Sharing Love: Is My Husband Yours?
Sweet Guava

"Where is Darwin going?" my many. "Can I come?"

"You're here, don't go anywhere!" said Darwin. Then, he just went to a boat by the lake.

I just looked at it from a distance. Darwin put his foot in the boat and started to run the boat without even turning to me. He just left me.

Suddenly, I woke up from my dream. 'Good!' Because I was too tired, I fell asleep just like that on the bed.

I rubbed my eyes and then saw the side of the bed next to me. There was no Darwin there. "Is he not asleep?" my thinking. But the room lights were turned off.

I turned on the room light and saw Darwin sleeping in his office chair. His body was covered in a blanket. The laptop was shut down and shut down. He no longer does his job. 'That means he didn't accidentally fall asleep, but did deliberately sleep there, ' I thought.

'Why doesn't he sleep on the bed, next to me?' thought again. But, he had slept too soundly. I can't wake him up.

'How loving. Looks like he's very tired. On the wedding day alone he still had to finish the office duties. Why didn't he take a leave of absence?' my thinking.

I glanced at the calendar on his desk. One of the circled dates of the red marker reads 'Semester's Test'.

'Oh, maybe because the exam schedule is only one week away from now, so he doesn't take time off, ' I thought again.

'Is it because her life is like this, she's been single all this time?' my inner. 'He's busy and crazy, ' I thought.

I'm trying to connect her current condition with the reason why she's still single. To be honest I was very curious, very curious why he did not get married until finally he was this old age. But I didn't get to ask Darwin. Aunt Ros just said Darwin was typical of voters. So, he had a hard time getting a suitable partner with him.

'But, why did he meet me.. He immediately agreed to marry me without much choice?' My heart kept wondering. 'What made him so sure and determined to marry me? We just met, we don't know each other. On the first day of meeting, she decided to marry me. It's a little weird to me.' My mind raged on until I fell asleep again.

At four in the morning. I went out of my room to the bathroom. I'm used to waking up this early every day. So, spontaneous alarm of my body makes me want to pee.

When I went to the bathroom, how surprised I was. There was a little blood, I was menstruating. I'm dumbfounded.

'Mas Darwin will be disappointed, ' I thought. Last night passed by without her ever doing anything to me. Today for the next week I will not be able to fulfill my duties as a wife. 'May he be able to understand it, ' I said in my heart.

Then, I rushed back to the room to immediately use the pads.

"You want to sleep again?" Someone's voice stopped me for a moment to open the door.

I looked back. "Mother," I said. "Mom is awake."

Darwin's mother looked at me with a sour face. "The present-day son-in-law wants to be molested until noon" he said. "Daughter-in-law, the in-laws haven't woken up yet. The daughter-in-law is cooking in the kitchen."

'Astaghfirullah.' I'm speechless. 'Why is Mom saying this to me?' I said in my heart.

Then it just passed from before me. But, the look in his eyes really didn't shake my heart.

'I have to get up early tomorrow, before I wake up, ' I thought. Then I hurried to continue my steps.

At six o'clock in the morning, I had tea and breakfast at the dinner table. Darwin and his mother pulled up a chair and sat around the dining table chatting.

"You're Rania so early in the morning like this should've taken a shower. Beautiful dandan, fragrant," said Mother. "Mother from young first in the morning has taken a shower. So, before leaving for work, the husband is happy to see his wife fresh. No tangling, smell of drool, smell of smoke."

Darwin was just smiling at his mother. Meanwhile, I felt a little pierced in my heart. But I try to keep smiling.

Mom then sipped her tea. Then, "Hmmhh, how sweet." He said in an unhappy tone.

In fact, I make tea with a sweet taste that is medium, not too sweet. But, mom doesn't like it.

"This is so if you can son-in-law do not have a basic higher education," he said later. "Don't understand if the old man is prone to diabetes, can not drink sweet. Minimal information, his knowledge didn't get there."

"Mom...." Darwin tried to stop his mother. But, mother continued her words. "Next time for tea, just sweet guava!"

"Sweet guava?" Without realizing my lips spontaneously asked.

"Sweet guava also does not understand," said his mother with a tone of disdain for me.

"You've eaten water guava, haven't you? What's it like?"

I just fell silent.

"Sweet, but not much sweetness, thin sweetness. Wanna?" Her mother's tone was so loud.

I almost shed my tears and I saw Darwin just staring blankly. I didn't think my mother-in-law was this hot and rough. 'Is it because it's also difficult for Darwin to find a partner?' my thinking.

"The rice cooker is too mushy" his mother continued, putting a piece of rice in her plate.

"Sorry, Mom. I used to cook rice at home. I don't know if you don't like it. Next time...." I haven't had time to finish my words, mother immediately said, "Your daily habits at home should not be brought here! The rice in this house is good quality rice, soft. The cooking does not need much water. Do not mix with your rice at home! Rice is cheap, hard."

'Astaghfirullah.' I felt so insulted by my mother-in-law's words.

"The old saying goes 'Where the ground is stepped, there the sky is held up'. You understand what that means?"

I nodded slowly. I don't understand why you were so rude to me and Darwin just kept quiet, as if letting.

"Rania, you have to be patient" Darwin said as she left the dinner table. "Mother is so. He's loud and chatty. But, actually he's very good. You have to be patient, you'll get used to it."

'Customs, ' I thought. Darwin thought that his mother's treatment of me like that was normal. Darwin seemed to give his mother permission to continue to treat me as unpleasant as before. He did not defend me, nor did he give me protection.

'Do I need to understand mother's attitude? Can I adapt to this situation?' my inner.

'I have to get out of this house. We have to live in a different house.' Suddenly the thought just popped into my brain.

'I won't be able to let my mother-in-law trample on my pride every day. I have to get out of this house.'