
"I'm not outside, Dad. Take it easy, just want to go for a walk, buy goods, buy HP the same eat out." Kaf glanced at me, as if he needed my voice to say his words.
Since I did not want to give distance, he kept holding the door of this car. I was astonished at my father, father blesses Kaf as my husband. But, he seems not to allow me to be taken by Kaf.
Moreover, my plan was to join him in Malaysia until my father allowed me to continue my education a little more. Not because I want to be with Kaf always, but because I want to go for a walk and know the big city.
"Yes promise? Night at home, right?" I pointed at Kaf's face.
"Yes, Dad." Kaf nodded his head quickly.
He was like just the origin of answering so that the father gave access to this car can move. I just found out my dad was like that, getting married but didn't seem to allow Kaf to be my husband.
"Daddy, are you wearing your new earrings?" Dad rubbed my head.
Is that worried about me? Until my own husband did not believe?
"Udah, Dad." Both of my hands were raised and rubbed my earlobes.
The earrings are there, the earrings that determine where I am.
"Udah, ati-ati huh?" Mama Aca pulled my clothes so easily, that I didn't block the car door from closing.
In addition to their brother-in-law, they are also cousins. But very familiar, huh? Each of them is married and has a family.
"Yes, Ma. Take it easy, Ma." Kaf walked around after closing the car door on the side of my seat.
We had salim earlier, so we immediately tancap gas once Kaf has occupied the driving place. I don't know where it used to go, because it's still quite early in the morning and the mall or cell phone counter is not open yet.
"When was the first day of my period yesterday, Dek?" suddenly tanyanya.
There is no discussion of anything, uh directly asking for menstruation only.
I answered correctly, he was just a beard and focused on the road ahead. Arriving at a fairly large pharmacy, his car pulled over and he got down from the car to the pharmacy.
I was asked to wait, because he said for a moment. I don't know what he needs, I don't know what he's buying. Because after he returned, he put the white plastic bag of bone into his dinner bag.
"How much longer is the education?" The car drove back.
"I don't know, but yesterday was still KKN." Maybe I should repeat my failed KKN.
"Later to take care of it, his brain is not capable of speeding? Means more or less we delay pregnancy to six months again huh? Six months more, the cake I've stayed in this hospital. The building was again refined, the facilities were again equipped, waiting for the staff and this was it took roughly about six months more. But all that time I was in Malaysia, huh, Dek? Saturday and Sunday I go home, you can not be taken because the education business is not finished. Let's not increase the length of his education, so you focus on education first, then you can come with me. If paused again, the graduation was long again. Not to mention if you concede pregnant, it could be another two years to get a college degree." He was driving towards the city.
I'm more sure if he invites me to buy things and snack.
"But want to know Malaysia, Bang." As a father, I was always at home. I was never taken on a business trip anywhere, unlike my other brothers.
Dad always said that I can't get out of this area, I have to grow up in this neighborhood without getting polluted by the big cities.
Yes, it may be the current me, because of the influence of my environment. I'm obviously very different from Key's brother, Jasmine's sister or Ra's brother who has been in the big city since his teenage years.
"Yes, I'll be invited occasionally. Bismillah, this is a plan. I mean, let's make it good in the future."
Huh, loh, loh? How do you turn towards a star hotel?
"You what? A dhuha? Can be in the roadside mosque, later I Dhuha too." I think this positive.
Yet….
My heart is starting to feel unsafe. I panicked and I could not speak, he broke his promise to my father. But he is my husband, he has a right to me.
"Relax, I'm not as scared as you might think."
His words made me come back with something in his zipper that he showed me last night. The color alone is darker than the skin, it must be sinister in shape. Especially if he is tense, then enter my paradise that is as far as the line.
Imagining it, my fingers instantly cold all.
"Just find parking first."
"Whh, by the way, what do you want to buy? How much do you want to hold on to each month?"
Speech by word from his mouth, messing with my focused thoughts about the husband and wife relationship. That's his right, but I don't think I'm ready.
"I want to buy a niqab, I want to change all my veils to the niqab. That's loh, who covered the forehead with the eyebrows." I closed my own forehead with my palm.
My mind is easily diverted.
"Alhamdulillah, how many dozen, Dek?" The car moved slowly filling the empty parking lot.
Ah, goddamn. I thought I'd be locked up by him in a hotel room. Surely when he went to the pharmacy, he bought some of the things he needed to treat me.
"I'd like to pick a color, at the subscription boutique if I went with my dad. If you may know, how much is your salary in Malaysia?" Polite no, I asked about his income?
"His watch…. Ten thousand to thirty thousand Malaysian ringgit."
Why didn't he mention it directly? Why also give a range? Can't I know?
"Just want to know, don't want money." I'm downcast offended.
"Eighty million, Deck. But dirty, haven't paid for the apartment, not yet the cost of living. In Malaysia, the second highest-earning professional specialist after chief executive. That's why pakwa tuhnya job there aja, uh do not know the big family we even ask to wake up the hospital. How much is the meal money? I was wandering around, so it was like eating money for Adek. How much for his personal living? For his skincare and his clothes. Oh, aye. I used to ration parents five million a month, for what electricity. We do the same, right? To Adek's parents were five million just yet? Know the value is small, but divide first. Let's just be enough to cover this up." Kaf shut off the car engine.
He's done parking this vehicle.
I got confused, the salary was eighty million but it was like eight million. Does he really think his value is small? He seemed to confuse his income worth it and the many needs. In my opinion, five million is big. I don't know because I've never held money, so I feel like it's really big.
"Yuk, on the way to the lobby. I made an online reservation." He got off first, then opened my car door.
Not to miss, he brought his bag.
"I don't know how much I need, don't you want to take care of my needs, father? I don't need to be given money. I'm not given money to my father, except pocket money for college." I was confused if I held my own money.
"Huh? I so?" Kaf took my hand.
"Yes the cake to me, to Ra's brother always said later father transfer." My mind was distracted, and I thought about the hotel room back.
"Be there, Deck." Kaf pointed to the receptionist who was talking to someone.
I felt like I had seen the receptionist's face.
"Marine…." Kaf was glued to a shocked face, after we were in front of the reception desk.
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