
Adira was busy in the kitchen, cooking spicy squid for dinner later, with patience Adira cooking for her husband and in-laws.
"Young lady why this afternoon cook so much, is there a special guest tonight?" asked Sumi bik who was polishing onion.
"Either bik, I also do not know, maybe there are mama's friends who will come to the house, usually my mama's arisan friends here."
"Oh yes it may be madam." said Bik Sumi again.
While Adira was still busying herself in the kitchen, suddenly from the direction of the living room Adira heard the voice of her husband.
"It looks like Ardi's gone home bik."
"She looks like a mistress."
"For a moment, bik." Adira, who washed her hands in the sink, wiped the tissue and walked out of the kitchen to see her husband.
"Asalamualaikum, dear I'm home." cried Ardi.
"Waalaikumsalam dear." Adira who walked closer to her husband, then immediately kissed her husband's hand and did not forget to also take over her husband's briefcase.
"Old exit?" asked Ardi and then kissed his wife's forehead.
"Yes, busy cooking." replied Adira.
"What cooking?." Ardi who had wrapped his hands around Adira's waist.
"Take a lot of pity." replied Adira as she looked at the husband's face.
"Tumben, why cook a lot?." asked Ardi again out of curiosity.
"Don't know." Adira who slightly raised both shoulders."maybe your friend wants to play at home."
"Oh." Ardi who slightly shook his head.
Adira walks beside Ardi to take her husband into the room, but when she arrives at the door of the room Erlin calls her son.
"Ardi?" called Erlin's mother, and immediately made Ardi and Adira turn their heads.
"Yes ma?" replied Adira.
"I didn't call you, I called my son!" said Erlin's mother.
"What's wrong ma?." Ardi who was already standing in front of his mother, with Adira continuing beside him.
"Later in the evening and neat, wear a nice shirt" said mama Erlin.
Ardi who heard his mother's words instantly frowned. "What does Ardi wear night-time shirts for, if there's a family event tonight?."
"Yes.later tonight the Delisa family will come to our house to discuss your marriage with Delisa." mama Erlin who slightly glanced at Adira.
"What!." Ardi was very surprised by his mother's words.
Degs..
Will Delisa's family come to discuss marriage? Adira who heard his in-laws was no less surprised, not only sick as in the peso sayat, but this time Adira felt like she was hit by thousands of hot stones from hell.
"Mama is nothing, for what parents Delisa here, I will not marry Delisa, mama will know I already have Adira." explained Ardi who disagrees with the wishes of his mother.
"No! do you think marriage is a joke? until my mother easily told me to remarry another woman."
"Why then do you survive with a woman who can't give you offspring?."
"Adira can give offspring ma, did Ardi not say yesterday, be patient.we both will soon give mother a grandchild."
"Propay mama has run out Ardi, is one year still short? and you don't want to know, later tonight Delisa's family will be here, you have to see her, there's no way she'll cancel it."
"No ma, I won't marry Delisa."
"If you don't want to marry Delisa, it's better that you die, don't you prefer that barren woman over mama, choose her Ardi, but she'll die, that way you'll succumb to your barren woman." said mama Erlin who threatened her son.
"I chose Mama and I chose Adira, but not by choosing Delisa and marrying her, please ma, respect Adira as Ardi's wife in this house."
Adira who was still standing next to Ardi had gripped the suit that her husband was wearing, Adira really felt sick and disappointed to hear her in-laws, even her eyes had glazed over, she said, but Adira tries to hold him back from falling in front of her in-laws.
"Mama doesn't want to know, you have to marry Delisa, period!." mama Erlin who has walked away but was prevented by Ardi.
"Ma.. Ardi please ma, don't be like this, Ardi has a wife, there's no way Ardi can marry again." Ardi kept pleading with his mother.
"Yes..if you do not want to divorce Adira, polygamy alone, make Delisa second wife, easy right?" said mama Erlin.
Ardi was increasingly furious and could not stand the words of his mother. "Mama was very happy with Ardi, mom was very happy with Ardi and Adira's marriage, mom was really outrageous!." Ardi's been guessing.
"Now you dare to yell at Mama Ar, why don't you hit mama, let's hit, hit, let's be satisfied!." mama Erlin who had grabbed Ardi's hand and pointed to his cheek.
"Ardi would never have yelled at you if you hadn't gone too far!."
Adira who saw her husband getting uncontrollable immediately calmed her down. "Istighfar mas, Istighfar.he is your mama, it's no good to be angry like that."
"Just for defending that barren woman." mama Erlin who pointed towards Adira."You're brave with mama."
"Ardi has said many times to mama that Adira is not barren!." jolted Ardi again.
"Mas.. already..." Adira continues to calm her husband.
"You're a barren woman, after my son married you, my son grew bolder with me!" said mama Erlin, looking hatefully at Adira and walking away from Adira and Ardi.
On Ardi's face still looks angry, Ardi is a stubborn child and does not like to be set-up, what else forced.
"Come to the mas room. You must be tired, right?." Adira opened the door.
Ardi and Adira had entered the room, Ardi was sitting at the end of the bed, and Adira was standing in front of her husband to take off the tie and also the suit she was wearing.
"Whatever you are angry, do not ever yell at a mother, it is not good, I know that heaven is under the feet of mother." Adira continues to calm her husband.
"I know a mother should be respected, and cared for, but whether it's a mother's reply to her child when her child respects her, I can't just be silent, Dir, mama is very selfish, would you agree if I remarry?." Ardi who looked at Adira's face.
"Of course not mas, but what I can do, indeed what mama said is right, I can not have offspring, and maybe by marrying again is the best way."
"Best street from where? this is what I don't like about you, you always try to lose and give in, even when you insult you, you stay quiet and can only cry, try to be a strong woman even if circumstances force you not to be strong." Ardi who was suddenly also angry with Adira.
Adira who heard Ardi talking high to him became silent, even her eyes were already teary. Ardi who saw his wife was already teary at once could not bear.
"When I want to keep our household, I also want you to try to maintain our household." Ardi who had embraced his wife's body, and rubbed his wife's long hair.