Becoming Like My Mother
CHAPTER 35

Aaz and Maira frowned because when they said their greetings there was no answer at all. They look at it and think the same thing.

"Where to?" Aaz asked through his eyes, and Maira only shook her head in response.

They set their feet towards the television room. The last place they saw Melati's whereabouts earlier. Their eyes widened to see the chaotic state of space. Even some of the displays are split on the floor. They look at each other.

An angry and agitated feeling enveloped their hearts. Their minds were trying to deny the bad feeling they had just felt. Their beads circulated the view throughout the room and stopped at the red patches that showed clumsiness. Aaz glanced at Maira. He gave her a signal to follow the blood. Maura nodded and followed Aaz.

Their foreheads frowned as the more they followed the direction of the blood, the blood leading them towards the guest room. Their feelings are getting worse. Doubtfully Maira opened the curtains and looked at the room.

It was a surprise that they saw the state of the guest room. It's really messy and chaotic. What surprised them even more was the existence of Fahmi lying helplessly on the bed. Soon the two of them shifted their eyes.

There was a splash of water from the bathroom and the sobbing of a woman. The eyes of the two girls had turned red and were about to spill. It was as if everything in front of their eyes answered all the questions in their minds.

With closed eyes Maira approached her brother to cover his body with a blanket. Anyway there's his best friend here. Aaz stepped into the bathroom and opened it.

Tears can no longer be contained by Aaz. He saw the best friend was curled up with tears mixed with water flowing from the shower. He closed his mouth and his own body decayed.

He was tightly wrapped in that weak body. Jasmine's is getting louder and more bitter. It was as if his world was destroyed instantly. I don't know what else he has right now to appreciate. The stain on his body could not be removed at all.

Maira followed into the bathroom. He heard a loud noise from there. Eyes wide open to see the condition of his two friends. They are both soaked because of the water that continues to flow from the shower. Immediately he turned off his shower until the sound of Melati's cry sounded very clear and tight.

Just like Aaz, Maira was also very shocked and could not believe this. Judging by Melati's body that was flushed there were even some that turned blue. And the corner of his lips that were shaking and the traces of blood flowing from there were still faint.

Old Melati spilled everything she felt with her two best friends. Maura felt Melati's body shivering and weak. Maira and Aaz together help Melati to get up and take her to Maira's room.

Humaira's clothes on Melati. He himself saw it ache and could not bear to linger staring at the state of Melati. Aaz too, they didn't want to ask Melati anything. They accompanied Melati until their best friend fell asleep. Even though they know it will be very difficult to feel the sleep.

Aaz let out his tears again, blaming himself. If only he hadn't gone and left Melati alone. If he had brought Melati. If only, if, and if only Maira.

However all this happens if the two do not leave Melati alone. Maira raised her face, her thoughts were currently fixed on her Brother Fahmi. Well, the biggest mistake in this case was Fahmi's work.

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Plaque. The hard slap that Ikhsan threw directly to the corner of Fahmi's lips. No one wants to stop the almost half-century old man. I don't know what Fahmi's body is now. Various kinds of blows he had received. From his own father, Melati's older brother is Alif and now by Ikhsan.

The clock is at 01:56 in the morning. People usually fall asleep under the covers. But not at Mr. Faris's residence. The behavior that had been done by his eldest son made the atmosphere in the house hot.

Melati has been brought home by her Grandmother and Lulu, while Father and Brother are in a room that is increasingly tense. Maira and Aaz are also at Melati's house to accompany their best friend.

He doesn't even know what to talk about. Anger had engulfed him, but to get out his larvae he could not. Regret also approached him. It was really heavy that he felt right now.

Faris who saw his son who was very tired and shed tears in his wife's arms. And seeing a man of his very fragile age really feels I don't know. He himself does not know. From the beginning of the arrival of the Ikhsan family they directly hit Fahmi's body with a punch and swearing from Alif's mouth. But Ikhsan made no sound at all.

He dared to look at a man of his age.

"Sir, we know very well what my son has done is very disappointing and perhaps unforgivable. And we'll take responsibility for what Fahmi did."

Ikhsan raised his face, and Alif immediately opened his eyes. "What do you mean, sir?"

For a moment Faris closed his eyes and exhaled a long breath. "However your daughter's life has been destroyed by my son. There's no choice but to marry them."

Although Ikhsan had expected this to happen, but when it became a reality he still could not accept. The fact that Fahmi has a family and even has children makes his heart like a hot pebble.

"But your son is married to even become a father." Alif said in a high voice. Just now he was helping a woman to gain freedom from her bitter life and now he has to hand his sister over to the same hole.

"There's no other choice. If that doesn't happen what about your sister's life. Isn't there a possibility if the seeds that have been harvested Fahmi will grow. He will have no status. Not to mention the social pressure." Faris tried to give understanding.

Is correct. It is true what Mr. Faris said. Ikhsan's body is getting weaker, if he does not marry his daughter to the person who has destroyed her then it will have a bad impact in the future. But if he accepts all of this then his daughter will continue to share everything for life.

Marriage without love is used to it. Love will flow by itself. That's what most people think. But in Melati's life, even though she has gained love and affection it is not all completely owned.

"Give us time to think first. But we will never let go of your son Mr Faris!." Ikhsan. While Alif was just silent but the anger in him was getting boiling. He clenched both his hands.

"Yes sir, we are waiting for your answer."

Ikhsan and his eldest son left the house. Faris looked at his son and his wife, no matter how much wrong his son made, but he also still had a sense of pity with his circumstances. He invited his body to stand. Asking his wife to treat the wounds that were almost all over Fahmi's body.

"Bas..!!" Shouted Sasa, their daughter-in-law. She looked at her husband with reddened eyes holding in anger with tightly clenched hands. But seeing the state of her husband grew a little melas in her heart.

The two middle-aged men looked. They were shocked by Sasa's presence.

"Son." Call Mita with a tremble. He himself has understood the heart of the son-in-law. He gently embraced his mana shoulder.

Fahmi bowed his head, he was very ashamed of the mother of his son. He was very aware that his actions greatly hurt Sasa.