The Second Choice (English Version)

Chapter 17

"Agan come home!!" Rafgan exclaimed as he knocked on the door of the house, which looked minimalist but elegant, calling out to the people in the house.

"Yes!! Wait a moment, child!" Rafgan's mother answered while shouting a little from the kitchen. Rafgan and Aluna waited for mother to open the door to the house.

"Ah! my child done home's. There's Aluna, my beutifull girl too." Said the mother after the mother opened the door to the house with a smile to welcome her two beloved children.

"I missed you so much, pretty." Said the mother while hugging Aluna's small body while smiling happily. Aluna hugged mother's body again with love and emotion, nodding. He said he also missed Rafgan's mother.

"Look, if you just meet, your child will be forgotten." Rafgan said sullenly, pretending to be jealous. Mother just laughed out loud, "You see Mama every day. So I'm bored, and don't disturb Mama's time with Aluna!" mom teased while shooing him away. Then he told Rafgan to go far away from him and Aluna.

"Oh, so now Mama is kicking Agan out? Alright! Just watch out if Mama asks me to take Aluna home again, Agan won't obey Mama." Rafgan challenged, threatened. The mother immediately glared at her only son with a deadly gaze, then she pulled his only son's ear as punishment.

"How dare you threaten Mama heh?! You're a big girl, aren't you!??" The mother continued to pull her only son's ear angrily. Rafgan could only complain and beg his mother to remove the string from his ear while apologizing to his mother. Aluna, who saw this, just laughed, because she saw the harmony between mother and child.

To be honest, he felt jealous of Rafgan, who since childhood was very close to his parents, both his father and mother. Meanwhile, he could only swallow the bitter taste of having a mother who had always destroyed him mentally since childhood, and having a cold and flat father who had misunderstood him all this time. Even though his relationship with his father is now fine, he still feels disappointment, pain and anger.

"Never mind, Mama and Aluna just chat casually for now. I want to go inside and put away the shopping first," said Rafgan, giving up on teasing his mother. Saying goodbye to his mother and Aluna. Aluna and Rafgan's mother nodded, letting Rafgan just go inside. Leaving the two of them on the front yard terrace which is quite spacious and filled with neatly trimmed flowers makes this minimalist house look even more beautiful and beautiful.

"So, my pretty girl. How have you been lately, hum?" Mama asked, starting the conversation after they sat on the terrace chairs. Smiling softly at Aluna. Aluna was silent for a moment, then smiled sweetly. "Aluna is fine, Ma. Aluna is healthy, and Aluna is happy because Dad has come home and is accompanying Aluna." Aluna answered honestly, smiling happily. Mama, who saw the beautiful smile of the girl she loved, gently stroked Aluna's head.

"Thank goodness you are healthy and fine, honey." Said the mother, smiling sincerely. Staring closely at Aluna's clear black eyes. Aluna nodded, then smiled back, showing her neatly lined little teeth.

"How about Mama? How are you doing so far, Ma?" Aluna asked back, looking curiously at the middle-aged woman who loved her more than her own mother. Mama smiled, "as you can see, son. Mama is in good health, in fact so healthy, I can go back and forth down and up Mount Bromo. Hahaha!" answered mama laughing, showing that she was in good health. Joking. Aluna laughed at Rafgan's mother's joke, feeling amused.