Love Johanna
Section 18

...LOVE JOHANNA...

...Author by: David Khanz...

...Section 18...

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"I deliberately killed my HP, Mas," Hanna said in a soft voice. He wanted to respect the atmosphere of the sermon that was still going on.

"So that's why? I understand, Hanna," said Ravi again after explaining Hanna about the inactivity of his phone during that time. "I'm worried, something has happened to you. That's why I'm looking for news to get to your college."

"I'm sorry, Mas. I don't want to bother Mas Ravi."

The male's timpal, "It is precisely I who should apologize, Hanna. I came at the wrong time."

"Nothing, Mas," said Hanna as she glanced at the figure of her mother and sister who stood right on the edge of the burrow ahead there. Aunt Chika is no exception. The woman looked like she was watching both of them.

"Mas ..." call the girl then.

"Hmmm?"

"I want nanya."

"Ask," answered Ravi.

For a moment Hanna thought, then continued to ask, "May I pay my last respects to Papa's body?"

"of course. Please."

"But …." Hanna glanced back at her Tanten figure, Chika. "Someone asked me to sing spiritual songs before Papa's coffin was put in the grave."

"Hmmm?"

"My aunt asked for it."

Ravi replies, "That's .. obviously not, Han."

"Why?"

Ravi looked to his left-right side. "Later I will explain if this event is over," he said he felt bad to talk about sensitive issues in the middle of such a funeral event. "It's just about attending a funeral like this, I don't think it's a problem. That was also the reason only limited to giving a final tribute to your late father. Your family."

"Kalo ngedoain Papa?"

Ravi took a deep breath. Then he replied, "Just get a good sentence. For anything else, let it be God's business later. Most importantly, your filial duty to your parents, you have fulfilled it well."

"Ehem!"

Someone's snorting. Spontaneous made Ravi and Johanna speechless. Then the girl decided to rejoin the family.

"So that man who's been nolongin you all this time, Hanna?" ask Aunt Chika once Johanna is already among her family. "I don't think he's a good person."

"It could be that the two of you are even dating while your family is mourning like this" grumbled Aunt Chika back. "Your father's body hasn't been disfigured. You even know people who have absolutely no interest here. Moreover, he is an Is—"

"Mas Ravi came alone, Auntie," Johanna said, wiping away tears, saddened.

"Mas Ravi?" re-question Aunt Chika with disgusted mimic. "Even the way you call him, it's as if you have a special relationship."

Johanna's chimpanzee is upset, "Mas Ravi's just Hanna's friend, Auntie. Not more."

"Now you can say that. Long time you guys—"

"Ssttt .. can not be, you empathize a little," said Mama Lilian heard the two noisily in the middle of the event. "You don't see us anymore, what, huh? I-I ... my family ... again grieve, Chika!" Mama Johanna's voice stammered. "You too Johanna, you should understand that! Not yet your father's buried, already macem-macem."

"Yes, Ma. Sorry." Johanna down.

"Yes, Lord ..." sighed Mama Lilian back sobbing sedan.

Andrew chimed in from the other side of his mother, "Biarin aja, Ma. They never cared about Papa. Especially Brother Hanna, since she became different like 'that's."

"Ssttt .. h-hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. "We focus on Papa's doain, yes." He immediately grabbed his youngest child. Whatever Jonathan's attitude in life, for the woman, he is still a husband and father to himself and his two children, Johanna and Andrew.

In Lilian's eyes, Jonathan was simply doing his duty as a head of the family. Regardless of the mistakes that have been made, it is only because he who has not been able to fully become a good wife and an exemplary mother for children.

Long before Johanna was known to have converted (religion), Jonathan's attitude was fairly mediocre. Never once treated Lilian nor her two children so hard. It is far inversely proportional after everything changed, since their firstborn daughter so.

"This is all because you can't afford to educate Johanna!" jonathan then. He ruffled his waist with a reddened look of eyes restraining his anger. "Never know that he's been a part of those assholes!"

"I really don't know, Pa," Lilian replied in fear.

"What don't you know, huh?" jonathan asked back in a thunderous voice. "It should have been since the beginning he rarely wanted to attend the service, that you suspect him! Keep working all this time anything, huh? Do you want to, 'that? Do I have to take care of the kids too?"

"Ma …."

"I'm tired, Ma!" the man did not give his wife a chance to chim in. "I make money everyday for you! For the education of children! Now what's the outcome? Free! Even you mean Johanna hangs out with obscure men! Now it's proof, isn't it, what's it going to be?"

"Johanna was like that not because of that man, Pa. He said it to me himself" Lilian tried to explain. "It was because of our mistake too. We gave him less spiritual education, Pa."

"What is lacking?" jonathan won't lose. "From childhood until college now, he was always put into a special school. Not to mention Sunday school. You're the one who doesn't care about him!"

The dispute did not end. Although Lilian had tried to explain as much as possible, Jonathan did not want to understand. It was not uncommon from a commotion after a commotion like that, to end in violent acts. The old man felt that he had failed in educating the child. Especially the problems that exist, it is precisely the thing he hates the most so far.

"Your father had wanted Johanna for a long time and you were active in the church, Drew," Lilian told her son Andrew. "Your father wishes to serve fully, to be a servant of the Lord Jesus. That's why, knowing Johanna like that, your Papa is angry."

"Isn't it because Papa hates Muslims, Ma?" asked Andrew plain. Mama Lilian snorted, then replied, "On that .. don't talk about it anymore, Drew. Mama won't talk about it."

"Why, Ma?" ask the boy back. "It looks like Papa is like that, right? The proof ... Papa never want to associate with our Muslim neighbors."

"It's ..." concluded Mama Lilian while patting her son's arm. "It's not good to say that. Let it be your own Papa's secret. Mama won't interfere."

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