FATE AND DESTINY
32.CONFERENCES

Alika has been in her own home for two weeks. But tajudin never came to clarify his relationship with alika. Alika hopes there is goodwill from the tajudin family to correct their mistakes. But the fact is they never came to show his kindness. Alika always daydreams alone in front of her house staring at vehicles passing by in front of her house.

"Alika! Don't dream, baby!" She surprised alika.

"Eh mama! Alika does not dream of mah. Alika was just thinking about alika's relationship with her future tajudin." Alika said staring back at the highway.

"Don't mind too much, son. Your baby will be disturbed." She tried to calm her daughter.

"I don't know how else to deal with him and his family." Reply alika stared at ema at a glance."Mah. Why did Alika always get a hard attitude and torment from others? Even from Alika's own family! What is wrong with alika Mah? Why does Alika always get such an attitude?" Said alika who was tired of her life that always get violence since childhood.

"Aika..!" Sahut ema then hugged tightly alika's head on her chest.

With tears I could no longer say. Ema feels guilty and sinful at the alika who is always sincere when dealing with anyone. His fate and fate were not as pretty as his face. Alika continues to try hard to accept the impact for the sake of the clash of trials and exams.

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It does not feel like three weeks Alika is still faithful to be in her hometown. The long-awaited ones finally came as well. Tajudin came to Alika's house alone without being accompanied by his family. Tajudin will receive insults and insults from his in-laws.

"Assynnya!" Tajudin's speech is still on the doorstep because it has not been allowed to enter.

"Girlwindsalam! Eeh you tajudin. Come inside!" Tell her daughter-in-law to come in with a flat face trying to control her emotions.

"Yes mom!" Sahut Tajudin then stepped into his in-laws' house and sat in the guest room.

Ema who had arrived in the family room did not see tajudin when she looked back. Ema searches for the whereabouts of her daughter-in-law with twisting eyes.

"Tajudiin! Shouted ema from the living room."Here enter! Not outside!" Screeched ema with her slight high tone.

Tajudin did not reply because he immediately stepped in with wide steps. Tajudin already knew he would get a trial from his in-laws. Tajudin is ready and resigned to all the caicans and curses that will come out of the mouth of his in-laws. There was no fear from the look in his eyes. There was only a sense of vengeance in his mind on the figure of alika. Somehow the true nature of tajudin.

"Sit down! Do you want some tea or coffee?" Ask ema after tajudin sitting on the carpet.

"Just be sure ma'am. Don't be too forced!" Answer tajudin a little.

Ema finally rushed to the kitchen to make tea for tajudin. Alika had just fallen silent unable to speak. His lips were locked, his tongue was stiff and stiff. Alika just continued to stare at her husband's face sharply full of anger.

"How are you doing deck?" Ask tajudin.

"Good!" Reply to Alika briefly without looking at her husband.

"Why don't you go home saying goodbye? If I say goodbye first, I'll take you!" Tajudin said to relieve his nervousness.

"What? You're gonna drive me? Did I not hear wrong? I asked you for thirty thousand dollars to check my contents in the nearest midwife only you answered you have no money! Even you said my content will be healthy even without checking! Then you said you'd take me when I asked you to come home? Hahahaha it feels like the goats will laugh if they hear you talk like that!" Upset alika who had been lazy to hear her husband was stale.

Tajudin did not say alika. He just smiled wryly as if feeling humbled by his wife. Alika also always tried to hold back her emotions so as not to explode. Not long ago ema came while carrying three cups of tea for tajudin, alika and himself.

"Thank you mom!" Answer tajudin while taking his tea.

After she joined the atmosphere became quiet without anyone talking. Tajudin was busy rubbing his feet. And Alika is still focused on watching the tv that is still on. Finally, she started the conversation.

"How is the family there tajudin?" Asked ema with her flat expression without a smile.

"Everything is good thank God ma'am!" Sahut tajudin still with rubbing his feet.

"Tajuddin! Mama wants to ask you!" Said ema has started to bristle because of her emotions.

"Yes mom!" Tajudin sudab is getting nervous.

"Why did Alika come home in such a scrawny state like this? As she was taken away she was beautiful smooth and contained! Why is it like this now like a worm?" Ask ema in an intimidating tone.

"Alika is difficult ma'am! I told him to eat but he wouldn't eat! Ask for this and that. Seeing the kids eat the snacks he nodded. For me it's wasteful mom! Better to eat a full meal so don't want this snack!" Sahut Tajudin confidently blamed alika as if her life was wasteful because of many desires.

"What kind of snack do you want, Alika?" Ask ema to alika so as not to be blamed by her daughter-in-law.

"Jajan is the mah who's in the stall. Kayak chiki with salty macaroni snacks that cost five hundred rupiah!" Alika with complete confidence.

"What? Jajan only five hundred rupiah you say extravagant tajudin? Then what kind of snack is not wasteful to you?" Ema's still trying to hold back her emotions."Except, alika every day always wants to eat meatballs, chicken noodles, capcay, then you can say extravagant mama's son. It's just a chiki sold in the garage you can say wasteful? Hem! Where did you put your mind? I don't think about a guy like you!" Ketus ema on his daughter-in-law who is too stingy on his own wife.

Tajudin did not say what ema said. He only responded with a wry smile to have gotten the ravings from his in-laws. Alika just kept quiet and didn't say much. Because she was very disappointed with her husband's attitude was too stingy.

"Are you not working so you never gave your wife money?" Ask ema with her high tone.

"I work mah! I make brown sugar every day and it's sold in the market every week." Tajudin confidently.

"Then? How much money do you make each week from your sales?" Tanya is curious about her daughter-in-law who never even gives a living to her son every day.

"One week I get eight hundred thousand by selling brown sugar in the market." Tajudin honestly.

"Where's the money you've been getting all this time?" I asked her because I heard from Alika a few weeks ago.

"I'll give it to my mother! And Alika's needs have been met aided by the mother!" Answer tajudin without any guilt.

"Are you married to Alika or to your mother?" Ask ema who's starting to get emotional."Even your mother tortures alika every day by cooking rice that is like porridge. And torment alika with her various behaviors? Even Alika has repeatedly told me that she does not like rice that is close to porridge until she eats cassava and vegetables every day without rice! When alika who will cook the rice is prohibited by your mother for fear that alika does not clean wash the rice! Alika is the son of a beggar! Until your family treats Alika like that? Even Alika touches your food you feel disgusted! Alika the scavenger's son? What is the beggar's son? Or even the son of a lunatic who was picked up by the side of the road? Alika my son is like a diamond in the eyes of all the men who love him. But only hindered is not a soul mate so alika wants to accept you! For mama. You who are from the scavenger descendants so have a lot of treasure just a little not willing to take it out. If you need your own dirt that you eat to have abundant wealth!" Oceh ema at length equal to the height with a high enough tone to vapour all his emotions on tajudin who never respect his son as a wife.

Tajudin who heard ema's words just lowered his head could not get his words out. Tajudin did not expect his arrival wanted to blame alika with various complaints and berated maki in front of his mother instead turned on himself who had been reviled by his in-laws. Alika could only remain silent without a word. Alika does not want to talk much because all has been represented by her mother who has issued all her words.

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