The Curse of Love
Part 30 Really Tega
I started working again a few days ago. That afternoon Dina came to the brick printing with gasping breaths.
"Mother.can go home dulukah.ada bude in the same house father..."
I almost jumped from where I was standing to hear the news that Dina brought.
"Did you say Dina? Did your aunt come?" I don't seem to believe it.
"Yes mom, quickly wash your hands and feet first."
After washing my hands and feet from the mud and sand, I then stepped hurriedly following Dina home.
I was glued to where I stood, right in the middle of her brothers, my husband stood. The face I saw for almost 5 months was no longer standing right in front of me.
But there was something strange about him, the look in his eyes looked coldly at Juned and Syifa who were standing together in a corner of the house.
It was as if he no longer knew his children. "Sir..why is that weird?" whispered Dina to me, holding my hand.
"Good.you have come Nia..ckckckck..you and your children are just like a scoundrel.the spouting of words and scathing insults from Anya's brother I no longer care."
My eyes were on Sofwan. True said Dina, there is something strange about Sofwan. He looked at us like strangers.
"Sir.." I greeted him with a trembling voice.
When I wanted to touch her, she brushed my hand away. "Don't hold..who are you? I don't know you.His eyes are staring coldly at me.
I could not continue in my footsteps, and my tongue fell out. "Who was my husband after he lost consciousness? Where's his memory of our wife's son?"
"Nia..listen..from this moment he is no longer your husband..we bring your divorce papers.sign them!"
"What does this mean, Nuri? why do I have to sign the divorce papers?"
I looked at the paper that was thrust into my hand and looked at my two brothers-in-law and my husband in turn.
Their words were like lightning striking above my head. My legs suddenly felt weak. I try to strengthen myself so that my consciousness remains in control.
"You're stupid but not deaf, right? Sofwan is going to divorce you, because he's going to marry a woman he's equal to."
"The woman who always accompanied him when Sofwan was sick and lost his memory."
"Sofwan already thinks that woman is his wife, not a gem like you."
"You have the heart to make her sick again for refusing to sign the divorce papers and want to reveal the truth?"
"So live each other's lives from now on."
"Just say our sister Sofwan never existed and entered your life."
"Come brother..for what do we linger in a slum like this? My head is starting to hurt!"
Mas Sofwan leaned against the car while stomping his forehead repeatedly.
"More...You saw him, right? Sofwan no longer knows you and your children? Can you see it in pain like that?"
Indeed I saw Sofwan grimacing repeatedly while twitching his own head.
I finally received the paper from Brother Nuri and with trembling hands I signed the paper. My eyes began to fog, my heart was in pain..Is this the end of my wait for these 5 months? is this the end of my 9-year marriage?
But I can't bear to see the man I love so much suffer.
"Good.so from this moment on, you don't have any relationship anymore."
"Our sister will start with her new life with her new memories and bury deep in her bleak past with you."
The neighbors who had just seen this commotion and did not dare to interfere because it was a family matter.
I felt the world turning and upside down, I collapsed unconscious, fortunately there were some mothers who swiftly caught and carried my body apart.
My kids were crying, they thought her mom was dead.
I realized after 15 minutes had passed. My head hurts so much.
"Patience to Nia.we have no effort to help, because this is a matter of your household and family, said Ratna next door neighbor to my contract."
I saw some mothers shed tears not able to see my suffering.
I try to stay strong, I can't lose to the situation. I still have kids to take care of and protect
Even in my heart screamed bitterly. "How much to me?" but I can't blame him either.
His loss of consciousness, plus the amnesia he suffered, made him forget and erased all the past from his memory.
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My body shivered back, it felt like a nightmare. I repeatedly bit my lips hoping it was just a dream and when I woke up all the events of the afternoon never existed.
But if it's just a dream, the wound feels sore. Invisible wounds but more difficult to heal than real wounds in front of the eyes.
A wound that the hand could not reach to treat, a wound that could only be healed by the passage of time.
Dina faithfully accompanied me. Juned and Syifa fell asleep beside me.
"Your sisters are bathed, Dina? Poor thing they'll all be itching."
"Already mak, already Dina bribe them also earlier."
"Mamak don't have to cry anymore.if mamak cries, then we-we are also sad."
"We've been used to living without a father for 5 months."
"For Dina and the sisters, the mother must always be healthy and strong, we will always be with her until anytime."
I hugged my eldest daughter. His words were always full of wisdom, just like Sofwan was. He is the one who has always strengthened me, and encouraged me.
It seems that I have to find a more decent job, there is no way I can survive to support my children with my current job.
Juned and Syifa will not be small continuously. One day they too will go to school, and so will Dina. One day he will leave elementary school and go to junior high school.
It will certainly cost you not a little. Not to mention the other costs. I can be stupid like my brother-in-law says, but my kids can't be stupid like me.
I must rise from my slump, I must not want to dissolve and drown with memories of the past. Sofwan is the past. Think of it that way because he divorced me, even though I didn't want the divorce at all.
It might not be as easy as turning the palm. Forgetting something that has become a part of our lives is not easy, it takes a long time and process to get through it.
But the only way is to let those memories go from our lives.
He fell asleep on my lap. Wherever I looked very tired, he knew what had happened to his parents, but he tried hard. Because he felt he had an obligation to look after his younger siblings.
"Oh Allah, he knows that the trials of life are hard, but I believe that You will never give the trials beyond the limits of your servant's ability. Behind all these trials there will surely be lessons to be learned later."
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