The Marriage of a Sports Teacher
Part 9: Five years ago 2

Pov Anisa (Mother Alika)

I was shocked when Juragan Mahendra shouted my name and my husband's name. Especially when he asked us to close the door of the cottage and lock it. And the thing that surprised me the most was when she said Alika was carried away by the river.

Jeedeeerr........

My heart was like being struck by lightning when I heard how our beloved daughter could be carried away by the river. As far as I know our little princess has been good at swimming since childhood. After all Alika also often went to the river but why only this time she got into trouble.

Immediately I immediately left the shoots of sweet potatoes (young cassava leaves) that I just finished picking. The plan was that the shoots of this sweet potato we will enjoy with the grilled fish caught by our daughter. But our daughter's plan of staying got into trouble while catching fish. Actually, I had a chance to feel surprised because Alika did not return after one jal left. Ordinary after an hour away Alika will return with six fish .

Luckily I haven't had time to blame the fire so I don't have to bother dousing it with water. Because indeed we have to use a bucket to get water from the well because here there is no electricity. After all, if electricity has already entered this agricultural area, it would be a pity if we installed electricity in the cottage we built on this person's land.

Actually, when we first met Mahendra one year ago. Juragan Mahendra offered to rent out a house to us for several years. And bought us a two-wheeler for our use. But we refused because we felt bad. It has been given this vast application alone we feel very lucky. Because people we don't know are willing to help us. While our brothers alone no one cared about the harsh reality that befell my little family. We were always ready to help our troubled brother. But now when we're hard they pretend they don't know us at all.

While running towards the car which is about 200 meters from the cottage. I remember what happened a year ago. A young, tall, and authoritative man wearing a white shirt and black base pants walked up to our one-room hut, which we built in the middle of a thatch garden near the river. The man introduced himself to us and offered us a 4 hectare plot of land for us to work on. At first we thought the man was just messing around or he was just my brother-in-law Michael's man trying to insult us. Our guess is that the man really wanted to help us for reasons that made no sense to us, said our daughter Alika has many services in her life . And finally we got to this point where the economy of our little family started to pick up and improve.

The look on Mahendra's face was very angry with someone. I hope that person is not me or my husband. I admit that in the terrible incident that happened to our daughter, I am also guilty. Because I've let our only daughter go to the river alone. I should have accompanied him because disaster/problems can come anytime and anywhere.

My husband was sitting in the front seat next to the driver's seat that Juragan Mahendra occupied of course. And I sat in the back seat where my daughter was. So surprised I saw the state of our daughter who was lying in the seat of this luxurious car. His body was soaked, his skin looked pale, there were some bruises and bruises on his body. And not his forehead and the corners of his lips are bleeding. There must be someone who tried to harm our daughter somehow wrong so that the person could hurt our daughter.

My tears just spilled as I closed the car door and the car started walking. We have just passed through one ordeal in our lives now there is another ordeal approaching us.

"DON'T TOUCH....." Mahendra shouted when he saw me who wanted to touch my daughter's cheek from the windshield.

I express my intention to touch our Bali because of the screams of Mahendra. Mahendra immediately apologized to us for yelling at me.

"Huffff. There were people who tried to harm him but I came and the man heard my screams and fled. Most likely Alika encouraged while trying to save himself "Say Juragan Mahendra as calm as possible. And we were just siamese because we were confused about what to respond .

To curse the perpetrator who harmed our daughter is useless. The perpetrator will not be caught by our means alone. Our daughter will also not wake up and recover just like that when she hears our curse. So we better be quiet and pray in our hearts that our daughter will be healed.