Because Amen is the Same
100. Gladis Upset

Returning home from the restaurant, Viona and Heti's mother head straight to the boutique. Heti's mother wanted to see the development of her son's boutique. In the car many stories of their early friendship with Nisa, Viona only responds modestly.

"Vio, how do you think Alan is?" Ask Heti's mother.

Viona looked at her mother and returned her eyes to focus.

"According to Vio, Alan's a mama."

"This serious mom, don't joke dong" Pinta's mother Heti.

Viona laughed first before replying, "Mom is like that."

"You don't mean it, just ask for your opinion."

"Do not know mam. He is Ray's best friend, meaning Ray knows his personality" Viona explained.

"Oh ok, if so" Responded the mother of Heti as a cover of their discussion in the car.

Unlike Nisa and Alan's mother. Alan carried the car silently without a single word coming out of his mouth. His mother seems furious with Alan, as if not interested in his plan.

"Alan, I see you're not interested in women. Do you like men?" Ask Nisa's mom.

Alan immediately brakes suddenly hearing his mother's question.

"Astaghfirullah, Alan carefully bring the car" Tegur mother Nisa while holding a safety belt. She's shocked.

"The question is strange mother" Alan replied after returning to drive his car.

"Mom just asked, I see no interest at all in Viona."

"Why ma'am?, Alan knows it will not be accepted" explained Alan.

"Effort first dong, surrender before fighting."

Alan no longer responded to his mother's speech, he felt free his mother was insistent with her wishes.

"Anyways, in the near future the mother calls again the mother of Heti" he said again.

"As for mom." Alan resigned, although he liked Viona but clearly Viona refused even though she did not say it clearly.

The car drove back at moderate speed, took his mother to the apartment and Alan continued to the restaurant.

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The Manullang residence, Ray's parents frenzied with Gladis cravings. The food was full on the table but Gladis wanted to eat fruit. Ray was forced to look for jackfruit, because Gladis would not stop crying if he did not eat jackfruit. Gladis tears are a threat to Ray, his parents will be furious if Gladis cries.

Ray until the fruit shop immediately looking for jackfruit, more precisely directly ask the guard.

"Which part of the jackfruit is there?" Ask Ray.

"Here I take mas" he replied and then took a piece of jackfruit.

"If there is a fruit?" Ask Ray again. He prefers to buy one fruit so as not to be tired of finding that Gladis suddenly wants jackfruit.

"There's a mas, over there" Appoint the fruit shop keeper.

"Thank you" said Ray, then went to get a jackfruit, took it to the cashier, paid it and went home.

Half an hour Ray arrived home, there Gladis was waiting in the yard with a smile. Ray sees Gladis choosing to bow, the more he sees Gladis's face the more he is guilty of Viona.

"I'm sorry Viona, maybe I'm a coward now but I'll prove that it's not my son" Inner Ray stepped inside the house past Gladis.

Gladis' smile faded instantly seeing Ray pass by just like that. He entered the house while stomping his feet on the floor in annoyance.

"Ra, I want to eat now" she asked like the boss of the house.

Ray turned a glance and asked the machete to split the jackfruit.

"The housekeeper came with his machete, "I helped cut" he said.

"I want Ra to be the jackfruit" Gladis said, stroking his stomach.

Ray took the machete in the hand of his assistant and then he split it and open the contents stored in the dish. He approached the plate to Gladis without speaking.

Gladis resentfully ate the fruit one seed and immediately bit his lips. He stopped chewing for a moment, he felt his lips sting.

"Looks like a wound" he muttered.

Gladis put the jackfruit seeds in a dish and then he got up from his seat.

"I'm going to sleep, Ra drive to the room" she asked spoiledly.

Ray's patience has really been tested since marriage. Ray put the jackfruit on top of the little gutters.

"Just test my patience, remember this isn't my son, so just go find your son's father" Ray pointed at Gladis' stomach and left.

Gladis inhaled with tightness, Ray's sentence soft but piercing. He squeezed the negligee.

