The Second Angel of My Husband
Chapter 15

"Assalamu'alaikum, aunt Indri." said Alea.

"Wa'alaikum hail, auntie glad to see you here."

"I'm with Zella's aunt business, there's something discussed and made sure of, so I'm nginep."

"What business do you have with Zella Alea?"

"Well, mama rest first, I'll explain if it's in Tifa's room."

Arriving at Tifa's room, Zella explains what business she runs with Alea.

"Akhsan's permission?" mother confirmed.

"Sir Akhsan gave it all to me, whatever I wanted to do, but I still told him to."

"Are you sure you don't have a problem?"

"How should I convince my mom that I'm okay?" Zella pulls out the contents of her mother's big bag, and arranges some clothes in Tifa's closet that she accidentally empties if her mother visits.

The distance is quite far, making his mother always stay overnight if visiting. After her employer's son finished college Indri stopped working as a maid, but for the last 2 years, Zella's mother returned to work for her employer, because of something that the child-like employer himself experienced, making Indri not have the heart to refuse not to return.

Indri continued to look at Zella, although she looked as usual, whether she was not sure her son was okay. However, lips say fine, as beautiful as Zella's smile, but a mother's premonition says her son is in trouble.

"You know, you're a mama's world. Mom does anything for you. Everything you have all you give in your name."

Zella stopped her work. "I know very well, I want to be like a mother who pours out all the love for her child. I want Tifa to be proud to have a mother like me, just as I am proud to have a mother like you." Zella hugged her mother.

"You and Tifa have different lives. You only have a mother who plays the role of Father plus Mother at once. But Tifa, she has a complete family. God willing, Tifa is much happier than you."

Zella tried to smile, even though her heart was grimacing.

How can I tell my mom that my life and Tifa will be no different.

Zella's mother took off their embrace. "Mama will be very disappointed, if you do not want to tell the same story mom about your problems, mom will be very hurt, if one day mom knows your problems from others."

The tears that Zella tried to endure finally came off. The tear dam just broke. Zella sobbed and immediately hugged her mother.

"I love you, I don't want to hurt you with my sadness."

Indri breathed her breath repeatedly. "You got a problem?"

Zella did not reply, she continued to shed her tears in her mother's arms. Every drop of tears that Zella drops, like an arrow that pierces the heart of Indri. Indri tried hard, even though his tears were struggling to escape. Indri gently rubbed Zella's back, letting her daughter spill all the tightness that filled her inner being.

"I'm sorry, if it gets this big I can only make you sad because of my sadness" Zella said.

"No, my mom will be sick if you don't dare to share with me. You close your problems from your mother, just like you think your mother is someone else."

Zella slowly wiped her tears, and released their embrace. "But Zella doesn't know where to start."

"What's your problem?"

"I just found out that Akhsan has a second angel behind me."

Which mother's heart was not broken hearing this. Zella's mother couldn't hold back her tears anymore.

What great mistake did I make in the past, so that my son also felt the same pain as I experienced? Zella's mother's heartbreak.

"I'm sorry ma, 'cause my mom's tears are spilling again." In addition to not wanting her mother to be hurt because of her problems, Zella was afraid that her mother remembered the old wounds her father had given her. The thing he was worried about happened.

"You are not wrong, God loves you too much, so give this kind of test." The mother and son hugged each other again, shedding their tears.

After feeling calmer, the mother and son ended their cries, and tried to erase any trace of their grief.

"Keep, Akhsan knows that you know her secret?"

"I'm silent ma, I want to surprise her with the arrival of the divorce papers."

"Divorce?" Indri deeply regrets Zella's decision.

"I'm devastated ma, by parting I'm sure could be better."

"Tifa will be fine, just like me who is fine even though growing up without a father figure."

"11 Years you were with Akhsan, just because of the third person, you just let go?"

Zella wants to protest, why is her mother also divorced from her father, does her mother not defend? But Zella held back, as she did not know how her mother used to struggle in a sea of pain. "I couldn't stand my mother, I couldn't bear this injustice, she spent all the time with her second angel, and ignored me and her son."

"You know how your pain is, at least struggle in the beginning, so that no end uses reason for the sake of the child. If you really think about children, why at first do you take the step of parting?"

"How should I be, mama?"

"Who is Akhsan's second angel?"

"Shamila's."

"Astaghfirullah hal'Adzim." Zella's mother repeatedly sighed. He never thought about the figure that his family had helped this relief to his daughter.

"It looks like he's ex-Kak Akhsan, I still remember the beginning of the marriage Kak Akhsan willing to go to Nadi village to meet Shamil."

"Hold your desire to register a divorce. Patience a little dear. Mama will find out why Shamil wants to marry Akhsan. Did Akhsan lie to her that you were divorced? Or whatever it is, mama's gonna find out."

"The longer you stay with Akhsan, the more you get sick."

"It hurts again a regret if you make the wrong decision at the beginning. Listen to me, you don't forbid you want a divorce, but before that big decision you dive in, you want you to be patient."

"I'm not sure I can ma ...."

"You think that Shamil was more successful than Akhsan, a time without a purpose he was willing to be Akhsan's second wife who was clearly below him? If Akhsan had not been a widower, would Shamil have been so stupid as to believe it? Now it's easy to find information, different from the past."

Zella tried to digest her mother's words.

"If here Akhsan is the victim, you are willing to let the figure you love a dozen become victims without helping him?"

Zella was speechless, she could not think that far, what if this marriage Akhsan is indeed a victim? Moreover, the Shamil family both have great ambitions.

"Please baby, let's find out first the reason for their marriage. A second marriage with just blessing still hurts, let alone like this. But it's your husband, the figure who fought for you and Tifa all this time. Mama hope you're willing to fight."

Mama's right, I need to be more patient. Money matters, I can either owe Alea, or ask Mama. Bismillah, I don't have my own money at this time to register a divorce maybe it's God's way for me to be patient, and make a decision at the right time. Inner Zella.

"Can you pretend you don't know this?" Zella.

"Sure, my mom will try to cover it up. It's hard."

"We go to bed ma. It's late."

"Alea knows this?"

"Know, that's why he's staying over, he's afraid that I'll act rashly if only the two are the same Akhsan."

"Happy mom you have a best friend like Alea."

"Mom permission how many days with mama's employer?"

"Mama's sabbatical, mama's permission was 6 months, but the handsome Mama's employer asked mama to return before 6 months if mama's problems were finished, but if within 6 months not finished, not yet, he asked permission to help solve my mother's problem."

"Mr Alvin loves her so much, mama, she's all over."

"What we give with love, we will have greater love."

"Not all ma. I poured out all my love for Akhsan, what did she give me? A groundless wound."

"Maybe your fault, you do not include God in love. Remember to love something because of God, and to hate something because God hates it."

Zella is frozen. "Maybe this is a rebuke from Allah, for I poured out everything for Brother Akhsan, sometimes forgetting Allah."

"The darkness of our condition, calm down first, there must be a little light in the darkness." Indri hugged his daughter. "May all be repaired."

"Oh ma, I don't expect to improve, but I also can't stand idly by in this destruction."