FATE AND DESTINY
11. MAY I HELP YOU?

It's morning. The sun glimpsed its light beautifully. A couple who were still in the introductory period were still in his room. Tajudin had opened his eyes since six in the morning but was reluctant to get out of his bed. Tajudin stared at the face of the clingy alika, a beautiful face like an Indian doll with long pliable eyelashes nose that sharp lips thick volume and thick black eyebrows make tajudin always imagine himself with alika if he is having sex with husband and wife. Tajudin was eager to touch his wife's field-breasted body but it contained a slender belly and hips like a guitar and bahenol. Alika had now opened her eyes by slowly blinking her eyes. After opening her eyes, Alika looked at the tajudin in front of her.The two of them stared at each other expressionlessly and without any words spoken from their lips. But their hearts speak.

"His face is beautiful and natural when he just woke up from his sleep." The tajudin murmur that tilted his body to the left faced alika and admired alika's face without blinking.

"Why is he looking at me like that? Iish his ugly face is not as handsome as yudi and mas sigit! Why did I accept myself as my husband? Were my eyes myopic when I saw him?" Muttering alika expressionlessly stared fixedly at the face of the tajudin in position tilted his body to the right facing the tajudin.

They talk to each other with their own hearts. But the daydreams of tajudin broke after seeing alika who moved from her sleep. Alika could not look at her husband's face even though he had a mediocre face with a nose that had narrowed eyes eyebrows that were half thick lips and wide with his teeth that made her smile look sweet. But in the eyes of alika tajudin is not as handsome as her ex-lover. Alika is not so lucky to get tajudin but different from tajudin who are very lucky to get women like Indian dolls like alika. Both of them had finished their baths and changed their clothes. Ema has also struggled with her work in the kitchen to prepare alika and tajudin food. Tajudin approached ema who was cooking in the kitchen.

"What's mom?" Tajudin asked as he stretched his legs towards his mother-in-law.

"It's making fried rice for our breakfast!" Answer ema without looking at her daughter-in-law because she is still busy mixing rice with the spice.

"May I help you?" Tajudin said he wanted to take his father-in-law's heart.

"No need! I don't like to be helped when cooking. It feels out of focus if there's someone helping you when you cook!" Ema is still focused on cooking.

"Alika can't cook, ma'am?" Ask tajudin slowly so that she does not get offended.

"Alika can cook! Even if she's at home, she always cooks her favorite food!" She answered proudly to her daughter-in-law.

"But alika in my house never cooks mom, she says she can't cook!" Said Tajudin who heard alika can cook from his mother.

"How he wants to cook there, the vegetable ingredients alone are not provided in your home. In fact he only eats once a day with the chicken eggs he steals while roosting chicken behind the door! Aye right?" Sahut ema checkmate makes tajudin can not wart.

"Everything is available, ma'am. Like green pumpkin, papaya, cassava leaves, spinach and kale! Everything is just meticulous in the front garden of the house!" Tajudin said he would not be blamed on his mother-in-law.

"That's you who understand. Alika is a city girl. He only knew buying vegetables in the stables. Don't know picking vegetables in the garden!" Said ema who had an annoyed face still reluctant to turn her head towards tajudin.

"Sorry mom. If Alika's back at my house, I'll teach her so she can cook it herself." Sahut tajudin with a bad feeling by seeing ema who pacing back and forth doing her activities in the kitchen.

"Ema did not answer the words of Tajudin. Ema just brought her fried rice to the family room. Ema sat on the floor covered with carpet and arranged the dishes for breakfast together."Tajuddin! Call alika for breakfast!" Tell Ema who has arranged everything neatly.

Alika who heard the tajudin immediately went out of her room approaching ema in the family room. Alika saw everything was ready neatly immediately took the fried rice on her plate without being offered first. Tajudin who saw the alika's behavior just stared at him expressionlessly. Tajudin also directly take fried rice that has been provided by ema and directly eat it. They had breakfast together without any chatter. Alika ate fried rice up to three dishes greedily without looking around. Tajudin who saw astonished.

"Alika! Tumben you eat up to three plates? Usually not like that?" Tajudin asked reflexly because he had just seen his wife eating that husky.

"Alika eats a lot of tajudin! As long as the food she likes is sure she eats a lot!" Sahut ema looked at the tajudin who expressed astonishment at his wife.

"Oooh so! what foods do you like mom?" Ask tajudin to be able to balance alika's favorite food.

"Alika likes goat soup the most! If there is no goat at least he likes vegetable soup! Even though his fritters were only tempeh, he could finish off three plates of rice. Simple right? Then what vegetables such as kobis, carrots, sausages, leeks are you planting in the garden? So that alika does not bother buying it in the garage. Because you don't work. And you also can not give money to shop for your wife," said ema who unceremoniously stale make tajudin silent like a statue.

"Mah! Don't be like this!" Sahut alika gave a code to ema who had started to rise in blood.

"Why alika? You're just talking facts, not slanders! Is it tajudin?" Said ema who was rising blood his expression was already inexplicable again.

"Sorry mom! I don't want to give money to Alika. But I'm just a country guy who works under a meagre salary!" Answer tajudin while looking down do not want to be fouled with questions kept by ema.

"You were before you got married to Alika working there! Why don't you even want to work anymore? What's the reason?" Ema asked with great emphasis while raising her chin looking at tajudin.

"I got fired from the factory! Because at that time I was allowed one week leave but for more than one week I did not leave and there was no re-authorization because I had to return to Semarang for signature. So I was dishonorably fired without the severance I should have received! I can't work there anymore!" Tajudin explained at length to ema the mother-in-law with a clear face without expression.

"Alika has offered you to work in Jakarta with her acquaintances there! Then the answer is you don't want to work out of town anymore. Just want to work in the village! While in the village you do not allow alika to trade or work like he used to work actively! You just want alika to stay at home to be your puppet! Is alika not hungry? Does Alika have her own needs? You become a husband do not be selfish tajudin! Alika also still has a wish!" Speak with a high tone and full of emotion.

"Sorry mom! I just don't want alika to be a girl who jumps up if she can make ends meet on her own!" Sahut tajudin who also ignited emotions because of ema speech.

"If you do not want alika to work, then fill her needs properly! Where is there a wife who is not given a living born not to work must not trade and not be fed a decent meal will be silent? You're looking out there. Is there such a woman?" Said ema getting emotional with teary eyes did not accept her son treated like a doll.

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