
Ivan and Rani's wedding reception was very lively. Many friends and colleagues came. The bride's family in the village also attended the event. Rani was so very happy, the woman was moved, she felt that everyone today respected her so much.
Things he never imagined at all. Now everyone considers himself a great mistress. There was a slight lack of confidence in Rani's heart. However, Ivan said that his wife should start getting used to it.
One month has passed. Everyone comes back with their own busy lives. Rani refuses Ivan's invitation to honeymoon. For him it was a waste of money. The man did not force his wife.
To date, the couple has never spent a night together. They both do not know what to say and where to start. Although they live in one room, but there is a separate bolster.
"Ran, shouldn't you stop working with Ms. Yasna!" ivan said as they slept.
"Don't I tell you from the beginning that I'll keep working there."
"Yes, but I feel like a useless man for still allowing his wife to work."
Actually not only that, Ivan wants every breakfast there accompanied him. During this one month, after dawn Rani will go to the family home of Emran and let her husband enjoy the breakfast he had made before dawn. The food must have been cold.
Sometimes Ivan will warm him up again. If there was no time, he would just eat that cold food.
"But I don't want to be away from Ms. Yasna's family. They've been considered my own family."
"You can still be close to them, you don't have to work. You can come there for hospitality, you can also cook for them, but not as a housekeeper but as a brother."
"May I think again?"
"Yes, it's okay. Even if you don't want to be okay. I only propose what I think" said Ivan with a smile.
Ivan thinks that Rani has not been able to open up to him. The man also thought that his wife had not loved him because she had a very difficult time interacting with him. Rani thinks Ivan is ashamed of his wife's job as a domestic assistant. This is called lack of communication. Both think the no-no.
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"Mas, I'm going to your mother's house today, okay?" ask Afrin when she and her husband are having breakfast
"Are you not in college?" ask Khairi who is still chewing her food.
"No, Mas. Today is empty."
"Oh, yeah, it's okay. I'll drop you off and after work I'll pick you up there."
"Mas, has Ivan spoken to Rani about her quitting her job?" ask her husband Afrin.
"I don't know, honey. I didn't discuss the matter at the office either. Indeed why?"
"It's okay. It's just that, until this second Rani's mom is still working."
"Maybe Rani's mom won't stop, right, you know she's very sorry for your family. It must be hard to part with you guys."
"Later I try to talk to Rani. Maybe it's true, he won't."
"Yes, you finish breakfast. After this I take you to Mother's house."
"Yes." Yeah." The two continued their breakfast.
After breakfast Khairi drove his wife to his parents' house.
Their car drove across a crowded street, but it was still morning. Arriving in front of the Emran family home. His car and brother are no longer there. They must have left.
"I'm not going in, yeah, honey. I had a meeting this morning. Then send greetings to the mother and others."
"yes, it's okay" said Afrin. "You be careful, yeah!" Afrin kissed her husband's hand.
"Assalamualaik."
Khairi drives his car after Afrin gets off. The woman entered her mother's house after her husband's car was not seen.
"Assalamualaik."
"Waalaikumsalam," replied Nayla who was holding Nuri.
From the looks of it the woman must be willing to leave. Afrin understood, because her sister-in-law also had a boutique. Although the woman rarely went there
"Where is Nayla going? It was very neat," asked Afrin who passed by in the living room.
"You go to the boutique, there's a buyer to see."
"Well, did the Queen want to come with Mama?" afrin asked her father, who was answered by the little girl. "Where's mother, sister?"
"In the kitchen was cleaning up the former breakfast," replied Nayla. "So, I'm leaving first, yeah! It's been waiting for."
"Yes, be careful."
Nayla went with her daughter. Afrin returns to find her mother in the house.
"Mother!" call Afrin with a little yelling.
"Yes, Mother is here!" sahut Yasna's. "Why do you, anyway, yell every time you come here?"
"The end of the Mother from earlier I did not call nyaut," replied Afrin.
"Have you had breakfast?" ask Yasna.
"Already, Mother."
"Mother thinks you're here to have breakfast."
"No, Mother. I'm, right, a diligent wife. It was cooking early in the morning. I may have let my husband go to work hungry" Afrin said.
"Thank God that Mother's daughter already has such thoughts. Mommy's happy to hear it."
"That's all also thanks to Mother" said Afrin by hugging her mother.
"You could have praised Mother."
"In fact it is like that. Mother always says, right, if we as a wife must obey the husband no matter what his orders. Even if we do not like it, unless the request violates the norms and sharia, then we can reject it" said Afrin who was intentional because he saw there Rani there.
"Thank God then, Mother is very happy to hear it. Mother's children obey everything Mother says."
"Of course, dong. I must always remember the advice of Mother because I'm sure whatever Mother says is for the good of my household."
"Mother really does not expect, if the child Mother already has a very mature mind," Yasna praised by hugging her daughter. "Aren't you in college, Dhek?"
"No, Mommy. Today there are no classes" replied Afrin, who was taken by her mother.
"Do you have any plans to leave after this?"
"Nothing, Mother, just here" Afrin replied because she had come here to meet Rani.
While Rani thinks of all the talking Yasna and Afrin. She also felt that what they were talking about was about her because up until this moment, the woman had not done the duty as a wife, but it was also not her fault that Ivan had never asked, either, especially discussing. He was very ready for that.
Rani also has not been able to serve Ivan properly. He thought if the woman had to obey the husband's desire to stop working? Rani also never accompanied Ivan to breakfast. Even they had dinner when it was late, sometimes the man invited him to eat outside because at home must be late. But the man was hungry.