The Destiny I Chose
Requesting Rights

In the evening, when my children were fast asleep, I who had just finished ironing clothes immediately approached Mas Radit who was playing games in his sister's room.

"Mas, I want to talk for a while" I said as I sat next to him.

"Speaking up, but don't come near." Without looking at me, Mas Radit shifted his body away from me. It seems like he is not comfortable with the smell of my body that is not pleasant because it is mixed with sweat after being tired of ironing earlier.

I also put some distance with him. After making sure that my mother-in-law was asleep, I began to express my heart.

"Mas, I want to start next month you give me a monthly allowance," Lidya said with a doubtful look. Although in his heart said that this would not work, but what harm did it do to try?

Mas Radit who heard my words immediately turned to me at a glance, then looked back at the flat screen in front of him.

"Don't ngaco you. Since when do I obey your words?" Mas Radit chuckled, yet it looked like a mockery.

"I also want to buy my needs and those of our children, Mas. Logic only, buy deodorant for me only you do not want. Now you can smell no unpleasant scent from me."

Mas Radit flicked his lips while putting his phone beside him. Judging from his face, it seemed like he had lost that game.

"Udah, deh, diem. I still want you to be mending. Look dong, all my friends his wife is beautiful. Lah you? More pantes as a maid." Mas Radit looked at me from top to bottom with a condescending look.

"Who, Mum? Elly Aldo's wife? I heard the treatment was five million a month. Vita Juna's wife? At home there were three servants. Or Maya Soleh's wife? Who's taking a walk every Sunday with her husband?" I asked while insinuating Mas Radit. Try to compare him with his friends who treat his wife well. It was different from me being treated so cruelly.

"Even, you can be treated with natural ingredients around here. You can get it for free, but you're a lazy one."

"Oh, sorry, yeah, Mas. I'm so lazy to start this house twenty-four hours and take care of the kids without ANYONE HELPING." I deliberately pressed my last sentence so that he would come to his senses.

"Udahlah, you do not look for excuses. Your job here is to serve me and my mother. Not kayak gini!" Radit glared at me. Makes my guts squint a little. I was afraid that he would flutter and beat me like that. When I accidentally opened the phone. I wanted to show Nadia cartoon videos. Understandably, I don't have a cell phone. But Mas Radit thought instead that I wanted to check his phone. What was on his phone until I had a bruise on my hand from his punch.

If only my body still weighed eighty kilos like back then, I would definitely not lose to him. Now my body is starting to weaken due to malnutrition and not getting enough rest. Where can I fight it.

"Mas, okay if you don't want to give money for my needs. But child? Nadia, Selvia, Naura. They all need toys that cost even less than your socks cost." My eyes glazed over as I said that sentence. How unfortunate it is that my children never get a single toy from their own biological father.

Not infrequently Nadia cried when she had to fight over toys with her friend. A lot of neighbors said that I was a mother who was stingy with my own children. Of course it was because my in-laws said that all of Mas Radit's salary was held by me. That's cruel, isn't it?