I Was the Second
The Nineteen

After two hours of travel, Rayhan and Zia had reached the courtyard of Rayhan's parents' house. The house is located inside a luxury home complex in the city, but looks different from other houses in the neighborhood. When the house around it is built large, magnificent and luxurious, the house of Rayhan's parents includes simple and beautiful, all-white painted house, and, and the yard is wide with a stretch of Japanese grass also various colors of flowers decorate. Apparently only half of the land area built the house, the rest made a garden.

"Ma is Allah, how good is Mas, Mas Ray's father a businessman too?" asked Zia while they were still in the car.

"No, papa's a doctor, internist, he's retiring soon" Rayhan said.

"The internetist?" zia asked not yet understood.

"Inner disease, internal medicine specialist, if you're a housewife, you like gardening and sewing like you Zi" Rayhan replied.

"Are they going to like me?" ask Zia.

"Previous introduction Zi, you have not been acquainted, the saying goes, do not know then do not love, which obviously they do not hate you,"

"Seriously Mas?"

"If they hate, why let their child marry you, let's go in, they're waiting inside" Rayhan said, taking off her seat belt.

Rayhan holding Zia's hand entered her childhood home.

"Assalamualaikum" Rayhan said, entering the door of the house that opened.

"Please take off your shoes Zi, we change the slippers of the house," Rayhan showed a row of sandals on the shelf. Zia just followed.

"Waalaikumussalam, you have come," a woman in her mid-sixty years came out of the house with a smile on her face.

"Yes Ma, this is Zia Ma," Rayhan introduced them.

Zia and Rayhan kiss the back of Hasna's mom's hand.

"Yuk in, papa is waiting at the dining table, there is Rangga," said mama Hasna leading the way to the dining room.

"Assalamualaikum pa.." Rayhan said to Papa Ridwan and Rangga who were having breakfast.

"Waalaikumussalam" they said.

Rayhan and Zia also kissed the back of Papa Ridwan's hand, then Rayhan greeted his youngest sister Rangga, while Zia only cupped her hands in front of her chest.

"Ma, Pa, I'm done, go first yes," said Rangga while standing from his chair.

"Hurry up" said Rayhan.

"Yes, it's his hour, want to be late, nti nginep right? Wait for me to come home from work," said Rangga then say goodbye to his brother and parents.

"Yuk breakfast Zia, mama only cook potluck, end Rayhan ndadak said he wanted breakfast here, so no time to prepare anything," said mama Hasna.

"Yes Ma, my God also looks good really, uh sorry I also did not bring anything, Ray said it was also impromptu," said Zia.

"Yes, you're tasting your mama's cooking, you're giving it to your husband" said Mama Hasna.

Zia took the plate in front of Rayhan and took the rice and vegetables and side dishes, then put the plate back in front of Rayhan.

"Waiyyak," said Zia slightly whispering, then she took a meal for herself and sat down beside Rayhan.

Zia opened her veil and ate slowly, honestly she was still awkward in the middle of her new in-laws.

"Nobody's kids coming with this?" ask papa Rendra.

"Everything is still the same Al Pah, Al gave time for me and Zia to get closer and get to know more deeply" said Rayhan. Papa Rendra just nodded.

After breakfast, Papa Rendra invites Rayhan to talk in the garden behind the house. While Zia helped mama clean the dining table, and there was their housekeeper who washed the dishes.

"Actually papa and mama are quite surprised by your decision to polygamy, why? Is Al not able to serve you Ray? Is she sick?" ask papa Rendra.

"Thank God he's healthy Pa, yes he may be overwhelmed with me Pa, but he himself offered me polygamy, and Zia and her daughter really need me, and bismillah we went slowly, she said, ask Allah for help so that I can be fair with both of them, and Allah will provide my provision for them" Rayhan replied.

"If it has been your decision, then as your parents, your father and mother can only pray and bless, but do not hurt between the two of them, they are also the precious daughters of his parents, and they are also the precious daughters of his parents, and do not be the same new preoccupation, you abandoned your old wife," said papa Rendra.

Rayhan smiled at his papa. "This is Allah, eh Papa ga to the hospital?" ask Rayhan.

"Yes, papa get ready first, you don't forget to call Al," said papa Rendra.

"Okay Pah" said Rayhan. After his father went into the house, Rayhan took his cell phone out of his pants pocket and called his first wife according to his father's orders, Rayhan was accustomed to obedience to his parents.

In the kitchen, the housekeeper named Mba Santi was busy washing dishes, accompanied by Zia. Mama Hasna went to the room to help Papa Rendra get ready.

"I help Mba," said Zia volunteered, he felt bad to see Mba Santi working alone, and from earlier Mba Santi just silently did not greet Zia. In Zia's heart thought maybe his nature was indeed indifferent like that.

"No, no need," said Mba Santi with a little rent.

"What's the name?" ask Zia.

"Santi, don't disturb me at work, you're not the mistress here" said Mba Santi in a hostile tone. Zia was really surprised by the treatment of the housekeeper.

"Zi," call Rayhan coming in from the back door.

"Yes Mas Ray," said Zia.

"To the room yuk, I was tired of driving earlier," asked Rayhan as he grabbed Zia's waist and took Zia to the front room. Zia just kept quiet.

"This is Mas Ray's room with Mba Al?" asked Zia, she felt bad about having to occupy the room used by her honey.

"It used to be, but after Sulaiman's birth, moving into that back pavilion, here was too narrow for me, Al, the same three children, especially after there was Fatimah,"

"Oh... The kids aren't in their own room?" ask Zia.

"Ga, I want to, so that I can refrain from disturbing the umminya, for me less comfortable, doing intimate things at the home of parents or in-laws, he said, I hope you can understand that I didn't touch you in this house, or in your mother's father's house" Rayhan said.

Zia just smiled and nodded, then drowned her head in Rayhan's arms, actually she was still thinking about the treatment of the housekeeper earlier.... Because she was only a second wife, she deserves to be treated that way...