Mahram To Azira
Chapters 14.5
I looked at him carefully. Trying to guess in my heart what my husband had thought. Basically my place of residence is shabby, the logic is what work can be done in a place like this and the point is does it matter?
"Will you tell me?" Kenzie asked me back.
I smiled wryly.
"Of course I want a mas. I hope that Kenzie won't take it personally." Either way, we both come from different worlds.
Mas Kenzie has a remarkable background, born to a wealthy family. While I no longer need to be explained.
"Then I'll take it." Kenzie told me.
I took a deep breath before starting to open my mouth to tell it.
"I'm just a high school graduate, mas, of course with mediocre grades. From where I live, I already know that I am not from among the people. My mother and I are so poor that eating sometimes isn't. When most people celebrate Lebaran with a variety of foods, our house actually makes potluck porridge. To cover the daily needs of me and my mother. I work as a laundry clerk, my job is just ironing clothes that are clean. My salary is enough for us to eat a week. Then my mother.she's a woman of the night. He was forced to do this work because it was forced by life. My mom didn't mean it and even getting out of that way felt pretty impossible because she had a contract of a lifetime. We lived enough and I grew up without talent like the people out there. But Mom and I got through it all, yeah, until I met Kenzie in the wrong way..."
Maybe I was one of the women who was quite unlucky because of the economic torment at first. For example, when I came to the moon. Often every month I don't have the money to buy pads. To overcome this I have to use my clothes or unused cloth instead of pads. Really. I could not go anywhere for fear that my blood would stain the floor or the places I went. So I'm going to lock myself up more in the room. Even if I was unlucky to have to go to school, I was forced to use a few more folds of cloth to handle it even though the edges of my skirt would be stained. And suppose I have a sanitary pad, often I use one full day pad to save money.
That's very uncomfortable. It often seems to me that it is better not to come by the moon if I will live in torment.
"The wrong way. But that's how God brought us both together. I will make no comment to Mother, for only God can judge her and she is no longer in this world. But as for you, I dare not make promises to you because we do not know what will happen in the future, it is the secret of God. But you should know that I will try to make you detach from the past and face the days ahead with a big smile. And me too.." Kenzie suddenly fell silent.