My best friend, Maduku
Confusing attitude

Two weeks have passed, finally Alsya can go home again. The atmosphere of the house looks quiet as usual, but still clean and awake because Aly often asks for cleaning service every week.

"Where do you want to go to the room first, baby ?." Tanya Aly is very sweet.

The steps of the two stopped with eyes rubbing against each other.

"Mas, I want to eat rujak..." Alsya said with a sweet smile.

"Rubyak ?." Aly asked confused, because as far as he knew, women who eat rujak are women who are undergoing cravings. And Alsya... She lost her baby candidate.

"Yes, um..."

"You're not kidding anymore, are you, baby ?."

"Ngapain was joking, mas. Really, I really want to eat rujak. But..." Alsya paused her speech.

"But what ?."

"The trail should use mangoes taken behind the house !." Alsya said enthusiastically as well as her eyes sparkling with requests.

"Oh my God, baby... Did the mango tree in the back bear fruit ?."

"His power. By the time we leave, the tree is already flowering."

Aly just shook his head stiffly to see the attitude of his wife who began to be strange. "Yes, let's see first, there's no mango yet."

"Yes." Yeah."

Aly took Alsya's hand to the backyard of a house with several fruit trees, including mangoes. When he arrived, it turned out that what was said by Alsya was true, that the tree had already borne fruit, even very dense. But the problem is that the fruits still look small and very young.

"Are you right, mas ?." Said Alsya with eyes sparkling happily looking at the small mangoes hanging.

Aly stared intensely at his wife's face. He was confused as to how to look at Alsya like that. "Al."

"Hem ?."

"You want to eat really good food ?."

"Yes. It must be so good to eat rujak at a time like this." Alsya said cheerfully.

"Yes, I bought the mangoes to go outside, huh ?." Aly was about to step away to grant his wife's request.

"Mas, how to buy, anyway ?!. There is mango." Alsya pointed to the mango tree.

"Darling, it's so young, it's gonna feel so cool."

"Ihh, but I want to use that mango, mas. If you buy, then you don't eat rujak !." Alsya's face turned sour and pouted. Alsya crossed both hands on the chest.

"O Allah, you are here, your desires are like those who crave." Aly said spontaneously without knowing if his last words made Alsya disturbed.

Alsya looked at her husband's face with teary eyes. "Mas." Calling her in a soft voice was almost inaudible.

Aly was confused by the reaction that happened to Alsya's face, but a moment later, he only realized that he had said something that offended Alsya.

"Darling..." Aly raised her hand but was immediately pushed aside by Alsya as her hand moved wanting to touch Alsya's face.

"Darling, sorry, I didn't mean to talk like that..." Aly really regretted her words just now.

"Already, mas. I'm sleepy." Alsya said and just left.

Aly did not want to see Alsya crying anymore because she remembered something related to their dead child candidates, for it will surely be a very long cry and will strike to do anything but cry and daydream.

"Al, honey, hey ?!." Aly tried to chase after her but Alsya's steps were so fast as she climbed the stairs towards the second floor which was their room. "Alsha... Sorry, I didn't intentionally say that..." Aly said again still trying but Alsya did not pay attention to him at all. Alsya went into the room with a sobbing of her cries that started to sound.

Aly approached Alsya's vibrating body that was inching on the bed. "Darling... I'm sorry, I didn't intentionally say that..." Aly repeated the words. Aly's hand gently rubbed Alsya's head so that his wife's crying subsided.

"Mas told me to forget it... But, I made me remember it..." Alsya said in a stammering voice because of her crying.

"Yes, yes, I'm sorry for the wrong talk. Sorry, but yes ?." Aly said with regret.

Aly's hand turned Alsya who was curled up behind him, she wiped the tears that wet Alsya's cheeks and gave her a soft kiss there.

"Sorry, honey..." Saying Aly again.

Alsya nodded still with the remains of her sobbing. Aly smiled brightly as her apology was received.

"So, still want to eat rujak?, Hem ?." Ask Aly later.

Alsya shook her head weakly. "No." Reply sure.

"Really ?."

"Yes." Yeah."

"Keep, what do you want now ?."

"Ehh ?!." Aly turned perfect because the more confusing his wife's attitude, he thought. "Es cream ?." Aly's question was still not convinced by what he heard was whether it was wrong or not.

"Yes." Yeah."

"Darling, you're okay, right ?." Aly stared fixedly at his wife's face to look for something there.

"What am I, anyway ?." Alsya returned the gaze of her husband no less clingy, it turns out.

Aly immediately shook his head strongly. "Well, just a minute, you go out and get some ice cream." Aly finally said. "Brown taste, right ?."

"No, I want a strawberry taste ."

"Strawberry ?. Honey, don't you like something that has a strawberry flavor ?." Aly asked in confusion.

Alsya was silent as if thinking of something. "Yes, yes, yes ?. I don't like strawberries."

Aly just nodded.

"I like chocolate, don't I ?."

Aly nodded again.

"Yes, no papa, now I want to eat strawberry-flavored ice cream ." Alsya finally broke up.

"Really ?."

"Yes, um..."

"Yes, wait a minute... Assalamualaikum."

"Yes, waalaikumsalam ."

Aly came out of the room feeling confused, strange, surprised, then what was either she did not know, which clearly Alsya's current attitude reminded her of when Alsya was still pregnant, she said, precisely at the time of cravings Alsya, which is very diverse and always makes it almost frustrating if he can not find what his wife wants.

Aly's feet stepped up, but his heart and mind still continued to wander. "What is Alsha in the time of cravings again huh ?. But, isn't the baby dead ?. " Aly muttered still thinking hard.

Astarghfirullah... This is actually why?, What happened to Alsya ?.

Even after the accident we didn't have sex anymore, did we ?.

Is our baby still there ?.

Oh Allah... I can think about Alsya.

The allegations seemed to fill Aly's head until he did not realize if he had reached the mini market located only a few meters from his home. Aly immediately walked in and looked for the existence of the ice cream fridge. His hand took two strawberry flavored ice cream with a different look, also two chocolate flavored ice cream with a small cup shape, after which Aly finished directly to the cashier to make the payment and went home.

A moment later, Aly walked into the room, his eyes looking for the whereabouts of the wife but not found at all, including in the bathroom which was also empty.

"Al... Honey, where are you ?!." He screamed as he continued searching.

Aly came out of the room and tried to look into the kitchen room, but again did not find the figure she was looking for. Aly's feet again stepped towards the exit to the back yard, and found her. On the couch under the shady tree, Alsya was sitting relaxing while humming sholawat which sounded very melodious and soothing. Aly's footsteps continued to immediately get to the wife's presence.

"Assynoltom..."

"Ehh, mum. The waalaikumsalam."

Aly sat down beside his wife, handing over the plastic containing Alsya's order. With sparkling eyes, Alsya immediately picked up the plastic and immediately took out the contents.

"Thank you, mas." His words are sincere and without warning just open the ice cream packaging and eat it with great pleasure.

Aly just smiled watching it, picked up one of the chocolate flavored ice creams and started enjoying it.

Both of them enjoy each other's ice cream held by each of their hands, until after all was gone, both of them went from sitting and washed their hands in a tap not far from its existence.

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