The Substitute Woman on the First Night
Becoming a Parent

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2 Years went by so quickly, a lot has changed from my life today. In addition to running the Al Craft Production business, I also have to get used to my new role as a wife from Delano and also the mother of Keisha who is currently living in my house. The new house that Delano had prepared for me.

"Darling, are you ready yet?" Delano was heard asking from the front of the room when I had just finished putting on clothes.

"Yes, Honey. It's done, though." Not wanting to make Delano wait any longer, I got out of the room. Today, Delano and I plan to take Keisya to his parents' grave for the first time. Something I've been putting off for a long time. However, at the age of Keisya who is now 4 and a half years old, I feel it is good to invite him to know the final resting place of his parents.

"Long time was ready." As soon as I left the room, Keisya had already greeted me with his chirp. Yes, that's how Keisya is. He grew up to be a sweet and beautiful good boy. Even if I look at it, it's like I see a figure of myself in him. I don't know why his habits and style of speech are so similar to mine. Was it when Almira was pregnant that she always thought of me? Maybe, but I can't confirm it because I no longer have the opportunity to ask Almira this. There were only a few sentences he had spoken during our last meeting in the hospital, namely an apology and he also did not forget to leave Keisya to me. After that, Almira said nothing more and exhaled her last breath a moment after she nodded in response to my apology. The memory seemed to carry my mind far back. Of course it was the darkest moment of my life, even worse than when I heard the verdict from the judge. The moment where I lost my twin brother for all eternity.

"Well, why daydream?" Keisya again asked me when he saw me pensively in the doorway of the room.

"That's okay, honey. Yes, the road! Papa where to?" I asked Keisha who was right next to me.

"Papa, another car manasin he said."

"Yes, let's follow up, Papa!" I immediately grabbed Keisya's hand. Start walking towards the terrace of the house.

"I'm sorry, honey. I'm late, yes" I said shortly after I got out of the house while locking the door.

"It's okay, let's go! I'm just afraid that if we leave later the streets will be jammed, understand it's Sunday and the date of youth again."

"Yes you're right too. We are walking!" I got in the car and sat with Keisya behind the steering wheel.

Keisya never stopped asking what a funeral was. Of course he still doesn't understand at his age and I'm thinking of the right sentence to answer his question so he can understand more easily. "The cemetery is a place where the dead rest in peace, dear," I said after a moment of silence from thought.

"Why don't those people just rest in bed, Mah? Why at the funeral? Isn't it nice to rest in bed, especially if the bed is like the one in Mama's room, big and soft."

I saw Keisya just shut up. Maybe he was digesting my words that he had just heard for the first time.

"If you don't understand it's okay. If you grow up, you will understand. So don't you think about it, baby!" While rubbing Keisya's head I said that slowly. I hope he understands what I mean. I do read often in various parenting books if children the age of Keisya do have a high curiosity and will more often ask about anything they first heard or saw.

"I know, Mah." Keisya smiled while looking at me. A smile so adorable that I kissed her cheek gently.

"Mama's dear to Keisya."

"I love Mama too."

"Just like Mama, Kei. Same with Papa?" Suddenly Delano who had been focused on his steering wheel chimed in on Keisya's words.

"I love you too, Papa."

The atmosphere in the car right now really makes me feel good. It wasn't easy for me and Delano to decide this. Introducing ourselves as Keisya's parents after reading Mas Denis's letter sent to me. A letter that made me so clamped. Yes, in the contents of the letter, Mas Denis made a request that I and Delano could raise Keisya as a child. In the letter also Mas Denis handed all his wealth to Keisya which made the child immediately become a millionaire at his young age. However, not only that, Mas Denis also said in a letter he wrote that he wanted to die in the cemetery right next to Almira so that he could always be close to his wife.

I thought it was just a wish I didn't know when it happened. However, a week after I received the letter, I found out that Mas Denis had been found overdosed on a sedative in a hotel room. Yeah, since taking Keisha to my mom's house, he never saw Keisya again and seemed to disappear until it was difficult for me to meet because he never came home or came to his company.

"Now you don't have to worry about Keisha anymore because me and Delano will always look after and love her like our own children," my mind is full of haru while remembering the last message from Almira and Mas Denis. The message where the two left Keisha to me.

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