ERIKA (The Slandered Woman)
Chapter 1# Mother-in-law's Onion
Dar dor dar dor's...
The person who was inside the room, instantly woke up, upon hearing a rhythmic knock on the doorway of that simple room.
"Erika, banguuun!"
Gegas, the woman he called his name, immediately put on his white job hijab. Then get off the bed leaving the husband and daughter who are still dreaming.
Hoaamm... Still half-conscious with her mouth evaporating wide, Erika opened the door of her room. And there was a middle-aged woman who was fifty-five years old. Rani's mother was her name, which was none other than her mother-in-law.
"Yes, Mother?" erika said with a distinctive raucous voice just waking up. I swear by anything, he's still very sleepy. Her beautiful eyes were covered in natural lentic fur, so reluctant to cooperate.
"Yes, yes, yes! Mother has often said, if a mother and wife, must wake up early in the morning," the mother scolded with a stifled tone. Perhaps, he was afraid of disturbing his son and granddaughter who were still sleeping in Erika's room.
Hearing her mother-in-law's nagging that she had often gotten over the past two months, made Erika's drowsiness evaporate. His eyes were fixed on the wall clock.
O Allah, it is fitting that his eyes are reluctant to cooperate, still at three in the morning less than a few minutes.
"Quick bebes. Wash the clothes, let's not keep the same other business. The ironing of the clothes was still stacked yesterday. Not cooking and so on, it definitely takes a lot of time!" Tell the In-Law.
The twenty-five-year-old woman, who knew the meaning of her single-in-law, did not want to be bothered if she asked for help to take care of Icha-sang daughter who was three years less than two months old, as long as he keeps the house.
"It's three o'clock, ma'am. Let me pray sunnah first yes," softly bargained Erika. And surely the answer of the in-laws 'No' is common. In essence, during these past two months since her mother-in-law entered her household, Erika's peaceful life gradually disappeared. Sleep is also less.
"Kc... That must be your reason, like yesterday sleeping on a prayer mat. Remember that! Waking up at four is called bad luck. The chicken has set your windfall."
The chickens still sleep at four. Unfortunately, Erika could only answer inwardly. The man who gave birth to her husband is offended and becomes more and more so.
" No, Mother. Uda yes, I'm going to take a shower first. Let's not sleepy."
Erika leaves the in-laws. Towards the kitchen which is indeed the bathroom there is only one in the house simply. Although back there his mother was still mumbling, Erika still did not care if it was about the time of worship. Besides, her mother-in-law is very outrageous, uber people sleep only in order to make it. In fact, tomorrow morning he still had time to do with deft words.
"It's like a fool! Poor orphaned women are very hesitant to wake up like mumps." Mother Rani grumbled while throwing her buttocks to the sofa whose bus had been sapped.
Yep... Erika is the wife of Aldo who works in a rattan factory. Salary fitting pasan, making Erika plunge into becoming a writer on the online platform without the husband know, let alone the mother-in-law. Although, the income from his novel is uncertain, but thankfully he can help the husband's finances to cause kitchen smoke.
After taking her duck bath, Erika rushed to roll out her alphabet. Two sunnah prayers and then continued to recite in his mind, not to forget Surah Al Waqiah was not left unread on his tiny lips.
But oh but, the prayer beads in his hands stopped spinning as they were interrupted by the sound....? like stuff fell out there.
Erika surprised.
It must be her in-laws. I don't know what the problem is? Erika doesn't know either. In essence, after the in-laws died three months ago, and the only home sold to pay for the forest, the mother began to act arbitrarily to him. As if, he was an impingement puppet.
With a forced situation, Erika left her dhikr because her concentration had collapsed. He immediately tidied up his prayer kit and rushed out of the room.
"So, what fell, Mom?"
"Pankey! I wanted to make tea, but I accidentally snatched it. Nagian naroh cooking tools just haphazardly," he said ketus.
Erika's short breath sounded weak, looking at her dented pancakes. Indeed, if the goods are cheap, once it falls directly defective.