"Come on, watch out for you, Viona" Gladis said, then sat down on the couch.

Ray chose to call Alan, lingering at home could-be his head broke.

Ray returned past Gladis' front with a jacket in his hand. Gladis quickly held onto Ray's hand.

"You think?" Ask Ray back.

Gladis sighed, it felt heavy to say it but if he did not let out then he was not calm.

"Will I see Viona?" Ask it carefully.

"That's none of your business" replied Ray indifferently and left.

Gladis looked at Ray's passing back regardless of him in the slightest.

"Definitely met Viona" Inner Gladis then entered the room. Upon arrival in the room immediately returned telling his men to follow Ray.

"Remember, report to me" said Gladis on the phone and then he turned off the phone.

In contrast to Viona, he re-opened the boutique accompanied by his mother at this time. Heti's mother looks at Viona's showwear.

"Who set the kayak gini?, Neat and the color combination is suitable" Praised the mother of Heti.

"Me and Ina, mam" Viona replied as she monitored her posts on social media.

"Good, where is he now?" Ask Heti's mother again while paying attention to the shelf where the statue displays for the veil.

"This dusty, not cleaned?" Ask Heti's mother again while exposing her index finger to Viona.

Heti's mother checked the cleanliness of the boutique using her finger, she rubbed her index finger every shelf that was cut.

"Later mam" replied the origin of Viona while replying to customers on social media.

"It's cleaned up how many times a week?"

"Every morning mam, dipel doang" Viona explained.

"fast. Floor clean but all dusty shelves. Tomorrow mama calls people to clean up" said Heti's mother then she sat in the long chair of the boutique after she was tired of traveling.

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"Hello boss, the boss' husband goes in a restaurant" he reported by phone.

Sounded in the phone Gladis voice downplayed his voice, "Ok, keep an eye on it"

Phone's down.

"Where's boss?" ask the Gladis men.

"We were told to watch" he replied.

Their car deliberately parked not too far from the restaurant so they could see what Ray was doing, even one of his men was told to enter the restaurant following Ray.

Gladis was already impatiently waiting for news from his men again. Curiosity is stirring what Ray is doing out there.

"I'm not calm like this, Mi" said Gladis after Mami Ray came home from a gathering of fellow mothers.

"Where is Alex going?" Ask.

"Go Mi, definitely meet Viona again. I can't believe it's Mi" he repeated.

Mami Ray tired of just arriving has been presented with the unrest of his ex. While kneading his temple he contacted his son. He stuck the flat object in his ear, which sounded only the voice of the telephone operator.

"Where the hell is this child" muttered Mami Ray and returned to call again.

"Where's Mi?" Gladis asked impatiently.

"Not picked up, maybe busy. Mami to the room first, istrahat" said Mami Ray then left Gladis himself in the middle room.

Gladis is getting upset, Ray ignores him and now his mother-in-law again.

"Tell all of you" He said. His current regret was not only to Ray but his mother-in-law as well.

He tries to normalize his feelings, he does not want to be carried away by stress later affects his fetus.

Gladis decided to go to his room, he had to breathe fresh air outside the house. He cursed the knee-length dress.

"Where are you? It's late in the afternoon" asked Mami Ray, who was sitting in the middle of the room, reading a book.

Gladis turned to the source of the voice, "he said the rest but instead sat here, saying he was lazy to hear my complaint" Gladis nodded in annoyance.

"You're looking for Ra, Mi" he answered with a contrived smile.

"Phone, you're pregnant now" Mami Ray reminded her ex.

"Mommy doesn't want to help Gladis, so let Gladis go find himself" he said loudly and left.

Mami Ray just gawked at her mant answer, she did not expect such a high sentence and tone to come out of her lips.

"Gosh" he said while holding his chest.

While Gladis left the house while swearing. Everyone in the house was astonished.

"In this house, nothing is right. Selfish without caring about my feelings and my son" he muttered and slammed the door of his car.