My wife's a fraud
Missed Mother

Gita gets off the online taxi in front of Ela's house. Although the promised event was still two days away, Gita could not help but visit her mother-in-law. His heart is so messed up right now, with all of Arki's sometimes kind and sometimes indifferent behavior. Also many other burdens that now felt gathered in the mind.

Ela is a figure who can make her calm, she is not just a mother-in-law for Gita. She's already considered Gita like her own mother. The incriminating thing he took in the decision to leave Arki was Ela.

What if the woman hates him? What if Gita loses her warmth. But his farewell to Arki is at the end of the eye. The Gita will never be able to hold a man's heart as hard as it seems.

Several times Gita knocked on the door, until it finally opened. Ela welcomes with a sumringah the arrival of Gita. He had been waiting since noon for his daughter-in-law to come. Prepare plenty of food and room for him to stay.

When the Gita enters, only the sound of the TV is heard from the middle room. Irma and Beautiful are not home. That's why Gita also dared to stay here. Ela said they took a short vacation to Jogja, as a birthday gift from Indah for her mother. Only after they returned home did they have a Thanksgiving.

Good thing, Gita only expects to be here with her mother-in-law. Even without Arki, who is now on an official trip to Malang.

“Mother is very cool when you say you want to be at home because Irma does not exist. So I'm not lonely,” he said while serving tea in the living room.

“I am also happy at home mom,” reply Gita smile.

Ela was still the same as the last time they met. His face was shady, his words were polite and his behavior gentle. After meeting Arya in person, Gita wonders how the two earth and sky meet. Gita also now realizes, Arki inherits more things from his father. Gita daydreams for a moment remembering a recently passed encounter with Arya, giving her a deep emptiness in her heart.

“Gita, have you had dinner? Last time you came home from your office directly here?” ela asked, breaking Gita's mind.

“Not yet. I didn't have dinner yet. After I get home from work, I first get a shirt to stay.”

“But don't go home first. Dingy. I have a lot of clothes for you to wear, sewn by yourself. Who knows you like,” he said look happy.

They headed to the dining room and began to eat the dishes cooked by Ela. They keep talking fun things. Both are like mother and son. Gita felt all the pain she had felt for years decaying in Ela's smile. His figure was the place to go home and the most efficacious medicine.

“Irma must be very cool now again the streets are just as Beautiful and Anaya,” said Ela suddenly, when they were washing and cleaning up food marks.

“Mothers already miss them?”

“Yes, kangen. The house is rame if there are them. Especially Anaya. Very funny now you can be invited to chat like an adult,” said Ela told me cheerfully.

The look on Gita's face changed. Recalling the moment when Ela looks happy to hear the news of her false pregnancy, then Ela is injured when she finds out that Gita is miscarrying. Such false pregnancies and miscarriages gave the old woman both hope and wound simultaneously. The Gita could not imagine what happened with the news of the breakup. But all of that is inevitable.

Ela catches Gita's sad face while telling her about Anaya. Guessing her daughter-in-law was so hurt that she couldn't defend her fetus. Gita must have felt guilty.

“Sorry, Git. Mom didn't mean—”

“I also want to get pregnant, Bu.” The word just came out of Gita's mouth. Without being able to control it, until he was surprised to hear it himself.

But it's too late. He won't be able to. Arki never touched her again. He doesn't care about her anymore. Although Arki said their relationship was only limited to bedmates. Even now, bed has never been. Gita decided to occupy the front room like when she was first married. Arki has not banned or commented anything until now.

Ela hugged Gita tightly. “Yes, later you can get pregnant again. I always pray for you and Arki to be healthy so she can have another child. Don't worry and make it a burden on the mind. You still have a lot of time and ways to be able to have children,” said Ela calming.

Gita has no time. Her marriage is over and the relationship between her and Arki will not be able to be repaired. Gita still questions why the man has not dropped a divorce lawsuit.

Though their days were like two strangers, too foreign for mere kisses. The Gita slowly dies of loneliness and now emptiness and disappointment add to the burden of the mind.

The childish wish that Gita does with Ela is to sleep with her. Strange indeed. But since her mother died, it seems that Gita never had a chance to embrace the figure of a mother. It was clear that her stepmother never did. No matter what.

“Mom is okay sleeping with me?” gita said a little embarrassed. She did not expect it when Ela agreed to her strange request to sleep together.

“Yes, it's okay. I haven't had a temen bobo in a long time. Arki since SD has not wanted to be bobo with Mother,” said Ela next to Gita. He confirmed the position of his daughter-in-law's blanket before lying down.

Gita could not stop looking at Ela with a smile. Realizing that, Ela also turned around and looked at her daughter-in-law. His hand gently stroked Gita's head.

Gita's smile faded and vanished, turning into a sob. The longing for her mother suddenly felt so hurt her. Never did she realize that she so desired to be treated so tenderly and affectionately by an adult woman, by her mother.

“Loh, how crying? Why, Nak?” ela was confused.

But Gita's cries did not subside. It's getting louder. Ela could do nothing to appease Gita. In addition to giving her a soft pat and telling her to just vent her sadness. Ela did not understand what had happened to her daughter-in-law and made her cry.

“I miss my mother,” said Gita between tears.

Something he never said to anyone, his whole life. Missing a figure that is only faint in memory. Gita is too small to remember what it's like to have a mother.

Although a photo album that he had left since leaving his old house, it gives a picture of how his mother looks like. However, the Gita has never a bit of a pinch to remember its warmth. Her whole mind just twisted the shadow of Ani, the titi mother who always scolded her every day.

“If you miss your mother. Come here anyway. Who knows mom can slightly treat your feelings.” Ela mean.

She wants Gita to think of her like her own mother. The poor girl who had to lie about her mother and step-sister, due to their poor relationship, must have kept a lot of wounds and a great longing on her biological mother.

The sentence apparently even makes Gita more sobbing, not because happy and happy to get such warmth. It was rather like a huge chain holding his heart back from letting go of his fearsome marriage to Arki. Gita is ready to say goodbye and live her life alone.

But solitude turns out to be a scary shadow, when at the end of the day he should be able to go home to someone's arms. On the figure of the new mother Gita rediscovered after decades of disappearing from her heart.