Marrying the Father of My Foster Son
H - 1 Wedding Day

The wedding preparations of Queensha and Ghani can be said to be almost one hundred percent. All the necessary needs have been done now just waiting for the day H-nya arrived. Starting from the building, catering, invitation letters and guarantee decorations and everything needed in the wedding process has been taken care of by Arumi assisted by Rayyan and Rini.

On the eve of the wedding date, Arumi asks Ghani not to meet Queensha. It was all done with the aim that when the wedding held the love in the two brides more and more doubled.

The sound of knocking on the door from outside made Ghani who was standing on the balcony of the room turn to the source of the sound. "Who?" he shouted in a loud voice.

"This is Mommy, Son. Can you come inside?" ask Arumi from behind the door.

Hearing the mother coming, Ghani rushed to pick up the crutches he sent in a lounge chair on his bedroom balcony. Slowly he walks with the help of a stick narrowed in the armpit.

"Come, Bun. I'm sorry, I haven't opened the door since I took a shower." Ghani opened the door wide to show the appearance of a bedroom measuring 7×7 meters.

Arumi was stunned for a moment when her eyes accidentally saw a large photo frame taped to the wall. Family photos taken as Arumi and Rayyan celebrate their 30th anniversary. Suddenly his eyes glazed as he remembered how the journey of his household life until it could last all this time. Tears, laughter and jokes adorn her marriage with her husband.

Sighing for a deep breath while closing your eyes. Arumi tried to control herself not to drift in the atmosphere. He did not want the night before Ghani's wedding day damaged by her being unable to control her emotions so as to damage the happy atmosphere of her eldest son.

"Son, did you interrupt your break?" ask Arumi while following Ghani who is tidying up clothes for the kabul event tomorrow morning.

The famous man is very stingy to smile, giving his sweet smile to the mother. Although it seems cold, indifferent and arrogant, but it is warm inside. His nature is not much different from his father, Rayyan.

"No, really, Bun. I happen to be doing nothing. Um, if you may know that there is a need for Mother to come here? Tumben once came to me personally, usually asking Ms. Tina or Ijah to the study."

Arumi reached out to Ghani's ear, which he felt was disrespectful to him. "Basin' bad boy! So you can't meet me at my husband's house, huh? The grown-up dared to say disrespectful to his own mother."

Ghani pretended to grimace in pain, even though Arumi did not spend much energy to reach her ears. "Ish, it hurts so much, Bun. I'm no longer a child that Mother could be a jewel at will. What if someone told Queensha that I just got picked on by Mother? I can wear my wife in front of my future wife."

Arumi chuckled softly hearing that. He became anxious himself to see Ghani who was sulking like that. "It's okay, dong, if Queensha finds out your bad side. Mommy sure, Queensha still accepts you as you are. As bad as you are, she'll be willing to be a wife and mother to your children."

"Queensha is a good woman, it is impossible to break with you just because of trivial things," Arumi said at length, expressing her opinion about her future daughter-in-law.

"Son, tomorrow is a historic day for you and Queensha. For the second time you got married, but this time it's very different because there's love in your heart and Queensha." Arumi rubbed the thick hair of her first son with love. "You must still remember, right, how did your mother struggle to live in a household with your father?"

"Being the wife of a Muhammad Rayyan Firdaus is not easy, there are problems that trigger a fight between the two of us. Moreover, the attitude of your jealous father sometimes makes the mother confused herself how to persuade her not to be angry again. However, the mother did not think at all to leave your father despite knowing the nature of him who is tempramental, jealous and over protective. Mother chose to stay because behind her nature there was tenderness directed at me."

"Your father treated her very well. Never let the mother in the slightest trouble, she was always there when she needed it. It's his attitude that makes you fall in love for the umpteenth time."

Arumi stops her from rubbing Ghani's head. He put a serious face in front of his first child. "Seeing you grow up until now, you're increasingly convinced that there are many traits of Dad that are passed down to you. Possessiveness, jealousy and stubbornness are bad traits in you. Therefore, when married to Queensha for a second time, control yourself so that your bad nature does not damage the household relationship of the two of you. Mommy doesn't want to until you get divorced again, son. Remember, marriage is not for playfulness because there are promises you must fulfill before God."

"Mother does not want the events to repeat themselves. Queensha is a woman, has a heart and feelings so you can't just treat her. You have two sisters, imagine if Shaka treated Zahira harshly? Do you want your sister to suffer?"

Ghani quickly replied, "Of course not, Bun! I don't want Rara and Shakeela to be hurt by anyone. Even if it was her own husband then I would not let her live a quiet life. I'll make sure he stays by name for daring to hurt my sisters."

"Well, then don't hurt Queensha's feelings again if you don't want karma to turn to your sister. The law of the sow is there, son, and we can't take it for granted." Arumi gave wise advice according to his past experience.

In the past, Arumi was unfairly treated by Naila, her former mother-in-law. A mother who should be a role model, advising her children to be more patient in facing all the trials that God gives, is precisely the cause of the destruction of the child's household and daughter-in-law. Naila had the heart to plunge Mahesa in a hole named a betrayal so that the household that was built for five years finally ended up in a religious court.

However, the cruel deeds done by Naila, Kayla and Mahesa immediately received a reprimand from the Creator. The three men get the fruit for the results that have been planted so far. With all these events, isn't the law of the sow indeed applicable in this world? Therefore, we should as ordinary people should multiply the practice of goodness so that someday the good will be turned to us.

Ghani ventured to put his head in the lap of the mother. He rubbed both of Arumi's cheeks which began to wrinkle. When being overwhelmed with sadness, looking at Arumi's face made his mood much relieved and now when he was restless, waiting for the moments of kabul spoken again he also looked at the face, and now when he was restless, a face that always gives peace and tranquility to the soul of worry.

"So calm down, I can't possibly make the same mistake the second time around. At my wedding this time, I promised to look after, protect and accompany Queensha at any time. If that happens, Mother can punish me. Whatever the punishment, I accept."

A kiss full of love Arumi landed on the forehead of the dear child. In a hoarse voice he said, "Dear, love and protect Queensha well. Appreciate her as your wife and .. never hurt her heart again. It's been enough that she's suffered, now it's time that my daughter-in-law lives happily with the man who loves her so much."

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