CLARIN'S WISHING

"Runi, you should take care of Senyo. I'm going to the supermarket now."

Huh…!

I let out a long air from my mouth. Thankfully, father came right on time. Senyo-Senyo. Watch your mouth, idiot!

"You comes again this tonight, right?" Mother asked, pushing my wheelchair into the patient's room.

"There's no way I'm relaxing at home while my son and daughter-in-law are lying in the hospital." Father fixed the collar of his shirt. Grabbed the car keys on the nightstand, then ran outside.

"Honey, what did you want to talk about?" After father's back was away, mother again asked for my words.

"Which one, Mom?" I asked feigning amnesia.

"About your father and Ranti,"

"Oh Hahaha. Forget it, Mom. I'm also confused as to why you can say something like that." I tricked Mother with a forced laugh. However, it wasn't easy for her to just trust me.

"Don't play games, Senyo. Say the truth!" Mother's tone was firm.

"Don't yell at a sick child, Mom. Really, I just misunderstood. I'm not feeling well," I replied, rolling my eyes.

"Just watch out if you're hiding something!"

Mother turned to the couch and read a magazine with her legs crossed. Meanwhile I lay back on the patient gurney. I hope to recover quickly. Tired of seeing a white room and eating white porridge.

***

There was nothing I could do but turn on the television without watching it. Mother is going home to clean the body, while father is still at the supermarket. It's likely they'll be back again at the same time, but I don't know when.

Mrs. Ranti just came out of the room after she finished feeding me. She did not discriminate between Nara and me. The wingless angel treated me like her own child.

When I was about to reach for a glass of water on the nightstand, suddenly my eyes caught a small arm pulling the knock on the transparent door of this room. Before long, her oval face appeared and she walked towards me.

"Honey, how are you? I'm very worried," said Clarin.

This afternoon I gave her the sad news that happened to me after Clarin sent messages all night, but I didn't reply to any of them. She mumbled incoherently, thinking that Nara and I were on a secret vacation. Even though her husband and honey were unconscious after falling into the river.

Clarin took the opportunity because father and mother were not here. She got that information from me too. For the last three months I forbade Clarin to meet Mother. They only communicate via social media. I don't want our marriage to be exposed because Clarin's stomach is getting bigger day by day. There's no way mother didn't know that she was pregnant if she looked at her current condition.

"Only pain in the legs and shoulders, honey. What are you doing here?"

"Take an online vehicle. Uh, if only you bought me a car." Clarin bends her face so that she looks sour.

"I will grant it after you give birth. I don't want anything to happen to you."

"Up to you! Where's Nara? How is the condition?" Apparently Clarin was curious about my first wife.

"She's in the next room with her mother. The wound on Nara's head is quite severe."

"Really? That's fine. I wish she all died. So that I can be the only wife." Clarin is slyly knotted. Her eyes narrowed.

"Ah, how about your car?" she asked again.

"My car was badly damaged and father left it at the police station. Maybe he'll buy me a new car." Yesterday, he said that he would help me. I refused, but he kept insisting.

Clarin opened her mouth wide to form the letter O, as well as her eye. She was jumping on the spot while curling all the fingers.

"Is that true? I hope your father buys you a much nicer car," she said happily.

These days I hesitate to accept father's gifts, no matter how small. I don't want father to think of me as his little boy who needs nothing to help. Faher had offered to pay for Nara and I's treatment until we were both completely healthy. However, remembering that father was going to buy me a car, I turned down his good intentions. It's not good if all father bears it.

"Honey, I want some money." Clarin squeaked again.

"What for? Your monthly money has been fulfilled, right?

"I need money for treatment, honey,"

Just be honest. I am very surprised with Clarin. Since becoming my wife, she often asks for money in an unreasonable amount. My savings are getting thinner day by day because of it. I don't know where she used my gift. If it's just shopping and maintenance, I don't think it's that much. Yeah, unless Clarin pays for terminally ill people. And, I think her family is fine.

"How much do you need?" I asked.

"300 million,"

"Huh, what for, Clarin?" I shut my mouth. Surprised by the answer.

"Honey, do you think that treatment is cheap?"

"It wasn't like this before,"

"I'm pregnant, Senyo. My body needs much more care when it's like this. Do you want your wife to be ugly? It's enough that Nara is just being neglected." Clarin's arms folded across her chest. The highlight is so sharp.

"Clarin. Right now I have other responsibilities."

"What do you mean?" Clarin brought her face closer.

"I need a lot of money for me and Nara's treatment. Moreover, we were both in the VVIP room,"

"What?! So, you care more about that damn girl than me?" Clarin's jaw hardened.

"It's not like that, honey. I can't let Nara get hurt. How did Mr. Jpohan and Mrs. Ranti respond?"

"Outrageous! It seems you have the courage to defend Nara,"

cluck…

In the midst of our debate, suddenly father and mother appeared simultaneously. Both of them were so shocked when they saw Clarin and I were in the same room.

"Clarin, what do you want?" Father was the first to take immediate action.

We were so awkward and surprised. Everything was beyond expectation. I thought that father would arrive at midnight, considering he was still perched at the supermarket. If so, what can you do? Clarin and I were caught red-handed.

"Umm –I -Mr.…"

"Go out!" Father pointed his finger at the bedroom door.

"Wait a minute, um. I still have business with Senyo."

"Get out, Clarin!" Father's tone is higher. Glaring at Clarin with gritted teeth became an option.

Clarin never came out. She looked at me, hoping for a defense.

"Senyo, how many times has I told you not to have anything to do with this woman again? You're already married, remember that!" Now, I also got sprayed by father.

Ah, if only father knew that Clarin was my wife too.

"It's not like that, Dad. Clarin only came to visit. It is not good to forbid people who are sympathetic." I tried to defend Clarin in front of father.

"Women like her must have certain intentions behind all this," replied father, not wanting to lose.

At first glance I saw Mom's expression turned tense. She looked at Clarin from head to toe, then stopped at the stomach. Shortly after, she questioned something I dreaded.

"Clarin, you have a big belly. Are you pregnant?" Mother took a step to hold Clarin's stomach.

***

Continued