FATE AND DESTINY
47.JEWELERY

"Will you name him, dear?" Tanya Ema who's been holding her granddaughter.

"Let me think again! Did you tell Tajudin?" Tanya Alika who was still chewing her food.

"DEGS"

Ema did not know what to answer to hear alika's question about tajudin who no longer care about alika. Ema fell silent and shifted the conversation so that Alika did not have much thought because of her husband's behavior.

"Mama called your husband, but he won't come!" Sahut ema without staring at alika just focus on staring at the baby he is carrying.

"I've guessed. He will definitely not come!" Muttered alika put her plate on the nightstand. "Never tell her anything more! I don't want to beg her for attention!" Upset alika and took water and drank it. "Here mah! I want to carry my son!" Alika's speech spread her hands with her face holding back her sorrow.

Ema approached alika and slowly gave her son to alika. Alika holds her cute and cute baby like herself. Alika looked at her baby meticulously and kissed her forehead then her nose. The baby squirms when kissed by alika which makes alika widen her smile.

"Mama's son.. May I be a good boy, dear? Don't mind your father. Prove to her that we can be without her, baby?" Whisper alika on the baby he carried and shed his tears. "Pray mama to be strong and be able to raise you without your father!" Whisper alika again and hugged the baby tightly.

"Prophey dear! God is preparing great happiness for you later!" Ema's words strengthen alika who fought alone.

"Amine..!" Sahut alika gave a smile.

Alika gives her first asi to her baby. The first time it felt sore and pain made alika grimace to hold that feeling. But happy alika finally asi that she hoped to come out so smoothly so that alika did not think too much about the cost of buying milk for her son. Alika wants her child to be healthy by giving full breast milk to her child.

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It did not feel like the day changed had been five days alika was in the hospital and it was time to go home. Alika who was confused to see the face of ema restless pacing back and forth indistinctly finally alika asked her mother what made her anxious until pacing back and forth was not careless.

"What's the matter, mah? Why mama like ironing pacing is unclear! The floor is smooth and not tangled!" Said alika who was dizzy to see ema pacing back and forth.

"Mom again dizzy thinking about the hospital fees for your return!" Ema is worried that she cannot pay the hospital fees.

"How much does it cost?" Tanya alika who is still sleeping while holding her baby.

"All 9 million 800 thousand alika! If we can't pay for your son, we can't take him home the hospital said!" Said ema with a worried face.

"What mah? 9 Million 800 grand? Where can we pay for it?" Alika was surprised that the cost of giving birth was not cheap.

Alika and Ema kept brainwashing how they could pay for that kind of hospital fee. Ema and Alika who do not work and have no savings only expect compassion for those who remember it. Alika kept thinking how to get home without leaving her son in the hospital. Finally after thinking hard alika remembered the gold jewelry he had.

"Mah! Alika still has ring necklaces and piercings for sale. We can find the rest of the cost. Later I will ask for help Om rozak, who knows Om rozak will give a little help for me!" Alika who does not want to think alone.

"All right! Where did you put your jewelry?" Tanya ema wants to sell it immediately so that tonight the cost has been collected and can go home.

"I put it under my shirt. Just search there is a small wallet with the letters! Sell everything!" Tell alika to be lighter at that cost.

Not long ago ema rushed down the aisle of the hospital asking for delivery to Rayan to get here and there. Ema went home and went straight to her room and opened the closet containing alika's clothes. Ema searched and eventually found jewelry that she would sell for hospital expenses.

While alika took her mobile phone and contacted her om who took care of her since childhood during alika in the first place. Alika called not thinking about her embarrassment for the hospital fees she had to pay. The first call was not connected and after the second call finally alika breathed a sigh of relief because her om was willing to receive a call from her.

"Hallo Assalamualaikum om!" Alika's words that her phone has been received.

"Om alika has given birth!" Sahut alika relieves his nervousness because alika never begs his brother.

"Alhamdulillah.. What is the gender of your child? And where are you now?" Tanya Rozak was happy to hear her beloved niece already had a child.

"My daughter om.. I'm still in the hospital on Kepodang Street!" Sahut alika is still trying to eliminate her nervousness.

"Yes.. I'll be there to see your son?" Rozak said he could not wait to see Alika.

"But om.. Mmm alika has to go home today! But alika has no cost to pay it off. Can you help a little for the extra cost? Mama is now selling all my jewelry so I can go home but it still costs less!" Obviously alika at length with her heart pounding fast endured her embarrassment.

"Ooh.. All right, tonight to the hospital! Are you calm?" Rozak's reply made Alika feel a little relieved.

"Yeah om alika wait ya?" Alika said her breath.

"Yeah.. Worry not! Calm down your mind!" Answer rozak again. "Yeah, are you back at work? Assalamualaikum!" Rozak said across the phone.

"Italiana..!" Sahut alika then closed the phone.

Alika breathed a sigh of relief because her om never made alika disappointed if alika needed something sudden. Rozak was the son of Khodijah's grandmother ema's cousin from Semarang but lived one city with alika. Rozak is a sports teacher at the district high school but unfortunately at his old age rozak still has no children until now. Rozak is always happy if his brother or nephew is lucky to have children without having to try hard like him.

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After he was panting looking for money for hospital fees, it was already night time 7 pm, Alika was still nervous because she still had not come to see him in the hospital. Alika cries out in pain to her husband because she has no sense of responsibility for him. After waiting for hours, the awaited finally came.

"Assynolajet..Alika!" Rozak's new voice came in alika's room. "You alone? Where's your mama?" Rozak asked who saw Alika sitting in the chair beside her bed waiting for her baby.

"Mama's still out looking for extras for om hospital fees!" Alika replied Alika had greeted her and his wife with a smile she concluded.

"Your son is beautiful like you!" Rozak rubbed his baby's head. "Is your son okay for me? Anything you ask will love you as your son comes for me! Om would love to have a child, but the almighty has not given it to om! You can get pregnant again and have another child!" Clearly the long-drawn rozak kept staring at the cute baby alika.

"Hehehehe.. Sorry alika can't! Alika gave birth to him four days of fighting for not going out! The stitches aren't dry either, so sorry you can't!" Answer alika a little.

"Yes, there is no need to answer now! Think about who knows if you've changed your mind!" Rozak's words again upset Alika in her heart.

"Sorry om.. I don't think I'm going to give my son to anyone just for the money! I will continue to try to raise my own child with my own hands until my son grows up and gets married later!" Sahut alika with a face that has changed upset.

"All right then! There is little to help with hospital costs! Sorry if the number is not what you want. And this I sincerely give it to you. You don't have to borrow it!" Said rozak and handed the white envelope to alika.

Alika receives an envelope given by rozak. And say thank you and then regret it with reverence. Rozak said goodbye to return home followed by his wife.

Alika was still contemplating alone in her room waiting for the ema who still never came to see her in the hospital. I don't know what she did out there from morning until night until she was willing to leave Alika alone in the hospital.

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