
A Mother to Your Child (38)
" Yes, come here often. Take your wife too. I was planning to buy the building next door as well." explained Rama pointing to the building next to his restaurant which was an abandoned house.
" I'm still figuring out the owner."
" You enlarged this restaurant or made another attempt?
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Ten days have passed since Salma's departure. There was no sign that his wife was coming back.
" Did I just go after it?" the monologue. It felt bad from last night.
Rama tapped his index finger on the table while looking at the photo of Salma being the wallpaper on his phone.
Meanwhile, the person being thought of was lying weakly on the bed. Since last night he's not feeling well. Even until noon he was still on the bed.
Praying he did with great difficulty.
If so, she remembers her husband. Usually someone will help him.
Her tears are flowing. Suddenly Salma remembered her husband. Feeling guilty for leaving with a permit that can either be said permission or not. Because it comes from her husband's promise to come back to lie to her. Not a permit directly.
His hand tried to reach the phone next to him.
The first call was not picked up. The second call is the same. Until ...
📲 "Assalamu'alaikum, dear." the soft voice over there made Salma even more tearful.
📱 " Wa'alaikumussalam, Mas." call Salma in a soft voice.
📲 "You sick?" Rama who heard his wife's different voice felt that his wife was not doing well.
📱 ' Hicks.. Sorry.." Salma cried while apologizing.
📲 "Dear, hey why even cry. You're ill. What pain?" asked Rama worried.
" Have eaten and taken medicine?," Getting no answer other than the sobbing made Rama again ask.
📱"I ..."
📲 "Wait a minute ...."
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Connection interrupted. When her phone connection broke, Salma cried even more. She felt her husband didn't care about her. Rama had just asked this and that out of worry. But, somehow Salma could think like that. Maybe hormones from her pregnancy.
Not long after, suddenly someone tried to open the door from the outside.
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The door opened to Salma's surprise and immediately covered her head with a blanket. Seconds later the door closed.
The kosan in Salma is indeed small. The room measuring 5x6 meters only contains a thick foam mattress that is directly placed on the floor and a wooden cabinet.
At the end of the room there is a door to the bathroom which is also minimalist. There is no kitchen of its own. Cost residents are usually rarely cooked and rely on buying from outside. Or if you want to cook yourself, usually make the room as a kitchen as well.
" Assalamu'alaikum, baby."
Salma was still fluttering in the blanket even though she returned the greeting. He knows that voice very well. However, I still think it was just a hallucination. She misses her husband.
" Husband came and hid? You don't miss me?" the soft voice sounded again. Salma still thought it was just her hallucination.
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The blanket was exposed. Showing the face she missed so much. Rama was in front of him. Her husband is in front of her.
" Are you real?" asked Salma, giving Rama a chuckle.
" I'm clearly still in disbelief?" said Rama with teary eyes.
Salma tried to wake up. Rama also helped his wife to change her position.
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Salma hugged her husband.
Salma recalls the sin of a wife who goes out of the house without her husband's permission. Again Salma became a dilemma of permission. Is it true that he has permission or not.
Hearing Salma's words, Rama tightened his arms.
" no. You are not a bad wife. You have permission to leave. I'm ridho. Hm."
Rama was feeling less and less. When it comes to sin, does not he who first sinned for lying to his wife, for reneging on the promise he made. Why does his wife feel guilty.
" I'm the one who's sorry. I lied and broke my promise. You're not wrong, I'm wrong."
Both silent. Still hugging each other channeled a deep longing.
" But you have to believe, I don't love her. I just feel sorry for him. Not wanting anything bad to happen to her let alone her being Ical's biological mother. Just that extent. No more." press it.
Rama did not want any misunderstanding between them. He realized that doing something secretly had actually backfired for his relationship with Salma.
" I know." replied Salma quietly in the middle of her stuffing.
Hearing his wife's reply, Rama broke his embrace. He held onto Salma's shoulders and looked at her face that was beginning to sink.
" Well you know why you left? Hmm?,"
" I'm disappointed that I'm not being honest again. I feel unappreciated. I feel..."
" Sorry.. I've ignored your feelings." Rama cut his wife's words.
Salma just nodded.
" You're going to forgive your husband, right?,"
Salma nodded back.
Rama hugged Salma back. I am thankful that his wife has returned to him.
Salma was still enjoying the scent that she missed. Was she stupid for being so easy to forgive her husband? If anyone says so, Salma doesn't care.
As long as she knew her husband had not betrayed her, she would forgive him for the house to be intact.
Marriage is not a game. Feeling a little mismatched, then let go and look for another. If his principles were like that, his marriage would never be eternal. There will be a reason to separate.
In fact, perfect couples without blemish is impossible to get. A couple without fault and sin is impossible to find. Is not every man not spared from sin.
" Don't repeat it." pinta Salma.
" god willing."
" Don't turn to the sambel." Salma's words made Rama frown.
" Already know sambel is spicy but, even in eating again and again it is even enjoyed. Already know the sin, but even in repeat and repeat again." he explained while pursing his lips.
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Rama who was anxious immediately stole a kiss that made Salma annoyed at him.
But Rama did not care.
" yes. Excuse me. Therefore, stay by my side. To always remind me not to go into the same hole."
Suddenly there was the sound of stomachs protesting for food.
" Are you hungry?,"
Salma was ashamed, her stomach could not be conditioned. But, if you remember that the last meal was at night, even a little. It is only natural that he is hungry. Let alone pregnant women, if in a state not pregnant would have been very hungry especially this has entered lunch hour. He missed his breakfast.
Salma nodded.
Rama also grabbed a bag containing a food box that he brought from home.
A fragrant aroma instantly filled the small room as Rama opened the lid.
" Why just shut up? You don't like it?,"
" It's not that. But, uh,..."
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