One Road, Six Ways

One Road, Six Ways - Part 3

Lorna was shouting with pain as Lupo slapped her twice in her face.

"You like it that I will break your  face? Huh!"

"Get lose your daughter!" Marlina, the mother of  Lorna shouted.

"Your daughter have no respect on me! She always made me angry! " and Lupo pushed Lorna away. Lorna fall on the floor. 

"Lorna is the one feeding us, but you always beat her!" Marlina said.

"Because she don't respect me! And you always take the side of your daughter, maybe you like it also to have a black eye from me."

"Try! Try it! You see this?" and Marlina raised up the knife she's holding. "I will not think twice to stabbed your useless body with this! Try it!"

"Ah, you and your daughter are the same. You are all pests in my life! If I cannot control myself, I will break that television on your both head!" Lupo was shouting.

"You will break the TV? Don't dare it. Lorna paid for that from what she earned working in the night club which your forced her because you are lazy, with your useless big body!" Marlina was angry to her husband.

"Don't pushed me hard because if I really got angry and I cannot control myself I will burn this house all of you within it!" and Lupo with his zigzag walk went away.

Marlina heaved a sigh of relief, returned the big knife to the kitchen and went back to comfort Lorna who was sitting on the sofa and crying.

"Do you have pain? Does your face hurt?" she asked Lorna.

"Inay, if I am already in abroad you can separate that no shame husband of yours. I will support you and my brothers." Lorna said while wiping her tears.

"Lorna, please, he is your father."

"Sometimes I thought that he's not my father. Where can you find a father that forced his daughter to work in a night club?" Lorna was really angry to her father.

"Before, your father was not like that. It only started when he lost his job, he then started to drink. I knew you don't like it working in a night club as a hostess but it's not only your father you have to blame. When your father asked me about you to work as a hostess in the night club  I agreed because we really needed the money at that time. I am sorry, please forgive me for that." Marlina tearfully asked forgiveness from her daughter.

"Inay!"

"That time, you knew that the money was really needed. Your brother must be admitted in the hospital. That time the owner of the night club was the only one who can lent us the money!" Marlina continued.

"I knew, Inay, but he did not do his best to find a job. The other father did what they can do to support their family, even gathering garbage, one of the girls in our group her father only earned his income by gathering empty bottles and old newspapers." 

"Your father was a college graduate. He had a diploma in Accountancy. Something happened in their company and he was the one blamed when he did nothing wrong. He lost his job and its difficult for him to find a job so he began drinking, maybe because of losing hope and that he was angry to himself. Don't hate your father. He loves you!" Marlina said.

"It's okay, Inay. If I'm already working abroad, I will give you and Itay** a capital for business. Maybe for a convenience store. Only, we still have a problem. Where will we get the twenty five thousand I needed for the placement fee." Lorna was worried about the money she needed to pay the agency.

"I will talk to your father if he's not drunk. We must find a way to have the amount for your placement fee. We can also sell things, the refrigerator, the cabinet, the TV." Marlina said.