Chapter 27 Tina's thanksgiving event
Fen's eyes looked all over the place around them standing. Jeez! It turned out that Era's husband had stepped on Alvin's toy – his fourth son. Alvin's toys are always just left lying on the floor. However, there was no way he could not see it, even though the toy was giant. He should have been more careful to entering the house.
At that moment, Alvin ran towards his toy. As he expected, now his fourth son was crying uncontrollably when he found his toy which had been shattered with broken pieces scattered everywhere.
"Mother!" His cries grew louder as he approached his mother.
Fen, who saw that, was actually very upset and wanted to be angry and yell at them. When Fen turned to his husband, David just looked relaxed without the slightest care. What an outrageous!
Fen tried to calm her son Alvin, at that time Bertrand, who was still crying, was silent as if he knew his mother was in a big mood. To quell her emotions, she chose to go behind the house and sit with her two children under the mango and Cambrian trees.
Coincidentally, the tree is indeed bearing fruit, and it's just waiting to ripen until it falls on its own. "Pung!"
"Mother…! There are mangoes falling!" cried Chica who was not far from there, she started running towards Fen while grinning.
Fen walked to pick up the mangoes. At that time, the sound of a motorcycle horn sounded. Someone stopped in front of a house that happened to be across the street from their house. "Feni…!" A woman burst into her house rushing.
Hey! Tina, are you coming?" Fen frowned, still unable to believe that Tina's neighbor and close friend is now back. Tina looks excited to hug her old neighbor Fen. "You look thinner sister, what have you been eating up to this point now, have you been experiencing this lately? Hurt?" Tina patted Fen's shoulder.
While Era was happy and immediately went inside with her husband. He ignored Fen and left Alvin with his broken toy car.
Meanwhile, Fen chatted with her friend. Don't know what Era the kitchen is doing. As expected, it turns out that Era was busy looking through all of Fen's shopping and kept it in a plastic bag. "Let me know your taste, finally I can eat satisfied today." Era smiled crookedly as if she felt victorious.
Andri her husband can only be silent without the slightest move. He knew that what he was doing was wrong, but he couldn't forbid it because he couldn't buy it directly for his wife.
After Era scooped up everything, he immediately wanted to take her away from there while walking quickly.
Brukk!
Oh, no! Era bumped into something in front of her and everything she was carrying fell apart. "Is that what you brought?" David, his older brother, was seen folding his arms to his chest. His face didn't show the slightest bit of friendliness. "Is this the younger brother who has always been a favorite? Did it turn out that you are like this? No wonder, my wife doesn't really like your presence here. You brought all of that with your sister-in-law's permission. Don't just because I'm always defending you, you just go around and do whatever you want in this house. Remember Era, this is my house, not a place where you walk around as you please. Do you understand?" David again snatched some of the groceries that were still left in his hands.
"Master David!" Era was not happy with her sister's attitude, while trying to take back what she had almost managed to get.
"Don't embarrass me even more, Era. If you like, it's better if you tell him directly. Maybe it will look more noble than this. You, it's like no one taught you Era." David felt embarrassed and left the two of them, heading towards the front yard of the house.
"Father!" Chica, the eldest, was seen approaching David with a serious face. "Dad! Let's go to Aunt Tina's house, we are invited to go to a thanksgiving ceremony. Eat curry chicken and grilled fish. Hmm! I can't wait to taste fried chicken."
David turned his head, he was a little surprised by what his eldest daughter said. However, he was actually quite excited to hear about such a meal. "Fine, but for what purpose are they holding the event?" His brow furrowed as he looked at his wife, Fen.
Fen walked closer to her husband. "Tika just said that they were reconciled. Tina was actually a bit hard to get back together with her husband. However, her child who was often sick, forced her to do that. Well, that's the struggle for children. Even though it's hard, you have to live it.
David put down his cell phone, which he had been holding, then stood up. "Thank God then. That means it's pretty good, after all, children who are that old, are still very spoiled. The decision to divorce is not a good one. It will make our descendants suffer. Remember that. Don't let the same thing happen to us ."
David then looked at the watch on his hand. "Oh yeah, so what time are we going there? After all, it's already 16.00 in the afternoon."
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"Uh, honey. You're home already?" Andri was surprised to find his ex-wife, who had now officially returned to being his legal wife, who entered without making a sound.
Tina took her husband's hand and kissed it. "Yes, I deliberately made a surprise for you to surprise you." he smiled without feeling the least bit wrong.
"What now? Have our orders been delivered? In a moment, the show will start. I've invited many people to come here. You've only had a cell phone in your hand before, can you put it down now?" Tina was annoyed. He then looked around him, but there was no figure of his son there. "Man, where are Alisha and her sister? Why aren't they here?"
"Alesha? Oh, right. Mother came here earlier and picked her up and took them for a walk. Poor children, they must have missed their grandmother for a long time." Andri looked very relaxed as he continued to stare at his cell phone screen.
To be honest, Tina felt emotional when she found out about it. He remembered how his father-in-law always tried to corner him. How could his in-laws have changed so drastically now?
"I can't believe it." Fen put down her bag and caught up looking for her two children who had been left with her husband earlier.
During their divorce, Tina never made her two children cry. He continues to work to survive and meet the needs of his two children at home. "Alesha!" Tina screamed for her first daughter.
"Mother!" Tina heard the sound, but where did it come from? How was he going to find her with that many places?
Tina thinks of finding a way to find out where her daughter is. Circling the complex, until finally, he saw something in the corner of the road. A middle-aged woman sat on the pavement with her back facing him.
"Alesha!" Tina immediately ran over to her daughter, who was licking the ice cream that was starting to melt in her hands, then hugged her tightly. At that time, to be honest, he was terrified of losing the child he loved so much. Even though they just arrived there, and her in-laws are now starting to behave nicely, Tina still doesn't believe that she just let her daughter go with her grandmother. Not at all.
"Mother? It's been a long time coming?" Tina tried to be neutral, so it wouldn't be too obvious that she really didn't want to see the old woman's face. He had to hold back his anger.
"This afternoon, it just so happened that Mother had just come home from the market and had bought something for today's event. What time is the event anyway? It's already 17.00 in the afternoon, you know!" His father-in-law glanced at the watch he was wearing. "That, isn't that mine?"
"Ah, right. I deliberately didn't bring it to the time, and it turned out that my mother-in-law had already taken it." Tina smiled to herself without wanting to blame about that.
Tina carried her two children until they arrived at the terrace of the house. The condition of the room looks clean. Some people look like they just walked out of there. It looks like it was the Courier who delivered the order for the thanksgiving event.
Sure enough, when she entered, Tina saw several neighbors who were helping to prepare all the dishes according to the invitees. Even if it's more, it's not a problem because Tina deliberately orders a larger portion so that it won't be lacking when guests arrive unexpectedly.
"Good afternoon." Fen appeared at the right time along with her family. Actually, he knows himself quite well and doesn't want to stand out in public because he brings all his children to the event.
If anyone saw them, maybe they would be branded as hungry people who haven't eaten at their house. Fen deliberately bought some snacks for all of her children, and all of them were in a medium-sized bag.
"Eh, Fen. Come here, we are not other people. So, you better be at the family table, after all the kids can play here too. But, where are they? Why don't you take the kids? Are they staying?" At home?"
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