I'm Single Mom
ASM 38'S

The clock began to turn, but my eyes did not want to be closed. Tonight we heard the howls of dogs that kept each other down. It's gripping tonight.

Because I could not sleep, I decided to move to El's room.

El had fallen asleep in a dream until I didn't realize I was climbing into his bed.

Staring at El's face, was the same as looking at Akmal's. I rubbed El's soft face, "sorry mother, yes. Mother can't be happy with you." I shed tears at my daughter's wayangku who helped bear the sadness I suffered.

*

Days change, months change. My pregnancy is getting bigger, it's even approaching the moon. My household story is still the same as it was months ago. Akmal is not entirely mine yet. Me and my mother-in-law still caught Akmal's attention. But still I lost because my mother-in-law always threatened to kill herself if Akmal prefers to live with a woman like me.

And after a long process, now I am in the middle of the Akmal family, including my father and Zaskia. They looked at me cynically. I sat alone with El, my son looked terrified. I can tell because El is holding my hand tightly. " Patience El, we have to face them." My inner speech is soft.

Akmal sat far away in front of me with his mother. I'm sick of seeing this sight. After all this time of sacrifice, it seems like today I will lose a lot.

" Just get started." the arrogant middle-aged woman began to speak. As soon as the atmosphere became quiet, I think everyone present here was so impatient to wait for the mother-in-law to continue her conversation.

" Salsa, as you know, I never liked you until this very second. I never gave you both my blessing either. I never thought of you as my daughter-in-law. I also never considered that child as my grandchild. Akmal my youngest son, he deserves more women than you. Akmal has already agreed to marry Zaskia, and I believe Zaskia is the perfect woman to accompany my son. Now the choice is yours, whether it's honey or whether to withdraw from my son's life." Mama-in-law said with her bow.

I stared at Akmal who could only look down at the shiny floor of this palace.

The beads in my eyes are like scrambling to get down. Now my heart is no longer sick but broken because the words of my mother-in-law who like a bomb exploded hurt me mercilessly.

I can't hold back these tears. I cry in front of them. I cry in front of people who have no heart for us. I cry in front of people who don't accept us.

I tried to catch my breath and exhale hoping the tightness in my chest would lessen a little.

With quivering lips, "Akmal all decisions are in your hands. I just want to hear the decision from your own mouth. If you ask me to back off, I'll back off Akmal." Saying ashen.

Akmal is still at the end of there. I don't know what my husband thinks.

" Come on Akmal, make your choice from now on." Father's voice broke the silence in this room.

I looked at Dad, hoping he would look me in the eye. Dad said that in front of me. Is it because I am not his flesh and blood that he can do this to me.

" Akmal speak! Didn't you accept this decision?" My mother-in-law began to press.

Akmal raised his face, he looked at us one by one. Arriving with me, our gaze met, until he threw his gaze to the floor.

" S..." Speak quietly, like stuck.

" Come on Akmal, don't waste our time." Selvi's sister said cynically.

" Salsabila. I can't live with you anymore, I divorce you talak one. And from today on this second you're not my wife anymore." His words loudly filled this magnificent room.

" Yes!" I heard the happy voice of Zaskia and dad when Akmal finished dropping the talaq on me.

" Sa, even if you're not my wife anymore, but you deserve the house we once shared. That's home for you and El, too... Make a child of the unborn. Mom and I agreed not to stick with the house. And I will also give a living to El and our future unborn child of five million a month. I hope you don't get hurt and don't mind my life choices." Sissy speech.

After a few minutes no one opened their voices, I thought I had finished today's event so I decided to leave here.

" When it's done, I'd like to excuse myself." I stood up and immediately grabbed my daughter's hand.

" Sa, let me take you." Akmal stood up, in his hand was already a car key.

" I'm sorry I don't have to bother, I can do it myself." I rushed out of the palace of hell. I'll make sure this is the last time I set foot here. There will be no second or third.

I stopped a car, it took me two hours to get home. Don't ask me how I'm doing, I'm barely able to step foot, but for El's sake and in El's front I have to be really strong. I also had to play a show in front of El, that everything would be fine.

El fell asleep in my arms. Her innocent face made me feel even more guilty.

" Mother make sure dear.you will be happy forever even without a father.

*

I officially bear the status of a widow, although pregnant women can not divorce, but I do not want to take a headache. I'm resigned to those who bear.

Today I'm going to check the routine of the contents to our subscription clinic. This check is different from the previous month. Akmal was still faithfully ushering me in control, which I remember laughing happily when Ely's doctor mentioned the gender of our son. Akmal felt his life was perfect. But that seems to be just wishful thinking. In fact even though I managed to give him a child, he still could not stand beside me as my husband. It turned out that he was not long lent God for me.

That's a soul mate, not to be guessed. Although I chased him to the middle of the ocean, even though I asked him to come back to me, even though I cried blood though, if not a soul mate yes not a mate. And I have to accept the consequences of this.

" Buk, it's here." The driver's voice surprised me.

" Eh, yes sir." I took out a hundred thousand bills, a thousand,

" Just come back for you." I smiled friendly.

With my stomach growing, I entered the clinic. Waiting queue.

" Mother Salsabila.."

Ah, finally....

I breathed a sigh of relief. Meeting doctor Ely made my heart dag dig dug. Doctor Ely is Akmal's friend, he told me a lot about Akmal. He would be surprised if I came here alone.

And.the door is opened. There's doctor Ely's sweet smile.

" Hey Salsa.... Where's Akmal?....