Erika's attention returned to the lush body figure that was stirring the tea water and occasionally tasted it to find the right taste. "Not much, ma'am. Afraid of __"
"Say you're stingy buying sugar."
Astagfirullah, wrong again. Though the intention of the heart only reminds health.
After washing, Erika did not immediately dry it because it was still dark. Erika went back to do other tasks, sweeping and mopping the floor of her simple house. There are only two rooms, a small living room and a dining room that blends with the kitchen.
Allahuakbar....
"Alhamdulillah, it's dawn." Said grateful. Her soft lips grow sweetly welcoming the sound of a Muslim call that reverberates melodiously in the mosque there.
"Eh, you'd like to bring a towel. Have you cooked breakfast yet?"
Erika's steps were stopped by that sniffling sound. She thought her mother-in-law was sleeping in her room. Turns out to still be loyal to be an unsettling foreman.
"You take a shower, Mom. Cook it after praying!" Answer Erika kalem. The bearer is very gentle.
"How many times do you shower? I am going to shower again now! Is the water free? Mom son who slammed bone__"
"Mom, Erika's body was exposed to sweat and also dust after being sick," Erika quickly. He was dizzy in the morning the blind had been carried away. Especially when it comes to the issue of raising finances that are indeed the obligations of a husband. If he would not pray, he was very reluctant to take a shower before the housework was finished. But... Is it not that if we are going to face Him, we are obligated to be clean and holy? He really wants to throw it, but it will definitely end up being a patronizing pretentious lotus.
"You are so insolent to be a son-in-law! Always argue!"
Breathe out a breath. Only Erika wanted to answer in her own way, Aldo-sang Husband had gone out of the room with his pillow face. Random hair shuffled while rubbing his eyes.
"What's the matter, how come dawn is already stormy?" aldo asked as he looked at the two women in front of him.
"Your wife, Al, it's very difficult to say with Mom." fought Rina's mother with a sad look. Her sticky tone had gone nowhere. Erika is sometimes sick of seeing it. But for the sake of peace and so that the problems do not last, Erika always relents.
"Erika?" aldo exclaimed full of his questioning gaze, asking for an explanation.
"I want to pray, Mas!" Erika passed towards the bathroom. Explaining this and that, making his duty to his Lord may have been over by dawn.
"Look at your wife, that's so insolent! Don't know how to be polite to Mother-in-law and Husband himself." Like there is a fresh wind, Rani's mother has a chance to badmouth Erika.
"Easy, Mom. Do not extend it again. Better I wudhu then pray with Erika."
Jamb... Brash child, said Mother Rani in her heart. He was even advised. Unwilling to give up on making reproach, Ibu Rani follows Aldo who passes towards the kitchen.
"You have a wife, you don't deserve coffee alone." The stove tub, the mouth of Rani's mother incites her son to look for Erika's fault.
"It's just coffee, Mom. I can too, pity Erika if what she keeps," Aldo smiled to his mother, a sign that it's okay.
"But it's the wife's job!"
"Eum, but Aldo is also in charge of helping to lighten his load. Whatever it is."
Erika who was inside that simple bathroom, clearly heard it. Her hand stroked her chest while smiling with relief, it turned out that her husband was still very understanding. It didn't matter the scorn of her mother-in-law that was only considered 'Dog barking, the caravan passed.' Yep... As long as Aldo loves and loves her, God willing Erika will be patient with her mother-in-law.
Chequek...
"Mas, do we pray first or do I pray first?" Erika immediately asked after the bathroom door opened.
Aldo, who was sitting on the dining table chair, looked over with smiling lips to his sholeh wife. While her mother-in-law pura deaf who played passed out of the kitchen.
"Mas hasn't had a shower. Mules wants a BAB too. How's dong?" sahut Aldo as it is.
Erika smiled understandingly. Then he said, "Don't miss the time, Mas. I'll go first then."
"Yes, Honey!"