Becoming Like My Mother
CHAPTER 17

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Writing an online novel accompanied by a cup of hot chocolate has indeed become a daily routine Melati in free time. Alif approached the sister, also with his laptop. Usually Alif also gave ideas for the storyline of the novel that Melati wrote.

"Ehm Brother,.." Melati glanced at her sister who was focusing on her laptop.

"Hmm" replied Alif. He did not even look at Melati.

"Emm, yesterday I saw Sister. Who is it?, also the baby she's carrying?" Ask Melati carefully.

Alif was surprised to hear it, he suddenly stared intently at Melati.

Melati who got such a gaze was also no less surprised. He himself was confused as to why his brother had turned into this sensitive.

"Ke..why Brother?, Salah huh?, I did not follow Brother at all. It's just a coincidence"

Alif raised one eyebrow, then let out a rough breath. He looked the other way. Explain what he has been through all this time.

"Kalo is indeed Brother does not want to tell it yes whatever. I'm also not a person who likes to be curious about someone's personal life." Said Melati who saw her brother was silent from earlier.

"You promised you wouldn't say anything to Dad or Mom, right?" Said Alif looking at Melati seriously.

"Kha, where might I tell you that, I'm not the type to gossip."

"Yes, my brother will tell me. You're old enough anyway, so you could give me some advice."

Jasmine just silent mangosteen.

"So?"

"She's the woman you love." replied Alif timidly. He turned his face away.

Melati was surprised to see it, not because she heard her brother's words. But looking at Alif's facial expression. The first time he saw her.

"Ouh, keep the kid?.."

Alif's face turned sad. She hesitates to answer her sister's question.

"I. that.., her husband's son" lowered her voice in the last two words of her sentence.

"WHAT?!!" Jasmine spouted the drink she had been drinking in the other direction because she was so surprised. Fortunately, both her parents and her sister did not hear Melati's voice.

Melati stared intensely at Alif. "Aren't you going to be a bully?!" Ask Melati cynically.

"Well, anyways, Lulu is a widow too. There's no harm, right?" Ask Alif confidently.

"Astaghfirullah, Brother. What a difference, yes wrong do this brother. Moreover, they have been blessed with a child. Brother want to separate a child from his mother or father?" Melati was completely ignited by her own emotions facing this Brother of hers.

Alif sighed, he also had his mind muddled at the moment. All this time he had always thought about Lulu's fate. The woman he loved.

"Listen to Mel, the older sister was just helping Lulu get away from her husband. Her husband had betrayed her by marrying Siri to another woman. Since then, Lulu has never received justice from her husband. She even got a KDRT by her husband."

"What do you think is wrong with the Deck that Brother's doing now?" Ask Alif limp.

Melati shook her head, "Emm for that I don't know Kak how to get out. But if you think it's the best, why not. Then, what about his son Kak Lulu?, Doesn't every child certainly want to get complete affection from both parents?"

Again Alif took a rough breath and looked the other way. Honestly, he himself is very willing to be a father to the son of the woman he loves. But the boy was also willing to make him his father.

"So that Brother doesn't know Dek. But if Lulu maintains her marriage is it the best?, isn't it, the woman who has been pitted against her even though her husband loves her there are still those who don't accept her. Moreover, Lulu who never got justice even only KDRT that she got Melati. Psychics can also falter if depressed continues. And it also affects his son."

"But if Kak Lulu can't get love from her husband, why does her husband keep her. And didn't he have another wife?" Tanya Melati who actually has also been very furious with the husband of the woman who loved Alif.

"Because his second wife was barren, could not give him offspring. So he didn't divorce Lulu. Lulu just he's defense to get offspring."

Jasmine rounded her eyes wide. How could there be such a man. If only he could meet, he would have taught the man a lesson.

"Astaghfirullah Brother, there is such a man. " Jasmine shut her mouth.

"Then from the Deck. It is not wrong for you to separate her from her husband. Lulu deserves to be happy too. You support you to get Lulu."

"Yes, that's for sure. I'll be in full support even if I need to I'll help as much as I can."

Alif smiled and stroked the hair wrapped in hijab owned by Melati. "Thank you Mel."

"Yes, brother, but if you can know Brother how can you meet him?" Ask Melati curiously.

"So then Brother was again on his way home from college. Accidentally seeing a woman running with her legs limping.

So yes because Big Brother thought to help him huh Big Brother went towards him. And you know how her face is. Almost his entire body was covered in bruises.

I was really in shock at that moment. He tried to offer her to take him to the hospital. But he still felt compelled to refuse. Because it was indeed the state of his weak body, he was shaken up by himself. Fortunately there was Big Brother, so Big Brother directly brought him to the nearest RS-" Long said Alif who was suddenly cut by Melati.

"Ouh so that a few weeks ago Brother came home late even almost always night. Could it be that Big Brother is waiting for that woman?"

Alif nodded and continued his story.

"A few days his body began to improve. But Big Brother still did not dare to ask what he had already experienced. He asked Big Brother to temporarily give him a ride. So yes Brother took him to the apartment Brother who is on the street x it's the Deck,"

Melati nodded in understanding.

"So to be honest from that time until now he was still in Brother's apartment. A few days ago Brother and she tried to go to her husband's house to pick up her daughter. And thank goodness it worked. It is certain that her husband is currently looking for the whereabouts of his first wife and children. Hence Big Brother asked him for a while not to come out at all. So for any purpose she needs she should contact Brother."

"Ouh so that, if I can be ready Kok Kak if I accompany Kak Lulu. I also want to get to know him more closely" said Melati.

"Emm, well Brother is also actually happy that Lulu has become a friend. But how do you tell Dad?"

"For that's an easy matter, brother." Melati smiled and replied Alif. For a moment they were silent and busy wandering with their own thoughts.

"Em Kak, Kak Lulu is there no intention to sue her husband for divorce?" Ask Melati carefully.