FATE AND DESTINY
26.FIRST WAGES

Now the days of alika are filled with nausea that never ends. She never complained to her husband about her situation. Alika was just trying to do herself as much as possible. Because even if he complained only the debate he received. With his surprise today alika accompanied by her mother-in-law at her home.

"Alika!" Call Dariyah who saw alika sitting daydreaming on the front porch of her house.

"What's wrong mom!" Sahut alika who just turned his head without approaching him.

"This is for you, huh? Be careful not to be too wasteful. This money is for one week just for the handle. If you want to eat, eat as you like everything is available in the kitchen." Dariyah gave money to alika according to the order of tajudin.

"Yes mom!" Alika replied with a sad feeling without being able to protest.

"Yes, I'm going to the garden to find firewood. If you're hungry for food, there's a side dish in the closet." He then went to the garden to find firewood.

"Hmmm.. This first living money left me sick and hurt. Did he not think that twenty thousand dollars for one day is still lacking, especially for one week? Am I the kind of kindergarten that should be given two thousand a day? I don't understand their way of thinking!" Mumbled alika who was still heard for herself while shaking her head in astonishment.

Alika could only shed her tears to treat her pain. All this time he could only be patient to face the tajudin family that was too excessive with finances. Even Dariyah was willing to eat potluck for the sake of multiplying his gold that he always wore every day.

"How do I split twenty thousand for one week?" Muttered alika while wiping the money she held with tears that kept flowing."Mah! I miss my mom! Alika wants to be with mom!" Muttering again, Alika grew sobbing and ran small towards her room.

After arriving to his room alika crying so it would be because the condition of the house is quiet only alika alone in the house. Alika was getting tormented by such circumstances.

"Alika! Alika!" Shouted the new tajudin up from the garden carrying coconut water.

Alika who heard tajudin had come home immediately wiped her tears so that her husband did not see himself crying.

"Yeah! I'm in the room!" Sahut alika shouted from inside the room and went straight out toward tajudin."What's up, brother?" Alika asked after being in front of her husband.

"What are you in the room for?" Tajudin asked beside the door.

"I just slept for a while. My body is all gone!" Alika replied while peeking at her own shoulder.

"Hmm don't be so spoiled as a girl! That's a dish not yet washed! What have you been doing all day?" Tajudin said with his annoyed face.

"If you want to know what I'm doing all day, then sit at home one day with me! Just so you know what I'm doing that I'm exhausted like this!" Reply to Alika who has been a little dare to behave.

Tajudin did not answer her directly turned her body towards the kitchen and took her food and ate it up like a month did not eat. Alika only nodded her head to look at her husband's behavior with disgust because tajudin ate greedily.

Alika eventually took over the job of tajudin to boil coconut flower water to become brown sugar. Because if Alika doesn't do her husband will scold her endlessly. Alika looked for coconut leaves and lit them using matches and stacked them with firewood on top so that the wood burned perfectly. Alika has started to be able to light the firewood wasps with good luck thanks to wardiyo who taught her painstakingly. When alika was doing her activities she returned to nausea without stopping.

"Jeek! Yuck! Yuck!"

"Why does it hurt so much. And my mouth tastes bitter amazing!" Mumbled to himself.

"Why do you keep vomiting lately? Are you sick?" Tajudin said while pressing the neck behind alika and stick his hand on alika's forehead.

"Why are you? When I noticed you even sewot! If it is not noticed, I say I am a useless husband. Do you want!" Tajudin who was upset with alika's attitude.

"I told you I was okay! Even if I answered I was sick would you take me to the doctor? Are you going to buy me medicine? Are you going to buy me the food I want if I'm hit by the stomach? No right? You just answer don't blame me if you get sick!" Obviously alika with lips that imitate when tajudin talk."So I just answered that I was okay! Because for you I'm just a wife who's troubling you!" Add again alika then went to step towards her room leaving tajudin who was still silent.

After arriving in her room, Alika locked the door of her room and cried so much with her chest that felt tight as if happiness had never been on her side.

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The day has changed in the morning. When Alika woke up as usual she was back alone in her house. His head felt dizzy after crying all night made his heart relieved but made his head let out its fireflies. But alika still tried hard so that she could go to the bathroom with shaky steps and slowly. Alika regurgitated her stomach in the morning until it was drained and with cold sweat.

"Why am I always nauseous every day? What exactly am I sick of?" Mumbled to himself."I have to go see a doctor! But where'd I get the money to pay the doctor?" Alika muttered again busy with her own thoughts.

Finally, Alika took the initiative to drink hot water so that her stomach feels warm again. Alika thinks how she knows her pain without money to pay the doctor. Finally, Alika went to the house of the grandmother of tajudin in front of the house of tajudin. Alika hurried to step towards the house of tajudin's grandmother to ask if in her village there was a person who could know her illness without having to pay for it.

Geck! Geck! Geck!

"Assynolt..!" Said alika who was in front of the door of the grandmother's house from her husband.

"Vaalaikumsalam. Who the hell is that?" Sahut tajudin's grandmother named biyung amin.

"I'm biyung! Alika!" Shouted alika from the front door of the house biyung amin.

"Oooh alika! What the hell are you here for? Tumben?" Biyung Amin asked after opening the door of her house.

"This is why I want to ask. Every day I nausea, even one day can be up to four or five times. I'm afraid I'm very sick. Because I only eat cassava every day." Alika explained what she had been complaining about all along.

"Then why are you here? You should go to the doctor so you can get checked out." Sahut biyung amin who has been sitting next to alika.

"I was never given money by tajudin. That's why I want to ask. Is there anyone here who can check what I'm sick without having to pay for it?" Ask Alika honestly without anyone covering up.

"Oooh go to the house of the silem biyung! He's a touch medicine healer without a check tool." Biyung amin explained to alika.

"Where's the house?" Tanya Alika wants to come to her house immediately.

"You go to the fork over there. Then straight on the right side of the road there is a hut house. That's his house. If he asks who are you? Just answer his wife tajudin. So as not to be asked for money as his payment." Clearly biyung amin on alika with detail.

"All right! I'll be there now! Thanks biyung. I'm sorry assalamualaikum!" Reply alika enthusiastically and immediately rushed to the house biyung silem.

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