fainted, let's help me, to lift Mother to the couch.”
Together, they lifted Leli's body onto the cot. Then Tomi went out and left Mayar and Inah.
“Where are you going Yung?” ask Inah to know.
“I to the shop first.”
At the Bu Dini stall, Tomi seemed silent, he was confused where to find money to pick up his wife and three children.
“You why daydream Tom, not as usual, every come to this shop just playing gambling, have you run out of capital huh?”
“I'm confused Mom, this time really don't know what to do.”
“You're confused why?”
“My house in Jakarta has a fire, I do not know the news of my wife and my three children there, whether they survived or how.”
“So you already have a wife and child in Jakarta.”
“Iya Bu.”
“If you have a wife and children you left in Jakarta, then why don't you find a job here. Almost every day I see you're just playing gambling with them.”
“Where I work Mom, no job will accept me.”
“You lie, while the disabled are working a lot, why you are normal can not be accepted to work.”
“If you don't mind, please lend me money, so I can pick up my wife and my three children in Jakarta.”
“If it's a money problem, Mom is there, but when can you pay for it, that's what I have to ask you.”
“Later, if I already have a job, I will pay kok.”
“True, you'll pay?”
“True Bu.”
“Alright, I'll lend you some money to pick up your wife and three kids."
With pleasure, Tomi took the money from the owner of the stall, and without thinking again Tomi immediately wrote a letter to his friend who was on the boat.
“Don't forget, you find him up in Jakarta, give him this letter.”
“Good Bang.”
Like Tomi's message, when he arrived in Jakarta, Ramli immediately searched for Maryati's whereabouts at the train station. Seen by Ramli, not a single house was left, everything was level with the ground, in the area Ramli only saw barbed wire attached there.
Slowly, Ramli walked through each cardboard house and train cars located on the railroad tracks.
After checking several places, Ramli finally found Maryati, who was then staying one car with her brother Ani.
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