The Secret Daughter of the Mafia King
23. BE LATE

Mikaila woke up her sleeping daughter while it was almost seven in the morning.

"Jeroy! Wake baby! why does every morning prayer always sleep again? you can be late, baby." Mikaila grumbled while shaking her daughter's body.

"From the SYAKIRA sleep in class better SYAKIRA sleep first at home, mother."

SayAKIRA defended herself.

"alright. Now take a shower and get ready to go to school. Uniform and school bag are ready." Mikaila Shouted.

He hurried to dress up. Before long, SYAKIRA had already walked out of her room while topping her school bag.

"Let's go, ma'am!"

The two got into the car and Mikaila immediately took her car at high speed.

"Mother!"

"Yes baby!"

"Have you ever skipped school?"

Mikaila chuckles to reminisce about her childhood who also often skipped school if she does not like killer teachers.

"Ear!"

"What's the reason?"

"Yes, lazy, bored and want to be alone."

"Did mom go home?"

"No! I love to visit parks or playgrounds that keep you entertained."

"Can SYAKIRA skip school? please!"

Mikaila was flabbergasted at her daughter's request.

"Do you want to play with your mom?"

"That's what I want. I want to spend my time with my mom, can I?"

Mikaila thinned her lips while petting her daughter's request.

"Ok, what a great idea!"

Mikaila agreed to her daughter's request.

"Horeee!" My mother is the best mother in the world. Then what should we do, mother?"

"How about we go to the bike shop?"

Take Mikaila.

"Do you want to buy me a bike?"

"You have to learn to ride a bike again. If you grow up later you have to be independent, so start by bringing your own vehicle without asking to be delivered to anyone because not everyone closest to you will help you, if not yourself." Mikaila.

"Yes Mom! Isn't it now that SYAKIRA has learned to bathe herself and comb her own hair?"

"Good! that's what I want from SYAKIRA. Follow everything you've ever done for you, so you can work quietly without being bothered with SYAKIRA again."

"Mother! Why don't we go back to Indonesia. Meet with your father and mother's family in Palembang?"

"Why should I go back to Indonesia, baby? isn't our home and work here?"

"Syakira wants to enter the pesantren and spend time SYAKIRA by learning the science of God. He said there's a lot of very good modern boarding schools."

"Why should I stay in Indonesia?"

Syakira wants to memorize the Koran."

SayakIRA looks sad.

Mikaila pulled over her car upon hearing her daughter's request.

"Why should I go to school in a pesantren?"

"So SYAKIRA can make you happy. If one day the mother dies, the reward of SYAKIRA can be channeled all for the mother.

At least the mother did not get the grave punishment because she had received a prayer message from SYAKIRA. Syakira wants to be the son of sholehah.

Isn't the mother's son just SYAKIRA? Who else would pray for you if not SYAKIRA?" SYAKIRA's speech made Mikaila moody.

"Darling, daughter!"

Mikaila hugged her daughter and landed a kiss on her cheek. She cried hysterically at the words of her daughter who was busy thinking of her kindness.

"Mom will rethink your request, baby. Give me some time!"

"Mother! It would be nice if we died in the Muslim community who will pray for our bodies of more than forty people as a guarantee we enter the paradise of Allah."

Syakira prepares herself to lose her mother in her birthplace.

Syakira wanted her mother to die there and be buried there, which is important on Indonesian earth.

"Yes dear. That's what I've been thinking lately." Mikaila Timpal.

"All right then we go to the bike shop, ma'am."

Syakira distracts her grief with the pleasure her mother offers her.

Syakira began to sing a song that his mother usually sang if she missed the Indonesian homeland.

"Land spilled my holy noble blood. Beautiful and beautiful like diamond gems. My homeland, my mother's estate. All my life, I've been loyal to you."

The two sang together repeating the national anthem.

This time it was Mikaila who was drumming alone and her daughter was listening to her mother's melodious voice.

"There, Beta's birthplace. In buai bred mother, shelter in the old days, the end place closed eyes."

Mikaila's tears became more unstoppable as she kicked the last sentence of the song, where the end closed her eyes.

Syakira let her mother cry in memory of her homeland. So his mother moved her heart to return to Indonesia and died there.

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Mikaila invited her daughter to learn bicycles at one of the sports fields in their housing complex. That night he persistently trained SYAKIRA to be able to ride a bike without his help.

"Dear baby, hold the pedal of the bike. Don't be afraid, I'll take care of you from behind so you don't fall." Mikaila said while holding her daughter's bicycle seat.

Long time also SYAKIRA offset the steering of his bike until he was able to run his own bike.

"Mother, don't take the handle off! I'm afraid of falling." Pinta SYAKIRA is terrified.

"Dear baby, I'm not gonna let go of mom's hold until you can." Mikaila said as she pushed her daughter's bicycle.

Seeing that SYAKIRA had been able to compensate when pedaling his bike, Mikaila let go of his grip and SYAKIRA could do it himself without knowing his mother had already released the grip on his bicycle saddle.

Mikaila's breath went up and down while seeing her daughter was already able to ride her own bike. But, suddenly his gaze started to blur seeing his daughter from a distance.

"Oh my God, don't give me my sight now!" Pinta Mikaila while taking her breath that was still panting.

He also rested on one of the long benches in the sports arena.

"Jeroy! If one day you leave, never forget that you love you so much.

Live happily with your father and be a strong woman so as not to depend on men even though he loves you very much because we never know what God's destiny will be like tomorrow." Mikaila monologue.

"Momuuu! Hooray! Syakira can ride her own bike, mother."

Shouted SYAKIRA excited while pedaling his bike.

Mikaila applauded the success of her daughter. He encouraged SYAKIRA not to stop learning.

"Jeroy! Drink first, baby! You must be thirsty."

Syakira stopped in front of her mother and got off the bike. He gulped water up the toilet.

"God! apparently my mother's daughter is thirsty."

"Syakira's been holding back my thirst. Being too excited to learn the bike, SYAKIRA forgot to drink.

Fortunately there is a mother who always ngingetin SYAKIRA. What if you don't exist, who will remind SYAKIRA?"

Saying SYAKIRA unconsciously made Mikaila link her brows.

Degggggs...

Mikaila was so afraid to ask her daughter if SYAKIRA already knew she was seriously ill.

But seeing SYAKIRA's flat face, Mikaila was relieved that her daughter's words were just a coincidence not an insinuation.

"Let's go home, baby, it's night." Mikaila.

Mikaila asked SYAKIRA to get on her bike again while walking along with her.

"Mother! if only I could ask this time to stop for a while, I want to feel like I am happy for mom at all times.

But baby, time goes by while there's still a lot I want to do to make you happy, mom."

SayAKIRA in silence.