My Boyfriend Is An Alien
Episode 49: Opening the Mind

" Waaaah... want to eat well kok not invite-tak", Akio was already in the middle room, somehow he came, because mother, Alma and Bara were busy chatting.

" Loh, how come I'm here A...., has the business been sorted out?, I guess long ago, so I didn't come along. If you know the business for just a moment, I was there, nemenin".

Alma stood up to get a clean plate for Akio, and took some rice and chicken soup for her husband.

" Try the mother-made chicken soup, the taste is real A...".

" This sambel terasya also very top".

Alma still praises her mother's cooking.

Maemunah simply smiled as she shook her head.

" Let's eat, mumpung still warm, Alma too much praise mother's cooking. It's actually not that good, but since Alma is hungry again, so eating anything is said to be good". Maemunah is modest, because he thinks the taste of chicken soup is ordinary.

Akio sat down beside Alma, and bribed the rice and chicken soup into his mouth.

" Mommy is too low, right that Alma said, chicken soup is the same as the terasi sambel into a very delicious blend".

Akio ate voraciously, even to the point of adding rice.

After the lunch together was over, Bara helped Alma clean up the dirty dishes and carried them to the back to wash.

" How does the loundry kiosk progress, Mom?, what after adding employees is no longer working?", Akio tendered his body in the back of a chair.

" All the work can be handled, and more and more also entrust the laundry here".

" It turns out your advice to open a laundry business is very effective and efficient, indeed in this area there are not many loundry places, so there are not many competitors" said Maemunah excited.

Maemunah looked at Akio who looked tired from leaning his back against the chair.

" Rest in Alma's room, every day I clean her room, so it's still clean".

Akio did feel tired, and also wanted to fall down, but he just finished eating, so it should not immediately fall asleep, it could be distended stomach.

" Yes thanks Mom, later wait for rice as much as the soup down to the stomach first, then Akio to the room. If you want to go back to the stall is okay, Akio will be able to play with Bara".

Maemunah had indeed left the stall long enough, because it was cooked first.

" Yes, I'm staying, sorry I couldn't have a casual conversation for longer".

Akio nodded with a smile, "no papa ma'am, sorry I couldn't help at the stall" Akio said as he stared at his departure.

" Have you been to Kak's stall?", Bara came out of the kitchen after she was done helping Alma wash the dishes.

" Yes, just got out, what is it?, just follow it forward", Akio stood up and moved into the room, but Bara followed.

" Why?, do you want to play with brother?", Akio looked down at Bara.

" There is something I want to ask, this is only the two of us who know" said Bara lirih.

" Okay, have begun the secrets an nih..... brother Alma not told, what the hell is wrong?".

Bara only grimaced when he found out Alma was behind him.

" It's a man's business, so you don't follow".

Bara's words made Alma laugh because he was so anxious to hear the sentence conveyed by his little sister.

" Ooh.. So you can't go along, okay then. Brother go to the room first yes, want a break". Alma went into the room and closed the door, but she put her ear on the door, so she could listen to the conversation of her sister and husband.

Akio pretended not to know and asked. Though he already knew what Bara was about to ask, by reading his mind.

" It's about Mom, I don't want to discuss it with Alma, because every time she talks about it, she gets very sensitive, and he could have run away and suddenly left the house again like before".

Bara's speech is really like an adult, not according to his age

" Why Mother, but if Akio's brother can give advice, you should still tell your sister, even if it's unpleasant news". Akio sat on a chair that was close to Alma's room door.

" Alright, Brother Alma I'll tell you, but later ".

" Surely yesterday my mother told me that she has been lonely since Kak Alma lived with Akio's sister".

" Mom wants to get married again, he said so that the house is not too quiet ".

Akio smiled and rubbed Bara's head gently. " If you think to yourself, are you ready to have a stepfather?", Akio turned the question upside down.

Bara immediately shook his head, " Actually I feel sorry for my mother, because she had to be tired of looking for income to be able to meet our needs. Even to take care of me, I don't have time".

" That's why I'm closer to Alma's sister, than to my mother, I also know that Alma's sister never agreed to take the place of her deceased father".

" But I also feel sorry for my mother, for having to be able to take care of myself and me, without the protection of a husband".

" Mom should also refuse some male guests who come, and even some husbands of complex mothers who often come because they want to approach the mother".

" Sometimes mothers also have to accept abuse, insults, and even violence by complex mothers who are jealous because their husbands come to see you here".

" Pity to see you treated like that".

Alma who was still eavesdropping on Bara and Akio's conversation could no longer hold back her tears.

It turned out that Bara who was very small had been thinking about how her mother felt all this time. Even himself still can not behave as mature as Bara. And now Bara's words open his mind to be more mature, and not selfish.

Alma stood behind the door. Because it does not want to make Bara surprised, if suddenly he came out.

" You'd better discuss this with your brother, if Akio's brother agrees with whatever you want". Akio opens the room door, making Alma shocked to be caught eavesdropping.

" Kak Alma!", Bara looked at Alma who was grimacing in shame because he was caught eavesdropping.

Alma immediately ran over, hugging Bara. " I'm sorry, Alma, all this time. Brother only thought about from the side of brother alone, not thinking about how mom had been feeling all this time".

" Sister Alma will not ban the mother again, if the mother has a candidate and wants to be serious".

" Sister will also feel happy and calm at Akio's sister's house, if mother and you are already there to protect".

Bara returned Alma's embrace tightly.

" I'll tell my mom what she just said".

" Mommy will definitely be very happy, because finally get the blessing of Brother Alma".

Alma and Akio finally say goodbye first, going home to Akio, but when he went to the stall to say goodbye, Maemunah was not at the stall, taking the laundry to the customer's house.

" Well please tell mom if I come home" Alma said to one of the loundry workers.

" Well, Alma, I'll tell Mom. Actually, the driver of laundry delivery is not going in, therefore Maemunah's mother represents to deliver and take the laundry to the subscription house", explained one of the Maemunah employees.

Alma nodded in understanding. " Please excuse me first mba". Alma walked out of the stall, followed by Akio walking beside her, down the alley to where Akio's car was parked.